The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-09-08 00:00:00

THE CROPS AND HARVEST IN IRELAND.

There has been a great many spots of wheat and oa's
reaped during the present week, and same oats have been
threshed. Next week, reaming wheat and oats will be
pretty genefil ; as die weather is I kely to Continue tine,
the week followed may be expected to be the busy harvest
week; however, the harvest work in this county will not
be finished before October. —(.lgricul‘artd Report of the
County of Du6lio.)
The wheats are complained of by the farmers in this
county, as being deficient or imipy in the ear: the quality,
we think, will be uneven, but this deficiency (if any) in toe
wheat, wilt be made up in. the crops of oats, which, on the
whole, are excellent; so that no scarcity of foal (unless •
artificial) need be apprehended in the ensuing year.—(/bid )
Coag,Sstrtl.—We have been this day favoured with. dm
following statement of the crop., of the It irony of
Duhalluw, by a tient!civan ohm hart, storing the list week,
visited several plus of it.—The country pr'sen•s a tna,th
more ftvoitrable appearance than could be expected : the
improvement during the last ten days exceeding the most
sanguine wishes of the farmer. Wheat, thong,' train, looked
healthy, and it is considered a fortun Ire ciptam stance that
the crop is not heavy .on the ground, as in that case it
would have been more subject to damage from the continua
rains.

Oats and barley in fine order, and will in mai), parts be
ripe for the sickle t•ais week. Patatne Eadeni have mWI
recovered, and the lite po,atoes are expacied to be a go.,
crop. Hay and turf nearly saved, fur the, latter great fears
were not long since entertained of a total loss.

M yet there had been no corn of any description cnt in
that Barony, and the most favonrahle opinion was held
gmerally, that if Providence confirmed propi•ious weather
for the month of Septemher, the crops wJaid prove al
average of even favourable years.

In addition to this statement, we observe, that In the Liber-
ties the wheat harvest lams commenced. Mr. J euttinxe and Mr.
Herrington hate b •th cut ext-nsively, and we are happy to
learn, that the report of those tientlesnee is extremely favour-
able; the latter intends to have his wheat in market on Satur-
day. This day, we hear that cutting of oats and barley in
pretty ge..eral, unit ail concur in the opinion, tint with thr.te
weeks' propitious weather, there will not be any corn stand-
ing within the circle of the Liberties.—(Cork Citron )
KILKENNY, September 3.—On Monday last. John lieongh,
Esq., commenced reaping a field of twenty-..ine acres of
wheat at New Orchard. and never was a finer crop brought
under the sic..le in the neighbourhood of this city. Good
judges say, the average of tile wh le of this large field is held
overrated at eight barrels per acre. Should toe weather hold
up for another week, most of the wheat and barley in this
county will he cut down. The oals and potatoes look ex-
tremely well, and ereseut appearances promise an abundant
harvest of all the fruits of the earth ; nor will, there be sty
serious deficiency in the hay harvest in this county, as was
feared ; whir there will be *more abundant supply of straw
than wo have had for several years. The reports from every
part of the united kingdom are of a favourable nature, and
there can be little doubttliat a paragraph in the Courier sta:-
ing that the result of the inquiries of Ministers is, that wheat
will be 70s. per quarter (about 50s. per barrel) before Christ-
mas,•is a mere trick of corn factors, who hold large stocks of
old grain.—(Leinster Journal.)

Pease, Angast 23.—Lord Hill revisited Perth this week,
on his return from the moors. lie remained sometime in
own, and visited several places in the neighbourhood.

[CORN EXCHANGE, MONDAY. SEPTIMDBR B.—The sopplies
of all kinds. or Grain last week were middling, but quite sum-
dent for the present limited demand. This morning there are
only moderate quantities of Corn fresh in, and the weather
having continued -for several days remarkably fine, causes a
garland (tallness to prevail in the sale of all descriptions of
Orate. Tne samples of new Wheat that at present come to
market are for the most part damp and unfit for our millers
use. The trade frol.such descriptions has declined 2s. lo Ss.
per quarter, from the prices of Monday.—Old samples of dry
nearly miintsla last quotations.—Barley meets with a heavy
sale at Is. per quarter reduction in value.—Beans sell very
heavy.and are also Is. per quarter eheaper.--Rolling Pease
hardly maintain the prices last quoted.—Urea PION are un-
altered.—Oats are plentiful, and sales can hardly be effected
at a reduction of Is. per quarter from the prices of last
Monday.—The Flour trade coutinues excessively dull.—Rape
seed is rather lower.
SMITHFIELD MARKET.—The alter ir market was rather shoe
..bls morning of oxen, but of small m at the Supply was good.
4fligber prices were demanded, Aritieularly `f.,r Kerr, hut the
{butchers
did not seem to perches, freely,. Beer, Si. to 4r. ; Mut-
ton, Ss. to 4s. ; Lamb,4s. to Ns; Fuel, Is. to 55.; Pork, Vs. Itki.
m Ss. Kid.

