The Sun.
London, England, 1854-08-28 00:00:00

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TATTERSALL'S.
(THIS EVENING.)

DERBY HANDICAP
6to 4 agst Grand Inquisitor (taken).
LEAMINGTON STAKES.
6 to 1 agst Amalgamation (taken).
Bto 1 agst Hungerford (taken).
12 to I agst Baalbec (taken).
ST. LEGER.
6 to 4 agst Boiardo (taken).
6 to 1 agst Acrobat (taken).
6 to 1 agst The Trapper (taken)
15 to 1 agst Scythian
DERBY.
20 to 1 agst Cruiser (taken).

THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS.

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menced !cutting their wheat and barley, with good
crops and tolerably fine weather. Oats seem to beae
little behind, but, with a continuance of this favouratl
and prolific season, will soon be ready for the sickle
or scythe. The leaping machine not being generally
in use, a great importation of Irish reapers has arrived,
and will find full employment, and we trust a good
and speedy harvest home. The growers of potatoes
have been grumbling about the blight, and it is feared
not without some reason, but, as it appears to be later
this year, we hope eventually that it will be removed.
—Newcastle Journal.
NOILTIMMBERLAND.--The harvest reports from the
various districts of the country continue to be highly
favourable. Reaping has begun in all the southern and
midland counties, and nearly finished in the more ad-
vanced localities. Everywhere the crops are spoken of
as most luxuriant, while the damage from storms has
been partial and not extensive. If fine weather con-
tinues for a few more weeks there is every reason to
believe that the product of the present harvest will be
almost unprecedented both for quantity and quality.
As regards the northern district, a good deal of wheat
and barley has been cut down this week. The harvest
has been progressing very favourably, and notwith-
standing occasional interruptions by the weather the
yield is likely to turn out very satisfactory. The effect
has been apparent in the general depression of prices in
the corn market, ; and it is the opinion of many expe-
rienced, well-informed persons in agricultural pursuits
that in less than two months the average price of wheat
will range from 6s. to 7s. per bushel.—Newcastle
Journal.

DURHAL —We are now at the most critical period of
the entire year as regards the effect of the weather on
the crops, and 'a few fine days would make a large por-
tion of the wheat in this district ready for the sickle.
The last two days hare been showery, but at intervals
the sun shone brightly. Several patches of wheat and
barley have already been cut. Mr. Jopling, of Low
Burn-hall, and Mr. Brown, of Hird's-house, have both
commenced cutting. Harvest operations have likewise
commenced, on a small scale, in the neighbourhood of
Hartlepool, and around Sedgefield there are several
fields ready.--Durkara A dverti:er.

WORCESTERSHIRE,—THE HARVEST.— The weather,
which at the commencement of the week was rather
showery, has nbw cleared up, and the last two days have
been all that could be desired by the "harvest-hoping
swain." We are gratified to find that the intelligence
received from all parts of this and adjoining counties,
and indeed the kingdom generally, concurs in represent.
ing that the wheat crop will prove a full average one,
and with favouring weather will be secured in excellent
condition. The prospect of a good harvest is not limited
to this country, as both on the Continent and in Ame-
rica the yield is represented as being likely to prove
most abundant. This is very cheering, amid the pres-
sure of war expenses and the apprehensions of pestilence
and its ravages. The crops of barley and oats are well
spoken of everywhere. We regret, however, to hear a
continuance of complaints respecting the potato disease.
Berrow's Jcurncl,
THE RYELANDS.—On the rich alluvial fiats, upon the
sandy slopes and sunny hills of this important corn-
growing district the golden hues of harvest now gladden
the interesting scene of rural beauty. The sickle, of
pristine simplicity, is now busy in the field, and stout
stooks stand thickly to reward the husbandman who
has watched their growth with anxious care and pride.
'We have seen some splendid specimens of Brewick's red,
grown upon the New-house farm, near Stockton. Some
of Spalding's, and a sort called Donna Maria, grown
upon the Sutton farm, are magnificent specimens, both
as to ear and straw. These, together with specimens of
barley, grown by Mr. Nock,, oeSutton, and J. Austice,
Esq., have been selected as specimens of the crops for a
celebrated house in the corn trade in London. At Goal-
port, on a six-acre field, very much impoverished by
previous orops, he informed us that it was one of five
stems, averaging 28 pods each, and that the total num-
ber of beans exceeded 500 each. The field altogether
has returned a first-rate crop.—Shropskire Conservative.
MONMOUTHSHIRE. —Never in our recollection have the
prospects of an abundant harvest been more encourag-
ing than at present, so far as this district is concerned.
The wheat crops are particularly fine and well headed,
the barley is thick and strong, 'oats good, and beans
kindly podded ; and roots of all kinds are healthy and
growing. In the neighbourhood of Staunton, upon a
dry hill, the crops are heavier than ever we saw them;
and the same may be said of wheat and barley in the
neighbourhood of Newland and Coleford. But upon
Hewelsfield Court, where we have so frequently spoken
of the extraordinary improvements which have taken
place in the agricultural development of the country,
some of the crops surpass everything that has ever come
under our observation. In one piece of ground there
are 60 acres of Swedes, without 'a single faulty spot, and
finer and stronger than any, we believe, in the fertile
counties of Gloucester and Hereford. Indeed, an ex-
perienced agricultural friend, who has latterly seen some
well-cultivated districts, tells us that he has seen nothing
to approach them, except a piece upon the farm of Earl
Bathurst, near Cirencester, and even these are far infe-
rior to them. Upon the same estate the corn crops are
magnificent.—Monmouth. Beacon.

