The Sun.
London, England, 1847-03-01 00:00:00

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LONDON, M_ONDAY MOIti4ING, MARCH 1, 1811.

mile and a-quarter from the house e!-Ace_rn,nll
tioned—Bills-'o-Jack's. The people Greenfield
stated that the night had been 'one of the se-
verest they had experienced for ms• a ears, and, ac-
1, et n y
. air of the hills,
customed as they had been to the
,
it was with difficulty they could h.„ made t believe that
human brings had survived stlch a bitter frost and
snow in a situation so expose& Mr. Wrigley states
that the position of the ...iave is such, that it is
doubtful if it has ever be've been visited ; and that .f
they had perished, it is probable that ears would
have elapsed before their bodies would have been
discovered, indeed, they had ever been dig;
covered! Their fingers on the Tues.. day morning were
so benumbed and contracted, that as they took them
from their pockets, pulling out with them money and
other articles, which fell in the snow, they had no power
of picking them up from the ground; and up to this
time sensibility has been but imperfectly restored to
these important members.—Manchester Times.

THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS.
From a curious " Table of Prices of Wheat," by Lieu-
tenant Mackenzie, author of the "Elements of the Cycles
of the Winds, Weather, and Prices of Corn." compiled
from Smith's " Wealth of Nations," and our Parliamen-
tary records, the following deductions are made. We
are induced to lay these before our readers from the
circumstance that, of late, public attention has been
aroused, both at home and abroad, to the discovery
made by Mackenzie of a fifty-four years' cycle or peri-
odical revolution of the weather. The " Table" we
refer to records the prices of wheat from the year 1203
to the present time; and, by a minute computation, it is
nan3d',adrusrinogf tthhee
octshcch;
proved that during twenty-seve,e
pries have a tendency to rise
twenty-seven years to fall. From 1836 till 1847, the in-
clination to higher prices has been perceptible; and,
from the present year till the year 1862 they will, it is
conjectured, still further advance. This the author
ascribes to the great prevalence of unfavourable winds
on this division of the fifty-four years' cycle. The
dreadful years ef 1800-1801, when prices wore at 110'.
and 116 s ; and again 1812-13. when prices were at 116..
a quarter ; fell within the corresponding division f
twenty-seven years. There is no doubt (the author
admits) that the effect of corn-laws, and other c)nven-
tional arrangements of legislators, political economists,
changes in the currency, &c., materially affect the prices:
these, and a state of peace or war, vary the rate and
generally produce higher prices upon both the dear and
cheap divisions of the cycle—more especially when
Europe is suffering under a striking visitation of nature;
but Legislative measures can have no place in any sys-
tematic account of the weather or in the revolution of
seasons ; and such is the powerful influence of the
weather, that prices, on the average, are proved to be
cheap and dear on the respective divisions of the
fifty-four years' cycle. This very influence of the
weather—altogether independent of conventional ar-
rangements—would produce, as it has produced already
for a period extended back for more than five hundred
years, an average of 54s on the dear half (or twenty-
seven years) of the cycle; and of 365. per quarter on
the cheap halt 'We are now in the commencement of a
series of unfavourable years, which (if the theory be
well- founded) will prevail till 1862, when another revo-
lution of the cycle will occur, which will have a tendency
to produce greater abundance, and consequently the
prices will decrease from that period till the year 1889.
—Church arid Mate Gazette.

FOOD RIOT—STATE of the NORTH.
Avoctt.—At the village of Avoch, in {toss shire, very
determined opposition was made by the fishermen and
others of the villagers, upon Friday and Saturday last,
to an attempt, by Mr. George More, farmer and corn-
dealer, to ship some h trley. Mr. More having applied
for protection in the shipment, Mr. Jardine, the sheriff
of the county, accompanied by Mr. Cameron, the sheriff
substitute, Mr. Mackenzie, the procurator-fiscal, and some
officers, repaired to Avoch upon Friday, and were joined
there by Sir Jas. Mackenzie, Mr. Davidson, of Tulloch,
and others. Arrangements had been made for procuring
from Fort-George, the aid of a company of the 76th Regi-
ment; but the forenoon was so stormy that they could not
be brought across the ferry in time to render their ser-
vices available that day. In their ahsence the sheriff
and his party endeavoured, but in vain, to obtain ac-
cess to the vessel, which lay at the pier-head to re. eive
the grain. Previously to their arrival, the entrance ti,
the pier had been barricaded by means of boats reversed,
and, when they came up. a crowd of from 100 to 200
men and women, old and young, expressed to them, veer
unequivocally, their resolution to obstruct the grain in
its passage to the ship. Proceedi!gs were. in conse-
quence, delayed until Saturday forenoon, when the au
thorities and their friends re-appeared, supported by
sixty men and two officers from the Fort. The villagers
had, in the meantime, loosened the
.vessel 'from her
moorings, and it was not until about two o'clock the
state of the tide admitted of her being afloat ; but
several of the fishermen entered their boats in the
harbour, with the evident design of drawing her
away, should she move towards the pier. The
people were addressed, and reasqed with by
the Sheriff and others to no put-puss'.. One o
the crowd read aloud the lesolutions of a meeting, held
about a fortnight ago, containing a pledge, subscribed
by Mr. More among others, not to export any more
grain from the district this season. This was rather an
untoward circumstance ; and we doubt whether the
Sheriff, had he known it earlier, would have felt himself
hound to comply with the requisition for protection. Ali
Parties being now on the ground, however, it was: to.,
ate to retrace their steps, and explanations and argu-
ments have failed to induce the people to retire, the sol-
diers were ordered to secure the command of the pier—
the boats lying across, the access to which were
' literally covered with women—and the Sheriff read the
Met Act. The people continued determined to resist,
saying they might as well die then as starve for
want of food ; but as the preparations for a
conflict approached maturity, Mr. More consulted his
friends, and came forward and declared that, " to pre
vent bloodshed," he had resolved to abandon the intended
shipment, and to retain the grain in the country—upon
which the people cheered and chaired him. Three young
men, considered to have been active in the riot, were ap-
prehended on the spot, and sent away to the prison of
I)ingwull under a military escort, and so the affair has
ended for the present. Farmers and corn-dealers in
Ross-shire complain that they are subjected to great in-
comvenience by suspension of shipments
of grain, owing
to the non-arrival of the Ilth regiment, which has been
expected in Fort George for the last three weeks—the
whole disposable force in the garrison having now been
dispatched to Caithness, to quell the food riots in that
county.—lnverness Courier.