PARTY STIRIT.—The Court of King's Bench, Dublin, sat two days

last week trying an action of libel, brought by Mr. Smith, who had been High Sheriff of Galway, against Mr. O Flaherty, the proprietor of the Connaught Journal. The quarrel originated in some of the agitations that preceded the concession of the Catholic claims. At a Brunswick club meeting, Mr. Smith had spoken of the Catholics in a way which moved the defendant, in his newspaper, to indicate him as " a coward, a liar, a hoary-headed debauchee, a bloodhound, a mean, low and despicable fellow, one who would raise himself to eminence on the public ruin." The plaintiff retaliated, by an attack, in the Galway Independent, on Mr. O'Plaherty, who is subject to fits of epilepsy.

"I infer (said the plaintiff's publication) that there is an avenging hand already laid on the wretch, and, therefore, no man may touch him. On every lineament of his scowling countenance, the fiend who has power to torment him, has written with an In- fernal pencil, in characters so legible that those who run may read, the unerring indi- cations of a black heart. Who, having refid the sacred record of unerring truth, that meets the man in the street, but is forcibly reminded of the demoniac who is represented as living in the tombs, (perhaps his foul subsistence torn by his teeth from the mangled boaies of the dead,) and in frenzy eAting the Saviour of the world, what he had to do with him What man, even he whose feelings are most insulted by this fellow, will handle him, lest in the contact his black soul may be divorced from his rotten carcass, and the legion liberated from their long-inhabited tenement, take refuge in a more pure dwelling —the swine of Galway ?"

This passage horrified the audience, and was severely reprehended by the Judge. Nevertheless, as the defendant had been the aggressor, he was held liable in damages ; and as the Jury were said to have been deeply tinctured with party spirit, they assessed those damages at 7501.—an amount ruinous to the defendant, who is to move for a new trial.

ANOTHER LIR EL.—The case" Child v. Blount," tried on Tuesday at the Win- chester Assizes, we select to show the temper of a Jury in England. Blount the defendant was a Roman Catholic ; the plaintiff was a surveyor of the highways. In March last, there was a meeting in the vestry of the church for petitioning Par- liament against concession to the Catholics; on the day of the meeting, the de- fendant entered the vestry in a most violent manner, and before any thing had been said to him, or any thing done by any person, he commenced a volley of abuse against the plaintiff, calling hint liar, coward, mean shabby fellow, who shut up his brother in a mad-house to obtain his property. &c. There sppeared to be no ground whatever for these imputations; and the defendant on the trial instructed his counsel to say that he had no intention of wounding the plaintiffs feelings or character. Lord Chief Justice Tindal summed up, and. the Jury found for the plaintiff—damages one farthing.

EXTRAORDINARY Fontes:E.—At the Mansionhouse on Wednesday, it was stated by the beadle of St. Stephen's, Coleman-street, that a miserably poor man named Smith, who was in the habit of receiving workhouse relief, had " come in for an immense fortune." At the commencement of his Lordship's Mayoralty, this man supposed that he had cause to complain of the parish officers, and summoned them. Mr. Ellis fully justified the conduct of his brother officers, and mentioned, that the complainant had, he really believed, a claim to a large fortuno, but was pre- vented by his poverty from establishing that claim. The Lord Mayor advised the parish to make the experiment ; but Mr. Ellis thought that parishes could not readily undertake to support claims which might involve them in expenses never to be repaid. his Lordship said there Were no doubt persons who would under- CRIM.CoN.—A Jury assembled on Tuesday in the Sheriff's Court, to assess the damages in an action brought by Mr. J. H. Doyley, the younger son of Sir John H. Doyley, against Lieutenant Bevel' of the 5th Dragoons, for criminal conversa- tion with the plaintiffs wife. All the parties were respectably connected, and the defendant was relaed to the plaintiff's family. Mr. Doyley has a public ap- pointment in India, where, at the age of twenty-four, he married his present wife, who was scarcely eighteen, about ten years ago. They had three children. In 4825, Mrs. Doyley came with the children to England, and was allowed 1000/. a year. She was to return to India to her husband at the close of 1827; but in the mean time, being fond of admiration and gay society, she had become intimate with the defendant, and in March or April 1828, gave birth to a child of which he was the father. The Rev. S. Snow, the plaintiff's brother-in-law, stated, that Mrs. Doyley was introduced to him by a letter from the plaintiff. She was two months in England before she visited him; having first gone to Mr. Vansittart, her half-brother, in Yorkshire: her children remained with her a good part of the time. In the spring of 1827 she went to reside in London. It was intended that she should return to India in the latter part of 1827. In the August of that year she positively refused to go back to India ; she was then residing in Ben- thick-street Mr. Snow having heard that Mrs. Doyley had left London for Gloucester, proceeded in quest of her in March 1828. He came first to London and saw the children left in the care of Mrs. Husband, Mrs. Doyley's servant, at Walworth. In consequence of what was communicated to him by Mrs. Husband, he proceeded to Leeds, accompanied by that female : he there found Mrs. Doyley in lodgings; she was large with child.—indeed, very near her confinement. On his return home, a person whom he understood to be the defendant, overtook him at Axminster, and stated to him his wish that the matter between him and Mrs. Doyley should be hushed up, saying, that after Mrs. Doyley's accoucheinent, she

