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

THE WEATHER AND CROPS.

The beautiful weather has made a great and excellent
change in the harvest, 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
still standing 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 turn 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 drawing to a close in
our locality. The accounts as to the yield are very con-
tradictory, some maintaininr, that it is an average crop,
and others that it is not nearly so.— Worcester Chronicle.

EAST LOTHIAN.—The har-vest has become very gene-
ral in the eastern divisions of this county ; we observe
fields cut on Palmerton, Thorntonloch, Skatera, East
Barns, Barneyhill, Oxwellmains, 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 for harvest operations ; and the farmers for
many 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
laid down is in general after fallow.—Edinburgh Observer
of Tuesday.

KENT HOP INTELLIGENCE.
(From the Maidstone Gazette.)
MAIDSTONE.—The warm weather of the last week
has worked wonderful 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 four 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 bines 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
will be ready to pick ten days or a fortnight earlier.
They will, 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.
WATERINGBURY.—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 and far between.
BRENCULEY.—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
far advanced for them to realise an adequate weight to
the show of bine. I observe some few grounds tinged
with the " red rust," but we have no indications of
mould here.
TOWN MALusc.--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 burr,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.
ROBERTSBRIDGE.—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.
CANTEREURY.—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.
TICEDURST.—In this and adjoining parishes the plan-
tations have certainly made improvement durirg the
past week, and the hops now show themselves, yet
there are very many grounds short of bine, and which
cannot do much.
GODDIIIIRST.—The very fine warm weather, with
fogs, we have had recently, ripens the hops very fast
We had a great many factors and planters at Goudhurst,
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
L strong decoction of the purest hops, and which is now
generally recommended to invalids by the faculty, this
view is accounted for.

The Earl de Grey and Lord Eliot had a long
interview with the Marquis of Normanby at the Noble
Marquis's residence in Hill-street, Berkeley-square.
ERRATUM.—The name of the Consul at Rot-
terdam, printed yesterday Terrier in the Leader, should
have been Sir Alexander Ferrier.

ALARMING FIRE.--Wednesday morning a fire
broke out on the premises of Mrs. Shaughnessy, of No.
33, Shoemakers-row, Blackfriars, which at one time
threatened serious consequences. The business carried
on was that of a dealer in ladies' wardrobes, but the
upper part was occupied by several families. At twelve
o clock the flames burst from the shop with great violence
and the inmates were soon noticed at the windows im-
ploring assistance. The ladders were brought from the
station in Printing-house-square, and through their ex-
ertions all were safely got out, though one who had gone
to bed tipsy, was with very great difficulty aroused. The
engines soon after arrived, and in half an hour succeeded
in extinguishing the fire.

The Cherbourg Journal mentions that, a few
clays ago, no fewer than seventy-seven casks of wine at
Valugnes, in the Manche, were condemned by the Ma-
gistrates as unwholesome, and were by their orders
staved, and their contents emptied into the river. The
shores of the stream next day were covered with an
immense quantity of dead fish, and the inhabitants are
about to institute proceedings to recover compensation
for the damage thus done to their fisheries.

,
On Saturday morning, about eight o'clock, a
scaffolding employed in the building of one of the houses
in the Longue Rue Neuve, Brussels, fell down, crushing
in its ruins five workmen who were on it. One was
killed on the spot, and the other four were carried to
the hospital St. Jean so much hurt that their lives are
despaired of. Nearly at the same moment a journeyman
Mason employed on a building not far distant, fell
through the floorings above forty feet, and instantly
died, leaving a wife and five children, of whom the eldest,
a boy of twelve years old, was working with his unfor-
tunate father when the accident happened.
The St. Petersburg journals record the death of
a man named Mercian FedOtoff, in the government of
Vladimir, at the age of 120, retaining his intellectual fa-
culties till the last.

• ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
UNDER TilE MANAGEMENT OF MR. DA VIDGE
AND MR. WILLIS JONES.
Overflows to the Grand Equestrian Fetes—Last week'of Mazeppa.
THIS EVENING, SEPT. 3.
Will be acted Lord Byron's Spectacle, called MAZEPPA ;
OR, I'HE WILD HORSE OF THE DESERT; introducing
Mr. Ducrow's Magnificent Stud of Forty Horses, highlly-trained
Palfreys, Fairy Poneys, Equestrian Troop, and Companies of
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To conclude with, TURPIN'S RIDE TO YORK, intro-
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entire Stud.