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

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1-4M•Z ING SUS.

i ATE OF' IHE WEATHER AND

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(FrioYl Tan LATEsT PLPERS.)
From Wednesday last up to this day (Wednesday) there
e: this part of the country bee. a succeesien t
,e• weathvr for the progress et the harvest teat coin,:
bcea wished flne Much corn was cat during
p week, and .a good deal of wheat in and south e;-*
has been stacked and secured in gee' condition.
le viewing the crops there is one peculiarity of the
season remerkably conspicuous in the different degrees
t eness. Whilst some flee; hale assumed the beau-
tiful autumnal tinge mid ripe appearaece, Others in the
-very same locality are grassy green; but a little leaser
contimiance of the present bemitiful weather will seen
brite; them all up to the required 'earl:. The stems
starlit well upon the ground, considering the wet and tur-
buikw gusts the crops have had to cueten-1 1,411.-1/41
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 la 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 tine weather continue fur 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 influecee of our Corn-laws.—Hell Advertiser.
EAST RETFORD.—The harvest progresses rapidly in
this neighbourhood, and during the week (a ith the ex-
eeption of a few hours slight rain on Wednesday morn-
ing) the weather has been tine.
We believe that nearly the whole of the wheat in
this district is housed, and we hear fioin all sides that
the yield is fully an Average one. Thu fears of scarcity,'
are altogether at an end, and the hopes of the Anti-
Corn-law gentry have consequently sunk to zero,
to yesterday we had a succession of beautiful weather,
but in the afternoon a very heavy thunder-storm visited
us, and the appearance of the atmosphere in the evening
did not betoken such settled weather as we ha‘Tbven
favoured with of late.—Cnonbridge Journal.
AstinunToN.—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 And
weather continue a few days longer, the great bulk of
in this part of the country will have been se;tel
well.—Shooting has commenced, but birds are rather
ecarce at present—most pi:01).11)1y they lie in fields where
the "ore is not eat.— 1,1 esteru 'noes.
Thanks to an ever-bountiful Providence, we bare been
favoured with another week of extraordinary fine weaher,
more than three-fourths of the Wheat crop is nom in
perfixt security, and (wish but very few exceptions) liar-
veste444-4400Alettt,coutlition._,,Q,snuil rematiko
td be cut, but the present will n bear y ringthe -1
business to a conclusion. Barley hardest is procee ling
with us much dispatch as circumstances with permit, but
in consequence of the superfluous moisture with a
the land was saturated immediately previous to the,
commencement of the harvest, toge:her with the sudden
alteration of the temperature since, the young threes
have grown so rapidly, and obtained such an ascendel:;y
over the barleys, with which they are intertuivad, teee
unless due precaution is taken and sutiieient tjme allowed
between the.cut:ing acs carting, it is soiui,“ hat 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.—Both Herald.
We have had another week of glorious Weather for
the harvest ; shearing has commenced on every iide,
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 oar market on Tiles:lay :
but we were told yesterday 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 favoucable change in
the appearance or the fine standing crops, within the last
few days, and the concomitant fall of prices in the
market, have been most exhilirating.—Shdfi.ll Mercury-
LEEDS.—The glorious weather of the last moon, from
the new moon on Monday, the 16th of August, toi its
full on Wedne4day, 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,:
ciliate 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 finir parts, may be thus represented :—One
quarter as uncut, but nearly ready for the reapers ; the
second quarter as partially reaped ;"the third as reaped
and standing in the fields in- sheaves ; and the fourth es
secured in the stack-yard. These proportions will be
materially altered by each successive
,harvest-day ; but
this may be taken as the present average of the king-.
dom, 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 taut Ire-
land, the corn harvest has only just commenced.—Leeds
Mercury.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
:IEANCIIESTEIt.-FluD.ty.

There has been so little doing since Tuesday that the
following quotations will do full justice to the marlvt,
according to our judgment.
TUE LEAMINGTON STAKES.—Rhodanthe continues in
great force, Kingston Robin gains many friends, mid
Modesty is also in faAtion. Our figure on Wednesday
was taken in scores, and repeated at noon by the steno
gentleman in ponies. 7to 2 against Rhodunthe (o
6 to 1 against Kingston Robin (taken) ; 7 to I against
Recorder (taken) ; 8 to 1 against Champagr, ; and to
to 1 against Modesty (taken freely). -
TILE ST. LEGER.—There is so
40.'2 doing that com-
ment is really superfluous ; it is.to be Coronation's race.
11 to 8 on him ; 7 to 2 againSt Van Arnburgh ;10 t.,
against the Squire ; hig!i.oilds on any other.
UnanY.-20 to 1 on the fiekl (otfer,d.)

