The Sun.
London, England, 1860-08-21 00:00:00

rrin SUN, LONDON, TVtSDAY EVENING, AUGtTST 21, 1880.

How—rests now with the inhabitants of Kensing-
ton, Bayswater, Marylebone, Knightsbridge, and
the surrounding population.

The third week of August, and harvest hardly
anywhere even begun. But yesterday we took a
hasty run through parts of four southern counties
—Middlesex, Surrey, Sussex, and Hampshire—
and uncut, for the more part green crops, here and
there turning colour more or less, were what we
beheld everywhere. The crops were, on the other
hand, frequently fine, sometimes very fine ; perhaps
they would, the wheat crops at least, have been
generally so, but the heavy storms have
laid many fine fields very much, and so
early that the weeds have risen vigorously
through, and the grain and straw must be materi-
ally injured. In the district we refer to harvest
must be a month later than a tolezably early one,
and a full three weeks later than the average time.
That prices should rise under such circumstances is
indeed no more than must be expected, and but for
the large importations we should certainly have
had by this time something like famine prices, and
that with full supplies on the ground before our
faces;

Of course all our hopes for a favourable harvest,
and a winter with satisfactory employment for la-
bour, are centred in the weather of the next two
months, and in Him who " giveth the appointed
weeks of harvest." His hand at such a time as
this it were almost irreverence not to remember ;
probably there are but few whose minds can realise
the consequences of a general damage to our harvest
who have not frequently turned their inmost
thoughts with a silent aspiration to the Giver of
all Good. True, in this country no one needs to
starve. There is the workhouse for the needy.
But great—indeed often fatal—is the privation
which an Englishman and an Englishwoman will
ofttimes undergo before they will accept even out-
door relief. Till the independent spirit is once
broken, it is painful to think what individuals will
suffer before they will " go to the parish," and still
more before they will go into the house.
And then to remember the almost certain dimi-
nution of consumption, and the consequent diminu-
tion of employment. It is no trivial evil when every
individual of a family living on wages has to buy
some article of wearing apparel or some domestic
article less. What a tale does this tell at Manchester,
Bradford, Leeds, Sheffield, Coventry even, and the
Potteries. There is no trade unaffected when even
the poor cannot possibly lay out on manufactures
what they have already been compelled to expend
through the higher price of food. Then follow short
time, lowered wages, and too often some Secretary
POTTER rises up and exasperates all the suffering
by getting his sub-despots to order a general strike.
The demagogue forces social suicide on those who,
left to themselves, would have experienced tempo-
rary privation merely. No terms of condemnation
can be too severe for the ignorant men, for it is
most charitable to believe them ignorant, who stir
up their unreflecting but naturally patient as well
as industrious fellow-men, in reality, to take ven-
geance by idleness on Providence for a bad harvest
and its inevitable consequences.
We may hope, however, for some good out of
the evil. At present our taxation is enormous—

unreasonable. More than seventy millions sterling,
besides borrowing for fortifications and for India, in
a time of profound peace, shows something utterly
wrong. The leaks must be found out and stopped.
We may go on very well with them when sailing
before the wind, but already the enhanced prices
of all provisions are telling fearfully on the returns
of our Board of Trade. They will tell yet more.
And if so, and if the rate of expenditure be kept up
through the year, the " elasticity of our trade'
will not save Mr. GLADSTONE from a deficiency
next spring. Then it will begin to be asked, in
sober seriousness, whether we are really obliged to
pay seventy millions for public purposes merely—

whether less than thirty millions will not suffice
to defend us, seeing France spends nearly ten
millions a year sterling less, to keep us all in a
fright ? And it will be asked whether we do not
pay too much for such whistles as CARDIGANS,
LUCANS, and AIREiS, and featherbed field-mar-
shals, and all the glories of the Horse Guards
and whether at the Admiralty, the men who give
£365 each for anchors, which drag half a mile in a
storm, and reject those which never move in the
same storm, and cost but one-fourth the money, are
just the men to see us well served on the cheapest

,erms.

In many ways, a little check may do both go-
vernors and people no harm ultimately; the only
thing one feels much is the sufferings brought on
the poor. Would that it might teach them the
lesson of better providence! The painful fact is,
that families living on wages, and paying no In-
come-tax, but earning twice or three times as much
as thousands who do pay Income-tax, the instant a
time of hardship comes have immediately to resort
to the pawnshop. This improvidence, together
with too general intemperance, are the ruin of our
industrious poor. Were they as economical as they
are industrious they would be the wealthiest ope-
ratives in the world, and they could cease work
without being ruined.

