Star.
London, England, 1827-07-19 00:00:00

DUMFRIES, JULY 17.

The Crops are gradually advancing to maturity,
unties a higher temperature than we at one time anticipated. Ilse
sky is as cerulean as the earth is green, and the waters, tboagh
diminished, still sweep gracefully slam, as pure as the wild doom
that fringe their banks, or the lily, which disclaiming alliance with
the sward, or the beautiful embroidery with which it is adorned,
buds and blossoms on the bosom of the stream. The mil,
so essential to the comforts of the poor, continues to whisk
merrily round, andthe patient fisherman, though at some din&
vantage, still contrives to lure the scaly brood from their
enviable home, at the bottom of deep and eddying pools. Veg..
tables of all kinds are plentiful and cheap ; and the same re-
mark applies a fruits, or, at least, to those that are now in season.—
The wheat is in lower the lint In the bell, the potatoes very nearly
to bloom ; while beautiful bean fields are wafting their healthful aid
grateful odours to greater distances than would be readily believed
Hedge rows of privot are rivalling the hawthorn in whiteness sad
beauty, and telling every contemner of luxuriance, as plainly
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shoots and runners can speak, that he will, ty and by, have a hard
task to keep them down. The mower, though his toils are finiikei
in the uplands, Is still busily employed In the meadows, and Wits
as he means, is, and must be, the freshness inseparable from Or
goodly swathe; that fall at even motion of his arm, must be dose
qua' to a dip In the sea. lb, fair earth, in a word, is wow
toeing and luxuriating even la our Beaten clime. The crops every
where afford a striking contrast to' the frightful sterility of bas
season, when the pastures almost ceased to Vegetate, the tossup:
forth leaves, and the waters to Sow. Unbounded thankfulness to
Done Patomacs should be the warmest feeling of everyheart—
the prevailing sentiment of every mind.
Hey harvest commenced on Meehan meadow a few days itch
The crop this season its uncommonly hrcuriant, each acre ridding,
at an average, considerably above three hundred stoma.
Gasses.—Partridges nests are said to be very pkotifsi this year;
but the ruthless scythe, in not a few instances, has proved fatal to
both eggs and pouts. The rye gnu crops were in general so light
last season, that the mowers saw the nests before they came upon
them, and In this way saved many a family of callow sealing' ; hala
this year they had nn means of avoiding mistakes,
were ac;
hurtful to their feelings, and injurious to the pursuits and pleasures of
sportsmen. In one ha fold ten nests were discovered, and although
the dams escaped, the pouts were nearly all sacrificed. Tbe sleet and
snow which fell on the Sid April last, as well as the wind which blew
with such fury during the day, drove many partridges from their
hatching encampments, and completely drenched and nined their
nests, although most of them, we believe, repaired the evil by hying
eggs a second time. But In spite of these add other drawbacks, par'
tridges, it is thought, will be plentiful on the whole. Old birds air
very numerous, and if Abe harvest is as early as it re
to be, there will be noble spurt on the Ist Septead
counts from the Moors are rather Battering, althougl
matter to !enact accurate)), the statistics of grouse.
thus far have had plenty of water, and we have not beard
circumstance at least as arising out of the weather, v
their number; down.

THS THAbla3 TUMlniti,--..TUetdaT afternoon.
of Directors of this'Company was held at
in Walbrouk, when Mt". Lintants'pre.eated
the steps taken for the cleansing of the tur
geared from the report, that the entire I
compartments in the shield have been cl
mud, and that the leakage through them
so inconsiderable, that a few men at the
ate able to keep it clear. The water in t
of the shaft nest the shield has been redt
feet, and persons could.now walk into the t
length of 70 feet, without 'clang the 4 slit

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