Star.
London, England, 1820-01-22 00:00:00

day evening, about ten o'clock, Jae was returning
home, when ke was accosted by the prisoner, at the
corner of Plongh4ourt, a short distance from his
house. She solicited him to accompany her home,
but he refused. He had not parted with her more
than a few moments, when he missed his watch. No
individual but the prisoner was near him at the time
he was robbed of his watch. The watch was pledged
.it a shop in Fleet-market, by Margaret Lynch, who
stated, that she was a relation to the prisoner ; and
that on Thursday morning, she was sent for to the
;louse of Sibley, where the former lived ; and NI) 6.
Sibley, in the presence of Lynch, asked the witness,
as a favour, to pledge a gold watch for her? which
being produced by the pawnbroker, Mr. Brandon
identified it as his property.—The Magistrate was of
opinion, that there was not sufficient evidence to fix
the guilt of Sibley, and ordered her to be discharged.
Lynch was fully committed.
MARLBOROUGII-STIIRET.—A. most diabolical as-
sault on a girl under ten years of age, with intent to
commit a rape, came on to be heard at this Office.—
The accused are T. Kentish, a poacher, and Cathe-
rine Hughes, with whom.he cchabited. The prose- I
cutor, on behalf of his injured infant, is a retired
tradesman, who has a country-house in Hertford-
shire, where part of his family occasionally reside,
and the female prisoner and another female servant
were kept there. Kentish partook of the bed of his
guilty associate, and, about a month since, after
Hughes had got up, she supplied her-place with the
child in-question. The prisoners were committed for
trial to Hertford Jail, the mast for the assault, with in-
tent to violate, and the woman for aiding and abetting.
AN UNACCOUNTABLE TRANSACTION.—Application
was made, a few days ago, to the Magistrates of
Union-Hall Police Office, to send two Police Officers
down to Chertsey, in Surrey, for the purpose of ap-
prehending a fellow, who. it was reported, had cut
and stabbed several females in different parts of their
body with a sharp instrument, in a similar manner to
the monsters so much talked of recently in France.—
The application was made by a Gentleman named
Wells, an opulent farmer, residing at Ham Farm,
near Chertsey, whose servant girl had been stabbed
by the unknown. Two Officers, named Hammond
and Haynes, were sent down to Mr. Wells's house ;
they interrogated the servant, who sheaved them her
wounds, and stated, that on the day the villain stab-
bed her she went to the wood-house for some wood,
when she was struck with something which ran into
her body, and she ran to her master's house and in-
formed the family. On the same day, in the after-
noon, she went to an out-house, and on opening the
door, was seized by the same person who had before
wounded her, and cut in both arms. The man, she
said, was dressed like a sailor. The cuts in her arms
were apparent. The Officers went in different direc-
tions about the neighbourhood, but they could not
hear of any such person having been seen. The fe-
males in the neighbourhood were in the greatest
alarm, and several of them offered a reward for the
apprehension of the wretch. The Duchess of YORK
hearing of the affair at Oatlands, likewhe offered
fifty pounds reward to those *ho should take him
into custody. After a fruitless search many miles
round, the Officers doubting the statement of the
