The Sun.
London, England, 1845-08-18 00:00:00

YORK, Aco. 16.

STOCK EiCllANGE.—The'sah;arell-Eastern Union Ex-
tension, 31%—North British, New, 91. Is. 6d. 91.—York and
North Midland Extension, 241/,—Leeds and Bradford, 5.534
—Leicester and Bedford, 334—Manchester, Buxton, &c.,
81(3—Newcastle and Berwick, 241/2..
SHEFFIELD, AUG. 16.

STOCK EXCILANGE.—The sales are—Great Western, ex
div.—Hull and Selby, Half Shares, 2314—Ditto, Quarter
Shares, ex div.—Liverpool and Manchester, ex div.—Lon-
don and Birmingham, ex all--London and Croydon, 2414—
London and South-Western, ex div.—South-Eastern, No. 1,
New (issued at 18 dis.), 18—Sheffield and Manchest, Quar-
ter Shares, No. 1, 15% 104—Ditto, No. 2, 12—Caled)-
laP, 10%—Clitheroe Junction, 4%—Grimsby and Sheffield,
614—North British (New), ei—Shetlield and Lincolnshire,
24 19s. 3L—Welsh Midland, 235. 6d. prem.—Orleans, Tours,
and Bordeaux, 11%.

THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS.
From inquiries which we have instituted among the
farmers generally:of Somerset, we are glad to be able to
state that the late rains have not caused that serious in-
jury to the wheat crops which those who are inexperi-
enced in agricultural matters were led to anticipate.
Some little mischief has undoubtedly been done, but
sli.uld the weather, which at the time we write is pro-
pitious, continue unchanged for a week. we may hope
that a full average crop will be secured. Even should it
prove otherwise, the abundance of the hay crops and
the after grass, which will prevent the necessity of
enching on the grain crops for the supply of cattle,
will enable us to bear the deficiency (if it be not very
great) without much inconvenience. Accounts from
neighbouring counties and from distant parts of the coun-
try represent the state of things as very similar to that
above described. A decided improvement has taken
place in the weather ; in some places the harvest has
begun, and in all, though considerable losses have been
experienced, an average crop is expected.—Somerset
County Gazette.

The weather continues very unfavourable for all sorts
of agricultural produce. Harv.2.sting has, however, com-
menced in some of the most forward parts of Kent, the
crops in these places are -said to be light. The rains of
this week though frequent, not having been particularly
heavy, are considered not to have insured the wheat.
That this impression is general, prevailing alike with
sellers and buyers, may be gathered from the fact that
the sellers have brought up large supplies this week to
Mark-lane, and the buyers refused to purchase, except
at a slight reduction. Complaints are very general as
to the unsatisfactory nature of the potato crop.—Dover
Chronicle.

About 300 acres of meadow, pasture, and tillage land,
at Lammas, near Burtob Constable, in Holderness, on
the estate of Sir Clifford Constable, Bart., have been
laid under water by the late rains descending upon this
low tract from the higher grounds. One farmer, Mr.
Fox, has twenty-three acres of hay cut, and in various
stages of gathering, and Mr. Grindall's land was in a
similar condition. The sheep were saved on Monday
last, happily without any loss ; they were huddled toge-
ther on small plots of higher ground, surrounded on
every side by water. At Withernwick, in the same
neighbourhood, the corn of Mr. Jenkinson was flooded.
—Hull Advel tiser.

The uneasiness respecting the harvest is now giving
way to alarm, and not without substantial reasons. We
are now arrived at the period when in most years the
wheat crop is safely housed, and yet the sickle is un-
employed except in a few instances, where the crop
having attained full growth is in danger of being shelled
in the field should a sudden change occur in the state
of the atmosphere. Rain succeeds rain, and to-morrow
is but the counterpart of to-day. Under any circum-
stances, the quality must be deteriorated to a consider-
able extent, and the prospect of 'more than an average
crop has given place to an apprehension of a deficiency.
—.Suffolk Chronicle.
The accounts from the East Riding—both in the flat
grounds of Holderness and the Wolds—represent the
crops, and particularly wheat and barley, as very much
laid and disordered by the late storms. We are happy,
however, to state that the farmers generally seem to
think that no irrecoverable damage is done, and should a
fortnight of dry Weather ensue, a heavy and good har-
vest will yet be ready for the reapers. The harvest
cannot fail to be very late, as three weeks will yet be
required for the ripening of the crops. In high, dry,
and favoured places, a fortnight will suffice, but these
spots are the exceptions within a circuit of twenty to
thirty miles round Hull.—Hull Mee; liser.

(From the Western (Exeter) Tints.
Harvest has commenced in this neighbourhood. We
have had a week's fine weather ; and although we have
to-day a few light showers, yet they have had no effect
upon the market. This day fortnight wheat touched
nearly Ss. ; to-day it barely reaches 7s.
ASHBURTON.—Sinee Sunday we have had most pro-
pitious weather for the harvest, which is going on well,
and in a few days will become general ; the price of corn
is already on the decline ; the crops of turnips, apples,
and potatoes, will be abundant.
TIVERTON.—The weather, which for the last three
weeks had been very unfavonriible, changed fertile better
or. Sunday night, since which the glass has been gra-
dually rising, and we have had fine sunshiny days, with a
N.W. wind. The harvest has commenced pretty gene-
rally in the neighbourhood, but the accounts as to its
productiveness vary se very greatly that there is no
coining to a correct conclusion.
Harvest has commenced in the neighbourhood of
Barnstaple, and several fields have been carried in prime
condition ; and if the weather continues as it has been
for the last four or five days, harvest will become general
in the course of next week.

