The Sun.
London, England, 1839-09-03 00:00:00

N. B.—Th,
Fighting, &e,
27th of August, 1839.

above are exclusive of Disorderly Conduct,

THE HARVEST.

The latest intelligence supplied by the provincial pa-
pers on the condition of the crops and the progress of
the harvest: is, on the whole, favourable. The all-im-
portant question, however, of quality and quantity, of
course, remains undecided, and whether the present
harvest will turn out well is a matter of much uncer-
tainty. The general character of the reports may be
gathered from the following notices :
Sunshine and shower alternately have filled up almost
every hour of four out of the seven days since our last,
and altogether tl.e complexion of the weather has been
most April-like ; and yet a great progress has been
Inade in harvest work. From all parts of the coun-
try we have accounts of cutting and hauling of grain,
and, from what we can learn, both in quantity and
quality, the crops are turning out very satisfactory.—
Worcester Herald.

Luckily for the farmers of South Wilts, a few fine
days in the preceding week, and one or two in the
early part of that which is drawing to a close, were most
auspicious for their work, and well employed in getting
in their wheat crops, which may now be considered as
toleeably secured. Though the straw is abundant and
fine, we regret to state that the grain is not of the qua.
lay upon which, but for the ungenial frosts in May, they
might have calculated. The ear is but too generally
,hrivelled, and the grain consequently defective. But
For the rains of the last three days, it was hoped that
mother fortnight would have completed the harvest-
work, with full crops of barley and oats. But now it
appears almost impossible to speculate with any safety
on the result.—Wiltshire Herald.

The harvest is rapidly progressing in this neighbour-
hood. Owing to the favourable state of the weather
during the past week, considerable quantities of wheat
and other grain have been housed in the best condition,
and if the dry weather should continue for ten days or
a fortnight, the harvest here would be brought to a
close under most favourable circumstances.—Leicester-
shire Mercury.

The reaping-hook seems to be pretty generally in
use now that the weather has become a little more
settled, and fields presenting stocks of corn, are studded
pretty thickly throughout the country. We regret to
state that much has been materially damaged from the
iate rains and windy weather, having been laid very
:much in exposed situations, and owing to the long con-
iinuance of the wet weather, has not been able to rear
its head above ground again..—Cambrian.
The weather is now everything that could be desired,
and the crops are now fast advancing to a state of ma-
turity. Several spots of barley have been cut down
'round us, and a few days must bring a general har-
vest. The prospect of a good crop is excellent. Al-
i hough some smart showers have fallen this week they
lave caused no apparent injury.—Berwick Advertiser.
The hay harvest may be stud to be finished in the
vicinity of Lancaster. In Hornby, Wray, Beecham,
Tatham, and Mewith, there is still a little remains to
he got in, but the greater part is housed, and that in
pretty fair condition. The crop, however, falls below
he average of former years. In the mountainous dis
filets about Ingleton, Seiside, Horton, Settle, and Clap-
;lam, the hay harvest is much more forward than could
iave been expected, and the crop has been a good one.
The crops of grain iu many places have been laid or
beaten down by the rain and wind ; and unless very fin
weather conies, we fear they will sustain considerable
damage. In the vicinity of Lancaster some barley and
oats have been cut, hut higher up the vale of Lune
they are very backward and green.—Kendal Mercury.

IRELAND.
The weather in the neighbourhood of Dublin has
been fair and favourable, and the accounts from the
country are, for the most part, satisfactory.
The harvest, however, is a late one. On yesterday
Friday) twelve months—there were 600 barrels of
ew Wheat offered for sale at the Corn Exchange,
Dublin. Yesterday there were about twenty. The
Wheat, in Ireland, at least, will unquestionably be
4hort. It has been injured by the frost, and suffered
severely by the subsequent rains. In some places it has
been prostrated—in many it has been knee'd, that is,
bent from a joint of the plant, so as to impede the cir-
culation of the vegetable. juice. We speak of the Home
Counties principally. We hope and trust• they have
fared better in the remoter districts. From the latter
we certainly have heard no complaints on this score.
The reports of the Oats and Potatoes are most fa-
vourable.

If—" there's great virtue in if—the Wheat crop
in England turns out comparatively as deficient as we
apprehend it will prove in Ireland—there must be a
further importation from the Continent of Europe, or
from the United States. We rather think that specu-
lation in Foreign Grain has commenced already. We
have heard that certain British capitalists are buying
pretty freely—and storing their purchases in warehouses
in the North of Germany, and even on the coast of
France. The harvest in Poland is said to be exceed-
ingly short. In France and the Netherlands it is above
an average—but we have not as yet sufficient data to
judge of the amount generally. We should say, how-
ever, from what we have read on the subject, that the
Continenta'. Wheat will be dearer next year.—Dublin
Evening Post.

