The Sun.
London, England, 1850-12-18 00:00:00

Pa OWING RAPE FOR SEED.
th agriculturist near Braintree gives the following
4; Le mode in which rane fer seed is grown in that
Ol'hpurhood:—" The land intended for it ought to
,It 4 good heart and ploughed immediately after klr-
hewell harrowed, the weeds and stubble ga-
zer::: it is
r.ed togeth-r and burnt; it may then be ploughed
9114 or •f; it
tt. scari..e,..,makes dityerence how,
got into fine tilth. This rbsolutely
tfi 'IrY, as, from its being such small seed,,. it is
able °to plant' well, unless the weather is favour-
re the The land must have a good dressing of dung,
with -Y well rotted, as it gets better mixed
it the soil in working it than when it is long.
toots the best way to drill the seed in about one
()el
apart, or 1 on very good land. They will sac-
-40 well
if transplanted, but this involves much
tiltint and expense ; and after paying much atten-
t° it, I have always found the greatest quan-
°f seed from that sown where it is to stand ;
tere °fle advantage in sowing it in a seed bed,
ed Can choose your own time in putting in the
tur when the ground and weather is suitable;
alp4oit:the weather is very dry after harvest, it is
i impossible to get a plant ; and it should he
144, as soon after harvest as possible, as the
Ait,-; t 1 then have time to gain strength before
Abe ers and vou may thin them out in the autumn
the Your people are not so fully employed as in
stit:?riog. Ilre have not always thinned them
spri:' id% only giving thetn a rough hoeing in the
/*tugs but the last two years we have singled out
yieli 4nd left part. That part thinned out has
4111 i. nearly two quarters per acre more than
kftbie'ts and the seed is of a finer quality, and it
to es You to stir the ground well with the hoe,
‘,llL:eeP it free from weeds. If transplanted, it
be done with the first favourable opportu-
11,,kafter the land is got into a fit state, and the
tb:er suitable (that is, the ground moist, and
tither,' weather); the plants may be either dib-
the .41) like cabbage plants, or planted in the furrow,
ithitough covering them in the next bout : but
plktt ever way it is done, nothing but short bushy
braaahould be put in, as the long stalky ones never
lisbi'u out like their stouter brethren, and they are
4tt,e to be killed by the frost ; it is ripe about the
end of July, and is reaped with the sickle, and
tetteltl s h
mall eaps, just large enough to be turned
tarn:l; but if fine weather, it does not require
iatilinß much, as it readily shells out. We thresh it
kbobe, field, making a floor by clearing a square space
INCthe middle, and raking the ground fine, then
spite watering it till like puddle ; we then cover the
tilde With about a foot thick of haulm or short straw,
he
en are
fire to it ; when reduced to ashes, we roll with
4.7 roll, and the floor is ready to thresh upon
ry:
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MATE.—A few weeks ago a young man
tt tiv'e neighbourhood of Manchester was in the street
Itstsa.:rPool by one of his neighbours, walaing with a young
litler", a relative of his wife, but with whom he was con-
tihere-,,'°_, be rather too familiar. The neighbour dodged
Amp .and found that they had taken their passage to
tlitel',a• The neighbour hastened home, and communi-
!or ti"e fat the wife, wh promptly came to Liverpool
eeaPtcain,to and told himo her story. He told her to go,
I:he 4 ,7" sll her goods imeditely, and return to him.
qs: so,e arriving just asm thea vessel was about to leave.
