27 NOVEMBER 1830, Page 5

STATE OF THE COUNTRY.

THE mass of details. which we have been compelled to wade

through, in order to procure e- like a correct accountOf the various riots and outrages that have taken place during the week, is quite extraordinary. There are periods when, from peen- liarcircumstances; the newspapers indulge rn a length and breadth of description that are extremely disproportionate to the value and importance of the objects described. The failure of the customary supply of Parliamentary debates, from the sudden changes that havetaken place during the last fortnight, has led to the insertion of every report, credible or incredible, from every quarter, near or remote, of every fact, directly or indirectly bearing on the state of the country. As many of these flying stories are untrue, most of them exapeeeeated, half the labours of one day is devoted to the correction of the blunders of its predecessor ;. but the innocent

quidnunc swallows all. " What must be the state of England !•' he naturally exclaims " see here is the Times, the Herald, the Chronicle, and all the rest of them, have three, four, five columns a-piece on the alarming subject." A narrow iespection of these

columns would convince the startled observer that there were other

causes than a zeal for the diffusion of truth that. led to this uni- versal cramming system. The quantity of gratuitous remark, of uncalled-for repetition, of mere chaff and stuffing, is beyond mea- sure great. We believe that not one accredited fact of the slight- est importance is left unnoticed in the paragraphs ; and we can say without exaggeration, that in their original form they would nearly have filled our entire number. There remains, it will be seen, quite enough to convince any one that the agricultural population is in a very riotous and dis-

satisfied state ; but to suppose, for a moment, that the permanent peace of the nation can be brought into jeoprdy, or the stability of its institutions endangered, because a hundred or a thousand parties of idle and ignorant labourers, in various parts of the country, meet and burn a few stacks in the wantonness of folly and crime, break a few thrashing-machines, and bawl for higher wages and beer, is the most extravagant notion ever entertained by a crazy politician. The truth is, that in no instance has there been even the appearance of anti-government combination ; with the exception, perhaps, of Tunbridge, where the people refused to serve as special constables, and where one man complained of the taxes ;_ and in no instance have these formidable gangs shown either organization or courage, unless when they met with timid

and temporizing- opponents. The case of the Duke of BUCKING- HAM'S labourers at Winchester, and that of the Rev. Mr. COVE,

at Newbury, show, that wherever the mob have been met they

have halted, and wherever they have been assailed they have run.. Had " Swing" been encountered by such opposition in every in-

stance, he would have been " swung" long_ ago. The plain fact is

—we Said so last week, and every additional report that reaches us confirms ourviesv of the matter—the farmers, at least. time smaller

farmers, are not very anxious to have the riots suppressed, until

they have got what they look on as the riots' worth. Some of them are insured, and, like the Irishman in Joe Miller, "let the house burn, they are only lodgers ; " and even those who have not been so prudent, look on the loss of a wheat-stack worth twenty pounds, as well compensated for by a permanent reduction of rent and tithes of twenty pounds a year. Few -of them, we grant, have been actively guilty ; yet, in some instances, it will be seen, they have not scrupled even to head the rioters, and to enforce their claims.

We cannot bestow much commendation on the conduct of the country gentlemen. They have maintained their character. In some instances they have acted with spirit, but in the greater number they have shown small knowledge of men and things. HENRY Hurrr harangued a parcel of rioters at Overton on Friday, and by the simple expedient of promising them an afternoon'e wages if they

instantly went to work, he had them scamperiei . one to the

plough, and -another to the spade, and in five tine ties the mob was no more. A booby squire would have sent ti: • to guzzle in

alehouses, to poison their stomachs and muddle Ar heads, and fit them next day for the renewal of mischief with .ncreased zeal and stupidity.

