The Sun.
London, England, 1838-08-04 00:00:00

THE :SAY HARVEST.

e hay_6arvdst is rafletabundunt than oilirrviL but
the a ,nsettled state of _tae wader has protracted the
he Id of saving the hay, Some very fine days we have in-
d led bad, and the work has proceeded very briskly in-many
in astances ,ander dusky clouds, and during -days void of sun-
e nine occasionally the rain has fallen abundantly. Bythe
hay-gathering machine, whiCh is drawn by six horses (three
others resting ir,
, the meantime), at full trot, an acre of
hay may be se anted_ by the_
_exertions of a few minutes.
The eroi* ol: hay are .superabundant, and wheats look as
-fine as r iny we remember. Upon the whole, we are quite
satisfiee ~ no less by inquiry than observation, that the crop
of Not Folk will be fully an average, and probably more
than an average..—Yarwich Paper.
Ti „le weather continues most favourable far carrying On
the hay harvest ; and although at the ennimencement of
the •operationa a quantity of hay was spoiled from the then
amprepitims state of the weather, yet the crops since ha.,
been so abunilant, and made in such good conditioa, as
cannot fail v, make the price of that necessary article of
!fodder very low during the ensuing autumn eaid winter.—
Dorset o.l.onicle.
The .weather for some days past has been very favourable
for the. hay harvest. Many of the farmers have got their
crop 'into the tramp coil ; and, in general, it is considered
more. than an average crop. Some offers, we have heard,
have been made at 7d. per stone of 22.1hs.—Perth Paper.
T.ie hay harvest has commenced very briskly in many
pat's of this county. In the vicinity of Gorr., Luughrea,
and several other places, the scythe is now in full operation
and, should the present favourable weather continue a few
-days longer, the crop will have been cut down and saved.
We have heard some complaints that the average pro-
duce of the meadows will be soraewhat deficient this sea-
•on.--Gultray Patriot.

It is rumoured in the higher circles that the Earl
of Cavan is not the only Nobleman who is on the eve of taking a Coun.
Itess from among the beauties of Staffordshire. A young Scotch Earl,
.at present a subaltern hi a Dragoon Regiment, but presumptive heir to
a Dukedom, is said t 4 have solicited the hand of one of the fairest belles
of the county.—S•offjrdshire Advertiser.

We insr,rt the following at the request of an ohl
corresponde•it :—There is now living at Farrington, Gurney, Somerset,
12 miles ll.ona Bristol, on the Wells-road, and at the same distance from
Bath, Aar. Coomer, aged 12 years, daughter of James and Susanna
Coomer.„ who has not taken the least food, animal or vegetable, milk.
arrow. root, soup, jelly, broth, or any eatables whatever, for 47 weeks
from the date of this paper. The only nourishment that has entered
her lips for the above time is one, or not exceeding two common-sized
to a spoonfulls of tea or coffce in the morning, the same in the evening,
and perhaps a tea.spoonfull of cider or ale once in the week. part of
which was spilt, owing to her teeth being closely clasped. Mr. rope,
of Temple Cloud, and Mr. Flower, of Chilcompton, have atter ded her,
and several other medical men have seen her. I saw her three months
ago, when she appeared at first sight as if dead, but on clitee inspection
life was perceivable. She was lying cn the left side, a,,id had a slight
flush on her countenance, which was not unpleasa%r. I saw her again
ass Saturday last, and found her much the saute, only paler. She has
never sat up in bed, or raised herself in anj way whatever since taken
Sli, and her eyes and mouth have not ben opened for more than eleven
:months. She is removed from one oed to another while h:_.r bed is
'made, and then put hack again, o:ad continues motionless. The above
I believe to be strictly true, Cod will be sworn to by her father and
mother, and others, if retr:ired, with many more particulars. The vul-
gar say she is in a trans r.others, that her illness is a judgment of Pro-
vidance, and others, '.gain, that she is bewitched.—Bristol Mercury.

