The Sun.
London, England, 1839-09-26 00:00:00

HARVEST.

Our accounts are conflicting as to the amount of da-
mage done. Our own opinions are not in accordance
with the alarm which seems as usual studiously propa-
gated.—Dublin Pilot. _ _

In the upper ward of Renfrewshire, the grain of all
sorts may now be fairly considered two-thirds cut ; but
with very little exception there is none of it led in,
nor unless the drought be stronger than it is will be
dry for leading for some days to come. The last two
or three dry days is enabling the husbandman to com-
plete the reaping ; the crops are in pretty good order.
To-day the shearers have been readily engaged at Paisley
and Johnstone at aid. per hour.—Glasgow Chronicle.
Since Tuesday we have had generally fine weather,
and reaping has been carried on in this neighbourhood
with much vigour. We have seen a large district of
Holderness, and observed;that, although in part wheat is
injured by the floods of rain, the greater proportion is
got dry, and we have seen some very good samples.
We are not aware how the yield will be in the interior
of the Riding ; but we should fancy it near an average
on those lands vie have seen. No crops have been so
much injured by the rains as beans ; we have a sample
now before us, from near Patrington, which is corn-
oletely spoiled. The continual wet weather has caused
the corn in the pod to swell until the pod has burst
open, when the grain, not being ripe, has perished.—
Hull Observer.
For the last week the weather has been more favour-
able for agricultural operations than previously, though
we had very little sunshine until Sunday, when it
issumed a more favourable aspect, which, we hope, will
continue : should this week keep fine there is every
prospect of a great breadth of corn being well housed.
The late wet and unfavourable weather has had consi-
derable influence on the market in this town, wheat
realized an advance of 2s. per qr., though 3s. and 4s.
were demanded.—Tyne Mercury.
In a wide circuit around Dumfries, the crops, we
hould say, are about three-fourths cut ; leading, how-
,ver, is a different question, and yesterday morning
ve conversed with husbandmen who doubted
.whether there were a hundred ricks secured in Dum-
friesshire and Galloway. Where the land is dry and
tindly, it is only the head sheaves that are much injured;
,iut along the banks of streams, and on wet bottoms,
considerable damage has been done by flooding and
sanding up. Not a few farms could be mentioned, part
if the crops on which have been three or four times
under water, and it is grievous to see fertile holnts
,ot
wheat, beans, and even barley, thus situated. In the
(ewer parts of the county, green as well as white crop
has been more than once submerged, and in various
parishes of Annandale and Nithsdale, cotters and
others have become afraid that their potatoes will rot.
On dry soils, however, the crop is excellent ; larger
,übers have rarely been seen, and thus far we hear of
io complaints as to bossness of heart. On Friday a
eater-spout broke in the parish of Kirkgunzeon, which
inundated every field within its range to such an extent
that passers by could only see the tops of the stooks.
In the last Sound List fifty-five vessels were reported
;rain laden for Britain, and valuing the cargo of each
it 4,0001., we have an expenditure, for a single trip to
,he Baltic, of 220,0001. sterling. But speculation is
busy in other quarters, and operations so extensive on
the part of persons who may be supposed to know their
iusiness well, augurs, we fear, badly as to aggregate re-
mits in the home market. Eight thousand quarters of
Foreign barley were imported into Leith last week, and
whisky rose 2d. per gallon.—Dumf ies Courier.
RIPON.—The weather during the past week has been
very unpropitious, and the harvest has made little pro-
;Tess. We regret to state that full one half of the
crops in this neighbourhood are yet unsecured. We have
ioticed many fields of barley in a bad condition, and

,ven some of wheat, which were fine before the late
:Leavy rains, are beginning to show symptoms of sprout,
L 3 well as the sheaves which have been exposed in
.the
ield. Some of the spring crops of wheat, and those
;r1 backward land, have escaped with less injury, not
)eing so fully ripe. Several beautiful samples of new
Nheat have been exhibited in our market ; and, had the
ieason continued favourable, an abundant supply, with
core than an average crop, might have been anticipated.

