The Sun.
London, England, 1846-08-27 00:00:00

-THE SEASON AND THE CROPS.

During the last week the weather has been very un-
favourable in this part of the country for the drying of
the grain, and the greater part of it still remains in the
fields, cut, but not in a lit state to be housed. It
has several times been almost ready for stacking,
but in each case rain has come before it was
thoroughly dry, and has rendered a further delay
necessary . On several days the weather has been
warm and close, as well as wet, which rendered it
doubly dangerous to the grain. Saturday was the finest
day that we had last week, and the believers in the in-
fluences of the moon predicted that we should have a
fine month, but present appearances are much against
the truth of their predictions. The grain must have suf-
fered in some degree from this leng continuance of damp
close weather, wherever it is not secured, that is, in the
north of England, in Szotlaud, and in the greater part of
Ireland. The accounts from the south and centre of Eng-
land state that it has there been secured in good order.
The fatal disease in the potatoes continues to spread in
every part of the country. Scarcely a field has es-
caped in South Lancashire and Cheshire. On the open
sandy lands, extending from Warrington to High Legh,
as well as in the district which we described last week,
the disease prevails everywhere. Its ravages
are much more general and fatal than they
were last year. Then it principally prevailed in
wet and heavy soils, whilst this year it exists in soils
of every kind ; then goodness of cultivation appeared to
check it, whilst now the best cultivated crops are the
first to bo seized with the malady. Some of the worst
specimens of the disease are to be found in perfectly
dry soils, where the potato has never been grown
before, and where the greatest care has been taken
in selecting healthy seed. Hopes were entertained by
many parties that new varieties of the potato might
be raised from foreign seed, which would be free from
this disease; but we learn from Mr. Skirving, that
of twenty -five foreign varieties grown by him in his
nursery grounds at Walton, nut one has escaped.
The sorts tried by Mr. Skirving were brought from
every part of Europe and America, and after so entire a
failure, in the hands of so skilful a cultivator as he is uni-
versally allowed to be, we fear that the prospect of re-
newing the crop from foreign seed is very slight. In this
neighbourhood, and in other parts of Lancashire and
Cheshire, some farmers speak of giving up the cultiva-
tion of the potato, except on a small scale, and of turning
their attention to milk and hay. In most instances they
will be compelled to do so by the want of seed, far none
of the potatoes are likely to ripen properly this year,
and it is therefore very improbable that they will keep
until spring.—Liverpool Times.
THE POTATOE InsnasE.—The exemption of these
counties from this awful scourge, at which we so often
congratulated ourselves, no longer exists. Within the
last ten days the dreadful reality has displayed
itself, and is readable by every eye in the black
pestiferous fields which were anon teeming with
luxuriant verdure, indicative of prolific crops.
Throughout the whole district the potato crop has
been blighted, the stems are black and withering, setting
forth, where decomposition has taken hold of the
roots, a disagreeable fwttd odour ; and to such an
extent does this prevail, that it is impossible to say
whether even a tithe of the crop will be available for
food. The characteristics of the disease need not be
enumerated, as they are the same here as elsewhere ;
and what is vexatious is, that no effectual remedy is
known for arresting its impetuous ravages. Cutting or
pulling off the shaws has been recommended ; but where
the cause of the disease is not known, any prescription
must be very problematical. Some persons have com-
menced to plough up the fields not far from this : and if
the crops were nearly ripe this would be right ; but in
their present immature state, we doubt the advantage of
so doing, particularly where, upon trial, the roots are
not all giving way. The disease is now pervading the
whole empire, and no locality is free of it ; but in no dis-
trict will it be more severely felt than in the Northern
Highlands, where the bulk of the population subsist on
potatoes as their daily food, for wilytinioetphhe,ensweteociftirecasu,rm,onfsotwahandicceehs-
qt
huea tine substituteost gloomy can
prospects be
areprovided. o
n
we do not see the end, or the intensity of the distress that
impends. In the meantime we recommend to all classes
to look the danger fully in the face—to break up no
fields until the rottenness of all the roots is proved, and
in preparing tainted potatoes for food, to pare off all the
pasts diseased before boiling. The establishment of starch
mills and flour mills has beensuggested, and the suggestion
should not be lost sight of. Measures of relief will be ab-
solutely necessary in these counties, where the potato is the
chief subsistence of many, as in Ireland ; and we doubt
not that the Ministry, who have so timeously and hu-
manely made provision to meet this visitation of Providence
in the sister isle, will turn a ready and willing ear to any
representation which may be addressed to them from this
country. The approaching meeting of the Highland and
Agricultural Association of Scotland, in Inverness,
affords a most fitting opportunity for deliberation
as to the measures which are necessary in the present
juncture; and we sincerely hope, that as not only most of
our northers proprietors and farmers will be assembled
there, but many from other parts of the kingdom, as well
as the directors of this great Association, which truly re-
presents the agricultural interests of the whole of Scot-
land, the opportunity will not be lost of discussing
this very important question, and of adopting such a
course of action as may justify us' in hoping that our
country will not be left without some substitute for the
important article of food, of which, it is now certain, the
poor among us will this year be utterly deprived.—Ross.