Two men have been arrested in Kent, under suspicious circum- stances. One man, named PRICE—we noticed iris seizure last

week—was found haranguing the country people in a lone place

where they had collected, on politics and all that. The other, a Mr. EVANS, a person in a respectable station of life, had in his pocket a recipe for inflammable substances, and was master of

a gig and horse. Bail, it is said, has been asked frOm these-indi- viduals of an excessive kind. We do not so much find fault With

the illegality of this as with its folly. It is evident, we think,- on the face of the facts, that neither PRICE nor Mr. EVANS are the authors of the mischief ; that the real authorsthe " Swing " that

creates so much terror—is around the gentry and clergy, and on each side of them ; and that to attribute the fires to one or two Eratostratuses, patriotically determined to burn out the Constitution in Church and State, is a fantasy that could only enter into a very - empty head.: the magistrates of Kent might as rationally attri- bute the mobs to a couple of individuals.

The disOrders aeemcirclinground the metropolis. Theyhave now extended, though in a very inferior degree of virulence compared with what they have displayed in Kent and Sussex—to Hampshire, Berks, Wilts, Oxfordshire, Huntingdon, Cambridge ; and they have also appeared in Lincoln, Norfolk, Northanipton, and some alarin has 'prevailed even so far north as Northumberland. ()tithe Bath road, attempts have been made to stoplhe coaches and levy contributions on the passengers ; and riots of an alarming nature have taken place so near town as Dorking, where the inn in which the Magis- trates had assembled was broken into, one of the gentlemen struck, and the landlord severely hurt. Such pranks as robbing coaches, will of course he met with in the proper way. Guards used to carry blunderbusses, and in future passengers may carry pistols. If any gang of ruffians, on pretence that they are poor Reformers, attempt to draw on the purses of travellers, they must receive the answer that other highwaymen merit and look for. The people suffer heavily enough, we doubt not, from taxes and tithes ; but men that ride o' top of coaches pay taxes and tithe as well as they. It is not fair to rob Peter to pay Paul. In most instances where the labourers have even peaceably de- manded an increase of wages, they have received it ; and this re- quired concession, with a little greater firmness on the part of the country &entlemen—the total relinquishment of the untenable hypothesis, that general effects can be produced by any thing short of general causes—the speedy remedy of real, the exposure of mock grievances—and, lastly, the increasing confidence and hope, to the really patriotic in town and country, which the liberal prin- ciples of the new Ministry hold forth, will, we sincerely trust, enable us soon to lay before our readers a more cheerful picture than we do at present.

DETAILS GLEANED FROM THE NEWSPAPERS IN TOWN AND COUNTRY.

LEWES.—On Monday, the 15th, 1,150 persons, composed not only of Labourers, but in many instances of farmers also, met, demanding an increase of wages, and a reduction of rents and tithes.

On Tuesday, the 16th, a meeting of the same description took place at Hailsham, where their numbers were between 700 and 800.

On 'Wednesday, the labourers of Ringmer met on the green about noon, agreeably to appointment made by Lord Gage the previous Monday. A considerable number of farmers attended. His Lordship asked for the leader or captain of the party; but the men stated they were all as one ; and a letter was thrown into the ring, accompanied, as it fell, with a shout of " One and all." The letter may be considered as the petition of the labourers of Ringuaer. It says— "All we ask, then, is, that our wages may be advanced to such a degree as will enable us to provide for ourselves and families without being driven to the over- seer. We therefore ask for married men 2s. 3d. per day to the 1st of March, and from that period to the 1st of October, 2s. 6d. a day ; for single men, Is. ad. a day to the 1st of March, and 2s. from that time to the 1st of October. This is what we ask at your hands,—this is what we expect, and we sincerely trust this is what we shalt not be under the painful necessity of demanding."

His Lordship, having read the letter, advised the men to conduct themselves properly, as their request by that means would be more easily attended to. In the vestry, the farmers declared themselves ready to meet the demands of their workmen, if the landlord and parson would meet them ; and one of their number said, " Amongst other grounds of complaint, my Lord, is one with which you are connected ; and as I have been called a liar by Mr. Constable (the minister), I wish to prove to your Lordship that I have spoken the truth. It is a well,known fact,

that your Lordship has had men working at hedging and ditching,- from

day-light to dark, for which they have received only 2s. a week ; and the men have been driven to the parish for 3s. more, making in the whole

