The Sun.
London, England, 1828-08-26 00:00:00

THE HARVEST.

The following account of the Harvest is from a very in-
telligent traveller, well acquainted with agricultural opera-
tions :—He proceeded from London to Liverpool by the
way of Birmingham, and returned by the Potteries through
Uttoxeter, Burton-upon-Trent, &c., and arrived in town
on Saturday night the 23d inst., the journey occupying
sixteen days. During that period he went over a distance
of upwards of 500 miles in a zig-zag direction, through the
counties of Hereford, Northampton, Warwick, Stafford,
Lancaster, Derby, and Leicester. Along the most northern
extremity of the line the wheat was all cut, and ready for car-
rying, without having received the slightest injury from the
rains, which had not been nearly so frequent of late as they
have been to the southward. There was a good Jelll of
rain in the north division on Sunday the 17th instant, but
it was followed by four exceedingly fine days, which he
presumes would enable the farmers completely to sweep the
fields in that direction. On Wednesday, the 20th, he came
from Ashly-de-la-Zouch to Leicester, a distance of 18
miles, through one of the finest wheat districts in England,
the whole of which was secured in the farm-yards ; and
the farmers universally stated, in answer to his inquiries,
that on no fanner occasion, within their remembrance,
were the crops got in in better condition. On the
21st and 22d he came from Leicester to Northamp-
ton, by the way of Welford, also a very floe grain
district, and he had the gratification of witnessing along
the whole line, the cheers of the rustics in carrying
home the last load, in anticipation ofenjoying the festivities
of harvest-home. The spring crops have been but very
slightly injured in low situations, and if the weather only
keeps us for a short time, they will amount to fully an
average, and potatoes and all kinds of succulent vegetables
will greatly exceed it. Through the whole of the
route the farmers expressed their astonishment at
the reports circulated in the Newspaper, affirming
that the crops had been so much injured by the wet wea-
ther, and the consequent advance of prices in the London
market, as they were altogether without the slightest
foundation. As a proof of the general state of the wea-
ther to the northward during the last fortnight, the Gen-
tleman alluded to travelled in an open gig, and had only
occasion to use his great coat once, for part of a ttay, on
the whole journey. Another observatiou which he made is
worthy of notice, that is, that nine-tenths of the pay-
ments he formerly used to receive in country bank-not”,
were made him in gold ; so that it would appear, that the
former would he nearly out of circulation before the period
fixed by law for their discontinuance arrives, and that with-
out any convulsion, as has been so dogmatically predicted.

A meeting of the United General Gas Com-
pany was held to-day, when a dividend at the rate of
4 per cent. per annum was declared for the half,year end-
ing SOth June last. The actual profits of the Company
"we!!
them to pay a dividend at the rate of §1 per cent.,
and the other half per cent. was made up by 1,2001. taken
from the reserve fund of 4,0001., which has remained in
the hands of the Company since the last wegtiPg•

Tti 4RMY.-1 JajOr-Cien. Sir E. i3LAKE-
NEY, K.C.B. assumes the command of the Limerick
District, after the 24th instant, in place of his highly
esteemed predecessor, Sir Cu A Ri,,ES Do Llgo-- Dublin
Evening Post.)