The Sun.
London, England, 1844-09-04 00:00:00

THE WRIT OF 'ERROR.

C'CONN'ILLL AND OTHERS v. TREE QUEEN.
The opinions delivered on Monday by the Learned
Jukes in the House of Lords give rise to a variety of
considerations, amongst which the following may be
noticed as particularly important :
I. In the case of an appeal, or writ of error, is any
presumption to be made either in favour of, or against
the legal validity of the judgment appealed from, or is
not the proper judgment to be given as much open to be
considered by the Court of Appeal upon Error, as by the
Court below upon the original hearing?
2. If in an indictment consisting of counts A B
where the verdict is guilty of all generally, and the
count C is bad, a judgment that the defendants for the
offences aforesaid be fined and, imprisoned cannot be re-
versed on a writ of error, upon" theground that the judg-
ment would hare been sufficient if confined expressly to
counts A and B, and that a Court of Error must pre-
sume that the Court below passed such judgment upon
the good counts only—is there any mode of rebutting
such presumption, and of bringing to the knowledge of
the Court of Error the tact that the Court below had,
before they gave such judgment, held upon motion in
arrest of judgment that the count, was good ; and if not,
how can they act upon a presUmption which cannot be
rebutted ?

3. Would it make any difference if the Court in pass-
ing sentence, should hare actually commented upon the
enormity of the offences charged in count C, and the
great danger in which the public would be if such
offences should be allowed to go unpunished, and should
then have proceeded to pass the sentence upon the de-
fendant—therefore, for the offences of which you have
been found guilty you be imprisoned, &c. ? or could such
judgment, if in writit'v or print, be judicially brought
to the knowledge of the Court of Error ?
4. Would it make any difference if the writ of error
were brought on the judgment of a criminal Court, in
which the presiding judge had been a Peer of the realm,
and it were admitted by that Peer in his place in Parlia-
ment, that he had entirely, or in part, given the judg-
ment and passed the sentence upon the bad count ; or
would the effect of the legal presumption now under
discussion be such as to constrain him to adopt the pre-
sumption that he had rejected that count, when in fact
he had acted upon it ?
5. Suppose a judgment to have been founded on the
bad counts in an English Court, would it be the duty of
the judges who had given such judgment to advise the
House of Lords to presume that they had not founded
their judgment on these counts ?
6. Would the same doctrine of presumption be made
in the case of a judgment of a Court of Quarter Sessions,
or any inferior Court of record ?
7. Is a motion in arrest of judgment made before or
after the sentence is passed ? Is it a motion to the
Court to roview its own judgment, given upon a bad
count, or an application to the Court to abstain from
Passing judgment tor the offence charged in such count ?
8. The following appears to be the form of the entry
of an arrest of judgment in a civil case :
" But because it appears to the Court that the declara-
tion is not sufficient in law for the plaintiff to have or
maintain his action against the defendant, therefore
omitting to give judgment upon the verdict aforesaid, it
is told to the parties by the said Court, that they go
thereof without delay."

9. Is there not also a proper form of entry in a cri-
minal case, where the Court holds the indictment, or any
one of the counts, bad in law ?
10. Is not the form of judgment given by Lord Hale,
in Dale's " Pleas of the Crown," vol. ii. pp. 394, 395, the
form which ought to be adopted in such case. He says,
" for where the prisoner excepts to the insufficieny of
the indictment, or the Court does it ex qificio, the judg-
ment is special, quod indictamentum ob insufficientiam
cassetur, et quod the prisoner eat inde ad prcesens sine die?
11. Is not a motion in arrest of judgment an applica-
tion to the Court, calling on it to decide that no judg-
ment can be given upon the indictment, without regard
to the form of the judgment, whether on all the counts
or only on some ? Is not the question on a writ of error
whether the judgment, in the form actually given, can
be sustained ? If so, can cases on motions in arrest of
judgment throw any light on the questions to be decided
on writs of error ?

