The Sun.
London, England, 1833-07-11 00:00:00

By WILLIAM CRACKELT, A.M.

Carefully revised throughout by the Rev. M. G. SAR-
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terday at Wormwood Scrubs.

THE CROPS.

Great fears are entertained about the safety of the crops
in this vicinity, in consequence of the continued wet and
high winds.—Limerick Chronicle.
The stormy weather of late has retarded the hay harvest
in many parts of the country. The corn crop is, gene-
rdlly speaking, however, both promising and abundant._
Edinburgh Observer. _ .

The hops in this county are still looking extremely
well, the late boisterous weather having inflicted compa-
ratively but little injury. The hives are stated to he
unusually healthy and vigorous.—Sussex Advertiser.
Haymaking is now very general through this county.
The wheat and oat crops promise fairly ; the ear is not
very full, but exceedingly free floor smut. Barley also
looks well. A very excellent harvest may be expected if
the weather continues fine.—Derbyshire Courier.
The weather the last two days has undergone a most
welcome change, and we sincerely hope the alteration will
he permanent, that the farmers may be enabled to bring
their bay harvest to a termination. There is still a con-
siderable extent of grass uncut, as well as much lying in
the swathe, awaiting the drying influence of the sun.—
Worcester Herald.

The weather, we are sorry to say, still continues unfa-
vourable. For weeks there has hardly been a single dry
day, and the barometer oscillates perpetually between foul
and fair. Haymaking meets with the most serious inter-
ruptions, and the grass, from its very abundance, will rot
in some places unless the elements undergo an immediate
and favourable change. The wheats are rapidly getting
into flower, and will soon suffer from a hazy atmosphere,
and the great absence of solar heat. The cycles, as they
are called, still haunt our imagination ; and it imparts the
reverse of comfort to know that, although the spring of
1816 was late and bleak, May and June bore a strong re-
semblance to the corresponding months of 1833.—Thum-
fries Courier.

Our communications from the agricultural districts
within the list three or four days enable us to give the
following general report as to the state of the crops :
Wheat, in every instance that we have heard of, is
luxuriant. It was strong in the ground before the lor•
drought in the spring commenced. Barley and oats ge-
nerally light, excepting in the low grounds and fen dis-
tricts, and even there the crop is far below an average
one. Beans average a good crop, and peas rather a light
one. Hay is universally light. In all the communica-
tions upon farming subjects that we have received there
is ❑o exception to this statement. Rye will be ready for
the scythe in the souther❑ counties in about a fortnight.
Potatoes promise an abundant crop, and are fine in
quality. The stormy weather of late has retarded the
harvest in many of the counties. The corn crop is, ge•
nerally speaking, however, both promising and abundant.
—Sheffield Courant.

In the eastern an: southern parts of Scotland the crop;
are looking superb. In consequence of the heat and
drought of the month of May fears were entertained for
the hay crop, but the rain came very opportunely, and im-
proved it much ; and if properly secured it bids fair to be
an average crop. As there is, however, abundance of old
hay in the country, the price will scarcely he a remunerat-
ing one to the farmer. Wheat, barley, and oats present
a most luxuriant appearance, and if the rain, of which
there has now been more than enough, clear off, there is
every prospect of an abundant harvest. In the western
counties, particularly Ayr and Argyleshires, the green
crops wear an equally favourable aspect. The potatoe
crop, however, has partially failed in the latter shire,
particularly in the lower part of it, which will be a loss
❑ot billy to the farmers but to the country generally, as
great dependence is placed on this crop, there being not
unfrequently the large quantity of 40,000 bolls exported
in one season. The export for season 1833 will be tin-
precedentedly small,--Edinburgh Paper.

