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IiUDDERSieIELD, AUG. 15.
STOCK ExcluxuE.--The sales are, New Linea—Armagh,
Coleraine, and rortruah, 2%—thuidee and Perth, 33i

Grand Union, Ils. 6d.—Great Grimsby and Sheffield June-
tion, s%—ditto,' Quarters, 31s.—Huddersfield and Man-
chester, 151 A—Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester, 261/:',
Nottingham, Erewash, and AutLergate, 425.

HULL, AUG 16.
- STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Durham and Sunder•
land, 30—ditto, New, 43/4—Hull and Selby, Half Shares,
24—London and Birmingham Extension, 30s.—London and
Blackwall, 11%—ditto, New, 43/4—Preston and Wyre, Half
Shares, 71/2 %,/—Blackburn, Darwen and Bolton, 9%—Great
Grimsby and Sheffield, 53/4—ditto, Quarter Shares, 265.
Leeds and Thirsk, 143/4—North British, Half Shares, B;ii 9
Cambridge and Lincoln, 41/9—Manchester, Liverpool, and
Great North of England, 40s.—South Midland, 4%—Trent
Valley Continuation, 21,9—Wakefield and Bradford, 525.
Yorkshire and Glasgow Union, Gs.

YORK, AUG. 16.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Eastern Union Ex-
tension, 31,41—North British, New, 91. Is. 6d. 9/.—York and
North Midland Extension, 241/I—Leeds and Bradford, 55./1
—Leicester and Bedford, 31 —llanchester, Buxton, &c.,
81/B—Newcastle and Berwick, 2414.
SHEFFIELD, AUG. 16.

STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Great Western, ex
div.—Hull and Selby, Half Shares, 234—Ditto. Quarter
Shares, ex div.—Liverpool and Manchester, ex div.—Lon-
don and Birmingham, ex all—London and Croydon, 24
London and South-Western, ex div.—South-Eastern, No. 1,
New (issued at 18 dis.), 18—Sheffield and hlanchest, Quar-
ter Shares, No. 1, 15% 1614—Ditto, No. 2, 12N—Caled
nian, 1014—Clitheroe Junction, 4%—Grimsby and Sheffield,
614—North British (New), 83/4—Sheffield and Lincolnshire,
2/. 19s. 31.—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 i❑ agricultural matters were led to anticipate.
Some little mischief has undoubtedly been done, but
should 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
trenching 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.—Somerstt
Cout•ty Gazette.
The weather continues very unfavourable for all sorts
of agricultural produce. Harvesting 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 injured 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.—Doter
Chronicle.

About 300 acres of meadow, pasture, and tillage land,
at Lammas, near Burton 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 fanner, 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
lust, 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 Adveitiser.

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 bat 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 Ridieg—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 •et 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 Bull.—Hull ..4dvertiser.

(From the We.stern (Exeter) Timrs.
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 Bs. ; to-day it barely reaches 7s.
ASHBURTON.—Since 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.
TIVEnTON.—The weather, which for the last three
weeks had been veryUnfavourable, changed for the better
on 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 so very greatly that there is no
coming 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, earing, 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 expert.
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 twelvemonth,,
whether to such as breed or fatten on turnips. Tin.
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. 6d. 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. PETERS AT ROME.—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 m;nds 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 cress
which crowns the edifice, is cracked through and through. The
numerous lightning conductors which had been erected by
Pope Pius VII., for the protection 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.— Galipani.

