Star.
London, England, 1830-08-26 00:00:00

THE HARVEST.

SALTSBURY.—The greater part of the wheat is now in rick, and, not.
withstanding the occasional showers, has been got in in excellent order.
The barley exhibits a finer appearance than is recollected by the oldest
man living. Potatoes are in abundance, and of excellent quality.
There is a double crop of every thing.

On Saturday last, a sample of prime new barley, which had been
cut about ten days before by Mr. Lumley, of Corbridge Mill, was ex-
hibited in our market. The produce of this crop is estimated at the
astonishing quantity of 32 bolls per acre, being 12 boll* per acre
above the usual average. Indeed the crops in general this year on the
banks of the Tyne are said to be eo promising, that they are expected
to average about 26 bolls per acre.—Tyre Mercury.
The sickle is still in full operation throughout the county ; although
an immense quantity of corn has already been lodged in the granary.
The wheat around us falls both excellent in quality and abundant in
quantity. The barleys are a good crop, the calculations being between
five and six quarters to the acre. The oats are equally promising
Maidstone Gaulle.

We have been favoured with the most delightful weather during the
past week, which the farmers have made the most of. The harvest is
quite general, and the crops good, in this neighbourhood—Cheater C.

The influence of the Government in Essex is very consi-
derable, especially down the river, and along the coast. This, as well
as the whole weight of the Church, was thrown into the scale of the
successful candidate, Colonel Tyrrell, who, besides this, had an ad-
vantage to which we may allude, but must not permit ourselves to
mention.

Such was the determined abstinence from plunder ob-
served by the heroic men who accomplished the late revolution in Paris,
that we are credibly informed, on one of them having been discovered
to have purloined a valuable watch from a body slain during the en-
counter, and determined to retain it, he was shot dead by his incensed
comrades.

Yesterday afternoon, a porter who had been hired to take
some valuable luggage in a truck from the counting-house of Messrs.
Cohen and Co. Great St. Helen's, to the residence of E. Cohen, Esq. in
Suffolk-place, Islington, absconded with the whole of the property,
which was contained in two black leather trunks and a wooden case. It
consisted of linen, wearing apparel, silk dresses, and other valuables of
the family, and amounted to upwards of 5001.

Yesterday morning, a shipwright, named Joseph Cooke,
while walking along New Gravel-lane, near Rateliff-highway, suddenly
fell down. He was taken to the shop of Mr. Crouch, surgeon, who at-
tempted to bleed him, but in vain : the vital spark was extinct. The
deceased was in his 68th year, and has left a wife and four children.

A woman named Mary Fitzgerald has been committed
to Cork goal, charged with the murder of her infant child, in an unoc-
cupied room, in Fair-lane. She attempted the lives of two othcrs of her
children, at the age of six and four years. The wretched woman, it is
thought, is deranged.

SEDUCTION.—At the Cork Assizes, on Thursday, an
action for seduction was tried before Mr. Justice Torrens. It was
brought by a widow, named Anne Cordner, against a Mr. Mich.
Murphy, (son of the Governor of the County of Cork gaol,) to re-
cover compensation for the degradation and disgrace cast upon her
by the seduction of her daughter, Anne Cordner, by the defendant.
Damages were laid at 10001. Miss Anne Cordner, who appeared to
be about twenty-three years of age, was examined. It appeared from
her testimony that she went to school with defendant's sister, and became
by that means acquainted with the defendant's family. She was in the
habit of walking with the defendant on the Dyke, and in one of these
promenades, in April, 113'29, under a promise of marriage, the first
offence was committed—a repetition of which occurred at different
places, and at the house of the defendant's father. Subsequently,
defendant refused to fulfiil his pledges, and witness was delivered of a
female child in December following. Defendant's Counsel (Recorder
Wagget) said the plaintiff appeared a most negligent mother, and that
her conduct as respected her child, in allowing her to walk, morning,
noon, and night, with young men, was not such as gave her a claim to
damages. It was well to talk of the impropriety of such conduct on the
part of a young man ; but when he found a girl as ready as himself, and
willing to leap into his arms at the first invitation, it was too much to
expect from human nature, that under such circumstances the dictates
of morality would not sometimes be lost sight of. 3lr. Justice Torrens
summed up the evidence. The great point for the consideration of the
i Jury was the conduct of the plaintiff in the care and nurture of her
family. The Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff.—Damages 1001.
and 6d. costs.

ACCIDENT.—Friday, an accident happened near Anston,
which, although providentially unattended with fatal consequence‘, ex-
hibited some singular circumstances. 51r. Procter, a relative of the
Rev. Mr. Crabtree, of Laughton.en-le.Morthen, with his sister, were
proceeding in a gig, with a strong and spirited blood horse, along the
road, when they met a marketman driving two small carts; he hastily
turned the head of the first horse to the roadside, and proceeded to do
the same with the other ; when;however. the gig Caine up. the carter 's
former horse, making a sudden diversion towards the middle of the road,
frightened the animal in the gig, which, running instantly over a heap of
stones, overturned the vehicle, and tossed the couple, almost unhurt,
into the ditch. The horse immediately turning, jerked the gig upon its
wheels, and galloped back up the lane, till it came to a six-barred gate ;
this the animal dared, and actually cleared, with the gig behind, and
afterwards like manner another fate, when he found himself in a large
field, where he was secured, having done but little injury to himself, the
gig, or the individuals who had been thrown out, although such was the
force with which he went over the former gate, that the strong hooks,
Ott which it hung, were actually drawn front the post l It may be ob.
served, as a curious coincidence, that a lad, who was breaking stones on
the Mali, and who had seen the party go by him all smoothly, but a few
minutes before, had observed to a looker on, that " it was fine sport
tiding in a gig."—Sheffieid Iris.