Nisre"' taken on board and the young woman was sent
net th When the faithless husband went below to his
.r?_ found his wife there instead of his paramour.
ketps 4ITCHEN HUSBAND.—A kitchen husband, who
of ;141111 the money in his own pocket, and plays the part
cite tv'Yor far the household—not even authorising his
kvere?„aend for a pound of sugar or butter without his
aPeei,64 and special permission—is about as contemptible a
feeo'n of humanity as one can imagine ; unless his wife, be
te,hr a. drunkard, and then his conduct is praiseworthy.
hiss wit with a regular or comfortable income should allow
JiSst certain sum for housekeeping, and let her manage
'ettet". ',e Pleases. The less they talk of money matters the
,tteai„ aloney is the root of all evil ; it is sure to destroy do-
'elicity. If possible, do not even converse about it. We
Z'ith his gentleman who was so averse to money transactions
" taitls.wife that, in order to avoid giving it into her hands,
'vey it into a corner of his desk at the commencement of
sever quarter, and there she never failed to find it, and he
wretthasked her what she did with it. Many a miserable
11Y3tee2ilighm yet bec
eraome a happy man by following a similarlY
F"ily Sild,
EitTxr, •
L., -s,ERSTORM AND DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY
Ibe in4l.r.acici.—On Sunday morning, about three o'clock,
4,ter,i) habitants of Abingdon were suddenly roused from their
t ee,.rB„b.Y a thunderstorm which burst immediately over
"lee') ""• The alarm it produced was considerable, there
ene • ~ . .
,440,abi indication during the previous evening of so un-
-4113" a Visitation. The thunder completely shook the
4nd ti;ownile the lightning was of the most vivid intenseness,
liserceivhail, snow, and rain completely deluged the streets.
nez.,, a quarter of an hour had elapsed from the first ter-
eito when a messenger on horseback rode at full speed
stee,oe town with the alarm of fire, the electric fluid having
Iltiee'cocZ lone barn on Wick Farm, in the occupation of Mr.
latruneei ' about a mile off. Many of the townspeople hastened
aespite ately with the engines to the scene of conflagration,
tit oec, the pelting of the storm, but on arriving there they
perty ;saw that an attempt to save any portion of the pro-
al Quid be perfectly useless. The roof of the barn had
tams;); fallen in, and its valuable contents were one burning
Bean' and the wind, which had been blowing almost a hur-
rick e",lad communicated the tire to a 1 irge wheat and bean
ta3, t snort distance from the bare, both of which soon fell a
tOr,the destroying element. The building was insured
k-Ounty Fire-office ; and the farming stock, which con-
tie, of Upwards of 150 quarters of barley, the produce of
igtic..;. four acres of beans, ten acresof
the whole
voafrieaicolfi
were coral implements and. utensils, t
The p`lestroved, were fully insured in the Royal Exchange.
damage is estimated at 1,0001.
THEeke°
NEW
.MILITARY DISTRICTS IN IRELAND.—
evserding to the new arrangements that have been made in
titblltilunb.bi,tliairt.nu,etiee f the order of the Adjutant-General, iesued at
Ireland has been divided into the following five
rY districts •—1 t District, Dublin (Head-quarters,
puma: 'ThisL-• districts contains- 1. The entire counties
leen anT,-Ildare, Meath, Westmeath, Longford, Roscom-
arrl "'lay°, together with the towns of Drogheda and
of /5.1c-onsSFiannon. 2. The northern and eastern portiontreeing's C°untY, bounded by the river Ballynacarrig,
,til,;Silver-on-Milbrook, and the Brosna, thus incluct-
eoutti billiPstown and Tullamore. 3. That portion of the
bade Y of Wicklow which lies north of the parallel of lati-
uf the town of Arklow, that town remaining in the
In tiein.Y district. 2dtrict, Cork (Head-quarters, Cork).
*IS district are comprised the counties of Cork and
hick' with the exception of that small portion of the latter
ke is to the north-west of the river Feale. The arrange-
4ants will leave the several forts on both hanks of the Lower
lisifri,n°,l in the same district with Limerick. 3d District,
Withlt, (Head-quarters, Belfast), to remain as at present,
bistrue addition of the counties of Sligo and Leitrim.. at
to to let, Kilkenny (Head-quarters, Kilkenny). This district
Wee.nstain-1. The entire counties of Kilkenny, Waterford,
a.hr,,,`°,rd, Queen's, and Carlow. 2. That part of Wicklow
3 its" lies south of the town of Arklow, including the town.
