19 DECEMBER 1863, Page 2

Ten cases of incendiarism have occurred upon farms in the

Wolds within a very few days. The last was exceedingly serious, the sheds, granaries, corn stacks, and waggons of Mx. Jordan, near Melton, being all burnt down, with a loss of some 1,500/. The fire in all cases is believed to be the work of the labourers, and at Kilham the people positively refused to carry buckets or aid in any way in extinguishing the fires. Night watchmen are being organ- ized, and there is talk, which seems, however, only the result of panic, of a plan to burn all the corn on the Wolda. It is as- serted that the labourers of the district are well off ; but in Essex, when the same atrocities were rife, the cause was well known to be the starvation-rate to which wages had been reduced.