The Sun.
London, England, 1839-10-15 00:00:00

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nister of War, has obtained a long leave of aliveu s.e'stl-,..
travel in France and Italy. During his absence. e di:i..
1 ties will be performed by Lieutenant-Generitl:t,q.44_
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LEIPSIC, OCT. 7.—We hear in well-informed titers`
of an intended marriage of the eldest daughter of Prince '
John of Saxony to the Hereditary Prince of Saxe. Co-
burg Gotha. The long stay of the Prince at Dresden
and the late visit of his Majesty the King to Coburg are
supposed to be connected with this plan. The Here-
ditary Prince (so say our politicians) will after his mar-
riage fix his residence at Gotha, by which that City
will receive all the splendour of a capital, of which it is
now destitute, notwithstanding its fine palace.
HAMBURG, OCT. 11.--The Leipsic Allgenzeine lei
lung has a letter from Berlin which says that the clan-
destine departure of the Archbishop of Posen is a most
unfortunate step, since there is good reason to believe
that it was intended, in the approaching celebration of
the third centenary of the Reformation, to proclaim a
general amnesty for all persons arrested, in consequence
of the religious affairs of the dioceses of Cologne and
Posen.—Hamburg Papers, Oct. 11.
BELGIAN t UNDS—Bausaats, Oc-r. 12
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent. ...........
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. 92 yi
3 per Cent. ..... .... 71s,
Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent ..„,..., g 3
Society of Commerce, 4 Cent Cent ........
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent 74
National Society
Exchange on London (short)
—Brussels Papers, Oct. 12.

THE CROPS IN THE UNITED

STATES.

(From the New York Papers received last night.)
We have recently had occasion to travel through dif-
ferent parts of the states of Maine, New Hampshire,
Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. In each of these
states, and also in Vermont, we have every reason to
believe that the harvest will be unusually abundant.
Rainy as the season has been throughout New England
from early spring to the close of summer, the harvesting
has proved that the sunshine has been frequent enough
and powerful enough to counteract the effects of the
continued wet weather.
In Maine the wheat crop will be very large, much
more so from outward appearances than during any pre-
viout year. The yield upon the Aroostook country,
along the Penobscot, and upon all the cultivated new
land in the state, has been immense, and there can
be in Maine no surer or more promising crop than
wheat. 'We have recently seen fields there, number-
ing from 20 to 60 and more acres, which will average
35 bushels to the acre. Some of it will yield 40, and
about all of it 30 bushels to the acre. The potato crop in
Mahe will be large, but the quantity may not exceed
that of last year, and the quality will be inferior. The
season has not been a good one for corn, and there are
but few places in Maine where it is a certain crop. Sep-
tember, however, has done wonders to increase the
growth of the kernel, and to ripen it for the harvest.
The grass exceeds in quality the crop of any former
year, and affords another proof that Maine is what it
is often alleged to be, one of the best grazing States in
the Union.

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In New Hampshire we saw hundreds and hundreds
of acres of corn looking as well almost as we have ever
seen in Virginia. In the interior of the State the crop
will be very large and the quality very superior. Upon
land which had been' in a state of cultivation over
a hundred years, we last week saw yellow corn full,
large, and ripe, yielding a crop which frequently
exceeded even some of the crops of the Western plan-
ters. The potato crop in New Hampshire will yield a st:f-
ficiency to supply all the demands of the people there
for home consumption, and admit also of large expor-
tations. In Maine and New Hampshire, both, several
vessels had been chartered, and were loading with pota-
toes for a southern market. The farmers generally sold
their crops at prices ranging from 25 to 33 cents, ac-
cording to quality and convenience of location. Some
of a better quality brought more than this. Used for
so many purposes as potatoes are, there is no probabi-
lity that the prices will be much, if any, lower than they
were last year. In New Hampshire, as in Maine, the
grass was also large, and the farmers appeared to have
given much more attention than usual to the raising of
cattle ; but few, in comparison, had been killed during
the past year. The consequence was, that beef was
scarce and high, with a promise, however, that the
prices would be materially reduced the next season,
when there will be a general slaughter. The late Go-
vernor Hill, in the last Number of his Monthly Visitor,
says that even the wheat crop of New Hampshire will
amount to 1,500,000 bushels, and that, too, of a very
excellent quality. The wheat crop will fall far short of
the crop of corn.
In Massachusetts and Connecticut the grain crops
all appeared well, and the Massachusetts farmers, ex-
cepting the few who are never content, appeared to be
satisfied with the harvest prospects. Some injury had
been done to the corn in consequence of the d'ayp
weather, but the bad effects would be counteracted by
the abundance of grass. All the crops which were not
injured by the wet weather would be benefited. The
season during the latter part of August and thus far in
September had been, for the most part, as favourable
as could be desired.