5s. a week. Here are the men ; let them be called in, and do you put what questions you please to them. One of them is my son-in-law ; and I consider it a hard case for me, who, by hard work, have got a little be- forehand, by getting to work at three in the morning and working till nine at night,—I say it is a hard case for me, in my advanced state of life, to be obliged to spend that little to support the children of my son- in-law. And again, it also happens that whenever I want a labourer, which is the case sometimes, I am obliged toipay 12s. a week for labour, while your Lordship is giving but 2s.—that's the truth. Ask Find; whether it is not so ?-5s. a week ! Do you wonder, then, at their going into the woods and stealing your hares ? It is the parish that drives them to acts of dishonesty." On the vestry coming out, his Lordship addressed the labourers again, and told them that they had agreed to give the wages demanded. The declaration that 2s. and 2s. 6d. should be the wages in future, was hailed with repeated huzzas, and the meeting broke up.

On Friday, the peasantry assembled in great numbers at Rotherfield, and were met by Lord Liverpool, Mr. Mabbott, and a party of soldiers. They nearly unhorsed Mr. Mabbott, and roughly handled his Lordship, who ordered the soldiers to rush in and take his antagonist, and, if the peasantry resisted, to fire. One or two of the ringleaders were secured, and escorted into Lewes by a guard of soldiers.

On Saturday morning, a man named Howell, with a woman passing for his wife, was brought to Lewes in custody of the constable and head borough of Southaven. They are apprehended on suspicion of having fired the premises in Southover.

The farmers of Hanasey parish met, and agreed to advance the wages of their labourers, and have thereby prevented the rising of the peasan- try. The labourers of the neighbouring parishes of Barcombe and Cooksbridge had previously met, and had their request granted.

FIRE IN SOUTHOVER.—On Thursday night the people of this borough were aroused by the cry of tS Fire !" The fire was discovered about a gnarter before twelve. A barn, containing fifteen leads of wheat, thrashed and nnthrashed, and a considerable quantity of loose straw, the property of Mr. J. Morris, using the " Lord's Place Farm ;" also a large hay- rick and a clover-stack, were consumed. Mr. Parker, of the White Lion, while assisting, fell from a rick and broke his leg. CAI.. Robinson, of the Lewes Arms, also received considerable injury. No one but those re- siding. in the town or vicinity can conceive the agitated state of the place and neighbourhood.

The same night a fire also took place at•Eastdean, when a barn filled Isith wheat, and a thrashing-machine attached, were destroyed. The property belonged to Mr. Scrace. MAIDSTONE, Tuesday Morning.—The indiyidual who was suspected of being " Swing," and of whom, during the last few days, the officers of **tire have been in pursuit, was apprehended at Chaltock on Sunday fore-, waou last. This man gave his name John Field, but he is, it turns out, bet- ter known by that of John Dike, having appeared under the latter some time since in the • Hue and Cry. He was conveyed on Sunday. evening to the county gaol here, and yesterday morning underwent a long eau

mination before W. G. D. Tysson, Esq. It appeared that about four years since the prisoner was a private in the 53rd Regiment of Foot, but he deserted about two years since. Since the time of his desertion.he was wandering about the country, occasionally engaged in field-work for farmers, and in less reputable employments. It is said that on the day preceding the fires at Bearsted he suddenly appeared at Thurstham (of which village he is a native), and was recognized by an old acquaintance.

CHANEROOK Monday.—The greater part of the past week has been occupied in the swearing in of special constables from the parishes of Hawkhurst, Goodhurst, Marden, Stapiehurst, Rolverdon, Benenden, and Cranbrook ; but the greatest part of those who were summon ed r- fused to be sworn in. The remaining parishes of the division were sum- moned to be sworn in before the Magistrates on Thursday, and the re- sult was the same.

BRIGHTON, Nov. 21.—On Friday-night, an attempt was made to break open the powder-magazine at the Horse Barracks, which failed, owing, it is supposed, to the parties being disturbed, and the proximity of a sen- try. A crow-bar was used with great force to the door, without being able to effect an entrance.

