Star.
London, England, 1816-08-02 00:00:00

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The present hay 'harvest has been unusually late, It, 544
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ekpensive; and the distresses of the poor laneraut haymakers
that meat useful class of labofirehs have, we mist' beet. to, '
rally felt and relieved. Hundreds of Vent in a hodys have
ceased charitable assistance. Great part of the crep will be
sentially damaged. The ternips may be expected ao aver
crop, although iu stations parts the first sewing. have been 0:
strayed. A timely cessation of the rains will afford the p
of an abundant growth of potatoes. The vim:able spring seaaoaa
sad late successive rail's have been this year commie to he*
IflUrope and America. and the corn crop+ are probable, in coees
quince, to be universe Iy affected. Much of tha. wheat in po,
land has been destroyed, and great part of Germany :Oil &Item
devastated by floods and storms. In f rants the cropi have
escaped more favourably. So backward a season has not Neal
experiencei In this century since the year 1770. But kw
ears of wheat had appeared in the beginning of the ptesue
month. '1 he wheat is large and Inxuriatit on well tiVets an
must injsrions to the
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facile sells. but, on said and poor lands, ruined enhkahhy....
It is impossible but that a *ant of the genial effect of the stitAt
sf,heatuali,tytaganedthberviwik with ctohentt:weh,,ati
t rnn:re
aute only remedy or which, it
any, can corisist in warm and dry weather before harvest; as
great a length of time, therefore, siould be given to the eon
before mating as posaihle, since, after such cotAnued rains, a
favtlurably latter 'casein may he reasonably arpected. wire
worts in the spring, and the slug since the continued rain., hay,
done censideuble mischief to the corn. Wool, particularly fine,
is still a very dull market, probably from causes out of the
pewee of the legislature to remedy. Live stock gradually falling
in price. 'lke price of Corn has been kept up by the .:at,
tbe weather, otherwise the decline before this dine mint hese
been eenslderab!e. The linulon market has been supplied Of
Ilate with great quantities of wheat-front the North, -evincing the
considerable increase of growth in those parts Generally the
farmers of inferior proper. y have disposed of the whole, or greyer
pan at disk teen, and will be extremely distressed for the aeons
elf
orellog in their harvest; but a better state at thlup my be
tor, when the reductions of rent and taxes shad have hut
tiara to operate. vale sad unequal difference s.ili subfietslietuwe
the retail prices of butchers' meat is the country/ wine 1„,5
and veal of the best quality have been long staid at 44 per lb. and
M the capital, proving the latter to be by no meaus overstocked
with supplies.

Gurrrowir.iresterday morning a young man, or
the name of Robert Hunt, better known by the name
of Bob the Grinder, he being a knifogtinder by trade,
in Golden-lane, undertook for a wager to eat three
quarts of peas, three pounds of fat bacon, halt a quar.
tern loaf of bread, and drink two quarts of porter and
a pint of gin, in the space of one hour, at a public
house in the neighbourhood of where he lived I he sit
down to his meal at eleven o'clock in the torem,es,
and he devoured the whole in 52 minutes with seem.
ing ease, saying it was only a pod lunch, as his ap.
petite would serve to a good dinner by two oickick.
A great many bets were pending on the issne.