The Sun.
London, England, 1852-09-08 00:00:00

THE HARVEST.

this time of
counts are
rainshte wisdom
parchingi sodf obAfmeuttgoeufrheats
sProvi-
dence
rohotav
ivoi
nf.
finding its way into the market; and we are beginning
dweenrhneiont h,
so aarnvde s
et 1 is
only almost
ow over;
to this
to have particular information of the crops abroad. So
deficiencywhatagricultural
ice aus
li aatyumsr
calamity
Mark-lane,
jtaaathorrhaueikoaoor -ytuntl
heasat
0.
generallyahnel
snrree:.e; 1
vuwmpas
shnTruoeAooddahlvnlsi
eel
ifweyynt
nvohei
senaaetortgthi,oosei
Humbersrinkintehai
inismtlnahhl
roeiaevnmumi
egsi lsbiaatene nknerosigniedtnt uswdsupesa
hulpagfffet:ehnhetfireo
rhosteitychatatenehhcaiyde.
ac-
counts
distribut-
ing
thett hh e that
summeritnhee ofplenty d iastni
dn distinction. ii oe n i
le e e or,
athlweallysumbleeirt
conspired, first to wither grain,tsahothnalf
to bring their corn
then to make it sprout, so at lee
hear,
ee then
h harvest
vae tors
farmers
blighthe ra asbae
rei
eta,,
, Sfwoll ret far,
afmarLa yt fortnight,h
soteanv
rdaaos l w regards
years.
et h
rstaehacriede:,
ved though
w it
h agri-
culturala
allowaneme.urzimuorrathaoref
garde the ex-
till the weeds
later,it
iss
aaind,dstill
tocroobpus,syveri: htheeavfiyelwdse
wheat at the
Under these circumstances, anautsotwitibtilise
to harvest,-nobody knows what to call the
—and even bad news of the potato crop here,maopnfe
eds wheat
. til l
more in Ireland, seems to make little positive i
on prices. The averages are rising, the last was 43., I°ll
, 7d.
" But who gets the average?" asks the south-country
fipfbageorcuumtnraeedtri:oi
ttnwhst ohnosoft shaeltemhwgeohrseoftaaustrntmidoa.oeydr
shillings a-quarter seems now the safest guess for the
long run. I . that a good or a bad look out? It is the
prospect now before the farmers. Yet we venture to ask,
where are the lamentations? where the piteous cries for
help? where the appeals for something to be done?
where the sullen resolves to quit the country if some-
thing were not done that we have had for the last seven
years, particularly at this season. The farmers' friends
are in power, and so little pressure is applied to them
that they intend to wait near three months, that is to the
end of November, before they produce their grand spe-
cific; and the farmers themselves are the chief apologists
of this delay. What unwonted patience! What newly-
acquired resignation! Was it for this the 300 gentlemen
making the country party seceded so long from office.
flared up into agitators, and subsided into misanthropes?
Was it merely that at the end of seven years they might
learn to sit like patience on a mrinument, and smile at
40s. a-quitter? That, ia fact, is what they are now
c,..ano to.