Nov. 23.—The house of Colonel Lloyd, near Worthing, was yesterday attacked by a mob amounting to upwards of 300, demanding that the Colonel should raise the price of labour on his estate. A party of the Coast Blockade were called out to disperse the mob, and succeeded in making prisoners of three of the most active of the party. The mob became outrageous, and attacked the Blockade men, but were finally beaten off. Last night there was afire near Bickstead, where a meeting of the peasantry took place in the course of the day, for the purpose of forcing the farmers to raise the labourers' wages, which they were obliged to accede to. The property burned belonged to a Mr. Wood, a respectable and indulgent landlord. Meetings of a similar description took place at Steyning and Cowfold yesterday. CUCKFIELD, Nov. 19.—On Monday last, a lad of fifteen or sixteen years of age was brought before John Peter Cherry, Esq. one of the magis- trates acting for this division, upon suspicion of being the author of se- veral threatening letters received at different times by farmers in the neighbourhood, warning them that theirpremises would be set on fire if they did not raise their labourers' wages. After a full and patient ex. amination of as many as fifteen witnesses, the case was most fully proved. The prisoner was removed, under the custody of the constable, to Horsham gaol. CANTERBURY, Nov. 22.—On Thursday morning a clover-stack, be- longing to Mr. Coveney, of Lensted Farm, Isle of Sheppy, was disco- vered to be on fire, and was entirely consumed. The flames cornmtmi. cated to a barn contiguons, but, fortunately, they were prevented from spreading, or the dwelling-house, which was adjoining, must have shared in the common ruin. On Saturday night, two sainfoin-stacks were consumed, belonging to George Baker, Esq., of St. Stephen's, near Canterbury. On Sunday night, a fire broke out on the premises of Mr. Wraight, of Deane Strood, Herne Hill, which. destroyed a barn, containing a quantity of wheat ready for. the market, beans, &c. ; also some out-buildings-and a fodder-stack... Three men are taken up on sus- picion of being concerned in the above diabolical act.

Ronal-non ALuen.—Another fire took place this (Sunday) morn- ing, at Boughton Aluph, about two miles from Ashford, and near the seat of the Earl of Winchilsea. A large straw-stack was discovered on fire in two places. An express was immediately sent to Ashford for the engines, and no time was lost in proiTeding to the farm, where the fire began to assume an awful appearance. Adjoining the stack on fire was a large barn, full of corn, and the directors of the fire-engine imme- diately took the precaution of playing into it, which they did effectually, and saved the whole premises from. beingdestroyed. Last night, as Mr. Harrison and Mr. Sladden, of Herne, whose turn it was to be out on patrol, were proceeding on duty, they were fired at by some villain. At the time the fellow was but a short distance frOm

them—firing over a hedge, and making his escape into a large wood, whither they were afraid to follow him. Neither of them was wounded. On Thursday, an assemblage of labourers took place at Herne, on purpose, it was understood, to proceed to Mr. Sladden's, to destroy a machine in his possession ; but, as he was known to be at home, deter- mined to resist them, they abandoned their intention. CHICHESTER, November 20.—On Wednesday, the beast .market-day, a most desperate gang having gene into the-parishes of Bosham and Fish- bourne, where, during the night, they obtained, by force and threats, about 13/. ' • on Thursday morning nine of the most desperate were ap- prehended by Mr. Pasco, of the police, assisted by a strong party of yeo-

manry, at the Swan at Hempnett, where they had just partaken of a beef-steak breakfast, from the produce of their plunder, and were imme- diately brought before the county magistrates, who had assembled in the council-chamber—the Duke of Richmond in the chair, who, with Lord G. Lennox, came expressly from London. to assist the magistracy on this occasion. After a short examination, the whole were sent off to Pet. worth Bridewell. Tuesday.—A party of mechanics, in the most deplorable condition, went to the house of T. Lerin, Esq., and demanded Si., and declared, if ha refused their application, they would burn his house down. Mr. Lerin gave them two sovereigns, and they afterwards destroyed a ma- chine on the premises, and committed several other wanton acts. Eight of the above party have been committed to Petworth for trial, and four more are brought before the magistrates for examination. Thursday.- This morning several meetings took place, consisting of labourers 000 and 700 in a body. A machine, belonging to Mr. Medep, of Fishbourne, was destroyed at Bosham ; a great deal of damage was

also done in the neighbourhood of Westbourne ; and a.party afterwards went toRmsworth, and deetroyed; a machine, the property of G. Holloway,