CLERICAL INTOLERANCE IN
THE ISLE OF WIGHT.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR,—In the midst of a season of affliction, which has
been added to by the circumstances I am about to relate,
I feel much reluctance in at all obtruding on public no-
tice, and should be content to submit quietly to the con-
duet which has been shown towards me and my I'llll4,
if it were not for a sense of public duty,
About four years ago I lost a sister Ey consumption
at Carisbrook, in the Isle of Wight. Owing to the state
of her health she had resided there several years, and
according to her wish, she was buried in the church 3 ard
of the neighbouring parish of Gatcombe. The then
rector of that parish, Dr. Worsley, made no objection
to her interment, though I afterwards understood that
he was annoyed by my dispensing with the body being
taken into the church, and only having the service ma;
at the grave. The undertaker, however, informed me
that the Doctor seemed very well satisfied when he re•
ceived his fee ; and as the objection was not made offen-
sively, but simply on the ground that the deceased bad
been, and I was, a Dissenter ; and, as it is an every day
occurrence in London and other large towns for similar
interments to take place, the circumstance had almost
faded from my memory, though it was but too welt re-
membered by those who treasure up every orienca
against the exclusive authority of the Church.
Little more than a week ago I was called to the .s! ni
by the death of another sister. She dial in early wo.
manhood of the same fatal disease, and it was but na-
tural that we should wish the sisters not to be separated
in death.

Within the time I have mentioned the former rector,
Dr. Horsley, had died, and on Tuesday, July :29th,
went over to Gateembe to see his successor, Dr. Tons
son, accompanied by try brothtr. The Doctor's noel
tion of us was most courteous. I asked him if he 1:11
any objection to my sister being laid by the s;de Gf 0
other one ? Ilis answer was, "Of course I can have
oljection." He was told that we were not naives of 0 .
island, but that my mother and sister had been resdit.
some y( ars at Carisbrook. He asked why the brine.l
burial had taken place at Gatcombe instead of Canis,
brook, and was ll:donned that it was by the wish of this
deceased, with which reason he expressed himself sates-
fled, and then at his suggestion the three of us went to
Gatcombe Church to point out the spot. At the church-
yard the sexton received directions from the Doctor
about digging the grave, and, with his concurrence, the
day and hour of the funeral was fixed. Nothing could
be more definite and better understood ; but on the even-
ing of the ensuing day I was surprised by receiving the
following note:—

" Dr. 'Thompson presents his compliments to Mr. Vid-
ler, and begs to inform him, that upon inquiry he finds
he cannot with propriety bury the corpse of the late
Miss Vidler in the churchyard of Gatcombe, and there-
fore must reluctantly decline.
" Gatcombe, July 30."
It was too late on the evening of the day on which I
received this note to go to Gatcombe, but on the follow-
ing morning I went there. I felt that I had a right to
some explanation ; that it ought to be no light thing to
induce a clergyman and a gentleman to retract a pro-
mise. I obtained a second interview with Dr. Thomp-
son. He was cool and distant, but studiously polite; he
had all the manner of a man determined not to commit
himself. He said, " That as the death had not taken
place in his parish, he had a right to refuse without
giving any reason ; hat he thought when he gave his
consent the family were in some way connected with the
parish (this was not true, for on the first interview he
had been told most distinctly to the contrary); that Dr.
Worsley had always regretted allowing the former in-
terment; that he was acting under advice, and should
decline giving any other reasons."
I admitted his legal right to refuse (my request had
been made as a courtesy), but that and all the circum-
stances he had stated, with the exception of the feelings
of the late rector, he hail known when he gave his con-
sent. Nor could I help adding, that I thought his
conduct most unkind, and quite contrary to the teaching
of our Great Master, who taught us to do as we would.
be done by. To this he answered " That he did not
wonder I felt so, but he must do his duty by his parish."
And thus the conference closed without one word from
him about what I believe to be the real reason of his
refusal, viz., that we were Dissenters. This is no doubt
what he learnt by the inquiry he speaks of, end for this
reason he refused to allow the ashes of two sisters to
mingle together who had loved each other in life, had
been supported by one common faith in long and
lingering disease, and had met the same early death.
If I am mistaken in my opinion I shall be glad to be
corrected by the reverend gentleman. It is my present
conviction that he refused to bury my sister because he
had received information (perhaps clerical) that we were
Uni•urian Christians.

