The Sun. — 1861-08-27 (London, England)

MARLBOROUGH-STRE ET.  MURDEROUS ASSAULT ON A WOMAN.—Michael Denny, a boy living at 66, King-street, was charged before Mr. Mansfield with being concerned, with a woman not in custody, in assaulting a female named Honorah Harty. A certificate was handed to the magistrate as follows : "Middlesex Hospital, Aug. 26. " This is to certify that Honorah Harty has received a scalp wound. " W. WILKS, House Surgeon." Prosecutrix said she lived in Archer-street, and was having a few words with prisoner's mother, when he came up and kicked her in the back severely. Mr. Mansfield—Why did he do it ?  Prosecutrix—From animosity and to help his mother. His mother then came up and struck me a severe blow on the head with a horse shoe, cutting my head very badly and smothering me in blood. (The prosecutrix had her head bound up, and her dress was bespattered with blood.) Mr. Mansfield—The best way will be to have a remand till Monday next to see how the woman gets on, and I will grant a warrant for the apprehension of the woman free of charge. George Kelly, 71, Castle-street, wheelwright, was charged with assaulting Allcock, 114 E, and fined £5 or a month, and Anne Jones was fined 10s. or seven days for assaulting Richard Cook, 96 E.  During the past fortnight the harvest has been rapidly proceeding throughout the country, the weatlier having for some days been all that could be desired for the ingathering of the crop. Very great diversity of opinion is expressed by agricultural authorities as to the quality of the wheat crop., There can, however, be little doubt that the extraordinary severity of the frosts last winter, with the heavy rains which fell both last autumn and in the spring, have in some districts greatly injured the wheat. Both quantity and quality will, in clay districts especially, be defective, while in other parts of the country the quality will be excellent, though, with few exceptions, the crop will by no means be a heavy one. Under these circumstances denoting the remarkable variability of this year's crop, it is premature to speculate on the probable average of the yield. The most sanguine will scarcely predict more than an average. We incline to think that it will be below the average. Of the destructive progress of the potato disease both in this country and in Ireland, there can be no doubt. The potato crop is very bad in nearly every part of the kingdom. Trade meanwhile is in a depressed and languishing condition. In Manchester, Sheffield, Leeds, Birmingham, and all the great hives of industry, our commercial prospects are far from satisfactory. Both the failure of the potato crop and the depression of trade necessitate increased consumption of wheat. The working millions eat more bread because they have fewer potatoes, and also because having lower wages or less employment they are obliged to buy less animal food. Under this state of things, our contemporary, the Times, inserts a suggestive paragraph on " the importance of a good harvest" on one day, and writes a smart article on the same subject on the day following. We beg leave to say a few words on the paragraph and the article. We give the former, and assume its correctness : "