Upon the whole, we may draw these conclusions
from the facts stated in regard to the crops :—First,
that the production in New England will nearly equal,
if it does not go beyond, consumption there. The
exports will exceed the imports in vd.lue. Maine,
instead of paying out 1,500.000 dollars for foreign wheat
—that is, flour grown out of the State-L-tvill have a
sufficiency of grain to feed all her people—tie if,' of ne-
cessity, there should be a falling off'in consequence of
the numerous towns and cities upon her coast which
make the market for the farmer, as the producer, and
for the numerous army of fishermen, manufacturers, and
merchantmen, as the consumers, the amount of imports
will not reach the exports of produce raised in Maine.
Secondly, the result of the harvest at present, all things
considered, will prove the agricultural capacity of New
England beyond almost any other period of time—for
the reason that the agricultural resources have been
more fully developed by an increased attention to agri-
culture, and by the cultivation of larger quantities of
land. What New England is capable of, however, is
a question we shall not now consider. There will be a
period—and that is not far distant—when that power
will be known, and being known, it will exceed the
sanguine expectations of those who have expected the
greatest wonders from the products of the soil.

The inquiry touching the death of the child Brian
was resumed on Monday before Mr. Payne. The inquiry
was adjourned to hear testimony as to the treatment of
the children in the establishment, and two medical gen-
tlemen attached to it gave the most unequivocal evi-
dence of their kind treatment. Mr. Tyers, Vice-
Chairman of the East London Board of Guardians,
Mr. Adolphus, the barrister, and another gentleman,
all of whom had visited the asylum, stated that they
were perfectly satisfied with the management of the
children in it. Mr. Adolphus said he had been in the
habit of visiting boarding-schools and seminaries for the
last sixty years, and he never saw in any of them obil-
dren more kindly or carefully treated than at Norwood.
Mr. Aubin, the master of the establishment, said the an-
nual average number of deaths was less than four per
cent., and that out of 1,100 children in the establish-
ment there were now only sixteen confined to their beds.
He said the establishment was open to public impection
every Friday, that one of the Poor-law Commissooers
visited weekly, and expressed invariably his complete
satisfaction with the management of it. Verdict—.
" Natural death."
THE BISHOP OF EXETER'S CHAROE.---The
following letter appears in the Times this morninr.—
" Sir—My attention has been called to a report in the
Times of yesterday of the charge delivered by mb to my
clergy, which report contains several particular& mate-
rially different, both in terms and import, from what was
really said by me. I forbear from specifying these par-
ticulars, because the charge itself will be very soon pub-
lished. as it is delayed only by preparing an appendix.
I shall be obliged by your giving insertion to this. letter.
—I am, Sir, your most obedient servant, IL EXETER.
—Exeter, Oct. 12."
On Friday night last the cottage of an old gen-
tleman named Leaff, at Thorney Fcn, was broken into
by two ruffians, who went to Mr. Lcaff's bedroom,
dragged him out of bed, and, by blows inflicted on
various parts of his body, tried to obtain from him the
place in which he kept his money. Mr. Leaff refused
to tell them, and they deliberately broke his arm and
beat him until they thought him dead ; the ruffians then
took eight shillings from the room, and going down
stairs, regaled themselves with two bottles of wine and
what food they could find ; but on their attempting to
leave the house they found that it was fastened from the
outside, which was guarded by several men. It appears
that Mr. Leaff's grand-daughter, in her fear at hearing
the old man's struggles and cries, had let herself down
from the bedroom window by her bedclothes, and run-
ning across several fields, alarmed the inhabitants of the
keepers' houses, who speedily sent two men to secure
the doors from the outside, and, further assistance
arriving, the merciless villains were taken and safely
lodged in gaol. On Monday the men were taken before
the county Magistrates, at Thorney ; but as Mr. Lear
was not expected to survive the day after the first de-
position was taken, they were remanded for a week.—
Lincolnshire Chronicle.
THE MARQUIS OF HUNTLEY'S FAILURE.—
A paragraph, under this title, is going the round of the
papers, pretending to be quoted from the Herald, stat-
ing, among other strange things, that, from the
" schedule of funds, it appears there are not Is. 6d. per
pound likely to be realized to pay the debts." No such
paragraph appeared in our columns. We understand
the state of affairs at first prepared showed a probable
dividend of twelve shillings and sixpence per pound.
We trust such of our contemporaries as have given cir-
culation to the statement referred'to, will also insert this
brief correction.—Arbroath Herald.
The Suabian Mercury cites, as a proof that war
is not imminent, a passage of a letter from Venice of
the Ist inst., which states that in none of the harbours
of the Adriatic is there the slightest speculation iu war-
, like stores of any description.