the e eastern part of the county of Tipperary, bounded by
testri'ver Suir from Newcastle near to Roscrea, with Cogheen,
Limey,el Golden, llolvcross, Thurles, and Templemore.. sth,
trietick District (Head-quarters, Limerick). In this.dis-
rice, are contained-1. be entire of the counties of Lime-
toe_ Clare, and Galway. 2. That small portion of
.the
l'ea7tY of Kerry which lies to the north-east of the river
tOr,tel) as detailed under Cork district. 3. The whole of the
and AO Tipperary and the western part of the same count) ;
bout,7,th, the south-western portion of King's County, the
liarhuarY being formed as follows :—Frankturd, Shannon
`Jur, and shannon-bridge.
&Ise
isea„ COLLECTION OF THE 18,48 HOP DUTY.—The
wr,ti of Inland Revenue has, during the past week, issued
taant of seise facias against a large number of our hop-
hop Ps who have not yet paid the last moiety of the 1843
siri)ijlitY; and we learn from undoubted authority that
isearProceedings wil be a oace comnced against all de-
whe,it'lPr We shall bel doingt a service toe all these pl inters
furthecd raise the money by recommending them to save
tetti senses (Exchequer processes are alwas costly) by
the ng Out of this difficulty at once. We are convinced. that
the better will have to be paid, and that the sooner it is paidt
lea-.. We learn that the collector of inland revenue a
Velmitone will, probably, be all this week at his office, and
few-,43P-erely hoe that at' the end of that period there will be
.21raYrnents remaining to be collected by summary process.
aidstone Gazette.
Tlat,
ADDRESS OF THE MERCHANTS, BANKERS, AND
th .-7,Rs OF LcesooN.—The Rev. Dr. Vivian, chaplain to
sec r ..Ight Hon. the Lord Mayor, and Mr. Catty, privateoti
s'ri(ftarY to his Lordship, attended at the Home-befliQce n
to deliver to Sir George Grey the address to t e uee
eee-, the merchants, bankers, and traders of the city of
on the subject of the Papal aggression.
azonn FATAL CoLLIELLY EXPLOSIONS
LI ~"nesdav last a most disastrous occurrence happened near
eo-r7ach, blamorganahire, which has spread the greatest
sternation and dismay throughout the neighbourtod
1,_11e1.7", an explosion in Messrs. Vivian and non's ]Norio
tot-I;nwhereby 30' persons were injured and two. IThe
tlp.l of Taibach and Aberavon are plunged in grief his.
fatal stroke of ill-fortune. On the same day a second
explosion took place at the New Duffryn Colliery, the
prb
There
of Mr. Thomas Powell, the Gear, near Newport.
ere were 54 persons in the pit, of whom three only were
ut°ught up at first. The three men who were saved said
hey' ;t+ and
nearly suffocated in coming to the mouth of the
a„-1 gnd gave but a poor account of those left behind The
before
of the colliery, Mr. Meredith, had only just gone down
'itere the accident occurred. The explosion was terrific. It
otas,,erne time before any correct account could be obtained
tue fate of the miners. By Friday, however, the worst
1,,a,s ascertained, Two men have been brought up dead.
"ree are yet missing. All the rest were brought out of the
Pit alive.
SoUTHAUPTON, DEC. 17.—The Peninsular and
‘riental Company's steam-ship Montrose, Capt. 'Weeks, with
t.
amount
Peninsular mails, a full general cargo, specie to the
Pount of 3,0001., and about twenty passengers, left this
es,
5, .7 • The Royal Mail Company's steam-ship Medway, Capt.
'yfrions, with the West India mails, a large cargo, specie to
the amount of 10,5501., and about sixty passengers, left this
afternoon.n The Peninsular Company's steam- ship Indus,
Vt. Soy, with the heavy portion of the India and China
"'ails, is expected about the 24th instant.
DIRECT LONDON AND PORTSMOUTH RAILWAY.—
-there was a meeting of the Direct London and Portsmouth
Railwa,., Company yesterday, for the purpose of forfeiting
'-',455 shares, on which a call of 1/. 10s. remained unpaid;
the
of giving the directors power to enforce the arrears from
Lue defaulters. The resolution, after some discussion, was
,Carried; and it was stated by the chairman, as his expecta-
tion, that on the final winding up of this concern, a sum of
between 12s. and 18s. per share, would be returned to the
shareholders.
