The Sun.
London, England, 1839-07-23 00:00:00

SCOTLAND.

A great deal of rain has fallen this week We have
heard complaints of the corn being laid in low-lying dis-
tricts, in some places, so flat as to afford little hope of its
rising again. The gardeners are grumbling sadly about
the damage done to the fruit, particularly the strawberries.
—Aberdeen Herald.

Within' the last few days a somewhat disagreeable
change has taken place in the elements, and the genial
warmth of summer has temporarily given place to storm
and flood. Monday last, which was sacred to St. Swithin,
gave alternate sunshine and shower; but public confidence
in the watery Saint has been so sadly shaken in these
latter times, that even the weather-wise don't assume
that his influence over the succeeding forty days will ex-
ceed that of Murphy " with his weather eye." The
nights, however, of Wednesday and Thursday last, were
really boisterous ; and while the rain battered against the
casements, the blasts rose l'and fell in angry gusts ; and
yesterday rain fell heavily during the greater part of
the day. At sea the waves rolled alarmingly high, for
this period of the year at least, and we understand
that several of the steamers had pretty stormy pas.
sages into the Clyde. On the afternoon of Wednesday last
a numerous party of young gentlemen belonging to the city
hired a river-steamer, and departed for the purpose of en-
joying a day's shooting amongst the myriad feathered
population of Ailsa Craig; but the elements said nay,
and launching the fleet of small boats with which
the vessel was provided was out of the question. In their
return the crew could not take the channel, and were con-
strained to seek refuge under the lee of Arran, and strug-
gle through the Kyles of Bute into the Clyde; altogether,
the party returned indifferently pleased with a trip from
which they had anticipated no little enjoyment. This sum-
mer blast, however, has bad no effect in blighting the
promise of plenty which is apparent over all the land,
with the exception that it may retard for a space the
saving of the hay, which the rain caught in swathe. A
gentleman who has gone over an extensive section of Scot-
land within the last few days, reports that the oats and
barleys especially are coming away beautifully, and that
those localities are rare where they do not promise an
average crop, while in many they will be beyond it. In
the higher districts, however, the harvest cannot be ex-
pected to be an early one. The green crops are rowing
in good style, and, unless znarred by some unexpected
blight, will give a return decidedly beyond that of the last
bree seasons.—Glasgoto Mad.

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EN MARKET,--The during RK E
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greatly
storms which IPrDeZed
increased the produce at Covent-garden on Saturday
morning. One gardener, whose grounds are in the neigh.
bourhood of Mortlake, brought eighty half-sieves of cher-
ries, each containing twelve pounds, a considerable portion
of which were damaged by the fury of the elements.
These were all sold at a serious sacrifice to the owner.
Large junks and baskets of apples and pears, blown from
the trees and not half ripe, were subject to the same depre-
ciation. It is a fortunate circumstance that Government
turned a deaf ear to the remonstances of Sir E. Knatchbull
and others, who were anxious to levy an additional duty on
apples, pears, plums, cherries, and currants, imported from
France, Holland, and Belgium. Had this purpose been
eff,2cted, the poor people would have been seriously abridged
of their comforts and little luxuries during the winter. The
havoc among the fruit-trees, in every direction, is quite in-
describable. There was an abundant supply of vegetables,
especially cauliflowers, lettuces, cabbages, spinach, Ftartenneach,
beans, broad beans, turnips, carrots, onions, and
.po
t_
all at a reasonable price. Cucambers in quanntniatyeivrrlaniehs
from the hot-house and the open ground. G
peaches,
and currants (black and red), grapes,d
apricots,rnluxury called
and melons, n good supply. The modern eand cheap: Rasp-.
vegetable marrow was likewise able
with the excep-
berries and strawberries cheap,exceediny
of strawberry, of tion of the Elton pine, a new
variety 6
was retailed at ls. Oct.
ex-
ceeding beauty and delicacy,rswand shrubs were as b
super
and 2s. a pottle. The flowers
previous market day of the season.
and various as on any
Late in the day, the promenade among the flowers, oppo-
site Great Busse-
ll•street, was crowded by persons of rank
and fashion.
'
The Warwick Advertiser states that the peti-
tions of Lovet and Collins contain highly-wrought exag-
gerations, and facts so ingeniously coloured, to answer
their purposes,
that they amount to absolute misrepre-
-sciitations: -Werfililveirer, incline to think that the state-
ments of Mr. Lovett and Mr. Collins will turn out sub-
statially accurate,