The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-13 00:00:00

AW2XCUILTUFLILL.

In the Highlands the whole of the last month was
variable and unsettled ; it had only seven dry days at
its beginning, and during the last three or four the wea-
ther has changed decidedly for the worse. The potato
harvest, it is feared, will suffer. The clover harvest had
commenced, but the crop is far from bulky, and the hay
will be but alight crop in most places.
Accounts from Belgium state that the bad weather
for the last eight days has caused an extraordinary rise
in the price of corn. The harvest is abundant, but with-
out fine weather will not ripen.
During the last three weeks the accounts from the
hop districts have been unfavourable, stating the growth
to have been checked by the cold nightS, while heavy
rains had chilled the ground. The estimate of the duty

r has again receded to 145,000/. to 150,0001., and high
Iprices are demanded.

Accounts from the south of Ireland say, " The
crops look uncommonly well and healthy—the potato
crop would have failed greatly only for the rain. If the
weather take up there is every prospect of an abundant
and remunerating harvest." From the north letters say,
" The wheat-crop is one-fourth over last year, and in the
event of favourable weather, incomparably superior in
quality."

NAVIGATION.
The navigability of the Euphrates is by every
succeeding expedition discovered to be more and more
practicable. The two iron steam-boats, which about
eighteen months ago left Liverpool, have traversed the
stream 1,100 miles from its mouth, an achievement never
before accomplished. The only obstacle, says Mr.
Floyd, surgeon to the flotilla, was between Hit and
Anna, where the navigation is obstructed by the remains
of waterwheels anciently used for irrigation. Nearly
300 of these were met with in the short space of 136
miles, and one-third of them are in operation at the pre-
sent day. They consist of large parapet walls built into
the stream, directing the current of the river to the
wheels, which are forty feet in diameter, and made of
clumsy branches of trees, with 150 vessels slung round
them to raise the water in.

The Court of Conservancy have actively taken up
the existing nuisances along the river. Among others,
recited as encroachments and obstructions to the navi.•
• gation necessary to be removed, are the piles driven in
before the wharfs between London-bridge and the Tem-
ple ; the floating pier of barges on the N.E. side of
Blackfriars-bridge ; a similar pier of barges at South-
wark-bridge; and others of the same kind at Dyer's Hall
Wharf, Old Shades Wharf, and Nicholson's Wharf, which
project into the river. The Lord Mayor and Corpora-
tion intend to remove these nuisances immediately. A
model of a very elegant pier proposed to be erected at
Blackfriars-bridge is to be seen at the Guildhall.

LAW AND POLICE.
In the Insolvent Debtors' Court yesterday, Thomas
Watts, late of the Crown Inn, Monmouth, and a special
constable during the riot, was liberated on bail. He
stated that his insolvency arose from neglecting his busi-
ness by looking after the Chartist rioters. Among the
debtors to the estate the following were entered ley the
insolvent :—" The Lords of her Majesty's Whitehall,
London, 701., 1840—good. Money paid to the use of
her Majesty in paying witnesses attending the trial at
the Special Commission of the Chartist rioters at Mon-
mouth," and " Thomas Jones Phillips, Esq., of Mon-
mouth, 201.—money paid in subpoenaing witnesses at-
tending the trial of the rioters."

—At Lambeth-street Police-office yesterday, William
Bradford, aged 73 years, was commired for trial on a
charge of having caused the death of his wife.
Two young men, of the names of Davis and Web-
ster, were committed yesterday at Union Hall, to take
their trial for robbing their employer, William Black-
well, hosier and linendraper, Camberwell, of money and
goods to a considerable amount. Lewis, another shop-
man, implicated in the robbery, gave evidence against
his accomplices, and was admitted to bail.

In the Rolls' Court, yesterday, Lord Langdale re-
fused the application of Mr. Kelly to transfer the trial of
the sues, in the case of Fowler v. Wood and others,
from Gloucester to the Bristol Assizes. The short hear-
ing of the case at Gloucester the other day, it appears,
cost 3,0001. ; probably the hearing before the Master of
the Rolls will cost 1,0001. more. The lawyers are wise
in their generation, and will take care to cut down Jemmy
Wood's property to an ordinary size, before it is divided
among his heirs.

NAVAL AND PiIILITATLY.
The 72d Regiment of Highlanders, stationed at
Windsor, was reviewed by Prince Albert in the Home
Park on Thursday morning.