:Esq• • • Friday..4fr. Pasco has. appreheitied five. more of the• machine.

breakeos,.:two of whom are committed. Their names are Qoble cad Bin- st.ea4 WOW, express is this moment arrived:Rom RwSW*1114'reVes!Sing assistance, as the rioters, are actually breaklngniachinesin orn day.1.0* Many barns and riglcs have been burnt down ihis. week in the neigh. hourhood of Chichester, most part of which 'was hisured. Mr. likais,

-don, on Monday. yard.

Royal Navy (a county magistrate), who attended from Gosport, with tions, breaking machines, &c., when a number of the inhabitants of the several constables from that district. They were shortly after joined by above-mentioned villages broke up from Avington House, and without Major Campbell, another magistrate of the county. Having understood the aid of any military, armed only with bludgeons, and headed by a very that the mob had what they termed a committee sitting at Westbourne, active magistrate, the Rev. Mr. Wright, the Rector of Itchen Abbas, and 'the Magistrates before named, with sixteen constables, proceeded to that two of the New Police, who had been sent down from the Secretary of village, where they were afterwards met by Lord George Lennox and State's Office to help to quell the riots in the vicinity of Winchester,

General Crosbie, two magistrates of the county of Sussex, accompanied attacked the rioters, routed them entirely, and took between forty and fifty by. about thirty of the Duke of Richmond's tenants, armed and mounted ; prisoners, thirty-one of whom were committed by the magistrates to

and as no concealment or disguise of the intentions of the mob was at- Winchester gaol the same evening, where they were safely lodged, under tempted, nine of the most active were apprehended. Four of these an escort of the Scots Greys. Most of the ringleaders amongst the were taken by Lord George Lennox's party, to be lodged in Petworth rioters on that side of Winchester were captured by these honest and gaol ; the remaining five underwent an examination before the Magis- gallant labourers. mates at Havant, on the same evening, when two of them were coin. NEWBTRY.—On Friday last, a gang of about 150 ruffians assembled in nutted to take their trial at the ensuing assizes; the other three were the neighbourhood of Newbury, and proceeded from house to house, ex- remanded for further examination on Tuesday next. toning money or whatever they could obtain, breaking machinery, and

PETWORTH, November 19.—A fire broke out, on Monday morning threatening to burn and destroy the property of every one who opposed about three o'clock, on the premises of Mr. Joseph Skinner, =tinter them. At Aldermaston they broke the windows of the clergyman's

and farmer, in the parish of Ashington, and consumed about two house ; at Woolhampton they entered the cottages, and carried away all

loads of thrashed, and about two loads of unthrashed wheat, and they could find ; and from thence proceeded to the farm of Wm. Mounts also about two loads of unthrashed peas ; the barn, cart-house, Esq. of Wasing Place, where they destroyed the thrashing-machines, con.

a rick of- hay, waggon, dung-cart, and other implements were totally verting the iron knobs from the spindles into most formidable weapons,

destroyed. Had it not been for the great exertions of the people, by fixing them on the ends of their sticks. The Rev. C. Cove, of the malt-house, with a quantity of malt, together with a wheat. Brimpton, having heard of their approach, swore iu as special constables

rick and several stacks of hay, must have been consumed. Fortunately as many of his parishioners, and the people in their employ, as he could

there was a good supply of water.; and in a short time a great number muster, and, accompanied by them, went out to meet the rioters. They of persons collected, who were all very active and attentive in endeavour- met near the entrance of Brimpton, and Mr. Cove attempted to persuade

