At the suggestion of a correspondent, we have searched our
file to ascertain the quantity of land advertised to be let in Essex, from Lady- day to Michaelmas in the present year; and we find tenants wanted for upwards of ten thousand acres, vacated by as many as sixty occupiers. During that period, the price of our best wheats fluctuated between 62s. and 67s. per quarter, and the price of Consols was steady at 88, 89. During the like period in the year 1805, there were not more than two thousand acres announced for letting, including two farms in Steeple, belonging to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, containing upwards of eight hundred acres, which at that time it was the practice to let by tender. The advertisements of farms wanted to hire, were, we observe, as mime-' rolls as thee e to be let. The price of our best wheat from Ladyday to Michaelmas 1805, varied from 86s. to 105s., and Consols from 57 to 59. During that year, the lease of a farm in Rochford Hundred, let upon such terms that the outgoing tenant became a bankrupt, was sold for 2,000/.—Chclma/brd Chronicle.
The sale of Bcaudesert, the magnificent seat of the Marquis of Auglesea, in Staffordshire, as stated in several papers, has never for one moment been contemplated. Indeed, that domain was so settled by his father, the late Earl of Uxbridge, as to render its alienation int- practicable.— Mlles. On Friday week, Mr. John Benton, accompanied by two legal gen- tlemen from London, arrived at the village of Milton, near Northamp- ton, and was received with cries of " Benton for- -deer !" He stated he came to take possession of an estate of which he had been illegally de- prived. He took four men of Northampton with him ; and on reach- ing the first gate on the property, he put a lock upon it, and also. upon other gates on the farm. He ordered the men to drive off the cattle, which was done ; and his party then went to the homestead, where he forcibly entered the yard-gates, and proceeded to the house-door ; which Mr. Gough, under-tenant of Mr. Sharman, the tenant in possession, locked. Mr. Benton, however, succeeded in entering the house. On the following afternoon, Earl Euston, Mr. Wilkinson (partner of Mr. Peppercorn, who holds the estate), and Mr. Sharman, came to remon- strate with 1Ur. Benton. He told them he was acting under advice, and was prepared to abide the consequences. The party then admonished him not to touch the corn ; but, on the Monday following, he ordered a thrashing-machine to be erected, and several men, about two o'clock, commenced thrashing out the corn. About three o'clock, a party of eight constables appeared with a warrant to arrest Mr. Benton and the four men in possession of the house. Mr. Benton requested the manager of the machine to continue thrashing, and also ordered four of the thrashers to take possession of the house, which they did. On Tues- day, :mother party of constables apprehended them, and also five men engaged in thrashing. Earl Huston, Mr. Bouverie, end 'Mr. Rokeby, the Magistrates, committed Mr. Benton on a charge of felony, and the nine thrashers on a charge of felony, and three of the men first appre- hended on a charge of riot.—]]feel' '— Herald. enftflIpW,7 .
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