The Sun.
London, England, 1838-09-03 00:00:00

The weather, according to the reports in the Journals from
Ireland and the West of England, during the last week, was
exceedingly stormy and rainy, and fears are entertained that it
will have an injurious effect upon the harvest. In this district
the weather has been fine, and we have heard of some fields of
barley being cut, though it is thought it will be a month be-
fore harvest is general. A field of barley was cut at Pegs-
worth, near Morpeth, on Monday, and sonic also on the banks
of the Coquet, near Rothbury.—Newcastle Journal.
If- ever there was an occasion when this highly favoured
land was especially called upon to acknowledge with humble
gratitude the bountiful dispensations of Providence, it is to be
found in the present brilliant harvest season—when the appre-
hensions and misgivings I%hich prevailed a few weeks back, on
the subject of the crops, have been converted into the joyful
certainty of luxuriant plenty. The weather, both as respects
dryness and warmth, has been, since our last, the most favour-
able for the operations of harvest which it was possible to ex-
perience, and, judging from the appearance of the fields around
us, the golden opportunity has benn diligently seized upon to
place the grain beyond danger.—Salisbury Herald.
Since our last, the weather in this neighbourhood has un-
dergone a very agreeable chalige ; and though the nights have
been somewhat too cold for that portion of the crops which is
still in a green state, the days have been extremely favourable
for all the operations of the harvest where the crops bad at-
tained maturity; and we Cave no doubt that a large portion of
the harvest has been secured in the southern and midland
1 counties. Indeed, notwithstanding the thunderstorm of Tues-
day evening, this has been decidedly the best week that we
have had since the commencement of July. Indeed, if we
mistake not, it is the first week since that time in which we
have had a single day entirely without rain. A continuance of
the fine dry weather which we now enjoy would prove an in-
calculable blessing., to the country, and esnscially if the tempe-
rature was a little higher.—Manchester Guardian.
The weather since our last has been more favourable than
any we have had for the last two months, and has again re-
vived the farmers' expectations of a tolerable, if not an average
grain crop. The corn has changed colour greatly within the
last few days, and a few more sunny days, like that on which
we write (Friday), will be most welcome.—Lancaster Guar-
dian.

