The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-06-21 00:00:00

E STATESMAN..

the great Flinn ore o Ras, have an notlentandlog between
them. The great fishmongers molars with each other;
and keep up the prices by a secret understandisg. Is
this not a subject worthy of the *mention of the Go
vernment, or the Legislature, or both ?. The-e surely
wag be a remedy formed for the evil we have pointed
out; aid the evil is not so small as to be despised,
if it were only the evil of depriving the Poor of com-
forts they might emjey. That, however, thongh great
in itself, is out the only boundary of it.

JOURNAL from KENSINGTON to St. .41.13.1 :VS.

Saint Albans, June 10, 1932.
From Kensington to this place, through Hdgeware,
Steamers and Watford, the crop is almost entirely
hay from fields of permanent grass, mattered by dung
and other matter brought from the /Ulm. Near the
Wen, where they have had the first hotel of the Irish
and other perambulating labourers, the bay is all in
rick. Some miles further down it is nearly all in.
Towards Stanmore and Watford, • third, perhaps, of
the grass remains to be est. It 'legations to see how
the thing regulates itself. We saw, all the way down,
striae of labourers, of differeet departments, migrat•
jog from tract to tract; leaving the cleared field: be-
hind them and proceeding on towards the work to be
yet performed ; and, then, as to the el ( labour-
ers, the mowers, with their scythes on their shoulders,
were is front, going on towards the standing crops.
while teed, haymakers were coming on behind towards
the grass already cut or cutting. The weather is fair
and warm ; so that the public houses on the
road are pouring out their beer pretty fast, and are
getting a good share of the wages of these thirsty souls
It is an exchange of beer for sweat ; hut, the tax-esters
get, after all, the far greater part of the sweat ; fur,
if it were not for the tar, the beer would sell for Ch. se-
halfpence' pot, instead office pence. Of this three-
pence halfpenny the Jews and Jobbers get about two-
pence-halfpenny. It is curious to eb how the
different labours are divided as to the nations. The
mowers are all English; the bey-makers all Irish.
Scotchmen toil hard enough in Scotland ; but, when
they go from home, it is not to work if you please.
They are found in gardens, and especially. in gostic-
men's gardens. Tying up flowers, picking dead leaves,
of exotics, peeping into melon-frames, publishing the
bands of marriage between the " male" and "female"
blosso:ns, tap-tap-tapping against a wall with a ham-
mer that weighs half an ounce. They bare backs as
straight and shoulders as square as heroes of Water-
loo ; and who can blame them? The digging, the
mowing, the carrying of loads; all the break-back
and sweat-extracting work they leave to be performed
by those who have less prudence than they have.
The great purpose of human art, the great end of
human study, is to obtain ease, to throw the burden of
labour from our own shoulders and fir it on those of
others. The crop of bay is very large, and that part
which is in, is in very good order. We shall have
hardly any hay that is not fine and sweet; and we shall
have it, carried to London, at less, I dare say, than 31.
a load, that is 18 cwt. So that here the evil os " over-
production" will be great indeed! Whether we shall
have any projects fur taking bay into pateta is more
than any of us natty ; for, after what we have seen,
0 It 4 ige sge were to hear it proposed to
utter aod m lbw pawn ?In after times, the
mad projects of thew days will become proverbial. The
Oracle and the over-production men will totally supplant
the ilinvels-kare—This Is, all along here, and especially
as Mr asStanmere ; a very doll and ugly country : fiat,
and aligrale:fielde and elms. Few Girded any kind, and
few constant labourers being wasted, scarcely any cat-
tares mad 'gardens, which form one of the great beau-
ties of a country. Stanmore is on a hill ; bat it looks
over • country of little variety, though rich. What a
41fference between the view here and those which carry
' eye over the coppices, the cornfields, the bop-gar-
and the orchards of Kent ! It is miserable
had from Stanmore to Watford, where we get
into Hertfordshire. Hence to Saint Albans
there is generally chalk at bottom with a red tenacious
litam at top, with dints, grey on the outside and dark
blue within. Wherever this is the soil, the wheat
grows well. The crops, and especially that of 'the
barley, are very fine, and very forward. The wheat,
in general, does sot appear to be a heavy crop ; but
the ears seem as if they would be full from bottom to
top r and, we have had so mach heat, that the grain
is pretty sure to be plump, let the weather, for the
rest of the summer, be what it may. The produce de-
pends more on the weather, precious to the swain. out
of the ear, than on the subsequent weather. In the
northern parts of America, where they have, some
years, not heat enough to bring the Indian Cern to
perfection, I have observed, that, if they have about
Mosso days with the thermometer at ninet.y. before the
ear makes he appearance, the crop never fails, though
thefleatber may be ever so unfavourable afterwards.
ThlE/tallies with the old remark of the country people
in Englani, that "Nay makes or mars the wheat ;"
for, it is •in May, that the erne and the mile are
formed. Wst.y, .
&Ms •Th wing important Resolution of the Bank of
Engladd, regarding the discounting of Bills at 4 ias
cent., was promulgated yesterday afternoon
. " Beak of Enema, June 20, 1822.
" Resolved—That Bills sod Notes approved in
usual manner, and not having more than 95 days to r
be disconoted at the rate of 4 per cat. on and after
21st Jane. 1822."
The coo:armee, of this decision of the Bank Direc-
tors was an immediate dime( I per cent. in the Fonda.
At the opening Consols for the Account were 8011,
and they closed at 811.
It was Mr. Weatherstone who. at the Southwark
atutiversary dinner, proposed the health of the chair-
man, and not Mr. Wotberapuon, as gives in our paper.
The East India Company's ship Orwell, outward-
bOmsd, arrived at St. Helm oo the 9th of April.
;'he undermentioned Bast India Company's ships
were at Chunpke on the 'Gib Folatiolp—Oeseral
Herds, lacielher Castle, Chatioa Gnat; Atlas, Mae-
qneos Cambileo, (Cellist Cssate, General Kyd, Waterloo,
1 Kent, Bridgwater, and Reath? Castle. The Vensit-
I tan Wee It rly expected. The Rapids' had sailed
fistitglan a few days before.
U AT ROTTINO.—The match between Captain
Hinters gtey horse Marksman and Mr. Harrington's
brown owe, took place yesterday tnoroirg, at Healey%
on Windsor Forest, round a circle of two miles, for
3EO gs. Capt. Haasel's grey horse woo.
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