12. If there is a form of entry in a criminal case,
where the Court holds an indictment, or any count or
counts, bad in law, can a Court of Error presume that
the Court below gave judgment only upon the good
counts, where there is no entry upon the record to show
that the Court below, upon due consideration, have con-
sidered any of the counts insufficient in law but, on the
-contrary, have given judgment that the defendant, for
his offences aforesaid, be fined and imprisoned,' &c.
13. Would it make any difference as to the presump-
tion to be made by the Court of Error, if the jury should
have actually found by their verdict, that as to the pre-
mises charged in the count C (the bad count), the de-
fendants are guilty thereof, and such finding should ap-
pear upon the same record on which the Court below is
recorded to have given judgment, or passed sentence,
that the defendant, for his offences aforesaid, be fined
and imprisoned, &c., without saying anything as to such
finding upon the bad count ?
14. In the case of the King v. Holland, 5 Term Rep.
623, Lord Kenyon is reported to have said, " Mr. Adam
argued that three things ought to concur in every cri-
minal proceeding—first, that the party accused should
be apprised of the charge he is to defend ; second, that
the Court might know what jufigmeat was to be pro.-
nounced according to law ; and thirdly, that posterity
might know what law is to be', derived from the record.
These are general propositions, to which I assent." Now,
if this be the law, how can posterity derive any know-
ledge from the record of the Court below as to the va •
lidity of the count C, and whether it 'charges an offence
or not ?

15. If the presumption of a Court of Error is that the
Court gave judgment upon the good count only, and the
judgment be affirmed upon that Presumption, how will
posterity derive their knowledge of the law from the re-
cord of affirmance ? Will the record of affirmance by
the Court of Error specify the counts which are good and
those which are bad, or will the judgment be general that
the judgment below be affirmed ?
16. As the record of the Court of Queen's Bench in
Ireland now stands, can Mr. D. O'Connell, or any one
else, say for what offence he is now suffering imprison-
ment, unless it is for all the offences -with which he has
been charged by the indictment, and of which he has
been found guilty by the jury ?

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A FIELD OF BARLEY SET ON FIRE.-011 Wed-
nesday forenoon, at a quarter past ten, as the first down-
the parish of Rivenhall, half a wile from the Witham
through a cutting of about five feet in
to Mr. Upson. The barley
sppaasrskinfgrom the engine set fire to a field of bar-
and uncut, and a heavy crop both of straw and grain,
not less than seven quarters per acre. The flames passed
across the field with great rapidity, till they were stopped
was very ripe
by the hedge or bottom of the enclosure, which fortu-
nately was a distance of only eighteen rods. The quan-
tity consumed was about two acres, and altogether, in-
cluding the straw, the damage sustained is not less than
301.—Essex Herald.
The galvanic telegraph on the Great Western Rail-
way, between Paddington and Slough, was in great re-
quisition yesterday, to communicate the departure, from
the Paddington terminus, of several of her Majesty's dis-
tinguished visitors, and to order carriages and four, from
the Royal Hotel at Slough, to be in readiness upon their
arrival at that station. 'Amongst those personages who
availed themselves of this mode of communication (thus
losing not a moment's time on their reaching Slough)
were the Earl of Liverpool, the Earl and Countess Dela-
warr, Sir Robert Peel, Baron Anthony Rothschild,
Count Nesselrode, &c. The Duke of Wellington pro-
ceeded to the Castle from Slough on horseback.
SNOW IN THE DOG DAYS.—CODLENTE, AUG. 19.
—On the afternoon of the 16th there was a fall of snow
in the vicinity of Rhense,
on the Rhine. It is almost in•
credible that snow should fall in the dog days, on the
banks of the Rhine.