The truth is, thqt agriculturists have at last discovered
that whatever is to be done must be done by themselves.
l'hey have pass,d through the worst—that i•i, the tran-
si!iou itself—and they no., sec that they can manego to
Jet on, Fite other rnanufcturers and tradesmen in this
,ranch-peopled acd much-taxed country. They are also
,bsor vine that time itsel:', as. 134c0n B,sys, is the greatest
tinny...tor, .sod 18 il.ist now unusually busy at innovations.
I;:deed, changes ar' now occurring of the most mcmen-
mitt character, and that req,iire as conch vigilance on
gut
creak up of an Arctic winter. Mac, hitherto a drug,
rhre: as
to if
becomewewere passing through icebergs at the
ptcoious. Oa the one band wages
must rise, t.nd our men will be ma-tars. They will ask
good cottages, and that near their work. They will
'
have their little homesteads, their pigs, and even their
cows. On the other hlnd, they will become More
educated and more intelligent, as well as physically
slave
law se,
Stronger. They will do their work better.
Teen the burden of pauperism will almost dis-
appear: it is going rapidly. Of our present vast
pauper expenditure little will remain, after a few years,
but the establishment charges. We may even live to
ists—which makes the man a slave
fewo t
anold
whichtpeople. h
e has
m a puzzledsteThenr
athe
eso
v a
to many o
hisf
mt t
a len-
in
states-
men and economists—which see our huge union workhouses actually shut up, or only
tteoenhaht_ints master,aedthhter akn
but which nobody has yet been able to mend, will be-
come a mere shadow under the opration of changes that
destroy all local ties. The whole population are adrift.
Every petty station, every little market town, sees the
emigrant on his way to Australia. Adding this new
drain to that grill undiinini-led from Ireland, we shall
probably find that not less then half a million of our
people have left our shores in the year 1852. Solvuntur
risu tabula, we may now say of those Settlement
questions, that for a century have disturbed the
peace and drained the funds of every parish in this
kingdom. Nothing has hitherto stood in the WaY
of agriculture so much as the necessity of .
s ub or employ-
ing a vast quantity of unskilled and
even
lont been
dinate labour. Though the necessity
basil still in
so stringent of late years, yet most farmers are
any new
this ease, that if they employ machinery, labourers
mode of cultivation, or if they
invite
under a sort of
from a distance, they find themselves under
hands.
compulsion to go on using their old disappearing, and
All cempulsion of this sort 1.!
jestacle to the use of reap-
there will no longer be any or expedients fore conomiz-
ing machines and all the other
better paid and better
ins labour. The labourer,
handle machinery, and do the
taught, will learn how Tozer,
such men as have hitherto
work of two,
or half a d Abe farm. The quicker the la-
worked and encum
e be
education for the new and more
is reparee , .
bioh he is placed, the better
bourer p
sition in w
advantageous nO
elf and for his employer.
will it be for
Tn., yearshigns have also opened the eyes of the
The '"-- few bility of other crops and other modes
to tberssl h h nherited from his
farmer than those e as i
of cultivitionre
is
now
lyinc,
before us the last number
figberx The of the Roya'l Agricultural Society, and
of the Journal
serious discussion of the question whe-
therfind in it a
we
the British
farmer can profitably cultivate man-
- manufacture of sugar. The balance
dwarzpl for the
gol
is given in favour of the cultivation, the only difli.
cuity con
•
confessed being the want of a manufacture on a
sufficiently large scale. Again, should wheat obsti-
nately stand at its present price, barley and oats will
prove more remunerative ; and even stall-feeding, which
the other day was pronounced a ruinous occupation, is
now found once more to pay. Notwithstanding all this
emigration, our towns, our factories, our ports, our
docks and harbours, seem to thrive as much as ever;
and it is in these seats of skilled industry that the far-
mer's best customers aro found, rather than among his
own ill-paid labourers. But, as we have pointed out
above, the more skilled and better paid labourers that
will now do the work of the farm will be much better
customers for the produce of it than the poor squalid
creature's that carry home on the Saturday night a mi-
serable pittance of Bs. or 9s. for as many mouths. We
are come upon an age when the value, the powers, and
the wants of man are suddenly and considerably raised,
and when everybody gives more, and receives more_ in
s
return. low fortunate that on the threshold of this
new state of things, more wonderful than any
.wilai
.bi
revolution could have brought us to, we
havedatio"mgayr
got rid of Prt;tection, and have not that old
frau
our present good fortune. We he!: committedneeiesti our-
selvesProvi-
to the general laws of Providence,
the vista of deuce now rewards our confidence with
stings such as men
so-
cial improvements and enexpeete. ,
Ind not dreamt of e n beers It is a new era that
none can doubt. Its exact cha-
is opening to us. That ne
questiors ;
reeler and its remits arere other
of a great, spontaneous
of society, and in agricultural
this time evident to those
—Times. but the fact
volution in all the relations
as in other sciences, is by
least prepared for the change.

GLASGOW, SEPT. 4.--Cotton—There has been a
the past week, which had
appearance at the beginning. Consider-
able sales have
ruling much
been made, prices same as
the
those of last week. There seems, however, to be a general
anticipation of a rise as the year advances. There has been
an active demand for goods, both for home trade and export,
during the week, and prices are fully maintained. Pig Iron—
Since our last report the pig iron market has been rather in-
active, without, however, any change in the nominal quota.
tions. Itlixed number warrants, 455. 6d. cash, sellers; buyers
fair
rher a
shy. and only offer 455.
ipr shipment, No. 1 may be quoted
at 455. 3d.
demanddroo ir ning our market during
; ---- N
°. 3, 445. 6d. ; No. 1 Gartsherrie, 4553 d.
Bars are from 61. 10a. to 6/. 155., and plates 91. to 91. 10s.,
with great activity in the latter.