The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-10 00:00:00

REFORM DINNER at DEWSBURY.
(From the York courant.)
The Reformers of this town, who have ever been
distinguished for their- staunch and uncompromising
support of Liberal principles, assembled together on
Thursday evening last, in the spacious warehouse of
Mr. Samuel Oates, woolstapler, for the purpose of ,es-
tifyiol; their unalterable attachment to the enlightened
principles and policy which characterised the rule of
the late Administration. This dinner was the most
numerously attended of any ever held at Dewsbury, up-
wards of 300 persons being present. The Chair was
filled by Matthew Hale, Esq., and the following gentle-
men officiated as Vice-Chairmen :—Dr. Fearnrey, Thos.
Todd, Esq., C. R. Scholes, Esq., John Greaves, Esq ,
Mr: H. Smith, Mr. George Plakeley, Mr. Thomas H.
Gloyne, and Mr. Samuel °atm
The CHAIRMAN, in commencing the business of the
evening, expressed the pleasure he telt at witnessing so
numerous an assemblage of a defeated party, because
he thought it was en omen of their future success. He
was about to propose the health of their late candidates
—Lords Morpeth and Milton.—(Cbecrs.) Ho could
not disguise from his own feelings that the Reformers
had sustained an humiliating defeat. They had, how-
ever, this consolation, that in the immediate locality of
Dewsbury they bad maintained their majority, in spite
of all the calumny, misrepresentation, and falsehood,
which had been heaped upon their candidates, and par-
ticularly upon Lord Morpeth.—(Cheers.) He was
justified in saying this, because the most thorough-going
Tories in Dewsbury had since paid the highest possible
tribute to the public and private virtues of the Noble
Lord.—(Cheers.) The other candidate, Lord Milton,
was also entitled to their highest respect, from the fact
of his being the representative of a house, the late arid
present head of which bad ever been diatinguisbed for
their ardent and devoted support of liberty, to secure
which they had spent in tt c.a. life-time a princely for-
tune.—(Cheers.) Their late Noble candidates, how-
ever, although defeated, were net disgraced, and it
was with the greatest pie Isere that he proposed—
" The healths of Lords Morpeth and Milton."
The toast was drank with enthusiasm and continued
applause.
Mr. JOHN TAYLOR, of B :Clay, acknowledged the
toast. There were circumstances connected with their
late defeat which might perhaps he discouraging, but
these were many others of a cheering character left to
them. The very fact of their having experienced a
defeat ought rather to induce them to redouble their
exertions.—(l-lear, bear.) Mr. Taylor then ailuded
to the proofs that had been afforded of the estimation
in which Lord Morpeth was held, in the fact that two-
thirds of the Liberal Members for hailed, had effered
to vacate their seats in his favour, and also that
in
Yorkshire, a magoificeet present was about to be made
to him, as an imperfect acknowledgment ou the part of
the Reformers of the West Riding, how deep was their
sense of the signal services which the Noble Lord had
rendered to the country and to his constituents.—
(Cheers.) -
The CHAIRMAN next gave " Lord Melbourne and
his colleagues of the late Ministry."—(Much cheering.)
The Chairman observed, in giving this toast, taut
whatever calumnies might be heaped upon the late
Administration, impartial history would ono day do
theta justice.—(Cheers.) Ho pointed out the hypo-
crisy of the Tories in their boasted sympathy for the
sufferings of the poor, for instead of rendering them
able by their own honest industry, to live comfortably
with their families, they deprived them of the means
of doing so, by upholding the present iniquitous Corn-
laws, which deprived the poorer portions of the com-
munity of obtaining employment, and thus sent them
into the very bastiles far • which the Tories seemed to
hhve so great an abhorrence and detestation.—(Cheers.)
THOS. TODD, Esq., proposed " The Liberal Mem-
bers of the House of Commons."
The toast Was drank with enthusiasm.
The hilarity and good feeling of the company were
kept up to a late hour.

EFFECTS OF THE LATE STORM.
ELY.—On Saturday afternobn a violent storm of
wind and rain passed over this city ; the wind being so
strong as to take two sails off Messrs. Simpson's flour-
mill, which stands near the city, also two off a water-
mill in the fens, and split a large tree in two. Many,
of the crops in the fens are drowned, but speedily the
water will be taken off by the engines.—Cambridge Ad-
vertiser.

