The Sun.
London, England, 1847-08-10 00:00:00

AUGUST 10, 1847.

FOREIGN CORN AND HARVEST.
BRUSSELS, AUGUST B.—From the Ist to the sth of
August, 1847, eleven vessels entered the port of Ant-
werp, laden either wholly or in part with grain. The
importations made were— Kilometres.
Wheat ... ... 553,000
Rye ... 418,000
Flour ... 348,800
Rice ... 441,900

1,761,700
We do not recollect ever to have seen exposed in our
market, on one day, so large a supply of grain as on the
6th of August. There were above 425 sacks-100 of
wheat, 325 of rye. It will be easily understood that
this large supply produced a very considerable decline in
the prices. All the wheat found purchasers at 21f. to
24f. 10c. per sack of a hectolitre and a half. Compared
with last week, this was a fall of from 9 to 10 florins.
Rye was also sold at a decrease of 2 to 3 florins—that is
to say, from 11 to 13 florins; but a parcel was withdrawn
fur want of purchasers. At first a small quantity was
sold at 15f.

DORDRECHT, AUGUST s.—The arrivals of wheat
have not been very abundant. There has, however, been
a fall of 30 cents. in wheat for home consumption.
DRESDEN, AUGUST 2.—The harvest is going on for-
ward by the most propitious weather, and is so wonder-
fully productive that the fields in some places yielded
three or fourfold the quantity of last year in sheaves,
and thegrain when threshedfrom 10 to 15 per cent. more.
Nor is this great fruitfulness confined to grain of every
description—it is likewise the case with fruit, from the
finest cherries, which we have had now on the table for
six weeks, to blackberries; immense quantities are ex-
posed daily in our market. Beans and cucumbers are
very fine, and sold at moderate prices. The vintage
also promises to be unusually luxuriant. The vines
bear numerous clustres of grapes of uncommon size. If
this month should continue as warm our resources will
be greatly multiplied.

HIGHLAND AGRICULTURAL
SOCIETY.

The annual show of this institution commenced on
Wednesday at Aberdeen. Notwithstanding the bustle
and excitement of the elections, the attendance was very
large. The space allotted to the show-yard on the city
common covered six imperial acres. There was no
covering to shelter the cattle in case of rain; but the
weather was all that could be desired. In the centre of
the show-yard an elegant marquee was erected for the
exhibition of seeds, plants, and specimens of corn;
while a large portion of ground was set apart for the
show of implements, and for conducting such experi-
ments as may be required. The show of implements
was opened to the public on Wednesday, but few articles
were exhibited, and not one presented either original or
novel features. The show of roots, seeds, and manures
was considered excellent. There were specimens from
John o'Groat's to the Land's-end. Among the esculents
we observed some very fine potatoes from the Continent,
particularly from Belgium, and some good beet-root
from France. Numerous specimens of flax were also
shown. Some hundred acres of this plant are now under
crop in the vicinity of Aberdeen, by way of experiment,
and with a view to its general cultivation in Scot-
land, should it thrive and yield a good return. One
of the manufacturers here has 60 acres growing near his
country house, and promising an early and abundant
harvest. On Thursday morning the show, properly so
called, opened. By noon there were some 3,000 people
in the show-grounds gathered from all quarters of the
world. The show of stock was unusually large, there
being no fewer than 500 animals of every sort of breed
placed for competition. One thing in particular dis-
tinguished this show from that of the Royal Agricultural
Society at Northampton, viz., the fine healthy appearance
of the animals. This society, it seems, gives prizes for
the best fed oxen at the smallest possible cost, and this
has no doubt done much to cure the evil of over-feeding,
for which they have so often and so justly rapped your
royal neighbour over the knuckles.
A grand dinner party of members and friends of the
institution assembled after the show in a magnificent
pavilion erected for the occasion. This place is quite a
show of itself, the decorations being of the most costly
description, and the company numbering about 1,000.
Lord Aberdeen occupied the chair, and amongst those
supporting him we observed Sir T. Burnett, Admiral
Gordon, M.P.; Captain Fordyce, the Member for the
City; Major Cumming Bruce, and several other noble-
men of agricultural as well as political fame. After
several rather common place speeches the party sepa:
rated.

