The Sun.
London, England, 1864-09-10 00:00:00

SECOND EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, HALF-PAST 4 O'CLOCK.

THE ZOLLVEREIN.

DARMSTADT, Sept. 9.—The Chamber of Deputies
has unanimously voted a motion made by M. Metz
and seven of his colleagues, urgently pressing the
Government to give in its adhesion immediately,
and at all events before Ist October, t) the new
Z)llverein.

T}llitD EDITION

SUN OFFICE, SEVEN O'CLOCK .

TAT TERSALL'S—This Evening,

GREAT ' OR :SHIRE HANDICAP
15 to 2 agbt Eae I acabLire (taken)
10 to 1 agst I ©T Aver (taken)
10 to 1 age Can -,onette (offered)
100 to 8 age, Gra itude (taken)
100 to 6.agst Fa Ifreluche (taken)

ST. LEG ER.
5 to 2 eget Blair Athol (offered, take 11 to 4)
5 to 2 agst General Peel (offered, 11 to 4 taken)
7to 1 agst Miner (taken)
l 5 to 1 agst Baragah (taken)
20 to 1 agst Ely (taken)
25 to 1 agst Cambusean (taken)
100 to 1 agst Peon (taken)

CESAREWITCH STARES.
33 to 1 agst Baldwin (taken)
33 to 1 agst Grrtitude taken)
33 to 1 aget The Giant (taken)
33 to 1 agst Retainer (taken)
40 to 1 agst Suspicion (taken)
40 to 1 agst Myrtle (taken)
40 to 1 agst Thalestris (taken)
66 to 1 agat Brewer (taken)
66 to 1 agst Catch-'em-Alive (taken)
100 to 1 apt Ethelred (taken)
100 to 1 agst Cripple (taken)
100 to 1 aggst Beverley (taken)
100 to 1 ags: Orphelia (taken)
100 to 1 agat Weloome (taken)
100 t o 1 agst Brick (taken)
100 to 1 agat Tourist (taken)
100 to 1 agst Asteroid (taken)

CIIIBRA 0
33 to 1 agst Gian t (ta ken)
49 to 1 agst Baldwin (taken)
40 to 1 agst Trap (taken)
66 to 1 agst Stockinger (taken)
DERBY.
40 to 1 agst Archimedes (taken)
50 to 1 agst Joker (taken)
66 to 1 agst Badminster (taken)
66 to 1 agst Bramah (taken)
66 to 1 agst Puck (taken)
66 to 1 agst Barbarossa (taken)

