The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-12 00:00:00

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day.

(RETJTER'S TELEGRAM.)
Very strong about 1,000 bales; imports, 945
previously 21,16.

THE WEATHER AND CROPS IN SCOTLAND.-
UNERLEITHEN.—The weather of the past wee
has been of a much less scorching nature than that which
prevailed during the four or five weeks preceding, and we
have had several showers. The rain-fall, however, has not
been nearly equal to the requirements of the ground, which
the long drought had parched to an unusual degree. Be-
sides the fall of half an inch of rain on Monday morning,
we had slight showers on Tuesday and again on Friday.
Showers; fell frequently on Saturday, but they were always
light and of short duration, and the whole quantity of rain
which fell was small, the rain gauge registering only 4-10ths
of an it ich from Tuesday, inclusive. Up to this morning,
Leithe n Water and to the west of the town, the fall, how-
ever, ve hear, has been considerably greater. The baro-
meter, which continued to drop slowly during the whole of
last week, began again to ascend yesterday, and though a
few drops fell tb is morning, the rain, it is to be feared, is
past for the present. Considerable breezes blew on Satur-
day. Scanty though the showers have been, they have had
a marked effect noon pastures, which are now looking much
fresher. Turnips have also improved, and the filling of the
to
cereal crops has been assisted considerably. Potatoes con-
tinuefree from disease
look, in
. general, remarkably well, and are as yet
pro-
bably be Al commencement of ha' rvest will pro-
madeztod.w. towards the end of next week. In travelling
Eddleston some fields of by railway to
g.h this morning, we observed near
top leaves of the
this place and Peebles" potatoes much injured by frost, the
being completely blasted, Between
a, as in the neighbourhood of Inner-
lcitlien, the cereal
Inner-
and there is to be cropsseen generally look well, though here
short in the straw. oanfield of oats thin on the ground and
the elevated district around Lead-
burn, the crops arc late and
in this fine pastoral upland h7len looking light; but the grass
fresh and good. Be-
tween Dalkeith and Edinburgh
cutting we noticed had
been begun on two or three farms this -, - '
morning.
FLOWINCE NIGHTINGALE.--Feeble as Miss
Nigt-Itiogale's health is unhappily known to be, her
g3od s
elniasdei
views have lost none of their distinetness—her pen none of
Iu her commentary on a recent
,a. Indian report,he keen
its power.
we find in perfection the consummate
ed
indicating subdtsensibility,
irony.the wide range of
and the
understanding,all-pervading generosity and
courage which,
to my mind,
From make her writings one of the
stronginterests of our time. the few Pages of this
commentary we learn wore of the interior of life in India
.
lam from the circulating library
than a dozen books on
light,
in a wholly new li
could convey ; and we see
lifeg ,ofase clear
be done for the
as the day, how much may be
are perfectly at command,
body there by such means
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