The Sun.
London, England, 1865-09-29 00:00:00

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HER MAJE S TY.

BALMORAL, Sept. 27.

The Queen went out driving yesterday morning
with Prince Louis of Hesse, and in the afternoon
her Majesty went out with Princess Helena and
Princess Louise.

Lord Napier arrived at the Castle and bad an
audience of the Queen. In the evening Lord Napier
had the honour of dining with the Queen and Royal
family.
The Marchioness of Ely has succeeded Lady
Churchill as Lady in Waiting to her Majesty.

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The Royal Family in the Highlands.

It is rumoured that the stay of the Court at Bal-
moral will be prolonged till Thursday, 3d November.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of
Wales will reside at Abergeldie till about the 23d
of next month, and then return south, probably
paying a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Box-
burghe at Floors Castle.
A few days since a rumour got abroad that the
Queen would visit the village of Fettercairn and see
the memorial arch lately erected to commemorate
the visit of her Majesty and the Prince Consort in
1861. Crowds of people repaired to the village
and remained until intelligence was brought that
the Queen would not come. By her Majesty's com-
mand a few plants were taken from the churchyard,
as she desired to see something from the place where
the prince had spent a little time on the former
occasion.

It is stated the Earl of Dalhousie and Lady
Christian Maule have received an invitation from
her Majesty to visit Balmoral Castle and spend a
couple of nights in the royal residence. It is ex-
pected that, should the weather permit, Lord Dal-
housie and Lady Christian Maule will leave Inver-
mark Lodge on Thursday, and travel by ponies
across the Glen to Balmoral, and return on
Saturday.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam-
bridge and the Princess Mary will shortly leave Bumper-
heiw, the duchess's chateau, near Frankfort, for Mecklen-
burgh, to visit their Royal Highnesses the Grand Duke
and Grand Duchess of Mecklenburgh-Strelitz.
The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland will enter-
tain a succession of visitors at Dunrobin Castle, N. 8.,
during the ensuing month. On the Ist proximo there will
be a grand muster of the volunteers.

The Duke and Duchess of Argyll are entertaining
a select party at lnverary Castle, Argyllshire.
The Duke of Montrose has arrived in town from
visiting the Earl of Powis, at Powis —Castle, Welshpool,
and Lady Emily Foley, at Stoke Edith Park, Hereford-
shire.

The Duchess (Dorager) of Sutherland left the
Duke of Devonshire's seat, biker Hall, on Wednesday for
Inverary Castle.

The Earl of Coventry, Lady Augusta Poulett,
Mr. H. W. Schneider, M.P., and Mrs. Schneider, have
arrived at Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square.

The Earl Onslow is in improving health. Not-
withstanding his great age, the venerable peer retains all
his mental faculties.

The Countess of Ellesmere and the youthful earl
have returned to Worsley Hall, Lancashire, from partici-
pating in the wedding festivities at Holker Hall.

The Bishop of London arrived at the Dread-
nought Hotel, Cal'ander, on Monday last on his way to
the Trossachs.

It is said that Lady Raglan's state of health is
such as to give occasion for great anxiety. Recent symp-
torns, however, are somewhat less unfavourable.

The Wheat Crop of 1865.

