The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-09-07 00:00:00

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plentiful, and well ripened. In France, too, the harvest
is nearly housed, and is described as one of the most pro-
ductive and the finest ever remembered. The only draw-
back experienced in respect of the crops is the reappearance
in some districts of the potato disease ; but even this ca-
lamity would leave in the harvest a vast superabundance
of food for all France.— Gardeners' and Farmers' Journal.

On Friday, the attention of the Oxford city magistrates
was occupied a considerable time in hearing informations,
on the prosecution of the Crown, against seventeen market
carriers, for having, contrary to the statute, carried pas-
sengers, and travelled at a greater speed that four miles
an hour, whereby they had not only incurred a penalty of
£5 each, (the lowest the magistrate could inflict,) but had
made themselves liable to the mileage duty, as well as to
a license for carrying passengers. The result was, that
seven were fined £7 each and 9s. costs, four were dismissed

for want of proper evidence, three were adjourned, and
the remainder were out of the jurisdiction of the city
authorities. These informations, it is understood, were
at the instance of some of the coach proprietors, who had
complained to the Board.of Stamps and Taxes of the
system carried on by the carriers trading to and from
Oxford. In every case the defendant pleaded ignorance
of the law.

THE HARVEST.—The corn harvest throughout the north
of England is now in full operation, an immense amount
of grain having this week been cut down in the best pos-
sible condition, whilst in the more early and favoured dis-
tricts considerable quantities of wheat and barley have been
safely deposited in the stack-yards. The weather conti-
nues to be all that could be desired, and the harvest is
unusually early. There can now be no doubt that the
crop of wheat will be fully an average one ; the same may
be said of barley and oats, although the latter, in many
places, are exceedingly short in the straw, no doubt owing
to the droughty weather which we have experienced.
Turnips will be more than usually abundant, and potatoes
—free at present from all symptoms of disease—will also
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THE FEAST OF HARVEST.—The Jews err in overlooking
the Advent of the Messiah, in humility and the New Tes-
tament. Many Christians err in overlooking the Advent
of Messiah in glory, and the Old Testament. The Pentateuch
may teach an important lesson to Christians. Unless it
can be shown that less gratitude is expected from Christians
than Jews, how can Christians justify their neglect of the
Feast of the Harvest ? After the Jews had gathered in
their corn and their wine, they observed a feast of seven
days, when they were all commanded to rejoice :—" Thou
shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daugh-
ter, and thy man-servant, and thy maid-servant, and the
Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow,
that are within thy gates," (Deuteronomy xvi. 13-15 ;
Leviticus xxiii. 39-43 ; Numbers xxix. 12-40 ; Ezra iii. ;
Nehemiah viii.) After our happy deliverance from scarcity
aad cloisr‘lt,-am-vre-clo-better than follow the example of
the Jews by such an expression of gratitude to God as shall
include charity to man, especially by feeding the hungry,
delivering the poor and fatherless from want, and causing
the widow's heart to sing for joy ? Let the harvest feast
and harvest home be kept in every parish and neighbour-
hood, and special services be performed in every place of
public worship, to conclude with the gathering of alms for
the purchase of bread or cakes made from the new wheat,
to be given to the poor, who may be recommended for their
general good conduct.
INCREDIBLE BARBARITY.—A most revolting case of
inhumanity occurred at Horkstow, near Barton, on
Saturday morning last. An itinerant Irishman, with a
wife and three or four famishing children, a few days be-
fore solicited and obtained employment of a man of the
name of Spencer, foreman for Lady Tuffnell, in the

harvest field. His wife was far advanced in pregnancy,
and on the above-mentioned morning began to show
signs of approaching labour. Spencer, who is the over-
seer of the parish, and whose duty it was to have provided
for such a case, when informed of the circumstance, went
immediately to the woman's husband, and discharged
him, at the same time telling him that he must leave
the town instantly, in order to prevent any expense and
trouble his wife might put him or the parish to. The
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threatened if they refused to go to have them imprison-
ed. He also declined paying the man his wages, until
he saw them fairly out of the town. Thus compelled, they
commenced their journey to Ferriby, another village about
a mile or two off. What the woman suffered it is impos-
sible to describe ! They had scarcely arrived at this place,
when the hapless creature was delivered in the open street,
surrounded by the unfeeling rabble, who had congregated
to witness the sad spectacle. The miserable mother hud-
dled-up the dead child, for dead it was, in her scanty and
tattered garments to prevent exposure, until she was re-
moved to a public-house stable, and there deposited on
some straw. The proper authorities have since taken the
matter into their bands, and commenced proceedings
againat Spencer.---,D4-I'.4cster Gazette.