„ EASY CURE.—Dr. Moore, author of " Z,Auco,"
used to say that at least two-thirds of a physician's fees
Were for imaginary complaints. Among several instance:, of
this nature he mentions one of a clothier, who, after drinking
the Bath waters, took it into his head to try Bristol hot
Wells. Previous, however, to his settiug off, he requested his
Physician to favour him with a letter, stating his case to
any brother G4ea.,...This done, the patient got into a chaise
sad :started. After proceeding half-way, ho felt an itch to
Pry into the contents of the letter, when the following words
resented thianselves:—" Dear Sir,, the bearer is a fat
Wiltshire clothier—make the most of him." It is almost
'necessary to Add that his cure was from that moment
..it
ected, as he ordered the clusiso to turn, and immediately
'l444.tsclect hum

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
NORTHARN CIRCUIT.— York, Dec. 16.
(Before Mr. Justice PATTESON.)
Thomas I?otherfurtit was inlet d for wilful and cor-
rupt perjury before the magistrates at Hull, on the 23d
of last November.
Mr. Campbell Foster prosecuted, and Mr. Digby Sey
mour defended the prisoner. taR;:
It appeared that a person named John Cottingham, a
fishmonger at Hull, and one Edward Matson Maw, a
beer-house keeper there, re,iding in the same street, were
on bad terms together, and meeting in the Paul Pry
public-house, in Hull, on the 18th of November, a quar-
rel took place between them, which led to the commis-
sion of an alleged assault, for which next day Maw took
out a summons against Cottingham. Next day, the 19th
of November, about half-past eight o'clock at night, the
wife of Maw passed Cottingham'e shop, and at that time
Cottingham was standing at his door talking to the
prisoner and showing him the summons which he held in
his hand. He then used some abusive expressions te-
wards Mrs. Maw, and flourished the summons in her face,
saying, " Look here what your of a husband has
sent to me." Mrs. Maw told him whatever ho had
to say about her hustand to tell it to him and
not to insult her, at the same time laying her
hand upon ~Cottingham's arm. Cottingham immedi-
ately gave her a violent push with his hand on her
shoulder, and threw her on her face in the street with
considerable violence. For this assault Mrs. Maw took
out a summons before the magistrates, which came on to
be heard on the 23d of November, and these facts hav-
ing been proved and corroborated by two witnesses who
were accidently passing at the time. Cottingham called
on the prisoner to give evidence in his defence; and the
prisoner then swore that Cottingham never flourished
the summons in Mrs. Maw's face, that his hands were
in his pockets the whole time, and he never touched her
with his hands, but that he twisted himself away from
her, when she placed her hand on his arm, and in doing
so shoved her down with his elbow; that Mrs. Maw had
previously pushed him into his shop, and that she reeled
and fell because she had had a good deal of drink. The
magistrates disbelieved this testimony, and ordered Cot- 1
tinghsna to find sureties to keep the peace. They also
ordered tho witness Rotherlorth to be indicted for !
perjury.
The minutes of the prisoner's evidence
.before the ma-
gistrates at Hull having been proved,
Mrs. Maw and two witnesses who had been before the
magistrates gave evidence of the assault as proved before
the magistrates, and stated that this evidence of the pri-
soner before the magistrates was false in each particular,
and that as he was standing close by at the time he must
have known it to be so.
The Learned Counsel, for the defence contended that
the prisoner's evidence before the magistrates was his ac-
count of what be saw and believed to be true, and called
Cottingham himself and a man named Carlton, who each
gave testimony bearing out the evidence of the prisoner
before the magistrates.
Mr. FOSTER having replied,
His LORDSHIP summed up, and left it to the jury to say
on the evidence, first, whether the testimony of the pri-
soner was false; and, secondly, whether the prisoner
knew it at the time to be false.
