The Sun.
London, England, 1839-09-24 00:00:00

stinted employment, and in many cases no work at
all, increasing local taxes as a natural consequence
of additional pauperism, make us look towards the
coming winter with fearful apprehension. Since
our last, the rain has fallen almost incessantly.
Not a single day has passed without heavy and
most distressing showers. The works on the Bolton

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and Preston Railway have been much retarded by
the water, and out-door labourers are on the verge
of starvation. Portions of grain cut three weeks

ago remain unhoused, and probably will be unfit for
food either for man or beast.—Bolton Free Press.

The harvest in this neighbourhood (Newport) is
very late, with the exception of wheat, which is in
general well secured, with a full average crop. The
barley and oats are very abundant, but at this pre-
sent time in apparently a ruined state, the continual
rain for the last three weeks affording the farmer no

chance of securing any, without incessantly turning
the swaths ; and, indeed, unless the weather clear
up, it will be of very little use, except for grinding.
There are some pieces of meadow hay, and a second
crop of clover, not hauled, which will be carted to
the dung heap. The turnip crop looks well, and
free from mildew, but they want warm weather to
increase them in size. Potatoes will prove a good

crop.—Merlin.
In the neighbourhood of Lancaster the weather
still continues very showery and changeable. A
large quantity of grain is cut, which cannot be
housed on account of the wetness of the season.

The consequence is that a great part of it, and
more especially the wheat, is sustaining permanent
inj ur y .—Kendal Nercury.
We have had another week of very unfavourable
weather for the harvest, the consequence is that a
great portion of the wheat is spoiled in this neigh-
bourhood. The potato crop, which promised to be
abundant, will turn out a failure, the rain having

damaged them beyond recovery, in the clay lands.
An immense quantity of potatoes of an excellent
kind, grown on the light sands of Scarisbrick, La-
thorn, &c., are now in the progress of being got up
and brought to the Manchester market. As many
as 15,000 bushels were passed along the canal last
week, and 10,000 the previous week. Fears are
entertained, that in addition to the badness of bread
and a scarcity, we shall also have a scarcity of pota-
toes before another crop.— Wigan Paper.
Very little has yet been done in harvesting ope-
rations in this district. Oats, the principal grain
grown, are full upon the ground, and excepting
such as have been lodged for some length of time,
are likely upon the more forward soils to be a good
yield. The high moorland crops are again very
late, and the succession of bad harvests will be
severely felt by the small farmers. There was not
much wheat sown for this year's crop, and most of
it will be very late. The heavy rains of the last
fortnight will not have injured our crops so much
as if they had been in a more forward state. Some
little hay is yet out on the moor edge farms, which
is shockingly spoiled. Potatoes, were not deficient
the spring, are looking pretty well, but are sadly
overrun with weeds.—Halifax Express.
The weather, since our last, with the exception
of the last two days, has been extremely unfavour-
able. The falls of rain on Saturday, Sunday, and
Monday, in particular, were heavy. Some of the
wheat in the vicinity has been housed ; much,
however, still remains exposed to the rains. In the

distance between this town and Doncaster, a very
large portion of the corn remains in the fields. in
the immediate neighbourhood of Doncaster, hun-
dreds of acres of land were under water on Tues-
day, and, judging from appearance, the floods on
the previous days must have been very extensive.

—liiakt:field Paper.
The harvest in our neighbourhood was resumed
on Wednesday, having been interrupted by the
heavy rair.s of Saturday and Sunday. On that day
the demand for shearers was very great, and conse-
quently the parties who attended for hire at the gate
got high wages-3s. 6d. and some as high as 4s.
each. The weather, with - the exception of some
heavy, but, we believe, partial showers during
Wednesday night, has continued dry, and the
farmers have busily improved the opportunity.
Yesterday and to-day the number of reapers seek-
ing hire were greater than on Wednesday, and the
wages have fallen-2s. 6d. and 2s. being readily
accepted. The crops everywhere are much beaten
down, which causes the work of reaping to be very
laborious. In many fields the green weeds are
sprouting at the roots of the corn; but if the weather
continue fair, the crop will be cut down before these
reach the height of the sickle, and thus escape be-
ing gathered with the grain.--Berwick Advertiser.

We have had two or three comparatively fine
days since our last : but there has been a decided
preponderance of wet. The crops are, in many
places, fast becoming fit for cutting ; but the ope-
rations of the reaper have been subjected to great
interruption by the changes in the weather. The
demand for shearers has been very great, and wages
are consequently high. In this neighbourhood, they
have varied from 2s. 6d. to 3s. per day ; but in
some of the southern parts of the county we have
heard of as much as 4s. to 4s. 6d. being given.—
Durham Chronicle.
The weather during the past week has been ex-
ceedingly unpropitious, and harvest operations
have consequently been very much retarded. We
have never seen the farmers more desponding than
on Thurday last. The quantity of grain put in is
so small as scarcely to be worth notice, and even it
was in very bad condition. A very great deal of
the uncut grain is laid by the heavy rains, and much
of it, especially wheat, is rapidly springing. Even
in some cases where wheat is growing perfectly
upright. this springing is observable. The oats
are, from the same cause, also injured, but not to
the same degree. One farmer tells us that since
harvest commenced, there have been only two days
that his reapers were employed from morning to
night, and these were showery. Even should the
weather immediately become fa:•ourable, a great
deal of wheat will be injured to a very serious de-
gree. In some of the higher districts of the coun-
try the sickle has not yet been put in. On the
whole, our harvest prospects are deeply tinged
with gloom.—Paisley Advertiser.
THE LATE FLOODS.—The Papers from Scot-
land are filled with details connected with the late
floods and dreadful storm already noticed in The
Sun. The damage done is considerable. The
crops have, of course, suffered severely. In some
places they are so lodged as to render their recovery
almost hopeless. On the whole, the effects of the
storm, although sufficiently discouraging to the
farmer, have not been marked by that wide spreatJ,
and appaling desolation which attended the great
flood of 1829. It is a matter of thankfulness, too,
that no loss of human life, so far as we have yet
learned, has occurred.