PERTH. Since the middle of the pest week there has lron
a very great change in the weather, and altogether it is now
of a much lower temperature. At an early hour on Monday
morning a strong gale sprung up from the south-west, and
continued till evening, when it fell, and the wind shifted
to the north-west, During Monday night there was keen
frost, which was succeeded yesterday morning by heavy
rain, which had not abated by 4 o'clock p.m. Owing to
the high wind of Monday, a great deal of ripe wheat and
oats was shaken, and stooks were blown down in the dis-
tricts around Perth, especially to the westward. In the
orchards in the Carse of Gowrie, and in the parish of
Rhynd, on the banks of the Tay and Earn, vast quantities
of half-ripe apples and pears have been blown off the
trees, and there can be no doubt that the tacksmen of the
orchards will suffer severely in a pecuniary point of view.
Most of the wheat, barley, and oats in the Perth district
the Carse of Gowrie, and Lower Streathearn, have been cut
down. Barley, where thrashed, is more than an average
yield, and is of fine quality. Oats, however, are deficien t
both in weight and straw, Harvest has commenced in the
late districts of the Ochills, Oogiealmond. Collace, &e., but
the exact produce of the cereal crops cannot be as yet esti-
mated. The recent rains hnve given the potatoes a fresher
look, and they are as yet free from disease. Turnips have
likewise improved, but are somewhat thin on stiff and clayey
soils. If wet weather continues, pasture and clover grass
may yet give a good bite to cattle and sheep in the fall of
the year.
INNERLEITHEN.—Within the last week the weather has
completely changed. Rain, which was so long earnestly
longed for, has come at last, and is threatening to continuo
to come in greater abundance than is at all desirable at thi a
season. On Wednesday showers began to fall, and durin g
the rest of last week there was rain more or less daily. The
showers were always moderato, and cutting was not much
interrupted, but carrying was retarded. Nearly the whole of
the crop on the low ground has been cut, but very little has
yet been carted to the barnyard, so that a very large quan •
tity of grain stands at present exposed in the stook. The
rain has done it little or no harm as yet ; but, from so long
a period of drought having previou sly prevailed, farmers
are becoming somewhat uneasy about the ingathering of
their crop, as, now that the weather has broken, it is much
to be feared that it may continue unsettled for a co n
siderable time. A furious gale of wind, which began on
Sunday night, and continued all yesterday, has done con--
siderable damage to the standing crop. A good deal of
grain has been shaken from the ripe portion, and on h igh
places where the crop is yet green it has been much twisted
and storm-broken. The wind fell this morning, and has
been succeeded by rain, which has fallen heavily all day.
The cut grain, which the wind laid quite flat, must be
thoroughly soaked. The ground is now pretty well satu-
rated, although it has received no superfluous moisture, as
is evidenced by the rivers having sustained very little rise
—and dry weather is now desirable for the ingathering of
the grain crops. Since the rain came, pastures and other
green crops show signs of reviving.—September 6.
BERWICK,—In this locality the weather for the last
fortnight, with the exception of occasional slight showers,
have been most favourable for harvest work, and farmers
have been busy in all directions cutting and securing
their crops. The general ripening of the grain, and the
suitable nature of the weather, have allowed great progress
to be made in the way of cutting, more especially in the
neighbourhood of Norham and Coldstream, where the great
bulk of the crops is now in stook, and but little remains to
be cut. In many places a great deal of the wheat is stacked
and thatched ; and with another week of dry weather, little
would remain to be done in that way. Tho crops every-
where appear to be a fair average both in quality and quan-
tity. On Sunday night a strong north-west wind set in
nd continued to blow hard all Monday; but it doe s not
seem to have done much harm to the standing grain. The
greater portion of the crops in stook, however, has been
blown down, and will cause farmers a good deal cI addi-
tional labour setting it up again. Turnips, no twithstand-
i ng the dryness of the season, are everywhere looking well
and with a few more showers may yet not fell far short of
an average crop. On light soils, however, they are thin
and backward. The irjurious influence of the long-con-
tinued drought appears most conspicuously on pastures.
Potatoes are generally an abundant crop, but have the ap-
pearance of being largely affected by the disease.
GALASHIELS.— On all the early farms harvest operations
so far as cutting is concerned, aro finished, or nearly so; and
with few exceptions, should the weather prove at all favour-
able, on the later farms cutting will be finishel by the end
of the present week. The very fine weather in the last
fortnight of August was alike favourable for ripening and
cutting, and assisted by the general use of the reaping ma-
chines the crops have been cut cheaply and expeditiously.
Oats are generally below an average. Barley is average in
bulk and excellent in quality. The little wheat grown in
the district is reported an average crop ; all the varieties are
early; the fields whitened this season with astonishing rapi-
dity. On some of the early farms a considerable proportion
of the crops aro secured in the stockyard, but in general
fully two-thirds are yet in the fields. With the beginning
of September the weather altered, from the hot sunshine of
August to alternate shower and breeze, and yesterday th
w ind increased to a perfect gale, laying all standing corn
nr on
farms occupying hilly positions. Moat
1 flat with the ground, and to-day (Tuesday) it is a conatan
pouring heavy rain, with every appearance of contihnouwanfcaer. t
Up till this season it was considered problematical
the reaping machine could be beneficially
oduced
in this district are thus situated, and the machine has
been so generally introduced as
to finally and satisfactorily
ofi t the farms
settle the question. We have made special inquiries at
some of the leading farme
rs in the district, and got the
uniform reply, where
the crops are not laid, that the ma-
chino makes better work than either scythe or sickle.
B°is self-delivering is the ono mostly used in the
d
general satisfacti an. Nearly all the
farms of any extent have had one machine at work this
season.
We have reports from Rink, Netherbarns, Holy •
bush, Fairnilee, Newhall, and other places, and all give
Siasmtruiceti, and gives
testimony to the value and utility of the machine. Mr

Elliott, of Newhall, has cut the whole of his crop this sea-
son with the ordinary farm workers and only one extra man.
Mr Haldane, of Fairoilee, reports that with the crops all
standing the whole harvest work may be got through with
the home workers. In some farms ff,wcr hands are avail-
able for harvest work than on others, hut the machine
effects an immense saving of manual labour.
THE CHAMPION PLOUGHMEN OF ENGLAND.
The first All-England Match of the season came off yester •
day at the Sparkonhoo Club Meeting, near Ashby-de-la •
Zouch. Considerable interest was manifested in the pro-
' ceedings, and the ploueling, considering the dry and harl
state of the lane, was e eel'ent. Foremost in the competi-
tion wt,re the Howards of Bedford and the itansomes of
Ip.wich, the ur4tch, toriariaatipg in favour 9i News:
Howard.