The Sun.
London, England, 1837-09-25 00:00:00

THE HA R r,s

We have just seen a contiderable agriculturist from
Scotland, who reports most favourably of the crops and the
state of the harvest, 00. ts and Barley, he thinks, if not
actually so low as of crop 1835, may be•nearly sa (see our
account of Oats at Haddington market on Friday last), and
although Wheat may, perhaps, not be so low as them iu
proportion, tie says it will be much under the present price ;
and at Haddington, on Friday, the average of New Wheat
was only 21. 9s. Potatoes every where, he reports, a most
abundant crop, nnd the prices of them will be ver) low.
Peas and Beans, he does not speak to with the same
certainty.

For some days past we have enjoyed warm and pleasant
weather. Tha harvest is now far advanced, and the demand
for sl.eirers has greey diminished. In our im►uediate
n ighbourhood the crops are nearly all in, and in excellent
con:Rion. We understand, however, that in some of the
high and late districts, harvest is likely to be protracted till
the beginning of October.—Scotsr►tan.
From a friend who has just traversed the rale of Clyde,
we learn that in that district, far-famed for its fruit, while
Apples are plentiful, pears and plums arc very defi•zient, the
latter being ► e trly a tdtal flilure. In the coarse of ten
days or a fortnight, should the weather be tln-, the grain
crops, which are in general excellent, w;:a be all in the
barn-yard, being considerably earlier th^;,t last year. There
is an abundant crop of potatoes of fine quality.—Catedo-
nian Mercury.
The harvest is proceedin7, most favourably. A great
part of the outstand►ng craft will he secured this week, the
weather being at pre' ant most favourable to agricultural
operations.—Carlisle Journal.

COLONEL' GORE L. NGTON.—A Reform dinner
was giv,en at the Townhall in Glastonbury, last Wednes-
-0.:.y, to the veteran Colonel, who (we see by the report of
the County Somerset Gazette) was conducted into the town
by a long procession of electors, anxious to testify their
grateful sense of the Gallant Colonel's merits.

NEW WORKS OF FICTION PUBLISIIED TIIIS
DAY.—The following new Works of Fiction, by distin-
p;uished writers, are published this day by Mr. Bentley, 8,
New Burlington-street :—l. " The Old Commodore," by
the author of " Rattlin the Reefer," &c. ;3 v015._2.., The
Vicar of Wrexhill," by Mrs. Trollope, author of "
Da-
rnestic Manners of the Americans," " Jonathan Jefferson
Whitlow," &c. ; 3 vols., with numerous illustrations by
Ilervicu.-3. Mr. Irving's new romance " The Hunters
of the Prairie ; or the Hawk Chief ;" 2 vols., 18s.-4.
" Kindness in Women," by 'l'. Haynes Bayly, Esq. ; 3
vols.-L-5. " The Bivouac ; or Stories of the Peninsular
War," by W. H. Maxwell, Esq., author of " Storks of
Waterloo," " My Life," &c. ; 3 vols.-6. A second edition,
with numerous characteristic illustrations, of Mr. Theo-
dore Hook's new novel "Jack Brag ;" 3 vols.-7. A se-
cond edition of " Crichton," by the author of " Rookwood,"
&C. ; 3 vols.

Louisa, the daughter of Mr. Court, of the Block-
house, aged about 20, committed suicide on Wednesday, by
throWing herself into the NVorcester Canal, near Gregory's
Mills. The poor girl had conceived a deep affection for a
young man who did not return her love, in consequence of
which she had been in a very depressed state.—Worcester
Journal.

We have frequently heard of toads being found
alive embedded in solid stone, where they might have do-
miciled in a dormant state (for aught we know) from the
time of the flood. The fact we are about to record is
scarcely less remarkable. About a fortnight ago, while a
F workman was employed in digging the inundation of the
wall on the property of Mr. Swainson, of Cooper Hill,
close to the river under Walton Church, he found a large
toad in a solid bed of marl six feet below the surface of the
soil. It was domiciled in a hole the size of itself, and was
or so large a size that those who saw it considered that it
was about a pound in weight. The workman accidentally
cut it in two with his spade ; but though thus fatally dis-
turbed from its long repose, it exhibited for some time evi-
dent symptoms of vitality.—Preston Chronicle.
ex-Secretary to the Admiralty has been travel-
Eng "from Dan. to Beersheba and back again." to gather
materials for his text political tirade, tb be inserted in a cer-
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WATER FOR TIIE METROPOLIS.--1112re are
ia London eight public Companies, namely, the New
River, which supplies 73,212 houses with an average daily
quantity. of .9.41 gallons, at an annual charge of 1/. 6s. 6d.
per Imktse the East London, 46,421 houses, with 120
;talons, at 1/. 2s. 93. ; the Lambe,th, 16,682 houses, with
124 gallons, at 175.; tlte West Middlesex, 16,000 houses,
with 185 gallons, at 01. 16s. 10d. ; the Chelsea, 13,891
ltra,avio, with 165 gallons, at 11. 13s. 3d. ; the South Lon-
don, 12,046 houses, with 100 gallons, at 155.; the Grand
Junction, 11,140 houses, with 350 gallons, at 21. Bs. 6d. ;
and the Southwark, 7,100 houses, with 156 gallons, at
1/. is. ad, For annum.
The Vivid steamer, which had left Newcastle with
p ,rty of gentlemen on Wednesday morning for Sunder-
land races, ran on the Shields Bar about five o'clock in the
pkvoing. She hoisted a signal of distress, her machinery
having broken down on her return homa. The South
life. boat went a to he: assistance, and, notwith-
six,di.g the v,,A was running very high on the bar, suc-
ceeded in rescuing the crew Clad passengers,—Sunderland
gerad.