The Sun.
London, England, 1856-12-20 00:00:00

IN BE WEBSTER.

This bankrupt was described as of King's Cross, to
bacconist, and to-day was appointed for conbideration o
his certificate.

Mr. Pearce opposed on the ground that he had let hie
basin« es to a respectable female, on the representation
that the business turned in £9 per week, where it
only fetched £2 or £3, and the poor woman was almost
ruined.

The certificate was suspended for II months, without
protection for three months, and a certificate was
granted to the opposing creditor, and he was forthwith
taken in execution.

HER MAJESTY'S VISIT TO TIE U.S.S. RESOLUTE, AT
Cown.—We understand that Mr. William Simpson is
now engaged upon a representation of the above inter-
esting event, containing portraits of her Majesty,
Prince Albert, 11.11.11. the Prince of Wales,
H.R.H. the Princess Royal, the royal suite, Captain
Hartstein, and his officers. —S.S. painted from life.
Messrs. Paul and Dominic Colnaghi and Co., 13 and
14, Pall-Mall East, will shortly publish a first-class
2.ngraving of this, Mr. Simpson's latest historical pro-
duction.
M. de Lamartine, whose recent illness, merely an
attack of rheumatism, has been greatly exaggerated by
the Brussels journals, has returned to Paris from his
country house quite recovered.
Henry Frank Carr, the young gentleman who stands
charged with having in his possession several silk hand.
kerchief•, which is supposed to form a portion of some
property stolen from thop of Mr. Meeking, of High
was again leyped at the bar of the Guildhall
Holborn, was
yesterday, and further remanded for a
week.

The most remarkable feature in the returns is the extra-
ordinary increase in the acreage and produce of wheat,
which within two years have advanced 56i per cent. The
Irish statistics for the present year show a result in the
same direction, though not to an equal extent. But, if
the returns of the two countries are put together, they will
prove how rapidly the farmers adapt their cultivation to
the demands of the market, and how certainly an increase
of price is followed by an increased supply. Thus, the re-
spective acreage under wheat was in-
-1854.
Ireland 411,281
Scotland

1856.
529,363
263,328

579,500 792,691
Showing within two years an increase of 36 per cent. In
other words, the breadth of wheat sown by the farmers in
Ireland and Scotland has increased more than a third since
1854.
.. ... .. _ . _ _

But, in so far as regards Scotland, a large deduction
must be made from the gross result this year, owing to the
very serious damage caused by a wet harvest. The corn

districts on the east coast suffered most severely, and the
loss from this cause is estimated by the enumerators
variously between 20 and 40 per cent. Weather so disas-
trous to the condition and quality of a crop, which was
otherwise most promising, has not been experienced since
1816. _ _

Ihe potato crop, which last year was so abundant both
in England and Scotland, is this year mach less productive
in the latter country. With a slightly increased acreage
the estimated produce has suddenly dropped by 43 per
cent•, and as additional proof, if any were wanting after
the Irish famine, of the utter unfitness of this crop to be
relied on as the main article of a nation's food.
The gross results of this year's crop, as compared with
that of last year in Scotland, show an increase of about
one-twelfth in the yield of corn, but that will be more than
balanced by the deterioration of quality and by the defici-
ency in potatoes. On the whole, wo gather from these
returns that the Scotch harvest of 1856 will yield hardly
so much food as that of 1855, and about 5 per cent. less
than that of 1854.
This is now the third year in which these statistics have
been voluntarily returned by the farmers of Scotland, and
each year's experience has added to their correctness and
value. No testimony could be more trustworthy than
that of the farmers themselves, as given in these returns,
to their unobjectionable character ; and we cordially join
with Mr. Hall Maxwell in the, conclusion of his report,
which is as follows :
"It is my pleasing duty to inform my Lords that the
returns continue to be freely and voluntarily made by the
agricultural community. Instances there are, no doubt, of
opponents who plead the objections so frequently heard in
England, but such cases are singular. The farmers of Scot-
land have practically satisfied themselves that the inquiry
is in no respect inquisitorial, and that it cannot possibly
divulge or compromise individual interests. They appreciate
with intelligence the importanceof statistical information,
and they would rejoice could the inquiry be systematically
extended over the three countries, believing that its results
are comparatively valueless as long as its operation is par-
tial."