MALToN.—Thetremendous rains which have lately
['alien, and the continued wet weather, have entirely
:topped the getting in of the harvest in the neighbour-
mod of Mahon, which otherwise is fit for active ope-
rations, A small part has been gathered in the low
!ountry places ; but in the Wolds only a very small qua',
ity in odd districts has been obtained. The sprout is
;Towing on the curn in many situations ; and it is
eared much damage to the crops will be sustained in
!onsequence. At all event , and under any eircum-
itanees, the harvest will be a late one ; and how the
.Tops may turn out, both with respect to yield and qua-
ity, is at present very problematical. It is expected,
however, the yield will be above the average quantity ;
'out the quality will, of course, depend upon the wea-
ther and the state in which the corn is obtained. So
ex.ettsive has been the fall of rain for the last few days,
that the river Dement is now flooded almost as much

is in the heaviest rains in winter or spring.
ScAnaohouuti.—Thc harvest here is in a very pre-
c.:arious state at present ; the corn is ripe, and the
abourers are making all speed, but the heavy falls of
rain greatly retard their progress.
We regret to state that in many parts of this and the
Adjacent counties the grain has begun to sprout, and is
some few cases the unhoused crops are nearly worthless.
The continuance of the wet weather has damped the
hopes of the farmer ; and we fear that, generally
speaking, the crops in this county and Anglesey are in
a worse state than they have been during many years.
Very little, indeed, is safely housed ; and we hear
similar accounts from the entire of North Wales, and
also from Cheshire, Lancashire, and Shropshire.—
Carnarvon Herald.

Eastward of the mountainous ridge which separates
Lancashire and Yorkshire, and extends almost to the
centre of the kingdom, the crops are good and well se-
cured ; but westward, from Argyleshire to Cornwall,
and in all except the earlier parts of Ireland, the rain
has been productive of great damage.—Manchester
Times.

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The corn crops in the neighbourhood of Bradford
have suffered considerably by the late rains. A great
deal of wheat has sprouted several inches, and most of
it must be secured in bad condition. Wednesday being
a fine day a great deal was cut.

STATE OF TRADE.

(From the Manchester Guardian.)

MANCHESTER.—There was a considerable inquiry
for yarn yesterday ; but it did not produce an adequate
extent of business. The sales, though tolerably nume-
rous, were by no means heavy ; and some descriptions
of yarn, especially 40's and the lowest counts of mule
yarn, were a shadow lower than on the preceding Tues-
day, but other sorts remained unaltered. For goods
of all kinds the market was exceedingly flat, and power-
loom printing cloth was about lid. lower than last
week ;—the very best qualities of '27-inch cloth barely
commanding 7s. In heavy goods there was no change
of prices, but sales were made with difficulty.
ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY, SEPT. 23.
—The demand for flannels still ectitinues steady, and
we have had a good average market to-day, but no
change in the prices. The wool market has been rather
more lively, and manufacturers have bought more
freely, but prices may be quoted the same as la,t week.
HUDDERSFIELD MARKET, SEPT. 24.—The demand
for heavy woollens, especially fancies, continues un-
abated ; but superfines are at discount, and few sales
made. The beautiful and seasonable weather has had
a favourable effect on the market, as well as on the
spirits of the people, and sanguine hopes are entertained
of an average autumn trade. The demand for light
fancy goods and waiscoatings is not so good, which may-
be fairly attributed to the season. Priees generally
remain firm, nor is there any material change in the
wool market. Considerable activity prevails in the
warehouses.

PEDESTRIANISM.—On Saturday night James
Molloy, the pedestrian, successfully finished a match against
time, to walk 400 miles in six successive days. Tile
ground over which he walked is two miles and a half long,
being the high road from the Crown and Sceptre, in
Brompton, to the Wheatsheaf, in Fulham. He began
before two o'clock on Monday morning, and had walked
70 miles before midnight. The weather was so bad on
Tuesday he performed only 50 miles. The num-
ber of miles increased by ten on each of the three
succeeding days, and on Saturday he walked 80
and had finished his wearisome task in spite of as discou-
raging a week's weather as any traveller on horse or foot
could have to make way against, an hour and a half before
midnight, which was the limit of the time allowed.
Molloy frequently walked five miles in fifty-two minutes.
He says the best regimen for a pedestrian is beef-steaks
and wine, dividing the four ordinary meals into eight. To
eat little but often is his maxim. Malt, and ardent spirits
he says will knock a man up. He is but little the worse of
his expedition, except, as may well be supposed, that his
feet are covered with blisters.

