The Sun. — 1837-08-28 (London, England)

WHITEHATEN.—The weather continues highly auspicious far gathering in the fruits of the season. The crops in this district were never known to look better, and more than an average yield may now be fairly calculated upon" In many quarters the busy reapers may be seen plying their tail, and a few days will ripen the grain generally and render it fit for cutting. Several fields of wheat and barley in the vicinity have been cut during the past and present week, and should the weather continue propitious, the sickle will be in general operation in the course of another eight dogs. It gives ue sincere pleasure to state that every kind of crop is not only excellent in quality, but abundant in quantity.—Kelso Chronicle. The harvest is now fairly begun on almost all the low farms in the eastern district of the county of Haddington. The small crofts in the Highlands are remarkably abundant. Every patch of ground around the huts on the hills is rich with promise. An old man informed us this morning that he had assisted to cut the oats and barley in his native glen for sixty years, and he never saw such a season as the present.--.lnverness Courier. The country never was blessed with a more delightful prospect, nor at a season of more need. All over the east country, and in the earlier parts of the three wards of our own county, reaping will commence seriously on Monday. In all the crops the head is heavy, and the supply of fodder is very great. Young clovers never were more luxuriant. The roots of the sheaves where these have been sown, will be very bushy ; so much so, that the farmer will require to allow more than ordinary time for drying thoroughly, for fear of heating. If next month prove kindly the fields will be clear by October ; and then all hands will be employed in digging up the potatoe crop. By a letter received, of date the 21st, from Mauchline, we learn that a great many fields in that neighbourhood will be cut down next week, and that harvest will be general all over the country by the Ist of September. The same will hold good of the southern and border counties, and the northern shires are represented as not being a whit behind. Their crops, however, are said to be lightish, from a want of early moisture. --Scotsman.  The Earl of Durham, after spending a few days with the Bishop of the Diocese, at Auckland Castle, has returned to his splendid Castle at Lambton. We regret to hear that his stay in the county is very uncertain, and that he has been suffering from indisposition. Mr. Fleming, of Gateside, in Conistone, had in his garden three branches of rhubarb from one root. They measured round 11 feet and a half. The root was 2 feet 91 inches in circumference, and the weight altogether was 4113.—Kendal Ilfercury. The notorious George Steele, the accomplice and King's evidence in the Wistaston murder, has been committed to Stafford gaol on six charges of burglaries in various houses in that and adjoining counties.—Chester Courant. On Thursday a carpenter went into the churchyard, Halsted, Kent, to repair a vault. He discovered in the vault a basket, which, on being opened, was found to contain the body of a female child. A surgeon was instantly sent for, who stated the infant to be about three days old ; but from the state of the body, he was unable tld o say whether it had been born alive. An Inquest was he on the body on Saturday morning, before Mr. C. J. Carttar, but there being no evidence to prove bow the child came there, or whether it was born alive, the Jury returned a verdict accordingly,  re-elected :-The Marquis of Tweeddale The Earl of Morton Home Elgin Airley ...• 43 Leven Selkirk Orkney 4l Viscount Arbuthnot Strathallan Forbes Saltoun . 42 Gray Sinclair Colville of Culross  Reay 4l The Earl of Stirling voted for the Earl of Buchan and himself ; and we are requested by the latter nobleman to state that, by an unavoidable delay in sending his signed list to the Palace of Holyrood, his vote was not taken for the Earl of Stirling, to whom he was pledged in return for his Lordship's vote for himself. The proceedings of the meeting were finished about three o'clock, having commenced about twelve.—Scolsnzan.