BRITISH ARCHZOLOGIOAL ASSOCIATION.
On Saturday the proceedings of the week were wound
up by excursions to Caerwent, Llanvair Castle, Penhow
Castle, and Pencow Castle. The last-named is very
ancient, a very early Norman edifice. An old mansion,
now a farm-house, occupies the site of the keep. Pen-
how Castle is romantically situate between three and four
miles from Caer went. Its chief portion, a square tower,
is blended with a farm-house. Lianvair limed Castle
occupies an eminence two miles from Caerwent, near the
Usk road. The walls are seven feet thick. There are
two round towers and a ruined keep. _ _

Caerwent is a poor village. It was once a British city,
and subsequently the yenta silurunt of the Romans.
Few Roman posts in this country remain in so perfect a
state. The remains of two tessellated pavements still
exist, and many others have been discovered. In 1689
three pavements of great beauty were found in the garden.
Large quanties of coins—some of the reign of Severus—
fragments of columns, statues, sepulchral stones, tessera,
and other relics of the Roman conqueror, have come to
light at various periods, and many must still be hidden.
Caerwent Church appears to have been built on the
site, and partly out of the materials, of some Roman
edifice. The style is early English, but there are frag•
ments of Norman work in it. The tower is lofty and
embattled.

The Via Julia runs from Caerwent to Caerleon, an-
other Roman city, of still greater consequence, distant
nine miles, but this was too far distant for the day's
work. Another party got back to Chepstow betime, in
order to visit the seat and park of Mr. C. Bathurst, a
local antiquarian, who invited them.
There was a formal " closing meeting" at Chepstow.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING--(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, Aug. 28.—Wind this day at Noon, N.W.
light pleasant breeze, and sultry weather.
OrlOeans .FF FOLKSTONE.—Auguste, from Bremen, for New
PORTSMOUTH, Aug. 27.—Wind, variable. Arrived—
Blenheim, from London, for Calcutta • European (s), from
Limeric
Africa.k, for London. Sailed--H.M.S. Spy, for the Coast
of
DovEn, Aug. 27.—Wind, calm. Sailed—Superior, for
Genoa.
SOUTHAMPTON', Aug. 26.—Arrived—Sylph (s), from
Dublin, and left for London.
PLYMOUTH, Aug. 27.—Wind, S.W. Arrived—Enfield,
from Rotterdam ; Violet, from London, for Portland Bay.
Sailed—Lady Auckland, for Bombay.
FALMOUTH, Aug. 27.—Wind, variable. Arrived—
Gleaner, from Aux Cayes ; Pursuit, St. Jago de Cuba,
and sailed for Dublin; Geertruida and Speculant, 9-slats;
Reindeer, London, for Boston, with bowsprit, Abro :
head, and cutwater carried away, stern damaged,
having been in contact on
which vessel
Hermann (s), from New York to Bremen, ! from
towed the Reindeer into port ; Devonshire (s),
Lon-
don, and left for Dublin.
COWES, Aug. 27.
(s),from New. York, and leftl for
Callao ; Egham, Shields, 1e.... N.W. Arrived—Hermann
the night of theen24th nth the
Johanna, from
Aug.l% in d, W. MILFORD, .....I.lg. • ved—Hannibal,
from Quebec. Wind'ii rwEremArren :
bec ; Allegro, SmVina ; Ellen°, Venice. Sailed—Harbin-
for Ilichibucto.
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Aug, 27,—.Arrived—Glasgow, from Que.
27•—W in W. Sailed— Whampos,
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Contest, Gibraltar.
Sailed—Harbin-
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for Singapore;

(PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAM.)
LIVERPOOL, Monday, 10.40 i.ll.
Wind, N.N.W. ; calm, and very warm.
Sailed—General Parkhill, for Charleston ; Marion, Ade.
laide ; Maria and Julia, Guatemala ; Johannes Weilbach,
Malaga ; Palmyra, Lisbon ; Rapid, Christiania,

THE FATAL ACCIDENT UPON TEE CROYDON RAILWAY.
—This morning at 10 o'clock, Mr. Payne, the coroner,
resumed the inquiry upon the body of the Rev. William
Macbean Willis, curate of Horsemondean. The evidence
gone into this day was principally of a technical character
about the signals, and only corroborative of that which
has already appeared. The inquiry was going on when
we went to press, and is not likely to conclude this
day.