THE MAID .OF SARAGOSSA.—An individual
still more celeldrated in England—the maid of Saragossa, whose heroic
act of discharging a cannon from the heights of Saragossa, to avenge her
fallen low et and her injured country, has furnished a theme for painters
and pe ets—was visited by oar traveler at Hernani, where she reside,.
Inv ,nting a colourable pretext for calling at her father's house, his
fr.ersl, Major B______, undertook to secure him an interview. " Having
rut up our horses at astable in the neighbourhood, we went straight t.t,
rt he house ; and Major B— having informed a domestic that he had
business with the senora, we were ushered into an upper apartment,
where we awaited her entrance for some minutes. At length the door
'opened, and a lady of middle stature, but finely proportioned, made her
apperrance. Her countenance was of the most pleasing cast, her dark
eyes beaming with expression, her nose slightly arciaed, and her mouth
displaying, when she spoke or smiled, a row of teeth 11!:c polished ivory,
and giving instant animation to her whole countenance. Hcr age did
not appear to accord with what a reference to historic data would at tri.
bute to her; for, though approaching the "mezzo del cammin," the
celour on her cheeks, and the lively expression of her features, still ar-
-rayed her in the mantle of youth. She received us in the most cour-
teous manner, and conversed for a considerable time with Major B—,
who, as my interpreter, alluded to the interest attached to her character
in England, and to the fact of her portrait having been drawn, not only
by our artists, but by the greatest of our poets ; of which she seemed
aware, but by no means vain ; and testified her acknowledgment of the
compliment by a smile of very winning sweetness. It is said she has
had numerous offers of marriage since her residence at Hernani; but on
that point she is inexorable—a determination which enhances the in.
terest of her character and the universal regard in which she is held,—
Ran ibles in the Pyrenees.

The Industriel de la Champagne publishes a letter
I.TOril an iron-master of Bievre, giving an account of an experiment per-
formed by a cousin of his, which seems to throw into the shade the feats
of Chabert, the fire king, who some years back, at Tivoli, entered a
heated oven, and remained in it for a considerable time. According to
+this account the cousin of the iron-p;aster entered the furnace imme-
diately after the fused metal had fib wed out, at 11 o'clock, a.m., and
the aperture being closed up, he continued, alternately with another
man, working at some repairs it required until seven o'clock in the eve..
ring. On his quitting it file thermometer marked 130 degrees centi.
grade, or 266 Fahrenhe.r. It was supposed that when he first went in
the temperature mug. have been as high as 200 C., or 392 F. One of
the workmen is a?..ta to have had some blisters on his feet, but felt no
further inconvreienee!

The fallowing method employed by Captain Ken-
nedy, commanding her Britannic Majesty's steamer Spitfire, to prevent
the incrustations or deposits of saline matter on the inside of the boilers
of steam-engines, has been communicated by him in a letter to M.
Gautier, of the French consulate at Malta. Captain Kennedy recom-
mends, after having well cleaned the boilers and tubes, to coat those
parts of their interior surface most exposed to the action of the fire with
a mixture composed in the proportion of eighteen pounds of melted suet
and three pounds of black lead. He states that the advantages of this
application have been so fully tested by experience that the Lords of the
Altnirslty have resolved that all the Government steamers shall for the
future be provided with a sufficient quantity of the above.mentioned
ingredients.—French Paper.
The iron trade in this neighbourhood (Birming-
ham) we arc glad to find continues in a cheerful and prosperous state ;
and we learn that the principal ironmasters have on hand as many
orders as they desire, and there are large contracts yet to be made for
railway iron. The accounts from the Continent, as well as from the
United States, seem to have infused great confidence into those con-
cerned in the manufacture of this importont article, with regard to
prices; and there can be no doubt but that the improved state of titf,ngs
manifested in the iron districts is extending itself to trade genev.ally, as
much more activity is prevailing in many of the branches La hardware
than latterly has been the case.—Birmingham Advertircr,

SHREWSBURY RAILWAY.-The survey of this
line is completed, and was laid before a mc.:etiv.ig of Proprietors on Mon-
day. Mr. Loch reports that the line is most favourable of any he
has yet surveyed; no tunnelling beine required; no gentlemen's seats
or private property invaded; r.nd The railroad proceeding almost in a
straight line from its oomm:elne;aient in Shrewsbury, to its junction with
the main line near Wo',,,crllampton. The line, which will be a double
one, commences in Y.erival, betwegn the English Bridge and the Abbey
Church, Shrewsht;,7---, the whole distance being '29 miles.—Shrewsbury
Chronicle.

L
ITEF.A`RY PROPERTY.-The manuscript of" Ro-
binson Crasr,e" ran through the whole trade, and no one would print it.
The be olr.eller who at last bought it, cleared 1,000 guineas by it.
" Bn••n's Justice" was disposed of by its author for a mere trifle, as well
a- ".;uchan's Domestic Medicine" both of which yield immtbse in.
411.f.e5. The" Vicar of Wakefield," the most delightful novel in our
kw.lguage, was sold for a few pounds; and Miss -Burners " Evelina"
-produced only live guineas. Dr. Johnson fixed the price of his " Lives
of the Poets" at 200 guineas, by which the booksellers in the course of
a few years cleared 25,000/. Tonson, and all his family, -rode in their
carriage with the profits of the five pound epic of 'Milton. The copy.
right of " Spelling Book" sold for 2,000 guineas.

