The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-11 00:00:00

STATE OF THE WEATHER AND

CROPS.
(From the latest Papers.)
A great part of the crops is yet in the fields, waiting
the return of fine weather. The coldness of the secson
prevents the sprout from injuring the grain ; and should
the weather improve, there is no doubt that the wheat
will he secured in good condition.—Doncaster Gazette.
The weather has been very fickle, precarious, and un-
certain. On Friday last rain set in in the afternoon,
and at night came down in torrents, and seems to have
been general throughout the country. Saturday was a
thorough rainy day. On Sunday we had rain, and a
hail storm at noon. In the night a sharp frost, so as to
destroy the dahlias and French beans in some situations.
About a mile from Nottingham, we saw a bucket in
which the water had been frozen during the night. Mon-
day was gloomy, but in the afternoon the shearers were
busy in the fields. Tuesday was a wet day ; and Wed-
nesday was unfavourable.--Nottingham Review.
The weather since Thursday has been, on the whole,
favourable for harvest purposes. The crops are gene-
rally in course of being saved, and although, compared
with last year's produce, they present a considerable
falling off-in quantity, the quality is considered pretty
good.—Corh Southern Reporter.
During the past week we have had a return of cold,
stormy, and wet weather, and consequently all opera-
tions in the harvest field have been suspended. More
than a third part of the wheat in this country is still
abroad, and, if the present unfavourable weather con-
tinue, of which, we are sorry to say, there is every pro-
spect, it must be materially injured. The tempest of
last Friday evening was very severe in many places in
this neighbourhood.—Wiltshire Independent.
The weather with us for the last few days has been
very unsettled, although little rain has fallen. The high
winds have had a beneficial effect upon the crops in the
way of drying them, and, in consequence, the harvest is
now very general. Early wheat and oats have been cut
in some parts, and all accounts agree in stating the re-
turns to be above an average.—Edinburgh Evening Pest.
The heavy rains at the close of last week caused a
large flood in the Loughborough Meadows and low lands
adjoining, and was the cause of some injury to the
potatoe crops growing in the latter places. On Sunday
evening the cold was so severe as to prodnee ice of the
thickness of half-a-crown, and has had a very injurious
effect on the dahlias and other delicate plants. The
dahlias in one or two gardens, that were intended for ex-
hibition at the forthcoming show at the Plough Inn, have
been completely spoiled. A considerable quantity of the
corn still remains unsecured.—Nottingham Review.
WET GRAIN.—The writer of a letter in an Oxford
paper recommends that any grain which may at the pre-
sent time be found to be wet, should be secured in the
• straw, placed in roomy barns, upon shelves constructed
of laths or cords, and by frequent removing, or the ap-
plication of a little heat by means of a stove, kept there
until it is dry. In this manner he says that an acre of
wheat might be placed horizontally along the walls with
every sheaf open, and by the introduction of an artificial
current of air, might be rendered in eight hours fit for
housing. The writer states that he has himself success-
'tiny adopted the plan with some barley.

CRICKET.—The Officers of the Ist and 2d
Life Guards have selected eleven men from each of their
respective regiments, to play a match on Garratt's
Grounds, Copenhagen-house, on Monday, September 13.
The following are named as players in this interesting
match :-
Ist Life Guards:
Corporal Rayner
Trooper Whiteor
Brag
Pettit
Shire

Ayres '
Measures
Blight
Lewis
Stuart
Lipscomb
Scorer—Grace
Umpire--Dadson
Wickets pitched at ten o'clock.

2d Life Guards:
Trooper Bentley
Yates

Lamb
Ellar
Marchant
Dennis
Rich

Weddington
Lockier

Harrison
Wright
Scorer—Fletcher
Umpire—FleLeher.

THE ROMANCE OF SPORTING.—,With the
single exception of "Nimrod," we have hitherto had no
noticeable writer on sporting subjects, although they
form so truly marked a feature in our national character.
If the gossip of the sporting circles may be relied on,
tlis blank in our literature is on the point of being
very pleasantly filled up by what will at least have entire
novelty to recommend it—namely, a Sporting Romance,
under the title of the " Old English Gentleman." It is
written, as we understand, by a gentleman of fortune,
who is well known in the sporting world ; and it is said
to contain characteristic sketches, drawn to, and from,
the life of every existing English field sport—from the
stag and fox chase, to the lowly otter and rat hunt
whole being linked together into a consecutive
setting forth the life and habits of a " fine old
entlemau." Such a work must excite. nusual
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