The Sun.
London, England, 1840-05-07 00:00:00

THE WEATHER, CROPS, &c.

We have now lyinc, before us agricultural report
from all parts of the kingdom. Happily, there is but
little difference in these accounts. They are all fa-
vourable—all concur in stating that notwithstanding the
singular drought during the past month things look
well. This, perhaps, is principally owing to the heavy
dews that have fallen for a length of time, bOth in the
morning and at night. We subjoin one or two paragraphs
on the subject from the Provincial Papers of last Saturday.
The thermometer stood at 76 in the shade, on Tues-
day. The wheat looks well where the farmer did his
duty in sowing it, but rain is now wanted for the light
lands. The hop-yards and orchards in Herefordshire
and Worcestershire arc very promising, but not yet en-
tirely free from frosts in May.—Skrewsbury Chronicle.
" We have been favoured -during the last two or three
weeks with almost uninterrupted fine weather, and the
change from the torpid breath of winter to the genial
smiles of spring has been more than usually marked and
beautiful. Still, until within these tew days, a little
rain seemed to be in good .request ; but during
the week, the earth has been refreshed by a succes-
sion of gentle showers, and their effects are vi-
sible everywhere mound us. The rapid alterna-
tion of sunshine and rain has done incalculable
good to the growing crops. The corn, which had been
much retarded by the late cold weather, is now improv-
ing daily, and exhibits a very promising appearance.
The wheat, particularly, is in excellent condition, espe-
cially that sown early on flat lands. The best farmers
are of opinion that barley never exhibited a more pro- '
wising appearance than do the present crops ; whilst
pastures, seed lands, and fields of general produce,
combine to give to the face of nature an aspect of '
greeness and fecundity.—Carnarvon Herald.
The prevailing fine weather, rather uncommon for the
month of April, has completely changed the face of ve-
getation in North Derbyshire, especially in the agricul-
tural districts. The wheat never looked in a more pro-
mising condition, of which there arc large breadths sown.
The spring corn presents a healthy appearance, particu-
larly oats, the seed of which was got into the ground well.
The grass has also put on a verdant and luxuriant hue.
This last remark applies, in a great degree, to the fertile
meadows on the banks of the meandering Derwent,
whose glassy streams are visited both by the contempla-
tive penciller and the hurrying man of trade.
We were last week informed by a gentleman who had
just travelled from Bristol to London ; from London
through the counties of Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, and
Lincoln, to Hull, and from Hull to Liverpool, that
the winter and spring wheat, and all other descriptions
of grain, are looking as well as ever they were known to
look at this season of the year. He states that the
quantity of spring wheat sown is unusually great.
We have had more genial heat within the last eight
days than we had during the last three years. Heavy
dews have fallen overnight, proving, so far, a substitute
for rain, which is now anxiously looked for. In few
spots, however, will the drought do any injury, though
it should continue eight days longer. Those who lack
faith are already beginning to draw a comparison be-
tween season 1840 and that of 1826 ; but we trust
and expect that ere long a shower will dispel such fears.
—Alp. Advertiser.
;'Warmth and salubrity still remain with us ; and so
far as it has gone, a more genial season has rarely been
vouchsafed to ua. The grain seed time has been
finished, and the green crops, viz., potatoes and turnips,
are rapidly introduced under fairer auspices than has
been the case for several years. The gardens, too, are
blossoming rapidly—hedgerows are greening, and alto-
gether there is the promise of a fair and early return.—
Sects Times.

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Lettcr3 from Venice mention that, on the 23d of
ril, Count Guiccioli, husband of Lord Byron's' famons
Cointessa died at that place. The Count was tour scat! years
of az,. 'He had had three wives, and they say would very
willingly have had a fourth, but that the last with all her
amiableness did not think fit to accommodate him by going to
another world. He left one legitimate daughter, and one son
and three daughters illegitimate. The latter are married.
We regret to learn from the Paris journals that
the Duchess of Orleans is so seriously indisposed that it has
been judged necessary to strew the street of Rivoli with sand
to deaden the noise of the carriages as they pass the Pavilion
Marian, in wh:ch she resides.