The Sun.
London, England, 1820-08-12 00:00:00

GAMBLING HOUSES.

UNioNT=HALL—In consequence of information received at
this Office, a warrant was issued' On Thursday night to search
the house of person, named Barnett, near the Surrey
Theatre, who was accused with keeping a Gambling-house,
under colour of is being a spruce beer shop. At the appoint-
ed hoar the whole of the posse comitatus proceeded to the ren-
dezvous, where they gained admission after much difficulty.
Their first object was to secure the woman* the bar, with as
tittle noise as poSsible, and this being accomplished; they pro-
ceeded to the hack parlour, where they beard a rattling, as if
of dice, and the echo of many voices and footsteps ; but the
door Was locked. A council 'was held as to what was most ex-
pedient to be done, and it was at length agreed to force the
door; by a simultaneous eff...rt t.his vris speedily put in exc-
chtion, and the officers rushed in in a body,
to the great dis-
eomfiture of about 20 persons, who wei.e sorionntling`a hazard
• table, very intent upon the game. The (Akers to :de
sc ramble , ,
the dice antglobteettiehlift'adion.ey;
was ftjat (...r.9oClingbourne mt. and Lis. bd. in silver,
the result of which
Hall 11. 6s. in money
.and and the other Various
parts of the paraphernalia otthe
table; but money
to a great amount, which laid on tint table, was seized by the
players, helot e the otfieerS could approach. The .greatcst
confusion then ensued ; the window was fOrced out, and Ma-.
escaped;try but by the activity of the Police, no less than
20 persons (including fire women) were secured and lodg-
ed in various places of confinement. A table, upon which
they played, was brought:to the Office; it was ti! very curious
construction, in the middle was a circle, marked with.an
ivory inlay, within which the dice ‘'‘'ere cast ; round that was
another circle, six or eight itichsbrOad,, appropriated Solely
sooner; the.rest of the table was
tatiskt,teeds
eatfiodrihe bettingg
to lasses and bottles. The parties, to-
gether with the keeper of the hOuse, were brought up to the
Office yesterday, and 'undenient au examination before lt. J.
Chambers and D. king, 'Esqr.. the presiding Magistrates.
They were allleld to bail.

liberal and disinterested spirit, of which he has
given an early proof, in placing under the direc-
tion and management'of the Halifax Agricultural
Society, a farm in the neighbourhood of that city.
From the Halifax Papers to the 12th ult. received
on Saturday we make the following extracts ;
and with regard to_ gnigration, we can only ex,
press our hope, that it will receive that encour-
agement which may render it alike beneficial to
the Mother Country and her Colonies.,
PROVINCIAL aGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.

The Monthly Meeting of the Directors was this day held in
the Province Building; and his Excellency Sir JAMES limitir
took the Chair at twelve o'clock for the dispatch of the ordi-
nary business.
The Board first turned its attention to the appointment of
the Fall Ploughing Match which was recommended to the dif-
ferent Societies by the general meeting of April, and for
which pi ()vision was to lie drawn from the pi irate funds of
each. It was thought by the Directors utyadvisable'to crowd
it into the day of the fair and cattle show to be' held on the
Peninsula of Halifax o❑ the, 6th of September next.; and

then fore it was determined that the day immediately :after
would be much more eligible, as affording greater leisure to
spectators, and as giving an opportunity, particularly to those
strangers who might attend the fair fur the sake of real busi-
ness, of completing all purchases and sales, free from the in-

terruption and hurry winch this r vela tnight.occasion.
The Match will then take place Oil the 7th of September, at
twelve o'clock, and the prizes will be the same in number, in
hind, and in value, as those which were distributed in Ma'y
last. The regulations, by which the conduct of the competi-
tors is meant to be directed, are not yet prepared; but they
will be published in due time ; and,in the interim, the far-
mers in the vicinity of Halifax will consider this as a public
enunciation of the purpose of the Central Board, and will in-
timate to their ploughmen the day of competition, and the
prizes to be won.

'll►e_f►rst prize shall consist of a silvet medal and 5 potiuds
currency.
The second ditto, of ditto, and of three pounds.
The third ditto, of ditto, and of two pounds.
The fourth ditto, of ditto, and of one pound.
Two lette►a were next read, the one front N. ATcarsog,

Esq. and the other from Art•iutnt AIKIN, Esq. Secretary to
the Society of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce; London,
which were accompanied with a present of the 3t;11) vo!unie
of the Transactions of that respectable and eminently useful
Institution, and with` a promise that the future volumes and
other occasional publications would by transmitted in regular
succession. This mark 61 attention front a Society of such
high standing in the mother country, and which must be at-
tributed to the favourable representations -of our Colonial

Agent, was received with great applause ; and the thanks of
the Central Board were ordered to be conveyed by the first
packet.
The Lieutenant-Governor then drew the attention of the
Directors to some public token of respect due by the Provin-
cial Agricultural Society to their founder, who was now gone
to the seat of his Government, and who merited, by his per-
severance and xeal, all that their gratitude could prompt. A
Committee was then named to prepare an Address to the
Right Hon. the Earl of DALHOUSIE, expressive of the-high
sense entertained by' the Directors of his Lordship's past sr r-
vices in the cause of the Provioxial Agriculture, and to con-
gratulate hint on his sate arrival at Quebec.
Sir JAMES Keeler then .Mused the Meeting by a second act
of liberality in► behalf of the justitution. He statett, as his
.wish, that the Ninth Farm, which was in his gift as Governor,
should be put under the management of the Directors, and
be at their disposal during the period of his administering
the Government. He conceived that au Agricultural-Society
would derive benefits from having the command of .a piece of
ground in the neighbourhood of the town, fur the purl use of
grazing.such live stuck as Might be from. timeto time impit-
ed ; of holding ploughing-Matches; of making experiments;
or of applying it beneficially in furtherance of the many ob-
jects which the hoard might have in contemplation. His
-Excellency then proceeded to nominate as a Committee of
Management, the HMI. Judge-Halihurton, H. H. Cogswell,
Matthew Richardsoh,,Peter SPNab, Esqrs. and requested
them to take necessary steps for converting that Faint to the
use of the Society.
Halifax, July 4. JOHN 'YOUNG, Sec.