Star.
London, England, 1824-08-20 00:00:00

THE HARVEST.

The oat harvest is now pretty' general in England
And Ireland, it i, one of the richest ever remembered.
Of other grain, the accounts from all parts of the
United Kingdom continue to he 14hly favottrable.
EoNisuttoir, A Usa. 16.—We are informed, by a Gen-
tleman just returned from a journey through the coun-
ties of Lothian, Selkirk, Roxburgh, Berwick, and part
of Northumberland, that the crops in these districts are
most abundant, and in a very considerable state of for-
wardness. Harvest had partially commenced, by the
sth instant, between Jedbitrgh and Kelso; at Cold-
stream, near Wooler (in NottliuMbetland), in &mid-
shire, a field is cut here and there ; between COekixtnn.-
spath and Haddington, a considerable quantity of every
kind of grain has been cut down, and• in that district
harvest will be general next week. Potatoes and turnips
look fresh and healthy, and it it supposed that peas and
beans will turn out better this year than they have done
for some years past; the crop of peas in some places is
very great. The weather has been genial, with occa-
sional light showers, but not a field is to be seen "laid"
with the rain. In short, better filling" weather could
not have been wished for.
Several farmers in the Carse of Cowrie are to com-
mence their harvest this week. The crops in the Carse
are in a state of great foi wardness ; indeed, through-
out the country, the farmer never had a more flatter-
ing prospect.
Harvest has commenced in various places in the
neighbourhood of Perth, and at Tufthouses, in theparish
of Tibbermoor.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

• MANSION-HOUSE

Yesterday, the solicitor for the Post-office attended at the Jus-
tice-room, with evidence to make the case complete against Robert
Wightmon, who was charged on Saturday with having stolen money
out of a letter, directed by a young Lady named Barry to a person
who resides in the country.
It will he recollected, that on the former examination it was stated
that .the prisoner, who is a stamper of letters in the Post-office, was
seen by a felloev-servant to put aside a letter, which was supposed
to contain money, and afterwards to go to a water-closet, in which
the fragments of a letter were found subsequently.
Miss Barry stated, that the writing on the fragments of the let-
ter was her., to the best of her belief, and that she had enclosed half
a sovereign in the letter, which she superscribed to a person at Truro,
in Cornwall. She also stated that she intrusted the letter to another
:
young female to put into the Post-office.
Proof was given that the letter was delivered at the Pott-office.
To a question pat to her by Mr. Harmer, who attended for the
fet, Miss Barry said the money was put so carelessly into the iZellthat she could not swear it might not have dropped out.
Mr. Ha R 31611. then asked the solicitor for the Post-office (Mr.
Dowling) under what Act of Parliament it Wag his intention to
pesecute Wighiman ?
Mr. Dowtees replied, that the Pvit-Iffice Wocald-prosecute MN
under the 7th Geo. II I. cap. Se.
Mr. He alma submitted to the Loan Mavoa, that supposing the
prisoner had taken out the half-sovereign, he was not guilty of any
ofenee of which that Act took notice. The Act alluded to made it a
capital (Artifice flit any servant employed in the Bost-office to secrete
a letter containing notes or securities of any kind for the payment of
money, but in no part of the statute was there the. least mention of
0 money itself," as prohibited from being stolen.
The Loan Maven said, the case was one that certainly was new
to him, and he Wished the solicitor for the Post-office had been
ready with the authorities in support of the charge. As the life of
the prisoner was in question, be thought it would bemost advisable
in -Mi. Dowling to bring forward all the circumstances he could
collect, to elucidate his vies* of the subject; at the same time his
Lordship could not help stating, that from the hasty reference he
had himself made to the statute, the prisoner's case did not appear
to be comprehended in offences punishable by the Act. The pri-
miler was then remanded.

GUILDHALL.
Yesterday, /Ira. nullity, an interesting-looting acid elepnily-
dressed ferpale, was brought up for reexamination, on a charge of
receiving part of the notes stolen from the Birmingham Balloon
Coach, in December, 1822, knowing the same to be stolen.
Mr. Hustessalts, the prisoner's solicitor, took several legal °Nee-
Bons against the prisoner being committed on the charge of felony,
and Alderman Sir J. "%raw held her to bail for the misdemeanour.