The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-25 00:00:00

GRATIS.

THE HARVEST-THE WEATHER.
OxForm, SEPT. 20.—The harvest is nearly over in this
neighbourhood, and the corn generally has been stored in
pretty good condition ; and luckily it is so, for the weather
since Saturday last has been very unfavourable, heavy rains
having fallen, with little intervals of sunshine. This has
proved a great check to the getting in the beans, and the
remainder of the oats. The clover has been got up in capital
order, and being beyond an average crop, will add very con-
siderably to the stock of hay; and the fodder and grass being
plentiful, there will be plenty of hay next winter to supply
the markets. The wheat crop is quite an average one, though
the corn-dealers say the sample will not be so fine, or the
quality so good as last year, when the yield was most ex.
cellent. The barley crop has far exceeded that of
several years past, and is allowed on all hands to be far
above the average. The same may, in many districts, be
said of oats ; they are well up in quantity, and the quality
will be good. Beans and Peas are also plentiful. Turnips
are very plentiful, but if the wet weather continue, great
fears will he entertained for the preservation of them,
many farmers being fearful that they shall be unable
to keep them from getting mouldy. Mangel-wurzel,
of which large quantities are grown in this county,
looks remarkably strong and healthy, and is not in the least
affected. Carrots, of which also large quantities are grown,
have not at present been touched with the disease which, we
are sorry to say, is so prevalent and destructive to the potato
crops. Many fields of potatoes that were but slightly
touched a week or two ago are now scarce worth the trouble
of digging up. In several cases where they have been taken
up it has been found that those which were healthy at first
have become diseased after they have been out of the ground
a few days, and although carefully picked apart at first, an-
other loss has taken place on looking over them again.—
Corn Market : old wheat fetched to-day from 141. to 14Z,
with plenty of buyers; new, from 11/. ito 12/. 10s. ; barley,
28s. to 345. ; oats were at least 2s. per quarter'higher ; beans
sold at-12/. and 131.; peas varied from 9/. to 11/. The wheat
trade, owing to the presence of several speculators from the
metropolitan and other counties, was unusually brisk; no
sooner was a sample shown than it was eagerly purchased.
The millers and bakers in consequence of the rise in wheat
clapped 3s. per sack on flour, so that there is every prospect of
the loaf being still much dearer.
STUILINGSHIRE.—We have had another week of good har-
vest weather, making now twenty-three days, all of which
have been good working-days, with the exception of Saturday
last, which was mostly wet throughout, and therefore no-
thing was done in the fields. The present will be a bread
year, come of the potatoes what will; it will also be a turnip
year, which will produce beef and mutton ; and these with
bread in galore, whether wheaten, oaten, or barley, make
capital cheer. Rain began to fall again yesterday at mid-
day, and continued very constant and heavy till six o'clock
in the evening, and is still threatening.—Stirling Observer.
AYESIIIRE.—The weather, which has for some time past
been everything the husbandman could desire, broke on
Saturday last, and since then we have had frequent showers,
some of them pretty heavy, though not of long continuance.
We still receive from our correspondents throughout the
county accounts of the further spread of the potato blight,
and likewise of the general progress of harvest operations.
We understand that Professor Johnson has been in Ayrshire,
endeavouring to trace the course and extent of this distress-
ing occurrence, and of course his report will be anxiously
looked for.—Ayr Advertiser.
A correspondent, who is a practical agriculturist of consi-
derable skill and experience, has taken exception to a re-
mark made by us last week. He says that for one farmer
who [has been dilatory in getting in his wheat, there are
twenty who have been in much too great a hurry about that
important operation—that the consequence is that a large
quantity of wheat has been got together in a premature state,
whereby loss in quantity and inferiority in quality will be ex-
perienced at threshing time—and he further informs us that
the advice which has been given to farmers at agricultural
meetings, and by writers in agricultural publications, namely,
to commence reaping before the wheat crop is fully ripe, is
erroneous and mischievous. We are sorry, also, to be in-
formed from the same authority that our anticipations of the
result of the present year's produce have been expressed too
favourably—the ears of corn are, he states, to a great extent
very defective, and will by no means realise the promise
which they hold forth to the eye of a superficial examiner.
The injury to the potato crop is likewise spoken of as wide-
spread anti serious, and it is also stated that unmistakeable
indications of a kindred disease, no doubt produced by mois-
ture and a low temperature, are exhibiting themselve in the
other root crops. Swedes, mange', carrots, &c., which gave a
promise of wholly unparalleled abundance, and of extraordi-
nary fine quality, are now stated to show symptoms of rot,
and it is feared that they will be much deteriorated as food
for stock, and will not store well. The inference from all this
is, that prices of the necessities of life, for man and beast,
during the ensuing year, will be much higher than was anti-
cipated. All this is opposed to the information which had
previously reached us. We lay this, our "latest intelligence
from the rural districts," before our readers, with the earnest
hope that itjniay be less true than we fear it to be.—Gloucester
Journal.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SlR,—Your correspondent from Exeter, in his anxiety to
serve his own views about the two Exmouth lines, omits to
mention that the share in one line is 10/.105., and in the other
25/., so that Daw's line at ss. premium is equal to Head's at
12s. 6d. There was a report that Head's line was taken up
by the South Devon Railway Company, and that gave them
a temporary rise. Daw's line sold freely in London the same
week at lbs., and they have since reached 265. premium is
Manchester.—Yours,
Exeter, Sept. 24, 1845.