shire Advertiser.

THE CROPS IN SCOTLAND.
(From the Ross-shire Advertiser.)
DumrniessurnE.—The past week has not bees
favourable for the important operations of harvest as
was earnestly desired over a wide district of count*
Around Dumfries about two-thirds of the grain have
been cut, and where the farmers were enabled to get an
early start, the fields have been cleared of their stocks,
and these safely deposited in the barn-yard. This ell
applies to our own immediate locality, however ;
even on the sane), slopes of the Tinwald hills, near?
all the grain remains standing, while much of it Is
still decidedly green. A good many sales of grawlll
grain have taken place, and wherever the crop ",""'
not suffered seriously from the weather, the Tee
mand has been fair, and in some cases brisk. T'e
uncertainty which still hangs over the grain mar
and
ket has not been without its effect, however ; d
as several places, where heavy crops, which had suffer! _
from rain and floods, were exposed to competition,
sales went on , so languidly, that they were steal/.
altogether. Prices far cotes have ranged from 51.10 10
per acre, according to quality; and the only instaal
we are aware of where this figure was exceeded is *
Mountainhall, where 11/. 9s. were given for crop of 11,1;
questionably a very superior description. Barley
"be
been sold at 71. per acre, the crop being short in
straw, as is generally the case all over the country.
Oats are looking remarkably well this season througuri
out the district of Cunningham. At the sales,. a Kill,
competition, and good prices have realised. it&tch
Dunlop, at a late sale, from 101. to 12/. per old 0ve,0,,
acre was readily obtained, which is an advance of
tween 20s. to 30s. on the last year's rates.
FORFARSHIRE.—The heavy rains which fell tool&
the end of last week were unfavourable to harvest oPe;
rations, which are now generally commenced in t,o„c
neighbourhood. Several farmers express a dread
the alternately hot and rainy weather cause the graillep
sprout in the stook, or in the fields where it has bAeAs
e
lodged. The potatoes are now by all conjeetere
almost a lost crop. Fields which a few weeks ago eve
peered in all the luxuriance of vegetation, and g-c.-
every sign of promising an abundant crop, are Ilavv in.
vered by one mass of blackened "shaws." It is a pima
ful sight to behold the ravages thus created. Some e- el
ago it was announced that the grain crops waked selib'e
with a disorder similar to that which had the,
potatoes; but we are given to understand that e
aamage will at most nut exceed that of an av eof
blight. Though oats at one time had the appears them
being more than an average crop, so many fields of tf
having been lodged and their whitening so rapidly have
given rise to a dread that the grain, though btlllo
not be of the average weight. tato
We have still to lament the progress of the Penes
disease, although some accounts seem to induce herit,
that a few quarters may comparatively escape frel3
C3OO-
On this point, however, it is impossible to make flaY ho
fident statement. In various places where the crePanj
manifestly failed, the ground has been cleared,
t WS'
planted with greens, cabbages, and other vege-aneer
other cases, the potatoes, hopeless as the Orn is
ance of the stems is, have been allowed to relos'l"0-
the ground, until the time of taking up shall h"ethati
rived, which is expected to be a month earlierdon
usual. In some instances, the stems have been eat 011
with the scythe, and the surface powdered over is
quick lime, and the earth raised around the plail,totiee
short, in ignorance of the real cause of the el)".""neei•
people are glad to try anything in the way of e!„Eal•
ments, in the hope of arresting it.—Aberdeen Jour ~t9to
KEITH, Atm. 13.—We regret to state that fliers for
taint has, to some extent, appeared in this distL'e bel•
the last week. It commences in the low grounds e;ferl
lows, but gradually reaches the high grounds also. ~ot.
field is more or less tainted, both stem and root ; :tea,
withstanding, we think the calamity is much exaggerntiei•
and, so far as we can judge in the meantime, are,: ferf
pate only partial damage, which the abundant an'
fine grain crop will amply make up.

