The Sun.
London, England, 1855-08-18 00:00:00

TRW C_ROP&

The splendid weather of the past week has effected a
marked and gratitying change in the grain crops, and
several fields are already cut ; barley and wheat are
ripening and changing colour with almost magical rapi-
dity, and in eight or ten days, should the weather con-
tinue as at present, the scythe and the sickle will come
into general and active operation, and doubtless the bulk
of the crops in this district will be secured in prime con-
dition.—Nottingiatin Review.
The wheat harvest will commence generally on Mon-
day next. The sample will be greatly inferior as com-
pared with last year. Each year now shows a falling off
in the arrival of Irish reapers. The war, emigration,
the improved condition of Ireland, and the practice of
mowing corn are the causes.—Stamford Mercury.
The harvest in East Lothian has already commenced,
and will be pretty general on Monday over the early dis-
tricts of the county. The crops everywhere present a
very heavy appearance ; but the want of sunshine and
the late rains hare done a considerable amount of damage
to the wheat. The yellow maggot has been more than
usually destructive. The potato fields are more than usu-
ally luxuriant, particularly the red varieties, and, as
vet, no appearance of disease has been seen iu the fields.
Edinburgh, Courant.
Hay is now mostly gathered, and in bulk is far below
an average. Wheat in this country will, beyond doubt,
be above an average. The quality of the crop will, how-
ever, be contingent on the next few weeks' weather.
Potatoes and turnips surpass all former crops within our
recollection. Potatoes continue free from disease at a
later stage of their growth than in any season since
1845. The potatoes and turnips of this county are cer-
tainly extraordinary crops.—Ayr Adrcrtiser.
Relating to the harvest, cheerfulness has taken the
place of despondency. The yield, though not equal to
that of last year, will, it is anticipated, supposing the
present weather continues, prove nearly if not quite an
average. Harvest has now commenced in some favoured
localities, and will doubtless soon become general.—Ply-
mouth. Journal.
More settled weather is now bringing the harvest
rapidly forward. A considerable breadth of oats and
peas has been cut, and in some instances carried to the
rickyard. Wheat and barley are little more than com-
menced with, and of the former a lamentable breadth
has been flattened by the rain. The later part of the
hay crop is in progress of being secured, and the bulk is
generally heavier than that which was cut at a much
earlier date.—Coventry Herald.