EXONIAN.

THE OPISCENE PROPERTIES OF THE VULTURE.—
The above foul bird will devour, with a disgusting trait of
greediness, the most putrid offal, and in almost all parts of
the east, groups of them, from twenty to thirty, may be seen
assembled together, fattening upon human and other animal
corpses. So depraved, so vitiated, and so rotten is the consti-
tutional system of the vulture, that its veryfeathers maybe ob-
served to molt from its wings, at voluntary intervals, whilst it
is in the actsf gorging its prey; and there is one fart in relation
to this reputsive bird which is perhaps not generally known,
it is this, viz., that no animal whatever will prey upon the
vulture., living or otherwise—not even the jackall or glutton,
which are in the habit of burrowing into, and ransacking, the
repositories of the dead, and indulging each a morbid appe-
tite, are these beasts will not approach the vulture, but will
turnay from it with total abhorrence. Even the common
flesh fly (musca putris) will not lend its aid towards annihi-
lating the volucrine nuisance under consideration, by inocu-
lating
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nivorous scavengers, and can be viewed only in the light of
a solitary outcast, singled dut from the wide and varied uni-
versity of animated nature.
THE FORESTS.—The sport of deer-stalking has
been pursued with success for the last fortnight. stags are more
migratory than usual this season, few having been seen at many of
their favourite haunts. 'John Ross, Esq., at Strathgarve, shot a pair
of stags right and left; at the same place and time, A. Mackenzie,
Esq., yr., of Ord, got a stag. Mr. Flood and Mr. Cheamly, at
kuchinault, secured four. At Redcastie, two red deer and two roe
were killed by sons of Colonel Bailie. Colonel Porter shot two stags
at Incluracardock. Mr. White, of Monar has killed one ; Glenmo-
riston one very heavy deer ; Lord Walsingham, at Kinlochewe, one ;
Sir P. Mostyn and Lord Lovat have brought down several good
stags. A very heavy royal stag's head was' sent here the other day
trom Erchless Castle to be preserved. The beam of the horns is of
uncommon thickness, with wide span, and three thick branches,
forming nearly the famous cups on the top of each. Another royal
head, of nearly equal dimensions, arrived this morning from Cord-
mony. The antlers are finely overspread with rough projections.—
/ nrerness Courier.

