21 OCTOBER 1865, Page 2

Scarcely a day now passes witbena-some case of rick-burning either

in the Northern or'Iffidland counties. In the latest, which occurred at Bishampton, in Worcestershire, the property of the Duke d'Aumale, the Government have felt it necessary to offer a reward of 501., which the farmers have doubled. It is said that the crime has become quite frequent in that county, where, how-

ever, there is no especial distress. We would recommend farmers in the threatened districts to take one measure of prevention which, trivial as it seems, may occasionally arrest the malicious. As soon as the stacks are insured hang a board on them distinctly stating that fact, and so warn all incendiaries that the loss will not fall where they intend it should.