young fellows -apprehended, but only three appear to be implicated.
An alarm had been given on Friday morning, that a corn-stack had been maliciously burnt during the night ; the seizure of the delinquents was made on the information of a confederate named Yeardley. The prin- cipal offender is a lad named Sadler, who has been repeatedly in prison,- and who advised the burning of the stack in order to get banished, be- cause "lie was tired of this country." The party were assembled in a hovel belonging to the Park Colliery, where the proposal was made.
About midnight, Sadler made tinder of a pocket-handkerchief, and thus furnished, proceeded to the stack, which was built on staddles, and,
creeping under it, he struck a light, while Veardley and two others sup- plied him with dry bay to kindle the grain. When the fire was fairly lighted, they withdrew to the hovel, from which they watched the pro- gress of the flames. SWING AT Ho mE.—The landlord of the Queen's Head, Northfleet, has been committed on suspicion of having set fire to that inn, which was burned down about six weeks ago, when the fires in Kent were raging.
The East Anglian mentions, that three fires of farm property had taken place in the neighbourhood of Lynn, in the course of last week.—On
Sunday, a wheat-rick was burnt in the parish of Bridslow, Hereford.
On Monday, two barns, two large stacks, and one barley-stack, belopging to W. Blake, Esq. of Swanton Abbot, in the same county, were com- pletely destroyed. On Friday, the stacks of the Rev. Mr. Maxwell, of Thorpe, were found to be on fire, but were happily saved from destruction by the prompt assistance rendered by the people round. Several balls of combustible matter were found thrust into the stacks.—The wheat-ricks, hay-steels, granary, and barns of a Mr. Rackworthy, of Upton near Maytesbury, were wholly consumed by fire on Monday.—A dreadful
fire—the most lamentable, indeed, in its consequences, of any that has yet happeuede-took place at Whitstable on Monday morning, on the premises of Mr. G. Hayward, of Bostall Hill. The barn, stables, and *tacks were consumed, seven horses were burnt to ashes, and four of the men fellvictims to the flames. The dwelling-house was saved with dif- ficulty. , Mr. Bstyward had received three letters, threatening him, that if he did, not destroy histhrashing-machine, his premises would he set fire to. A reward of 100111, has been offered for theappreheetsion. of the incendiaries. The property was insured in the CM. 41.-tY Fire Office,
A . canister, supposed to have contained about a pound and a half of gunpowder, was exploded in the neighbourhood of Round Tower Street, Dover, on`Saturday night. The watchman seized a man near the spot, but the fellow got off, leaving his cloak in the watchman's hands. The only damage was the breaking of several windows. The noise is de- scribed as tremendous.
INFERNAL MACIIINE.—A tin canister, having in it rather more thart two pounds of gunpowder, and provided with a cork pierced for the re. ception of a slow match, was discovered on Saturday, the 7th, at the door of Mr. Sharrock, manufacturer, near Blackburn. Happily the ruffian who meant to fire it was scared. The lantern, tinder-box, and slow match, were found in the neighbourhood of the house, appa- rently thrown down in his haste to essepe. ROUSE RomZERY.—The dwelling-house of Mr. Charles Britten, Helena Place, Clerkenwell, was robbed on Monday evening; when 1111. in gold, a silver snuff-box, two gold seals, two musical snuff-boxes, and a gold key, were carried off. The robbery is supposed to have been committed by two men, one of whom kept Mrs. Britten in conversation in the shop, while the other opened the private door and went into the parlour, where the property was deposited. THE MANUFACTURING DISTRICTS.—The murder of Mr. Ashton remains hidden in obscurity. The disputes between the masters and the workmen at Ashton and Stayley Bridge continue unadjusted. Se. veral cases of wanton atrocity have occurred, which the general good conduct of the turn-outs had not prepared us for. Two or three of Mr. Ashton's men were lately fired at, by a ruffian named Swaircoe, for no better reason than their expression of an opinion that the men would finally agree to their masters' terms. Two nights after this, another workman in Mr. Ashton's employment was shot at, by a fellow who escaped, though closely pursued. At Stayley, on Wednesday, a gentle. man of the firm of James and Howard was fired at, in the counting. room, and narrowly escaped. Such infamous acts would be better visited by a special commission than the breaking of thrashing-machines by the ignorant peasantry of Kent and Hampshire. STATE OF CRIME IN IRELAND.,---The Mayo Free Press describes the calendar of the approaching assizes as unusually heavy, and the state of the country in that part of Connaught as more than usually disturbed. In the tract of country behind Ballina, outrages are of almost daily oc- currence. The potato crop was extremely deficient last year, and symp- toms of distress already exhibit themselves.
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