The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-25 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, SErr. 20.—For fifteen years past there has not
been such a variety of qualities in wheat as that of the pre-
sent harvest.. Judging by the samples we have seen, and the
accounts that have reached us, a considerable portion of that
crop must be very good.; but it is equally certain that a large
pro[ortion is middling or inferior. We shall soon behold the
singular spectacle of a high price for wheat in our own mar-
ket, and a high duty upon the admission of foreign wheat.
The general averages regulating the duty will be kept down
by the quantity of damaged and inferior wheat thiown upon
the market—the duty will, consequently, advance to the
maximum rate, while British and Irish wheat of good qua-
lity must command a high price. At our Corn Exchange yes-
terday, there was an advance in the price of wheat, and
prime qualities are likely to advance still further. The wheat
crop, according to the most careful calculations, will be under
an aver age, and but for the providential change in the wea-
ther towards the close of last month, it is now manifest that the
failure would be disastrous. The Dublin illercantile Advertiser
says :—" Respecting oats, all our reports are favourable. The
crop is described as very good in quality, and likely to yield
conaiderably more than an average. There can be no
doubt that the disease in potatoes is producing very destruc-
tive effects in Europe as well as in America. But we rejoice
to find that its ravages are comparatively limited and partial
in Ireland. We have sought informarion from the best
sources, and have arrived at the conclusion, that although
in some instances there will be considerable loss, the potato
crop, taken altogether, is likely to be abundant and excellent
in quality."
BALLYSIIANNON, SEPT. 19.—We have made inquiry into the
cute of the potato crop throughout this county, and we are
happy to be enabled to state that very little injury has been
sustained from .the disease so prevalent in other counties.
OMAGII, SEPT. 19.—Bound-by Dungannon, and indeed in
every part of the county, the wheat, oats, and barley crops are
unusually productive, but the potatoes certainly will not be
as abundant as we anticipated, though in very many parts
the crop is far over an average one.
ManvnonouGu, SEPT. 20.—The operations of cutting and
saving have been renewed with increased vigour; but large
tracts of wheat'are still uncut, and much of the oat crop is
still unripe,
ENNISKILLEN, SEPT. 18.— There has been no season for
many years past that promises so highly for the farmer as the
present. Every crop is crowned with abundance, save only
the potato, which, we are sorry to say, has been injured by
rot; but, from everything we can read, by no means so in-
jurious as appearances in other parts, both at home and
abroad, indicate.—Enniskillen Chronicle.
ENNIS, SEPT. 18.—We have made minute inquiries into
the state of the crops in Clare, and, although in the wornout
soil, under potatoes, there may be some failures, as far as can
be at present collected, there is fully an average crop ex-
pected. Until the full time for digging the general crop, in
the latter end of the next month, a close estimate cannot be
formed; but where the new or good ground has been tried,
the potato is both productive and good. The wheat crop has
some partial blight, and it may be estimated by a reduction
of somewhat less than one-fifth. Referring next to oats, the
crop is as abundant as any of the last six years. We have
conversed with a gentleman who has gone over nearly one
hundred miles of the county, and he states that the crop is as
fine as ever witnessed.—Clare Joui

CHARGE OF ASSAULT AGAINST
ONE OF PRINCE ALBERT'S GAMEKEEPERS.
TOWN-HALL, MAIDENHEAD, TUESDAY, SEPT. 23.—Very
considerable excitement has existed for some weeks past, in
and round Maidenhead, in consequence of a gamekeeper,
named Thomas Topp, in the service of his Royal Highness
Prince Albert, having set a ferocious dog (stated to be a
blood-hound) at a poor woman, named Wells, the wife of a
labouring man, residing in the parish of Bray, for having
gathered wood in that part of Windsor Forest in which are
the preserves of the Prince Consort. The defendant was
summoned to appear before the Magistrates to answer the
charge on Tuesday, the 9th instant; but the hearing of the
case was then postponed till to• day, in consequence of the
woman, from the injuries she had received, being unable to
attend.
The sitting magistrates for the Maidenhead division of
the county of Berks were Charles Sawyer, Esq. (in the chair),
and John Hercy, Esq.; Mr. J. J. Williams, barrister-at-law,
was retained on the part of the defendant.
Upon the case being called on, all the witnesses were or-
dered out of Cour.
The information of Maria Wells, upon which the summons
was granted, averred that Thomas Topp, gamekeeper, of
Standing-hill Lodge, in the parish of Winkfield, unlawfully
assaulted her the 23d of last August, by setting a dog at her.
The accused pleaded not guilty to the charge,. by the ad-
vice of his counsel.
Maria Wells, a decent-looking woman, about thirty years
of age, upon being sworn, deposed as follows :—On the 23d of
last month I was in that part of the forest which is in the
pariah of Bray, with Mary Lee and Ann Lambeth. We
were picking up dry wood to light the fire with. Topp came
up to where we were, and took the wood we had collected
from us, with our cords and sacks, and told us we had no
business there: He set the dog he had with him, first on
Mary Lao and then on me. I begged and prayed for my
life, because of the situation I was in.—(The witness was
fir advanced in pregnancy.) I told him of my situation. I
said to him, "If you want to take my life away, take your
gun and shoot me at once." He dogged me until I was all
in a per,piration. I mean by this that he took hold of my
clothes and slur them, and then set the dog upon me.l
That iS what I mean by his dogging me. The-deg-had laid I
hold of my clothes, I fainted away, and he dogged me as
long as the dog would. When I got home I fainted away'
three times.wa§ =tined to my bed for a fortnight. CT1284