Alluding to the scarcity of labourers for field-work at
present in Ireland the Limerick Chronicle says :
Agricultural labourers are in greater request and receive
higher wages than has been known in Ireland at any
period. Labourers for reaping, mowing, and other
harvest operations were engaged in this city on Satur-
day last at 12s. 6d. per week (wet or dry), and diet,
and on Monday morning, when fine weather appeared to
have set in, they were eagerly picked up at 2s. 6d. per
day and board.
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The Prince Regent, PO, was taken into the steam basin
'yesterday at Portsmouth to be converted intcenpetrew.
The Black Eagle, Admiralty steam-yacht, MastaCim-
mander Petley, arrived at Portsmouth yesterday to join ' ''s
the Royal squadron for France. The Echo stea.rn-tug . S
embarked the invalids from the transport Gibraltar yes- s
terday at Spithead, and landed them in Portsmouth
dockyard, whence they were conveyed to sick quarters.
The Meteor steam-battery, Captain Seymour, with
the Rhadamanthus towing, took her departure from
Falmouth ors Wednesday, at 3 30 p.m., with fine wea-
ther and a light breeze from the northward; both yes.
eels rounded the Manacles in good style, and appeared
to be running at the rate of 51 or 8 knots per hour.
Great interest was excited at Falmouth and the neigh-
bourhood by the presence of this formidable leviathan,
and on her sailing a fleet of pleasure-boats were in attend-
ance to greet her and wish her success. Should the
weather continue moderate she will have a quick run to
Gibraltar, as ler own screw power will greatly aid the
paddle power of the Rhadamanthus in the tow.
At the examination of young gentlemen candidates
for direct cadetships in the Royal Marine corps, which
terminated on Thursday at the Portsmouth Royal Naval
College, the following passed :—Mesrs. M. A. H. G.
Heriot, J. G; Edwards, J. R. Leeds, B. Kennicott, G.
C. Boase, Wj D. Pritchett, W. V. B. Hewett, G. M.
Shewell, J. M. Hamilton, J. Bontein, J. W. Scott, H.
Wolrige, and' S. T. Collins.
The following appointments were made yesterday at
the Admiralty :—Lieutenant W. T. F. Mudge, to the
Excellent ; D. A. Price, midshipman, to the Havannah ;
Naval Cadets Samuel Pully, to the Indefatigable (for
disposal) ; J. C. Best, to the Havannah ; W. H. E. si-:"
Jervis, to the Duke of Wellington (for disposal) ; G. H.
A. Cox, to the Alarm.
Messrs. Ws and T. Smith, of St. Peter's, Newcastle,
are fitting up, and will have ready for sea next week, a
powerful iron screw steamer, named the Chasseur, to be
employed as a floating factory for the army. She will
leave the Tyne fir Balaklava, which will be her station.
She is two-decked, and her middle deck is a workshop
furnished with drilling machines, punching and sheer-
ing machines, and shaping and slotting machines.
She has also' several smiths' forges fitted up, a cupola
with fan blasts for metal and brass founding, and two
circular saw benches, and has also on boarda complete set
of mining tools and apparatus for sinking wells. Beside
the marine engine, which will drive part of the ma-
chinery, she has a 10-horse portable engine. The artisans
she takes out with her are engine fitters, shoemakers,
coopers, brass finishers, blacksmiths, house carpenters,
and iron and brassfinsnders. A party of miners she takes
cut will be employed, when necessary, in sinking wells
for the army; The workmen, with the exception of the
gun-carriage and wheelmakers, who are from Woolwich,
are intelligent artisans belonging to the north. They
will be comfortably berthed, and will have baths and
other conveniences. The machinery is mostly from the
large factories in Leeds, London, and Manchester, and
the workshops have been arranged under the superin-
tendence of Captain Collinson, RN., the Arctic naviga-
tor, Colonel Tulloch, and Mr. Anderson, a surveyor of
machinery, from Woolwich.
The Crimean medal was distributed yesterday by the
Commandant of Portsmouth garrison to the invalids in
the Military Hospital, Portsea, whose names were
selected by the Queen at her Majesty's late visit. It was
melancholy to remark the number of names called over
on parade for whose owners the Royal distinction came
" too late"—" dead" being the disheartening response.
But the cases that have recently been admitted are cer-
tainly of a most serious nature. Nothing whatever is
spared that can possibly benefit the patients. We re.
Bret to add that Lieut.-Colonel Mills is so ill at the
George Hotel that he is not expected to recover. He is
receiving the most unremitting attention from the medi-
cal staff. There are a larger number of invalids in this
hospital (Portsea) than ever were in it since the war
commenced. The medical authorities of Portsea Garri-
son Hospital were driven on Monday last to give sick
furlough to several of the patients, and to send others
prematurely to Chatham, in order to make 20 vacancies
in case of emergency.
The ceremony of awarding the Crimean medals to
Lieut. Stopford, the non-commissioned officers, and men
of the Sappers, who have lately returned from the East
wounded, took place at Woolwich yesterday morning.
The medals were presented by Lieutenant-General Sir
John Burgoyne, G.C.B. At 12 o'clock the men arrived
en the drill-ground, at the back of the hospital, when
the band struck up the " National Anthem." They were
minutely inspected by the General, who was accom-
panied by a number of staff and other eficers—namely,
Colonel Hardinge, K. 11., Commander of the Garrison ;
Lieutenant-Colonel Cole, Lieutenant-Colonel Foster,
Lieutenant-Colonel Yorke, Major Robertson, Major
Maude, Captain Beatson, Captain Collinson, Captain
Wrottesley, Captain Speedwell Tilley, Captain Swint-
borne, Captain Lambert, Lieutenant Stopford, L!eute-
nant Malcolm, Lieutenant Wilson, and Lieutenant and
Adjutant Lempriere. The battalion then marched past
in slow and quick time and at quarter distance, after
which they deployed on the near division, and then
formed a hollow square. The invalids being brought
into the centre, Sir John called out the name
of each individual, who then came forward to
receive his medal, on presenting which Sir John
addressed each one, and kindly inquired in
what engagement he was wounded, how long he
bad been in the service, and if he felt himself recovering
He spoke to them in the hiehest terms of their soldier-
like appearance, and applauded their good conduct and
bravery before the enemy, which had wen for them the
esteem of their Sovereign and the whole nation. Lady
Burgoyne and family, with some ladies of Mr. Stopford's
family, were on the ground in their carriages, and, con-
sidering the smallness of the spot appropriated fur the
occasion, there was a tolerable number of persons pre-
sent. It had been officially announced that the presen-
tation of the medals would take place on Wednesday,
hut, by reason of Sir John Burgoyne having been in
attendance at Court, it was deferred until yesterday.
The weather could not have been more auspicious, and
the pleased (and in some cases scarred) countenances of
the brave convalescents bespoke the gratification they
felt at thus being publicly rewarded for baying shed
their blood in their country's service. The General
afterwards inspected the engineers' field equipments
and waggons in the barrack-square. Thence he repaired
to the drivers' encampment, and inspected the company
and horses, which were paraded on the common.
The new Commander-in-Chief in Queenstown, Roar-
Admiral Sir G. R. Sartorius, arrived on Monday night.
On Tuesday Rear-Admiral Sir W. Y. Carroll lowered
his flag. when the flag of Rear-Admiral Sartorius was
hoisted in its stead on board her Majesty's ship Conway,
a salute of 17 guns being fired.
The first division of the Leitrim rifles marched from
Longford to Nass on Friday, the second division on
Saturday, and the third and head-quarters follow on
Monday.

MILITIA.
The South Down Militia, under the command of the
Marquis of Downshire, has left Dublin for the encamp-
ment on the Curragh of Kildare. The Armagh Militia
replace the South Down in Dublin.