The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-10 00:00:00

REPEAL ASSOCIATION.

There was a meeting of the Repeal Association on Monday
at which Mr. Steele presided. A letter was read from Mr.
O'Connell, and the Association was addressed by Mr. Jowl
O'CONNELL, who in strong terms denounced Mr. Wise for
his support of the Irish Colleges Bill. He would endeavour
to raise a cry of execration against those colleges.
If he were asked whether he would prefer the continuance of
the union or the rejection of this infidel scheme, he would say
—away with these colleges, and let the union remain. In
conclusion, he adjured the people, in the name of that religion
which they had so much it heart, to discountenance the
nefarious measure, and to resist it by every means. And,
further, to brand the men who took office under the Bill, as
traitors. If they did not adopt that course, they would assist
Peel in dividing, corrupting, and tyrannising over Ireland.
• Mr. LAW observed that, as Mr. O'Connell considered those
Rho took office under the colleges should be reprobated, he
would suggest that parents who sent their children to these
colleges to be educated should be held up to equal execration.
Captain BRODERIP read an address " to the people of the
north of Ireland," and said that nothing in his mind could afford
a nobler subject for gratulation to the Repeaters than that
afforded by the contrast between their conduct at the monster
meeting, and that of the Orangemen at their gatherings. At
the former all was tranquillity and peace : the latter were cha-
racterised by lawlessness, and violence, and bloodshed.
At the termination of the proceedings, the rent for the week
was announced to be 1731. 2s. 1 Id.
The meeting then adjourned.

THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS
Most cordially we join in the general gratulation and grati-
tude for the glorious weather during the past week, which has
dispersed the gloomy apprehensions of a bad harvest. But we
still hold to the opinion that the quantity of corn when thrashed
will generally disappoint the farmer.—Shrewsbury Chronicle.
13 URY ST. Enaruains, SEPT. s.—Notwithstanding the little
sunshine we have had during the past week, the work has been
steadily progressing in the harvest field, and many a good stack
has been reared in the neighbourhood. Sportsmen describe
the game as pretty plentiful in this neighbourhood, and strong
on the wing, but in consequence of the lateness of the harvest
shooting is not likely to be general at present.—Suffolk
Chronicle.
THE HARVEST—In Howdenshire, that highly important
agricultural division of the East Riding of Yorkshire, the hand
of industry is active with the sickle and scythe. In some few
places the wheat fields are lodged by the late heavy rains, but
there is hardly any appearance of the blight in the corn that is
standing. Most people are of opinion that there are prospects
of an abundant crop of every sort of grain. The weather has
been extremely favourable during the last ten days, and a con-
siderable quantity of wheat is already secured in excellent con-
dition.—Leeds Mercury.
THE HARVEST.—WC have had a week of glorious weather,
and the barley and the oat harvest have begun in this neigh-
bourhood, and there is a very good yield. 'f here is but little
wheat grown in our immediate vicinity, but we are happy to
find that it promises much better than was a short time ago
anticipated.—Kendal Mercury.
GALWAY.—The weather continues to be excellent. Ots
Saturday and Sunday the heat was intense, and must have
greatly contributed to the ripening of the craps. Since
Sunday it looks rather gloomy, but there has been no rain.—
Vindicator.
CLON MEL. —The weather, for some days past, has been most
favourable for the harvest work. Some days were intensely
hot, and a vast quantity of corn has been cut down. The
hook is at work in all directions, and we trust an all-bountiful
Providence will grant us a continuation of fine weather, and
dissipate those fears which have been generally entertained
relative to the corn crop, in consequence of the wet weather
with which we were visted some time since.—Tipperary Con-
stitution.
DERRY. —On Thursday last two samples of new flax were
sold in this market, which brought from b7s. 6d. to 61s. per
1241 b. ; and had they been judiciously scotched, they would
have been worth from ss. to 7s. per cwt mere. It is really a
pity, when the farmer succeeds in the growth and management of
his flax, as was the case in the two lots referred to above, that
his interests should be sacrificed by the carelessness or incom-
petency of the scut chers. From this specimen of the new flax,
it is to be hoped that the gloomy anticipations respecting this
season's growth being of bad qualit; will be groundless, and
that the flax of this year will prove proportionably good as that
of preceding years ; the quantity, Lowever, will be deficient. A
sample of excellent new oats was sold in Saturday's market, at
lOd. per stone, grown by Mr. Elder, of Donnybrewer. 'I he wea-
ther for the past week has beea highly favourable for harvest
operations. A good deal of grain in different districts has been
safely cut ; and, on the whole, the crop is most abundant, al-
though, in some instances, on rich sheltered lands, it has suf-
fered considerably by being lodged. Should the present fine
weather continue, grain cutting in this district will be in
general operation in eight or ten days.— Standard.
Coati, SIPTEMBER 3.—The weather still continues beauti-
fully fine. A hot, ripening sun is shining to-day, and reaping
progresses rapidly. A few more weeks of such weather, and
even in the most backward districts the harvest will have been
secured. The barley, oats, and potatoes promise an abundant.
crop, while as regards even wheat the favourable temperature
must prove beneficial.—Exeminer.
AMAZING PRODUCE OF A GRAIN Or Wil rAT. —WO
have seen a splendid sample of wheat grown on the land
attached to Riverstown House, the residence of John Car-
michael, Esq. It consisted of not less than thirteen stalks,
hearing heavy ears of grain, grown from a common root, the
produce of a single grain of seed. The whole produce of the
thirteen stalks is 570 grains. Each stalk is fully five feet in
height.—lbid.
BELFAST, SEPT. 4.—The weather with is is everrhis4
that could be desired: dry, warm, and sunny. At two o clock.
cn Tuesday, the glass stood at 75 degrees in the shade.
Yesterday it ranged at 691, degrees at two o'clock. The wind
keeps northerly, shifting from west to east. In all directions,.
reaping is in rapid progress ; and we learn, from every quarter,
that the crops are bountiful in the extreme. There is some
talk of failure in potatoes; but, so far as we have observed, it
must prevail in other districts than ours. The north of Ireland,
we learn and perceive, is this year blessed with an abundant
promise of harvest, of all descriptions of produce. It remains,
now, with the husbandman, to take advantage of every hour,
and cut down, and save the produce of his previous labour; for,
the harvest will be late, and the dangers of dela' the greater,
Thrift, thrift, we repeat • for, this season, delay ts doubly dan-
gerous. Now is the hour for labour; morning, noon, and
night ; labour, labour, incessant. On incessant labour depends
much of the result of God's bountiful harvest. Now, is the
hour for the punishment of the sluggard. The idle pill as-
suredly have his reward.—Northern Whig.

