The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-10 00:00:00

REFORM DINNER at DEWSBURY.
(From the York Courant.)
The Reformers of this town, who have ever beer
distinguished for their staunch and uncompromising
support of Liberal principle?, assembled together on
Thursday evening last, in the spacious warehouse of
Mr. Samuel Oates, woolstapler, for the purpose of 'ci-
tifying their unalterable attachment to the enlightened
principlei and policy which characterised the rule of
the late Administration. This dinner was the most
numerously attended of any ever held at Dewsbury, up-
wards of 300 persons being present. The Chair war
filled by Matthew Hale, Esq., and the following gentle-
men officiated as Vice-Chairmen :—Dr. Fearnley, Thos.
Todd, Esq., C. R. Scholes, E.g., John Grcaves, ,
Mr. H. Smith, Mr. George Plakeley, Mr. Thomas 11.
Gloyne, and Mr. Samuel Oates.
The CHAIRMAN, in commencing the business of the
evening, expressed the pleasure be felt at witnessing so
numerous an assemblage of a defeated party, because
he thought it was an omen of their future success. He
was about to propose the health of their late candidates
—Lords Morpeth and Milton.—(Cheers.) He could
not disguise from his own feelings that the Reformers
had sustained an humiliating defeat. They had, how-
ever, this consolation, that in the immediate locality of
Dewsbury they had maintained their majority, in spite
of all the calumny, misrepresentation, and falsehood,
which had been heaped upon their candidates, and par-
ticularly upon Lord Morpeth.—(Cheers.) He was
justified in saying this, because the most thorough-going
Tories in Dewsbury had since paid the highest possible
tribute to the public and private virtues of the Noble
Lord.—(Cheers.) The other candidate, Lord Milton,
was also entitled to their highest respect, from the fact
of his being the representative of a house, the late and
present head of which had ever been distinguished for
their ardent and devoted support of liberty, to secure
which they had spent in their life-time a princely for-
tune.—(Cheers.) Their late Noble candidates, how-
ever, although defeated, were not disgraced, and it
was with the greatest pleasure that he proposed—
" The healths of Lords Morpeth and Milton."
The toast was drank with enthusiasm and continued
applause.
Mr. JOHN TAILOR, of Batley, acknowledged the
toast. There were circumstances connected with their
late defeat which might perhaps be discouraging, but
there were many others of a cheering character' left to
them. The very fact of their having experienced a
defeat ought rather to induce them to redouble their
exertions.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. Taylor then alluded
to the proofs that had been afforded of the estimation
in which Lord Morpeth was held, in the fact that two-
thirds of the Liberal Members for Ireland, had offered
to vacate their seats in his ftviour, and also that in
Yorkshire, a magnificent present was about to be made
to him, as an imperfect acknowledgment on the part of
the Reformers of the West Riding, how deep was their
sense of the signal services which the Noble Lord had
rendered to the country and to his constituents.—
(Cheers.)
The CHAIRMAN next gave " Lord Melbourne and
his colleagues of the late Ministry."—(Much cheering.)
The Chairman observed, in giving this toast, that
whatever calumnies might be heaped upon the late
Administration, impartial history would one day do
them justice.—(Cheers.) He pointed out the hypo-
crisy of the Tories in their boasted sympathy for the
sufferings of the poor, for instead of rendering them
able by their own honest industry, to live comfortably
with their families, they deprived them of the means
of doing so, by upholding the present iniquitous Corn-
laws, which deprived the poorer portions of the com-
munity of obtaining employment, and thus sent them
into the very bastiles for which the Tories seemed to
have so groat an abhorrence and detestation.—(Cheers.)
Tilos. Tonn, Esq., proposed " The Liberal Mem-
bers of the House of Commons."
The toast was drank with enthusiasm.
The hilarity and good feeling of the company were
kept up to a late hour.

