The Sun.
London, England, 1838-11-26 00:00:00

THE WEATHER.

(From the Provincial Papers of Saturday.)
SCOTLAND.—The late incessant rains have been RV',
ceeded by a complete wintry frost—the most intense that,:
has been experienced in the North, so early in the season,
for the last twenty years. This premature severity was
ushered in by meteoric appearances which have before
marked the month of November. On Tuesday, the 13th
current, a number of shooting stars was visible ; in some
parts of Ross-shire to the amount of fifty. The same phe-
nomenon has been observed from the Bth to the 15th of
August. —lnvernea: Courier.

For those few days past we have enjoyed a dry sharp
wind, which has been of great benefit in drying the corn ;
and we are happy to learn, from a number of farmers
from these districts, who were in town on Thursday, that
nearly the whole of the exposed crops were got in, and as
the weather has since continued equally favourable, we
have no doubt that the fields would last night be all cleared.
Some of the corn has suffered from long exposure, but not
to a very serious extent. The potatoes are generally well
secured, and a good breadth of wheat has been sown.—
Paisley Adverfiser.

The weather at Ber wick during the week has been
characteristic of the present month—" gloomy Novew-
her." Piercing cold winds have prevailed, and even at
mid-day we have been scarcely conscious of the influence
of the sun as the dispenser of heat. All around us indi-
cates winter, and though the lower parts of the country are
yet free of snow, we understand that the whole range of
the Cheviot Hills has been covered for some days past with
their wintry mantle ; and, as the 'weather continues frosty,
there is at present no appearance of its soon disappearing.
but rather of its being deepened.—.Be)wick Advertiser.
Since our last, the thermometer has fallen to the freezing
point, and a keen frost has prevailed, with occasional
showers of snow, which, however, disappeared as it fell..
Along the range of the Cheviots, however, the snow is.
lying to a pretty considerable depth, presenting a striking-
contrast to the lower parts of the country, which are at pre-
sent unclothed with the fleecy mantle of winter. The farm
produce in this district being long ago secured, we are the
least dependant upon the elements ; but in the Lammer-
moors and other upland districts, the setting in of winter at
such an early peried has been productive of considerable
loss.—Kelso Chronicle.

The harvest is not yet over in the Ochills. There
are still a great many fields in the stook, which, when
thrashed out and ground, will give a very small return.
There are several fields of potatoes still in the ground.
The intense hard frost which has set in, prevents their
being dug up, and will, it is to be feared, render them of
little value.---Perth Advertiser.
The wind still continues to keep a firm hold in the,
S.E., but moderate. There have been several heavy show—
ers of sleet during the week ; but, upon the whole, the wea-
ther is seasonable.—AherdeenHerald.

uring the past week we have had a continuance of the
same kind of weather as the week before, with the excep-
tion, that the frost is acccompanied with very strong north-
east winds. Scarcely any rain has fallen. —Kendalilleroury.

FURTHER ANTI-POOR-L&W RIOTS

AT TODMORDEN.

• (From the Manchester Times.)
It will be recollected that there was recently ;tri outrage
committed on the persons of two officers, sent from _Halifax
to carry into effect a precept of the law on the property of
an overseer.

We regret to say that another serious riot, arising out
of the circumstances which gave rise to that of Friday last,
took place on Wednesday. On this day it appears that a
report by some means or other gained currency, that a re-
newed attempt was to be made to distrain upon the goods
of Ingham, the overseer at Makinholes, backed by the
soldiery ; and the means of alarm, which had before proved
so successful in frustrating the law, were resorted to again..
In the course of a short time, about three or four hundred
persons, men, women, and children, many of them provided.
with sticks, collected in front of Ingham's house, where
they waited for some time in patience, for the appearance of
the officers. At length, however, a suspicion being excited
that they had been misled, and that no seizure was to be
made upon the overseer's goods, the mob prepared to
leave, when it was suggested by some of the party, that
as they had assembled, they would not separate until
they had gratified their revenge upon some one, and
they immediately set forward towards the residences of
such persons as they knew were favourable to the New
Poor Law. Amongst these persons the Guardians were,
of course, the most obnoxious ; and accordingly their
first visit was to the house of Mr. Royston Oliver, of
Wood Mills, which they attacked with stones, completely
destroying the windows. Mr. Oliver, we understand,
made his escape on horseback. The windows of the
house of Mr. Shackleton, publican, were also destroyed.
The rioters next bent their steps towards the house of
Messrs. Abraham, John, and Peter Ormerod, manufac-
turers, Dulesgate, destroying the windows, and the
palisades in front ; they then proceeded to the residence
of Mr. William Halliwell, broke the windows, destroyed
a portion of the furniture, and the palisades also in front
of the house. The next object of revenge was Mr.
James Suthers, whose property was destroyed in a similar
manner. The windows of the Messrs. Greenwood's mill,
and of their residence in Wattie Place, were also de-
stroyed ; and the assemblage then moved forward to the
front of Miss Holt's shop, where they committed similar
outrages to those already described, destroying also a
great quantity of drapery goods, taking whole pieces of
print and trampling them in the road. The windows of
Mr. Oliver (the surgeon) were also broken, and the
glass bottles, gallipots, &c., in his surgery, were partially
destroyed. From Mr. Oliver's they proceeded to Tod-
morden Hall, the residence of Dr. Taylor, magistrate,
where, not content with destroying the windows of the
house, they proceeded to light a fire in one of the rooms,
by means of a quantity of pitch. The walls of the rooms
were defaced ; a number of valuable paintings were
destroyed, including some family portraits ; a pipe of
wine was run off in the cellar, and a carriage in one of
the outhouses was broken to pieces. Having thus
far satisfactorily wreaked their vengeance on the owner
of the Hall, they left it to the mercy of the flames
which had been kindled under a portion of the furni-
ture, and proceeded to the house of Mr. Atkinson,
shoemaker, York-street, fortunately in time to allow
the servants and others at the Hall to stop the pro-
gress of the fire, which they effected by promptly throw-
ing upon it buckets of water. The destruction of
property here, however, was very serious. The windows
of Mr. Atkinson's shop were of course the first object of
attack, but not content with this they broke into his shop
and proceeded to throw out a great portion of his stock,
consisting chiefly of shoes, which were afterwards found
strewed about the road in all directions. Mr. Atkinson
put his head out at an upper window on perceiving this
and attempted to remonstrate, but a shower of stones
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forced on the following day by two companies of the 64th
Infantry. On Thursday all was quiet, and most of the
people had returned to their work. A meeting of the
authorities, however, was again convened ; about one
hundred special constables were sworn in, and further
military assistance sent for, but whether as a matter of
precaution, or because further disturbances were antici-
pated, we have not heard. Up to yesterday at noon all
was quiet ; but at twelve o'clock we learn that the military