The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-10-01 00:00:00

THE STATESUAN.

-AORICULTI HAL AFFAIRS. POLICE.
AORICULTMIL AFFAIRS to TUC Nonvu.—Ths se Grunnau..—A newsvender was charged by Mr.
vaunts from every part of the country agree in reps. Herring. an upholsterer, is Fleet-strest,witb grunting
seating the present harvest as one of unprece holed an obstruction in the et-ref.
sbut;dance. In the southern parts of Scotland the Mr. Herring complained that the newsmen who as•
harvest has terminated: sot a rhesfof grain can now setnialed in a court scar Fleet-market, every night.
he discovered hut what Is safely housed or under for the parpose of trafficing in newspapers, were in
" Mack add rape" For the last fortnight the yes. *itch numbers as to prevent all ingress or egress to or
titer has bees romarkahlv fine, at d gave the farmer. from the shops, and to incommode the residents by
as opportunity of gathering in ,be crops in a high anise and riot. The complainant suffered much hita•
state of perfection. The grain is of an excellent self from the nuisance.
quality and abendart. The potatoes, which is some The-Magistrate said, in discharging the defendant,
places are in progress of taking up, are dry, well• that rim proS•rirode of proceeding would be to indict
lasted, and 'plentiful. and in a week tee two will be all the partiei•—• a auissues. "•

oat of their present beds. One man at Kirkstyle. near
ituthwell, has had two crops on the same ground. the
first raised at Laminae, and the latter a few days sego;
each crop is excelleo-. There is a soperabtindeace of
fruit of all kinds. Apples are selling in Annan market
1111 low as twopence per hoop, which is unprecedented.
Many instances of extreme productiveness m•+ he be
adduced, but the following may suffice :—At Mr.
Orierson's, of Upper Prieatside, is a par-tree, whinit
at its usual time predated a good crop, sail the same
tree is sow in fell bearing, thee bringing forth a se-
cond crop nearly as good as the first. Notwithstand-
tog this lottnrianey, the distress of the farmers is not
abated; for tboegb their rents have in many !Diviners
bees redneed, yet that redaction is far flrom being
adequate to the present low prices; as instance, of
which, in Ammo oatmeal is selling at Is 61. per
stone of 178 ponnds, and potatoes at Is. per cwt. end
it is anticipated, in a few weeks a still farther reelec-
tion will take place. Thus remembering us of good
o'd times. What a pity the same memento dues not
attach to rent* and Nice.
In the Lothians they have now had f►e heavy crops
of Wheat in succession ; a circumstance to which the
oldest farmer living scarcely recollects a parallel.
This week the price of the (porter,' loaf at gdim.
burgh ha. fallen one halfpenny; the highest price is Yd.
Mr. Robert Illingworth, of Dewsbury, has had, this
year. two crops of Peas on the elm, laud. Oa the
26th of February, be sowed early Peas, which were
ripe in July, when he again sensed part of them as
seed ; and on the 224 of the present month he gather-
ed, of the new crop, a peck of flue Greet' Peas, and
has abnodance yet to pluck.
The fair at St. Stephens, by Launceston, on Wed-
nesday, was abisndently supplied with cattle ; in the
morning, the sale was very dell ; bet towards evening.
the farmers being redeem, to the icy of dispos-
ing of their cattle at very reduced prices, or driving
them home agile, a great number were disposed of,
the porch Within them on their own terms.
Sommercenrt fair, on Wednesday, was the largest
remembered for many years; the show of cattle sod
sheep was very greet, and many were sold, but the
prices obtained were very low. The slow of hoes*
was great, but there was no dunand for them.
At Malthus Fair, on Frldry and Saturday Ufa;
there was the largest show of bellorks and sheep ever
known, fell 1000 of the former above that of last
year. Never was the want of money mere obvious;'
nearly two-thirds of the btallaseks, sod about half the
sheep, were drives away ;meld; lambs sold t• tter
than say tiling, via. 10s. to Ils.each, which was con-
sidered s redaction of only la. per bead b. low that of
last year, and most of the peas cleared; good South.
down ewes sold at 16s. to 17s. each ; wetlievs, 20s.
Bullocks sold at a redaction of from 21. to 31. in 101.
below that of last year; good Welsh sierra,. that will
fat to 60 and 65 stone, sold at 4/. 10s. each; those
of 90 stone, and four years old. at 61, 15s. to 7/. ;
toilers from 41. to 4/. 10s. each; small Scots beasts
rather higher.
Kiagsdown Fair us Monday was most nunterottaly
attended, and there was a large thew of cattle, iii