TRICKS OP HORSEDEALERS.—For this pur•
pose I will suppose a horse brought out for inspection that
-a a little lame before ; the factotum brings him out well-
gingered, and probably after having administered three or
four sharp cuts to his belly or legs—places where wheals
do not readily show themselves—the animal rushes out of
the stable, his tail on end, his nostrils dilated, and looking
altogether exceedingly plucky--abas extremely frightened.
He is led to rising ground, where he appears higher than
he really is, as his fore-legs are raised above the spot
whence you examine him. You proceed to inspect him,
and when you are about to feel the doubtful leg, a sly
wave of the whip— which the poor brute is all along ex-
pecting to be applied to him—produces a caper, which
probably induces you to get out of the way of being trod.
den on ; and this manoeuvre is constantly resorted to
whenever you wish to pass your hand down the game leg.
At length. when you get rather tired of this, the word is
given, " Run on, Tom." Crack goes the whip, the bat
is taken off, and a rattling noise is made by beating it with
the fig.. away goes the horse, prancing, capering, and
cantering up the yard and back again, his head well sup_
ported by a tight-held bit, and his shoulder by that of the
man who leads him. " I want to see him trot, Mr. So-
and- So; he seems to do nothing but canter." The dealer
well knows the lameness will be seen at this pace. " Wby
don't you let the horse trot, Tom ?—the gen'leman wants
to see him trot" (crack—crack—rattle—rattle.) Upon
this ensues a second edition of the capering and cantering.
" Beautiful trotter, Sir, 'pon my word—but he won't set-
tle into a trot here, Sir ; did fourteen miles within the
hour no longer ago than yesterday, with his knee up to his
chin.—That'll do, Tom, go in.—" Stop, stop, I want to
see a little more of him." "Go in, Tom, go in :
you give for him, Sir? He's worth a hundred—he is in.
deed. I refused a deal of money for him last week, but
I must go down to fair the day after to-morrow, and so
I'm determined to sell off what I've got." Supposing he
finds you peremptory in adhering to your first offer, be
comes
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witches."
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NEW MEAL.—Ott Wednesday last, Mr. John
Webster, Bowlroad, 'Farces, brought into town a small
tqhuea nutaitnyi
name
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,wLa oatmeal,nasr millede
lent , and if the stock be like the sample, there will be no
cause. for complaint this season, either of' quantity or
qnal ity. --Aberdeen Herald.
FATAL MISTAKE..—A most melancholy case
has lately happened at Threeways in the parish of St.
Breock, which has been attended with fatal consequences
to three persons. On Monday, the 191 h instant, an old
man named John Julian, gathered, as be thought, some
mushrooms, which he had fried for dinner ; but they proved
to be a species of fungus, commonly known by the name
of toad stools." The old man, his wife, and grandson
partook of them, and about twelve hours after they were
all taken violently ill. In spite of every effort, death put
an end to the sufferings of the little boy on Wednesday
evening ; the old woman died on Thursday, and the old
manman's sons, Sunday morning, when he also expired.
One lingeredof theold who lived under the same roof,
came home rather late to dinner, and partook of a small
quantity of the poison ; but although ha has suffered
severely, he is now doing well. A verdict of " Died in
consequence of eating fungus in mistake for mushrooms, '
was returned by the jury at the Coroner's inquest.— West
_Briton. the

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BIRTHS.
On the 31st ult., at Kegt the lady of Benjamin NI
hams, Esq., of the Madras Medical SrJrvice, of a son.
On the Ist inst., at Norwood, .Surrey, the wife of Lea Nil-
On
Esq., of a daughter.
William On the 2d inst„ at Groat James-street, Bedford-row, 3)"'
Tredway Clar',c, of a daughter.
On the 2d inst., in Lower Bedford-plate, Mrs. John Bethel,
of a daughter,

MARRIED.
On the 27th ult., at High Wycombe, William Rose, Esq"
jun., to Anne Susanna Shrimpton, youngest daughter of John
Carter, Esq., of that place.
On the 28th ult., at the house of her Britannic Majef,ty's
Minister Plenipotentiary to the Diet at Frankfort, the 'Hon'
Mary Stuart, third daughter of General the Lord Fo'rbes, to
Charles Benjamin Lee, Esq., of the Abbey, KnP,rer;borough,
Yorkshire; and at the same time, the Hon. Isabela Drummond,
fifth daughter of Lord Forbes, to the Baron Ernest de peanitz,
Capitaine et Gentilhomme d'Honneur a la roar du Due Beg-
nant de Saxe Coburg.

DIED.
On the Ist of July, at Bombay, of spasmodic cholera, Georre,.
Rousseau, Esq., Examiner in equity in the Supreme Cour. or
Judicatui c, abed 36.

On the 26th ult., Aruirew. eldest surviving son of Sir. Archi-
bald Christie, of Stirling Castle, Noi th Britain, aged 27.
On the 27th ult., Ali-. Theophilus Seymour, of Lower Ken-
nington-lane, aged 16.

On the 2t9th alt., James Wilson, Esq.,
of Hi ghbur terrace,
aged .53. y-
On the 31st ult., at the residence of Viscount Sichnontbr ;
Richmond-park, Ursula Henrietta, the infant daughter of T..
Barker Wall, Esq., and the Hon. Mrs. Barker Wall, aged 4
mon hs.
On the Ist inst., Mr. John Doughney, of St. J••:nn's' I
Hersel3 down, solicitcr. aged 42.

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