would be enabled to go to India, and that her husband need know nothing of the matter. Other witnesses proved the birth of a child at Leeds, where Mrs. Doyley lived with the defendant as his wife.—Verdict, 1000/. damages.

COAL TRADE.—In the Court of King's Bench, on Wednesday, five penalties, of 20/. each, were given in a qui tam against coal dealers who had delivered coals of an inferior kind after agreeing for "the best Wallsend."

.BANKRUPT GOODFL—A decision in the case of "Yates and another v. Dexter," tried on Thursday in the Court of King's Bench, is likely to be attended with

important consequences to the trade of the metropolis. It was an action brought by the assignees of a bankrupt to recover the amount of sales made to the de- fendant, who had been in the habit of purchasing goods from the bankrupt at a loss of 35 per cent- under the invoice price. A distinction having been taken between the sales made before and the sales made since the act, a verdict was returned for the full amount of the sales made subsequently.

take the office of mediators between the conflicting parties ; and the facts were stated in the newspapers. A gentleman who saw the account called at the work- house, prosecuted the action, and succeeded in obtaining a verdict for Smith, which would probably put him in possession of nearly 100,000/. The Lord Mayor hoped that Mr. Smith would not forget the numerous favours he had re- ceived from the parish. Mr. Ellis said, he had met the lucky man some days ago, and he did not appear to be in the slightest degree intoxicated at the change of fortune. He had, it appears, been formerly a lamplighter, and a grenadier in the City Militia. There is only one damper to his present felicity—" we understand," says the writer of the extraordinary narrative, " that the case may still get into the House of Lords."

AN ALDERMAN AND A HACKNEY COACHMAN.—Alderman Atkins complained on Tuesday to Sir Peter Laurie, that a hackney-coachman, named Cater, had refused to back his horses in order that he might pass. Sir Peter—d6 Did you know, Cater, that the gentleman you treated so disrespectfully was an Alderman? " Cater—" I did not your honour." To further questions, Cater answered, that his horse was "a baker's horse, and would not back." He was fined half-a-crown for insulting an Alderman, and half-a-crown for driving a baker's horse.

Ban Demi:ie.—At the Abingdon Assizes, a jury gave 15/. damages against Colonel Carmichael, as a compensation for injury done by the defendant's carriage to the pony-chaise of Bowyer the plaintiff, through the negligent driving of the defendant's coachman, at Ascot Races. Mr. Baron Vaughan said, that in his whole life he had never heard of a case in which the evidence was in every point so completely contradictory.