EXTRAORDINARY WEATHER.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sin,—l have been requested to furnish you with a brief
statement of the extraordinary weather of the past three
months, in comparison with the same months of 1859.
Deg. De
Greatest heat in shade, June, 1859, 80.4—June, 1860, 73.5 g.
ft ft July, 1859, 89.5—July, 1860, 77.0
fl 11 Aug., 1859, 86.0—Aug., 1860, 73.0
Colder in 1860—June 6.9 deg.
)1 July, 12.5 deg.
ft Aug., 13.0 dog.
In June, 1859, the temperature rose to 70 on 20 days.
June, 1860, ft ~ 70 on 7 days.
July, 1859,
99 9, 7.5 on 28 days.
July, 1860, ), ~ 75 on 6 days.
July, 1859, 71 ~ 80 on 14 days.
July, 1859,
I, „ 85 on 5 days.
July, 1860, f/ 1, 80 on no day.
Aug., 1859, )1 „ 70 on 25 days.
Aug., 1860, ), „ 70 on 2 days.
Aug., 1859, It „ 80 on 6 days.
Aug., 1860, 71 ft 74 on no day.
In June, 1859, the temperature was low; it reached 92.2
deg. in 1858, and 91 deg. in 1846 ; the two lowest years
being 1843 and 1852, when it only reached 77 deg., or 3.5
deg. above that of June, 1860.

In July the temperature reached 91 deg. in 1852, and
only 77 deg. in 1843, being the same maximum as in 1860.
In August the temperature reached 92.5 deg. in 1856,
and was as low as 74.5 dog. in 1845, or I's deg. hotter than
in 1860.
The temperature in 1860 fell to within 2.5 deg. of the
freezing point in June, to within 4.5 deg. in July, and to
within 9.0 deg. in August on the grass.
There has been a large amount of ozone.
In June, 1860, the amount of rain was about the average,
in July half an inch in excess ; and in August already
nearly an inch beyond the average for the whole month.
In the last 40 days 35 have been rainy.

hare the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant,
E. J. LOWE.

Highfield-house Observatory, Aug. 19.

Her Imperial Highness the Grand Duchess Marie
of Russia, with the Princes Nicholas and Eugene Roma-
noffski, attended by Count Stroganoff and a large suite,
have arrived at Claridge's Hotel from Torquay. Their Ex-
cellencias Baron and Baroness de Brunnow were present
to meet them at the Great Western terminus, and accom-
panied them to the hotel.

The Prince and Princess Hohenlohe Schilling-
furst and Prince William Hohenlohe have arrived at Long's
Hotel from the Isle of Wight.
His Excellency the French Ambassador and the
Countess de Peragny have arrived at Albert-gate House
from a tour of visits in Cornwall and Devonshire.
The British Trident, from Melbourne, has brought
gold to the value of £llO,OOO.

The Duke of Devonshire and Lady Louisa
Cavendish have arrived at Bolton Abbey, Yorkshire, where
his grace is entertaining a select party for grouse shooting.
The Duchess of Sutherland has arrived in Paris.
The duchess does not intend to make a protracted stay in
the French capital, as her grace is expected to join the du-ka
and family at Dunrobin Castle, Sutherlandshire, early in
the ensuing month.
The Marquis of Bath, who on leaving town went
to Longleat, his lordship's princely seat in Wilts, has since
left for his shooting quarters in the Highlands.
The Earl and Countess of Eglinton are about to
receive a succession of visitors at Eglinton Castle, Ayr-
shire.

The Earl and Countess of Limerick and Viscount
Glentworth have grrived at their seat in Ireland for the
autumn.

Viscount and Viscountess Stratford de Redcliffe
and the Hon. Misses Canning have left Grosvenor-square,
for Pencarrow, on a visit to Lady Melesworth,
Lord Llanover has left London fol. Naples and
Sicily. Lady Llanover proceeds to Bonn, on a visit to her
sister, the Baroness le Bunsen.
Sir Alexander Cockburn, the Lord Chief Justice,
left town yesterday for the north of Scotland, for grouse
shooting.
The Right Hon. Henry Herbert, M.P., and Mrs.
and Miss Herbert left town at the close of the past week for
Muckross, the family seat in Killarney.
THE PnEmiER.---Viscount Palmerston has
honoured Mr. J. E. Jones, the eminent sculptor, with sit-
tings for his bust during the past week. An admirable
likeness has been obtained.
The installation of the New Sicilian magistracy
took place at Palermo on the 9th. The members all took
the oath to the constitutional statuto of the Piedmontese
kingdom.
The accounts from the hop districts continue
very bad. Last year's hops are 10s. per cwt. dearer than
last week.
A letter from Genoa of the 15th in the Siecle
says:—" Garibaldi has been suffering severely for some
days past from articular rheumatism, to which he is unfor-
tunately very subject, and has been even confined to his
bed.

