11 NOVEMBER 1854, Page 3

Vrouturro.

The Collingham Farmers Club held its annual ploughing match on Tuesday, on the land of Mr. Woolley of South Collinghani. Mr. Bar- row, one of the Members for Nottinghamshire, presided and the noted Mr. Chewier took advantage of the occasion to set forth his views, to make some confessions, and to give some useful advice to his brother farmers.

He had never risen to speak with such feelings of gratification. The times showed the great value of the British farmer. He was fully aware of the great value to the English farmer of the manufacturing and commercial in- terests as customers for the farming produce ; but what would these two in- terests do if the farmers had not been able to resist the great storm and pro- duce abundantly ? But though the harvest had been plentiful, the price was something more than an average, and farmers felt the benefit ; and now was the time for them to set their houses in order to enable them to encounter the future. Let each so cultivate his land u to be able to meet any reverse that might come. If drainage was needed, let it be effected ; fences that wanted cutting, reduce them_; he was sorry to see fences that would not admit of the necessary air and light—it would be well for the tenants to reduce hedges to respectable dimensions. If they drained, they increased the demand for labour, whilst at the same time they encouraged production, and thus benefited themselves and all. He was sorry to see, in some por- tions of the county, a good deal of labour yet unemployed, and he hoped-the farmers in that district would not allow the labourers to go about asking for work, when each knew that upon his (area there was work that wanted doing. They had now got to the latter end of the year, which sealed up the Baltic ;

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and n America prices were as high as in England. Farmers could use their own judgment as to whether they would sell with drooping markets : they had the game in their own hands, and if prices were low they had nothing to do but to walk out of the market. However, he would not advise them to wait for too high prices ; let them sell at fair prices, for this was the time for improvements. They used to think that any sort of implements would turn the soil over; but now ploughs came from all parts of the country, and the work was proved to be done in a very superior manner. He thought all average seasons, whether prices were high or low, that they would not fail to produce pretty good crops now, and that man profited who made the best of his land and BO had the most to sell.

The Manchester Stock Exchange has been the scene of scandalous de- monstrations by the Greek merchants. When the first report of Liprandfs attack, announcing a loss of 500 British horse, was posted, a Greek wrote under it" Blessings, blessings" ; and other Greeks expressed their delight, with only less indecency. On Thursday a paper from the Times, on the similar acenes in London, was placarded in the Exchange, torn down, and replaced; and hints were thrown out that if the Greeks did not behave themselves they would be forcibly expelled.

The accounts of trade are still of a checkered character. Though a "better feeling" is talked of at Manchester, there is no perceptible in- crease of business. At Birmingham, some traders have gloomy appre- hensions for the future, which do not appear to be well founded with regard to general trade. One branch of manufacture has enormously in- creased in the town and neighbourhood—that of carriages and trucks for railways. The carpet trade of Kidderminster is in an unfavourable state; many hands are idle, and more are working short time. At Nottingham the trade in hosiery is very dull. In Lucia the demand for cloth and the employment of the operatives is fair.

The Tyne and Wear shipwrights are on strike, in consequence of their employers proposing to reduce their wages Is. a day—from Gs. to 5s. The ground alleged for the reduction is that ships sell for less than formerly, while materials are dearer.

A person attempted to give a lecture in Cambridge Town-hall, on the 3d, against the use of tobacco. The under-graduates mustered in great strength, provided with pipes, cigars, squibs, and crackers. They soon interrupted the lecturer by calling for " three cheers for Sir Walter Raleigh' ; they smoked their pipes and cigars, set fire to crackers and squibs and threw them about,, and created such a hubbub that the lecturer could not make himself heard. The Mayor and the Police were sent for ; the lecturer re- tired; and the under-graduates passed a resolution " that tobacco was any-

thing but pernicious: The riot would have ended hem probably, had not a scholar begun to destroy a seat ; the Police interfered, a general combat ensued, and some of the gownsmen were apprehended. The senior Proctor now arrived, and the disturbance was quelled. Two under-graduates have since been fined for assaulting the Police.

A verdict of " Manslaughter " has been returned by a Coroner's Jury at Winchester against Jeremiah Daniels, for causing the death of his child. The girl was exceedingly fat; Daniels carried her about the country as a show ; though she was very ill, he persisted in showing her, in exposed and cold rooms; a surgeon remonstrated, but the father still persisted, and dosed the child with opium, and made a show of her when dying: at length he called in medical aid, too late to be of service. Death was caused by in- flammation of the lungs and brain, produced by exposure.

Lazarus Hempsted, a silk-weaver of Halsted, near Sudbury, has murdered his wife, by beating her on the head while she was in bed. He thought he had cause for jealousy, and he had threatened to kill her. The poor woman has left six children. The murderer delivered himself up to a constable.

Isaac Turner, a man in the employ of Messrs. Lindow,. mine-proprietors near Whitehaven, has been murdered in the act of conveying money to pay the wages of the miners. He was Bet upon in a field ; his throat was cut, apparently after a desperate struggle ; and the murderer carried off' the mo- ney. Thomas Munro, a young miner in Messrs. Lindow's service, is in cus- tody on suspicion.

Mr. John Smith, of Radstock, a partner in a coal-mine, has been commit- ted for trial on a charge of forging the name of Mr. Joseph Steeds to two re- ceipts for 1031. and 281. Mr. Smith was formerly managing partner ; the last time he passed his accounts he exhibited the false receipts, as represent lag sums paid to Mr. Steeds : he admits that be signed them, but alleges that be had intended to pay the sums to Mr. Steeds; which he had been unable to do.

A clever capture of 2200 pounds of contraband tobacco has been made at Hounslow Heath. The tobacco was landed in Devonshire; excise-officers got information, and entered into a pretended negotiation to purchase ; a van-load was sent to Hounslow, and there it was met by the officers, who seized the tobacco instead of paying for it. Three men who were seized have been fined in treble the duty-36001—and sent to prison.

The body of a fine young woman, Mary Ann Saunders, daughter of the keeper of an ale-house in Chatham, has been found lying in a shallow Flitch which runs parallel to the Medway above Rochester Bridge. The head and face were buried in the mud, and the throat was cut. A. shawl was found near with blood on it, as if used to stanch the flow from the wound. No weapon could be discovered, and no marks of a struggle. Mary Ann left her home oft the previous night in a hurried manner. The case is under investigation.

George Towler, a young miner, whose intellect WU disordered, has oom- mitted suicide at the Fernley iron-works, near Leeds, by leaping, naked, into a furnace filled with molten iron. Only a portion of his vertebrie was recovered.

The loss by the recent great fire at Liverpool was 102,0001.; the whole of which will fall upon insurance-offices.