The Sun.
London, England, 1827-09-06 00:00:00

CRICKET.

A =telt was td yesterday in the Wellington Ground,
Chelsea, between eleven gentlemen of the Kensington and
Bayswater Club, and eleven of the Chelsea Union Club,
and came off as follows :--

KENstNGTOti.
First Innings 9B I First Innings lO9
Second ditto 24 Second ditto l3

CHELSEA.

Total 122
Kensington won, having

Total 122
five wickets to go down.

An etymologist was asked whence gin had its
name ? " That is obvious enough," said the scholar,
" from being a snare to old women, and all who drink it."

The harvest is now nearly brought to a close
in this part of the kingdom, and it is considered one of the
most abundant, taken altogether, that has been produced
for several years. The barleys are generally cut in this
neighbourhood, but some oats are still uncut. Some
Michaelmas wheat is also still to be seen standing, but e
few days, in all probability, will clear the land ready for
the pleasures of coursing and hunting, for which busy pre-
parations are snaking. The farmers begin to complain of
the want of rains to proceed with their ploughings ; and
some, it is said, have left off till the rain cornes.—.73riyh-
ton Paper.

HARVEST.—Though the clouds drizzled and
looked gloomy last week, the husbandman's labours were
never suspended, and the weather within the last five days
has become more beautiful than ever. Harvest labour pro-
ceeds a-pace, and in a considerable `viecuit around this town
may be said to be nearly half completed. Graceful cones
of grain and straw are rising rapidly in every barn yard;
and the aching arms of both forkera and builders prove, if
h
we may credit their own report, that a single sheaf is as
as a whole stook was last year. New meal is already
becoming pretty common, and has been sold in quantities
of a few stones, at the rate of 2s. the new, or 2s. 6d. the
old stone. The millers speak very favourably of the oats,
both as to quantity and quality ; and our country this year
runs no 'risk of forfeiting its distinctiVe appellation--
whether it be the " land of cakes," or " the land of ban-
necks and barley meal." The weather at present has every
appearance of having set in warm and dry, and should the
skies remain unclouded until near the end of the present
month, harvest-home will be celebrated with more than
ordinary enthusiasm iu every parish and village, hamlet and
house, in broad Scotland. —Dumfries Courier.
17IIP CHRISTIAN EVIDENCE SOCIETY.--
This disreputable concern is, it seems, at length broken up.
The Areopagus, as it was called, in Cannon-street, has
been shut up for several weeks past ; and there has been no
public spouting there since Taylor went to prison. The
lease of the premises is now advertised to be sold by aucJon.
There are three indictments against Taylor, who is still in
the King's Bench Prison, two for blasphemy, and one (in
which he is indicted conjointly with his colleagues) for a
misdemeanor, which are entered for trial at the ensuing
Sittings, in the Court of King's Bench, at Guildhall.
SIR WALTER'S PA RRlTcit PAN.—III the
in showing which Sir Walter Scott tells the follow-
purchased this (s4s he) at a nobleman's
museum at Abbotsford, them is a small Roman patera, or
grinoogubpl:ttno,erayr:b—y," alt the enormous stun of twenty-five gdineas.
I would have got it for twenty pence, if an Antiquary, who
had not been there, and opposed me.—
kHnoe:.•evietsr,vailt:%e,a,s
almost consoled for the bitter price it cost,
by the amusement I derived from an old woman, who had
evidently come from a distance to purchase some trifling
culinary arLicles, and who bad no taste for the arttique......
At every successive guinea which we bade for the patera,
this good old lady's mouth grew wider and wider with un-
sophisticated astonishment, until at last I heard her mutter
to herself, in a tone which. I shall never forget___, Fire-
an'-twenty guineas ! If the parritch pan gangs at that,
what will the hail pat an for Glasgow ,Free Press.