The Sun.
London, England, 1839-09-04 00:00:00

HARVEST IN SCOTLAND.

NORTH BERWICK, AUG. 29.—Harvest commenced
this day on the farm of North Berwick Abbey, belong-
ing to Andrew Richardson, Esq., in a field of very supe-
rior Chevalier barley. Also, harvest commenced to-day
on the farm of Robert Walker, Esq., Denegate, parish
of Dirleton. The crops of grain in this neighbourhood
are everywhere abundant, and harvest will be general
next week. The crops of turnips and potatoes also
have a most promising appearance.
MONTROSE.--A field of barley was cut down, on
Tuesday last, on the farm of Muirside of Craigo, parish
of Logic Pert ; and barley harvest commenced in the
North Links on Wednesday, and will be pretty general
in this neighbourhood in the early part of the ensuing
week. A good deal of rain has fallen within the last
few days, otherwise the sickle and scythe would already
have been in active operation.
SPEYSIDE.—The crops along the Spey, on both
sides, are rapidly advancing towards maturity ; and we
have never seen the fields present a more beautiful
prospect of an abundant harvest than they do at pre-
sent. Two weeks of warm, sunny weather would make
harvest general, with constant work. Barley will be a
superior crop, both as to quantity and quality. With
favourable weather, the wheat will also be very fine ;
it is well filled, and quite free from smut, rust, and
all other diseases incident to that grain. Oats will be a
very excellent crop. Mr. Geddes, Orbliston, has two
very fine fields of this grain almost ready for cutting.
Turnips have a healthy, luxuriant appearance, and pro-
mise an abundant crop. In fact, nothing is wanted but
calm, sunny weather, to crown the farmer's toils with
an abundant reward, and relieve the heavy pressure on
the country by the deficiency of last year's crops.
EDINSURIIII.—The weather during this week has
been very favourable for the operations of the harvest,
for though we have had some showers, they were not
such as to interrupt the work of the reaper for any time,
and we believe they have been partial in extent. Shear-
ing has been going on in various parts of the three Lo-
thians ; at East Linton, harvest will be general this
week, and the crops look extremely well there. In East
Lothian there will be fully an average crop, except the
beans, which are deficient both in straw and corn. In
the Haddington market on Friday last, a farmer from
Dunbar showed a sample of perfectly ripe and well-filled
oats, which he was offering for sale.—Caledonian Mer-
cury.

ANSTBUTHER.—Harvest commenced here on the
15th instant, with a field of about eight acres of very
fine Russian barley, imported during last winter. This
field has attracted very general notice since it appeared
above ground. It took the start of every other descrip-
tion of barley, and kept it, and is a very good crop,
about 12 bolls per acre. It belongs to Mr. Gosman,
farmer, Anstruther.

KELso.—The crops of every description look excel-
lent, and promise an abundant return. The potatoe
crop, in particular, upon which the poorer classes so
much depend, never looked better, the tubers being
large and mealy. They are now selling so low as 2d.
per cap.—Chronicle.

AmstuitE.—The harvest may be said to have been
fairly commenced, at least in particular localities of this
county. Several fields of barley have been cut down,
and in one or two instances oats have already fallen
before the sickle. The weather, alternately shower
and sunshine, is not so propitious as we could wish,
still we believe the crops are likely to exceed expec-
tation.

INVERNES3.—A considerable quantity of rain has
fallen in the north within the last three or four days.
Several fields of barley are already cut down, but the
great bulk of the harvest is, of course, yet unreaped,
and much depends on the weather at this critical period.
On the 24th curt. shearing was going forward in Bade-
noch, when a rich field of barley belonging to Mr. Allan
Macpherson, Kingussie, was cut down. Mr. Macpher-
son, post-master there, has a field in the same forward
state.

DR.. BOW RING'S MISSION TO

BERLIN.

Dr. Bowring, so distinguished as an advocate of
the principles of free trade, has been sent to Prussia
to be present at a meeting of representatives from the
principal States comprised within the German Commer-
cial League. His chief object, we understand, will be
to endeavour to effect an alteration in the mode of
levying the duty upon our manufactures, with a view to
its reduction. Goods entering the territory of the
League are subjected to duties, calculated upon the
weight, the rates of which were fixed many years ago,
when the value of British manufactures bore a much
higher proportion to their weight than at present. The
tariff is consequently now found to be prohibitory on
many articles which formerly paid a very moderate im-
port duty. The object of Dr. Bowring will be to en-
deavour to persuade the Germans to levy their duties
upon an ad valorem principle, and to reduce them to the
moderate rates originally imposed for the purpose of
revenue, and not protection.
In the mean time, however, these prohibitory duties,
upon foreign commodities have encouraged a great
increase of manufactures within the territory of the
League. Saxony in particular has become famous for
it cottons, woollens, and silks ; whilst in the immediate
vicinity of the coal and iron beds of Rhenish Prussia
a rapid extension of the manufacture of hardware has
taken place.

