The Sun.
London, England, 1841-10-19 00:00:00

THE WEATHER AND CHOPS.

The continued and heavy rains of last week flooded
some of the waters in this district to an extent greater
than has been experienced for several 3ears, and the
damage done to the property on the banks has in some
cases been very serious. The greatest damage seems
to have been done by the Till, which rose to a very
great hsight, and oterflowed nearly all the low lands
in the neighbourhood of Wooler, and in the lower
part of its course. On one farm alone nearly
300 acres of arable land were lying under water, of an
average depth of two feet. A considerable quantity
of the corn standing in stooks was carried away, and the
turnips suffered still more severely. Wooler, Ewart,
and Ooddington Laughs were one complete sheet of
water. The Glen was very large, be;ng fed by the Col-
lege and the Beaumont, which came down from the hills
very much swollen. The damage that the Glen has done
in its course, to dykes, caulds, bridges, and corn in
stooks, between Newton and its junction with the
Till, is ♦ery serious. Wooler W4ter was also very
large, and must have done much injury to turnip fields
in its course, for the turnips floated down in greet
numbers. All these waters running into the Till,
caused it far to overflow its banks, and the corn and
other articles seen hurried down by the torrent gave
ample evidence of the ravages that had been com-
mitted. On Thursday, the communica'iln with
Wooler was cut off, the bridge over the Till to the
north of that place, and the linds in its neighbourhood,
being submerged to such a depth as to render passage
impossible. The Eye also came down very large on
the same day, and caused considerable damage through-
out its course.—Berwick Advertiser.

A let tor from the neighbourhood of Wooler says :
We have had a most tremendous deluge ! Embank-
mews demolished, and corn and turnips carried down
t the sea. Such was the overflow of the waters that
the communication with the North was for some time
cut off; and some idea may be formed of the general
state of the country when I mention that on my farm
there were nearly 300 acres of arable land under water,
two fret deep on an average. No lives, so far as I have
heard, have been lost.—Edinburgh Evening Courant.
Unfavourable as were the earlier and middle parts of
the harvest, they are far surpassed in disaster as it ap-
proaches towards a termination. Rain, rain, nothing
but rain, every day ; and no ordinary rain either,
for it falls in even-down torrents. The land is com-
completely soaked, the strennlets have swollen
into rivers, and the rivers are everywhere in high
flood. But the worst of all is, that in the high and late
districts, a large portion of the crop is still in the fields ;
the great bulk of this consists of oats, and a part of
beans and peas. The former is already greatly da-
maged, and with a week more of the present weather
will be almost entirely lost ; the pods of the latter bare
begun to open, and a great loss must be sustained even
if the wea'he,. should immediately settle.—Scotsman.
The past four or five days have been marked by
squally, cheerless weather, the rain, with little ces-
sation, coming down in torrents—to the utter destruc-
tion, we regret to learn, of extensive breadths of the
sill unhoused and unstacked corn crops, aid the conse-
quent ruin and destitution of hundr,ds of the small
tied struggling farmers with whom the Western and
Northern (3istricts of this and the surrounding counties
abound. The late potatee crops, in the flats, are re-
ported as, in many cases, sour and unsuited for human
U3C. A dismal look-nut this for the dependent poor
of the community, and they, it is too true, form a large
portion of it.—Cork Softhern Reporter.

RESULTS OF THE HAIIVEST.—Ar.Tording to the
accounts that reach us from all quarters, the late crops
have been greatly injured—in many instances nearly
destroyed—by the continued severity of the weather and
the great quantity of rain that has constantly saturated
the earth and put a stop to all harvest operations. A
a
considerable breadth of grain, especially oats, is still
out upon hilly and backward soils. The damage thus
suffered must, of courte, have reneered the harvest
much in
go._nii
more deficient
r
nt than had
i Post.been calculated upon a
month

_ • TIIE WEATHEII.—NooN, OCTOBER 18.
ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET.
Barometer 29.90
Thermometer.. 52.1 Highest 52 I Lowest
Wiad N.--Freezing Point O 2 Deg.

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