n°y,otitzt—heltphowasiaibselernonsctaotte4,anoy
e at n
many orders on hand as will keep that
establishment with all its irons in the fire for seven years
to come.—Beth Journal.
EXTRAORDINARY RAILWAY PARCEL.—By the
prettyhavlr good
pLrAeisse an lutßt a hOsz: r i Wt
train which left Glasgow last evening at half-past six
o'clock, reaching Ayr at half-past eight, a parcel arrived,
consisting of a white willow basket, with the lid closely
sewed down. As there is no delivery after that hour, the
basket was put along with other articles in the goods office
where it remained all night. This morning the porter
proceeded to deliver the goods, and, on going his rounds,
thought he felt something stirring in the basket, and on
.
lifting the corner of the lid, discovered that his charge
was a female child! The case is under investigation by
the authorities.—Ayr tho h
ißes._Ayr Advertiser,
TenifE vnea.—We have enjoyed during the
k trfii‘tnest weather we have experienced since the
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It has given a universal impulse to the
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May.
harvest, which is now making rapid progress, and has
all parts of the country are equally
removed all the apprehensions we were beginning to en-
tertain from the continuence of rain. The accounts we
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the sacristan, indignantly, "It contains some of the
darkness that Moses spread over the land of Egypt."
traveller said
THE FIRST EXCURSION TRAIN FROM LONDON TO
EXETER.—The Great Western Railway's first excursion
train from London to Bath, Bristol, Taunton, and Exeter,
left Paddington yesterday morning at seven o'clock,
with nearly ZOO passengers ; the fares, for the holydsy
travellers, having been reduced one-half. At Slough,
Reading, and the several stations along the line, the
numbers were considerably increased, amounting in the
aggregate to nearly 1,000 passengers.
SUNDAY TRAVELLING ON It Atf.wAirs.—A corre-
spondent of the Preston Chronicle, in reference to the
opposition offered by the Bishop of London to Sunday
travelling on railways, says :—" Last Sunday, about
2,000 people went to Fleetwood in third-class carriages,
and from about twelve to twenty persons were em-
ployed in the locomotion of this numerous party,
not quite one to 100. I remember, some years
ago, seeing his Lordship of London, then Bishop
of Chester, come to preach on a Sunday morning at
Preston Church, and, although he had only about two
or three hundred yards to go, he had his carriage, two
horses, and two or three servants employed. His Lord-
ship, who cannot travel two or three hundred yards,
without requiring two or three persons to break the
Sabbath, grumbles at a poor man travelling, who, in a
journey of 20 miles, with 99 of his neighbours, do not al-
together cause the services of one man to be employed
on the Sunday."—Railway Record.
A vast number of objections to Parliamentary
votes have been served upon parties in Colchester, and
it is alleged that the Anti- Corn-lari League has a hand
i in the matter.—. Essex Herald.

• We heartily commend this work to the approval of the
public, as an able, unflinching, and powerful exposure of the
numerous and varied evils of town interment. To it, as well
as the energetic and public-spirited exertions of its author,
the country is indebted for the rise of the movement upon
this subject, and to the notice which the Poor. law Commis-
sioners (through Mr. Chadwick) have since bestowed upon
it, although, we are sorry to say, with an ungracious and un-
worthy disposition to overlook Mr. Walker's labours. For
some time before the Supplement to the Sanitary Report (on
" Interment in Towns") was printed, Mr. Walker had been
making great personal exertions, by calling public meetings
by publishing works, by addressing letters to the editors of
the metropolitan press, and by being the cause, in a great
measure, of the appointmant of a Committee of the House
of Commons, to awaken the country to a sense of the mis-
chiefs attending the practice we are here alluding to. To
him, therefore, belongs the merit of having enlightened and
aroused the public mind on this subject, and not to the Go-
vernment, or its agent, who would in this, as in some other
cases, deprive real worth of its due—if they could.