These manufacturing districts will now naturally resist
any reduction of the tariff. But on the other hand the
great bulk of the population of Germany are agricul-
turists. The Prussian territory bordering on the Baltic,
and those provinces formerly comprised in the king-
dom of Poland, depend wholly upon the raw produc-
tions of the soil, timber and corn forming their
staple exports. The people of Wirtemberg, Bavaria,
Baden, and of several of the smaller States of the Union
are almost exclusively agriculturists. These countries
are eager to extend their commerce with England, and
they have a preponderating voice in the councils of the
League, and can control our trade with twenty-six
millions of the richest and most industrious people of
the Continent. We have the authority of one of our
Cabinet Ministers for stating that they are as anxious
to exchange their corn, cattle, timber, &c., for British
manufactures, as we are to dispose of our cottons and
hardwares to them. Their Government and people are
equally desirous of carrying out the benefits of a reci-
procal commerce with this country.
There can be no doubt that Dr. Bowring will
be met in precisely the same manner as his predecessor
was by the intelligent and liberal statesmen of Ger-
many. " Cast out the beam that is in your own eye,
before you come here to remove the mote from ours."
Such will very naturally be the reply which our repre-
sentative will receive from the diplomatists at Berlin.
With the recent vote of our House of Commons
against even an inquiry into the injurious effects of our
Corn-law upon trade with Germany, still fresh in the
memory of the people of that country, how can it be
hoped that Dr. Bowring will accomplish the ob-
ject of his mission We look upon the attempt,
even, as something bordering on national effrontery ;
and we feel compassion for an able and honest man
who has been selected for such a hopeless and unrea-
sonable task. The chief service our representative
can render us is by explaining, as we have confidence he
will do to the Germans, that the British people are an-
xious to trade with them, but that our aristocracy, too
powerful for a time even for the Government and people
to resist, is the temporary obstacle to our intercourse
with them. There is one other service that Dr.
Bowring can effect. On his return to England he will
doubtless be prepared with a report similar to those he
published after visiting France, Switzerland, and Italy,
in which, we trust, he will lay before his countrymen,
in a popular and fearless manner, all the information he
may acquire illustrative of the injurious influence of our
Corn-laws.—Corn-law Circular.

CASE OF MR. wILLmoTr AND

MR. MONTAGUE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR,—In the report of this case before the Lord
Mayor, contained amongst the Police Intelligence in
your Journal of this day, it is stated that Mr. Rolls, the
Floor-cloth Manufacturer, having received a friendly
caution from a gentleman with regard to Mr. Willmott,
made the representation to the parties which gave rise
to the proceedings contained in your report. Now as
there are two floor-cloth manufacturers of the name of
Rolls, and I was formerly in partnership with Mrs
Josiah Rolls in the Old Kent-road, I think it right mos I
distinctly to state that the representation in question was
not made by me, that I never had the slightest connec-
tion or acquaintance whatever either with Mr. Willmott
or Mr. Montague, and that I have never been in their
company, and am not the party to whom the caution
alluded to was given.
Your insertion of this communication will oblige, Sir,
your obedient servant,
JAMES ROLLS,
Floor-cloth manufacturer, Kennington-lane
Sept. 2, 1839.

THE UNITED SERVICE JOURNAL AND NA-
VAI, AND MILITARY GAZETTE FOR SEPT.—This periodical,
the
contents of which are always of value, Possesses, this
mo nth many claims upon our notice. The science of naval
so long neglected in the service, has latterly be-
come rominent object of solicitude, and the attention
gpaufidn ar
teY
oiP: must be productive of the most beneficial results.
The article in the Magazine which examines this question
is very ably written. Lieutenant Nelson, of the Royal
Engineers, has contributed a very good view of the consti-
tution and system of education of the Prussian army, and
the Notices of the Cape of Good Hope under the govern-
ment of Sir G. Napier, by Major Charteris of the Royal
Artillery, are written in a tone of great fairness and impar-
tiality. The article on the Coast Blockade Service is
very good, and the" Memoirs of Edward Costello," already
well known to the readers of the Journal, are as full of spi-
rit and interest as ever. Nor are the " Passages in the
Life of a Sailor" less entertaining. " The Expedition to
the Quorra," and " The Account of St. Helena in 1838,"
are also well described ; and Major Tulloch's " Report on
ti,e Health of the Troops in our Colonial Possessions," is a
document of considerable value and importance The
number is altogether an excellent one.—Morning _Herald.