THE LATE ACCIDENT AT THE BRIGHTON, CROYDON./
AND DOVER RAILwAY TERMINUS, AT LONDON BRIDoE.—Last night
an inquest was held before Mr. Joseph Payne, the deputy coroner, at
Guy's Hospital, on the body of Rd. Garvin, aged 35, late an engine
turner, in the service of the London, Brighton, Croydon, and Dover
Rahway Company, who met his death under the following circum-
stances :—Edgar Burton, of Bermondsey-street, deposed that about
a quarter to ten, on Sunday evening, he was proceding with his
brother to his stables, and as soon as he knocked at the door he
saw the deceased lying about ten feet up the passage on
his back, and on going to him he appeared to be
quite insensible; there was a severe cut across the left
temple ; the witness's brother Went for a surgeon, and
the deceased was con. eyed into the Jolly Hatters. The width
of the passage from the railway to the Jolly Hatters is about four
feet ; he supposed that the deceased had fallen from the railway ; the
height is about 25 feet. The witness had seen persons get off the
railroad into the Jolly Hatters from the coping to the window-sill
The deceased was afterwards conveyed to the hospital. The Coroner
said it appeared from the evidence without doubt that the deceased
met his death through stepping from the coping to the window, am
that his foot might have slipped ; it was certainly very dangerous, and
some notice ought to be taken of it ; however, the railway authorities
would now, through the press, become acquainted with the fact, and
he had no doubt something would be done. Verdict, "Accidental
Death," with a recommendation that the coroner should write to the
railway authorities on the subject ; that if tile practice is to be con-
tinued, some means may be adopted to prevent accidents.
SINGULAR INCIDENT.—About ten years ago, Whilst
a man of the name of Robertson, a slater, and belonging to Dean-
ston, was at work at Keir House, he accidentally fell through the
hot-house. He appeared to have received no injury, except a scratch
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nearly in a line with the part previously cut with glass. The suppu-
ration soon closed, and the part seemed to be healed, and all going
on as before. About three days thereafter, however, whilst at work
at Inner Trosach Lodge, he felt his arm uneasy, and as if something
sharp ruffled Lgeinst his shirt. On taking off his coat and examining
the part, lie was not a litt:e surprised to see the end of a piece of
glass protruding—the same that had cut and entered into the palm
of his hand no less than ten years before. On the glass being ex-
tracted, it was found to be 3-7ths of an inch long, and 2-Bths broad
at one end, whilst the other was sharp-pointed.—Stirling Journal.,
THE RUSSIAN STEAMER VLADIMIR.—This beau—
MIA vessel, which has been lying alongside Waterloo-quay for the,
last few weeks, has attracted the notice of large numbers of our
citizens. She is of a handsome model, which, however, being
c.some-
what different from that of the steamers we generally ,
the vessel do not consist solely In the handsome
exterior—thethe same time u
made it an object of far greater attraction. But the sebehaeirunttieeris'oofr
fittings are in a style the most superb,
during. What is called the Emperor's cab'
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the most superior description.
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in the management of the affairs of the county of Edinburgh. On
Monday last Mr. Borthwick, It appears, was stepping on board of it
steamer at itothesay quay, when he . suddenly dropped down. Ile
was immediately' carried to ISl`Corkinda e' I s Inn, and the best medical
aid was procured ; but where,-in spite of every possible skill and
attention, he breathed his last on Thursday night.—Caledontan
Mercury.
HE WAS LOCKED UP.--Who was locked up?
What was the culprit's sin against society ? What iniquity had he—
" g poor sickly boy, about fifteen years of age"—conimitted.that
the awful Mr. Combo, sitting in his magisterial chair at Clerkenwell„
Should punish the prisoner (who had not 2s. Gd. to pay is line) wilh
hard captivity? " What," asks the moralist, "was Ills evil-doing ?"
Listen, and sigh over the wickedness of humanity. The " sickly
boy" had obstructed " the foot-path and carriage-way in Chaßel.
street, St. Pancras, with his basket offralt for sale I" The audacious;
Malefactor, " with tears in his eyes, said he had no other way to live ;",
and the offending, destitute wretch, wag therefore —locked up I—Punch.
DECIDEDLY CRACKED.—A morning paper talks Of
tiro ships of the experimental squadron as being " crack vessels." Sal
many holes having been picked in them since their powers of sailluie
have been tested, that we are afraid they deserve the compliment
rather too literally. Even the Cove of Cork, where they ate at tire
sent floundering, must see through them.—Punch.
THE DIGNITY OF THETROFESSION.—Mr. Sergeant
Davy, eminent in the last century, was once upbraided with lower-
ing " the dignity of the profession," by accepting silver as fees front
a client. " I took silver," he said, " because I could' not get gall
but I took every rap the fellow had : and if you call that lawering
the dignity Of the praePoloa, fkin't Yon* what the dignity !if,",