The Sun.
London, England, 1838-07-31 00:00:00

THE CROPS.

GLASGOW.—ne weather here is still cold and showery. Hay,,malCing
commeixed last week, but only partially, the rains preventinj many
from attemptiog it. The grain crops are decidedly late, but a warm
and sunny August ma) ;cI produce in this quarter an abundant har vest.
In England the weather has la4ely been more favourable than here, Litt
the best authorities doubt whether the crop will ultimately prove ant
average one. In the north every thing looks bleak and backward. The,
wheat, according to the Inverness Courier,is a complete failure. The•
weather there continues ungenia,, ar.d on Saturday last a fresh coverirg
of STIOW was bestowed on lice Nevis. In general the best crops arc cm
light soils, the wet and cold on the Leavy soils having prevented the
growth.—Scuts Times. .

We have had a great deal of rain this week, end our accounts from
every part of Aben'eensbire, especially in Buchan, are as unpleasant.
',I lie crops look beautiful, but, unless genial warmth succeeds the rains
soon, serious damage will be done. Come what rnav, we have no reason-
able prospect now of an early bars ed.—Aberdeen Herald.
Km.so —Toe weather for these few days has been somewhat variable
and cold for the season, and not what it ought to be in the month of
July. The crops, notwithstanding, present, in this quarter at least, a
promising and luxuriant appearance, though in some parts of the country
they are in a backward state. If next month prove faaousable the har-
vest will be generally good, but not early. A considerable prt of the
hay crop has been cut down in this neighbourhood, and the fielt:s in the
vicinity are studded with ricks. lhe quality is good, and in quantity it
is considered an average crop.—Kelso Chronicle.
DONCASTER.—The several corn crops in this district continue 10
make extraordinary progress. The state of the weather has been ex:.
trumely favourable to the growth of the plant; and, provided fair
weather prevails, a rich harvest may be confidently expected. The
opinion prevails more and more that the yield will prove abundant, fully
equal to an average crop. We hear that on some of the strong soils the
crop of wheat is so extremely luxuriant that it is laid. On lighter
soils; however, it presents what is termed a splendid crop. The barley
lands are remarkably productive. It may be questioned whether there
ever was a I,•riod when more anxiety prevailed respecting the produce
of the harvest, i`ducea by the present state of the markets, and the pro-
bability that foreign corn ;nay come out of bond before the crops are
secured. Under these
ircutastances the weather, upon which so much
depends, engrosses universal attebtion.—Doncaster Gazette.
LEICESTEIL—The crops in
this country are, generally speaking, look-
ing remarkably well, particularly.
the Wheat will prove nearly
month's fine weather, we may expeLst that
Oats awl Barley, and, if we have a
equally fine. The Hay has been a vet heavy crop nearly everywhere.
—Leicestershire Mercury.
HEiteroan.—The late very cold nights have all but completely de-
croyed every prospect of the Hop planters in 'his county, at least for
the present year. Indeed, so cold was it on Sur; day
night last, that at
midnight the thermometer was but six degrees above the freezing point.
The blocs have gone back very rapidly within these I.st seven or eight
days; in many places the plant is quite withered by the " fire blast,"
and everywhere the general appearance is so bad, that not :be slightest
hopes are entertained for their recovery.—Hereford Times.
, The wheat 3tili continues to improve, and promises to produce". finer
crop than we have had for some years. The ears are both long' Rod
heavy, the straw abundant, and smut at present undiscoverable. Oati
and barley are thriving wonderfully, and peas and beans are less its.
feared by the dolphin than they have been for some years.—Kent Herald_
In Yorkshire, during the week, the weather has been too changeable
for the farmers to make much progress in hay-making; but the fine
days of Wednesday and yesterday would dry an immense quantity, that
was quite ready for loading, and we are by no means certain that the
wet—which has been considerable--has to any extent carried damage.
As to any just ground of apprehension with regard to the crops 'gene-
rally, either as respects the past or even the future, we believe there is
none to he found.—Leeds Mercury.
The hay crops generally where I have travelled, are exceedingly
abundant, .fo much so that old hay in many places, is now freely ofFared
at half the price demanded for it two months ago. Threr-fcrurths of
the teazle crop thi'oughout Somersetshire has disappeared; teazles, in
consequence, are on the advance. As matters stand at present, the
prices of grain have been gradually advancing, until, it is probable, they
have now reached their i.laximum ; and it is a matter of fact that,
but for the large quantities of Inferior grain in the kingdom, which hat.
weighed down the averages, the ports would, ere this, have been opened
for the reception of foreign grain duty free. Cider is advancing, there
being a great failure of apples. Wool is very stiff in price, and the
farmers seem to have it all their own way, but a friendly voice tells
them to be careful of straining the cord too tight, or a re-action will be
the consequence.—Sherborne Journal—A Commercial Traveller.
We have lately passed through a considerable part of Norfolk,
and the crops are so improved by the late weather, that the change
is hardly to be conceived. The crops of hay are superabundant,
and wheats look at least as fine as any we remetnher. Upon the whole,
we are quite satisfied, no less by inquiry than observation, that the, crop
of Norfolk will be fully an average, and probably more than an swell /C..
—Nortckh paper.

