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

THE WEATHER AND CROPS:

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 years, 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 height, and overflowed nearly all the low lands
in the neighbourhood of Wooler, and in the lower
part of its course. Oa 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, Etvart,
and Dodilington baughs were one complete sheet of
water. The Glen was very large, being 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 very serious. Wooler Water was also very
large, and must have done much injury to turnip fields
in its course, for the turnips floated down in great
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. Oa Thursday, the communicatirn with
Wooler was cut off, the bridge over the Till to the
north of that place, and the lands 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 letter from the neighbourhood of Wooler says :
We have had a most tremendous deluge ! Embank-
ments demolished, and corn and turnips carried down
to 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 fcet deep on an average. Nolives, 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. Rile, rain, nothing
but rain, every day ; and no ordinary rain either,
for it falls in even-down torrents. The land is coin-
completely soaked, the stre inalets 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 litter have
begun to open, and a great lose must be sustained even
if the weather should immediately settle.—Scolsuzan.
The past four or five days have been marked by
squally, cheerless weather, the rain, with little ces-
sation, coining down in torrents—to the utter destruc-
tion, wo regret to learn, of extensive breadths of the
still unhoused and unstacked corn crops, and the conse-
quent ruin and destitution of hundreds of the small
and struggling farmers with whom the Western and
Northern districts of this and the surrounding counties
abound. The late potatoe crops, in the flats, are re
ported as, in many cases, sour and unsuited for human
use. A dismal look-out this for the dependent poor
of the community, and they, it is too true, form a large
portion of it.—Cork Southern Reporter.
RESULTS Os' TIIE HARVEST.—According 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 qnantity of rain that has constantly saturated
the earth and put a stop to all harvest operations. A
considerable breadth of grain, especially oats, is still
out upon hilly and backward soils. The damage thus
suffered must, of course, have rendered the harvest
much more deficient than had been calculated upon a
month ago.—Duhlin Evening Post.

BRIGIITON, OCT. 18.--The weather for
some time past has been very boisterous, and last
night the wind was very high. It is feared much
damage has taken place at sea, as during the
week several broken spars, deals, &c., have been
washed ashore. Her Majesty's steamer Comet, bound
for Portsmouth, was compelled to run into Newhaven
harbour last week, where she remained several days.
The Lord Melville now running between Dieppe and
Brighton, experienced very severe weather during her
last voyage home, and on arriving off Brighton, was up-
wards of ten hours beating about before she could get
into Shoreham harbour. A vessel laden with Irish pro-
visions, belonging to Mr. Bass of this town, named " The
Brighton," had a narrow escape yesterday in running
into. Shoreham, the seabroitking, completely over her,
but - fortunately succeeded in getting in safely. The
poor fishermen have been great sufferers in consequence
of not being able to put to sea, and for the last week or
ten days Brighton has been supplied with fish from the
London markets. In the town chimney pots have been
flying about in all directions. On Saturday a whole stack
of chimneys wait lown down in George-street, fortunately
no one was passing at the time. Great dambge is done
by the floods from the heavy rains. In the western part
of Sussex the rivers Adur and Arun have in many parts
overflown their banks, and the fields in the neighbour-
hood of Arundel, Petworth, Beding, Steyning, &c., are
one sheet of water. In the eastern part the river Ouse
has overflown its banks in the low parts, covering the
meadows with water. The Lord Melville, Captain
Cheeseman, for Dieppe, was lying in Shoreham harbour
yesterday with her passengers on board, amongst whom
were Lady Seymour and family, but up to 12 o'clock last
night Captain Cheeseman was unable to put to sea.
KEEN SATIRE.—A facetious Abbe, having a
box at the Opera-house in Paris, was turned out of his
possession by a Mareschal
as remarkable for his
ungentlemanlike behaviour, as for his cowardice and
meanness. The Abbe, for this unjustifiable breach of
good manners, brought his action in a court of honour,
and solicited permission to be his own advocate, which
was granted. He then pleaded to the following effect :---
"'Tis not of Monsieur Souffein, who acted so nobly in
the Jast Indies, that I complain ; it is not of the Due
de Crebillon, who took Minorca, that I complain ; it is
not of the Comte de Grasse, who •so bravely fought
Lord Rodney, that I complain ;—but it is of Mareschal
who "took my box at the Opera,-house, and never
took any thing else." This piece of satire so sensibly con-
vinced the Court that the complainant had already in-
flicted punishment sufficient, that they refused to grant
him a verdict.
SPECIMEN
ToRYISM.—A commercial tra.
yeller has written to inform us. that having a few days
since driven into the town of Northallerten in York-
shire after dark, he was surprised. to find the streets
unlighted, and nearly the whole town in darkness. On
inquiring into the cause, he found that the proprietor of
the gas-works having at the last election given his' sup.
port to Mr. Wrightson the Liberal candidate, the Tories
of the town, who,.it appears, have at present the upper
hand in municipal matters, have entered into a combina-
tion to use no more gas in their shops, nor in the streets.
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This piece of folly and tyranny is almost too monstrous
for belief, but is, nevertheless, a fact attested by more
than one respectable eye-witness.—Berwick Advertiser.