girl, took her before a County Magistrate, that her
deposition might be taken on oath. The girl very
reluctantly accompanied them, and when before the
Magistrate, refused to be sxsorii ; he reprehended
her for her conduct, and urged her to speak the truth,
when she burst into tears, and acknowledged that
she wounded herself. She was further urged to ex-
plain her motives for such unaccountable conduct ;1
but neither entreaties nor threats could induce her to
say more than that the whole was a deception. The
females again walk about, without being in constant
terror of the supposed monster.
QuEEN-SQUARE.--Yesterday J. Joiner was charged
with uttering a forged £1 Bank-note, with which he
had cll a'ned a turkey from a poor man of the name
of M'Cat thy. The prisoner was remanded.
DARING TlllEVESt—Thursday evening, two young,
villains succeeded in starring the window of Mr.'
Taylor, jeweller, of St. Martin's-court, whence they
stole several silver and gold articles, with which they
n.ade off, but having been observed by Gooke and-
Glasborough, two officers, they were pursued, and
taken into custody to Bow-street, where they were
committed for trial.
BRISTOL, JANUARY 19.—Either owing to a barge
striking against it, or to the sudden breaking up of
the frost, or perhaps to both, one of the iron ribs of
Harford's Bridge, leading to Totterdown, gave way
this morning about eight o'clock, and carried with it
the foot-pavement, iron railing, gas pipes, &c. on the
eastern side. The crash was tremendous ; a man and
woman- were passing at the time—both escaped
without injury, but of course extremely frightened.
The morning coaches from Bath and London were
obstructed in their passage, and obliged to turn
through a new and unfinished road, which. leads
over Bedminster Bridge. Here Fromont's Express
coach, outwards, from the unevenness of the road,
and the obstinacy of a waggon-driver, upset on the
river side, and two outside ptisengers and the coach-
man were thrown down the steep bank, and would
probably have perished in the river, which was run-
ning with increased velocity from the thaw, if a sack
of oats, also thrown from the top of the coach, and
which was impeded in its progress by a stone, had
not providentially formed Li obstruction within two,
feet of the water. No material injury was, however,
done ; the crowds that were looking at the bridge
immediately ran to render assistance, and the coach
was raised, and-proceeded on its journey. The weather
has Leen extremely severe here, and the Float conti-
nued a scene of amuseirent. On Saturday, the 15th
instant, and Sunday, a novel sight drew additional
thousands. A large West India vessel, the Stedfast,
belonging to Alderman DANIEL, was released from
her confinement by cutting a canal in the ice. The
process was performed by making sections of 16 to
IS feet square, and drawing them underneath the
wain body, which was done by mete standing on the
detached piece, and by the help of levers forcing it
below the level of the surrounding ice. The Jane
nd Barbara, another West India vessel, was also cut
out, and taken through Bathurst Basin ; but the pas-
sage for the Stedfast was cut all the way to the Dock
at the hot Wells. " It is an ill wind that blows no one
any goad," for, by the above contrivance a number
c: men were employed who otherwise would have had
no means of obtaining, by labour, their requisite food.