NATIONAL LOAN FUND SOCIETY.—It is gratify-
ing to learn that this Society has already received the sanction of many
persons in Leicester, a number of insurances having been effected. We
trust all will avail thems!lves of its advantages.—Leicestershire Mercury.

An infant, the daughter of a stonecutter, named
Davidson, residing in Great Eb.,rlow.street, Marylebone, was killed on
Thursday by a large stone which was raised against a wall falling upon
it while in its brother's arms. 'TWO other children narrowly escaped
the same fate.

There is a new church now being erected in Carlisle-
lane, near the Marsh-gate, Lambeth, on part of the Archbishop of Can.
terbury's kitchen garden. There will be a .burying ground attached--
much wanted in this populous parish.

The friends of the late M. Aroutud Carrel met in

the burialground of St. Maude, Paris, in comm.moration of the anni.
versary of his death. About 300 persons were Assembled, and several
eloquent speeches were made over his tomb.

A notice has been issued from Guildhall to the circa
that i,n and after Monday, the 30th inst., the fruit and vegetable trade
hitherto carried on in ticwgate Market, will be removed to Yarringdon
M :rket.

Macleod, the unhappy man who was condemned to

client the last Circuit Court of Inverness, for the murder of his wife,
and has since had his sentence commuted, was removed from gaol on
Thursday night at eleven o'clock. He walked with a steady step to the
place of embarkation, and shOwed none of that debility which markeJ
his appearance at the bar. We understand that his immediate destina-
tion is the hulks, but that he is ultimately to be transported beyond seas
tor the period of his life. _ _

We feel happy that we have it in our power to re-
move, in some measure, from the minds of our more fearful readers, the
belief which prevailed a few weeks ago, that we should have an unpro-
ductive harvest. The weather, though occasionally showery, has been,
through the goodness of a most gracious Providence, the means of a
general MA decided improvement in this neighbourhood, and the present
appearances of the growing corn are most cheering.—Shrffidd Iris. •

BATAVIA, FEB. 10.—The attention of the • Go-
vernment of India seems still to be engaged on a plan for deepening r)e
harbour of Batavia. According to the last soundings there is before
the promontories a depth of between three and four fathoms, between
them of seventeen feet, and further In of only seven or eight feet. It
seems to be intended to increase this last depth to twenty feet. This
will be a most important service to navigation. We have heard also of
air.ther important plan that the Government has in contemplation—
namely, to supply ships with good fresh water, of which there has
hitherto been a great d.liciency.

The Gloucester -Music Meeting will this yesr
be on a more magnificent stile than formerly. The seats for the
morning concert in the cathedral will be increased in number. Many
rcgulations in the management .'no arrangement for the ensuing con-
certs will ensure greater comforts Ur the visitors. The Concert will be
extended to four days, and will terininateby a fancy dress ball.— !Var.
cester Herald. _ _

The cholera, which had re-appeared in Alexandria,
and attacked almost at the same moment sev,-raJ persons, had ceased its
rav aged after a few days.
ELOPEMENT.—An elopement (tail taken place,
within the last few days, from the neighbourhood of Marlborough,
which has excited considerable interest. Tie gay Lot,hario has seen
upwards of 50 summers ; the fair lady is about 30.—Daixcs Gazette.