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SHOCKING ACCIDENT IN THAMES-STREET.—YeS-•
terday afternoon, a shocking accident occurred in Lower Thames-
street, to James Selby, a porter. It appears that the unfortunate
man was standing in a waggon, waiting to receive some heavy
bales of goods from one of the lofts of the warehouse, when sud-
denly the iron crane hooks slipped off the side of one cf the bales,
weighing upwards of four hundred weight, striking Selby down in
the waggon. On assistance being rendered it was found that he
had sustained a severe concussion of the brain, and he was im-
mediately removed on a shutter to the hospital, without hopes of
recoveWry.
e hear that the justly-admired tower on Lana-
down, erected by the late W. Beckford, Esq., and the lands ad-
joining, are to be sold by order of his executors.—Bristol Journal.
LOVE AND SUICIDE.—La,t night Mr. Baker held
en inquest at the Duke of Sussex, Haggerstone, on the body of
Edward Knight, aged nineteen, a labourer. The deceased re-
sided in Birdcage-walk, Bethnal-green, and on Saturday night fast
he had a quarrel with a young female with whom he had kept com-
pany, and left her in a very abrupt manner, telling her she would
never see him agent alive. Shortly after ten o'clock the same
night the potman at the Duke of Sussex heard a noise as if some
one had plunged into the canal, which passes the above house. The
drags were procured, and in about a quarter of an hour the body
was found, and all aid was unavailing to resuscitate A.—Verdict,
" Found drowned."
THE BITE or AN ADDER.—Ye6terday morning,
between eleven and twelve o'clock, A serious accident occurred to
Mr. Henry Lemon, an artist, residing in Newland.&treet, Ken-
sington. It appears that he was sketching in a field, at the back.
of Lord Holland's house, when ass adder that lay concealed in the
grass bit him in the lower part of the leg. The young gentleman
was at first unconscious of having been bitten, ascribing it to the
accidental prick of a bramble. On arriving at home, however, the
limb began to swell alarmingly, causing acute pain. Medical as-
sistance was immediately procured, and the injured parts cauterised.
Mr. Leeson, though still suffering severely, is pronounced in a fair
way of recovery,
SUICIDE OF A PORTUGUESE JEW.—Yesterday Mr.
Baker hel4 on inquest at the Rose and Crown, Queen-street,
Tower.hill, on the body of Abraham Fonseca, a PortugfruneiJethw;
aged twenty-three years,
time past been in a very low
evidence that deceased had for somo
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to his intended and his brother, stating that when they received
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them he should be no more. Since that period he had disappeared,
and nothing more
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the riveruntil his
off Aldermody an's-stairs, in a
terday
of decomposition. There being no evidence to show
diocking state
how he came into the water, the jury, at
morning
the suggestion of the Cu.
miler, return& an open verdict of—" Found drowned."
SuwwE.—Yest@rday forenoon Mr. G. I. Mills
held an inquest at the Swan Tavern, Fulham, on the body of Mr.
Joseph Ticknor, aged 56, a builder, of No. 1, Mornington-street,
Hampstead-road. The deceased had for come time past been la-
bouring under an affection of the head, which if late had impaired
his faculties. About a month age he was missing from home three
days, anal was eventually found at Rochester, not having partaken
of food since be had left home. Mr. Smeethurst, surgeon, had
since attended him, and he appeared a little better. On Saturday
morning lest he left home about eleven o'clock, and was not again
teen until a quar!et before six on Sunday morning, when liSt• was
observed walking in si disconsolate mood in a meadow on the bare
of the Thames, adjoining tlle Bishop of London's Palace, at Ful,
ham, and in about half an hour afterwards a labouring man found
his walking-stick and hat lying on tl:e bank close to the avatar's
edge. Suspecting some one had destros-0 himself he gave an
alarm, and in about ten minutes the deceaset:'4 body was found in
the creek running out of the Thames, quite dea.4. His coat Was
missing, and has not since been heard of. A pocket-.',o°l' was dis-
covered in the deceased's hat, in which the following
wife
lines were
found written by the deceased :—" Oh, God, protect my ioor
and family. May he forgive me, but I cannot help it.—J.
WEL" Verdict, "Temporary insanity."
BLIGHT IN THE POTATO CROP.—We regret to
learn that the blight of the potato crop, so much cora..
plained of in Belgium and several of the Irish countiee., has
affected the crop, and that to a considerable extent, In our OWSI
immediate locality and the sum rounding districts. We are assured
by a gentleman of vast experience that the injury sustained by
potatoes from blight on his domain is very serious—that they are
entirely unfit for use ; and he suggests that potatoes 6o injured
should be immediately dug out for the use of pigs, as, if they are
allowed to remain in the ground, they will become, from the in.
crease of the blight or rot, useless even as food for fwineom,
Watev,,r'd Treenfah.