EFFECTS OF THE LATE STORM.
ELY.—On Saturday afternoon a violent storm of
wind and rain passed over this city ; the wind being so
strong as to take two sails off Messrs. Simpson's flour-
mill, which stands near the city, also two off a water-
mill in the fens, and split a large tree in two. Many
of the crops in the fens are drowned, but speedily the
water will be taken off by the engines.—Cambridge Ad-
vertiser.
YARMOUTH.—On Friday evening we were visited
with one of the most severe tempests we have witnessed
for many years, though happily we were spared mony
of those afflicting accidents which not unfrequently at-
tend a thunder storm. The night was fearfully dark,
and when the lightning darted forth, the whole horizon
to the south seemed one mass of silver flame. The
rain fell in torrents, and has been succeeded by an an-
Initial-degree of cold ; while the wind, on Saturday
evening, blew tempestuously. We fear we shall hear
sad accounts of the effect of the tempest on the Suffolk
coast.—Cambridge Advertiser,
•Up to Friday morning the weather continued most
propitious for the harvest, which was proceeding very
satisfactorily till that time, when the sky became over-
cast ; and between two and three o'clock we were vi-
sited by a heavy thunder-storm, which lasted for about
two hours, the rain falling in torrents whilst it continued,
and during the whole of the evening, It was reported
that the church at Teversham, and a barn at Eversden,
in this county, bad both been struck by the electric
fluid, the former considerably damaged, and the latter
burnt ; but we have been unable to learn whether these
reports are true or not. Throughout Saturday it con-
tinued raining heavily.—Cambridge Advertiser.
THE WEATHER, &c.—After more than a fortnight
of beautiful harvest weather, we have been subjected
to another dowsing as violent as any we recollect during
the course of the year. On Friday night, about twelve,
a violent storm began among all the surrounding hills,
dashing the corn about in every direction till late in the
morning, and swelling every river to the overflow of its
chansel. At six o'clock on Saturday morning, the
Don was little above its usual height at Lady's Bridge ;
but in the course of the day it had swollen to nearly
two yards above its ordinary level, and the meadows
below the town became in many places flooded. The
storm extended with equal effect over Derbyshire, and
the Derwent overflowed its banks very early in the day.
Of course, the harvest would receive a serious inter-
ruption. In many places a considerable quantity of
corn lay in swath ; and what was not cut has been sa3ly
laid. Many wheat stacks were also thrown down, and
the sheaves completely soaked on the ground.—Shef-
field Isis.
Harvesting operations have been much interrupted by
the incessant rains of Friday and Saturday, and the gloomy
weather since ; yet part of the grain has been secured
in this vicinity during the week, and accounts agree in
the general excellence of the produce, and of a full
average crop.— York Courant.
FLOODS AT STOURBRIDGE.—This town was on
Saturday morning visited with one of the highest floods
we have witnessed for sonic years. It began raining
heavily about eight o'clock on Friday evening, and con-
tinued without abatement throughout the night. By
seven o'clock the meadows through which the Stour
winds its way were covered with water, the stream
overflowing its usual course, and sweeping in one cur-
rent over the land. The lower part of High-street
was impassable fot foot-passengers, and the whole of the
cellars and some of the shops in that part of the town
were flooded. Much damage was done, especially at
the tan-yard of John Collis, Esq., the whole of which
was under water, consequently the liquor in the tan-
pits was much weakened, and considerable injury was
also done to the bottoms of two large bark ricks on the
premises. The loss is estimated at little short of 2001.
All the works on the banks of the Stour, including
those of James Foster, Esq., were stopped by the influx
of water, and many ricks which were not thatched
have been so saturated as to render it necessary to take
`,hem to pieces.—Worcestershire Chronicle.

STATE OF THE WEATHER AND
CROPS•
(FROM THE LATEST PAPERS.)

The weather, since our last, has been very un-
settled, and there have been some wild storms of wind
and rain. Intervals of sunshine have, however, oc-
curred, and we find, on the whole, that in our neigh-
bourhood but little damage has been done to that por-
tion of the grain crops which is still in the field.
Large breadths of wheat have been saved in this dis-
trict in excellent condition, and should the weather not
get worse than the average of wet and dry which we
have had during the past ten days, there is every reason
to believe that the yet outstanding crops will be carried
in a satisfactory state, and that the farmers will have
no cause to complain.—Bath Chronicle.
We have had another week of splendid
weather, and an immense breadth of corn has fallen
before the scythe and sickle, and a considerable quan-
tity has been carried in excellent condition. We are
happy to say that the crops everywhere equal our most
sanguine expectations.—Sheffield Iris.
THE HARVEST.—Harvesting operations have be-
come general here, and although its progress has in
some measure been impeded by the frequent showers
of rain with which we have been visited, yet vast quan-
tities of wheat have been secured in excellent condition.
The crops in general are ripe, and reapers in endless
variety, and at very low wages.— York Courant.
THE HARVEST.—The fine ripening weather that
has obtained since Friday last, has enabled several far-
mers in the lower districts of the county to finish the
harvest.—Ayr Observer.
Some damage lrai been done to the crops in
Clare and Kerry
from the late rains, and flower gar-
dens have been more or less pinched throughout this
neighbourhood by a slight frost which has fallen
within the last five or six days.—Liverpool Reporter.
THE HARVEST.--.'
...`he weather for the last eight
days has been cold and dry, and so favourable for cutting
down the crop that the great bulk of the grain in the
neighbourhood, as well as in the adjoining counties in
the east and west, is in the stook ; and since Monday a
considerable portion has been transferred to the stack-
yard, With the exception of the wheat, the greater pro-
portion of wbicb meat be coarse, all other deserip.