The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-09-20 00:00:00

THE HARVEST.

LEEDS.—The weather, during the past week, has been
very unsettled, alternately fine and dry, wet and cold, but,
nevertheless, we have had several fine days, and great pro-
gress has been made in the harvest, the changeableness of
the weather inducing farmers to make the most of their
advantages.—Leeds Intelligencer.
RICHMOND.—The crops of corn in the neighbourhood of
Richmond are very fine, and in general all standing. The
unfavourable weather we have had lately has rather retarded
the harvest, but it is now in full vigour, and reapers are in
great request, so much so, that at the village of Melsonby,
the farmers are going as high as 4s. 4d. and 4s. 6d. per day.
—lbid.

BARNSLEY.—The theee fine days, (viz) Sunday, Monday,
and Tuesday, have done much in orwarding the harvest in
this neighbourhood ; a great quantity has been got together
in fine condition, and had the weather been fine on Wednes-
days, scores of acres would have been stacked also. Our
Moor-edge farmers have all got together their hay crops, and
some few fields of wheat are nearly ready for the sickle, in
that quarter. This (Thursday) morning is beautiful and fine,
the sun shining brilliently with a strong dry wind blowing
from the north west ; the farmers are all active in the fields,
preparing to house their crops, should the day hold out fine,
the produce of scores of acres will be seen rustling down our
lanes, to the joy of the industrious farmers.—Bid.
HULL.—The weather was very favourable from Sunday to
Wednesday morning, and a good deal of corn was housed.
A continuance of favourable weather for another week or ten
day would have been nearly the whole of the grain secured,
but on Wednesday the rain fell heavily. The statements as
to the probable yield are, of course, various; but there is no
doubt that the crop will be more than an average one,
especially in Howdenshire, which is admitted to be the
richest agricultural district in Yorkshire, and by some
authors designated as the land flowing with milk and honey.
The growth of wheat, in particular, is expected to average
from four to five, and in some districts five and a half,
quarters per acre ; some experienced shearers assert that
they scarcely ever sheared the corn more heavy in the ear.
From several parts of the country the accounts are of the
same gratifying nature. The late heavy rains have not
materially injured the corn about Howden.—Hull Times.
LANCASTER.—We lament to say we have had almost
another whole week of most disastrous weather. The wheats,
it is to be much feared, have suffered considerably—in some
instances to a fatal extent. The barleys weather the storm
better, and oats; as far as we can learn, are nothing the
worse. All about this neighbourhood, and Over Sands, the
grain awaits the sickle. Reaping has been going on by
piecemeal for some time, but the farmer has no sooner got
into his field, than he is driven forth again by the rain, which
has generally fallen in torrents. There is a better prospect
at the time of writing (Friday afternoon) but really, we
have all been deceived so often of late, in regard to the wea-
ther, that it is idle to prognosticate. It is lamentable to
find that the bad weather has not been confined to our own
part of the country, but has extended itself on all sides, so
putting in jeopardy the harvest in general. Lancaster
Gazette.

GLASGOW.—We are sorry to say that since Friday the
weather has been extremely unfavourable. On Friday night
and Saturday morning we had a perfect hurricane of wind
and rain, and throughout the day the rain was almost inces-
sant. Sabbath morning, too, the rain fell in torrents, and
although the sun shone brightly for a few hours throughout
the day, and we had a rich glowing sunset, which promised
better things, yesterday morning was ushered in like the two
previous days with wind and rain. The day, however,
cleared up. The heavy crops in this neighbourhood have
been slightly damaged, and we are afraid, from the state of
the river on Sabbath, that much more damage may have
been done in other localities, as it appears the storm has
been pretty general for a considerable circuit around Glas-
gow.—Scottish Guardian.
STIRLINGSHIRE.—We regret to learn that the effects of
the long-continued wet weather have lately assumed a rather
serious appearance in the wheat grounds. Where the crops
are strong and heavy—for it is the best that have suffered
most—they have been much laid, and patches are to be seen
throughout the fields in every direction, green from the
prostrate grain springing into growth. This, it is to be
feared, will have the effect of very seriously deteriorating the
wheat sample this season. The other crops have suffered
but little from the same cause. Fortunately the last few
days of the week have been rather favourable, so that much
has been cut down, and that previously in stock so far dried,
that a very little steady weather must fit it in safety for the
stack-yard.—Stirling Journal.
ISLE OF MAN.—The past week has been distinguished by
a great deal more wet than drought, no fewer than four en-
tire rainy days having intervened since Saturday last, with
many casual showers, greatly obstructing husbandry opera-
tions, and delaying the ripening of the grain. Still the
quantity of rain we have had in the Isle of Man is compara-
tively trifling to what has fallen in the north of England.—
Manx Liberal.