Tire Muireeits r PORTENIOUTII.—At Winchester, on Thursday, John Stacey, the younger, was placed at the bar, charged with the wilful murder of Samuel Langtry, at Portsmouth, on the 1st of March last; and John Stacey, the elder, with feloniously receiving, harbouring, and maintaining him, well knowing that he had been guilty of murder. All the tune the indictment was reading the younger prisoner paid great attention, and when he was asked whether he was guilty or not, he in a very audible voice pleaded " Not Guilty." On being asked if he had any objection to the Jury, lie said, in a very firm manner, he did not know any of them. The case, as fully reported in our columns at the time, but without the slightest addition, was proved by a chain of irrefragable evidence. In the course of the examination, the Judge directed the father to be put back in the dock ; and the remainder of the evidence, which implicated him, was not gone into until the younger prisoner's case was finished, that he might not be prejudiced thereby. Mr. Justice Burrough then summed up, and the Jury almost immediately found him Guilty. He was then removed, and additional evidence given, which proved tile crime imputed to the father, against whom the Jury brought in a verdict of Guilty. Both prisoners were now placed at the bar, and sentenced in the usual form—the son to be executed on Monday next, and the father to be transported for life. A BRUTAL Partaorrarii.—Lambourn still lie3 in Guy's Hospital without hope being entertained of ultimate recovery. The wound in his throat still shows no disposition to heal, and remains as open as on the first day of his admission into the Hospital. Notwithstanding the remedies adopted to close the orifice, all food and nourishment are still administered to him by means of the stomach pump, the introduction of which alone keeps him alive. He seems to be gradually sinking, yet it is the opinion of those by whom he is attended, that he might be conveyed to Maidstone without any apprehension of his dying on the road, and also stand his trial for the murder ; and that in the event of his being found guilty, the wound might be strapped up in such a manner as to allow the sentence of the law being carried into effect as efictually, and without more bodily suffering to the criminal, than if he was not labouring, under the effects of the wound lie had inflicted on himself.—Daily Papers.

EXECUTIONS AT THE OLD BAILEY.—Great exertions were made, up to the latest moment on Sunday night, to endeavour to procure a respite for the three young men ordered for execution on Monday ; for Alartelly and Conway (convicted of forgery on Mr. Hamlet the jeweller), on the ground of the bad character of their accomplice Coombes, on whose evidence they were principally convicted ; for Butler (convicted of setting fire to Messrs. Downing's floor-cloth manufactory), on his asseverations of innocence, All efforts to save them proved ineffectual, and they suffered the penalty of the law at a few minutes past eight in the morning. Blandly and Conway (the former twenty-four, the latter only nine- teen) acknowledged the justice of their sentence, and paid the forfeit of their crimes with a sort of joyful penitence. Butler maintained his innocence to the last; but, on being asked by the Sheriff if he was not concerned in the crime, he replied, that" he never set the place on fire"—thus evading a denial of a knowledge of the commissions of the offence. In addition to the evidence pro- duced on the trial, he was seen close to the building at an early hour of the morning. From the accounts in the papers, it would seem that Martelly's exe- cution partook more of a triumph than a punishment. Some extraordinary letters have been published as the effusions of his pen : we select a part of one, addressed to a pious gentleman, Mr. B—, who attended him in prison.

" Newgate Condemned Cells, Saturday evening, July 25. "lily dear friend,—For such I must call you, for you have proved so t) me both as it respects my body and soul. When you first came to visit me, I had an idea of may fate

so fully impressed ng m }nnd,that hadr y to mebefor e theror t of time Re. corder came thatshouldbesaviIulrnothavebelieveatitappeared as if something supernatural told me that it would be as it has turned out ; and I believe thdt I should have felt much worse than I did if the report had been in my favour. am quite incapable of describing the state of my mind on that occasion, but I know that I wished to apply to the Almighty, but I dared not, because of the thought suggested to me by the enemy of souls. I have formerly been protected by God in an especial man- ner, and I ought to he thankful to him for my safety. [The writer here gives a detail g several storms he witnessed at sea, when he was in great peril, and particularly alludes to one which happened while on a voyage to America on the 8th or September 1825.] Upon those occasions I vowed to God but, neglected to perform them ; I renewed my resolutions but abandoned them. [He next alludes to a conversation with Dr. Andrews, an Independent divine, who lately visited him in Newgate.] I assure you, Sir, since Wednesday last (viz, the day when four of his companions suffered) the time has ap- peared lone, for I really wish to depart and be with my Saviour. I know that my hest attempts to pray to God for pardon and praise him for his mercies are very imperfect.: Yet were I allowed to live longer,! would strive to obtain a situation in which! could be employed in the service of the blessed Redeemer. Farewell ! I hope you, Sir, will be encouraged to go on in the path in which it appears to me you are appointed to walk; and I also hope that you may ever be guided by Divine inspiration. Moreover, I hope that we shall meet again in a better place, where I hope to be in a few hours. As my time is short,! hope you will be kind enough to send a copy of this letter to the Rev. Dr. A. My dear friend, believe me sincerely penitent, and yours affectionately,

"EDWARD MARTELLY."

