The Sun.
London, England, 1855-09-12 00:00:00

THE lIAIWEST IN TEE SOUTH.

The harvest has made rapid progress ; in all direc-
tions the fields are being cleared as quickly as the com-
parative shortness of hands will permit. A great many
farmers have finished harvest, and the close of this week
will no doubt witness, with but few exceptions, the ter-
mination of the harvest throughout this district.
As regards the yield but little reliable information
has at present been made known. There are various
and conflicting reports as to the wheat. There can be
no doubt that the crop is in many, and a great many,
n stances defective, but we are disposed to think that the
actual amount of mischief is a good deal over-rated.
Taking into consideration the large breadth of land which
was planted in wheat, the quantity on the ground, and
the remarkablyfine weather which has prevailed through-
out the harvest, we conceive that these facts will, in the
great majority of districts, entirely compensate for such
effect as blight or mildew may have produced, and that
England will in a very few days have garnered in safety
a fair average wheat crop. In these southern counties
our own observation, coupled with careful inquiries in
reliable quarters, leads to the conclusion that this is essen-
tially the case. The barleys are not a good colour, but
they promise to be abundant in yield ; while, as to oats,
beans, and peas the reports are most satisfactory. The po-
tato crop is ample in quantityand excellent in quality, and
the dry weather during the last month appears to
have mainly, if not entirely, checked the disease which
had just previously begun to show itself, and which had,
we believe, in very few instances extended beyond the
haulm.—Sussecs Advertiser.

COLONIAL NEWSPAPERS.—By the new postal regula.
tions regarding newspapers, a penny each is oharged oY
colonial newspapers sent from one colony to another,
and also on newspapers sent from one port in a colony
to another port in the same colony. These regulations
have caused dissatisfaction in the West Indies, because
hitherto no such postal charges as those mentioned above
have been made.
THN MAN IN WOMAN'S ATTIRE.—The man calling
himself Thomas Brown, who was recently in custody at
Manchester for being dressed as a woman, and was ulti-
mately discharged, was re-apprehended at St. Helen's,
on Thursday evening, wearing the same female attire as
when last discharged from custody. On Friday, Brown
was taken before the magistrates at St. Helen's, and
committed for three months as a rogue and vagabond.
By this time. proLably, he will have been deprived, by
the ruthless hand of the haircutter, of the long black
tresses which so materially aided his disguise.
SINGULAR. ADVENTURE OF A BADGER.---A fisherman
named Abrahams, who fishes on English New Water
below the Whitadder mouth on the Tweed, succeeded
last spring in capturing a young badger, which he has
domesticated to such a degree that it follows him like a
now be
timeeee daily
are
hauled
forthe naenty,
odfogt.he Itstationmay
every
small flounders that may be dragg
ev ed ashore, and wc he
devours greedily. Last Friday ening, howevhier,h he
disappeared, and although diligent search was made
poor Tom was nowhere to be found. Saturday came,
but Tom had not turned up, and it was concluded that
he had gone to join his tribe in the Cromwell Faugh,
where he was originally caught. But imagine the
astonishment of the fisherman upon his entering his own
house at Horncliffe on the Saturday night, when the
first salute he got was from Mr. Badger, who jumped up
and fawned upon him as playfully as a dog—looking as
much as to say, "I'm home before you." It appears
that about midnight cn Friday the wife of Abrahams
was awoke by a noise of something scratching at the
door, upon opening which she found the missing badger
iblees a
(djimstiatotetd.froTooi rtehaechfiHshoerrnyc,liffteh,ewahoicimh
aisl
aimbrittife(n)ut:-tmo
must have swam across the Tweed and threaded its way
through the fields,--Berwick Advcrtiset.