WA TER D Rug KERs.—The late Dr. Babington

gate it a:4 his opinion that they who could be satisfied with water as their
customary drink, were in possession cf a high privilege. The palate,
unfortunately, 11,..4 no ears for truths of this srlf.deaying description,
and habit is a grew er oppressor of the bodies of men than the Ncros and
Caligulas were of their souls. The taxes imposed by governments are

heavy enough, heaven knows ; but those inflicted by our own appetites
and passions are infinitely more numerous, burthensome, and disgrace.
tail, to beings calling themselves rational; and who arc so frequently
pouring forth prayers for deliverance from the " lusts of the flesh."
These sort of people are truly what they so often and so grays ly pro.
aniunce themselves to be, " miserable sinners ;" and for the major part,
hypocrites also; fir they have no sort of desire to forego even the
smallest of•what they falsely deem their pleasures.—front a Corres-
pondent of the Taunton Courier.
ABSENCE OF MIND.—NOT AN A INIERICAN.—
The Provost of an adjoining watering-place, whose absence of mind,
and "multifarious, immense and many" occupations drove him almost
'mad. as may he conjectured from his honour being provost, chief town
magistrate, county magistrate, in right of office, postmaster, and the
aole Purveyor of eatables, drinkables, spiceries, light, fuel, smoking and
snuffing the whole of this corporate town. On Thursday morning
early, while walking about without his shoes, he was assailed by the
footman of a neighbouring Baronet, who called for Isis master', letters,
a little girl for two oat-cakes and half a dozen red.herrings, and several
customers waiting besides. At this moment the servant girl brought in
his shoes, winch she laid nn the counter. The pluralist, stunned by his
vatiety of duties, took the child's money, and wrapping up his shoes
and the Baronet's newspapers in the cloth she brought, started her off
to her mother. He'sga-.'e the letter-bag to the footman, who delivered it
to his master, but to ane wonder of the family six real herrings were
found in it. The, worthy functionary was only brought to a sense of his
errors by atta'Apting to get his toes into the oat cakes which he had
placo,' on tate floor.—Glasgoto Paper.
LUDICROUS CASE OF ROBBERY.---A few clays
ago a robbery was committed, which caused a general laugh against the
ire m,ll who was plundered. .k well-dressed ".victimiser," whose
.lea
general apparel a rair of very intlitTeret:t.shoes disgraced, walked into
a b intmaker's shop in the City, and a:k td for a particularly neat pair of
Wallingtons, lie was rather a fastidious customer, bit the master of
the. shop at last fitted hint with great exac ness. VS, hat's the price?"
said.Oe, stamping with his rigut foot. to fasten hiMself immovably in
trac now purcha,e. Before an ar aver could he given, in darted a
stranger into the shop, struck the booted customer a violent blow on the
face, knocked him eat, and then ran off. The insulted person leaped
up, svith the blood running from his nose, and crying nut, " Where is
the villa' who assaalted me ?" ran out at fug speedto catch the ag
gre,'ar. " a wonder," said the owner of the shop, "if the
gentleman
\yid cat ell that vile rascal shot hit him so spank. I ant afraid the boots
wilt cramp him-1 thought they were too tight,
feller escapes." '- Catch 11;in," said the shopman7la Ws a pity if the
" looking
at the old
Pair of mud-plungers whiali the victimiser left behind, "I'll be blest if
they ain't both in it fast enough." " What f." said the master, do you
mean to say that the gentleman with the bloody nose won't come back ?"
" To be sure I do," anAwered the shopman; " what would he come back
for ? Hasn't he got a pair of good boots for his bloody nose ?" It is al•
most needless to add that the blocaly nose gentleman has not yet op-
pcar..d. Ile is, no doubt, still in pursuit of his unceremonious opponent.
journals complain of a recent .decree of the
Court of Cassatioa. A lady was grossly insulted by an ecclesiastic
from the lailpit She brought an action for calumny. The Court
has decide:l that, the priest being a public 'functionary, she has no
right to pro;.,.cute without B rst
.permlssid: from the Can.
self frPel•