The Sun.
London, England, 1826-08-08 00:00:00

COUNTY OF KERRY.

Of this county one has little more to say thou that it is altogether
taken up in grazing dairy cowl, and preparing the best butter
which is sent to Cork. Tralee is the only port in the county, and
its► trade is limited to a little dealing in corn, and the import of
timber and groceries. The land is of a poor quality, and goes in
lots of 30 or 40 acres, at ,gas an acre, with an indefinable quantity
of mountain land. The gentry , are hospitable and generous. It
was once called the Land of Promise, for no man kept his word in.
money matters--" Pay me my money, or if you don't"—was
generally, a Kerry man's demand for a debt. " I owe you no
money—and if I did"—was his neighbour's certain reply. The
Condition of the poor is very bad. Labour is worth not more than
16d. a-day. How a man and w►fe and a dozen children can live
upon it, the staved peasantry of Kerry can best answer.

An iron !;team-vessel, for navigating the Savannith,
is constructing at New York, the whole cost of which
will not exceed 6441.
A SNAKE.EATER.—A man in Underhill, Vt. a
few dayS since, swallowed the head, and a considerable portion of
the neck, of a large striped snake. 'laving disposed of the head,
for A more liberal compensation, he offered to swallow the remain-
ing part of the serpent ; but the spectators were already satisfied
with his performance. The unsavoury meal proved rather dinf►.,
cult of digestion, but the stomach of this snake-eater was less
affected than those of the astonished spectators. The man after-
wards stated that the snake's bead operated as a powerful cathartic,
and did hint two dollars service.-.. American Paper.

LADY-Brans.--(From a Brighton Paper.)—The
great fall at Brighton, and in the sea near that place, of the in-
sects commonly known by the name of " /adle birds" is by no
means an unprecedented) occurrence. A similar fall took place
some years ago in and near Rochester, when the " lady-birds"
infested, as long as they lived, that city, and left, after their death,
a disgusting scent, which was retained in the shops for many
mouths. At a more recent period, • myriads of the same insects
were observed on the hop.plants in the neighbourhood of Alsiti-
stone ; and the plants having failed there that year, the poor
" lady-birds" were precipitately condemned—probably by hop-
factors, who have always recourse to "the fly or the lie "—as the
cause of the failure. Investigation, however, soon discovered that
this judgment was tf roneous. The injury to the hop-plents was
found to have been produced by a class of much sninuter, insects,
that had been doing mischief previous to the visit of the "lady-
birds ;" and the latter were satisfactorily'aseertained to lutist rested
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drop down from the trees about Aylesford almost as thick as from
the cloud that putted over Brighton. When they visit the hop..
grounds they feed upon the /area of the 4phide4,—.2mall black-
bodied flies, with large wings, which appear upon the hop-plants
b.cfore the 44 Loy-birds " are visible. Both these kinds of insects
the 44huly-birds" in the neighbourhood of Brighton, One cloudat
hreesem ocemiogrf migratory.
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parts. They who were walking the streets at that time
found= themselves covered with these insects, which settled also or;
the trees and gardens, and blackened all the vegeta.
&lighted." These armies, no tioubt,e:esnthlu:leapetra4Whaiel: etfctohne?'s
gratioth sod'shifting their quarters . sod aright, In a 8r"--
from thCgrFat hop-plantations of Kent oases, the wind helot;
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