On his way to the scaffold, Martelly inquired" who the group of gentlemen were that stood on the opposite side of the room ;" and learning that they were reporters, he is said to have harangued them as follows :— " Young men, excuse me when I comply with a desire to say a few words to you. You must all know that you have offended God, and that He is therefore angry with you; but still He is gracious and merciful. Perhaps some of you have felt convinced of sin, and called upon Him for pardon—once, twice, thrice, yea, even four times, and have been denied—yet, if you wish for pardon, persevere, and Lie will hear you, as, blessed he, Ms name, He haa heard me. Recollect that you are all sinners, and every one con- demned by the law of God, but ye know not the day that ye shall die. I stand before you .mpressed with that solemn certainty. I am condemned,justly condemned to die by the laws of my country, which I have broken, and in a few minutes I shall suffer for my offence. May my melancholy end he a warning to you all. Else you may ere long be brought to the same ignominious fate. I too stand condemned by the law of God. I acted the part of a penitent criminal. He heard me, and I believe He has forgiven me —believe did I say, I feel and know Ile has ; and I do assure you that I am quite happy. May God Almighty bless you all, and grant you His grace to pass through life, and me strength to finish mine. Farewell ! farewell I"

The gentlemen of the press were much affected of course, aud one of them em- bellishes his report with an appropriate allusion to Dr. Dodd.

THE STOCK TRANSFERENCE FORGERy.—Richard Giffard is now fully committed

for trial on both the charges preferred against him last week. One of them shoved singular presence of mind as well as boldness :—The clerk in the Three per Cent. Consols-office deposed that the prisoner applied to hint in the name of Mr. Mann for the dividend due on the 3001. stock. Witness took up the book, and asked how many dividends were due. The prisoner answered that there were three due. " Are there not more ?" said the witness ; " I make out six." "Yes,"

observed the prisoner, " I mean three years."

HOAXING A SIMPLETON IN LOVE.—AI the Greenwich Petty Sessions, on Tues- day, a young man named Joseph Thornton was charged with detaining a minia- ture, the property of Joseph Dale. The complainant, a very respectable youth, stated, that about twelve months since he received a letter written in an elegant female hand, signed " E. B.," professing the most ardent attachment towards him, and desiring that an answer, with the same initials, might be left at the Greenwich Post-Alce till called for. He mentioned the circumstance to his friend the defendant, who exclaimed, " God bless me ! I know the family well ; I ant going to tea with them ; I'll manage it, my boy." He confided in this de- claration of the defendant; who, from time to time' handed him letters from the young lady, all expressive of the most ardent and devoted attachment towards him, but regretting the utter impracticability of her meeting him. The defendant frequently took hint to Dartmouth-terrace, Lewisham-hill, and pointed out the house where the young lady lived, directing him to walk backwards and forwards, whilst he went in, in order that she might behold his person. He often sought an interview with her ; but such was the vigilance of her parents, he never suc- ceeded. Months passed away in this manner, during which the defendant gave hiin nearly one hundred letters. Of course, in return for this kindness, he was obliged to feed the defendant, and supplied him with clothes, Scc. About April last, the defendant said the young lady was anxious to receive his portrait, and handed him one which he said was hers, elegantly executed, and in a morocco frame. The complainant had then somewhat sickened of making love by deputy to a girl whom he had never seen • but this revived his hopes, and he was somewhat shocked at learning from the defendant that the young lady was so distracted at his seeming neglect that she had swallowed laudanum, and had nearly succeeded in committing suicide. In support of this he handed him the following docu- ment, which was read by the Magistrates :— "April 2, 1829. "Mr DEAR FitiEND—To your care I commit what I wish to be done as regards the property I am possessed of, which I hope you will see executed as follows :— "I give and bequeath to Joseph Dale, of the parish of Greenwich, in the county of Kent, all my premises, and cash, amounting to 401.001., at present in the Bank of Eng- land. and to his brother, James Dale, 4901., which he can receive when he pleases, at Barclay's Hanking-house, in Lombard.street ; the rest of my property, with the excep- tion of what is mentioned in the inclosed, I leave to my mother-in-law, Mrs. Patrick Elliott. This I solemnly conjure you to see done, as you value your future happiness.— Witness my hand—signed and sealed, EMMA. ELIEARETIL uststas."