I'S'
RAILWAY SHARE MARKS
,rhil44'
STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Bristol and
EXETER, AUGUST 26. er
Eget Co
10y,-Exeter and Crediton, % dis.-Devon and Central
11A -South Wales, 4. Sad
MANCHESTER, AUGUST 26.
STocx EZCHANGE.-The sales are-Ambergate,
Boston, % c. dis.-Blackburn, Clitheroe, &c., 1%1 dis'and /3,16
Newark, and Sheffield, 13-16 dis.-Boston, tamford, i 11,,
mingham, 12s. c. dis. -Eastern Counties, York Extonallieet'o,
p.-East Lancashire, 8 9-16 p.--Fast Lincolnshire, 14 d",les, 4 IiJS.
N'otting...„lrposn'' tout
Preston, and West Riding, 14 dis.-Glasgow and Duln_ir .0, Pit-% itto
Goole, Doncaster, Sheffield, &c., 14 c. dis.- Grand unl% p .',..10
-Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal, 1 415• p!
Extension, IA p.-Lancashire and North Yorkshire, /4,,„. 33f;ar
and Thirsk, 314 dis.-Liverpool, Ormskirk, and preswl p.- - iolth
London and York, 56 dis.-Manchester and Leeds Fiftll'oty C;.,116 Ps
chester and Southampton, 18s. 9d. dis.-Midland Br..ters, 0., 201'
401. Shares, 13 p.-North Eastern, 114 dis.-North Neal, t NW-
-Nottingham and Mansfield, % p.-Oldham, Biricepd rhire, 1
c. dis.-Preston and Wyre, Halves (B), % p.-Sll.,„e,eforu% 311 u:
chester, Quarters, No. 1, 4 p.-Shrewsbury and 0-," Soo...Trorl'
dis.- Shropshire Union Railway and Canal, % d's'-.: par" 1,
lands Junction, 16s. dis.-South Staffordshire Junctiot;.64,
Valley, Midland, &c., par-West Lancashire Coast, Ll'
Whitehaven and Farness, 2% dis. I, %r
LEEDS, AUGUST 26. yo• ~ef.
nties,. So
STOCK EXCIIANGE.-The sales are-Eastern COd and ..,,,,
tension, 335. p.-East Lancashire, 8% p.-Great Grimily. ~,,,. 7 ,
field Docks, Ili dis.-Iluddersfield and Manchensteryr_ln, srd"
p.-Iluddersfield and Sheffield, LeeaS 116
-Leeds and Dewsbury, 334 p.-Ditto, Cr'
Ilrairoerth British, itto,
Thirsk, 3/. 14s. dis. -Ditto, New, 3 dis.-
find Goole, 11% p.- Cll'
Branch, 575. p.--Wakefield, Fontefraetwfireingham, 14s. disii.:o
New, 5% p.-Boston, Stamford, And '''
17s. dis.-Grand d'ii.,
theroe Junction, 16s. dis.- Direct Northern'North Eastern, ifilrojOr
and .
13s. dis.--Lancashire, Yorkshire,
dis'-Leicester and 15
erpool:
Leeds, Wakefield, and Midland. 165.
d 9s•
60. dls.-01,,,i0
ham, 17s. (id. dis.-Leicester and Bedfor , • ter ('•• "
Ormskirk, and Preston, 3% p.- lanches ....
London and. 3 n_. o,
'2% dis..-North Western, 4s. 6d. p. -Shropshire Union, va . 01
__.YOr'
Welsh Midlands, 345. dis.-West Riding Union,
41. 19ii.
6% p.-Leeds t fit%
p.aa_tor. .
...
Carlisle, 38s. ad. dis. 0'
• . HuLii,. AUGUST 26. 1%4011

STOCK EXCISAIROZ.—The sales are—Eastern COUntieS. -,11.1:„0704
tension, 2l,4—North —North British, Half Shares, 16}4—York an„d
Midland (East;and \Vest Riding), 13—Fleetwood, Preston. atpeste';",
Riding, 7s. W.—Leicester and Tamworth, 345. 6d.—Northire" Ole!
4s. p.—Shrewsbury and Birmingham, 21. 18s. 6d.—ShroPteter
10s. dis.—West Riding Union, s—Grand Union, 155.—Lew •

Bedford, 12s. 6d.-South Midland, 14s. p.