malady of sbmp sad lambs, excemliag la number that
of last year by thoesands. The cattle were, for the
most part, poor ; fat beasts god about 7e. per
score ;of Iran beasts but very few were sold. Fm
sheep were on the decline; sad averaged about 4d.
per lb. Lean sheep sold at very reduced prices, and
great numbers remaiaed unsold. Ewes, which two
years sister would ha►e netted 40s. per bead, were
sold et 201 and those which would then have fetched
355. did not bring mete than 15s. There were not
any good horses, sad for inferior ones no purchasers
were found. Cheese, of which there was a good sup.
ply. Fed 35►. to 425. per cwt.
In the garden of Mrs. Despots, to the High-street
of Newport, in the Isle of Wight, there is at this
time a pear tree is MI Ildessa. he the fourth time
this year.

fee
trro•sdlannsx —Yesterday Henry Dag, a work-
ing silversmith, residing at '3, Wilderness-row, Clerk-
s...tell, was hrouebt up for final esamination, charged
with felonismily (tagging and eouaterfeiting the Hall
Stamp of the atidsmithe Company, on se►eral ar•
tic:es of Weer plate sold by him.
Mr. Sykes attended on behalf of the Crows, and
Hr. Humphries for the prisoner.
James George Stevens, a pawnbroker, living at 83,
Shoreditch, &beet the beginning of December, 1821,
gave prisoner se order for two pair of butter ladies,
which he delivered on the Bth or 9th of the same
month, together with a fish slice; he delivered his
bill for the amount at the time, which was paid him ;
he charged Itts td. stamp ditty on the two butter
ladles, and Ss. Bd. stamp defy on the fish slice. The
pair of butter ladies now produced, and the fish slice,
were those bought at the time from the prisoner.
Mr.lieorge Miles, Inspector of Stamps at Gold.
smitbs' flail, deposed that the pair of hotter ladles
and :he fish slice then produced. he received from the
last witness, and that on examining them be found
that all the marks and stamps on them were forged
std counterfeit.
The prisoner, by the advice of his colicitor, de-
clined making any defence, and was fully committed
for trial.
M• ;mann (won ernarr.—lio/mes, late po-ter in
the firm of Messrs. Leighton and Co , calico-printers.
at Manchester and Prestos, was re-examined on the
charge of having stolen flank post bills to the
amount of
.2391., the property of his employers. The
case has been stated as far as the bills having been
paid into the firm, and the pelt hunting himself
from his .eerie' previously to the theft !feria, been
discovered. The additional evidence adduced was
tracing a bill of 1001., end another of SOL, to the pos.
session of the prisoner. It appeared that the prisoner
had cashed the bills is Holywell-street, Strand, pur-
chasing clothes, a watch, Ice. He was remaoded until
Weihnesilsy next.
Qceate.SQuann..—T. Cook, be the employ of Good-
rich, a fisherman on the Thames. wee charged with
stealing a sheep, the property of Thomas Owen, of
Barnes.
Owen stated that within 100 yards of his home be
perceived the lost sheep with a halter about its neck.
Within a short period he had hem no less than ten
sheep, and that invariably he bed found the tibias and
entrails is the vicinity of his tense. .
lasso Cos sassed, tbst on last Friday eceniag-lit;
west with a hay to Chapatan'a bloialow, and on their
way thither meta sheep drives by the prisoner Cook
and sasthar mac He and the boy tried to drive it to,
wards Mr. Homo's. kotoriag it us Mangle bias a Akio*
however, Cook prevented.
Tim boy prevaricated so much, that Hoe Magistrates
said that on sack ovideece they mold soepossibly de-
tain the primmer. Ho was accordingly discharged.
Lamesvii-avoinev.--Yestertlay John Hairy. John
Bridges, WUlians Barley, alai Vomit' York, were
brought up in custody of Gibbs. Ellis, and Honk,
of tito Bow•street patrol, charged with tho porpetra-
den of a most audacious robbery.