The harvest prospects in Cornwall are very favourable
for all kinds of crops.
An individual fond of, and familiar with, agriculture,
after travelling many hundred miles in the north of Eng-
land, and various parts of Scotland, has arrived at the con-
clusion that the crop of 1845, in promise at least, is the
bulkiest and best that has gladdened the national eye for a
lengthened period. Wherever the land is good, and the
management what it should be, the wheats, oats, and
barleys, are delightfully close and copious in the cardinal
point, caring, even where the straw is shorter than was
expected in the middle of July. Of the inferior soils
tourists cannot speak quite so favourably ; yet, to such
as make the proper allowance, it is astonishing to wit-
ness the comparative fertility which is creeping up the
bleakest mountain sides. Between infield and outfield
land, the difference is always great in variable climates ;
but when the spring months favour moor and mountain
cultivation, the ekes thus thrown into the lap of Ceres
adds prodigiously to the general store. At the distance
of every few years hillmen are compelled to draw on the
valleys for the most important of all our staples, meal ;
but at present the tables are so completely turned,
that, should a favourable back end be graciously vouch-
safed, they will aggrandise the general market by
becoming sellers in place of buyers. From what-
ever cause, barley is the best of all the white
crops, not in one but in every county ; and even experi•
enced malsters admit that they have seen nothing equal
to present appearances during the last twenty years. In
1844, barley paid better than wheat, and hence the in-
creased breadth of the culture wherever you wander in
Britain or Ireland. For months the grain markets re-
mained wonderfully stationary, with prices greatly under
the Premier's calculation, in announcing the new sliding
scale ; but of late the tendency has been decidedly up
wards, say, in the case of wheat, ss. per quarter—in all
probability occasioned by the speculation more or less
inseparable from uncertain weather. That there is a
sufficiency of old grain stored, to meet the wants of the
country, is a fact well known to the corn factors ; but,
as the approaching harvest will be rather a late one, there
are many who build on, and endeavour to profit by, this
circumstance. Last year stocks were tolerably rife in
the end of August ; but at present we are behind a
mark so enviable a fortnight, if not three weeks ; and, so
far as can be judged at the present time, harvest labour
cannot be general before the first week in September.
Much, therefore, depends on the future ; and, though
every shower that falls is becoming a loss as the
season advances, excepting to turnips, it is pleasant
to look on the sunny side of things, by exulting in
the hope that all will yet be well. From the
bleakness of May, the cattle trade was late in
beginning ; and after the first rush of grass, lean stock
rose too rapidly in price. This circumstance alarmed
the buyers, and for several weeks bullocks and heifers
were difficult to dispose of at a considerable reduction.
But matters are mending in this respect, and again we
have something like the natural proportion between fat
and lean in the markets of the south. In fact, were it
not for the unfortunate distemper that still lingers in
many parts of England, the trade in droving would leave
living profits to .such as have courage to prosecute con-
, tinuously so fluctuating a traffic. Sheep, on the other
hand, have paid well during the last twelvemonths,
whether to such as breed or fatten on turnips. The
prices of bulbs, which were high in the beginning, fell
in the end, and thus enabled many a farmer to save him-
self, and something more, by the sale of white stock.
For the storemaster the present will be an excellent sea-
son : at such of the Border fairs as are over, lambs sold
remarkably well, and generally, at least, may be esti-
mated at from 2s. Gd. to 3s. above the prices of last year.
The fleece is not quite so buoyant ; but the clip was so
large that our mountaineers must gain in weight. even
should they lose fractionally in money.—lnverness
Courier.

DANGER TO ST. PETER'S AT ROM E.-A letter
from Rome contains the following :—One of the most splendid
monuments of Catholic art, the dome of St. Peter's at Rome,
inspires serious alarm in the minds of the architects of the city.
For a long time past the cupola has been cracked in many
places, and ten arches of iron, weighing 60,000 kilogrammes,
have been placed so as to prevent its fall. It has just been
discovered that the lanternino, above which rises the cross
which crowns the edifice, is cracked through and through. The
numerous lightning conductors which bad been erected by
Pope Pius VII., for the protectien of the edifice, removes all
idea of this mischief having been the effect of a thunder-storm.
The lanternino is being surrounded by heavy iron chains, to
prevent the cracks from extending. The restoration of the
ancient Basilic of St. Paul, on the Ostia-road, and which was
destroyed by fire some years since, is almost completed. An
English company has just made a proposition to the Papal
Government for deepening the Tiber. It demands neither
payment nor indemnity, hoping to repay itself by the monu-
ments of antiquity which it expects to find in the bed of the
river. If the Pontifical Government accede to this offer, it
is thought at Rome that the Company will have an excellent
bargain.— Galignani.