The jury retired, and after an absence of about an
hour found the prisoner Not Guilty.
Harriet Jackson, a young woman, who appeared at the
bar very smartly dressed, was indicted for wilful and
corrupt perjury before the magistrates at Hull, on the
1 Bth of October last.
Mr. Thompson prosecuted and Mr. Dearsley defended
the prisoner.
It appeared that in the years 1848 and 18411 the York
and North-Midland Railway had had several packages
of goods stolen from their waggons in the neighbour-
hood of Hull, which led to the apprehension of several
persons employed on the Hull and Selby Railway living
at the village of Staddlethorpe and 'the neighbourhood.
Amongst others a man named Richard Ponder was
taken into custody and examined before the Hull ma-
gistrates, and the prisoner, who is Ponder's sister-in-
law, was called upon to give evidence on that occasion.
A part of the goods stolen consisted of bales of silks,
and it had been observed that the prisoner, though in
humble circumstauces, had appeared at a feast called
Dry pool feast, near Hull, dressed in a red and black
coloured silk dress, which was the pattern of the stolen
silk, and which Ponder was then charged with having
stolen. On being examined the prisoner swore that she
had never worn such a dress, and never saw any silk of
the kind in Pander's house or anywhere else. This
statement was now given in evidence, and witnesses were
called to prove it to be false.
Mr. DEARSLEY having addressed the jury in an able
and ingenious speech,
His LORDSHIP summed up, and the jury found the
prisoner Nut Guilty.
(Before Mr. Baron MARTIN.)
_

Martin APGuire was indicted for burglary at HaMat,
:rom the dwelling-house and shop of Lewis Belerma, on
the night of the 13th of July last, and stealing there-
from a large quantity of silver plate, watches. and
jewellery, to the value of 1,0001. Amelia Wade was
also indicted along with the prisoner on a second charge
of receiving the above property, knowing it to have been
stolen.
Mr. Hall and Mr. Pickering appeared for the prose-
cution, Mr. Overend defended M'Guire, and Mr.

Bl'anchard Amelia Wade.
It appears that the prosecutor is a foreigner, carrying
on the businegs of a watchmaker and silversmith at Ha-

lifsx, and residing in a house adjoining his shop. On
the night of the 13.11 of last July his shop was broken
open, and about 100 watches, plate, and jewellery of
various kiud>, and about 400 rings, to the value of
about 1,000/.„were stolen. The burglary was com-
mitted in so expert a manner as to leave no doubt but
that it had been committ,d by pructisid thieves. There
A' s a vacant piece of ground near prosecutor's shop
on which a constable met a man on the night of the rob-
b,ry, whom he identified us the prisoner M'Guire. On
the 25th of last November the prisoner M'Guire pawned

a gold watch at Liverpool, the number of which had
been altered, and which was part of the prop, rty stolen
from the prosecutor's sht p. The way in which this
was discovered was somewhat singular. The prisoner
M'Guire, it appeared, kept a public-house in Liver-
pool, and the female prisoner a beer-house there, and
trom suspicion attaching to hirnifrom some cause or other
which did nut appear in evidence, he was apprehended
on the recent charge of extensive plate robberies at
Liverpool, as also the female prisoner. On being taken
into custody and searched a bunch of keys were found
upon M'Guire, and he was asked where he lived. On
the officers proceeding to his house it was found that one
of the prisoner's keys opened a drawer, in which was
found a book, and in that book a pawn-ticket for a gold
watch, which turned out to have been pawned by the
prisoner, and was identified by the prosecutor as part of
the property which had been stolen from him. The
maker's number was altered where visible, but not in
ihe body of the works, and this had led to the prosecutor
being communicated with. The evidence against the
female prisoner was that she lived in Sawney rope-
street, Liverpool, and in July last, Shortly after the rob-
bery, she took a box to Manchester, which she left with
a woman named Gregory, sa3ing that it only contained
some old clothes c f hers, and she would call for it shortly.
