The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-05 00:00:00

Za/PSOZE2I.A.IIrNOUS.

The accounts from Dublin of the state of Lady Heytes-
bury's health are still very unfavourable.
The corn harvest in Ireland is very nearly brought to
a close, all through the country. The wheat crop is the
finest and most abundant for several years ; but oats and
barley are scarcely an average. Potatoes, notwithstand-
ing the early failures, promise a good crop. Altogether,
the harvest is excellent in quantity and quality. A letter
from Fetherd, county of Tipperary, says, " Last year
wheat was a good crop, but the produce this year is from
20 to 25 per cent. over it. The price here at present is
235. 4d. per barrel of twenty stone."
The second annual meeting of the Ongar Labourers'
Friend Society took place at Chipping Ongar on Thurs-
day. The show consisted chiefly of vegetables, flowers,
bread, butter, honey, &c., the produce of labourers, and
the premiums awarded were for skill in husbandry, al-
lotment and garden produce, industry, service, and eco-
nomy, home duties and schools. At two o'clock the So-
ciety proceeded to award the several prizes. After the
proceedings of the meeting had terminated the Society
and their friends dined together at the Bell Inn in the
evening..

The whole of the shares for the projected railway from
Tavistock to Plymouth have been taken up, and a Bill
will be applied for in the next session of Parliament.
It is calculated that the thirty-one railways for which
Acts of Parliament were obtained last session will re-
quire a capital of 11,741,7171. sterling.
We have learned that the Directors of the Dover Rail-
way are about to place engines of a more powerful de-
scription upon the line, by which all chance of delay
will in future be obviated. The unexpected and sudden
failure of some of those in use has given rise to the com-
plaints that have been made of the late arrival of some
of the trains.

Two rather extensive houses in this town says, the
Liverpool Mercury, have suspended payment. The
transactions of one of the houses have been very large,
but the parties have been most honourably struggling
with their impending difficulties, and the deficiency, we
believe, will not exceed 25,0001.

It appears that the total quantity of malt made in
one year, to the 10th of October last, in the United
Kingdom, was 4,459,673 quarters, of which 8,566,298
quarters were used in that period. In England the
quantity used was 3,336,150, in Scotland 103,902, and
in Ireland only 126,267 quarters in the year. In one
year, ending in October last, there were nearly 43,157
acres of land under the cultivation of hops in England
and Wales, and the hop duty paid in the year amounted
to 243,7961. 7s. 2d.

The Directors of the Pastern Counties Railways hav-
ing determined on an extension of their line to Bury, via
Newmarket, submitted the plans of two lines to the
Jockey Club on Wednesday last for their opinion, one
being proposed to pass to the left of the race course, the
other to the right of the town. The club was almost
unanimously in favour of the former. It is stated that
the line may be completed in about two years.
On Thursday the third annual meeting of the county
of Durham Agricultural Association took place at Stock-
ton-on• Tees, in Durham.

The interesting ceremony of baptising a Jewess took
place on Friday afternoon, at St. Mary's Church, Chel-
tenham. The convert was Miss Wolfsberg, daughter of
Mr. Wolfsberg, of that town. She was named Adela
Sini Wolfsberg. After the sacred rite had been per-
formed, an elegant copy of the " Church Service" was
presented to her by a lady.