The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-06 00:00:00

STATE OF THE WEATHER AND

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CROPS.
(FROM THE LATEST PAPERS)

From Wednesdaylast u-pto this day (Wednesday) there
has in this part of the country been a succession of the
finest weather for the progress of the harvest that could
have been wished. for. Much corn was cut during the
past week, and a good deal of wheat in and south of
Dritheld has been stacked `and secured in good condition.
In viewing the crops there is one peculiarity of the
season remarkably conspicuous in the different degrees
of ripeness. Whilst some flats have assumed the beau-
tiful autumnal tinge and ripe appearance, others in the
very same locality are grassy green, but a little longer
continuance of the present beautiful weather will soon
bring them all up to the required mark. The stems
stand well upon the ground, considering the wet and tur-
bulent gusts the crops have had to contend with.—Hull
Advertiser.

With the exception of Tuesday the weather during
the past week has been exceedingly favourable for harvest
operations. Many fields of wheat and oats in this neigh-
bourhood have been totally cleared. The crops are stated
to be nearly average ones, and the corn is in good con-
dition. Should the fine weather continue for two or three
weeks longer we may hope to escape for another year
the curse of scarcity with which we were threatened by
the baneful influence of our Corn-laws.—Hull Advertiser.
EAST RETFORD.—The harvest progresses rapidly in
this neighbourhood, and during the week (with the ex-
ception of a few hours slight rain on Wednesday morn-
ing) the weather has been fine.
We believe that nearly the whole ofithe wheat in
this district is housed, and we hear from all sides that
the yield is fully an average one. The fears of scarcity
are altogether at an end, and the hopes of the Anti-
Corn-law gentry have consequently sunk to zero. Up
to yesterday we had a succession of beautiful weather,
but in the afternoon a very heavy thunder-storm visited
us, and the appearance pf the atmosphere in the evening
did not betoken such settled weather as we have been
favoured with of late.—Cambridge Journal.
AsuntrirroN.--We have had beautiful weather this
week, and harvest is going on rapidly. The corn, on
many small farms, is nearly carried in—should the fine
weather continue a few days longer, the great bulk of
corn in this part of the country will have been saved
well.—Shooting has commenced, but birds are rather
scarce at present—mostrobably they lie in fields where
the corn is not cut.— K estern Times.

Thanks to an ever-bountiful Providence, we have been
favoured with another week of extraordinary tine weather,
more than three-fourths of the Wheat crop is now in
perfect security, and (with but very filw exceptions) har-
vested in excellent condition. A small portion remains
to be cut, but the present will nearly bring the whole
business to a conclusion. Barley harvest is proceeding
with as much dispatch as circumstances will permit, but
in consequence of the superfluous moisture with which
the land was saturated immediately previous to the
commencement of the harvest, together with the sudden
alteration of the temperature since, the young clovers
have grown so rapidly, and obtained such an ascendency
over the barleys, with which they are intermixed, that
unless due precaution is taken and sufficient time allowed
between the cutting and carting, it is somewhat probable
that the grain will be more or less injured by heat
generated in the barns or stacks.—Norfolk Gazette.
The Orchard-Portman Hop Grounds, near Taunton
are now in uncommon luxuriance of mature growth.
The crops will be singularly profuse. Hop picking will
commence in about a week.—But/ Herald.
We have had another week of glorious weather for
the harvest ; shearing has commenced on
.every side,
though as yet but slightly in the immediate vicinity of
the town. The earliest corn actually gathered here
was a parcel of oats sold in our market on Tuesday :
but we were told yes6ciday that not only were the sickle
and the scythe busy at work, but that in one instance a
fine crop of oats were passing through the threshing
machine in the open field. The favourable change in
the appearance of the fine standing crops, within the last,
few days, and the concomitant fall of prices in the
market, have been most exhilirating.—ShOield Mercury.
LEEns.—The glorious weather of the last moon, from
the new moon on Monday, the 16th of August, to its
full on Wednesday, the Ist of September, has given to
the prospects of the corn crops of the present year an es-
sential improvement. A tolerably extensive tour in
North Wales, Shropshire, Cheshire and Lancashire,
with close observation of the state of the harvest, has
convinced us that the gloomy apprehensions so naturally
excited by the wet and stormy weather of the six pre-
ceding weeks,
along with concurrent accounts, received
from other parts of the kingdom, that we may fairly cal-
culate upon an average produce of grain, and upon a
considerably larger produce, taking all kinds of corn
into account, than we have had for any one of the three
years preceding. The state- of the harvest in the dis-
trict we have mentioned, from the source of the Dee to
the Mersey, and from the Mersey to the Humber, being
divided into four parts, may be thus represented :—One
quarter as uncut, but nearly
ready fur the reapers ; the
second quarter as partially reaped ; the third as reaped
and standing in the fields in sheaves ; and the fourth as
secured in the stuck-yard. These proportions will be
materially altered by each successive harvest-day ; but
this may be taken as the present average of the king-
(loin. for, while in the great corn counties the corn is
chiefly carried, in the North of England, from the Tees
to the Tweed, and in many parts of Scotland and Ire-
land, the corn harvest has only just commenced.—Leeds
Mercury.

NEWNFIAM PADDOX. The Hon. Douglas
Pennant, M.P. for the county of Caernarvon, has taken
Newnham Paddox, the seat of the Earl of Denbigh, as
a country residence, fiw two wars.—! oventry
WORCESTER, SEPT. 7.—The hop plantations
are progressing very favourably, the weather continuing
so suitable for their growth, the produce will be fine in
quality, and of an average quantity. We hear of some
early grounds that will commence picking on Monday
next. The duty is now supposed to reach 20,0001.• We
have inquiry for fine samples, but the stocks are so low,
that we have scarcely any on sale.
Very great • excitement prevails at the present
moment in Hamburgh, owin, to the capture, by an Eng-
lish cr tizer, of a vessel under the Hamburgh flag, on
suspici ,n of being engage 4 itl the slave trade.