The harvest has commenced in this neighbourhood—a field
near Burneside and another near Grayrigg having been par-
tially cut. Some time must elapse before it is generally ready,
though the fine weather with which we have been favoured
during the last week has wonderfully advanced it, and if it con-
tinue, we shall be blest with abundance. We are informed
that the crops of barley and rye in the neighbourhood of Duf-
ton, Knock, and Long Marton, near Appleby, were never
known to look better. In those districts very little wheat is
grown ; what there is looks very healthy, but is thin on the
ground.—Kendal Mercury.
We are now enabled to announce the partial commencement
of harvest in our neighbourhood. During last Friday several
fields of barley, situated about 16 or 18 miles west of this,
were given up to the labours of the reaper. In the early part
of this week similar operations commenced on some farms on
the eastern border of Berwickshire ; and yesterday a field on
the farm of Castlehills, within the borough, and the property
of Mr. E. Elliot, was cut down. All harvesting is yet con-
fined to barley, and apparently it will be several days before
any other grain is ready. The ripening continues to be tardy,
in consequence of the variableness of the weather.--Berwick
Advertiser.
We regret to state that the weather, though presenting a
more favourable appearance for two or three days past, con-
tinues precarious and unpromising; and the important question
over a considerable portion of the north of England and Ire-
land, with perhaps nearly the whole of Scotland, continues to
be not so much whether there shall be suitable weather for
gathering in the harvest, as whether the crops shall be suffi-
ciently matured to be worth the gathering. During the last
three days, indeed, we have had a more genial temperature
than before, and, no doubt, the corn has made some progress
towards maturity; but the fine weather on this, as on several
former occasions, has proved only the precursor of a violent
thunder storm, which visited Chesterfield and the neigh..
bourhood on Tuesday night, and, if we mistake not, will be
found to have been very extensive in its range. We fear that
the worm is indicative of a return of the boisterous and
ungenial weather which has lately prevailed—North Derby-
shire Chronicle.
The weather has been generally favourable during the last
fortnight, and a considerable quantity of corn has been cut in
various parts of the country. In Northumberland, the har-
vest has commenced ; but it Must of necessity proceed slowly,
as much of the green looks very green. The general impres-
sion, from all the accounts we have seen is, that the crop will
be under an average, and that it will be late before it can be
secured.— Carlisle Journal.
WALES. —Towards the end of last week, the weather was
very unfavourable, but since Sunday we have had warm and
dry weather, and the husbandman has not been idle. A con-
siderable breadth of grain has been cut ; and in a few days
more, if similar weather prevail, harvest will become general
in this part of the kingdom. The crops, it is stated, are good.
—Cainbrian.
IRELAND. --The accounts from all quarters, at home and
abroad, respecting the weather and the prospects of an abun-
dant harvest, are most cheering. The gloom that prevailed
for a time has totally vanished, and we hear nothing now upon
these topics but thanks and rejoicings.—Dublin Packet.
The state of the weather since our last publication has ex-
ceeded the most sanguine hopes of the agriculturists. Nothing
could be more favourable to the country than the heat of yes-
terday and this day. All indications of wet weather have
completely subsided, and the barometer, which was down to
" Rain" in the early part of the week, has risen to "Fair."
A general activity in getting in the harvest prevails in all
directions, and we understand that there is scarcely an un-
employed agriculturist labourer in this neighbourhood. Should
the present dry and warm temperature continue for a short
time, the injury done to the corn crop will be amply compen-
sated for, and (what is of immense consequence to the poorer
classes) the supply of late potatoes will be abundant.—
Southern ( Cor h) Reporter.
We have had several days of good weather in succession,
with every prospect of its continuance. Great progress has
been made in securing the hay, and a few days more will
bring the sickle into full operation. Several fields of barley
are nearly ripe for cutting, and the oats, from present ap-
pearances, will speedily follow. All look well, and have
suffered no d. aage. There are some complaints of rust in
the wheat crop ; but we fondly hope it will not prove very
injurious. Expectations are high, and prospect cheering.—
Erne Packet.
SCOTLAND.-_A field of most luxuriant barley was cut down
yesterday by Mr. Bathgate, in the immediate vicinity of
Cockenzie. We are also informed that a fine field has been
cut down near Broxburn, on the Glasgow road.—Scotsman.
The weather, though considerably improved, is still short of
being uniformly of that warm and genial kind, so necessary at
the season for bringing to maturity the crops. For nearly
three weeks, however, we have had a good deal more sun-
shine and less.rain, than for some time immediately preceding,
and its effects upon the crops have been very considerable.
The golden hue of autumn is now, in many places, visible ;
and, with fine weather, in a week or ten days several fields
of barley will be ready for the sickle. The hay crop is now
mostly secured.—Kelso Chronicle.
THE HIGHLANDS.—The continued ungenialness and un-
varying wetness of the season, begin to fill the minds of the
Highlanders—blessed though they are in general with crops,
which as to bulk are unusually heavy—with the most anxious
forebodings about the conclusion of the harvest. And well it
may. A late harvest, never a productive one, is associated
with them, as in 1836, with snows and storms, rains and winds,
and the depredations of vermin and cattle as its finale. The
earliest spots of barley will not be ready for the sickle these
fourteen days, even with the most favourable weather; and
oats will not be general for six weeks to come. In many
parts, such as Glenquaich, where the crops ure barely in the
ear, it is feared they will he of use only for fodder to the
cattle. The heavy rain and squally wind of the 20th, did
great damage in lodging—especially oats, which in all quar-
ters are particularly rank. Potatoes and turnips, except on
cold and wet soils, are good ; and clover hay__a very mode-
rate crop—was secured with marvellously little trouble in
such unsettled weather. The present season for haymaking,
the principal harvest of many of our chief graziers, is most un-
propitieus--there not having been for the last ten days twelve
hours of consecutive dry weather.—Perthshire Advertiser,
August 30.

The oat crop generally in this district is expected to be
very good—the wheat and barley fair—but turnips, though in
some parts they have recovered considerably, will be decidedly
deficient. We hear different accounts of potatoes, but on the
whole the favourable ones appear to predominate.—Paisley
Advertiser.

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An officer of police on Saturday last, in the course
of his evidence against a drunken woman, said " she has fallen
into a bad way, and has been for some time past in a state of
dissolution !" ' An old woman, who appeared to complain
against a' boy who had ill-used her son (a poor idiot), com-
menced her harangue by informing Mr. Hall that her " poor
lad was guilty of fits."
An lrisman, who was brought in for
being drunk and disorderly, said, pathetically, that he had le%
Cork for ever. " He's a cork cutter,'" said a wag near the
bench, " for he has cut Cork 1" An officer, describing the
nature of an assault which he had sustained, said, pointing to
one of the defendants, " that there chap, Sir, breviated his
stick over my head," meaning that the assailant had abbrevi-
ated, shortened, or broken his stick over his head.—Liverpool
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have before us reports from all parts of the coun rz, i)itittY in
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new, no intelligence of which our readers have not been at-
ready put in possession through our columns. We give a
few extracts, which mill serve as a sample of the whole. The
predominacy of the favourable over the less auspicious ac-
counts is perhaps referable in some degree to the common
tendency of speaking from the hope, rather than according to
an unwelcome reality. But still the weather, on the state of
which evidently the quality as well as the quantity principally
depends—has lately undergone an auspicious and influential
change.
The harvest has commenced in earnest, and auspiciously in
the South; and although a few days of cold weather have
rather damped the hopes of the Northern husbandmen during
the past week, appearances, upon the whole, favour the pre-
sumption that the wheat crop will be a fair one.—Gateshead
Observer.