YARMOUTH.—On Friday evening we were visited
with one of the most severe tempests we have witnessed
for many years, though happily we were spared rum
of those afflicting accidents which not unfrequently at-
tend a thunder storm. The night was fearfully dark,
and when the lightning darted forth, the whole horizon
to the south seemed ove mass of silver flame. The
rain fell in torrents, and has been succeeded by an un-
usual degree of cold ; while the wind, on Saturday
evening, blew tempestuously. We fear we shall hear
.sad accounts of the (fleet of the tempest on the Suffolk
coast.—Cambridge Advertiser.
Up to Friday morning the weather continued most
propitious for the harvest, which was proceeding very
satisfactorily till that time, when the sky became over-
cast ; and between two and three o'clock we were vi-
sited by a heavy thunder-storm, which lasted for about
two kours, the rain falling in torrents whilst it continued,
and during the. whole of the evening, It was reported
that the church at Toversham, and a barn at Eversden,
in this county, had both been struck by the electric
fluid, the former considerably damaged, and the latter
burnt ; bat we have been unable to learn whether these
reports are true or not. Throughout Saturday it con-
tinued raining heavily.—Cambridge Advertiser.
THE WEATHER, &c.—After more thati a fortnight
of beautiful harvest weather, we have been subjected
to another dowsing as violent as any we recollect during
the course of the year. On Friday night, about twelve,
a violent storm began among all the surrounding hills,
dashing the corn about in every direction till late in the
morning, and swelling every river to the overflow of its
chancel. At six o'clock on Saturday morning, the
Don was little above its usual height at Lady's Bridge ;
but in the course of the day it bad swollen to nearly
two yards above its ordinary level, and the meadows
below the town became in many places flooded. The
storm extended with equal effect over Derbyshire, and
the Derwent overflowed its banks very early in the day.
Of course, the harvest would receive a serious inter-
ruption. In many places a considerable quantity of
corn lay in swath ; and what was not cut has been sally
laid. Many wheat stacks were also thrown down, and
the sheaves completely soaked on the ground.—Shef-
field Iris.
Harvesting operations have been much interrupted by
the incessant rains of Friday and Saturday, and the gloomy
weather since ; )et part of the grain has been secured
in this vicinity during the week, and accounts agree in
the general excellence of the produce, and of a full
average crop.—York Courant.
FLOODS AT STOURBRIDGE.—This town was On
Saturday morning visited with one of the highest floods
vi e have witnessed for some years. It began raining
heavily about eight o'clock on Friday evening, and con-
tinued without abatement throughout the night. By
seven o'clock the meadows through which the Stour
winds its way were covered with water, the stream
overflowing its usual course, and sweeping in one cur-
rent over the land. The lower part of High-street
was impassable for foot-passengers, and the whole of the
cellars and some of the shops in that part of the town
were flooded. Much damage was done, especially at
the tan-yard of John Collis, Esq., the whole of wt ich
was under water, consequently the liquor in the.tan-
pits was much weakened, and considerable injury was
also done to the bottoms of two large bark. ricks on the
premises. The loss is estimated at little short of 2001.
All the works on the banks of the Stour, including
those of James Foster, Eq., were stopped by the influx
of water, and many ricks which were not thatched
have been so saturated as to render it necessary to take
them, to pieces.—Worcestershire Chronicle.

STATE OF THE WEATHER AND

CROPS.
(FROM TILE LATEST PAPERS.)

The weatber, since our last, bras been very un-
settled, and there have been some wild storms of wind
and rain. Intervals of sunshine have, however, oc-
curred, and we find, on the whole, that in our neigh-
bourhood but little damage has been done to that por-
tion of the grain crops which is still in the field.
Large breadths of wheat have been saved in this dis-
trict in excellent condition, and should the weather not
get worse than the average of wet and dry which we
have bad during the past ten days, there is every reason
to believe that the yet outstanding crops will be carried
in a satiatactory state, and that the farmers will have
no cause to complain.—Bath Chronicle.

B SLEY.—We have had another week of splendid
weather, and an immense breadth of corn has fallen
before the scythe and sickle, and a considerable quan-
tity has been carried in excellent condition. We are
happy to say that the crops everywhere evel our most
sac guine expectations.—Sheiflad Iris.
operations have he-
'll-1E HARVEST.—.Harv,btiog
come general here, and although . its progress has in
sonic measure been impeded by the frequent showers
of rain with which we have been visited, yet vast quan-
tities of wheat have been secured in excellent condition.
The crops in general are ripe, and reapers in endless
variety, and at very low wages.—York Courant.
THE HARVEST.—The tine ripening weather that
has obtained since Friday last, bas enabled several far-
mots in the lower districts of the county to finish the
harvest.—Ayr Observer.
Seine damage has been done to the crops in
Clare and Kerry from the late rains, and flower gar-
dens have been more or less pinched throughout this
neighbourhood by a slight frost which has fallen
within the last five or six days.—Liverpool Reporter.
THE HARVEST.—Tbe weather for the last eight
days has been cold and dry, and so favourable for cutting
down the crop that the great bulk of the grain in .the
neighbourhood, as well as in the adjoining counties in
the east ar.d west, is in the stook ; and since Monday a
considerable portion has been transferred to the st4ck.
yard. With the exception of the wheat, the greater pro-
portion of which must be coarse, all other descrip.