The Sun.
London, England, 1821-09-10 00:00:00

THE WEATHER.

(Extract from a Meteorological Journal for August 1821, kept
at the Observatory of the Academy Gospdrt.)
• The hot and clear sunny weather, which we have had the
• greatest part of this month, has had more effect on the growing
corn than the most experienced farmers could have anticipated ;
and the wheat harvest commenced about the 20th in this
neighbourhood.
The mean temperature of the air for this month is 4 one.
fifth higher than in August, 1820—and the mean temperature:
of spring-water at A. M. is 53. 30., that is 1 one-fifth higher
than in the preceding month. So sultry were the nights of the
22d, 23d, and 24th, that the self-registering thermometer did'
not sink below 63 deg., In an exposed place, and on each of
those days it rose to 80 deg. in the shade.
The moderate rains till the 28th .were beneficial to the
standing corn, anti to vegetation in general ; but .from that
time till the close of the month --the weather was so wet as to
cause a suspension of operations in the corn-fields ; indeed ,
in the moraiog of the 29th, 1 inch of rain fell here—the
greatest quantity we have hitherto registered even in one day
and night. From the hours in which the second 9uarter and
full moon will : commence, there is reason to anticipate fair
weather till the 18th of September : hence Agriculturists
will have a chance of completing their harvest under favour.
able circumstances-----and should the crops in other places
turn out equal to those in Hampshire, there will be no grounds
for farmers to complain that they are not favoured with at least
• average crops : yet it must be acknowledged that they will not
be so abundant as in the two preceding' years, on account o
the diminished mean temperature this-year. f
The atmospheric and meteoric phenomena that have come
within our observation this month are-2 coloured parlielia,-
1 solar halo, 2 rainbows, 74 meteors of various sizes, in the
evenings (many of them with trains), which have uniformly
presaged wind and rain ; lightning in the evenings of the 6th,
Bth, and 24th ; and six strong gales of wind, or days on which
they have prevailed, viz. two from the east, one from the south.
west, and three from the west.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.—ThiS morning these
Sessions commenced at Hicks's Hall, before Mr.
CONST, Chairman, and a Bench of Magistrates.
'There is nothing very particular before the Grand
Jury, merely the usual routine of presentments,
assaults, &c. The Court was occupied during
the morning with hearing assault charges, none
of which possessed the slightest interest.
DREADFUL ACCIDENT.—About three o'clock
on Tuesday afternoon, Capt. GARDINER, smack
owner, of this port, with a party of friends, set
sail in a boat to drink tea on board his vessel,
lying at anchor in the harbour. When about a
quarter of a mile from the shore one of the
women's bonnets was blown off, and in gibing the
boat in order to get it (the wind blowing fresh,
and the main sheet fast on the contrary side),
the boat upset, by which dreadful accident the
wife of Capt. GARDINER, his daughter, aged 13,
an apprentice of the age of 17, and Mrs. MILES
(who had a child in her arms about two years
old), were unfortunately drowned. The Cap-
tain, his son, a youth of seven years of age, and
an apprentice, together with another person, and
Mrs. MILES'S child, were preserved from a watery
grave by boats from the shore, which went in
every direction to render assistance. This shock-
ing event was witnessed by a number of persons
on the beach, who had seen the party embark.—
The bodies only of Mrs. GARDINER and Mrs.
MILES have been picked up.— (Ipswich Journal.)

A letter from Barbadoes, dated July 24, to a
gentleman in Bath, says, in a postscript—" After
our ponds and cisterns being completely dry, and
many wells failing in water for several mouths,
a merciful Providencz has, in last night, bestow-
ed on us a plentiful supply (for present purposes
at least,) reviving our depressed spirits; and even
our hopes."