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DEATH OF A MONOMANIAC.—TUeSday
inquest was held before Mr. Wakley, at the Boot, Wells
street, Oxford-street, on the body of Franccs Stanton, aged
52, the wife of a labouring man residing at No. 40 in the
same street. From the evidence it appeared that the
deceased had very extravagant notions, entertaining an
idea that she was one of the Royal Family. She would
frequently assert that the throne was hers, but that she was
kept from it by her enemies, She had been charged nt
different metropolitan police-offices with riding about in
cabs, looking after her imaginary rights, and having no
money to pay the fare. She never drank intoxicating
liquors, and would not associate with persons who did ;
she was perfectly rational in conversation on every subject
except what related to herself. She had been for some
time past afflicted with dropsy, and was taken about a
month ago to Middlesex Hospital, which she left on Mon-
day week, saying she knew she was going to die, end
would die at home. On reaching home she declared that
she was in the family way, and that the doctors had 13, en
bribed by the executors who held the property to which
she laid claim to give her medicine to destroy the lawful
heir she was about to bring into the world. On Saturday
night last she was taken very ill, and on Sunday morning
died. Verdict—" Natural Death."

DETERMINED AND EXTRAORDI-

NARY SUICIDE.

VERDICT OF FELO DE SE.
On Saturday evening last, a sensation of alarm was
created in Preeson's-row, Bolton, by a report that Mr. Hi-
ram Simpton had gone into an eating-house in that street
and shot himself with a pistol in one of the upper rooms.
The circumstances of the case are fully detailed in the
following evidence adduced at the inquest :
Eliza Evans being sworn, said, lam a single woman,
and keep an eating-house in Preeson's-row, in partnership
with Miss Leader. I know the deceased, and have known
him for about three years. He was the head constable at
Bolton. He was often in the habit of coming to our house.
He came there on Saturday last between seven and eight
o'clock in the evening. I heard the report of the pistol
with;which he shot himself. Ho was a:very sober man, and
during the time I have known him I never observed any-
thing desponding in his manner, but he was a very hasty
man. He was a married man. He had formed an attach -
meat to a young female, a Miss Leader, but I never heard
that it led to any unpleasantness between him and his wife.

Jane Carr, servant in the eating-house, was sitting in the
kitchen on Saturday evening last, when the deceased came
in. She merely corroborated her mistress's testimony.
Edward Hulse, being sworn, said, I am a surgeon.
About half-past 7 o'clock on Saturday evening last I was
called to the deceased. I was informed that a man had
shot himself. I took my assistant with me and went into
one of the bed-rooms in Miss Evans's eating-home, and
there I found the deceased, whom I had known previously,
lying on the floor on his back, quite dead. I observed
some hemorrhage through his shirt, and on making an
examination I observed an orifice in the chest, which had
evidently been made by a pistol-ball, and within a yard of
the body I found the pistol now produced. I was enabled
to pass my little finger into the wound, which was of con-
siderable depth. The ball had passed through between
the ribs, on the lower part of the sternum. The wound
was decidedly the cause of death.