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SPADE HUSBANDIUY.

PROPOSALS for enabling the DISTRESSED DIANUFAC-
TIJ REES and PEASANTRY to support themselves without
PAROCHIAL AID.

(Concluded from the STAR of yesterday.)
COPY OF A LETTER FROM SIR JOHN SINCLAIR, BART.

TO MR. FALLA.
December
mceeibaieritv
some 81 .
" Sta—l understand' thatj'd ingh; a
l'uyrou
experiments with trenching, compared to ploughing
land. It would be obliging in you to inform me,
what, on the whole, has been the result of your ex-
paneydiednocey,ouintrheignkaridt bporathc'ttoicatitlepetnoseemanpdlopyraodnuncneth;—er
of persons in that mode of cultivation, with public
and private advantage. Perhaps you have ascer-
tained how much a labourer of medium strenz.th will
be able to cultivate in a.year ? What number of
irons may he raised ? Whether there will be a sur-
plus profit after paying the rent and expense ? An.i
to what extent women and children can be employed
under that system of cultivation?
" I.am, with esteem, your very obedient servant,
(Signed) " JOHN SINCLAIR."
COPY OF A LETTER FROM MR. FALLA, TO THE RIGHT
HON. SIR JOHN SINCLAIR, DAM'. EDINBURGH.
" Gateshead, Newcastle, 17th Dumber, 1812.
" SIR—A few days before I received your letter,
I received one frOm Benjamin Wills, Esq. Secretary
to the Committee of the Society for the Encourage-
ment of Industry and Reduction of Poore Rates, in
consequence, as he observed, of a communication
from you requesting information to be laid before
the Committee respecting the advantage of working
land by the spade; and as my answer contains what
:may, perhaps, he considered as replies to part of
I,your queries, I inclose a copy of it, and to vvhich I
I add the following observations as answers.to the re-
mainder of your queries :
" On an average, as far as I am able to ascertain
it, three men and two women or girls, (being about
the proportion of the two sexes that we employ in
our nursery) taking the year round, work ten acres,
making two acres for each individual; but as a larger
proportion of the work is done by a man than a
woman, perhaps it may be tolerably accurate to say
that two acres and two-thirds are worked by the
man, and one acre and one-third by the woman ;
but a nursery, in all its operations, takes a great deal
more work than ground for agricultural purposes : I
may fairly say double : this will give for a man one
year—say five acres.
" At our rate for digging (335. per acre), and sup-
posing a man at that work earns 2s. per day, which is
about the sum a man will earn, on an average at that
rate, 5 acres will occupy of the year 82i days, the time
for sowing and planting his crops : suppose the same,
'there will remain for hoeing, weeding, and keeping
clean the ground 148 days, making in all 313 work-
ling days in the year: as far as my, judgment and ex-
perience enable me te say, this may be a pretty fair
calculation, and may be done without an improper
degree of exertion by a man of medium strength.—
it does not appear to me that more than one agri-
, cultural crop can be procured in one year by.the
spade any more than by the plough ; but a year by
fallowing need not in any case be lost. If garden
articles were introduced into the system, two crops
might certainly in many cases be obtained ; after
either early potatoes or early peas, crops of turnips,
early cabbages, or brocoli might Le got, which would
:be off the land in time to sow barley or oats, or plant
common potatoes the following spring.
" On the supposition of equal numbers of men
and women being employed, a man and a woman,
I think, may be expected to cultivate seven acres
and a half. On this supposition, as digging must
be all done by the man, it will take him 125 a days,
daring which, the woman will be employed in other
operations.
" All that children could• be employed in would be
weeding, at suitable times and in suitable weather.
" If any part of my statements seem to you to
need further explanation, 'I shall be obliged to you
to point it out, and I will do all that is in my power
to meet your wishes ; and I remain, respectfully,
" Sir, your most obedient servant,
(Signed) " WILLIAM FALLA."
COMMUNICATION FROM MR. SAILA TO MR. OWEN,
NOV. 21, 1819.
" The produce of two former years! experiments,
as stated in a letter to Benjamin Wills, Esq. was
from 62 to 60 bushels of wheat per acre. Those of
crop 1819 were as follow:
Tile seed sown broadcast b 2 2-3 Bushels per acre.
Ditto in drills, nine Inches 65 2-3 Ditto.
The plants transplanted out
of a seed bed in lines 12 6 t Ditto.
inches
Ditto, nine inches 563 Ditto.
Ditto, six inches - 64 Ditto.
" In order to make a fair comparison between the
quantity produced after the spade and the plough, #
Inedium•square yard of ripe wheat was cut in an ad-
joining field belonging to another person, the quality
of the land rather superior to mine, but worked in
the usual way of this country, with a two-horse
plough, and sown broadcast, which contained one
gill of corn, being nearly equal to 38 bushels per acre*.
My experiments for crop 1819 were made after a
crop of turnip seed; the ground previously manured
for the turnips before they were sown, after the rate
of 20 tons of stable dung per acre, no additional
dung used for the turnips when transplanted, nor for
the wheat crop. The plants and seeds respectively
for the different experiments of which wheat crops
were planted and sown in September.
1 think that wheat by spade husbandry would
best succeed either potatoes or beans. The former,
especially if an early sort, would be off the ground
in great time to have the wheat sown er planted in
September of the beginning of October ; and the
beans sufficiently so, if an early sea., and if carted
off when cut to any_ corn stubble till fit to stack.—
After turnips, oats, or barley, would with much pro-
priety succeed, sown the following spring : the land
after the turnips were taken or eaten of, might, at
any favourable opportunity, be dug previous to
spring seed time.
" The following are particulars of an experiment
detaiied.by Mr. Robert Oastler, of Leeds, one of the
• On a view of the corn of this field, when in sheaf upon it,
:a person well experienced in the matteth was decidedly of opi-
nion, that 58 bushels per acre was a larger quantity than Lim
Arid would average.