Accounts from Cork announce the sudden death
by apoplexy, it is supposed, of Colonel Reynell Pack, C. 8.,
half-pay of the rualleers, and dcputy-quftrterwagter- gene-
ral of the south-western district.
The Espero of Turin says that the Duke de
Chartres has resigned the commission which he had ac-
cepted in the Sardinian army at the time of the war against
Austria, on the ground that he cannot draw a sword against
his relation, the King of Naples.
A few days before her Majesty's arrival at Bal-
moral the Electric Telegraph Company completed the com-
munication by telegraph between the castle and the metro-
polis. Messages can now be sent direct from London to
Balmoral without detention at any of the intermediate
stations. The wires are in daily use.
FROM BALMORAL TO BERLIN.—An interesting
experiment was recently made to obtain a direct telegraphic
communication between Balmoral and Berlin, a distance of
nearly 1,300 miles. A short conversion took place, the
telegraph clerk at Balmoral informing the Berlin clerk that
the Balmoral time was 2 p.m., the clerk in the Prussian
capital replying that it had just struck 3, and that the sig-
nals were as distinct as if the distance had been only a few
miles. The electric telegraph wires are now extended to
Balmoral for the service of the Court during her Majesty's
stay in the north.
During the last ten days 8,740 men have em-
barked from Genoa for Sicily. These expeditions cost
enormous sums of money. Every steamer is supplied with
provisions for ten days, although the ordinary passage is
only 30 hours ; and each commandant of a brigade of 1,000
men carries with him a sum of 50,000 f. for the support of
his men until further orders.
THE CASE OF THE REV. MR. HATCH.—We
understand from good authority that the friends of Mr.
Hatch are about to indict Mrs. Plummer for perjury.—
Swindon Advertiser.
GREAT SWARM OF LOCUSTS IN RUSSlA.—Alarm-
ing accounts have been received in St. Petersburg of the
appearance of locusts in some of the southern provinces ;
the wheat crop has suffered most from their ravages, espe-
cially in the Government of Kherson. It is remarked that
this year, for the first time, locusts have not attacked the
flax fields.
THE CATTLE TRADE.—NORWICH, Aug. 18.—At
to.•day's market there was a very large supply of store cattle
—in fact, the numbers on offer were considerably in excess
of the demand. Business consequently proceeded slowly,
and prices had a downward tendeacy. The same state of
things prevailed with regard to sheep, and lambs were ls.
per head lower.

THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS IN SCOTLAND.
—From the early part of the week the weather has not
been favourable for harvest. A considerable amount of
rain has fallen since Wednesday, the quantity amounting
to fully 0•80 inch. The barometer continues low, remain-
ing almost stationary at 29 inches ; and the atmosphere is
close and sultry, with an almost entire absence of sunshine.
Reaping on a few fields commenced on Monday, but opera-
tions have since been suspended. It is expected, however,
with favourable weather, that several farmers will begin
to cut on Monday. The rains, it is gratifying to state,
have not injured the crops, which all continue highly
promising. —Scotsman.
VOLUNTEERS.—The undersigned, being a com-
mittee of officers commanding volunteer rifle corps in tke
metropolitan district, having observed that numerous
schemes have been published purporting to be Volunteers'
Friendly Societies, Sec., decline to promise their support to
any society for the present. A general scheme for Great
Britain, with the patronage of th Secretary of State for
War, is under consideration, which the public and the
volunteers will be invited to join :—Lieut.-Col. Earl Gros-
venor, Colonel the Marquis of Donegal, Lieut -Col. Hicks,
Lieut.-Col. the Hon. C. H. Lindsay, Col. Thorold, Major
Beresford, Capt. Hon. T. Bruce, Captain Templar, Capt.
Glover, Capt. Spottiswoode, and Capt. Martineau.
THE EXECUTION OF PRICE.—WARWICK, Men-
day.—The execution of Francis Price for the murder of his
sweetheart, at Birmingham, in April last, took place this
morning. The scaffold was erected over the entrance to the
new gaol, which has only been occupied within the last few
weeks. There was an immense crowd of persons to witness
the execution. At ten o'clock the under-sheriff, the gover-
nor of the gaol, and Nee, ascended the scaffold, and on
reaching the front of the railing he signified his intention
to address the crowd, and in a few short sentences he ac-
knowledged the justice of his sentence; the cap was then
adjusted, the fatal bolt withdrawn, and he ceased to live.
A SUSPECTED MURDER.—Yesterday Mr. Waklev
e mb e r ofattending
a bu
resumed an inquiry at the Marylebone Workhouse into the
circumstances
the
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Conway,supposedv agedo t
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alclub,
have been sacrificed by the administration of poison. The
inquiry had been adjourned in order that medical evidence
might be produced. The chemist who analysed the contents
of the stomach was examined yesterday. He had been
unable to discover any traces of poison, and, after a good
deal of evidence had been received from various witnesses,
the jury returned a verdict, " That death was produced by
acute peritonitis, or inflammation of the stomach and in-
testines, but how that inflammation was caused there was
no evidence to show."
JERSEY JUSTICE.—The criminal law of the island
appears to be most strangely administered. Last summer,
1859, a girl found guilty of infanticide was bailed out for
£lO. A year or two before, a man who shot his sister, and
was tried for manslaughter, got off scot-free among the
cheers of his party. Alore lately, two drunkards quarrelled
in a gig, and one tried to seize the gun of the other, the
other in the scramble shot him and wounded him ; the
wounded man got well, but the aggressor was sentenced to
seven years transportation, and his property was confis-
cated to the lord of the manor, thus punishing his innocent
family by a barbarous feudal law. Some time ago, a poor
little French boy was killed by a blow by a Jersey butcher-
boy,l whom the Jersey jury entirely acquitted. No French
or English resident is said to have much chance with an
islander in the civil courts, and on an occasion lately, when
by some accident or mistake justice was done, the Jersey-
man were heard to exclaim as he went out: " What a shame
it is that foreigners should be allowed to beat us in our own
courts."—Once a Week.
THE MOORS AND FORESTS.--The 12th of August,
the beginning of the grouse season, fell this year on Sun-
day. Shooting was consequently deferred until the follow-
ing morning. The weather was favourable, and we are glad
to learn that the expectations we had been led to form, from
inquiries made in various parts of the Highlands, have been
amply realised. Sportsmen in England were naturally in-
credulous ' • but thousands of partridges and pheasants had
perished before their eyes in the long-continued floods of
June and July. But we had no such long disastrous weather
in the Highlands. There was no excess either of rain or
draught, heat o cold, and the broods of grouse were placed
in favourable ciscurastances, both for hatching and rearing.
Hence the splendid bags made on the 13th. The birds are
not only very numerous, but they are far above the average
of years in health, strength, and condition. Since 1855 there
has not been so favourable a Commencement of the grouse
season in this quarter, and omitting that annus mirabilis in
the records of grouse shooting, we might go back a great
many years before finding
a better season for both quantity
and quality. The accounts from the far north eke not so
favourable, we believe ; but we have very few returns as yet
from either Sutherland or Caithness. From the forests we
learn that deer are an average in number, and they are in
good condition.—lnverness Courier.
STRANGE SUICIDE.—Some men cannot execute so
melancholy an act as that of suicide without eccentricity.
An instance of this was afforded on Monday last at Lecure,
near Havre. A cap Was seen in the water with a string of
corks around it, and a label upon which was written, " Pull
the string, lam at the end of it!" The string was pulled,
and sure enough there was the late wl iter of the label, with
a paper, detailing the cause of his having made away with
himself, carefully corked up in a bottle in his pocket, with
his name and address, "Francois Foliot, of Vandrimare."
FaRADaY.—His love of knowledge is so pure
that it is the same thing to him whether any addition to the
stock is made by himself or somebody else. Very great men,
such as he is now, cannot afford to let lesser men do all
they can, and to help them to do it, without an uneasy
thought about their own position and credit ; but it is a
test of a man's real greatness whether he is aware of this,
or whether he is still subject to a jealousy which he might
have left behind long ago. The highest man of all is he
who does not consider the thing, one way or another,
but simply rejoices in something being gained, and does not
care about who has the credit of it, himself or another.
Probably Faraday does not care. He certainly- never stops
to discuss it; never stoops to urge any personal claim ;
never wastes precious thought and time in settling his
own position, or calculating his own greatness. But he
always has leisure and patience for other people's
claims. He has sympathy for every new success, and the
most winning respect and tenderness for every modest
and sensible effort in that direction. What his power
of sympathy is appears in his lectures to every class of
persons. No treat that can he offered can tempt scientific
men to forego a lecture of Faradays, while children, when
he addressee them, understand all he tells them, or can go
up to him afterwards to ask him to settle their difficulty.
The same simple hearty symyathy is always ready in his
heart for the child who is trying for the first time to •
cern invisible things, and for the discoverer who is treading
on his heels in his own path. Thits does he justify the
view which excited Sir H. Davy's smile—that _ the spirit
of the philosopher should be amiable and liberal.—Once a
Week.

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