Star.
London, England, 1830-09-29 00:00:00

FLOODS, AND THE HARVEST IN SCOTLAND.

llee crop of barley, if well secured, is likely to he full as to quantity,
lsw the absence of solar heat will probably be felt in an inferior pre-
pare:net of saccharine matter. Oats are bulky, but many of them very
lest:, particularly in the higher districts, where early frost was severely
felt. Pease promise tolerably well. Beans, though bulky, are ill podded.
Poe.:tnes :i.tve a goad appearance on dry ;oils. Early sown turnips, on
wali-prepared soils, are good ; the later sown are proportionally behind
in ott.ting. The fallow, arc generally well forward, and the progress of
whc;.: sowing about to commence.—lnverness Courier.
It is W. beyond a doubt that the wheat crop in this neighbourhood,
both in the canes and dryfield, will be much beyond an average crop.
In thrashing, we understand, the pickles, owing to the rain, and want of
vityrkine, are much shrunk, and that many crops, which in the straw
look.%) uncommonly strong. turn out very ill on the barn floor. Beans
are even much more deficient in quantity—few crops averaging more
than horn three to rive bolls per acre, instead of six or seven. Barley
is not nearly an deficient. In fact, oats are the only species of grain
which will this au:um:; bear a comparison with former years.—Stir.
Loy Juts enal.

fkluging rains have fallen during the put night and most of this
dad. The Tay and the Earn have been swollen almost to the extent of
atrter floods. and quantities of cut corn have been occasionally floating
down the current. The prospect is discouraging. In the more fertile
and favourably exposed valleys of this county the harvest work is nearly
tiouned ; but in the colder soils, and in the hilly districts, where bar.
ley and oats are chiefly cultivated, considerably more than one half of
the crops is yet standing. The quality of the grain is generally good;
Cut it is only a speedy and favourable change of the weather that as
Eon rve it so.—Perth Courier, Thursday.
Of the general results of crop of 1830, it may be too early yet to
speak ; but from the inquiries we have made in the most intelligent
quarters, we feel strongly prompted to report as follows :—Wheat rather
cutler an average crop ; quality various according to the soil and situa-
tion, but by no means superior on the whole. Barley a fair average
crop ; straw clean, grain pretty plump, and likely to meal and weigh
well. Oats considerably above an average crop. On this head we may
add that an extensive shipper of our acquaintance has given bit as his
opinion that slumbering wheat, oats, and barley, the return
for the whole of Dumfrieshire will not be under the e.—Ditntfiies
Courier.

1 NVllll,l29B.—Altbough no rain tell in this quarter on Wednesday
evening, there was a great deal of lightning, and the gloomy appearance
of the clouds indicated an overcharged atmosphere. Between seven and
eight o'clock on Thursday morning the rain commenced, and until the
afternoon fell in torrents. The water rushed through our ,streets in co.
pious streams, and the rivulets in the neighbourhood were in a few
hours much swollen. The mail due that night at ten o'clock did not
arrive till seven next morning, having been detained at Forms, as it was
impossible to pass to Findhorn. The Duke coach was also stopped on the
and the Star on the north side of the river. The Spey overflowed
its banks in various places, carrying along with it trees, soil, and great
quantities of corn. The Garry had done great injury, and several fer-
tile fields on the banks of the Beauly, Conon, and other rivers in Ross-
shire, have sufferial severely. The Findhorn and the burn of Forces,
covered some fields in the neighbourhood of the town, and left quanti-
ties of sand among the cam. The Lossie came down in a torrent, and
spread itself over afield at Newmilla, but the crop had fortunately been
cut and stalked, so that it suffered comparatively little injury. The
Nairn swept so clean, and rendered the fields, on its banks so totally
useless in August, that although it left its channels in various places,
the damage is not so great as might be imagined. In many places the
oats, wheat, and barley, which promised a rich harvest, have been flat-
tened to the ground, and can scarcely be expected to recover. Potatoes,
turni2s, &c. have also suffered mach. The loss is altogether consider-
? ble.— Inverness Journal.