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Deputation froth that town to New Lanark, which
was made by Mr. Midi.ael Meeke, of Sober, near
North Allerton, in Yorkshire. The quantity of land
one acre.
" The quality of the land is a loamy clay of the
second class, its subsoil a yellow clay, inclining to
sand at three fat below the surface, which eid con-
tain water, but is now completely drained, and is
worth in that neighbourhood 30s. per acre, annual
rent, tythe free.
" 1111811 it was summerfallowea, in December ,ad
January was trenched 18 inches deep, after whicli it
carried a crop of seedlings quickwood. In January
1818, the quickwood was cleared off, and a similar
trenching was given, after which potatoes were
planted with a small quantity of manure, the crop
not measured, but by no means abundant. The sum-
mer was very dry.
" In the early part of November it received a cOm-
men digging, 11 orll2 inches deep, and was sown
broadcast with seven pecks and a half of red wheat,
Winchester measure; in the latter end of August,
1819, it was reaped, and thrashed in September fol-
lowing, and produced thirty-seven bushels and a half
of wheat, equal in quality to the wheat managed by
the klough, from a similar soil. Rid this land been
worked by the plough only and summer (allowed in
1818, Mr. Meeke states that he should not have es.
pected more than twenty bushels for this acre, which
quantity he cons dens to be the average of that district.
" The proportionate result of the above, though
not exactly agreeing with my experiments, strongly
corroborates them, the proportion or Mr. Mceke's
crop by the spade, compared with the supposed one
by the plough, being as 20 to S 7, and mine being
as 38 to .58 2-3. (Signed) 44 w. FALLA."
The Committee appointed to examine Mr. Owea's
Plan, consisting of Members of Parliament and other
intelligent proiessional .and commercial characters,
having already given the subject coosidei able atten-
tion, are of opinion that no time should be lost in
giving a fair trial to these arrangements.

RF.TT ING AT TATTEI
The following are the Odds
DE.

ISALL'S YESTEIIDAT:
m the Great Ittces to

11 to 1 art 'Air. Pierse's gr. c. 17 to 4 agst Brother to Blucher
15 to 1. agst Pintlarre 20 to 1 agsz.ar.i
ut et.
16 to 1 agst 13ri5eis
Oexa-4 to 1 agst the Duke of Ilutland.s Sorcery filly.
DONCASTER ST. LEGER.
1$ to 1 agst gr. c. nut of Lisette 1 SO to 1 agst Brother to Fain
20 to 1 agst Tramper Puta.
COURSING.
A great Coursing Match t'sok place lately at Ashdown Park,
the sea: of CRAVEN, for a I.leugh, givrn by his Lordship,
to he run for by his tenants, v.hich was won by a yellow puppy,
belonging to Mr. JAMES Spier's, of Lambourn ; sixtern clots
were named, which brought the wi:iner to four courses; the
yellow puppy killed all her hares, and won the match iu grre:
style, beating some of the crack leis of the-Vale.
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NEWGATE Aso LEADLN H .k LL 3fARX ETS, .fis N. tn.
(By the elrcase.)
Beef 35 441 to 4s sd I
Veal 44 Sd to 6s JS
Mutton .

PRICES or BAT ANP
IT. JAMES*.
Hay 31 3s Od to 51 Os od
Straw II is Od to 11 151 Od
Clovcr 01 Os Od to 01 Os 041

aRANY YESTERD.I Y.
Wyll tIECHATEL
Hay ... '.;l 10, 'to 41 8s Od
Straw 11 ils to 11 14s Oa
Clover 51 5i to til 6s Od

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Sussex 2l 16: to 31 8,
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