EVENING -EDITION.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

LLOYD'S.

DEAL, SEPT. 2.—Wind S. S. W. squally.—Arrived, the
Pasland, M'Clure, from the Mauritius; W. S. Hamilton,
Brown, Singapore ; Glenbervie, King, Sydney, New
South Wales; Enterprise, Pidgeon, Africa; Ratcliffe,
Honey, West Indies. Sailed, the British Queen, steamer,
Roberts, New York. Put back, Janet, Willis.
LIVERPOOL, SEPT. 2 —Wind S. W. fresh.—Arrived, the
Camnens, Wilson, from Nassau ; Brothers, Gordon, Pictou;
Brilliant, Jamaica ; Wasp, Archangel ; Tregartha, Se-
ville; Sphinx, Luscombe, Gibraltar. Sailed, the Balfour,
Forster, Bombay ; Conner, Huntress, Valparaiso ; Pick-
wick, Splatt, Rio Janeiro; Vesper, Black, Pernambuco.
PORTSMOUTH, SETT. 3. —Wind, S.W. to W. S.W.,
strong breezes, and squally.—Arrived the Alice, Mittimore,
from Virginia ; Merlin, Thomson, Batavia, sailed 28th of
April.

PLYMOUTH, SEPT. 1 . —Wind, S. W., strong breeze.
FALMOUTH, SEPT. I.—Wind, W. S. W., strong gales
and heavy squalls. _

DOVER, SEPT. 2.—Off port, the Pasland, Tait, Sydney,
New South Wales, sailed April 23 ; Martin, Mail, Rio
Jairiro ; Atalanta, Mohrbutter, St Croix. _ .

MARGATE, SEPT. 2.—Arrived off, Toronto, Grieswold,
from New York.

MILFORD, SEPT. 1 AND 2.—Blowing a gale, with squalls,
at S W.

CORK, AUQ. 31. Arrived the Aqua Forte, Winsor,
from Nvwfoundland.

SUNDERLAND, SEPT I.—Arrived the Thomas, Spain,
from Quebec; Hipsa, Brown, ditto.

VESSELS SPOKEN WITIL-The Lelia, of Galway, bound
to New York, 15th ult., Ist. 41, long. 42; Liverpool,
from Liverpool to Charli ston, 26th ult., lat. 48, lon. 13;
Eliza Ann, of Boston, bound westward, same day, by the
Brightman, Nickels, arrived in tie River ; Bellona,
Ji r,ey to Lakrador, and Fox, Cadiz to Newfoundland,
14th ult., lat. 46, lon 34. by the Emma; Thomas arrived
is the Ckde ; Patriot, Lisbon to Newfoundland, 4th ult.,
lat. 48, 1.,n. 50, by the Rival, MiNeill, arrived at New-
foundland ; Georgiana, London to the Cape of Good
Hope, 18th June, lat. 31 South lon, 17 East, Ro-
bert le Ehable, Sehesque, from Nantes and Brandon,
Jay, Liverpool to Valparaiso, lat. 12 N., lon. 25 W. ;
Eendr Lgt. Le Jong, Havanna to Amsterdam, 19th ult.,
lat. 49, lon. 24, by the Admiral Jan Evertsen, arrived in
the Texel • Mandarin, Batavia to Falmouth, sth June,
lat. 32 32 E; Claudius, Havre to Calcutta, 16th,
lat. 9. lon. 24 ; Asia, Havre to South Seas, 17th, lat. 10,
lon. 25 : Cassida, Boston to Monte Video, 11th ult., lat.
6, lon. 38, by the Thos. Blyth, Cowley, arrived in the River;
St. Clement, of and from Dundee, out 19 days, lat. 70,
lon. 36 E. ; Henrick, bound to Leghorn, 16th ult., lat.
68, lon. 6, by the Lapwing, Frost, arrived off Peterhead;
Keldy Castle, Smith, Quebec to Hull, 13th, lat 58, lon.
28, by the Symmetry, Allan, arrived at Sunderland ;
Mentor, of and from Hull, 13th, lat. 52, lon. 32, by the
Dorothy, Fleming, arrived in the Leith Roads; George
Canning, Wynn, London to Bombay. July 22, lat. 13 N.
lon. 26, by the Elizabeth Anthonia, Veer, arrived in the
Downs; Poland, St. Thomas to Monte Video, July 13,
lat. 8 N., long. 27, by the Mary, Imrie, arrived in the
River.