ABERDEEN.—A similar deluge of rain, accompanied by a violent
ale from S. B. to W. took place here on Thursday, by which the rivers
were very much swollen, and a considerable quantity of corn was swept
of the low grounds, pal tieularly on Deeside. Again on Sunday the
rain fell in torrents over all this district, by which much injury was
Ilene to the standing corn, succeeded as it was by a perfect hurricane,
which sprung up on the night between Sunday and Monday, and con-
tinued during the whole of the Litter day, twisting, entangling, and
shaking the crop to a great degree. Of the violence of this gale some
idea may be formed, when we state that two of the beautiful old trees
in St. Nicholas Church-yard were torn up by the roots, and others so
much shaken that it has been found necessary to cut them down. These
trees were planted about the era of Culloden.
Baarsr, SEpt.—While we notice with much pleasure the unusual
r.bundance of the crop, and the activity of the farmers in the neighbour.
head of Banff, we 'egret the frequent interruption the labours of the
i'arvest met with from the inconstancy and violence of the weather. The
late rains not only put a stop to the labours of the husbandman for the
time, but we fear have also materially injured the green corn, and laid
rr:d warped the crops in general, and retarded tilling. On Monday
morning last, the appearance of the sky was very gloomy and threaten.
ing, with the wind from the east and the barometer, which has been
falling for some days previous, stood at 29.9. The rain began to fall
about eight o'clock, anti continued to do so heavily till about twelve,
whemthe wind veered round to the west, and both the wind and rain by
that time had increased to a most violent storm. By two o'clock, the
barometer having fallen to 28.3 b. considerable alarm was entertained
that the strength of the tempest was yet to come : soon after, however,
the barometer began to rice, anti towards evening the weather became
tolerably quiet. Thursday proved mild and pleasant, and on Friday a
good deal of corn was found fit for the stack-yard ; and should the
weather continue good for a short time only, a large portion of this
abundant crop may be expected to be safely lodged for use, and the poor
may look for cheap meal.—Aberdeen Journal.
STIRLING.—We tegret to state that the unfavourable state of the
weather, mentioned in our last, has nowise improved. We have
had much rain, and the rivers and streams in the neighbourhood
love in some places overflowed their banks, anti done injury to the
crops ; yet the flood has not been so great in this quarter as on the 17th
or July last. At that period the Teich rose six inches higher than on
Sunday and 'Aloralay last. Tne Allan was also higher, but we cannot
exactly say how much. During one or two days much anxiety was felt
lest the coffer-dam erected for the new bridge should yield to the im-
mense body of water pressing upon it. It has, however, stood firm, al.
though at one time a great portion of it was several inches under water.
The flood must prove some interruption to the Contractor's operations,
as the dam is now full of water, which must occasion tome delay and
labour before it can be removed—Stirling Ailrerliser.

MACHINERY.—The parts of the country which have
flourished most, and where the population has increased most rapidly,
have been those which possessed the greatest quantity of machinery.
What were Manchester. Bolton, Preston, Blackburn, Ashton, Stock-
port, Leeds, Iluddersfield,Bradford, Nottingham, Glasgow, and Paisley,
previous to the application of the mechanical powers to the fabrication
of cottons, woollens, stuffs, and hoisery ? The inventions of Arkwtight
alone have given employment, directly or indirectly—either in the actual
fabrication of cotton goods, the production of the raw material from
which they are formed, the conveyance of it from foreign countries, the
sale of it in this, or the construction of the beautiful, complex, and ex-
pensive machines with which it is fabricated—to millions of persona.
The improvements in the woollen manufacture have been scarcely
less important or valuable, and the application of improved machinery
to the silk Rade, promises to give us the same superiority in that
as we possess in other branches of industry, in spite of foreign com-
petition, and the manifold offences of Mr. Hnskisson.—Liverpool
Tines.

REDUCED PRICE OF PORTER,-.-On Friday and Satur-
day last, several of the publicans in the Borough, Lambeth, and indeed
in varinus parts of the town, anticipating the opposition they are likely
to meet with after the 10th of next month, when the new Beer Act comes
into operation, crlmmer.ced selling their porter at 3d. per quart. Yes-
terday a great tna:.y of the licensed victuallers thtoug'nout the metropolis
followed the example, selliog the porter at 3d. per pot, and we have no
doubt that tad;,}, few publicans within the weekly bills will charge
more than dint price..

The Honourable Society of Templara are, with a taste
and spirit worthy of them, greatly improving and embellishing the
Temple. A capacious sewer, extending from the Thames to the Strand,
is now being formed. A new Exchequer-office, elegantly faced with
Portland-stone, has just been externally completed, and a handsome,
eulptantial, and lofty range of chambers is being erected at the south
end of Mitre-court. An addition of about twelve feet in length and
brsmlth, fae.ll with store, and ornamented with chastely executed Gothic
windows, is also being made to the east end and southeast side of
:11iddie Temp twin which a new and corresponding range of
buildings extends towards the river. Throughout the entire of these
new works nothing but compost is used for uniting the bricks and their
whole aprenTance evinces the regard to comfort, taste, and durability,
with which they arc being constructed.

On Sunday afternoon three respectable-looking individuals,
in a state of intoxication, were riding along George-street, St. Giles's,
when one of them, who was mounted on a tine mare, perceiving some
young womee standing on a cellar-flap. rode in among them. Imme-
diately the flap yielding, both the mare and rider were precipitated to
the bottom of the cellar. Police serjeant Palmer. of the E division,
who witnessed the occurrence, hastily descended into the cellar, and
was just in time to rescue the rider front the trampling of the hoofs
of the affrighted animal.
The body of Mr. Edwards, of Fleet-street, hatter, who
was drowned last !Huntley week, while crossing from Harwich to Ips-
wieh,with his wife anti the boatnian,wasdiscoverad floating nearLivingwn
county of Suffolk, and was brought on shore, as was also the body of
the boatman, near the same spot where the ill-fated Mrs. Edwards was
found. An inquest was held on their bodies, when the Jury, who had
no alternative left, all the parties in the beat having perished, returned
a verdict of " Accidentally drowned, in consequence of the overturning
of the boat, occasioned by tempestuous weather." The bodies of Mr.
and Mrs.P.dwards arrived in town last night, and wsre conveyed to their
late residence in Fleet-street.