The lady recovered as he learned from the attempt to kill herself; and he be- came more enamoured every day, as her portrait (which was handed to the Bench) displayed a most fascinating and charming countenance, and he deter- mined, as " his adored" had requested, upon sending her his portrait. The de- fendant recommended him to a miniature painter in Cheapside : thither he re- paired, and had his likeness " miniatured" for five guineas: this he delivered to the defendant to give the young lady in return for hers, and very soon after re- ceived the following letter through the medium of the defendant.

"My DEMI AND BELOyED ssetr—now can I sufficiently express my gratitude to you for your kind present. Oh! .my dear love, you cannot imagine wtiat my emotions were on beholding your much-loved miniature. Ten thousand kisses were imprinted on it ere I retired for the night. It is a very staing likeness ; but the original, to any thinking, is better looking; he should have given pot rafiber .re of the smile, or else my dearest love was in one of his ill humours, and would not look pleasing ; but, joking aside, I really think he has done you justice. It is—it is, like my own dear boy. (Signed) "H. E. BAINES."

The defendant affected to procure them a meeting at Astley's Theatre, and pointed out an elegantly-dressed female in the dress circle, as his beloved. He did all he could to attract her notice, bet the young lady showed no appearance of recognition, and seemed offended at his looking at her. The correspondence vent on, and Miss Baines executed a marriage settlement, which Dale was directed to carry to Mr. Hilton, a barrister at the Temple. No such barrister could be found there. He returned to Greenwich-very much disappointed. The defendant told him a long story about the young lady, wishing him to accept a gold watch and seals, a check for fifty pounds, and another miniature of herself, set in brilliants, which were to be given to him on Sunday last. He told the defendant, by the advice of his friends, that he was determined to see the young lady personally. The defendant said it would spoil all. He was nevertheless resolved. On Sunday he went towards Dartmouth-terrace, and met the defend- ant, who said, "Ah, my boy, I have got the things; • it is all right ; here's another letter for you." They retired to a public-house, and dined. After dinner he read the letter, which was addressed as follows, "To one in whose power it is, alone, to make me happy." While he was reading the letter, the defendant suddenly jumped out of the parlour-window, and ran away, he pursued, and overtaking him, demanded the lady's present. The defendant said he could not give it there ; he shook him by the collar, and declared he would thrash him, if he did not at once give up the things. The defendant dropped upon his knees, and producing a pin-cushion, an old snuff- box, and two metal seals, said, "These are the things." "This so astonished me (said Dale) that I knocked him down, and demanded the property. The defen- dant said, ' Don't hurt me, and I'll confess it is all a hoax ; there is no such lady. I cannot tell how I came to do it, or carry it on but it is all a hoax from beginning to end.' I was so astonished (continued Dale) that I thought it was a dream. I then sent for Allen, and gave him in charge of a constable." Dale re- lated this extraordinary statement with great composure and good humour, fre- quently joining in the merriment it had excited. The Chairman severely repri- manded Thornton, and said he was very fortunate in escaping commitment for forgery. On returning the miniature, and professing his contrition, and a desire to make a public apology to the Dales, this cruel hoaxer was dismissed by the Court ; but encountered a beating, and a tossing in a blanket, by some of the joung towesmens THE HARVEST is begun in the neighbourhood of Taunton, Plymouth, and a few other places ; but in general it will be late.

The crops are everywhere promising, and the barns and granaries are pretty well cleared, so that the farmer may expect good prices and a brisk demand.

The present rains, which are partial, cannot injure the harvest, and the thunder and lightning will perfect the hops. Turnips are everywhere abundant.—Timeg, Friday.