DTIBLIN.—The weather has assumed a more fixed and fa-
vourable appearance, which, we doubt not, the increased
energy of the farmer will turn to good account in retrieving
the time already lost, and mitigating the injuries already sus-
tained.—Dublin Evening Mail.
BELFAST.—We regret that it is not yet in our power to
make favourable mention of the weather. A great deal of
rain has fallen during the past week, and though we have
had some glimpses of sunshine, they have been few and far
between, and the prevailing character of the last few days
has been wet, and, generally speaking, unpropitious for
harvest work. Yesterday there appeared some likelihood
of a change for the better, the glass rising, the wind in a to-
lerable good quarter, and the sky losing its dull, leaden,
spongy look, and putting on something like a cheerful ex-
pression; but we regret to state, our anticipations have been
suddenly and painfully quashed. At the time we are now
writing (2 a. m.) the rain has been descending, for upwards
of an hour, in !perfect torrents—any thing equal to the tre-
mendous and continued rush of waters we have scarcely
ever witnessed; and if it has been at all general, our hopes
of the crops will be very faint indeed. Nothing in the
shape of standing grain could, we should suppose, stand up
under so massive a fall of rain ; and we greatly fear that this
week will bring us disastrous accounts from very many dis-
tricts round about.—Bejfast Chronicle.
NEWRY, SEPT. 17.—0 n Saturday we had a sad change of
weather—the rain pouring in torrents from morning until
night. It was but little betier on Sunday morning; to-
wards the afternoon, however, the sky brightened, and
cleared up ; yesterday, again, it rained almost incessantly.
The state of the crops, under such deplorable circumstances.
we dread even to contemplate. A portion only of the
grain has been cut in this part of the country, and even that
must have suffered great injury : the remainder of the crops
generally speaking, are prostrate, and in a perishing condi-
tion.—Newry Telegraph.
TIPPERARY.—Since our last we have scarcely had two
consecutive hours' cessation from rain. Our worst fears of
the injury threatened to the crops will be realized—the con-
tinued wet and wind must inevitably be of disastrous con-
sequences to the country. Tuesday was fair at intervals,
but we had occasionally harsh winds accompanied by showers.
—Nenagh Guardian.
CORR.—Weather could scarcely be more variable, or more
unsuited to the purposes of the agriculturist, than the present.
The early part of Saturday was fine, with a sharp, strong
breeze from the north, but about one o'clock it begun to rain,
and did not cease until near morning. Sunday was soft, but
dry. Yesterday opened with perhaps the finest and most
promising appearance of any day this year ; but about noon
the rain came on, and continued until after three o'clock. It
then cleared till seven o'clock, since when we have had a con-
stant, though not heavy mist. These frequent changes are a
great interruption to harvest operations, for the work of one
part of the day is spoiled by the rain of another. For the re-
sult of the harvest serious apprehensions are entertained.
Even should it prove less unproductive than is feared, the
difficulty of saving will enhance considerably the expense of
the farmer. Such accounts as we are furnished with from
other parts of the country we have given in our first page.
In anticipation of what seems now to be generally expected—
a very short supply—extensive purchases have been made
abroad ; but then comes the question--how are they to be
paid for ? The Bank has not the gold : where is it to come
from ? When the country is drained of its bullion, how is
another mercantile " crisis" to be averted ? and can the
country bear another? The following extract is from a let-
ter from Mitchelstown, dated September 14 :—" There is a
great deal of corn not yet reaped in this neighbourhood.
Farmers say they will not have two-thirds of a good crop this
year. Oats is a good crop, but the principal part laid by rain
and wind. Potatoes a good crop, but wet. Straw will be a
scarce article in the coining season ; great part of it rotten."
—Cork Constitution.
KILKENNY.—Since our last report, which was up to tha
10th instant, we have had the most variable weather. The
10th, 11th, and 12th, with the exception of a few showers on
the latter day, were fine harvest days ; and our farmers fully
availed themselves of the favourable opportunity thus afforded,
by securing a great breadth of wheat and barley, much of
which was beginning to sprout. On the 13th the weather
again changed, and it rained from noon on that day until the
night of the 14th, casting dismay and gloom over all our pre-
vious hopes and prospects. The-15th, 16th, and 17th con-
tinued showery ; however, every fine hour is embraced with
avidity, by which means we are making progress though ra-
ther tardy. We have still some wheat unripe—one-third of
the barley, and three-fourths of the oat crop is as yet unfit for
the sickle ; and we fear a part of the latter crop will not ripen
this season. Our markets for the last week have been scantily
supplied. New wheat sold from 335. to 355. for inferior ;
prime, 375. to 40s. ; barley, 18s. to 21s. ; oats, 15s. to 16s.
per barrel ; old oats advanced to 20s. per barrel. New hay
3s. 6d. ; old, ss. per cwt. Straw; 4s. to 4s. 6d. per cwt.—
Kilkenny Moderator.

