The Sun.
London, England, 1839-10-01 00:00:00

Our weekly report of the corn harvest is now nearly
closed. Since our last publication, we have had several
days of fine weather, which enabled the housing of the
barley, which had long been lying out, though there can
be no doubt but that a very large quantity is much in-
jured. That portion too which was uncut has been
mown, and except where it was laid by the rain, and
had "spurted ?" we fear the greater part of it
had done) has been gathered in tolerable condition.
The hop-picking is progressing. fast ; we hear that the
frosts of Monday and Tuesday nights were partially in-
jurious. The quality will fall far short of the late anti-
cipations. From the high-land districts of South
Waies we have received most gloomy accounts of the
corn harvest ; a large, a very large portion of the grain
will be no better worth than the uses of litter and ma-
❑are.—Herefurd Times.
With the exception of a few hours' rain on Tuesday
night, and a shower on Thursday, we have had, since
our last, very delightful and cheering weather, and great
progress has been made with saving the remains of the
harvest in the North of England and in Scotland likewise.
In all places—even amid the mountain recesses of
the North, and on the cold clay lands—the grain
is fit for the sickle ; and we are warranted in .-aging
(to use a country phrase), that " the neck of the
harvest is broken" even in the latest districts. We
are sorry to add, however, that there are to be seen,
here and there, instances of gross individual neglect,
on the part of the growers of grain. Same men are
infatuated. However adverse the season, however the
period of the year may he advanced, there are persons
!o be found who act as if they thought that when once
the sun shines there can he no moie bad weefier, ant!
they leave their corn upon the ground long after they
raigiit have placed it out of harm's way by only ordi-
nary exertion. Much that is left undone is the effect
of negligence ; but in some cases of backwardness the
fact may he, and probably is, that the farmer cannot

afford to go heyond:hisown-establi.lunent for assistance.
With regard to the crop, all the authentic accounts
we receive lead us to the conclusion we came to last
week, namely, that the produce will fall below an
average, and that the quality is defective to a large
extent.—Lceds Intelligeneer.
The weather during the past week has been on the
whole fivourable to the farmer. There have
been frequent showers, but they were so slight as not
to interfere, except to a very small extent, with the
harvesting operations. Sunday and Monday were clear
and warm ; but too calm and close to dry the grain
soaked by the former rains. On Wednesday there
was a tine drying breeze, and the leading and stacking
proceeded with great vigour. We should think that
more than two-thirds of the grain in this district has
been cut: down, and one-half housed.—.l3crtvick Ad-
vertiser.

SCOTLAND.

Much rain has fallen in the course of the last eight
days ; and harvest operations have been greatly inter-
rupted. There have been frequent intervals of sun-
shine between the dashes of rain ; but the temperature
has been so mild that a good deal of the barley in stook
is sprouted, and will be very much discoloured. In this
and the neighbouring county of Kincardine, there is more
than a half of the grain crops cut ; while the stack-
yards are nearly all empty. The greatest anxiety pre-
vails everywhere for the safety of the crops, which are
so much battered down and twi3ted that the process
of harvesting will be tedious and expensive. The tem-
perature Las been colder since Wednesday evening,
and the wind several points farther to the west : these at
this season are considered favourable omens of the wea-
ther. Yesterday was a busy day in the fields—the
sun appearing in splendour, with a smart breeze from
the west, which would tend to check vegetation, and
allow much corn to be reaped in good order.—Mon-
trose Review.

The weather in this district has been, since our last,
on the whole, favourable for harvest operations. With
the exception of some occasional showers, we have ex-
perienced settled weather, with sunshine and wind,
which have tended to dry the corn, which, alter being
reaped, had been partially injured by the rains that
fell. During the week a considerable quantity of corn
has been safely lodged in the barn-yards ; and we now
hope that the weather will continue propitious, and
enable the agriculturist to reap and house the remain-
ing produce of the earth. Much will depend on the
weather during the next month, especially in the upland
districts of the country.—Kelso Chroniefe.
The weather has been very changeable this week,
but, upon the whole, favourable for the harvest. The
state of the crops is, however, very precarious, and
much anxiety prevails throughout the country, the sea-
son being now so late. We have received some addi-
tional accounts of the damage done by the flood on
Sunday week ; they are not of any importance.—Aber-
deen Herald.

The weather, since our last, though not so favour-
able as could be wished, has been much more so than
during the preceding week. The favourable intervals
have been turned to good account, and a great addi-
tional breadth has been reaped. In some cases a few
stacks of wheat have been put in, but not in so good
a condition as to remove all fears of safety. The quan-
tity carried is, however, trifling, as most of our farmers
seem to be acting on the principle, " Better to spoil
out than spoil in." The demand for reapers at the
Cross yesterday was considerably diminished, indicating
that the cutting in this district is pretty well advanced.
In the higher parts of the county, however, compara-
tively little has been done.—Paisley Advertiser.

