At Warwick, on Saturday sennight, the Revising Barristers closed their
courts. Many voters of the List registration were erased from the list, in consequence of not having paid their rates within the period prescribed by the act, and some others for refusing to pay the register- ing shilling. The number of voters last year was 1380, this year 1012; being a diminution of 368 votes within the borough. [The Rate-paying clauses in the Reform Act are doing what the Warwick Bill never was intended to effect—the disfranchisement of the voters.1 Contests between Churchmen and Dissenters, respecting church- rates, are going on in several parts of the country, with various success. At Portsea, the Churchmen triumphed by a majority of 1,014 to 588; at Colchester, the Dissenters in St. Martin's parish beat the upholders of the rate by 40 to 15.
The spirit of discontent among the rural population of Sussex has, we regret to find, already commenced in the neighbourhood of Brighton. The price of wheat having declined to the ruinous sum of 91. ard 10/. per load, the wages have been in consequence reduced, though not by any means in proportion to what flour 0:r1 now be purchased at ; and it is a fleet that 10s. a-week at this time will buy more provisions than 12s, would at the same time last year. On Monday last, the farm labourers in the parish of Goring struck for higher wages, and obliged those who were unwilling to follow their example to leave their work, using threatening language to enforce their arguments. In consequence, the ploughs and teams were all deserted ; and it appeared as if the principle of the Trades Unions was about being established, for a very large assemblage of the labourers took place upon High Down-hill, a commanding eminence, overlooking the parishes of Goring, Ferring, Augmering, Tarring, &c. At this moment, affairs assumed an un- pleasant aspect : the farmers and occupiers immediately waited on Captain Pechell, at Castle Goring ; and decisive measures were taken to frustrate any of the attempts that were made during the disturbances is 1831 and 1832. Warrants were issued, and informations taken, against those who had forced others to leave their master's service and placed his property in danger; and the land occupiers have agreed to discharge all those who voluntarily absconded and joined the mob, and heal! in aid and assistance from the adjoining parishes. The labourers, after meeting early on Tuesday morning, soon after separated; and it LS to be hoped that the usual quiet will be resumed, as it is clear that the display of their meeting on High Down-hill, to cause the other pa- nshes to join, proved a signal failure. The Earl of Surrey's corps of Yeomanry, as well as the mounted Coast Guard, were all ready for giving assistance at a moment's notice, which gives great security to all property in that part of the country.—Brighten Gazette.
On Monday week, Mr. Keir, attorney, with a constable, bailiff, and several other persons, went down to Hoyle Mill, near Barnsley, for the Purpose of taking possession of several cottage-houses. All the tenants were asked if they would give up possession. They all re- fused, and made use of very bad language, with the exception of one tenant, who removed his furniture in a peaceable manner. The bailiff
SOS a long time before he could gain an entrance, as the doors were itrongly barricaded on the inside : however, by the use of an iron crow- kir, the door of one of the houses gave way. The besieging party had
to sooner got into the house, than a Most desperate struggle took place. They found no fewer than twenty men in the house, armed with knives,
ales, bludgeons, red-hot fire pokers, and other weapons. Several of the bailiff's men were very seriously injured, and completely driven off the premises. One man was taken home in a cart, with his head dreadfully lacerated. It appears that these cottage-houses have been
ilie.eubject of a suit in the Chancery Court, and the tenants have oc- !upied them more than twenty years without paying any rent whatever. hen any of them were compelled through poverty or other causes to leave the house, the next tenant that came paid a sum of money to the one that was going out for the goodwill, as it was termed. The cause ?ftln.s serious riot is, that the present tenants fancy that the property l!tbeirs. Twelve warrants have been issued for the apprehension of the parties.—Leeds Intdligencer. [This affray would have figured in fie Irish papers in large letters as a serious combination to refuse par tient of rents.] , There have been incendiary fires within a few days in Kent, Nor- , Berkshire, and Oxfordshire. The farmers and landowners near
Leehdale in Oxfordshire held a meeting on the 29th ultimo, and raised a subscription to enable them to offer rewards for the discovery of the incendiaries.
The tradesmen of Windsor have been victimized to the tune of a few hundreds, by a fellow who entered the town about six months since, inveigled himself into the friendship of a highly-respectable and on this footing obtained almost unlimited credit. His furniture at a moment's notice has been disposed of by a London auctioneer, who kindly gave the Windsor creditors to understand they might expect no- thing.—Reading Mercury.
On Saturday morning, one of those rare birds the stormy petrel was picked up, dead, in the Pulteney Road, near Bath.
A correspondent informs us that Sarah Gray, a blooming damsel of twenty-six, who is now living at Clifton, near Brighouse, has within the last few years three times visited the hymeneal altar, and that all her husbands are alive ! Her first is residing at Stayley Bridge, in single blessedness ; but the second and third are both living with her, at the hospitable residence of her father, who is himself the fortunate husband of two living wives ; the woman in question is the only daughter of his first. —Halifax Express.
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