THE METROPOLITAN PARLIAMENTARY REVISIONS.
—We understand that Mr. T. J. Arnold has been ap-
pointed by Lord Denman the revising barrister of the
lists of electors for the City of London, and has appointed
to hold his first Court in the Court of Common Pleas,
Guildhall, on Monday, the 16th inst. The proceedings
of the first day's sitting will be occupied in receiving
from the Secondaries the lists of the livery, and from the
overseers the lists of the 101. householders. After this
formal proceeding the discussion of the different c'aims
and objections will be proceeded with in the order which,
at its earliest sitting, will, no doubt, be appointed by the
Court. In the letter of appointment issued by Lord
Denman, in his capacity of Lord Chief Justice of the
Queen's Bench, the names of Mr. Lancelot Shadwell,
son of the Vice Chancellor of England, and Mr. D. C.
Moylan, are associated, and it is presumed that one of
those Learned Gentlemen will take the revision of the
county of Middlesex, and the other that of the boroughs
of Finsbury, Marylebone, and the Tower Hamlets. As
yet, however, no definitive arrangement has been made.
EXTRAORDINARY RAILWAY TRAlNS.—Sunday
morning being the last day for the cheap excursions to
Brighton and back, the terminus at London-bridge was
literally besieged by nearly 3,000 people. At seven
o'clock, they commenced sending them off in batches.
The first lot consisted of 700 people, who were conveyed
in 25 carriages, propelled by three engines; immediately
after, another, consisting of 20 carriages, containing 540;
and at eight o'clock, a monster train of 40 carriages,
containing 1,000, left the terminus for Brighton, where
they arrived in two hours. The latter train was pro-
pelled by six powerful engines. The whole of them
returned home by ten o'clock at night in two monster
trains without encountering any accident.
BIRTH EXTRAORDINARY.—OH Monday the 12th•
instant, in the New Lane, off the Coal Quay, Sally, the
wife of Patrick Donoghue, at the age of over sixty years,
gave birth to a son. The mother and child are both
well. The mother is a most industrious, honest woman.
—Cork Reporter.
SUDDEN DEATH OF THE KEEPER OF EXETER
HALL, WHILE BATHING.—OH Saturday morning, about
half-past eight o'clock, as Mr. William Gordon, keeper
of Exeter Hall who, had been lodging at Mr. Kirkham s,
in Edward-street, Brighton, fora change of air, was
bathing in the sea, Ile was suddenly taken with a fit and
fell in the water. He was immediately assisted into the
machine from which he had been bathing, and was at-
tended by an assistant of Mr. Cordy Burrows, surgeon,
but life was extinct. An inquest was held before Mr.
F. 11. Gell, coroner for East Sussex, on Saturday even-
ing. Verdict, " Died of apoplexy." Deceased's wife
was waiting on the beach when be was taken with the
ht which ended in his deAtil.

EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE.
The neighbourhood of Henham-park, the country eat
of the Earl of Stradbroke, was thrown into a state of
great excitement on Saturday morning last, August 31,
by the rumour being spread that his Lordship's head-
keeper, whose name WAS Easey, had destroyed himself.
This report, on inquiry, was found to be but too true.
About eleven o'clock on the morning of that day the
unfortunate man, it appeared, whose character for
quietness and general worth was high, left his cottage,
which is situate on the Henham-park estate, taking a
double-barrelled gun with him. He proceeded to a spot
at the back of his house, where grow a quantity of bull-
rushes; and of these he managed in an ingenious and
most original manner to form the means of his death
and fearful mutilation. From the relative positions in
which the body and gun were found, it would seem
that he had fixed some of the rushes across the
two triggers of his piece, and placed his foot upon
the end of those rushes in such a manner as to enable
him, haring Lilt the end of the barrels in his mouth, to
fire Off the gun! The effect of this most extraordinary
and determined act of suicide was, of course, the imme-
diate death of the unhappy man. The whole of the
head was shattered in a frightful manner, particularly the
left side, which was blo-wn completely away. The brain
was found in a tolerably perfect condition, at a distance
from the corpse. A more resolute and horrible mode of
self-slaughter can scarcely ever, if ever, have occurred.
As may be imagined, the circumstance has created great
excitement in the immediate vicinity of the park, and
indeed around that part of the country; and the various
.circumstances attending the melancholy act are such as
to be well calculated to increase the peculiar and painful
interest of the case. From the situation held by the de-
ceased he necessarily had the chief care and direction of
the Earl of Stradbroke's game preserves; and as the
Noble Lord was expected to arrive on Saturday at
Henham Park with his family, Easey was anxious to
have all duly prepared for his reception and sporting
amusement on Monday. However, for some time past
the poachers have been active on the estate, and great
quantities of the game have been destroyed and taken
by them, including several of his Lordship's favourite
breeding birds among numbers of pheasants that have
fallen before these illegal sportsmen. The vexation and
annoyance caused to the deceased by these predatory
acts have been very great. Persons who had seen and
conversed with him during the past week all remarked
how unusually dull and depressed his manner was. It
is imagined by his wife and those most intimate with
him that this has been the cause of that state of mind
which led to the commission of the fatal deed, combined
with the expectation of meeting his master so soon, and
the fear excited that the Noble Earl would impute blame
to him fur negligence of his duties in permitting the
continuance of such robberies of his preserves. Whe-
ther such were really the origin of the suicide or not it
is, of course, quite impossible now to decide ; but it
would seem to afford a very probable and likely cause for
the melancholy circumstance in the absence of any do-
mestic and private motive for the act. It is also stated
that he was to have been a witness at the examination of
some poachers, who will be brought before the magis-
trates on Wednesday. These men he saw leave with
game in their possession, he being afraid to attack them,
they -being four or fire in number. This may have
added to the troubled state of mind under which the un-
fortunate man had evidently for some days laboured. It
ryas expected that the inquest would be held yesterday
(Monday).