In a letter to the Times, Mr. J. B. Lawes, of Rothamsted,
Herts, says :—" The abundant wheat crops of 1863 and
1864 have been followed by a crop varying much more,
according to soil and other local circumstances, than either
of its immediate predcessors. The amounts of produce
yielded in any particular field, or any particular farm, are,
therefore, the less reliable as indications of the character of
the harvest generally. 1 think, however, that from the
results obtained in my experimental wheatfield, which has
just yielded its twenty-second crop in succession, taken
together with those obtained in fields on the same farm
which have been treated more in accordance with ordinary
practice, we may gather that on the heavier soils of the
country, if moderately well farmed, the wheat crop of 1865
will turn out to be above an average, at any rate in quan-
tity, if not in quality also." Mr. Lawes then gives a table,
showing the produce per acre and the weight per bushel of
the dressed corn, obtained on several of the differently
manured plots of the experiment field, in 1863, 1864, and
1865, and also the average produce on the same plots for
the 12 years 1852-1864 inclusive, during which time (and
in some cases for a longer period) the same description of
manure has been applied year after year to the same plot.
The land which had received no manure of any kind for
more than 22 years gave considerably less produce in 1865
than in either 1864 or 1863, and less also by more than two
bushels than the average of the last 13 years. The quality
of the grain as indicatedby the weight per bushel, although
inferior to that from the same plot in either 1864 or 1863,
was, nevertheless, much above the average of the 13 years,
the weight being nearly 41b. more. Where 14 tons of farm-
yard manure were applied every year, little more than 37
bushels of wheat were obtainedper acre in 1865, against 40
bushels in 1864, and 44 bushels in 1863. Still, the produce
with the farmyard manure was higher in 1865 than the ave-
rage of the previous 13 years, which amounted to less than
36 bushels. The produce by the different, artificial ma-
nures was, in 1865, from five to seven buShels loss than
in 1864, and from 11 to 13 bushels less than in 1863; but,
on the other hand, it was from three to eight bushels more
than the average of the preceding 13 years. " Thus," con-
tinues Mr. Lawes, " though with each of the very diffe-
rent conditions of manuring, the produce of 1864 was ma-
terially less than that of 1865, and in a still greater degree
less than that of 1863, it was at the same time in every
case (excepting where entirely unmanured) notably higher
than the average of the preceding 13 years. The weight
per bushel of the dressed corn was also in every case
higher in 1865 than the average of the 13 years, though
lower than in 1864 or in 1863. Turning from these re-
sults to those obtained under the ordinary management of
the farm, it will be sufficient to state that the produce in
four separate fields was, respectively, 38, 48, 48, 51 bushels
of wheat per acre, amounts which represent a considerably
higher yield than the average of the farm over a series Of
years. There can, indeed, be no doubt, that on mail
light soils the wheat.crop of the season just passed suf-
fered both from the frosts of the winter, and from the heat
and. draught of the summer, and that the better crops of
the heavier lands have in many cases suffered, at any ram
in quality and condition, from the unsettled harvest wea-
ther. At the same time, lam disposed to think that the
wheat crop of 1865 will turn out to be, in the aggregate'
little if any below an average one. And if we would find
a period of successive seasons comparable in abundance
with that of 1863, 1864, and 1865, we must go back fey
about 30 years, when the fairly abundant harvests of 1833
and 1833, the splendid crap of 1834, and the again abun-
dant one of 1835, brought down the price of wheat by the
end of the last-mentioned year to 365. per quarter, not-
withstanding the high protective duty then ruling."

THE MURDER OF MAJOR DE VERE.—It appears
to be now pretty well understood that the execution
of the prisoner John Currie, for the murder of Major De
Vere, will take place at the gaol at Maidstone, as usual,
and that he will not, as was originally expected, undergo
his sentence at Chatham in the presence of the troops.
The War Office authorities, by whom the prosecution was
conducted, it appears, were very anxious that the execution
should have taken place at Chatham, as it was thought
that it would have operated as an example to the military
stationed there, and some communications took place be-
twoen the War Office and the agents for the High Sheriff
of Kent, Messrs. Palmer and Co., upon the subject. Mr.
lodger, the High Sheriff, was anxious to lend all the assist-
ance in his power to carry out the wishes of the authorities,
but it would seem that there were difficulties in the vial
of doing so. The prisoner was not tried under what is
known as Palmer's Act, but under another act of Parlia-
ment, passed a few years ago, which is a sort of addition to
the Mutiny Act, and which confers a power to take steps,
where it may be considered necessary, to have a soldier
charged with any offence more speedily brought to justice,
and some doubts appeared to be entertained whether, un-
der this Act of Parliament, the sentence could be carried
out anywhere else than at the usual place of execution for
the county.. In addition to this it is understood that there
would have been very considerable difficulties in the wet
of carrying out the sentence in the barrack yard at Chat-
ham, and therefore it was considered advisable that there
should be no interference with the ordinary course of pro-
ceeding, and the execution will take place at 1J adot stone,
in front of the gaol, on Thursday, the 12th of ctoher
The wretched culprit, who is only 19 years of age ears
The app
to be quite resigned to his fate.
CONSTANCE KENT.--W e can state upon autho-
rity that Sir George Grey, Bart., the Home Secreth;
tary of State, has sent an order to the governor of
ee
prison at Salisbury for the removal of Emilie Constance
Kent, under sentence of penal servitude for life, to
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Millbank prisou, London, to which prison she will De
moved as soon as P005iblO•