Mr. Hunt has addressed a letter, from Devizes, to the Editor of the Morning Herald. He says—" I left the coach at Beckington, and walked to Devizes. f

went into several fields, and gathered some ears of wheat, each indiscriminately

taken front those parts that were beaten down, what farmers in this country call lodged. I found in every ear that the grains were no more than two chest,

stead of being, as they are in good seasons, three, and sometimes four chest,

that is, only two grains placed side by side in each ear of corn, instead of three or four. In the next place, out of the remaining number of grains in this thin

and lanky ear, I found the deficiency as follows—six out of every twenty were mere chaff, and no grain whatever in them. I know, from experience, that if the weather should come very dry, and the sun send forth its scorching ravs as it frequently does in August, that the grain which remains will be 'dried

and shrunk up merely to a horny substance, which will produce, when ground, very little flour, and that of the very worst sort. The result of my caiss.

lation is, that the most of these fields of corn that are beaten down, lodged, la) ce- soaked and scrolled, in all which cases the straw being broken or so injured that vegetation is so much retarded, that no future nourishment will flow from the root to fill the grain in the ear; so that, instead. of the crop being 30 or 40 bushels to the acre, which it promised when standing upright, it will not now produce more than 16 or 18 bushels to the acre—and that 16;or 18 bushels will be of the worst quality, instead.of being of the best quality, which it 'would have been hail it been fine weather, and the crop had remained upright and uninjured."

The farmers and others interested in the growth of wool in the north of Derby- shire have determined to establish a fair for the sale of that article in the Wood- lands, about half-way between Sheffield and Glossop.—Newark Times.

TRADE.—The file-makers, we regret to say, are yet out ; and we do not hear that any approaches towards an adjustment of the differences between the masters and workmen have as yet been made by either side.—Sheffield Iris.

For the last two years the trade of Barnsley has been gradually on the decline; and at present the stagnation and distre4s which prevail are unparalleled. Indeed we know not what would become of the suffering poor but for the generous sym- pathy of many of their employers, who are weekly distributing bread amongst their workmen. Thousands are looking forward for a little temporary relief and aid from the employment they may procure during the harvest ; but what their situation may be in the ensuing winter, unless a change take place, is alarming to anticipate.—Sheffle/d

- THE STEAM COACH.—The Bath Chronicle of Thursday, after announcing that - :Mr. Gurney's steam-coach was on its road to Bath, stops the press to say_.' We have just heard that Mr. Gurney's coach arrived at Melkshain yesterday evening, at eight o'clock, and was coming through the town at a steady pace, when a great mob collected round the carriage, it being fair day, and commenced an attack on Mr. Gurney and his friends. They at first attempted to stop and injure the carriage, and after following it for a mile, commenced throwing stones at them, by which two of the engineers were seriously injured. The gentlemen were obliged to get out of the carriage to resist the mob, and the engineers being dis- abled, it was thought advisable to seek shelter, and the carriage was taken into Mr. Iles's yard for security. The magistrates were promptly on the spot, arid the yard was guarded by constables. Mr. Gurney and his friends were severely wounded. This disgraceful and unheard-of attack originated, we understand, in the dislike to machinery, so strongly felt in that manufacturing district." - YORK MINSTER.—We hate been informed by most respectable authority, that John Saville Lumley, Esq. M.P. has presented 10,00/. for the purpose of erecting an organ in York Minster.—Newark Times.

MONUMENT TO SIR HUMPHRY DAvy.—A public meeting of the inhabitants of Penzance has been summoned, to deliberate on the propriety of erecting a monu- ment to the memory of their illustrious townsman, Sir Humphry Davy, on some spot within the precincts of the town. The requisition was agreed to at a general quarter-sessions of the peace, and was signed by every member of the grand jury.

