The Sun.
London, England, 1865-09-08 00:00:00

The Harvest in Scotland,

DENNY.—Since the beginning of the present week, as
during the closing days of the last, the weather has been
on the whole favourable for harvest operations. Com-
paratively little now remains to be reaped, but a consi-
derable breadth is still in stock. Both autumn and
spring sown wheats are a good crop, and the quality of
the grain will be pretty fair, while the produce of straw
will be fully an average. This remark applies both to
dry-field and carse wheats. The anticipation that barley
and oats would be deficient in grain and straw has been
verified on most of the farms on the lower part of the
district. In the higher districts, where the chief cereal
grown is oats, the weather for the last few days has
' been favourable for filling, and where the crop has not
been injured by the frost the yield will be pretty fair.
Potatoes are turning out well, and no disease has yet been
reported. At the sales which have taken place in the dis-
trict, they have fetched from 5s to 6s 6d per 100 yards, ac-
cording to kind and quality. Hay is selling at from £3los
to £3 15s per ton, and in one or two cases as much as £4
has been obtained. Turnips are giving good promise, the
weather having been propitious for their growth. Grass
lands afford an excellent and nutritious bite for grazing
stock, which are making good progress, and continue to
command a high price.

KELSO. —Reaping may be said to be finished within
a radius of several miles round Kelso, and within the
last two or three days a large quantity of grain has been
safely deposited in the farm-yards. In the hilly districts,
however, farmers are not so far advanced, and it is to be
hoped will not require to let their cut grain remain so long
in the fields as those in low and early parts of the county.
In some parts of Berwickshire near the coast cutting had
just commenced last week, some of the crops being very
good, and as yet not damaged by the weather. The recent
wet has not done the damage which was at one time anti-
cipated, and if the weather now keep dry for some days,
the great bulk of the grain in this district will be housed
in fair order. Symptoms of disease among potatoes are
showing themselves.

The SHAKERS.--The New York Times described
recently a Sunday morning among the Shakers, a body who
take their name from their custom of dancing together in
their religious services, shaking and clasping their hand;
and singing a monotonous and repeated psalm or song. The
sect appears to be a distortion of Puritanism, and an in-
stance of #extremes meeting. It was founded in America
by one Ann Lee, who went thither from England towards
the close of the last century with ten of her disciples. More
interesting than the peculiarity of their worship is the
mode of life of these people. The men and the women,
though they dance together on Sundays, live in separate
communities, bound to celibacy, and they are stated to be

the only class who in America have succeeded in main-
taining the community principle through a long series of
years. Their time is devoted to work. They are thrifty
farmers, their barns full, and their hands hard with honest
labour. They supply "the world of mankind," as their
phrase is, with excellent butter, fat turkeys, and fine
cattle. They have a good repute for honesty, but they are
careful to have their full amount of money for money's
worth. In the season the women make knick-knacks and
ornaments for ladies visiting the country, and take plea-
sure in amusing the young city people who go to see them.
Like their meeting-houses, their dwellings are plain,
but neat, and kept with scrupulous cleanliness. Their
horses and cattle are in excellent condition, and their fields
are industriously tilled. The writer of the article from
which these statements are taken says that the men from
"well kept," but the women he describes as a haggard set,
their faces old and wizened, though in their Sunday wor-
ship they dance with wonderful agility. On the Sunday of
which he speaks, at a meeting-house near Lebanon Springs,
there were 50 or 60 women, four-fifths of them over 40
years of age, and at least three-fifths over 50 ; there were a
few younger women "of pale, attenuated, almost lifeless
faces ;" their discipline appears to aim at a passionless life.
It is stated that they are a declining class. Of course, what-
ever increase they make is from the world without. They
have a number of boys "bound to them," and the disap-
pointments of life may supply them with a certain number
of disciples. They live very plainly, dress in antique
Puritan costume, and are useful in their way.