PROVIDENTIAL ESCAPE.—Another fatal
accident nearly occurred on Saturday morning last, at the
well now sinkim; on the side of the turnpike-road leading
front Stamford to Bourn, where the new toll-bar house
is erecting. A labourer, named John Mansfield, residing
at Bourn, in company with two others, were about to
commence their usual labours on Saturday morning last.
Mansfield was first let down into the well, when feeling
the effects of the foul air, he called for assistance. More
pure air was immediately pumped down, and a fellow
labourer descended, who found Mansfield in an exhausted
state. From fright or haste, his companion got the rope
round the lower part of his body, and with the struggling
it got down to his heels: Thus teas the poor man dragged
up, but shocking to relate, when at the top, and about to
be taken from the rope, he fell headlong to the bottom of
the well, a depth of 42 feet ! Strange to say, the man
who was left at bottom received but slight injury, whilst
Mansfield, who might reasonably have been expected to be
found dead, was not dangerously hurt, a dislocation of the
small bone of the ancle being all the material injury re-
ceived. He was afterwards conveyed home in a cart, and
is now fast recovering.—Slanzford News
EARTHQUAKES.—There appears to have
been raore than one slight shock of an earthquake felt in
London in 1750. WALroLE tells many anecdotes re-
lating to it, and in his own peculiar way. " You will
not wonder so much at our earthquakes as at the effects
they have had. All the women in town have taken them
up upon the foot of ; and the clergy, who have
had no windfalls of a long season, have driven horse
and foot into this opinion. There has been a shower of
sermons and exhortations ; SECKER, the Jesuitical Bishop
of Oxford, began the mode. He heard the women were
all going out of town to avoid the next shock ; and so, for
fear of losing his Easter offerings, he set himself to ad-
vise them to await God's pleasure in fear and trem-
bling. But what is more astonishing, SHERLOCK,
who has much better sense, and much less of the popish
confessor, has been running a race with him for the old
ladies, and has written a pastoral letter, of which 10,000
were sold in two days ; and 50,000 have been subscribed
for since the first two editions. 1 have told you the women
talked of going out of town : several families are literally
gone, and many more going to-day and to-morrow; for
what adds to the absurdity is, that the second shock having
happened exactly a month after the former, it prevails that
there will be a third on Thursday next, another month,
which is to swallow up London ! * * I have advised
several who are going to keep their next earthquake in the
country, to take the bark for it, as it is so periodic. DICK
LETESON and Mr. RIGBY, who had supped and staid late
at Bedford-house, the other night, knocked at several doors,
and in a watchman's voice, cried Past four o'clock, and
a dreadful earthquake !' * * I return to the
earthquake, which I had mistaken ; it is to be to-day.
This frantic terror prevails so much, that within these
three days seven hundred and thirty coaches have been
counted passing Hyde Park corner, with whole parties
removing into the country. Here is a good advertisement,
which I cut out of the papers to day On Monday
next will be published, (price sixpence,) a true and expa
List of all the Nobility and Gentry who have left or shall
leave this place through fear of another earthquake.'
Several women have made earthquake gowt•ns ; that is,
warm gowns to sit out of doors all the right. These are
of the more courageous. One woman still more heroic
is come to town on purpose : she says, all her friends are
in London, and she will not survive them."— TValpole's
Correspondence.

IRRITABILITY, &C., OF LITERARY MEN
ACCOUNTED FOP..-Mr. MADDEN, in his book on the
" infirmities of Genius Illustrated," sets out with a very
acute exP.inination of the causes why it is that literary men
shoithi have been so generally distinguished as an irita-
hie race, subject to numerous infirmities of mind as well as
body, and seldom blessed with the advantages of pros-
pet ity and happiness as the result of their labours. He
says that in general the knowledge of the world found in
the minds of literary men- is very limited indeed, because
more if their time has been spent in the closet than in
mixing with the business of life. Hence they bring with
them, en their occasional visits to society, a spirit of uncom-
promising independence ; a sense of self-superiority, which
must necessarily influence their behaviour in such a way as
to offend the pride and excite the aversion of those with
whom they associate. But even this misfortune is
trifling, compared with those calamities which more par-
ticularly aff,a:t the physical and moral faculties of the lite-
rary man, and which are to be attributed entirely to ex-
cessive mental application. These effects too often consist
of waywardness of temper, testiness of humour, and capri-
ciousness of conduct, which operate in rendering the man
of genius obnoxious to strangers, and at last very fatiguing
to his friends. But the misfortunes to which the studious
man is liable do not end here ; his enthusiasm in some
particular pursuit will induce him, sooner or later, to lessen
the interval appointed for his repose ; this he does by
degrees, until at last the whole night is habitually sacri-
ficed. The necessary consequence of the repeated priva.
tion of sleep is great exhaustion of the vital powers,
which, in too many instances, are sought to be re-
stored to their natural tone by stimulants ; and
thus, between the depression on the one hand, and
the artificial excitement on the other, life degenerates into
an eccentric principle as it were,—a comet, whose move-
ments are governed by no certain laws. The process
whereby excessive mental labour produces a considerable
derangement of the regular physical state of the body may
he shortly explained in the language of Tissot : the brain
is in action when the mind is thinking; the prolongation
of the employment of the mind tends to fatigue it, and as
no organ which is weakened, by whatever cause, can
perform its functions with the same success as it did in the
healthy state, so is there a derangement of the conditions
of all those parts over which the brain has an influence.
But the brain is the centre from which the nerves of the
body proceed, and, therefore, a disturbance of the function
of the brain is inllowed by a corresponding change through-
out the whole extent of the living system,