Last week the remaining out•buildinge, wheat rirks,
&c. at Rodwead Farm, near bid Jen Bradley, Wilts,
the property of the Duke of Somerset, were destroyed
by iire ; supposed to be the with of an incendiary, as
it is the second Ire at the same farm within a short

Gibbs, who is coed:miter of a party of patrol sta-
tioned at the east end of the metropolis, stated that
the eeighboarbood of Stratford. Bow. and Milo-end,
was for sometime bask infested by a founiJable gent
of robbers, who carried es their avocations is that
district, having ebbed several dwelling-houses, See.
He sad his party, while going their rounds on Satur-
day eight, happened to fall is with the prisoners at
the Angel. at Stratford, all of whom they recognised
as Old Bailey sequaistatices, aid coaveyed them to
the watch-house.
Beojastin Arches stated that he was a private watch-
man in the employ of Mr. Thompson. in Alile•end.
road, and that at an early hour a few mornings ago,
while on duty in Ids master's garden, he was saddeely
assailed by some ruffians, who, after beating him most I
unmercifully, robbed him of his gun, with w i.iels they
escaped, leaving behind them a stick with a dirt in
it, which he now produced.
The witness, en giving this testimony, was desired
to take a minute surrey of the prisoners, and see if
he could identity any of them as being concerned in
the robbery. He did so. and instantly pointed out
Bailey, who he said he was certain was one of the
persoes engaged in robbing and beating him. bet he
could not speak to any of the others.
The prisoner Bailey was ordered to be remanded
for feether.eausiaatism en this charge, and the other
three were COl/11111ined for one irsooth each to the House
of Correction at Barking, they having been appre•
beaded in the county of Essex.
UNION-race.—,A Sae yowls giri, dreamd In a gen-I
tiossau's ant of black, with a white hat, was charged
with being disorderly in the streets. The lady, at
cording to her own language, was desirous of having
a bit of nonseste, and for that purpose she got pets
session of a gentleman's dress, wish which she equip-
ped herself and sallied forth. Her jerrying della-
, queocies became so numeroas, that a watcheme was
lender the neemsini of taking hpr into custody.: et
the watch-lteese a dolorrement Melt place, much to bee
mortlication. Oa, of the watching■ had been so
WWI teased by her. that he persisted in having her
detained; she was accordingly kept.
At the watch-house she supplicated to be lot at F.
berty, as shu declared that the gentleman in whose
clothes she appeared, was roafiaed in a chamber till
she roamed to
The Magistrate reprimanded her fur her indiscre
tion, and lined her live shillings for being disorder!)
which she paid and was discharged.
A hand-bill has ibis week Peen posted in Leeds, so-
noencieg the pr.b)katioe of reeeet Acts of Parliamest,
the preseelsews Mies of which run that; :-.04 stain»
Act"—" Cruelty to Animals."

period.
Four persons have been taken Into custody se suspi-
cion of rabbits( John Saunders, aged 30, a native of
Limerick, the coronae**e man who was so dreadfully
be■ten on Odd-down, *ear the top of Daekertomblii,
on the night of Monday eel:might, after a most rigid
investigation before Sir Robert Baker, Bart., and a
fall bench of ►he Dathforum Magistrate., there not
appearing 'efficient grounds for their detention, the
men have been discharged. The sufferer p to be
a ship carpenter, who had come to this ministry from
Newfooadisad fur the recovery of his health. He
walked from Taunton on that day, and 'mashed the
top of Donkerton-bill at about half•past 10 o'clock in
the evening, when he saw two atria inside a gate, to
whom he wished " good night," another of the ref-
fleas ran along inside the hedge until be reached the
upper gate, when the villain Instantly collared
anal the two others rushed out of the hedge, god bets
him in a most barbarous mincer, and thee robbed
Lint of 26 roverrigas, 4 half4overeigas, lappet 9e. le
silver, a bundle containing a "slit of clothes, his Imo
haadkerchief, stockings, and his half•boot.. The
poor fellow is recovering at the Bath Casualty Hos.
pital ; but he has neither money our clothes to enable
him to proceed onwards.

ITUIPPING.-Of the prisoners convicted daring the
last Sessiont of the Old Bailey, slit were publicly, and
eight privately whipped yesterday morning is the
Sessions House sad yard. Of the former were the
'Glorious Jabs Coleman, who received 186 lashes. lo
addilion he has t►o years laprisosasont, anti anot►sa
whipping, at the expiration if it.