The Sun.
London, England, 1839-09-07 00:00:00

lIARVEST.

The weather, since our last, has been variable—a few
bouts of sunshine succeeded by heavy showers, which,
however, have fallen in some instances so partidly, that
upon some few favoured spots the gathering has not been
wholly interrupted in other parts heavy storms have been
experienced, particularly on Tuesday last, at Tolleshunt
'Darcey, where the hail cut the blade from the turnips
in a field of ten acres as if they bad been fed off with
sheep. We are sorry to add, that in the Roothings and
more northern parts of the county, much corn is abroad,
and fears arc entertained that barley, as well as the revit
wheat, the chief growth of those districts, will sustain
damage. There are also many acres of corn abroad upon
some cold backward land, between Brentwood and Rom-
ford.—Chelmsford Chronicle.
We regret we cannot give so favourable an account of
the progress of the harvest as we could wish. The rain
which has fallen almost every day since cur last publication
has very much retarded the operations of the husbandman.
On Friday some wheat was housed, but since that day,
scarcely any has been !carried. The quality of the new
wheat is reported to be generally inferior, although on some
favoured soils it approaches very nearly to an average, both
in quantity end quality. A cons:derable breadth of barley is
cut, of which but a small portion has been secured ; the
forward is spoken of as good, but the late is very coarse.
One respectable farmer in this neighbourhood has finished
his Wheat harvest, and has carried nearly half his barley ;
of the latter he reports favourably, so far as relates to that
which was ripe early.— Wilts Independent.

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The corn markets having been very scantily supplied
cf late, large quantities of foreign corn have been re-
shipped at this port during the past week.—Devorport
Journal.

Accounts from Dublin of the 3d, in the evening, state
that on Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, in the vicinity of
Dublin, as well as in the counties of Wicklow, Meath, and
Kildare, it had been rainy, with short intermission, almost
all the time, accompanied with a ripening heat—the worst
weather which could occur at this period of the year. Still
some of the accounts are favourable.

A gentleman who returned yesterday from the Queen's
County state 3 that as yet no serious damage has been
done—with the exception, perhaps, of wheat—between
Dublin and Maryborough. He says he did not observe a
single field laid ; the rain, though constant, has fallen light.

A letter from Alexandria, of the 16th ult., in the
Smyrna Journal, says—" The Turkish fleet is in a state
of discontent, which is not to be wondered at, as the
officers can have no promotion in Egypt, and there
is no disposition shown to pay either them or
the crews. The Pacha has even taken away 80,000
oques of biscuit, and supplied the place with bread
of a quality which the men cannot touch. They
live, therefore, chiefly on fruit, which, with the
climate, has made them subject to illness. The fleet is
so placed that each Turkish ship is by the side of an
Egyptian ship, with this difference, that while the Turks
are completely deprived of their ammunition, the others
are fully supplied with warlike stores. The Ca-
pitan Pacha still receives great attentions from the
Viceroy. The Nile rises slowly. During the few last days
its progress has been somewhat more rapid, and the go-
vernment, being in want of money, has decided on opening
the sales of its etores of corn. It has already delivered to
European merchants 30,000 ardebs of wheat at 50 and 51
piasters. The export is free, but the bad quality of the
wheat, which must lose at least 15 per cent. in cleaning,
prevents it being sent to any country but Syria. Some
persons, however, state that it is destined for England.
'Upwards of 34,000 bales of cotton of the last crop have
been sold, and not more than 20,000, partly damaged,
remain in the warehouses."