SHEFFIELD, AUGUST 26. „ eld %tr
Ote
STOCK Excnallot.-The sales are - Grimsby and Saffl,lo9„o,
sion, 17s. dis.-Ditto, Quarter Shares, Os. dis.-Ditto, 1417,01ati;ep
Dock, 1% dis.-Derby and Gainsborough, % dis.-East,
dis.-Manchester and Lincoln Union and Canal, 17!:
field and Lincolnshire, Sc. dis.-Ditte, Extension, 0
db* 111
YORK, AUGUST 26. ,:0tt.10% jai
it A
STOCK Excnesos.-The sales are- Grand Union
and Lynn), I3s. 6d.-Leicester, Tamworth, 11...;„.,011° tett'
and York, 2 -.Newcastle and Berwick, 27/. 16s. 3c1.-„'"c.iisie 14.
Darlington, New, 111,4 -North British, 33 % -Ditto, tt,,toih
slon, 41. Is. scrip-North Western, 11. 75.-West Riding ,e,or
EDINBURGH, AUGUST 25. r.
ii
STOCK EXCUANGE.-The sales are-Aberdeen, BI- Iport,
Banff, and Elgin, I/. -Airdrie and Bathgate, 3;_.„`
and Forfar, 281.-Ditto, Halt Shares, 151. 10e.-Aki"!,..7 IP. 4.7
rush, 14s. 6d.-Ayr and Galloway, 11. 7s. 6d.-BanfrsuSion, onsto
fast and County Down, 12s. 6d.-British and Irish
....c0,12010
6d.-Caledonian, 151. 7s. 6d.-Ditto, New, 11. 99. 6d„„•..-..C$l eon':
Extension, 1/. 135..-Caledonian and Dumbarton 11. 105.-*
23/.
and Northern Direct, 2/. 25.-Clydesdale Junction, 2/• i n
wall and Devon Central, 1/. 11 s.-Deeside Rap-Wall 155.--'4tu gr.
Direct Northern, 1/. 14s.- Dublin and Enniskillen, .;nd rer:.olo'
and Arbroath, 371.--Ditto. New, 21/. 55.-Dundee OS, 66.....Dittrn
7s. 6d.-East Indian Railway, 165.-East of Fife, , •Jll.
burgh and Bathgate, 2/. 155.-Edinburgh and tila,..l°t`tvo, ditt°c'e,
Halt Shares, 171. 15s.- Ditto, Quarters, 17:. 10s• -virrefereg, 6J
181.-Edinburgh, and ort,
155.-Edinburdi aa i Northern, 91. 19s.- :`e"1„ oct" DP
ls
Edinburgh anTl Forth, 3!. 10s.- Forth and Clyde
-Glasgow and Ayrshire, 751.-Ditto, New Stock: 21.
Quarter Shares, 18/. IN.-Glasgow and Belfast Unth
„ Deine're Ter'
gow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, it. 15s.-Glasgow tew Stcl`nd
tion, 11. 135.-Glasgow and Garnkirk 40/.-Gl°^9l' itto, It a-/.
__D. roc
minus, 81. 10s-Glasgow and Greenock, 161. 10s• 3gOW, r
Si. 155.-Ditto, Preference, 1/. 155.-GlasgoW,, LeSni°,"
Ardrossan, I/. 10s.- Glasgow, Strathaven, 14,•r0e, 134.
195.-Granton Junction, 1 Os.-Great North of Scc;rs3.--k%ies,
ness and Elgin, 17s. 6d.-Lanark and Lothians, ..goith
ear 1/. 150
fast, and Ballymena, 95.-London, Bristol, and $/0
3s. 6d. -London and York, 2/. 3s. 6d.-Ditto, Lind Den
notig,
-Midland and Eastern Counties, 155.-Nove° Ditto, Eitiiire.
-North British, 364. 10s.-Ditto, Halves,
Carlisle, V. Is. 6d.--Ditto, Fifths, 7/. 15s-
New, 10.1 i 2;
9s. 6d.-North Wales Mineral, 16/. 155."- 191. los. - 0!_soOt
and Inverness, 1/.6d.-Scottish Junction, 1/. I°°icott:;7
91. IN.-Scottish Central and Caledonian 7/. 10S. sygDu:
tish Grand Junction, 12s.- Scottish Mi"'36 ' Shre
Hereford, s* 6d.
Southern, 1/. 175.-Shrewsbury and Ileref 21 15S. ,
15,f.-rtb Stafford....seofil!