GLENARM.—The storm and rain of Saturday last have
done great injury to the crops in this neighbourhood, and
damped the hopes of the farmer considerably, more especi-
ally after the tine weather of the preceding days.—Ulster
Times.

WHIG
CONSISTENCY.—WhiIe the whigs are endeavouring
to establish throughout the country an extensive police, or
(as the French have it) gendarmerie, subject to their own
rule, and applicable to their own purposes, it ought not to be
forgotten that they are the self-same persons who, little more
than a year ago, disbanded and dissolved those numerous
corps of volunteers and yeomanry, :whose services were so
well adapted to the crisis at which the country has unhappily
since arrived. Even the most ignorant and imbecile of states-
men do not always act without a design ' • and the design of
the whigs upon this occasion, there can be little doubt, has
been to take arms from the hands of persons of respectability
and property, and therefore, for the most part, of known con-
servative
.principles, and to transfer them to those of mere
mercenaries, ready to obey any mandate, however harsh, even
to the extent of enslaving and crushing the people.
THE DAGUERREOTYPE.—One great obstacle to the use of
M. Daguerre's photogenic process is the difficulty of pre-
serving them completed, because they are of so delicate a na-
ture, and so easily injured, that the slightest touch effaces
them ; even M. Daguerre himself has always found it neces-
sary to protect them with a plate of glass, which is both incon-
venient and troublesome ; and it has in consequence been
suggested, that if a varnish could be discovered, which might
easily be applied to the surface of the plates after the comple-
tion of the pictures, and which, while it protected them from
injury, should not impair their delicacy, it would consider-
ably add to the value and usefulness of the process ; we are
happy therefore to hear, that M. Dumas has discovered that
a liquid, composed one part of dextrine and five parts of wa-
ter, forms a varnish of the desired nature. It is said to be
well-adapted to the purpose, and further possesses the advan-
tage of being easily removed from the surface of the picture,
by immersing the whole in boiling water. Time, however,
will be required to ascertain whether this varnish has any ac-
tion on the peculiar mercurial compound of which the image
is formed.—.Athertreum.

A BIT OF ROMANCE.—The following is given in the
Gazette dm Tribuneaux, as a romance of real life, which has
just occurred :—" A lady now enjoying a splendid fortune
made afaux pas some twenty years ago, and had a son. To
conceal her error from her family, she placed the boy in the
hospital of the Enfans Trouves ; and when she afterwards
found herself in independent circunmstances, took him out,
gave him an accomplished education, and secured him a for-
tune of 200,000 f. She wished to see him married ; but fear-
ing that, at some future day, reflections might be cast on his
birth by the family of his wife, and at the same time wishing
to repair her own fault by securing the welfare and happiness
of another victim to the weakness of human nature,. she
made a confidant of the director of the hospital, and having
selected a young woman equally distinguished for the quali-
ties of her mind and the beauties of her person, took her
from the asylum, divested her of homely attire as an orphan,
dressed her as a bride, and gave her to her son as a wife."