Frederick 'Morton Baker said—l am Inspector of Police
in Bolton. The deceased was superintendent. The last
time I saw the deceased alive was on Saturday afternoon
last, about al quarter past one; he said he was going
to shoot himself. I thought at the time it was said more
jocularly than seriously. I ridiculed the idea, and ha said
he bad written to all his friends, and showed me a packet
of letters, and I observed one directed to myself, and which
is the same now produced. He then put the letters in his
desk, and I observed my percussion pistol, and asked him
to let me have it, aed he said I should have it in the course
of the day. He was a very passionate man, but I never
saw anything like insanity about him. I always considered
that he lived very happy with his wife, setting aside what I
-knew privately, that he was very much attached to a girl
in Liverpool. He tasted to me that he was going over to
Liverpool to see a young girl of the name of Chrissy, and
that he was heart-broken because she had refused to see
him, and he requested me not to say anything about it.
Christiana Leader sworn—l am a single woman and am
in partnership with Miss Evans, who keeps an eating-
house. I have been intimate with the deceased for about
four years. On Friday last, I received a letter from the
wife of the deceased, requesting me to meet her at the
railway station. I was proceeding then along with a
niece of the deceased, when I met him in Lord-street.
I told him I was going to meet his wife, when he observed
that she was not coming ; he sent his wife home. He
took hold of my arm, fast in his, and walked at a rapid
rate down to the George's Pier-head. I went on board
one of the Woodside boats with him. From his
manner altogether I was alarmed that he intended
something wrong, so I got up from where I was sit-
ting, and told a gentleman that I was afraid he was going
to do me some injury, and that he was taking me over the
water against my will. The gentleman had him sent on
shore, and I proceeded to Woodside without him. I did
not land at Woodside, but returned with the same boat,
the Captain of which placed me in a car, and I went to my
brother John, in London-road, and I never afterwards saw
the deceased alive. The same night, about nine o'clock,
I was informed that he had shot himsdf. He has more
than once threatened to me that he would shoot himself,
and ohce threatened that he would shout me. About five
week,, ago he had a pistol in his pocket, and he then said
he would shot himself, as he said he was very unhappy.
He never, by his manner or eoeduct, led me to think he
was out of his mind, bet he was very passionate. Ou
Saturday evening I did not think he was out of his mind,
but he was very much excited.

Some letters found on the deceased were then put in
and read. One was addressed to the Mayor of Bolton,
begging him to sign some receipts for the ben. fit of his
( 'impton's) wife. Another was sntto a Superintendent,
with a similar request. The others were the following :
September 20.
My dear Wife and Child,—Our miseries have been so
manifold through my iniquities ; our wretchedness has been
so much on the increase of late, that I can no longer endure
myself, my misery is so great, and yet I can blame no one
but myself fur it all. Oh 1 my dear wile, when I think
how very happy we may have been, but foi cne circum-
stance, (going to Liverpool ;) when I think bow very, very
happy we may have been in each other's love—but why do
dwell on this subject? Things are done amid they cannot
be undone. When you receive this I shall be no more ;
but recollect, my dear wife and my dear child, it is not
for the sake of her alone that you accuse me of, that I
commit so rash an act. No 1 no lit is that I have taken
all things into consideration, and that I find my life is a
drawback upon you, and upon that individual we
have so often quarrelled about, by removing which
I shall, in sacrificing my life, render you all hap-
pier than you are at present. You, my dear Harriet, will
by and by, when my person is somewhat forgotten, do
much better in the world without than with me, for
you know how peevish, spiteful, cross, and wicked I am,
and you know how much worse I get every day. Oh,
Harriet, you must forget that even such a one as me ever
lived. You must, you must, and you must endeavour
yourself to improve in cleanliness, &c., and do learn to
write, &e. Oh 1 ilarriet, forgive me telling you all this,
but I do, even think if you had have tried, you may
have altered me ; but it cannot be done now, therefore I
shall say no more on that head, but confine myself to what
I ought to inform you of--that I loved Christy. I have
told you repeatedly and often, and I have begged you to
proceed in a certain line of conduct towards me. and I
would be as kind to you as I possibly could. You did
not proceed as I desired you, but quite contrary, and
thereby added fuel to an already blazing fire. Oh ! Harriet,
why did you persevere in such a line of conduct ? But
'tis done, and all is passed now. When Chrissy and me
were friends I could endure all with a growl now and
then - but when she too quarrelled with me, and all things
rushed across my mind, thinking how many years we may
have to live together, I drew these conclusions that unless
I could forget Chrissy we should be miserable ; that as
long 83 you thought I loved her, you would be jealous, and
we should be wretched. Now, you would always think so,
and I cannot say I should ever cease to love her ; but,
Harriet, I do love you, and my dear child, and also Christy.
Forgive me ; I am too free, but I am writing for the last
time to you.

Bring up Polly as a good dear babe, and let her be
taught cleanliness and carefulness. Pay some little atten-
tion to my last request, in looking, to yourself, and save all
you can, even to a pin's worth. God bless you, my dear,
dear wife and child. Yours, HIRAM.