CAPTAIN WARNER AND THE GOVERNMENT.—On
Saturday the correspondence which has taken place be-
tween Captain Warner and the Government, respecting
his inventions, was printed by order of the House of
Commons. The first letter was dated the sth of Octo-
ber, 1841, and the last on the 9th of November, 1843.
It appears that Captain Warner, who in 1841
complained that he had suffered ten years' delay, sus-
pense, and disappointment, demanded 200,000/. for his
invisible shell, and 200,000/. for his " long range," and
in graphic terms speaks of their destructive powers on
sea and land ; at the same time he states, that the dis-
appointments he has endured have involved him in pecu-
niary embarrassments, alluding to the commands of the
late King, that he should not leave the country, and the
expectations he had formed that his inventions would
have been accepted. In the first letter from Sir Robert
Peel to Sir George Murray, the Right Hon. Baronet re-
quest* that great caution should be used in the negotia •
tions, and declares the sum to be " exorbitant, at least
large in amount," and refers to a letter shown him by
Lord Ingestre, that 300,000 L would be no obstable from
a foreign Power to secure the inventions. It would seem
that in October last it was arranged that the" long range"
invention should be tested. Captain Warner offered to
procure 1,5001., and the Government consented to pay
5001. The fernier was, however, unable to raise his
portion, and the negotiations were abruptly closed at the
end of the month. The public are aware of the recent
experiment, and the discussion which has occurred lathe
House of Commons, which discussion is likely to be con-
tinued in consequence of the information which is now
afforded by the Parliamentary document of the corre-
spondence, which contains a great many letters, and ex-
tends to seventy printed pages.
Preparations have commenced at Witley Court,
the seat of Lord Ward, which the Queen Dowager rents,
bat no precise period has yet been named for the ar-
rival of her Majesty and suite from Bushy.
Sir Roger and Lady Palmer, family, and suite,
left London on Monday, by the Antwerpen steam-packet,
on a tour through Germany and Switzerland, and intend
passing the winter in Italy.
GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAT.—We are glad to
learn that this Company have at last so far complied with
the wants of the public as to intimate that they are
about to make arrangements for putting second-class
carriages on the line, so as. to meet those of the Birming-
ham and London at Birmingham. This is an important
alteration that ought long ago to have been enforced.
On Monday evening, between five and six o'clock,
the body of a full-grown male child was found down the
area of Mr. Whittingham, printer, Took's-court, Chan-
cery-lane. It was wrapped in a dirty coarse black apron,
and appeared to have been born alive. The body was
conveyed to the workhouse, where it awaits an inquest.
THE HARVEST IN THE WEST OF IRELAND.—
Every species of grain crop, through the whole western
district of this county, with the exception of a few
patches on poor ground and mountain fields, has fallen
bcneath the side. The farmers on every side, from here
to Bandon, have been for the last fortnight cutting down,
and the yield of wheat and oats, though not abundant,
has.been found to give a fair average crop. The cheat,
generally, is good, clean and free from smut, &c., though
the head is rather light, and the straw short. The oat
crop has not been found so productive, and in many places,
patches of that grain in the field have been left standing,
while other parts have been cut down ; this may have beer.
owing to bad tillage; but what with the quantityin this state,
and the portion that has been laid by adverse wind and
rain, the crop does not appear to be one that will repay
the farmer. There are, of course, many exceptions,
particularly on the farms of extensive landowners.
From Ban'don to Clonakilty, Dunmanway, Rosscarbery,
Skibbereen, &c., the same state of things appears to
exist, varying only with regard to certain localities, and
modes of culture. But one remarkable feature that
