The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-09-09 00:00:00

THE HARVEST.

MANCHESTER.—The recent unfavourable weather had con- '
siderably retarded the business of reaping; and, it is feared
that, under the most favourable circumstances, the harvest will
not be secured in the northern counties before the end of Sep-
tember. Very little corn has been cut to the north of this town.
—Manchester Courier.
THE Fit LDE.—For the past week the weather has been very
unfavourable for the harvest. The quantity of rain fallen has
been in the extreme; yet, as some clear weather and brisks
winds have intervened, there is no real injury as yet sustained
by the crops, but an inconvenience to the farmer by greatly re-
tarding his labours.—Preston Pilot.
DURHAM.—The hay harvest in this district is nearly over,
the crops having, on the whole, been well won, and are larger
than, from the unfavourable spring, could have been anticipated.
Some wheat, and a considerable quantity of barley, has been
cut in the northern parts of Yorkshire, and the southern parts of
this county; barley is nearly everywhere ready for the sickle,
but wheat and oats will not generally be ready for cutting for
some time. The barley crop is the heaviest there has been for
some years; wheat is thick on the laniclig,hbtutetrho;!seTadhsearteuronfiap
moderate size; and oats are a very
crops are looking well.— Durham &eraser,
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WAttwicx.—The harvest has been nearly
since our last, and the reports that we continue
favourable. The wheats, although thin on the ground, have
filled out so well in the ear as to compensate for the deficiency.
Barley promises to be an average crop. Beans almost.every-
where have turned out well, and will produce from thirty to
forty bushels an acre. Turnips generally look extremely well.
The rain this week must produce a most favourable effect on
the aftercrop, and it is not expected that hay will keep up its
present very high price.—Birnisnyham Advertiser.
ABERDEEN.—Harvest has now commenced in many parts of
this district, and from what we learn, the barley will be
about an average crop. Oats will not, in general, be ready for
the sickle for a fortnight or three weeks, and in some places
much later.
EssEx.—The small wheats are chiefly got in, excepting in
the more northern parts of the country, but the rivets are
generally abroad, andthe greater part standing. The rain
which fell at the beginning of* week came most opportunely
for the barley crop, and, being succeeded on Wednesday morn-
ing by a drying wind, carting was resumed in the afternoon.
CHESTER.—The corn harvest is proceeding very favourably
all around us, and there is every prospect of a good average
crop. The weather this week has been propitious to the ripen-
ing and securing of the grain.—Chester Courant.

ASTONISHING DISCOVERY.—At the late meeting of the Bri-
tish Association at Bristol, Mr. Cross, of Broomfield, Somerset,
stated that he had devoted much of his time to electricity, and
he had latterly been occupied in improvements in the voltaic
-power, by which he had succeeded in keeping it in full force for
twelve months by water alone, rejecting acids entirely. Mr.
Cross then proceeded to state that he had obtained water from
a finely
batteryystellised cave
voltaic rat Holway, and by the action of the
the course of ten succeded in producing from that water, in
those of the cave. In
numerous rhomboidal crystals, resembling
in the process,
nhorder to ascertain if light had any influ-
enceduced similar cryst'alse'
repeated
ned6 days,
tried it again in a dark cellar„ and pro-
power. He had rep with one-fourth of the voltaic
always with the same results, eueriment a hundred times, and
was possible to make even a,. Ile was fully convinced that it
period every kind of mineral tv.'L'ornuoldnds' and that at no distant
be formed by the ingenuity
experimentsyhpe he had obtained blue
of man. By a variation of his
some
yearshte of soda, and 20 or 30
and gray carbonate of copper,
engaged
.in
other specimens. Mr. Cross,
carrying on the most gigantic experiments,a, was
h.rthem the
gattiaching voltaic
lines to the trees of the forest, and conducting
ont- gun
streams of lightning, as large as the mast of a
withservoeuntgrhye.
ship, and even turning them through his housedexterity
of an able charioteer.—Morniny Herald.
The boring for the Artesian well, at the Abattoir of Grenelle
bas got down to 1050 feet without finding water. The tempera-
ture: at the bottom, according to thermometers which have been
let down, is 23 3-10ths deg,rees Reafl Fahrenheit. or 82 Fahrenheit
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