WALES.

We are exceedingly glad to hear from a correspond-
ent, on whose information we can rely, that the wheat
in the Vale of this county has been got in in excellent
condition. " Some farmers," he says, " have had the
precaution to helm their wheat immediately on being
cut, and by that means have secured it against all da-
mage." It is very much to be regretted that the practice
has not been more general in this unprecedented season
of wet, as it would have been a means of securing in
good condition an immense quantity of grain that has
been much damaged.—Cambrian,
The state of the crops is every where most deplor-
able ; cut and uncut are both beginning to sprout ; the
barley that is cut lies in pools of water, whilst what is
standing is beginning to shed. The farmers are quite
puzzled bow to act. It is to be hoped that the weather
will soon change for the better.—Merthyr Guardian.
Although the weather has been very unfavourable to
the crops of grain cut, we are happy to state that a
tgoodhorerstdeal
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barley
and wheat has been housed in good
condition, inbu
some parts of Breconshire. In the neigh-
imamc he idni mwre
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sold for 8
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by the of
portable ei gh t eighty
threshingbushels
eately Thomas Jones, of Crickhowell, was
m
s. per ten gallon bushel.—Silurian.

IRELAND.
Heavy gales from the South-West and West, accom-
panied with tremendous showers of sleet and rain, have,

The Globe of last evening, after asserting that the
present Government has effected to the country a sav-
ing of 30,000/. a-year in the Exchequer department,
concludes with the following observations on the retir-
ing pension of Sir John Newport :—" The office of
Comptroller of the Exchequer is no sinecure, as the Act
of Parliament which created the office and defines its
duties will satisfy any one who reads it. This Act was
brought in by Sir Jas. Graham during Lord Grey's Ad-
minstration, and has simplified and economised the finan-
cial departments of Government to a very satisfac-
tory extent. These duties were performed by Sir
John Newport with punctuality and fidelity, as the
records of the office amply testify. It is competent
for any Member of Parliament to move for a re-
turn of the Venerable Baronet's attendance at his
office, e hen the question will be set at rest. The infir-
mities attendant on a life which Providence has pro-
tracted to upwards of fourscore, rendered retirement from
office not merely desirable to himself, but necessary to
the public service. Sir J. Newport's public life has closed.
The services he has rendered to his country are rewarded
with a retiring pension of one thousand pounds ! Let
this pension b contrasted with those the Tories were
wont to confer—with the reversions and remainders
they entailed on the country—let the men on whom
they conferred these immense advantages at the
country's expense, and the services for which they
were granted, be placed in juxta-position with Sir
John Newport, and the pension for the remainder of
a life which, in the ordinary course of human existence,
must, we regret to know, be now drawing near its close
—and then let it be asked whether there is not as
great a lack of discretion as of decency in the Times
provoking a discussion which forces upon the public
the recollection of the way in which the Tories were
want to distribute the public money Y'
The Courier has no article of any political character
this evening.
The Standard remarks as follows upon the very just
censure of the party diatribe delivered a few days ago
by the Recorder of London, by one of our Liberal Con-
temporaries :—" One of those chattering oracles who do
the dirty jobs of Whig-Radical Common Councilmen,
has, in his aldermanic capacity, it seems, taken the Re.
corder to task for the very proper and pertinent remarks
in which he indulged in an address to the jury of the
Central Criminal Court a few days ago. It
was correctly observed by the Recorder, that
nothing is so distressing or annoying to such
gentlemen as Mr. White, than that Judges should
I act independently of their opinions.' To which
Mr. White modestly and decently retorted,
that the Judges were formerly slaves of the Court, and
now appear to he slaves of a faction.' If there be any
class of public functionaries whose reputation for the
diligent and conscientious discharge of their duty is de-
servedly
greater than another, it is the judicial bench.
This fact is so universally admitted, indeed, as to have
become proverbial ; and a wholesale libel upon its
honour and impartiality can, therefore, excite no stronger
feeling than contempt, It is fortunate for the country
that these eminent men are as entirely independent as
they arc of either the smiles of the Court or the favour of
its adviscrs. Were this important safeguard removed, the
boasted liberty of an Englishman would exist only in name.
The judicial bench h,is had a nohie example set it in
the unflinching independence of its Chief, how
thoroughly an English Judge, acting from his own
settled conviction of right. can make himself in-
ikpendent even of that Parliament with the cow e-
quenees of whose di :;pleasure the Morning Chronicle
has the surpassing folly to threaten the Recorder of
London. With such a leader, the Judges of the
land will never allow themselves to be bullied
into any course inconsistent with their duty, be the
penalty of their firmness what it may ; and so exalted 1
is the confidence which is pieced by the people of
England in their vigilance, honour, and impartiality,
that any unconstitutional attempt on the part either of
Ministers or Parliament to degrade or insult them, be-
cause they cannot be converted to their uses, would be ,
indignantly resisted by the whole country."