strikes the observer in passing through the west is, that
that most useful process, draining, appears to have been
adopte3, for not a bit of ground, however small,
stony or ill-conditioned, that has not been subjected
or is in course of subjection to it. The farmers, too,
appear to understand it now, and those who tried it last
year speak in high praise of its value, and regret their
inability to apply it in its most perfect and improved
form to certain portions of their ground reclaimable by
no other method. The late potato crop promises an
abundant yield, and the glorious sunshine that has con-
tinued for the last ten or twelve days is hailed as a happy
harbinger, after the late rains, bringing promise of a
bountiful supply of " the poor men's crop." Barley ap-
pears to have taken its final leave of the west, and to be
as little known or cared for as intemperance ; indeed, it
would appear that in proportion as the blessings awl
benign influence of teetotalism forced its onward walla
and spread its all-conquering power over the land, re did
Barley, like a beaten and retreating foe, cower before
the victor, and ultimately left him in undisputed posses-
sion.—Cork Southern Reporter.
ETON COLLEGE, AUG. 30.—Her Majesty hiving
graciously expressed a desire that a week's bolyday
should be granted to the Eton boys, in commemoration
of the birth of the infant Prince, the Provost hes given
this week, in addition to the present holydays. The
school, therefore, will open for the collegers and lower
oppidans on Saturday, the 21st of September.
SUDDEN DEATH.—On Monday, about one o'clock,
an awful instance of sudden death occurred in Upper
John-street, Hoxton. The deceased, a man about fifty
years of age, was engaged in carrying coals to the house
of Mr. Smith (No. 14), when, after emptying a sack
into the coal-cellar, Mrs. Smith observed to him that his
nose was bleeding. Ile endeavoured to reply, but was
unable, in consequence of the rapid flow of blood both'
from his nose and mouth, and had just strength left to
gain the door, when he fell down and instantly expired.
Lie was conveyed immediately to Shoreditch workhouse,b
where a coroner's inquest will be held. It appears
the statement of some fellow-workmen (who wer
fromeun-
able to give his name), that he had just recovered
a severe illness, and his widow is now COntiflea to her
I bed with an attack of rheumatism, without any means
of support.
BARNET FAlL—This fair, which is considerably
the largest for cattle throughout England,_ takes_ place on
Wednesday next. The face of the whole of the pasture
grounds for a mile andano7tle. The number of Welsh
beasts brought up year around the town is com-
pletely mottled with black
this ycrais more s
numerous than has
been the case for the last two years past, and the king,
on a general scale, appear extremely healthy and in good
order. The Welsh drovers affirm that they have been
very lucky this season, compared with what they were
two years ago, their beasts having been more free from
the fatal effects of the epidemic which carried off such
numbers of them at that period. The number of buyers
already arrived is pretty numerous, and there is a fair
prospect of some business being done upon the occasion.
Barnet, which, since the completion of the Birmingham
line, has been almost deserted, is just now assuming a
bustling appearance, and the various innkeepers, who
hive suffered so severely in consequence of the traffic
to the north of England being thrown into a different
channel, are now taking their annual benefit in good
earliest, upon which they chiefly depend. It may be as
well, by the way, to caution sellers of stock to secure the
proceeds of the same against the dexterity of the light-
fingered fraternity, who at Barnet fair are always busy
in:pursuing their furtive avocations.
We regret to learn that an attempt was made on
Tuesday morning last, about four o'clock, to set fire to
an outhouse upon Woodland's Farm, Woodltam Walter,
in this county. The miscreant selected for his diabolical
purpose an outbuilding near the dwelling-house, but for-
tunately the extent of damage was very limited. A
liberal reward has been offered fur the detecttion of the
offender.—Essex