She, however, never went fur it, and this exciting sus-
picion, Mrs. Gregory informed the police, who broke
open the box, and in it was found about 200/. wcrth of
stolen property.
These facts having been proved,
Mr. OTF.REND, for the prisoner M`C3 wire, made an able
speech for the defence, in which he contended that the
prisoner was not identified with the burglary or receiv-
ing, tend was a respectable man, and he called witnesses
to show that M'Guire had puichased the watch of a
person named Woolle.
Mr. BLANCHARD then addressed the jury on behalf of
the female prisoner.
Mr. HALL having replied,
His LORDSHIP summed up and the jury found both
the pi iaimers Guilty of receiving.
Sentence was deferred.
The trial occupi, d the whole day.

SMOKING ON 11011$EBACK•—On Tuesday a young
gentleman, named Rarnshaw, died from injuries received by
being thrown from his horse. The Durham _Advertiser states
that the horse took fright, in consequence of a spark falling
upon his back from a cigar which its rider was smoking.
He is stated to have been an inveterate smoker.
A LAWYER'S READINESS.—A lawyer, who was
sometimes forgetful, having been engaged to plead the
cause of an offender, began by saying—" I know the priso•
ner at the bar, he bears the character of being the most
consummate and impudent scoundrel." Here somebody
whispered to him that the prisoner was his client, when he
immediately continued, " But "hat great and good man
ever lived who was not calumniated by many of his con-
temporaries ?"
DESPERATE STRUGGLE.—On Thursday night, as
Inspector Smith was conveying by county cart a prisoner
named Alfred Ward, who was committed for fowl stealing,
the prisoner insisted on getting out of the cart and releasing
his handcuffs, on pretence of a call of nature. These re-
quests being refused, he tried to fling himselt out, which
was prevented ; lie then commenced striking furiously with
the handcuffs on the side of the cart, the inspector strug- ,
gling with him, and the horse running from side to side. The
left handcuff eventually gave way from the violence that I
had been used. The prisoner then made a desperate attack
upon the inspector, seizing him by the throat and pressing
him down, upon which the inspector let go the reins and
threw the prisoner back, his head almost resting on the
wheel. The prisoner then, with both hands, seized the offi-
cer's staff, which was again wrested from him. At this time
the horse backed into a ditch, and the inspector, jumping
out on the road, faced his adversary, who was following,
and dealt him a blow with his staff on the right side of the
bead. The prisoner again attempted to escape, placing one
foot on the footboard, when lie received another blow from
the inspector on the left side of the head, which took effect,
and be fell back into the cart, the blood streaming down his
face. The inspector then drove him to Orsett station, where
lie was attended by Dr. Corbet, who dressed his wounds,
which we learn are not considered dangerous.— Essex

Herald.
TAKING PLACES IN OMNIBUSES. —Yesterday Mr.
Arnold, the Worship-street magistrate, decided that it was
perfectly legal for persons to take places in omnibuses, and
the conductor of an omnibus was justified in reserving such
places for those who had taken them. [This decision is
directly contrary to that of several other metropolitan magis-
trates.—Ed. Sun.]
At the Lambeth Police Court yesterday Mr.
Elliott gave judgment in the case of the policeman Jourdan,
who was charged with annoying a person named Brown, by
following him about wherever he went. Superintendent Hayes
said he had on his own responsibility ordered Jourdan to
watch the complainant, and upon that evidence Mr. Elliott
dismissed the complaint, stating that the party who had
given the orders was responsible to the complainant if he had
exceeded the law.
Gralr.—The Bedford Times states that,
last .wick,' W. Burgess, in the employ of Mr. Thomas
Swordcr, solicitor, of Luton, was in the malt-mill room of
his otohtei nca, 'nagn'edr,nceaaurgl3h• fell to
bier
the gessrs. SWorder, at the brewery; when he inadvertently lost
aw
. leg, and the grip
eery to secure its object'was so firm that the flesh was cot-
geoundl the eiitenr,ewe'ehso.
siderably.diseoloured. Death must.otherwise have ensued,
u the height to the growati 41143114 slaty feat.