The Sun.
London, England, 1846-08-28 00:00:00

ROMANTIC ADVENTURE.

Paris is the place for romantic adventures. One
night, some months ago, a young officer of a cavalry
regiment was returning to his barracks late at night,
when he saw on one of the bridges a young woman
of considerable beauty, but clad in the mean gar-
ments of a workwoman, preparing to pinnge into the
river. He seized her, and threatened to take her
to the station-house. She supplicated, however, so
earnestly to be left alone, that the officer consented
to release her; first, however, exacting a solemn pro-
mise that she would not repeat her attempt. She
hurried away; but the young soldier deemed it right
to follow her. Luckily it was that he did so; for
no sooner did she believe herself free from observation
than the unhappy girl plunged into the river. The
officer was close upon her, and, with some difficulty, and
not without danger, succeeded in dragging her to land.
This time he insisted upon accompanying her home.
With extreme reluctance, the would-be suicide led
him to a miserable lodging in the most wretched part of
the town. Knocking at the door, art old woman ap-
peared, to whom the officer related what had happened.
" Ah, madam," she cried, "it was for that, then, you
borrowed my clothes!" and she went on to relate
to the young officer that the pretended unknown
was no other than the daughter of a nobleman of the
highest rank, and that she had that night come to bor-
row the dress in which she appeared, in order, as she
said, to avoid discovery in a love adventure. In proof
of the truth of the story, the old woman pointed to the
young lady's dress which she had left on assuming
her coarse attire. This naturally excited the young
man's curiosity to the highest pitch. He insisted on
accompanying the young lady to her father, to whom
he related all that had taken place. Warm thanks
were, of course, heaped upon him, and he was invited
to the house, at which he subsequently became a
constant visitor. An intimacy sprang up between
him and the young lady, which ripened into affection,
and the affection resulted in a marriage, celebrated
a few days ago. This tale is true, strange as it may
appear. It has, of course, created an immense sensation
in the higher circles of Parisian society; and at present
it is said that all young unmarried ladies are bent on
attempting to commit suicide at midnight, in the hope
of being saved by a handsome officer of hussars. It is
so romantic ; and whatever is romantic has immense
popularity in Paris.

AGRICULTURAL REPORTS.
(From Bell's Weekly Messenger.)
NORTH LINCOLNSHIRE, AUG. 13.—Harvest is rapidly
proceeding, four-fifths of the wheat having been carried
in good condition; the crops are very variable—some
very good, others indifferent. Upon the whole, we
consider it a full average as to quantity; the quality
bold and heavy, though not so white and rather rougher
in the skin than in 1844. Barley is light in the straw,
but off the wold land will be of fair malting quality; on
the strong land it is late and bad; some fields green,
others part green, part nearly ripe. Oats an average
crop. Beans wretched (ono to three sacks per acre);
some fields scarcely worth reaping. Turnips are uni-
formly a full splendid crop, up to the knees in top, and
turning fast. Potatoes rapidly decaying. Wheat, the
chief dependence of the farmer, is very seriously re-
duced in price: old red of 611 b. per bushel has been sold
for 355. per qr.; how can language be found sufficiently
strong fully to describe the treachery of those men who
have brought the country into this state? It also appears
that the operatives are beginning to find in the attempts
their masters are making to reduce their wages, that
they have merely been used, as the monkey used the
cat's paw, to pull the chestnuts out of the fire. As the
loaf increases, wages fall.
EAST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE, AUG. 20.—We are
now in the midst of our harvest operations ; in the
southern parts of the riding, the principal part of the
wheat is secured in superb condition ; in the northern
districts it is yet for the most part in the field, although
should the weather be favourable, ere this comes from
tke press much will have been secured. As it is, the
weather for the last few days has been unsettled and
threatening, and has caused considerable anxiety to the
farmers who have their corn yet abroad ; it has not,
however, sustained any injury from sprout as yet. We
scarcely recollect a year since the summer of 1826, when
the fields were cleared with such rapidity as in the pre-
sent year. The wheat upon almost all descriptions of
soil has cut up a very light crop, and has gone into very
little space. Oats, although much improved are short in
the straw, and a light crop ; barley is still worse, and
beans are nearly a failure altogether. The yield of the
wheat crop, upon which such great anticipations have
been formed, seems to disappoint general expectation,
and it is our firm conviction that if the East Riding
yield "stook and bushel," to use the East Riding
phrase, we are below an average. Yet from the expe-
-1 rience of those who have thrashed, we feel satisfied that
we are to have no such yield, and our firm conviction is,
that we are four or six bushels under an average. The
quality is superb, equal to 1844, and the accounts of the
weight are good. The potato crop is again a failure, to
all appearance worse than the last year. Doubtless,
this circumstance, taken in connexion with the deficient
yield of the wheat crop, has the tendency to cause the
present advance in the price of wheat, but the price must
be much higher to enable the farmer to pay his way
with the present crop. Turnips grow beautifully, and
the prospect for winter keep is good.
BRECONSITIRE, AUG. 18.—I travel frequently through
the greater part of South Wales, more especially
through Breconshire, and as I perceive you are favoured
by correspondents with agricultural reports from most
of the English counties, I do not see why you should not
hear a little concerning the proceedings in this county,
as I think we can boast of farms and farmers equal
to any in England, in the Vale of Usk. More than
two.thirds of the wheat has been housed in very good
condition, and will, I think, yield very well, although
there is a general complaint of a deficiency in the head.
The crop is much lighter than last year, with regard to
the straw, but the head heavier and finer sample. The
weather at present is very unfavourable, scarcely a
day passing by without heavy showers. It will oc-
casion serious loss to the small farmers situated
near the foot of the mountains, many of whom have
as yet scarcely any of their hay in. Several fields
have been down for the last three weeks, the weather
being so fickle. I counted very many that had not
been mown, which. h
it would be scarcely wot t
while to do so late in the season. The barley and oat
crops are rapidly falling under the stroke of the sickle,
in expectation of fine weather after this continuance of
wet. They are on the average light, in particular the oats,
scarcely repaying the husbandman for his trouble. Peas,
also, are similar to the oats, the pods few, and not well
filled. Of turnips, both swedes and common, we could
scarcely have a finer show, the leaves looking healthy
and of such a luxuriant green hue, quite different from
the last year's. I have seen several of the size of a
large basin. Last year's destructive disease has again
attacked the potatoes, but in a more virulent form. We
were in expectation that we should have escaped it, but