The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-03 00:00:00

THE WEATHER AND CROPS.

The bslautiful weather has made a great and excellent
chenge in the hat rest, a great deal of all sorts of corn
has been secured in good order, and many farmers in the
Weald have carted all their wheat ; but on the Downs,
the quantity of seeds and green stuff in the barley has
induced the farmer to use every moment he could to
secure that crop, and hence we see large pieces of wheat
s.lll stantung out. Another week of fine weather will
secure, pretty nearly, an average crop of wheat, but of
course there are exceptions.—Brighton paper of Thurs •
day.
The wheat crops come to hand much heavier and
better than was expected. The forward oats have been
got in well, and the backward crops look promising.
The late fine weather is expected to work great im-
provement in the barley. The peas that have been har-
vested tuin out well, and the beans are flourishing.—
Maidstone Gazette.

The harvest has begun generally in the neighbour-
hood of Newark, and in some places a good deal is
housed ; but the rain of Tuesday night has greatly re-
tarted the harvest.—Lincoln Gazette.

The harvest on the Tyne side has commenced, and
will be general in this neighbourhood in another week.
No new wheat has yet appeared in Newcastle market,
but it may be expected that samples will be shown on
Saturday next. It is generally considered that the
wheat in the northern counties will be better in quality
than that of the greater part of the southern districts,
where the weather has been more unfavourable than
with us. The weather has been very warm and dry
since our last.—Tyne Mercury.
The weather is very fine. We need scarcely add that
the farmers have been "making hay while -the sun
shines," and that the harvest is awing to a close in
our locality. The accounts as to the yield are very con-
tradictory, some maintaining that it is an average crop,
and others that it is not nearly so.— Worcester Chronicle.

EAST LOTHIAN.—The bar-vest has become very gene-
ral in the eastern divisions of this county ; we observe
fields cut on Palmerton, Thorntonloch, Skatera, East
Batas, Barneyhill, Oxwelhnains, Wester Parkerton,
Brandsmiln, Newtonlees, East Broomhouse, Newhouses,
Lochend, 'West Barns, Belton, &c. The barley and oats
seem of an average bulk, the wheat generally " stooks"
light. The weather has been very wet, but should it
clear up, next week harvest will be general.—lnverness
Courier.

On Friday and Saturday the weather was dry and
favourable fur harvest operations.; and the farmers for
merry miles round were all busily engaged in their im-
portant labours. The harvest has merely been protracted
to a rather late period of the season, which, so far, is of
course unfavourable ; but with such a breadth of grain
everywhere ready for the sickle, even a few days of fine
weather would secure a large portion of the crop. The
wheat after potatoes being as general short in the straw,
is mostly standing, and that part of it which has been
bad down is in general after fallow.—Edinburgh Obse..mr
of Tuesday.

KENT HOP INTELLIGENCE.
(From the Maidstone Gazette.)
MAIDSTONE.—The warm weather of the last week
has worked wondei ial improvements in the hop-grounds.
The hops have come out freely and vigorously, and in
many grounds, where it was expected not more than
three or fort- bags per acre would be got, six bags are
now looked for. These remarks apply to those grounds,
however, which are not affected by mould. Where
the mould has been found the Miles make little compa-
rative progress, and although the mould has not increased
so rapidly as was expected, yet it has increased. The
mould-stricken bines may produce a few hops at top,
but the growth of the lower branches is completely im-
peded. Below the hills, in the Weald of Kent., the hops
are generally much forwarder than in Mid-Kent, and
w :If be ready to pick ten days or a fortnight earlier.
They w;l1, however, come in. two crops. Some of the
hops on the same bines will be dead ripe long before
the others will be fit to pick.

WATERISMIURY.—The hops have improved within
the last week beyond the growers' most sanguine ex-
pectations, although a fortnight • since most persons
doubted as to there being an average crop, and the qua-
lity being good. There are now some exceptions, but
they are few end far between.

RENCIILEV.—The present warm weather is very
suitable to the hops, and they have made extensive pro-
gress during the past week, notwithstanding that several
of our gardens are still in a backward state, though they
bear a very luxuriant appearance. The season is too
:ilr advanced for them to realise an adequate weight to
the show of bine. I observe some few grounds tinged
with the " rod rust," but we have no indications of
mould here.

TOWN MALTING.--Hops in this neighbourhood. are
fast progressing toward a crop, and seem taking,all the
advantages that favourable weather can offer. Where
a fortnight back they seemed, as the planters term it,
to hang in the kurr,and further threaten to stick there, now

" In golden clusters hang the bitter crop,"
thanks to the timely change, by which they have shown
what they can do in the eleventh hour.
ROBEILTSBRIDGE.—The planters in general, and in
particular the Sussex ones, who attend Robertsbridge
fair, do a great deal of mischief in setting their own
prices, as it is impossible for them to know what quan-
tities and qualities there are in hand so well as the fac-
tors and merchants.

CANTEHBURY.—The few days of fine weather have
greatly improved the hops, notwithstanding that the
continued wet of the previous weeks has much accele-
rated the ravages of mould. Opinion is 'Much opposed
as to the ultimate realization of the calculations of the
betters in favour of the duty.. The burr has shown
itself generally, and 160,000/. is freely backed.
Tick:imam—ln this and adjoining parishes the plan-
tations have certainly made improvement during the
pest week, and the hops. now show themselves, yet
there are very many grounds short of bine, and which
cannot do much.

GOUDHURST.—The very fine warm weather, with
fogs, we have had recently, ripens the hops very fart
We had a great many factors and planters at Goudhun t
but the opinions were very. wide apart as to the amount
of duty. Many were of Opinion that the aphides, which
have appeared generally during the last week, may do
much mischief, as they have come upon us quite sud-
denly. It was the opinion amongst the factors that there
was every probability of planters this year making up a
little of the loss of the last two, the consumption of hops
being adequate to the new duty. If we consider the
small quantity of hops in hand, which was supposed to
be very great two years since, with the immense increase
of beer sent to India, &c., which-is little else than a very
strong decoction of the purest hops, and which is now
generally recommended to invalids by the faculty, this
view is accounted for.

" I'll back out of this, if you please," as the
crab said when the girl put him in the pot.
ROUEN, AUG. 24.—We have had beautiful
weather for several days, and they say there is not near
so much mischief done to the crops as reported, and that
:he result will be not much short of a fa►r average• Se-
veral English dealers are over here purchasing corn. A
new and extensive English establishment has commenced
here for building locomotive and other carriages, and
other railway business, and it is said will employ from
five to six hundred workmen. Our hotels are full every
day with English, Americans, &c., and the Grand Hotel
at Rouen has been .obliged to send away 30 or 40 per
day, although they make up near 100 beds.
EPITAPH.
Here I lie bereft of breath
Because a cough
Carried me off—
Then a coffin
They carried me off in.
—New York Evening Post.