By some strange omission the Dissenters of the Isle
of Wight, though a numerous and a wealthy body, have
not obtained for themselves any cemetery of their own;
and 'have in consequence borne most patiently several
petty insults from the establhthed clergy. had there
been such a cemetery, Dr. Worsley would have been
spared the regret of which his successor spoke,
and I and my family would have been spared
both pain and expense. After my interview with
Dr. Thompson, I determined not to expose myself to
another refusal, which at such a time seemed almost like
an affront to the departed, nor to give another clergy-
msn of the same church an opportunity of showing his
z, al against heresy. So 1 left the island end crossed to
Portsmouth, where, at the High street Chapel, there is
a sn•all grave-yard attached. By the kindness of the
Rev. H. Ilawkes, the minister of that chapel, and the
trustees, I obtained permission for the interment to take
place) there last Saturday. Till then I hardly knew
whether it might not be necessary to take the rem...ina
of my sister to London for a resting place. I refrain
from making any comment on the circumstances 1 have
narrated; I merely wish to put you in possession of the
facts, and if their publication in any, form appears to you
likely to tend to correct intolerance, and promote the
cause of religious freedom, you are et full liberty to use
them according to your discretion. Though writing from
Carisbrook, I have given my London address, in order
to authenticate my statement.—l am, Sir, yours, etc.,
WILLIAM VIDLER, Minister of the
Domestic Mission Chapel, Cripplegatos
1, Brunswick-place, -City-road, Aug. 7, 1841

DRAINAGE AND SEWERAGE OF
LARGE TOWNS.
The Government Bill (prepared by Sir James Graham)
for the improvement of the sewerage and drainage of
towns and populous districts, and for making provision
for an ample supply of water, and for otherwise pro-
moting the health and convenience of the inhabitants,
is now printed, and avowedly for the purpose of
being circulated through the country, as the Bill
will not be proceeded with until next session, the
second reading being postponed for three months. It
occupies 118 pages, and the heads of the clauses alone
fill seven folio pages closely printed. Ample provi-
sions are made for the election of Commissioners by rate-
payers, for the appointment of inspectors, their mode
of meeting and conducting business, &c. The publicly
interesting portions of the Bill, however, are those
relating to the system of drainage and sewerage,
&c., proposed to be adopted. Towns are to be effec-
tually sewered ; and the inspector for the district is to
furnish the Commissioners with an estimate of the cost
of the sewerage works. All sewers are to be vested in
the Commissioners, and to be under their management
and control. The Commissioners are to make new
sewers where requisite, mills and other obstructions to
drainage being enabled to be purchased and removed.
Private drains are to be made from houses to communi-
cate with the sewers, and no houses are to be built
without drama. Houses are to be built on a
proper level, to be fixed by the Commissioners.
Vaults and cellars under streets are not to be made
without the consent of the Commissioners ; and
drains, privies, and cesspools, are to be kept
in good order, and to be subject to inspection
by the officers of the Commissioners. The latter
are also to cause streets to be cleansed, and dust and
ashes to be removed from houses, and they may water
the streets. A medical officer is proposed to be ap-
pointed, subject to the approval of the Secretary of
State, to inquire into and report upon the sanitary con-
dition of any town or district, and such medical officer is
to perform post mortem examinations when required by
the Coroner. The Commissioners may, further, on re-
port of the said medical officer, order filthy and unwhole-
some houses to be cleansed and whitewashed, and an
inspector of nuisances is to be appointed for superin-
tending the general execution of the provisions of
this Act ; and for receiving complaints and laying
informations, if necessary. Slaughter-houses, anc.
knackers'-yards, &c., are to he registered, and regulations
are to be made for their cleanliness and for their in-
, spection. The inspector is to make a report on the suf-
ficiency of the supply of water, and, if necessary, state
the best means of increasing it; and the Commissioners
may, with the approval of the inspector, contract with
water companies for a supply, or may lease any powers
vested in them. Power is also to be given to pus -
chase springs of water, &c., by agreement, under the
spreowveirsiroantses, p
of the Lands
LanradtsesC,laaunsdes
general Consolidation rates, are Act,
&ebe
made, to be levied on occupiers of houses and other
Act
rates, &c.
pro-
perty, &c., and the Commissioners are to make water