IMPORTATION OF DISEASED SHEEP.—At a meeting
of the Sanitary Committee of the Hull Board of
I Health, held on Wednesday afternoon, the Board's cattle
inspector reported that he had seized and destroyed several
sheep which were suffering from a disease which was entirely
new to him. The inspector stated that his attention was
drawn to a number of sheep which were being driven
through the streets to a slaughter-house. On arriving at
their destination he examined them, and found that they
were peculiarly affected about the throat. He made a very
careful examination of the whole flock, and he found that
the throat of each animal was full of lumps about the size
of a small nut. As the disease was a new one, the inspector
sent for Mr. Lockwood, cattle inspector for her Majesty's
Customs at Hull. Mr. Lockwood having examined the
sheep, declared they were suffering from cold. The inspec-
tor was not satisfied that this was so, and on the following
day he again went to the slaughter-house. The sheep had
in the meantime been slaughtered and dressed. On exam -
ining the carcasses he found the liver and lungs of one of
them had been attacked by the disease, and the genital
organs of another. In the latter case the pustules had,
broken. The intestines of the sheep were found to be
covered with the same kind of lumps. Although the animals
had only been slaughtered on the previous day, they had
begun to smell most offensively. Under the circumstances
the inspector seized the whole of the carcasses, and had them
destroyed. Mr. M'Millan, a surgeon and a member of the
committee, said that he had paid considerable attention to
the cattle disease, and he believed that the rinderpest at-
tacked sheep as well as horned cattle. The inspector stated
that the sheep above alluded to had been brought from
Bremen, and he believed that at the time they were landed
no trace of disease was outwardly visible.

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THE QUEEN'S RETURN•

OSTEND, Sept. 7.
Queen Victoria arrived here incognito at 9 o'clock
this morning. Her Majesty was received at the
station by the Duke and Duchess of Brabant, and
conducted by them to the royal residence, where
the Queen lunched with the Belgian royal family.
The Queen was respectfully received upon her
route through the streets.
Queen Victoria left Ostend at eleven o'clock for
Antwerp, where her Majesty will immediately em-
bark for England.
Special agents of the railway administration had
been sent to Coburg to take charge of the train
conveying the Queen to Belgium.

WooLwicir, Thursday Zvening.
The royal train, consisting of seven carriages,
which will convey her Majesty-and the royal family
from Woolwich to Windsor to-morrow, arrived at
the Royal Arsenal this afternoon, and also two ad-
ditional trains for the reception of the luggage, &c.,
on its being unshipped at the wharf. The short
branch railway, just relaid from the Royal Arsenal
Pier to the Plumstead Station of the North Kent,
has been fully tested with a heavy pilot engine and
train by the chief engineer of the South Eastern
Railway, and is found to be in a perfectly satisfac-
tory condition. The police regulations issued this
day are strict as regards the non-admission of the
public to the Royal Arsenal ; and Captain Gordon,
chief military storekeeper, whose duty it is to carry
out the arrangements, has been compelled to refuse
a large number of applications for tickets, in con-
quence of the well-known desire of her Majesty
that the proceedings should be of a strictly private
nature.

DISEMBARKATION OF HER MAJESTY.
WooLwrcu, This Morning.

The disembarkation of her Majesty the Queen
and the Royal Family took place at the Royal
Arsenal Pier this morning at an earlier hour than had
been anticipated. The Royal squadron anchored
at the Nore last night, and a telegraphic message
announcing its arrival at Gravesend at half-pasti
eignt this morning was received at the Roya
Arsenal, when those concerned in conducting the
details of the disembarkation and the transit of the
Royal party to Windsor were immediately on the
qui vine.

On arriving at the end of the pier her Majesty
and the Royal Family, with the exception of Prince
Arthur, immediately entered the royal carriages of
the train, which was in charge of several officials of
the South-Western Railway Company, and after
the disposal of personal baggage the train proceeded
direct to Windsor. Prince Arthur, attended by
Major Elphinstone, left the Royal Arsenal for his
residence at Blackheath. It was remarked that her
Majesty and the Royal Family appeared in excellent
health and spirits.

Lord and Lady Skelniersdale have arrived at the
Alexandra Hotel, Hyde-park-corner, from Windsor.
The Baron de Butenval has returned to the
Clarendon Hotel.

The Baroness de Billing has left the Clarendon
Hotel for Buckenham, Norfolk.

The Duke of Roxburgh and the Marquis of
Bowmont have arrived at the Clarendon Hotel, from Nor-
way.

The Duchess d'Ursel and the Countess (Mar-
court have left Brown's Hotel.

The Marchioness of Londonderry is still saying
at Dieppe. We are informed that the statement published
regarding her ladyship's illness is unfounded.

Lady Wiltshire and family have arrived at the
Queen's Hotel, Upper Norwood.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Donegal have
, left Grosvenor-square for Hamstead Marshall, Berks.
Viscount Palmerston has accepted an invitation
to visit Bath on the 20th inst., on his way back from
Bristol. It is understood that he will meet the citizens in
the hall and partake of a luncheon. It is the intention of
the mayor and civic authorities to propose that the whole
city keep holiday on the day of his lordship's visit.
The person charged with robbing Mr. Loewen-
stark, the jeweller, resides at Camberwell, and not in Deve-
reux-court, Strand, as stated in our police report of the
6th inst.