QUARTERLY AGRICULTURAL REronv.—Great interest now begins to be excited regarding the probable productiveness of the ensiling harvest. The very cold and wet weather which prevailed during the greater part of April, rendered the latter part of spring unfavourable to all the crops, aml a considerable part of them, chiefly those on the colder- clays, suffered in a degree which they have not since recovered. The tract of dry and warm weather which succeeded, although fa- vourable to vegetation for a time, terminated in a severe drought, which lasted till late in June, when copious rains fell, and continued to fall, till the present time. The oats and barley, though much restored by these rains, may be termed, we believe, throughout the greater part of England, a light and defective crop. Wheat has a more favourable appearance, though the cases are every where nu- merous where it has never recovered the check which it sustained in the early part of the season. Prices of grain for the last three months have not undergone much change. Considerable quantities of all kinds of corn have been imported from abroad; but as nearly the whole of this has been ordered to bond, it has not yet been brought into competition with free corn, and so has not materially influenced the market. At the time we write, there exists some excitement amongst the traders, from an apprehension that the heavy and steeping rains which have been generally experienced, may have injured the wheat crop while in bloom, and laid it down when strong in the straw. Looking to the stock of free and bonded wheat in granary, and making an allowance for what may fairly he pre- sumed to remain in the hands of time farmers; taking into consideration the in- terval to elapse before the new crop can become available, and the necessary con- sumption during this period, it is probable that we shall reach the supplies of the next harvest with an unusually small stock in hand.—Quarterly Agricultural Magazine, No. for August.

AGRICULTURAL DISTRESS,--It is with deep regret that we advert to the extreme and increasing distress of farmers over a very great part of England. Since the conclusion of the war, we believe that so great a pressure has not been felt. Under the influence of suffering so heavy and so direct, men are not likely to reason dispassionately regarding either the causes of their distress, or the means or al- leviating it ; and we heareverywhere plans suggested, and remedies proposed, to which we feel assured the Government of this country can never listen, or which, if listened to, would in no degree reach time evils complained of. Distrusting, then, nearly all the remedies so eagerly suggested, we can only conjure the land- lords of England to act with leniency as regards an exaction upon the funds of their suffering tenants.— Quarterly Journal of Agriculture. THUNDER-STORMS, attended, by all the varied consequences that usually ac- company them in this country, continue to occupy the columns of the provincial newspapers. One of the most striking was at Boston : the dreadful line of de- vastation appears to have extended about a mile in breadth and eight miles in length, through the most fertile parts of Lincolnshire ; and it is believed that the damage sustained exceeds 70,000/. In a few instances, lives have been lost.

Two valuable mares, the property of George William Gent, Esq. of Moyns Park, Essex, were last week poisoned by eating a quantity of the cuttings of a yew hedge, which were thrown out by the gardener, among other rubbish, where he horses were grazing, a practite which had been continued for many years without any accident occurring from it. When the poison began to operate, they dropped down dead almost instantaneously, without pain or struggling. One of the mares was well known by the name of Jewess, having won three successive cups at Clare races—Bury Post. On Thursday last, a child of John Hunter, of Dunston, had what will be gene- rally considered a miraculous escape with its life. It was playing at one side of the waggon-way there, when a waggon was coming along, and the horse employ- ing what certainly appears more like reason than instinct, gave the child a kick, and by that means took it out of the line on whMh the wheel was coming, and thus saved it from what appeared to be inevitable destruction.—Tyne Mercury.

About two o'clock yesterday, a house at the corner of Southampton-street, in the Strand, after giving fair warning by its rocking for nearly fifteen minutes, which allowed every body to escape, fell with a grand crash. The remaining houses were pulled down in the course of the evening ; and nothing but an im- mense void now appears from Southampton-street to the new dwellings at Exeter 'Change.

FATAL Poortissi ar HAMPSTEAD.—A coroner's inquest was held on Friday upon view of the body of Frederick Winkworth, who was killed on Monday last

at Hampstead, in a pugilistic contest with a man named Davies, otherwise "Jack the Painter." It appeared that the contest was what is termed a fair stand-up fight; but the deceased ought not to have been permitted to continue the fight so long. His death was caused by repeated falls during the fight. Verdict- " Manslaughter against Davies, one of the principals; and Paddy Flinn, Ned Murphy, Michael Driscol, and Jem Raines, the seconds."

A young gentleman, named Henry Mason, residing at the house of Mr. Deane, chemist and druggist, at Deptford, has been found dead under the bridge of the Surrey Canal, near the Post-Boys' Inn, New Cross. A workman has been killed by a fall from a scaffold at the King's new Palace.

An atrocious case'of murder, without a motive, took place in Tunbridge on Sunday. The victim was a poor woman about fifty-five years of age, and the murderer one of two persons engaged in deepening the Medway, who resided with her. The body was found on Sunday morning, by the other lodger, quite cold. The murderer has escaped. .

ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION.---A brutal attempt was lately made to assassinate a female named Marshall, at Kilfeaile, near Cashel. The ruffians fired, and

lodged a shot in her thigh : they then beat her till she was senseless, and went off, leaving her, as they imagined, dead. Her offence was her recognition of four fellows, who set fire to her master's house in April last.

A poor man, with several of his fellow workmen at the New Cut had taken shelter in a shed front the heavy rain last Saturday, when he was struck dead. Another man, who was also affected by the lightning, is still seriously ill. SUPPOSED Mutmaa.—The body of a Mr. Hoe was found last week near Ply- mouth, very much mangled, and suspicions are entertained that the unfortunate gentleman has been murdered. A Plymouth paper says—"The body of Mr. Hoe has been sat upon, but we have not yet learnt the result."

PIGEON Ftdotrr.—A wager was lately taken by some merchants at Maestricht, that no pigeon could fly from London to that city in six hours. A graduated scale of premiutns was agreed to be given for the pigeons, according to the time within which they arrived, and bets to some amount depended on the number that should arrive at all. The steam-boat from Rotterdam on Thursday brought the result of the wager. The principal one was lost, by a few minutes, as one of the pigeons did arrive in six hours and a quarter from the time of leaving England, and this in spite of a heavy rain which fell during the whole time. The minor wagers were won ; the second pigeon arriving in seven hours, the third in seven hours and ten minutes, and the fourth in seven hours and a half, and in four days more than twenty of the pigeons had reached Maestricht. The first pigeon must have tra- velled (assuming that it took a straight line) at the rate of forty-five miles an hour.

CovENT Gadumn THEATRE.—The affairs of this theatre continue in a most melancholy state. The Magistrates at Bow-street have, with infinite reluctance and after several postponements, signed distress-warrants for 896/. parish rates and taxes; and the King's tax-gatherer is in possession for assessed taxes due to

the amount of above 6001. •

AN ERRING BULLET.—A duel took place last week upon the ramparts of Dijon, near which run the houses of the inhabitants. The parties were a citizen and an officer. They fought with pistols. Having thrown up a crown for the first fire, fortune favoured the citizen, who fired and missed. The officer, knowing he was the aggressor, fired in the air, and the ball killed the wife of his adversary, who, on hearing the noise of the first shot, had run to her window. The grief of the officer may be well conceived, when he found, in his endeavour to avoid a murder, he had killed the wife of the man to whom he was willing to make reparation.— French Paper. Conuerr's Coax.—A Mr. Robert Robertson, of Hamilton, has planted a quan- tity of Cobbett's corn. It has flourished remarkably well ; which the good people of Lanarkshire attribute to the circumstance of Mr. Robertson's being a pupil of the author of the Register. We can hardly imagine a better reason for the gene- ral adoption of Cobbett's principles.

Soscumva OPERATION.—Mr. Small, a farrier in the Came of Gowrie, lately performed the operation of bronchotemy on a horse, for tumours in the nostrils, which threatened it with suffocation ; a pipe was kept in the windpipe for a fort- night, the tumours being in the mean time excised. The animal is now quite well. A BEccine Bisuor.—The people of Edinburgh, profess to be highly indignant at a discovery recently made, of a circular from the Roman Catholic Bishop in that city, soliciting assistance from the French Catholics for the repairs of his chapel. The Scotsman thinks it extremly hard that even the Catholics of the Modern Athens should have their poverty proclaimed all over France, without their own consent. If the Bishop be successful, we dare say he will be allowed to repair the chapel notwithstanding. VERY P CTURESQUE.—An Irish paper, speaking of the death of one of the poor men whoa as killed at Derrylin, says—" The service in Balnaleck Church, on

Sunday last, where the deceased person usually attended worship, was most solemn. When the person who acted as clerk (the office filled by poor Mealy, deceased), gave out the Psalms, one or two voices attempted to join, but grief stifled them ; the clergyman became affected ; many of the congregation sobbed aloud, and the whole service was suspended for several minutes." A whole Irish congregation sobbing for several minutes, because of the death of a parish clerk in a row ; as if such a thing had never been heard of before