Amongst the prizes awarded were,—for short-horned
breed, best bull, 25 sovs., to Amos Cruickshank, of
Sittytort; to the breeder of the best bull, the silver
Anedsl, to William Torr, Riby, Lincolnshire. Aberdeen,
Awns, and Galloway p lled breeds; best bully 25 sovs.,
to Hugh Watson, Keillor; to the breeder of .the best
bull, the silver medal, Hugh Watson, Keillor. Best
cow of the Aberdeenshire horned breed, 10 sovs., to
James Pirie, Collithie. Best entire horse, for agricul-
tural purposes, 30 sovs., to Joseph Tait, Auchmillie,
near Portsoy. Best black•faced tup, 5 sors., to William
Tod, Elphinstone Tower, county of Haddington; best
Cheviot tup, 5 sovs., to Donald Horne, of Langwell; se-
cond best, 3 sovs., to Donald Horne, of Langwell; best
Leicester tup, 5 sovs., to Thomas Watson, Esperston,
near Tuslice- bridge. Best boar, large breed, 4 sovs., to
his Grace the Duke of Buccleuch; best boar, small
breed, 4 sovs., to Sir Thomas Burnett, of Leys, Bart.;
best sow, large breed, 4 goys., to David Robertson,
Royal Hotel, Aberdeen. Various premiums and recom-
mendations were made by the judges for implements,
seeds, roots, &c., and extra stock.

Our readers will remember the loss of the cutter
Clio, near Gorey, on Sunday, the 18th ult., by which
three men met a watery grave. One of them, Philip
Ronde% was picked up on Tuesday last, near Gra le de
Lecq ; and a second, William Creeks, near " La Cor-
biere faint," on Thursday. Their being found in such
opposite directions to the spot where they met with
their deaths, shows the effects of the working of the tide
and currents round the island.—Jersey Telegraph.
TRIAL TRIP OF THE G IJADALQUIVER.—A few
weeks ago we noticed the appointment of Captain Hos-
ken, late of the Great Britain, to the command of the
steam -ship Guadalquiver, a vessel of peculiar construc-
tion, which has been built by Messrs. Vernon, of this
town, for an American company, to run with passengers
on the southern coast of Cuba. Since that notice was
given the ship has rapidly completed her preparations
for sea ; and on Saturday last she proceeded from the
' Coburg Dock on a trial trip down the Channel, in ordtr
to test her capabilities. The Quadalquivir started from
the Coburg Dock at eight o'clock in the morning, having
on board a small party of ladies and gentlemen. The
weather, though at first showery and unfavourable,
afterwards became beautifully fine ; and the ship made
excellent way. The Skerries were reached in a run
of about six hours, at two o'clock, against a strong op-
posing tide and head wind, and notwithstanding that the
ship had on board ten days' supply of coal; and at seven
o'clock she returned to the Coburg Dock, after a cruise
highly satisfactory in its results in regard both to the ves-
sel and her admirably constructed engines, which worked
with unusual smoothness. The company on board en-
joyed the excursion highly, and separated with feelings
of regard most honourable to the gallant host whose
hospitality they had received. The Quadalquiver, as we
have stated, proceeds shortly to New York. Captain
Hosken's command, however, which was assumed at the
earnest solicitation of a gentleman who is, we believe, a
leading proprietor of the company for which she was
built, and who has many times crossed, and proposes
again to cross, the Atlantic with Captain Hosken, ter-
minates on her arrival out; and at New York the ship,
we are informed, will be fitted with flush decks, after the
American plan of steam-ship e instruction. The Gua-
dalquiver measures 600 tons burden, and her engines,
which were built by Messrs. Fawcett and Preston, are
of 220 horse-power. Her paddle-boxes lies, as has been
stated before, within the line of bulwark—not projecting
beyond, as is usual. We trust the ship will meet with
success.—Liverpool Albion.
HEARTRENDING CATASTROPHE.—A most mourn-
ful occurrence took place near Carsethorn, on Friday
last. Peter Hall, an Irishman, who gains his living by
travelling the country and vending broom besoms, after
lodging all night with his children, two boys and a girl,
at Lochise, near New Abbey, took the road with them
in the morning in the direction of Carsethorn. The
party took a near cut across the sands, the father allow-
ing the children to amuse themselves at the water edge,
while he it is supposed, was busy with his occupation.
While the heedless trio were engrossed gathering shells
on the sand banks, the tide was creeping up stealthily,
and cutting them off from the main land. At last the
children were roused by the rushing waters, and quite
bewildered and ignorant of the locality, they ran from
the still uncovered ground which they occupied into the
tide. The distracted father soon joined them, and did
his best to save his precious household now in deadly
peril. He caught hold of the two youngest, and made a
desperate attempt to bring them on shore, but, from
sheer exhaustion he had to let go. The eldest boy, who
could swim a little, managed to keep his head above
water for a while, but his strength was insufficient to
strive against the tide. A boat, manned by Captain
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The Cork Examiner says :—Owing to the great
receipt of potatoes and other vegetables to our markets,
the master bakers of this city discharged, on Monday
last, forty of their journeymen. It is calculated by in-
telligent persons that the food produced in Ireland this
year will be nearly double the usual quantity, owing to
the enormous extent of green crops.

