The Sun.
London, England, 1829-08-15 00:00:00

EXETER, AUG. 11.

I have obtained more minute details from oae of
the agricultural districts of this county, in order to
inform you accurately of the state of things. I take
the parish of Crediton, with 5,000 inhahitants, bI
which you may form an idea of the whole. Vie
poor-rates are from 4s. to ss. in the pound on o'3
positive rental, and one half of the whole popoli"

tion are paupers.
There are some neighbouring parishes even w°r,e,
off than this; and I have seen a calculation which
proves that the poor-rates, way-rates, and tithes'
amount to more than the net rental.
One of the worst effects of the system which
has been so long in operation is the ruin of all the
small farmers. Here is one man who occupies what
were formerly fourteen independent farms—so that
thirteen families who were masters, are become
labourers now, and the power of monopoly has,
its silent encroachments, made, perhaps, a hundred
individuals, who were once capable of supporting
themselves, the recipients of the wages of others.,
While profits of every sort have fallen, and the
prices of almost every species of raw commodity
have been greatly reduced, rents have scarcely 101-
ered at all.
A farm of 150 acres in this district let, 60 Yes All
ago, for 1001. per annum, and the landlord 'paid Al
the taxes and charges on it. In fact, at that ren'o,
it was long without a tenant. The same faro
lets for 2701. per annum, the tenant paying all t
to
charges on it, and the poor-rates nearly am°"°t r
the former rent. If the situation of the lanu°„,„u i.ea
were compared with that of the manufacturer ag
it would be found that the tendency of things 'l7l
been towards the aggrandizement of the landlord an
the ruin of the manufacturer. To expect any °ther
result from Legislators, who are, with very few el-
ceptions, the landed aristocracy of the couritr,Y_;
would show great ignorance of the first Princir
and motives of human conduct.
The average wages paid to agricultural labo ur er9 l
are 7s. per week, with the understanding tha,. ttheas
shall be provided with such quantities of wiles" at
they may require at Bs. per bushel, and of bar
4s. per bushel. Other labourers receive only 00.
per week, and obtain their wheat and barley adder
and 3s. per bushel. The general allowance of Oer
v
is three pints per day. The prospects of the c'uoy
crop are greater than for many years, and it ,111.0
already be bought in retail, clandestinely, at 2°' r
quart. or
The allowance made by parish officers to the eer
is, for a man and his wife, estimated at Bs. 6(1. Pibe
week. This is the sum made up to him from '

poor-rates. .00;
Formerly there was a large weaving popular'
but the decline of the export trade has greatly
ere
minished the number of weavers. Long ell°, dio
made to a considerable extent for the East etoin
Company; but an industrious weaver cannot ou.os
more than ss. per week. The consequence is t jg
few men are now employed; and, as the laboured
not very oppressive, women are principally eng4

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at the looms. t hat
The opinion here of the most intelligent is, na
the crop will not be more than average crops,tOaa
will by no means cover last year's deficiency. 1"4
deficiency was so great that the largest miller in ,
neighbourhood says he supplied himself with 6/ei
sixths of his consumption out of the county. Ne
er,
one-third of the farmers were compelled to buys
for their own farms. One here, who sowed fear
acres of wheat-land last year, mentioned that, aft,e,
t
providing for his family, servants, and seed for "'0
present harvest, he had only thirty bushels lean t,
send to market, and lie ought to have had 50' -
least as a fair average crop. 00-
In the poorer clay lands the ears are small-
promiscuously into a field and grasping a Band-
ing:,,,
ful, you will find very few which are rich in gr'''''„'st
From the hundred of Lifton, I hear the 10°1-. l 0
is getting on extremely well : a large proportionais,
already housed, and through the whole of this ed
trict the corn was never finer. It is well kcar/1
and the crop is heavy.—Morning Papa..

A pauper chargeable to the parish Of C:
penharntttha
was lately employed at a public-house l°
place to clean it. A dinner was sent out to ber, c°"il .g'
ing she
r lamb, potasneer,toes, peas, and strong
had abort "whicithett
needed with a saying that she -ietb
to cut her own meat from the joint, and to dine it sc
family, and could not, therefore, brookuch an
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the°
-Bath Chronicle.
MARRIED.
On the 13th inst., at i3rackley'
I Northamptonshire, boltthee Rev. C. A. Sage, Vicar, John .
n W. Cowley, Ehq. tr
Buckingham, .
ckingliam, to Eliz ibeth, only daughter of Thotoit
nold, Esq. of the former place. rrh roA4
On the 12th inst., at Baswick, near Stafford, (k)lt
Salt, Esq., of Weeping Cross, eldest son of J.
s;
lau
Esq., to Harriet Letitia Petit, eldest daughter of
ti'e
Rey. John Hayes Petit. reo
On the 13th inst., at Cheddleton Church, Thora,,,Ml,..piti
Platt, Esq., of Child's-hill, Hampstead, Fellow of ":10100
College, Cambridge, to Anne, youngest daughter of
Leigh, Esq., of Consall, in the county of Stafford.
On the 12th inst. at Heston, Middlesex, Francis ow,
Graham, Esq., of Cranford, to Harriet, youngest dad'
of George Suart, Esq. of Sutton, Middlesex.
DIED.
On the 14th inst., in I3erners-street, Oxford-1.A%
Thomas Nutliall, Esq., a Colonel of Cavalry on the NI .4,
Establishment in the Hon. East India Company's sersq'

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