I BLASPHEMOUS MUSICAL AMUSEMENTS AT
NORFOLK;
(From the London Record.)
We have received the following communication from a cor-
respondent in Norfolk. The profanation seems -exceedingly
great :, and how men professing to be the ambassadors and
ministers of Christ can possibly countenance and join in it,
must be inexplicable to simple minds. It is obvious that
our Lord himself is introduced into the oratorio as writ-
ten. This height of profanatiOn, though it might not
startle the concocters of the entire drama at Norwich,
they seem to have felt might startle certain people in
England troubled with tender Consciences ; and accordingly
the impoverished device is resorted to of introducing St.
John as repeating the words of our Lord. But how out of
all dramatic order and arrangement is this ? How impotent !
One is disposed to weep over the whole affair—fancy ball and
all, although the profanation, by these butterflies of the ball-
room, of events the most sublime and awful, is also calcu-
lated to excite high indignation in a rightly constituted mind.
NORWICH MUSICAL FESTIVAL.
THE CRUCIFIXION.—CALVARY.
A very awful subject is chosen for a musical gratification,
or rather tragical exhibition, in Norwich, on Thursday, the
19th inst. It is called in the scores The Crucifixion, and in
the programme, lately printed in Norwich, Calvary. Nico-
demus, Joseph of Arimathea, Pilate, Caiaphas, Judas Isca-
riot, Saint John the Evangelist, &c., are among the charac-
ters to be represented in this tragedy. It is said that JESUS
CHRIST himself is one of the characters in the original ora-
torio, and that, in order to insure its acceptance for the gra-
tification of a Christian audience in England, Saint John is
introduced more frequently than he would be. A great part
of the company, for whose gratification, pleasure, and de-
light, The Crucifixion is to be performed, or the oratorio
Calvary conducted, on Thursday morning, will most cheer-
fully, on the plea of charity, comply with the earnest request
of the committee, and appear on Friday evening at the
FANCY,DRESS BALL infancy costumes or full dress.
The following are extracts from The Crucifixion:—
Philo.
Father of our chosen nation !
With thy holy inspiration
Guide our counsels in this hour,
We, the avengers of thine honour,
Here arraign this bold blasphemer.
Mighty God ! reveal thy. power.
Chorus of Priests.
Mighty God ! reveal thy power.
First Witness.
He bath the temple profaned,
Even in the season of prayer;
And with impicnis pride
This dissembler boasted,
" I will clestroy,God's house,
And in three days, unaided, ,
I will build it again."
I SWEAR before God and man. that I heard these words
from his mouth.

Second Witness.
He hath the Sabbath profaned,
Healing the halt and the blind ;
Veiling his crime with smooth and artful speech.
Caesars power he disowned :
Pardon he grants to sinners,
God's attribute alone.
/SWEAR before God and man, that I heard such words
from his mouth.

Caiaphas.
To the dust my spirit sinks
In deep abasement; horror fills my soul.
Apostate! how shall man avenge his Maker?
Thy punishment should come from God's own hand.
Chorus of Priests and People.
Woe! woe ! destruction on thee fall !
Our reproach ages to come shall proclaim.
Caiaphas.
I—who enthroned on Moses' holy seat,
And who alone the yearly sacrifice for sin
With sacred rites may dare to offer, and thus
To purify the chosen nation—l, by the living God,
Adjure thee that thou tell us if thou be the Christ,
The only Son of the Eternal Father?
JOHN ! ! !
Jesus saith : " I am he whom thou sayest ; Hereafter, ye
shall see the Son of Man sitting in great power on the throne
of his Father, coming to judgment on the clouds of heaven."
Chorus of Priests and People.
Upon us be his blood, and on our children ! Our law com-
mands his (path ! Slowly let him breathe out his soul ! To
the cross Vl'o the cross There his lifeless form shall hang.
No earth ssall cover him : neither shall flowers spring upon
his grave, nor tears bedew the tomb where sleeps his dUst.
Hence hence ! to the cross ! with slaves to die !