The Sun.
London, England, 1847-08-07 00:00:00

rather lower for nearly all descriptions. Even the great
decline in the corn markets app, ars not to operate in
any perceptible way. The tightness of the money
market has induced some wealthy manufacturers and
spinners to press sales, and while it continues things
are not expected to improve. Yarns are in fair demand
for export, but this season is always the busiest among
shippers.

THE HARVEST AND CROPS.
NORFOLII.—The harvest is already commenced ;
yea, and some of the new corn may, even at this very
moment, have been converted into food for man. The
stock of old wheat at the commencement of harvest is
probably less now than it usually has been at any
former period ; the mills are literally empty, and the
barns and granaries nearly so. The general harvest
may be expected to commence in the early part of
next week; and it appears unquestionable that
wheat, oats, and barley, will be found to yield a full
average produce, with the smallest possible amount
of defective grains where there are indications of the
presence of blight or mildew. The bean and pea
crops appear to he more seriously affected; first, by
reason of the glutinous and adhesive substance usually
called honey-dew ; and afterwards (as a necessary con-
sequence) from the presence of green and black
aphides ; hut even in this case we are not quite sure that
the amount of injury has not been greatly over-rated.
The worst feature of the present season is that which
appertains to the potato crop. The disease to which
this root has been subjected during the last two
years exhibited itself this year earlier than hereto-
fore, and is rapidly spreading over the whole,th under
somewhat similar circumstances, althoungll
peers to be a slight variation in the syiptomserwe aP
which
indicate eventual decay. Thus, instead of brown
spots on the skin of the young tuber, the
pellicle is enlarged by watery pustules; which in-
crease in size, as the potato itself advances
in growth, and will, in all probability, produce a more
rapid destruction of the root. Symptoms may vary,
but the disease is unquestionably the same ; and
such has been the case with the so-called epidemic
amongst horned cattle. First the hoofs, afterwards
the mouth, and latterly the lungs, became more or
less affected; and although naturalists may disagree
as to whether the former is produced by aphides or
electricity, the reasonable presumption is, that both
the one and the other owes its origin to some atmo-
spheric phenomena, of which we are wholly ignorant.
We never remember to have seen so large a breadth
of land seeded with mangel-wurzel as the present
year affords, and certainly a more perfect crop has
never been exhibited since the introduction of that
root. Turnips are almost equally unfailing, and the
prospect with regard to winter provision in general
is abundantly satisfactory.
DONCASTER.—FINE CROP Or OATS.—A crop of
oats, grown in a field in the occupation of Mr. Axe,
of the Plough Inn, adjoining the grounds of F.
Fisher, Esq., of Westfield, near Doncaster, from its
extraordinary luxuriance, has attracted much atten-
tion, has been cut, and presents such a mass of sheaves
as, in point of productiveness of grain, as well as of
number, has rarely been surpassed.—Leeds Mercury.
Coamvatar---The harvest is in a very forward
state. The Volley crop is spoken highly of. '
DORCHESTER.—SeveraI farmers in this district
have commenced harvest, and in a few days the opera-
' tions in the harvest field will be general. At present
the crops promise well.—Sherborne Journal.
BARNSLEY.—The glorious weather we have been
, favoured with of late has done all that could be wished

for in the vegetable kingdom of this district, and if we
have only a continuance of favourable weather, every-
thing promises to be abundant, with the exception of
beans. A few patches of oats have already been cut,
and several farmers talk of cutting barley next week.
We hear nothing of potatoes being diseased, but, on
the contrary, abundant crops, and the few showers
we had on Monday afternoon has rather revived the
turnips and other crops.
lium..—The weather has been hot, and although
we had some rain yesterday, it was again fine to-day.
We have nothing further to remark with regard to
the complaints about insects in the grain, although
there is no doubt but that injury has been done to the
crops in the south, and partial, though not very mate-
rial, in the north. As far as our own observation
extends, we think wheat and oats will be light in this
district, and barley good, but not a great crop.
Beans bad.