hag to subdue the flames. It appears that a ball of fire was seen by Mr. them to disperse ; but, finding remonstrances useless, he read the Riot Skinner's carter to come through the roof of the barn, and ascend like a Act. The rioters rushed on him, but did not strike him ; both parties rocket, as he came out of the stable near the barn. Two explosions were armed with sticks, and a general fight took place, which ended in "reheard, as loud.as the report 'of a gull, and the barn became home- the apprehension of the ringleader and ten of his companions, who, itis skatelyinilames. [This Ioeks•like electricity.] said, made a most desperate resistance. The rest, finding their leader SOUTHAMPTON, Wednesday.—Every thing here remained quiet up was taken, ran off in all directions, many passing through a small brook to Tuesday night, or rather this. (Wednesday) morning, at one o'clock, in order to effect their escape. when the extensive premises, the property, of Mr. Baker, who carries Tostatuncue—The meeting convened by the magistrates on Monday

on a considerable business in the sawing of wend, by machinery, in last, for the purpose of swearing in special constables, gave rise to an er- Marsh Lane, were discovered to be on fire ; and, notwithstanding the traordinary display of political feeling. Soon after ten o'clock the inhabi- vigilance of the persons employed nightly- to watch, it does not at pre- tents of this town mustered in great numbers at the Court Hall, when, tent appear by whom, or in what way, this work of destruction has been upon the oath of special constable being tendered to them, they, almost

phry, of Donnington, has pulled•his machine to pieces, and laid it out in effected. It seems the men employed were armed, and furnished wide his orchards Many others have alio followed his example. Three troops the means of giving instant alarm, and were only apprized of the event of the 2nd • Life Guards =Wed at the Chichester barracks, from Lon- on leaving the interior of the building to take their usual rounds in t)*

A person named Evans has been seized near Chichester, iu whose pos. HANTS.—A meeting of the whole agricultural population took placia session was found a recipe for the preparation of a combustible material, near Andover, on Friday, in a large field at Wallop. The labourers had so formed' that it would not ignite until damp was communicated-to it been in the habit of receiving only 8s. a week. The farmers proposed It is stated that this individual had a large sum of money about him, to raise the wages to 10s., provided they would render assistance in get.. that he had been living at a farm-house in a sequestered part of the ting the rents, tithes, and taxes lowered. To this proposition the la. country, that he kept a horse and chaise, and that no person knew who bourers agreed ; and the farmers, eight or nine in number, proceeded" tto or what he was, or for what purpose he had come into that neighbour- the house of James Blunt. Esq., the proprietor of the great tithes, and hood. After his apprehension, he was examined before the magistrates demanded a reduction of the amount of the present year's tithes. Mr. at Chichester, but peremptorily refused to communicate any thing more Blunt, who is very ill, replied that he would reduce his tithes in propor- respecting himself than that his name was Evans. He is, we hear, tion to the increased rate of wages which the farmers intended to pay the son of a very respectable gentleman, a surgeon in the East India the labourers; but this concession did not satisfy the farmers. They Company's service. It is represented that; having lately come into the declared that the offer was too indefinite, and they demanded that Mr. possession of considerable property, he has since been travelling about Blunt should reduce the rent one-third. To this proposition, dispropor- the country for his amusement, with his own horse and chaise. He was tioned as it was to the increase of the wages of the labourers, Mr. Blunt lodging at a farmer's house within five miles of Chichester, and it is true hesitated to assent, upon which the farmers said the labourers were wait- that a recipe for the preparation of a combustible substance was found big to hear his answer, before they could think of returning to their upon him, but it is strongly insisted that this recipe had merely been work. Mr. Blunt perceiving how desperate the case was. then replied, copied by him from a book which he had borrowed from the daughter of that although he considered it a robbery, yet tinder the circumstances he the farmer in whose house he was apprehended. He denies that he even must submit, and he complied with the demand. copied the recipe for an improper purpose, or that he has had any par- WINCHESTER, Nov. 20.—Considerable excitement prevails in this city

ticipation, immediate or remote, in the acts of the incendiaries. this morning, in consequence of information being received that the premi- At Crowborough there has been some disturbance, but we have heard ses of SirHenry Wright Wilson, Bart. at Barton Stacey, were last night of no fires in that district, and we give little credence to the numerous destroyed by fire. The property destroyed is three large barns and some reports in circulation. smaller out-buildings, a small wheat-rick, ten sacks of wheat, and a On Saturday evening, it being reported that a large body of labourers small clover-rick. The labourers, to the amount of 700 or 800, visited were proceeding to attack the castle of Lord Abergavenny, at Eridge all the villages in the neighbourhood of Mitcheldever, and broke to Green, Mr. Atkins immediately despatched an express for the cavalry, pieces every thrashing-machine they could find in the course of yes- and sent off a body of special constables towards Frant ; but before their terday.