An infuriated ox escaped on Friday from a slh wiftuer-
house in Clare_market, and after doing great damage in the neighbour.
ing streets, severely injured a boy who had the temerity to approach
him as he stood at bay in a court in Great Oueen.street,

On Wednesday week, while the workmen were em-

',Toyed at a bridge across a small rivulet, near to Northallerton (over
which the Great North of England Railway passes), and when they had
got it nearly ready for the key stone, the whole gave way and came down
with a tremendous crash, owing, as we understand, to the centres being
too weak. Three of the bricklayers are seriously hurt (viz , Thomas
Hawman, and two sons of Abraham Peacock), but we Lope not danger-
ously. This ought to be a caution to all men employed ui'on similar
works, to have the materials good, and of sufficient substance. Had the
accident happened a little earlier, the loss of life would have beers very
serious, as the whole of the workmen dine under the arch.—Hull ri•itier-
riser.

Last Monday afternoon, as the superb new steamer

the City tf York, was nearing the Queen's Stailh, near Ouse bridge, a
dreadful accident happened to a sailor of the name of Gill, who was
tiring salutes from the sloop Mary. It appears that there was some ri-
valry between him and another person, as to which could charge and
lire the quickest, and Gill, having fired his cannon twice, was in the
act of ramming down the third charge, without having taken the pre-
caution of sponging, when it exploded and shattered his hand in a
friotful manner. The lingers were blown off into the water, and the
tendons hung down like strings: below the bare bone. A cab was im-
mediately procured, and the disabled man was conveyed to the County
Hospital, when it was found necessary to amputate the hand just above
the wrist —Mtn Advertiser.

" I send you a fat goose ; pluck him well," was the

I 'conic but much.menning letter of introt!uction once presented
to a Bath phys'cian, by a pvient consigned tu him ty a country
practirroner, who wrote over his dolt' a copy of the oNrord doctor's
sign, " mrd:cum,catharlicam, el mac quad cril iri ilum," and
had exhausted his whole pharnbicopteia upon the gentleman Who fan-
cied himself sick, before he dismissed him to the city of Blatiud... Alas!
for poor John Dill! I-Ic has ever been treated according to the lat
goose system. There has been a constant plucking going on from time
immemorial. While the war lasted, his purse was the common stock.
purse of all mankind The hands of all the nations of the earth were in
it ; and it was John's ttlory that it should be so. It was his boast that
in the march against Paris, his gold was the mighty ler.cr which called
up the crusade, and rolled ou the li ing tide of human bci:.'as again"
the common enemy —Liverpool Albion.
SINGULAR FATALITY.—In the parish of ileolry,
during the late storms of thunder and lightning, as mentioned in the
Herald some few weeks since, a man of tl c name of Thomas Shaw WU

struck dead whilst taking shelter under an oak ttee in a field when,
himself and two other men had been at work, and who, in all probahi.
lity, would hare shared the same fate but for tiler prudence in retreat-

ing at the cotnmeneement of the storm to the house of their employer.

'Their tumfortunate companion, whom on going out they found a corpse,
had twice before been injured by time electric fluid. What, however,
will be considered still more remarkable, is the singular fatality which
has attended his family. A sister of his, some few years ago, in a hay
field of an adjoining parish, fell down and instantly expired. One bro.
t her was killed by a hone kicking him. Another brother had the mis.
fortune to fall into a reserveir of water at a place called Wood End and
was drowned ; and a third brother, on joining the British army in
France, just berme the termination of the late war, died there sud.

denly.L it'urccsirr Herald. T
The General Stearn Navigation Company's pocket,
an 'Ned off the CuctoTn.house last right
on board the Prince and ?einem of
a°'
I:l:hiej3;l:lTht' ail':
i:BNdlf''.tr;l°/.:::.11:1":"k.:SbICI:3rA‘g. ihn.rgE . —On Sunday at initinioht
the town crier publicly announced that the two sons of a respect':::.ble
e ident of Hull, named Thwaites, the elder of whom was only eight
year.; of age, were missing. The whole
Monday
town was searched in vain, no
tidings of them being heard. o . morning, as the Grimsby
steamer Waz
- on her passage to Hull, those on board descried a boat at
without any persons being seen in her; on nearing it, however,
they found two little chi:dren lying at the bottom, whom they took into
their vessel, and brought safely to Hull. The boys state that they were
playing in the boat on the beach, which by some means became unfas.
!cried, and drifted out; they had nearly approached Grimsby at the
Cine they wtr,.! found. The little fellows had received no inj.:ry Lascrid
being nearly without food.—//u/1:027:eS

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