RIPON.—The season has hitherto been favourable
for the crops, although occasionally gloomy, with
slight showers of rain, but which have been rather
beneficial than otherwise. Some fields of barley we
have noticed much twisted, and in some situations
flattened, but they will not sustain much loss, save
the extra trouble in reaping. Wheat stands erect,
and presents a beautiful appearance. In oats there
is little reason to complain, but in beans the crops
will be very deficient. In some favourable situations
cutting has commenced, and will be general in the
ensuing week. We have not heard of a single
complaint of the rust, &c., in wheat, but a general
acknowledgment of a most bounteous crop. From
very close observation of the potato crops, we are:
enabled to state there continues a general soundness
in the plants. Occasionally diseased onea have been
exhibited to us, but, on inquiry, they would not
a►uount to a single one in a cart-load, and would
only have been noticed a few years ago as a common
("CC UrrenCe. If the yield of the lute erops .be equal
to the produce of the early ones, and even one-half of
them diseased, a reduction of 50 per cent. from last
year's prices would be ample compensation to the
grower.

FAILURE OF TUE POTATO CROP IN PARTS OF
et/RN WALL.—The Cornwall Gazette says—At Grade
the potato crop is beginning to look bad, and the
disease is become general. The sound potatoes are
of a superior quality, could we preserve them, but it
is to be feared there will be but few left after the
diseased are separated from the others.
BUDE.—The blight has begun to exhibit its baneful
effects in many gardens and fields ; the very early
sorts have turned out remarkably fine, but those re-
maining in the ground are showing the disease in the
leaves and stalks, and some that have been drawn the
last few days are marked with the scald (if we may
so term it) or dark spot on the skin : it is to be
feared that the late crops will be seriously
affected, but as a large breadth of other roots
and vegetables has been planted, it is to be
hoped that the loss will not be so distressingly
felt among those ill able to bear it. The weather is
remarkably fine, and in the course of a few days the
harvest will be general in this district. At St.
Merryn the potato fields are fast assuming the same
withered and blighted aspect they wore last year.
Still, we are happy to state that the tubers
themselves are not so generally diseased as they were
then ; neither in those which are diseased is the
process of decay so rapid; and the earlier varieties of
the potato are yielding an abundant produce. It is to
be feared, however, that there will be a very serious
failure in the late crops, since the leaves and stalks
are already smitten ; and these gone, it is impossible
that the tuber can attain any size. The ripening
n heat, barley, and oats, are magnificent.
WHEAT FROM SEED THREE THOUSAND YEARS
OLD.—At Castletown, on the lands of J. Eastwood,
Esq., within one mile of Dundalk, may now be seen
a splendid crop of about two acres of mummy wheat,
the seed of which was taken from the mummy brought
from Egypt, in which it was computed to have lain
above three thousand years, and presented to the Earl
of lladdington when First Lord of the Admiralty. A
few grains of the seed were given to Mr. Eastwood,
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previously, as we stated in last week's paper. We quite
believe, although there are many examples of the old
disease, and here and there very bad cases, that, never-
theless, upon the whole, the crop is in a satisfactory
state, and likely to produce an average return.
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shall, however, be prepared to speak with more certainty
a week hence."
Our own accounts warrant this favourable tone ; but
it would be foolish to conceal the fact, that there are
still occasional accounts of the appearance of disease
in a decided form. For instance, Mr. MiCormick,
the steward of the Duke of Manchester, at Tandragee
Castle, has published a letter in the Newry Telegraph,
stating that disease of the most decided character has
suddenly appeared in the potatoes of various kinds
planted there. Still, however, such cases are compa-
ratively few and isolated, and we have now got beyond
the time when the blight had become general and de-
structive last year.—Dublin Post.

LONG SERVICE.—WORTHY or IMITATION: MT
John Wills, an old servant of the late J. T. Coryton,
Esq., and the present Augustus Coryton, Esq., of Pen-
tillie Castle, has retired after having been forty years in
their service, rewarded with an allowance sufficient to
make himself and wife comfortable for life, with a good
house and garden, land sufficient to keep a cow and horse,
and likewise a very handsome present from Augustus
Coryton, Esq., as a token of the estimation in which his
cast services are held.— Wett Briton.