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The Rev. James Bedingfield, Trinity College (B.A.
1831), vicar of Debenham, Suffolk, to be chaplain to
Lord Henniker.
The Rev. E. Clay, B.A. (1847), Trinity, to the per-
petual curacy of Skerton, Lancashire.
The Rev. H. P. Hamilton, M.A. (B.A. 1816), Trinity,
to the rural deanery of the eastern division of Catterick,
in the diocese of Ripon.
The Rev. G. A. Rogers, M.A. (B.A. 1840), Trinity,
to the vicarage of Leominster, Herefordshire.
The Rev. Arthur Martineau, M.A. (B.A. 1829), to
the rural deanery of the north-eastern division of the
Ainsty, in the diocese of Ripon.
The Rev. John Marriner, B.A. (1828), Trinity, to
the rural deanery of Kirby Lonsdale, in the diocese of
Ripon.
The Rev. Joseph Woolley, M.A. (B.A. 1840), St.
John's College, to the rectory of Crostwick, Norfolk.
Patron, the Bishop of Norwich.
The Rev. Nathaniel Meeres, B.D. (1840), St. John's,
to the rectory of Little Stambridge, Essex.
The Rev. S. Earnshaw, M.A., St. John's, to be chap-
lain to the parish church of Sheffield.
The Rev. Richard Parkinson, B.D. (B.A. 1820), St.
John's, to the deanery of Northow, Herts.
The Rev. Richard Wall, B.A. (1844), St. John's, to
the perpetual curacy of St. Anne, Birkenhead.
William James Read, B.A. (1847), to the Second-
Mastership of the Collegiate School, Sonthwell, Notts.
The Rev. Thomas Dale, M.A. (B.A. 1823), Corpus
Christi, to be Examiner of the Candidates East India
College, Haileybury.
The Rev. Anthony Boulton, D.D. (B.A. 1841), Sidney
Sussex, to the Chaplaincy of the House of Correction,
Tiverton, Devon.
The Rev. E. Morton, B.A. (1828), Sidney Sussex, to
the chaplaincy of the Kettering Union.
The Rev. F. F. Thompson, B.A. (1846), Sidney
Sussex, to the curacy of Belthanger, Kent.
The Rev. Robert Goodwin, M.A. ( 8.A.. 1829), Clare
Hall, to the rectory of Hildersham, Cambs, on his own
petition.
The Rev. H. S. Mathews, to the rectory of Bentworth,
Hants.
The Rev. Samuel Sunderland, (B.A. 1829)' Clare
Hall, to the rural deanery of Doncaster, in the diocese
of Ripon.
The Rev. Frederick Walter Baker, M.A. (B.A. 1836),
Caius, to the deanery of Beaulieu, Hants.
The Rev. Bernard Moore, B.A. (1824), Jesus, to the
rectory of Sutton, Norfolk.
The Rev. H. A. A. Oakes, M.A. (B.A. 1825), Jesus,
to the rectory of Hawkedon, Suffolk.
The Rev. Josiah Bateman, M.A. (B.A. 1828), Queen's,
to the rural deanery of the southern division of Ponte-
fract, Yorkshire, in the diocese of Ripen.
The Rev. Charles Besley Gribble, B.A. (1829),
Christ's, to the perpetual curacy of St. Paul's, White-
chapel.
The Rev. W. B. Calvert, B.A. (1843), Pembroke, to
the curacy of St. Peter's, Frome, Somerset.
The Rev. H. G. Seawen Blunt, B.A. (1845), Pem-
broke, to the rectory of Kirkby Overblows, Yorkshire.
The Rev. Robert Poole, M.A. (B.A. 1833), Catharine
Hall, vicar of Ripon, to the rural deanery of Ripon
Cathedral.
The Rev. Thomas Allbutt, M.A. (BA. 1833), Catha-
rine Hall, to the rural deanery of the Central Division
of Pontefract, in the diocese of Ripon.