arrival the mob were dispersed. DORKING. Tuesday.—A riot of a serious nature took place last nightat

A party of soldiers are to be quartered at Tunbridge Wells, to be in Dorking; and although no lives were lost, there were a great many heads readiness to act if labourers should again assemble. Mr. Crawley, the broken. The mob did considerable mischief, and made a violent attack clergyman at Rotherfield, has been visited by the mob, and compelled to upon the inn where the magistrates had assembled to discuss measures sign a paper giving up half the amount of his tithes for the future ; and for the public safety : a flint stone, hurled with great violence through on the same day a large quantity of machinery belonging to Mr. Howls, the window of the apartment, struck one of the magistrates, Mr. Ryall, of Crowborough, was destroyed. on the head, and laid him senseless on the floor. The arrival of the ARUNDEL, November 20.—On Wednesday night, at ten o'clock, a military from Horsham soon afterwards dispersed the rioters, and the barn on the premises of Mr. T. Amoore, at Angmering, containing town shortly assumed its usual tranquillity. P.S.—I have just heard about one hundred and thirty quarters of oats, was fired by some incen- there is to be an immense assemblage at Riegate to-day.

diaries, and burnt to the ground. The engines were despatched from ALRESVORD, Saturday morning.—Yesterday evening, a considers. Arundel, accompanied by several of the inhabitants ; and by great exer. ble number of labourers assembled at .Alresford, and proceeded to the tions, and a favourable shifting of the wind, the house, a barn, and residence of Alexander Baring, Esq., of the Grange, near that town, wheat-rick were fortunately saved. It is worthy of remark, that all where it is understood they committed acts of violence, and assaulted the fires which have occurred in this neighbourhood have been on pre. and very much ill-treated a son of Sir T. Baring, who happened to be mises on the road-side, which strengthens the idea that they are caused there, and who attempted to expostulate with them on the impropriety

by travelling incendiaries, who are strangers to the situation. of their conduct. Their violence was of that alarming nature, that it

BATTLE.—On Monday evening the soldiers were called out to was deemed necessary to call in military aid ; and an express for such Gardner Street, where it was understood there was a large assemblage, aid was despatched at a late hour last night to Portsmouth, and early for the purpose of compelling the Rev. Mr. Hare to lower his tithe. Sir this morning some troops arrived at Alresford, in carriages, drawn by Godfrey Webster got among some of them at the inn—it is supposed for post-horses. the purpose of addressing them: he Was. in a moment very roughly Carrems OP RIOTERS AT WINCHESTER..--III the neighbourhood of handled; he had his coat torn (the candles being put out); he was Winchester an instance has occurred of attachment to landlords worth rescued, however, from further violence by Mr. Clements, the police- recording. The inhabitants of three villages, Avington, Easton, and officer, and three soldiers. Itchen Abbas, which are almost wholly the property of the Duke of PORTSMOUTH, Sunday.—On Thursday morning last, indications of Buckingham (within four miles of Winchester), not only stood firm, and discontent and turbulence manifested themselves in the neighbourhood refused to join the bands of rioters which perambulated the whole neigh. of Havant, which soon rose to a height that alarmed the peaceful inha- bourhood, but literally came in a body, 150 men in number, to Arington bitants of that quiet town. Towards the afternoon the mob proceeded House, the seat of the Duke, which they considered might be in danger to acts of violence, breaking every thrashing-machine they could find, of attack from the rioters, and for three days and nights bivouacked and extorting money and beer from the various houses which lay in round it for its defence, having been sworn in special constables by the their way. Upwards of nine machines were broken to pieces, although Duke. On Monday last a body of near 300 rioters, from Winchester they had not been lately worked, and utterly destroyed. On Friday and distant parishes, assembled in the parish of Itchen Abbas, about a morning the Magistrates at Havant were joined by Captain Purvis, quarter of a mile from the Duke's house, and commenced their opera..