Oswestry, and Chester, 5/. 105.-South 21•
ling and Dunfermline, 1/. M.-Stirling and 1"'"'„
Stratheru Junction, 2/.-Wishaw and Coltness, 47/. 1004
(101
c-
The ill
THE COBDEN NATIONAL TRIBUTE FUND," the „tee
mitten appointed at Newall's- buildings, on FridaY, pic'os
instant, for the purpose of co-operating with the
.I()cAlikger,
throughoutaant
eethoef thTe Town-hall,
testimonial
uiaigniht
onit
hbaaekni nphgraess
since been very actively engaged in the pursuance date', Or/
ject, with what success we are at present unable tetiof.d
a report it is expected will be made at the sneebscrinooo
yeanettmebdoereetno
inefffared.ce::hi:cinf
tefbrol:F.l7s,o:
committee on Tuesday evening. The amount enste 040
this district is upwards of 44,3001., and the aggregviikietclo
upwards of 66.8001. The names of Messrs. shol';00
Brothers, and Co., Blackburn and Messrs. Eeclea' 00104
and Co., Damen, appear in the advertisement es ort,,hboro
for 2001. each firm, as do those of Messrs. Black
Barnes, Church, near Accrington, Mr. W. Eccles' %a
and Mr. J. Eccles, Blackburn, for 1001. each'''. ictSe
Guardian. fit
a
THE COLOSSEUM.-The above establisu !Ivor
illuminated last evening in the following Ine,n,ll.er,v---Aet
of his Royal Highness Prince Albert's hirtnui7 atl°lll,icfr
nificent star in gas in front of Regent's par''.with
Albany-street, and the summit of the building Ot
two colums, forming a beautiful temple in get CtiliiPod‘;
[ADVERTISEMENT.] - UNPRECEDENT%'-'4.00,1r0 001,,
HOLLOWAY'S PILLS.-Thomas Symonds, formar'Y °', 0.010.0101,00
yard, residing in Gravei-lane, Southwark, had te:d to 'ldes 'lLor
his work for t , ree 3 ears. His lungs Were suPP"'„., he0,..,;1015,06
having a distressing cough, with feet and legs swel.'Z' its w„,.%
he could scarcely ever keep anything on his storunc"id; ye'
hi
rallyv-
a bHollel so weak and 111 as to barely have power to °Wtlititin° ". 0
months this poor man acquired almost a new constid orda,
twoayu'nsdPeiritlas,kealtiade is nowlaborious become
duties to
Taatbseknospegine7vosoistir;dj: 101,0,04;"
vessel about sailing to New South Wales•
sold at Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244
and by a dealers in medicine.
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BIRTHB.
On the 2361 inst., the wife of the Rev* r" s.
G we"
of a son. St, Pr'
On the 23d inst., at Hamilton-terrace, eft 6
Y*
Mrs. Prothero, of a daughter. A, of the
On the 24th inst., at Southsea, the 111'..7 80°111
Musson, of the Island of Jamaica, of a son. J.
On the 24th inst., the wife of the Rev* vietts,
Vicar of Houghton, Norfolk, of a daughter. ~,Tifliaso
On the 25th inst., at Highbury-place,
of a son.

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MARRIED. .f9l*s
On the 19th inst., at Portsmouth, Mr. Abrahalliigin,
Portsmouth, to Belle, eldest daughter of Mosley' I
As,
of Barbadoes. Willa-I:1°r
On the 25th inst, at Basingstoke, her • 010--
Guildford, to Mary Anne, second daugf
man, Esq. Vcloll4
DIED. ~, of -
On the 20th inst., Edward Russell, only SO'''
Jarvis, of Grove-road, Mile-end. poao,,,ad
()One thethe 22d2d inst., at NVormley, Hcrts, Mr. D. '''' of Q'''
third on
inst., at Hackney, Sidney, _,Moll'
Simpson, aged 16.
the O
dnetnhgeh
t2e3r d
of itnhset. ,R
eavt.Hj.avvearvhiiesll,, ez, '""Phi- .11
lkih-s
th• 4
aged 20. iict O.
lir? njehthnew23iidliair inst., On the 23d inst., at Highfield House, sarab' 1.66.
o AA
late John Fowler, Esq. ell INTe/"I -
alolr
On the 25th inst., at Devonshire-place, W
On the 24th inst , ayt Blth, Robert C. Sconoce,4slo4o' -rod'
Charles Reeves, Esq., aged ,49.
York-place, Cgunberw

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