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THE HARVEST IN SCOTLAND.
REsrarwsiiiaE.— We last week had a :cries of the
most delightful harvest weather which we have ever
witnessed, Since our notice of this day week, the
crops in this neighbourhood have made rapid progress,
and the farmers have not been idle. On Saturday
the ripened fields were Flustered with reapers plying
their laborious undertaking. In the low-lying purely
arable districts, one-half the crop is about cut, and we
should think that with another week of/such favour-
able weather, very little grain, in these quarters, will
be left standing. It is a remarkable feature of the
times, that notwithstanding the existing stir amongst
the manufacturers, even in this centre of manufac-
tures, and with the hurried harvest that has come on,
there has not only been abundance, but rather a super-
abundance, of hands for cutting down the ripened
grain fields. Wages throughout last week were mo-
(Aerate. During most of the days 2s. and 2s. ad.
were the current prices given ; but on Friday morn-
ing the supply of shearers far exceeded the demand ;
a number were left unhired, and as low as ls. 6d. pea
day was offered by some farmers, though few sub-
mitted to these terms.

BERwlCK.suraE.—During the month of August, up
to the 24th, the weather continued very wet and un-
settled. The greater part of the wheat and barley
crop is very much laid, and in some instances the
wheat will be damaged. since the 24th, however,
the weather has been all that the farmer could wish
—fine, bright, and airy during the day, and sharp
and cold during the night. Since Monday last, a
great many large fields of wheat and barley have been
cut down, and look well on the ground in regard to
hulk, though samples of wheat and barley are likely
to be far short of last year's crop. In regard to qua-
lity, however, should the present fine weather con-
tinue, much good will be effected. Harvest is now
general in all parts of the country. Three weeks of
such weather will put a great part of the crop safe in
the barn-yard. The turnip crop is backward, and
looking indifferent on clay soils. Our corn market on
Saturday last wa well supplied with grain, prices for
which were on the decline.—Berwick and Kelso
Warder.

PERTIISHIRE.—The weather this week has been as
fine as could have been wished for, and the cutting
down of the grain is proceeding with rapidity in all
districts: and it is thought that a continuance of the
same delightful weather for a week or ten days would
finish the harvest in this quarter, except a few very
late patches here and there.

WitcroNsuißE.--Since our last number we have
had a splendid change atmospheric, with the prospect
of a continuance of good harvest weather. The con-
sequence is, harvest has become general—all kinds of
crop look well—potatoes and turnips excellent; and
pastures thick and much improved. A great deal of
grain will be safe ender the thack and rope in the
lthins, in the course of the week.—lVigton Free Press.
AYRSIIIRE.—Harvest, the pleasantest of the hus-
bandman's labours, is well begun, and indeed literally
half-finished in this quarter. One hundred acres of
the grain crops of Mr. Guthrie, Crossburn, have
already fallen to the sickle, and a goodly band of
reapers will probably cut out as much more for him
this week, and thus conclude the harvest: The
beautiful clear airy weather we have had is most
favourable for winnowing the grain, and in many
quarters the stack-yards are being replenished ; so
that sportsmen, on the 2nd September (for Sabbath
gives a day of grace to the partridges)will run little
chance of doing any mischief to the standing crops.
Samples of oatmeal, the first this season, were shown
in Ayr Grain Market on Tuesday, from Mrs. Gird-
wood, Greenfield, and Mr. M'Creath, Doonbank,
which sold at 14s. and 14s. 3d. per boll.—Ayr
Advertiser.
KELSo,—Since Saturday last we have had as fine
harvest weather as could be desired. Previously con-
siderable apprehensions had been entertained, in conse-
quence of the continued humidity of the atmosphere,
.for the safe getting in of the craps ; but now, we are
are happy to say, appearances indicate settled weather
—sunshiny days and frosty nights—and harvest
operations have commenced in earnest, and with the
necessary degree of confidence.--Kelso Mail.
A quantity of llimmalaya wheat was cut, on Wed-
nesday last, as Craignothie, Fifeshire, belonging to
Mr. Clelland. The seeds were sown on the 24th April
last, being only three months and twenty days from
sowing And reaping.