CLERICAL APPOINTMENTS AND VACANCIES.--The
Bishop of Lichfield has instituted the Rev. Charles
Septimus Cutler, M.A., of St. John's College, Cambridge/
formerly curate of North Darley, Derbyshire, to the vicar-.

age of Hathersage, near Sheffield, in the room of the Rev.
Thomas Stevens, M.A., on the nomination of the duke of
Devonshire. The Bishop of Manchester has instituted the
Rev. F. Talbot O'Donoghue, M.A., of Trinity College,
Dublin, late vicar of Clevedon, Somerset, to the vicarage
of Walsden, Lancashire, on the nomination of the Crown•
The Bishop of Ely has instituted the Rev. H. T. Wale,
M.A., to the rectory of Folksworth, in the room of the
Rev. Henry Freeman, M.A. The Rev. Henry John May,
M.A., late a missionary of the Society for the Propagation
of the Gospel, has been appointed to the rectory of St•
Peter's, Leguan, in the diocese of Guiana. The Rev. Joseph
Merriman, M.A., Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge,
late second master of St. Andrew's College, Bradfield, Berk-
shire, has been appointed to the Head Mastership of the
Surrey County School. The rectory of Hunton, near

Staplehurst, has become vacant by the death of the Be
Robert Moore, M.A., formerly of Christ Church, Oxford,
who was collated in 1802. The benefice, which is worth
£1,060 a year, is in the gift of the Archbishop of Canter-
bury. The chaplaincy at Havre will become vacant at the
end of next month, in consequence of the appointment of
the Rev. W. C. Howell, M.A., to the incumbency of Holy
Trinity Church, Tottenham. The chaplaincy of St. Michael's,
Azores, and St. Mark's, Enmore, in the diocese of Guiana:
are vacant. The nomination rests with the Society for the
Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts.
IMMIGRANTS AT NEW YORK.—Let one but haunt
for a week the Battery, where nearly every surge
of the sea heaps the shore with immigrants from every
land, if he wishes to know New York, and can bear to look
upon the saddest of sights. Sitting close to the water's
edge, upon their boxes, many of them alone, some in sullen
groups, nearly all the women weeping and nursing chil'
dren, one would naturally conclude that they had all been
wrecked there. (And doubtless they have been, but 04
by the sea.) Dreary must be that first day when the eta-
grant feels the great gulf fixed for ever between him RIO
his native land—its cruelties hidden away behind the
troops of familiar scenes and faces, so dear as they vanish
—and hovers on the verge of an untried world. Had they
passed through the Dark Valley itself—and we once had*
philosopher in America who believed that death was s'
westward migration of souls—and sat now at the gate of
Paradise, I fancy that they would be for a time thus air"'
consolate. Slo lily the crowd begins to thin off at the out-
skirts ; they kiss and part from each other, and are by
nightfall merged in the great city. What becomes of
them ? The filtration is always going on. Those who have
the most energy pass through New York to be distributea
through the prairies of the West, and not a few will pre-'
sently own free homesteads in the unsettled territories
beyond the Mississippi. The most worthless willremahl,
in New York to become familiar with its drinking-cellareg
its brothels, and its station-houses. Already when the
emigrant ship comes in, the vultures are hovering on the
shore, and many a young girl and boy will become theft
prey—unless, indeed, the Emigrant Protection Societies
lately formed have routed the unholy brood. But No°
York yet receives two for every one it sends out to O.
West, and is always glutted with ignorant masses'
Fraser's Magazine for September.
THE PRISONERS AT FORTRESS MONROE.
letter of the 23d ult., from Fortress Monroe, iu til°
New York Herald, says :—" John Mitchel was allowed t 0
day to walk out of his casemate for the first time since his
imprisonment. Notwithstanding his vigorous constitutiorio
his continued close confinement was beginning to airee,
his general health. He relished his walk very flint;
which, like that of Jeff. Davis and Mr. Clay, was on
parapet of the fort. In all the while he has been here -a
has not been half as affable in his bearing and polite ell,
considerate in speech as during this hour of outdoor e%eto
cise. There was no end to his talk and pleasantry. 135'10
was never more enthusiastic on the ocean than he in boo
eulogies to-day of its grandly surging waves—for
wind has been high—and no invalid ever took in 1331 re
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delicious respirations of tho salty air. He is to be aliew
to walk every day. The arrangement will be such t_m,
neither Jeff. Davis, Clay, nor Mitchel will take the:
walk at the same hour. The first two are daily :St
proving in health, and it is probable that Mitchel
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soon be as well as ever. He is at present re cfjl
Macaulay's History of England.' All are greatly grailllei
at the increased reading facilities now afforded them. 4
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