THE CENTENARY FUND.—The general trea-
surer states that he has received 103,0401. 2s. 2d. in
actual money. The Committee have adopted the pro.
position to divide the amount already paid up among
the various objects of the fund, to the amount of one-
half the sums originally appropriated, according to tha
following scale :—For the purposes of the Theological
Institution, 27,000/. ; for the Wesleyan Centenary
buildings, and to the Wesleyan Missionary Society,
25,0001. ; for the relief of distressed chapels, 18,5001. ;
for the better support of worn-out preachers and their
widows, 8,1001. ; towards the erection of a Centenary
monumental chapel in Dublin, 2,5001. ; to the Wes-
cyan Education Committee, 2,5001.

AN INDIANIAN ON FIRE IN THE WEST IN-
DIA DOCKS.—Loss OF LlFE.—Yesterday morning,
between the hours of two and three, a fire broke out
in the West India Docks at 131nel:wall, on board the
Duke of Ciarence, a fine-built Indianrin, Captain Hall,
master, (unloaded), and lying in the Export Basin, on
the north side opposite No. 3 Warehouse. The fire
was discovered by a watchman of the Docks, who in
passing along the quay observed smoke overhanging the
vessel, and suspecting it to be a fire, gave the alarm to
the guard house. Before any one boarded the vessel
the flames burst forth from the cabins under the poop,
and raged with such violence as to threaten her utter
destruction. The only person on board was a poor
labouring man, who in the absence of the master
and crew had charge of the vessel. He was
known to be in the ship by the watchman, who,
on discovering the fire called out and searched,
but could not find him. This circumstance led to the
supposition that he had perished, which unfortunately
proved to be true. The engines belonging to the Dock
Company were immediately conveyed to the spot and
got into operation ; but upwards of half an hour elapsed
before the flames were extinguished. The firemen and
dock people then entered the cabin, and made search
for the keeper of the vessel, and had not proceeded far
before he was discovered, burnt almost to a cinder. It
is supposed that the unfortunate man had left a candle
burning, after retiring to bed, which fell over and set fire
to the timbers. The damage done is confined to the
poop, which is partially destroyed. The owners, Messrs.
Fletcher and Co., of Limehouse, are insured. In the
course of yesterday the remains of the keeper (whose
name could not be ascertained) were conveyed from the
docks to await the inquest, which is appointed for to-
morrow.

THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.-The follow-
ing anecdote of the Duke of Wellington, not generally
known, and never before published, cannot but be ac-
ceptable to the reader. It exhibits in a strong light
the indefatigable perseverance and foresight of the Duke,
and especially exonerates his Grace from the charge
raised against him by many writers, of allowing him-
self to be surprised by Buonaparte while amusing him-
self at a ball at Brussels at the time referred to :—At
a dinner a short time since the Duke was asked—
" Has your Grace seen the pamphlet published in
America, by Gen. Grouchy, in answer to Gen. Foy's
attack on him respecting the manceuvres on the days
previous to the battle of Waterloo." " I have," an-
swered the Duke, " and Grouchy has the best of it.
He could not move without orders, and orders he cer-
tainly did not receive : as to his manmuvres, I know
all about them ; I was a witness to them." " You
exclaimed one of the party ; " every one thought your
Grace was in Brussels." " I know they did, but they
were wrong, for on the evening in question, I and Gor-
don (who was killed at Waterloo) left Brussels, took a
squadron of horse as escort, no one knowing us, and
joined the Prussian head quarters. I passed the
whole of that night in conference with Blucher, Bulow,
D'York, and blest. In the morning I observed to
Bulow, If I bad an English army in the position in
which yours now is, I should expect to be most con-
foundedly thrashed. The attack of Grouchy soon
after commenced, and the Prussians were defeated. I
waited long enough to see that event, and I then thought
it time to be off, and on the 17th Buonaparte made that
! monstrous movement on my flank, which was the com-
mencement of the battle of Waterloo."—Dover Chron.
RAMSGATE.--On a pump which has for a long
time supplied a large portion of the town with water is
the following announcement :—" Notice--This pump
will J locked on Sunday between the hours of ten and
ono o'clock, and between half-past two and five. By
order of the Commissioners of Pavements."