The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-30 00:00:00

THE HARVEST.

Harvest is steadily progressing, and although some-
what late, the general opinion is, that a more abundant
crop has not been known for years. A great deal of
barley has been got in, and the oat crop is now fully
ripe, unless in the higher districts of the country. In
the neighbourhood of Edinburgh most of the crop has
been safely transferred to the stack-yard, and in so far
as the same has been brought to the test on the barn-
floor, the yield has been a full average, and the impor•
tant points of weight and quality will stand a comparison
with the standards of ordinary seasons. Last week,
many of the farmers in the neighbourhood of Glasgow
had got the whole of their grain in stook, and with a few
fine days there would be nothing but a few late patches
left standing, the same might be said of many a locality
in the south ; and it is stated that barley, in general
from plumpness of pickle and firmness of texture, resem-
bles last year's crop. The recent dull accounts from
Great Britain have failed, it appears, to have any influ-
ence on the trade in grain on the Continent ; indeed, so
far from any decline having occurred in prices, the ten-
dency has been decidedly upwards at all the leading
ports in the Baltic. Tho principal cause of the advance
has been the advises from Holland and Belgium, re-
specting the failure of the potato crop.—lnverness
Courier.

NEWRY, SEPT 25.—Much of the grain in our imme-
diate neighbourhood is carried in very tolerable order.
We are much gratified to observe that the alarm re-
specting the potato failure is beginning to subside, and
that hopes are entertained that the injury will not be so
serious as was at one time feared.—lVew'y Telegraph.
TILE POTATO CROP.—We are happy to announce that
no well-grounded complaints of any failure or decay in
the potato crops, so prevalent in England, are made by
y
the farmers of Limerick, Clare, and Kerry.—Limerick
Chlonicle.

CLONMEL.—In the vicinity of this town the wheat
crop was an excellent one, and is now stacked and
secured from the inclemency of the weather, whilst our
crowded market attests sufficiently its state of forward-
ness. The oats in general are very good, and from its
height and soundness of grain, is considered very pro-
fitable. A great deal of it remains uncut, and some has
been partially injured, some ears sending forth shoots.
In soils of a warm and arid nature, the
potato crop has
thriven well. In the neighbourhood of Abbey, Cleri-
han, and Fethard, the crop is profitable and luxuriant.
while at the eastern side of our town, in the vicinity of
Powerstown, Gammondsfield, Kilcash, and Ballyneale,
it is, I am sorry to say, inferior, in a great degree, to
that of the other. In the latter place I have seen a field
of five acres of potatoes entirely destroyed.—Waterford
Chronicle.

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RASPBERRIES AND CUR RA NTS.—SECOND CROP.
Specimens of a second crop of raspberries and red cur.
rants, grown this season in the garden of Benjamin
Vicary, Esq., have been left at our office for inspection.
The fruit of both descriptions are large in size, and as
good in quality, as they could be expected to be if only
the single crop had been raised.—Wexford Independent

THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS.—Since Wednes-
day the weather has been very changeable; and until Tues-
day the grain was never sufficiently dry for stacking, a large
quantity of rain having fallen in the course of Sunday night
and Monday morning, and had not the-temperature been re-
markably low much loss must have been sustained from the
sprouting of the grain ; but 88 yet we are glad to say that
there is not an injured sheaf On Monday it set up hard and
dry, with the wind from the north, and in the coarse of
The rains which
Tuesday and Wednesday a considerable breadth of the crop
has been carried. There is no appearance of the disease
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THE Day Mair..—We have at length obtained a
leaving at 7
day mail, and as far as the down bags are concerned we are
greatly benefited, as we get letters in the evening in time to
return an answer the same night, the down train arriving
here at 35
minutes past 10 o'clock. To whom we may be indebted for
the arrangement of our mail hence to London we cannot say,
but a more bungling and useless arrangement could not ins-
sibly have been made. The bagsleave Yarmouth at half-
past 5 o'clock in tho morning, but must be posted not later
minutes
than 10 o'clock the previous evening. New the London box
does not close till 9 o'clock, and after that by Payment of a
that night There are
penny it may go t ~,,ht.many complaints of
in
this arrangement, and surely,introducing alterations, care
should be taken to make them
.as advantageous as possible
to the inhabitants. The probability is that a representation
in the right quarter would quickly
secure a remedy
for ton
obvious °vit.—Nor/IA New:.
THE IMPORT DUTIES or TEXAS.—The New
York Courier and Inquirer says—" We are informed on what
we believe to be reliable authority at the steamer Acadia,
1 which left Boston on the 16th ofJuly, took out extensive
orders (and other conveyances will, no
doubt, take similar
to England, to purchase and ship
orders) to Texas foreign
merchandise, to arrive and enter there at the existing re-
duced rates of duties, and there await the action of Congress
on annexation. When that act is thus completed, all these
goods become ipso facto entered merchandise, so much so as
New Orleans, '
if in New York, Charleston, _ or any other Ame-
rican port, and can be transported coastivise or interior to any
of our other states. We simply
.state the fact, leaving the
those whose duty it is to see
remedy to that existing laws
are faithfully executed. There are two modes of checkin
this evil ; one is for Vexes at once to adopt our scale of duty
;g
or, if it be too late for this, then for our Government, upon
the meeting of Congress, to pass a law imposing on foreign
merchandise from Texas a duty equal to the difference be-
tween the Texan tariff mid our (ni,
desire to
We disclaim all party
feeling on the matter. W e only .
owe our commercial community
.01 announeing a fact whkh
mar, if not thus notleedi work =elt evt
THE HARVEST IN W.W.BE.—The farmers have
taken advantage of the last few day 0- ,-s e diy weather to cut
and take up a good portion of the late corn, and to carry in
what had before been cut, Another week or nine days of
fine weather
woad enable them to secure the whole of their
crops in goad coicsr,---Canibr Um,