Star.
London, England, 1830-12-02 00:00:00

HAMPSHIRE.

POITIMOUTII, Nov. 29.—We have a very great population, and
I must say their conduct has been most praiseworthy. A few squibs
have been written by some school-boys, and in some instances
threatening lettets ; but they are considered as from individual to
individual.

ETILON ANOTAZR CORRZSPOWDENT.I

The troops mentioned in my last as just embarking for the Tale of
Wight, together with HI more sent this day, have been distributed in va.
rious parts of the Island. Symptoms of discontent are becoming forcibly
alarming there, a fire having occurred near Newport on Saturday, when
about 70 tons of hay belonging to Mr. Butler, a farmer, were destroyed.
Neitey every farmer in the island having received letters of a threaten.
ing nature, it had been considered necessary to divide the soldiers among
the different villages, to aid the civil power, if necessary. " Our maid,"
who saw a fire-ball in the harbour, and a fire at Porehester, must have
been dreaming. Lord Gage has written a letter to a morning paper re.
specting the charge made against him of employing a great many la-
bourers at its. a-week, they, at the same time, receiving 3s. &week from
the parish. The " Brighton Guardian" stated, that at a recent meeting
lof labourers this charge was preferred, and that Lord Gage did not eon.
tradict it. No such imputation was made at the meeting in question,
and the occurrence upon which this ,calumny is founded actually took
place two years ago. "In 1828, the overseer of lttngmer applied to
my woodreeve to assist him, by giving some employment to two lads
who were on his hands, receiving pa pay to theamount of 3s. per
week. This the woodreeve agreed tondo, and engaged with the overseer
to pay Ss. pa week for them. So far (says 'Lord Gage) the libel is
true, but it should have been added, that upon my steward settling the
account he reprimanded the reeve for not having given more, and or-
dered him immediately to pay the lads 7s. 6d. and 161. making 11.
Od. each additional for the two jobs in which they had been engaged,
and then est them on at 3s. per day, making altogether a weekly average
of Bs. Bd. for the time they wee employed by me, and which was fully
as much as sny lads of thdr age and skill were, at that time, able to
earn in the pettsh of 'linguist."

RESTORATION OF COMPARATIVE TRANQUILLITY

IN KENT.

There have occurred since my last communication, two circumstances
which have materially contributed to produce a cessation et the outrages
which have disgraced this county for a period now extending to almost
the last three months. It is to this county that the Mosinee must be
placed in scanuit—edther the incendiaries were " men of East," or the
magistrates, and those whose duty it was to preserve taisquillity and
vindicate a due respect for the laws, have failed in the pseforniance of
that duty ; in either case the county must bear its share of the disgrace
which attaches to these proceedings. The circumstances alluded to are,
the proclamation offering a reward for the detection of the incendiaries,
and the apprehension of the rioters in the tumultuous assemblages, and
the severe (but necessarily so) punishment Inflicted on those who were
convicted at the Canterbury sessions last week. It is true, as was stated
in the House of Lords by the Earls of Eldon and Winchiliea, that the
peasantry were not aware of the extent of punishment to which they had
subjected themselves in forming part of the mobs that went about de-
stroying property, and demanding increase of wages; and the terrible
certainty brought home to them by the sentences pronou ced on Friday,
in Canterbury, has given the first shock to their daring proceedings. It
was feared at first that the labourers would have Deanne only more ex-
asperated from the extent of these entente.; but the effect they have
produced is a confirmation of a statement in one of the earliest of your
communications, in which the supineness of the magistrates is stated as
the cause of the great sod extensive series of outrage which pervaded the
whole of the county of Kent, and atcowl: extended into more than
twelve of the southern and midland

Since Thursday night these has not been a single instance of burn.
log in the eastern division of the county, and the letters from other
parts of Kent (Maidstone Cranbrook, &e.) are silent u to the com.
mission of outrage in these: quarters. There have been no committals
to fit. Augustines gaol since the same time, and it is said that the in.
tendon of telling out the yeomanry again, which was never in much
favour among the farmers, will not now be persevered in. The system
of watch and ward, adopted in most of the parishes, is still maintained
at considerable expense. Connected with this, it is not a little singu-
lar that, although patrols have been sometime established on the roads
In all directions, net a single detection of an incendiary has taken place.
The true secret of the fires, perhaps, is, that fellows having the motive
of private revenge against individuals, avalkd themselves for its grati.
fication of the state of disturbance in which the agricultural meetings
had plunged the districts—revenge was gratified, terror was inerms
and, what might have been easily checked at its commencement, has
become almost an epidemic.

The &mien have turned their whole energies against the tithe sys-
tem ; and the tithe owners, with a wise precaution, have, in most in-
stances, met the re.aetion against the system by a redaction in the
amount. Petitions against them have been very generally adopted In
the various parishes of Kent, and are numerously signed.

The Petition from Cranbrook, which consists of 12,000 acres, and
has a population of 4,000 persons, the great majority engaged in agricul-
ture, is of considerable importance. It sets out by suiting " that
within the period of a few years only, prosperity and comfort existed
throughout the parish—the farmer found a ready market, and obtained
remunerating prices for his prodoce—he paid his rent, his tithes, his
taxes, and his tradesmen's bills, and with cheerfulness. The labour-
ing classes, moreover, were contented and happy, sad, conscious of
their dependence, were orderly and mpectful their demeanour."
The petition then describes the gradual alteration of this state of things
for the worse.

In the parish of Lewisham, a petition against Tithes is in course of
signature.

In the parish of Chilham the occupiers of land hare adopted the fol-
lowing Resolutions:--" That Al r. Tykien should be requested to take
off%) per cent. from the Small Tithes ; that if he did nvt comply with
that request, he might seize their effects ; and that if he did ►else, in
future he should take all his tithe in kind." Other parishes are about
to adopt a similar plan.

In other places the clergymen have met the wishes of the faunas.
The Rev. Charles llardinge has reduced the Vicarial Tithes of Tun.
bridge 10 per cent. Other clergymen have returned to, 10, and in two
or three instances 20, per cent. to the farmers, at their Tithe Audits.
Turesainott Wzmo.—On Thursday tea shoot Ave o'clock,
a small stack of hay, belonging to Thomas ilseidag,,Esq. beaker. is
this town, was discovered to be on lire. The stack was situated in a
field near Speldberet Workhouse, at &shall Comma It was entirely
consumed. A reward of fifty pounds has been of foe the diem-
very of the perpetrator.
Cilesuess, Nov. 29.—This afternoon an express arrived hem hose
the Zed df Darnley to Cowart Sir Mehl Middle far military
seelatanee, and immediately aletaehment of infantry under the iteat-1
mend of hientenant-Colonel Snodgrass, and a troop of_ ;he Scotch Over,
marched for Cobham.hall, the seat of the Noble Mn;l it was said that