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POLICE
ClSlLll4l4l.L.s—Jentes Smits*, Rebecca Wittiot, and Jolt
Ellis, the driver of Wallineton's Southampton wsr
!remits* White Horse Inn. Friday Street. endetwent aCli
einsushnstion en Saturday, before the Sifting Magistrate.
Mr..Ahlennalf.Cox, on a charge of being contented In the
robbery of the waggon on the night of 'Thursday, the IStb
of Airlift.
IA the afternoon' of Friday. the 29th nit.. Corby, an
officer of St. Andrew's parish, got information that a
hackney easch had been se..n to stop at the end of a court
in Shoe Lane, and that a considerable quantity of bulky
good* had been taken therefrom and lodged in a house
there,. He and the parish conetahles. Jones and Wildest,
determined to 'verb, and towards evening the female
prisoner was seen to come out of the court with a boodle t
she was stopped. and on examining it, it was found to be
a piece of about ten yards of new gingham. The officers
immediately searched the house where she lodged, sad in
the room occupied by Watson they found the prisoner
Smith and the whole coach-load of property, consisting
of several piecce of cambric-muslin. calico, sheeting. ging-
ham, Ste. &e. Having thus secured the prisoners and the
• bncity, the officers soot found an evidence who bad seen
them both assist in unloading the coach; and after a abort
examination the next day they were remanded, to give time
for the officers to trace the owners of the property, of
which Watson and Smith denied all knowledge.
The officers discovered that the goods were part of a
package forwarded from the house of Mr. Alderman
Thorpe, A 'agate, to Mr. James Davis, linen-draper,
Sontliempton, by IVallington's wagtails, en the Thursday
night previous, and on inquiry at the waggon office, on
Tuesday, the proprietors there bad beard nothing of the
robbery, though four days had elapsed since it had been
committed. No alarm was then gives, bet as the prisoner
Ellis, the waggoner, on the sight of the robbery, was to go
the same journey that evening, two officers followed the
waggon. On their return to town they brought him with
them in custody, and attended on Saturday to give their
evidence before the Magistrate.
Watson and Smith were first put to the bar; the evi-
dence against them was in substance what has already been
stated.
Mr. Steward, from Alderman Thorpe's house identified
the whole of the property, including the piece of gingham
!mind on tire person of Watson, as part of the contents of a
truss, the whole value of which was about 641. The
property produced was in value about 271. The truss
hail been rut, hut the remainder of its contents had at%
rived safe. Mr. Jackson, from the White Horse Inn, loaded
'the trues himself on the Southampton waggon, on Thurs-
day evening.
The prisoners, who again denied all knowledge of the
ronherr, or how the prapertv came into that room, were
then taken from thu bar, and allis;the waggoner, brought
forward.
Fache and Wilden then told their story ; they had
watched the two waggons, for there was a second went out
in connection with Ellie's, as there had also been on the
night of the robbery, as far as Hounslow. Here theyasked
Ellis to give them a lift to Egham, and they rode an the
waggon to that place, where they much surprised their
conipanions by asking where their foreman lived, Mr. Ley-
land ; the waggoners showed them, and from their con-
versation with him, and by what they got from Ellis him-
self, it appeared, that although he (Ellis) acknowledged
having discovered the robbery before he got to Brentford,
he never mentioned it to the driver of the second waggon,
who joined him at Hounslow. nor to Mr. Layland at
Egham, nor to his own wife when be got Lome to Long-
. bottom, Year Farnham; but on his return, on the Friday,
lie :hen told Mr. Layland of it, and that a chest of tea was
also Bone front the waggon; lout on his arrival in London
be gave no information of either circumstance. The ac-
count lie hail risen to Mr. Layland and that to the officers
differed in some particulars, but nothing else had occurred
on the road, or !cis )et been discovered, to implicate him
in the r,hl cry. What had transpired was, however, deemed
nt by the Nlagistrate to warrant the remanding of
h m,, toeener wi'll the other two pti,.oncrs, till the facts
can be further investigated.