Royal Navy (a county magistrate), who attended from Gosport, with tions, breaking machines, &c., when a number of the inhabitants of the several constables from that district. They were shortly after joined by above-mentioned villages broke up from Avington House, and without Major Campbell, another magistrate of the county. Having understood the aid of any military, armed only with bludgeons, and headed by a very that the mob had what they termed a committee sitting at Westbourne, active magistrate, the Rev. Mr. Wright, the Rector of Itchen Abbas, and 'the Magistrates before named, with sixteen constables, proceeded to that two of the New Police, who had been sent down from the Secretary of village, where they were afterwards met by Lord George Lennox and State's Office to help to quell the riots in the vicinity of Winchester,

General Crosbie, two magistrates of the county of Sussex, accompanied attacked the rioters, routed them entirely, and took between forty and fifty by. about thirty of the Duke of Richmond's tenants, armed and mounted ; prisoners, thirty-one of whom were committed by the magistrates to

and as no concealment or disguise of the intentions of the mob was at- Winchester gaol the same evening, where they were safely lodged, under tempted, nine of the most active were apprehended. Four of these an escort of the Scots Greys. Most of the ringleaders amongst the were taken by Lord George Lennox's party, to be lodged in Petworth rioters on that side of Winchester were captured by these honest and gaol ; the remaining five underwent an examination before the Magis- gallant labourers. mates at Havant, on the same evening, when two of them were coin. NEWBTRY.—On Friday last, a gang of about 150 ruffians assembled in

to a man, refused to take it. Mr. R. M. Austen addressed the Bench in explanation of his refusal, in which he stated it to be the opinion of him- self, and that of the greater part of the inhabitants, that the pro- ceeding was inexpedient ; and he further declared that, although they were,actuated-by the most devoted feelings of loyalty and, attachment to the King, yet, as the Government had turned a deaf ear to the just and reasonable complaints of the people, the latter could not so cheerfully co- operate with them. The: room was crowded to excess, and Mr. Austen was much applauded at the conclusion of his address. The inhabitants then simultaneously left the meeting ; and, upon their arrival in the open street, they gave three cheers to Mr. Austen, whom they considered as their representative. Hu X T S AND CAM BRI GF.SII RE.—On Sunday evening, soon after seven o'clock, a fire broke out in the homestall of Mr. William truckle, a large farmer at Willingham, in Cambridgeshire, which spread with ex- traordinary rapidity, and in the course of a few hours laid waste five farm-houses, with the barns belonging to them, containing wheat and other corn, a vast extent of outbuildings, upwards of forty stacks of wheat, barley, oats, beans, and hay, and ten or eleven cottages. Thehomestalls to which the fire extended belonged to Messrs. Few, Osborne, Beddall, and Barnes, who, with Mr. truckle, are the principal farmers in the pa- rish. The fire commenced on a straw-stack belonging to Mr. Huckle, the produce of some corn he had incautiously thrashed with a machine last week. There were eleven engines in attendance from Cambridge and other neighbouring towns; but, for some hours, no effectual assistance could be rendered. The fire was raging the whole night, and continued its devastating course at eight o'clock on Mondaymorning. It was seen distinctly at Ely, Huntingdon, Newmarket, and for a circuit of upwards of twenty miles. Night may truly be said to be made hideous by such lamentable scenes. Two other fires took place in the neighbourhood last week : one was at Bluntisbam, in Huntingdonshire, three miles from Willingham ; and the other at St. Ives heath. At the former place a stack was set fire to, but by timely exertions it was got under before any material damage was done. The fire at St. Ives broke out on a straw-stack belonging to Mr. Seakins, which it consumed, with

• part of a thrashing-machine.

COMPROMISING WITH RIOTERS.—We can state, from undoubted authority, that both the late Ministers and their successors have united in directing the magistrates in the disturbed counties to enter into no compromise with any persons while in a state of commotion, but to re- sist all force with force, if necessary; and that one or more Special Com- missions will be forthwith issued to try such of the rioters as may have been apprehended.—Morning Herald.