The Sun.
London, England, 1829-08-15 00:00:00

YORK, AUGUST 13.

The harvest has commenced in these parts as yet
but very partially. About Doncaster, where they are
most forward, cutting is more general; but the Mal-
ton way it will be a fortnight yet before the labours
of the reaper are put into full requisition. The state of
the weather, in the mean time, will be looked to with
great interest and anxiety,, for a few :clays at this
crisis will do much towards either confirming the bad
effects which the ungenial season has already produced
❑pon the crops, or will go far towards correcting
them. For the last few days the weather has been all
that the most fidgetty agriculturist could desire—
genial and glowing; but last night a change took
place, and all this day the rain has been descending in
repeated and heavily-descending showers. At such
a moment this must be very unfavourable to the
heavy corn, and dispiriting to the farmer. I have
made it a point of inquiring of every farmer with
whom I had an opportunity of conversing about the
state of the crops and the prospect of a good or bad
harvest, and at these interviews accident has brought
me into contact with men from almost every part of
the country. In a district of such extent, and with
such a variety of soil and cultivation, the esti-
mates of nten will be as different as their
farms, and their calculations not easily re-
ducible to a common standard. But, upon
comparing all their reports, I should say a fair sum-
mary of them was, that the spring crops are an
average crop this year, but the wheat certainly below
the average as to quantity, and exceedingly inferior
in quality. The causes which influence the con-
dition of the grain do not seem to affect the amount
of the produce, for an intelligent farmer from the
neighbourhood of Mahon assured me that, in the
season of 1826, which was the very hot one, al-
though the wheat was prime in its quality, yet the
returns were any thing but satisfactory. The wheat
generally is not matured enough to see whether the
ears are growing, and, if they have tolerably fine
weather for the next fortnight, the farmers look to
the harvest with any thing but despondency.
Throughout the country the condition of the la-
bourers is described as very distressed, and the poor-
rates are heavily felt. At present they have 2s.
Gd. per day wages, but in the winter not more than
7s. a week. The shopkeepers complain of the stag-
nation of trade, and of the difficulty of getting in
their bills. The late races were the worst attended
that have been for years, and this accidental circum-
stance has come most inopportunely in aid of the
general gloom at this moment. The market here is
most abundantly supplied with provisions of all sorts,
and at the following prices

S. d.
Beef, per lb 0 6
Mutton, do 0 6i-
Lamb, do .0 6i
Veal, do 0 7
Pork, do. 0 8
Butter(fresh)l6,oz 0 10

s. d.
Best Fowls, couple, 3 0
Chickens, do. 1 9
Ducks, do. 2 3
Goose (alive) 12 lb. 4 0
Turkey (alive)l4lb. 5 0
Morning Paper,

Mr. O'CONNELL.--A man named JOHN
CASE, has been examined at the Henry-street Police.office,
Dublin, on a charge of threatening to shoot Mr. O'CON-
NELL. The threat was made at a public-house, to Enw.
M‘Laucrum. His plan was stated to be, that he would
by bribing, get admitted into Mr. O'CoNNELL's room, and
there shoot him with a pistol, upon which was to be en-
graved Mr. O'CorrstELL's name ; that was to he left in the
room, and then it was presumed, that it would be supposed
that Mr. O'CONNELL had shot himself. The case occu-
pied a great deal of time in investigation, at the termina-
tion of which, Mr. COLE said he thought it a ease for a
peace information, and ordered the prisoner
discharged.
rtoenterinto
a recognizance to keep the peace,ed
himself in
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the
of 501., and two sureties in 201. each. The prisoner im-
medGiaLtelEyNgGavAeßtlßiey havingrequiredseacuttraitiyn, and
29th ult., the tenants on the MACDONNELL estates demon-
strated their attachment to their young chief and landlord
by every means in their power. Bonfires blazed on every
hill—Highlanders danced at every farm steading—and
mountain dew was quaffed in large libations to all the mem-
bers of the house of MAC MIIIC-ALASTAIR. BARRISDALE
having been prevented from attending the general meeting
of GLENcaxav'Seafvr(iiineallgtid;ltndteil
esnuoenindiii;tryul,no collectedsumptuous
t p
oi.efat
ti sieovnneesni gifnhogr-
, bours, with their wives and children, from both sides of
he
tLmhOecrietlabli:tlireinan'aannrdid;atililed those which had taken place on the
same spot twenty-one years preceding, and were kept up
with the greatest glee and harmony till an early hour..—
• Edinburgh Observer.