UNION-II Lf..—SAturtlav morning a leiter. of which the tot-
lowin is a c vy, was received by the Magistrates at- Union
:

SIRS—"I Clink it my duty to acquaint you. that a met.ical
rnor., who is a prisoner in this prison, has. before me and se.
Vi rat other prisoners,deciared, that the %lershal of this prison
bat suffered no less than three individuals to die of starvation.
and of no disorder whatever, but of want of nutriment, end
that he had applied to, and told the Marshal that they were
a:artists:. and that the Marshal took notice of it. I therefore
humbly hope, that vnu will come to the lobby of this prison,
land take our dep tsitions, and that of Mr. Golding, the surgeon.
I have the honour to be, Sirs, your obedient servant.
(Signed) JOIIN ELDER DEFFIRLD.
" To the Sitting Alagistratesof Union•hall, Surrey."
The contents of this letter excited a strong sensation
amongst the %lactates tes, of whom a considerable number were
present when it was received ; end it was determined that not
a moseent shoold be lost in investigating the charge it con-
tained. Accordingly three Magistrates, L. B. Allen, Randle
Jackson. and James Laing, Esqrs. attended by Mr. Staples,
the clerk. instantly proceeded to the King's. Bench prison,
where tit -y instituted the strictest inquiry into the charge.
—The result will be [that satisfactorily stated in their own
words.
"King's Bench. Sep:. 0,
" A letter hewing been writteta to the Magistrates of Union
/fell, s g led Jobn Elder Duffield, stating that three prisoners
were stated by Mr. Golding, a surgeon, who was also a pri-
eoner within the VIRUS, to nave died by starvation, we, the un-
dersigned Magistrates a:tended in consequenc; of such state.
suent, and after having folly examined the above nanletl pri-
soners, DuffiAl end Golding, find that the prisoner Duffield is
not of his own knowledge acquainted with a single fact stated
in his leoe-. Tne trisouer Golding deuies the above letter to
have been written by his authority. ur with his knowledge,
and refuses t s give us any infirmation whatever upon the facts
above tnentinned. IYe have personally examined a prisoner
named Jahn Dufrene, who was referred to by Duffield, and
steed to he tlyinz f r want of food :—we found hiss in good
health, nor has he thought fit to apply for the county *Hostetter,
which he was infor nett would have bees granted to him had
he aeplied f r it. and which has been offered to him la our pre-
score, and refused by hits.
( igoed) " T.. B. ALLEN,
'• lIANDLE JACKSON.
"JAMES LAING."
ail 'not appear from the examination whether the writer
of the letter bad been artuated by any malignant motive,
or whether be had been ;MAW by inconsiderate expressions,
conveying submitted insinuations, which had been used by
tiplding, Ow surgeon. The public, however, will properly
appreciate the proaipmesswitli tibial the Magistrates Insti-
tuted the inquiry.
Mr. Martin, of °away, came to the olEe.e, and presenting,
a cad to the sitting Magistrate. with the n sup of Thomas
Fey written on it, said he wanted a 4141111111011$ fur that fel.
I.vv, for cruelty to a horse. The Magistrate desired that
Mr. Martin shualtl be sworn. Mr. Martin was accordingly
sworn, and prove:Med t s sta'e his complaint, which we shall
give in his own unruly:
••' I was in Illackfriur's !told yesterday with toy servant,
in an, buggy, • hen 1 raw this Pry in a one horst cart.
Fite horse wits a poor. woe!) out animal ; sic hid been a good
1 orse, a spirioot is •rSe ; in fxt, sir. he was a line horse in
ribs. bit. I'l4 a lump on ole of his fetlocks as big as my
two fittica.(ll-re Mt. Martin held out his two ii,ts close
4,011.1%, so show ;he Mugi.tratc the size of the. lowa on
tbwborse's fetlock.) That loot had no shoe on it, and the
hue( was worn to the spliek ; its fats, sir, the burst was un
tide* legs, set this ialtuni to fells*. kept guiding the poor
miimsl, and working an iron tisat *As in Ida mouth like a
Fair. I followed him, but Insurged the puar inlaidl ou so
desperately that I could never svevinke bins, only I got be.
and blocked up lil4 somi pith toy htiggy. A
people assiqu'elett, ani 1 gut his address, and I

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