•
UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCEt
CA:MUDGE, SEPT. 4.—Tke Rev. Roger Smith, for-
merly of. Magdalen College, in this University, has bc,n
instituted by the Lord Bishop of Ely to the Rectory o
Astwick with Arsley Vicarage, in the county of Bedford.
There is a vacancy in the representation of this Uni-
versity, in consequence of the appointment of the Bight
Hon. 'Henry Gottlfitunl, :V.A., of Trinity College, to the
office of Chant:on:7w of the Exchequer. The Right Hon.
Gentleman will be re-elected without opposition.
The Rev. Matthias Forrest, of Queen's College, in this
University, has been presented to the vicarage of lirs-
wick, Lancashire. Patrons, the landowners.

. _
OXFORD, SEPT. 4.—The Bodleian library will be re-
opened on Thursday next, after a close of seven days, as
usual at this season of the year, and on the 29th instant
this library will not be open till ten o'clock and shit at.
three.

The following members of this University have been
appointed Prebends in the Cathedral Church of Wells:—
The Rev. Fitz-Harding Berkeley Portman, Fellow of
All Souls College; and
The Rev. ;duel Thomas Ellison, late Vellow of Banjo!.
College.
The President and Fellows of Magdalen College have
pmsented the Rcv. T. G. Calhoun, a FelloAt of their So-
ciety, to the vicarage of Beeding, Sussex, to which 14 e
was d by the Lord Bishop of Chichester, on the
Ist instant.

The Dcan and Chapter of Durham have presented the
Rev. U. Clayton to the perpetuarcuraey of Croxdale,
Durham.

TAUNTON.--FIRE.-00 Thursday morning
a fire, involving the cbstruction of property amounting
to at least 2,0001., broke out on the premises of Mr. Bur-
nell, organ builder, South-street. The cause of the
calamity is not known, but there is reason for suspicion
as respects some base incendiary. It appears thus 4,1
three o'clock, A.M. somebody was seen with a light,-._
candle in the field in which is situated Mr. Burnell
workshop, and about an hour and a half afterward! bn,:
inhabitants of the neighbourhood were aroused s 4,
the cry of fire. Great exertion was used to subdustso::l4
flames, bat we regret to state that four organs,
harp, and several other musical instruments,'
,btloectools,
with a lathe which cost 95.1., and some
valC,i the pro-
were entirely deStoyed. The fact of nnneuthy for the
rerty being insured cannot but excite s}?,l) 'tether
will be used.
sufferer ; and it is hoped that every
fur obtaining satisfaction on what noa:l.ll:.:4l.l,:vriAs :lit
.ttLy siteli)•.\:;.
LONDON AND BRIGHTON It4Ar,sl-
to
eemidetien
undertaking is at length brio' !it ' .
%11.ehole line from L 4
Advertisements announce that the _ Tuesday,
the 21st
I don to Brighton is to be orrice!
rri
in from the success-
sive to the eminent
ohlot_otolits.
in,t. The inhabitants of Brig
i gigantic enterpr,
fug and rapid accomphshiv a l'
publiedinner to the Dirtia-
I
have determined uponot-tiiv
advantages which must accrue
instant, in testimony of the
tors on Monday, the -
opinion uuiversali
1 entertained of the indetittigable seal
)...o,by
which they have brought the
work to so splendid and laborious.exersplendid,tl.." i,sue.
The lhreetors will incke a
,
uonout tne one on the 14th instant
preliminary trip. thro;ek
will alio d' I • f ' r amp e time or per-
and the intervening are . .
.. ,
mentsconst.quint the opening.
fecting all the arra%
Mr. Brooks, a member of the Isle
BORNEO.
r Witrilt Yacht Club, and an active ctrresporiding mem-
ber° of Zoological Society, has been making an cx-
lorite, expedition in the eastern seas is his yacht the
p
floyalTst, and has made several valuable additions the
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• ,tIM and menagerie. At Borneo be was employed
in a diplomatic capacity by the Rajah to mediate between
two rival chiefs who were in a state of hostility, in.
which he %vas so successful that he was received inl-o
' high favour, and allowed to explore the'inttrior, a favour
never before conferred upon a white man. He had also
had ceded to him the sovereignty of an island 180 miles
in extent., in which it is his intention in future to reside.
The results of this cannot but be of great. consequence
in a commercial, as well as scientific point of view, as
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opening, in this great island, newly an ent;,-e new cb:tn-
' nel for enterprise under such curious and interesting;
1 circumstances.

SEPTEMBER IST.—Partridge sbootia,3 corn-
meneed on Welnesday last, but owing to t'le quantity of
grain uncut very little sport was enjoyed in this neigh-
bourhood. September Ist is always too soon for the.
e unmeneement of this sport in the northern counties,,
and by general consent almost, it is deferred till the,
twelfth. The Earl of Lonsdale has advertised that per-
tridge shooting will not be allowed on his grounds till the
13th. The coveys are nothing remarkable, so far as we,
have learnt, but are generally represented as about an
average.—Kcadol Mercury.