The Sun.
London, England, 1865-08-28 00:00:00

NORTH NOTTINGIIAMSHIRE AND SOUTII

YORKSHIRE.

All the white corn has been garnered on the light soils
in North Nottinghamshire, and all the largo farmers to
the west of Retford have all but finished their harvest.
The yield varies considerably, and although beneath the
average of the last two years, it is proving better than
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also on the manly and black soils. On the alluvial soils the
sunny weather. Barleys have generally been secured in
excellent condition, and will prove of good quality for
and are in much greater yield than many of the growers
had expected, and they are at present entirely free from
disease. Turnips have made considerable improvement,
owing to the late rains, but these cannot be a heavy
crop this year. The bean crop is not a heavy one. The
pastures and aftermaths aro completely resuscitated, and
they have not looked better for many years than they
do at present. In South Yorkshire the probable yield of
wheat varies in many localities. On the south side of Don-
caster wheat and barley is indifferent on the sand lands,
while on the wide district west of the town the straw is
short, but the straw is crowned with a good ear, and the
yield may be pronounced an average one. Barley is indiffe-
rent in many places. Oats are below an average. The late
rains have greatly retarded, but have been of vast benefit
to root crops and to eddish and pasture lands.

THE NORTH OF IRELAND.
(From the Belfast Whig.)
The past week has been showery and sometimes cold,
but not without frequent gleams of sunshine, and for
the most part conducive to the growth and ripening of
both cereals and green crops in places where they
have not yet arrived at maturity. But dry weather
would now be more advantageous, so as to admit of
harvesting operations being pursued with due vigour. The
cutting of grain is proceeding as well as the weather will
allow, and a great deal of oats and wheat have come under
the sickle and reaping machine. The reports as to the
quantity and quality of cereals are very similar to those of
last week. Oats will be short in the straw, but of an ave-
rage yield ; while the crop of wheat, though little has been
sown, will be larger than usual. Turnips and other green
crops are exhibiting a remarkable degree of vigour under
the influence of the present rainy weather, and are shoot-
ing up wonderfully. The quality will also be good, but,
in the most favourable view, they cannot be expected to
produce a really good crop. The seed was generally late in
being sown, and all that was not put into the ground early
will be a short yield. The flax is undergoing the steeping
and grassing, although in some favoured localities it has
passed through all its stages, and been sent to market. The
yield is still reported light ; but the quality is said to be
better than for many years, so that it is not unreasonably
assumed that the remunerator of the; grower will be about
tho same as last year, when the yield wa,° greater, but the
quality not so good. The rains are benefiting the meadows,
but there are complaints that they will still be Resit. Front
one place in the county of Down we hear of the potato dis-
ease having made its appearance, and affected three-fourths
of the crop on one farm. In 01 other directions the crop
is stated to be of the most excellent description, both as to
quantity and quality. A large breadth of land was sown
with potatoes this season, so that any extensive blight
would be most disastrous to the agricultural community
who have risked so largely on the fortunes of their old but
fickle friend.

•A. FOREMAN KILLED ON A RAILWAY,—On Friday
morning, as the train from Holyhead due at Chester
at 8.30 a.m. was nearing Sandicroft, Manchester, a mart
named John Thomas, foreman of a gang of platelayers,
who was working upon the line, neglected to step off the
four-foot until the engine was close upon him, and was
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consequently caught by the buffer, which struck him in
the side, hurling him against the embankment, and killing
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of Sciences. A number of bronze and stone implements
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brought from Naples, if not further. The principal articles
found, beginning with the most perfect, aro arrow heads of
a long triangular shape, recallingthose which have already
been found in Greece and Italy; knives, similar to those
found by MM. Lartet and Christy, in the caves of Aurignac,
kc. ; scrapers, also similar to those found by MM. Lartet
and Christy, and resembling those now used by the Esqui-
maul ; adzes, of the same shape as those found by M.
Boucher de Perthes, but smaller ; nuclei, reminding one of
the pains de beurre of Pressigny, and also other objects of
indeterminate form. The discovery of remnants of the
Bronze Age in this island explains a passage of Aristotle
hitherto obscure, in which he remarks that in Elba bronze
was worked before iron.—The Reader.