THE HARVEST.

We have read the accounts in the Couutry papers received to-day of the state and progress of the harvest : we rejoice to be able to commu- nicate, that generally they are of tire most encouraging kind. In the Southern districts, the harvest is to a great extent saved : while in the Northern considerable progress has been made towards securing it. The wheat will be an average fully, and the other crops will exceed the average amount.—Glube, .Monday, 10th September.

How far these favourable anticipations are to be relied upon, may be guessed at fromthe following extracts which we made, also on Mom- day, from the provincial papers.] (Northumberland.) The harvest has partially commenced in this neighbourhood, and a few patches of barley have yielded to the sickle. The last week of firm weather has produced a wondetful change in the appearance of the crops; if such weather continue, we may expect the harvest to be general in a very short time. The crops are not /many, rind, taken in the aggregate, may be considered below the average ofAnna years.—Tyne Mercury.

(Cumberland.) The hopes excited of a successful gathering of the corn crops in this part of the kingdom, such as they are, have been greatly discouraged by the heavy rains that have fallen within these two days. During the greater part of Wednesday night, the rain fell irt torrents in this city ( Carlisle): it continued at intervals yesterday; aid from the information we have received from other quarters, we are persuaded that it must have been general. The land must be literally soaked ; for the roads are as wet and heavy as we commonly see the in winter. %Vitt' a few exceptions, the crops have still a very green. appearance; and we do not hesitate to express our conviction, that there must inevitably, and distinct from other causes, be a great defi- ciency in the produce of this county (Cumberland), from mere want of time to bring the crops in late situations to a state fit. for cutting before winter will probably set in.—Carlisle Journal.

(Lancashire.) The state and aspect of the weather continues to be an object of anxious solicitude and general conversation (in Liverpool). During last night and the whole of this day, it has been most unfavour- able. The thunder-storm with which we were visited on Thursday has been succeeded by a damp and foggy atmosphere, and by an inces- sant rain. The temperature of the air has become sensibly raw and told, and the present indications of the continuance of it are by no means cheering. We learn that the outstanding crops in the neigh- bourhood have suffered from this sudden and unwelcome change in the cli- mate.—Letter from Liverpool, in the Times.

(Leicestershire.) Up to Wednesday night, we have had almost ten days of fine weather, and a great quantity of corn has been gathered in good condition. Since then, the weather has been unsettled, with heavy showers of rain at intervals. In various parts of this county, the grain appears to have partially ripened, and even in some fields part appears ripe for the sickle while the other looks quite green. This may be seen in a large field adjoining the Humberstone Road, leading to Scraptoft—Leicester Herald.

(Devonshire.) The harvest has been going on prosperously in the neighbourhood of Tiverton, and many farmers have nearly finished. The wheat crop in the good land is above an average ; the burley is not quite so good as anticipated, but above an average crop ; oats ure a great crop and fine samples. Further West and North-west from us the harvest is beginning : we hear the wheat crop generally complained if, but the barley and oats are very fine.— Western Luminary. (Northamptonshire.) Within these last ten days. an immense breadth of wheat has been carried ; and we think it would have been as well for those who were in such haste on the :nth had they allowed it to stand out another day or two ; we fear they will find it out when it is taken into the barn. There still exists a diversity of opinion in dif- ferent counties as regards the wheat crops. We can only again repeat, that our opinion us regards this county is unaltered, and, as we have stated before, it requires minute examination to lied the number of capsules that are altogether void of earn. The evil will oat be jib till it is thrashed aml ready for market ; and though we are unwilling to look on the dark side of the question, we fear the average will be a short One. —Northampton Herald.

(Gloucestersldre.) The unfavourab!.. state of the weather, %%inch within the last two or three days has interrupted the progress of the corn harvest, begius to create much anxiety amongst tho-e farmers who have not yet secured their crops, who, ere they can tuna.; their produce to market, will have to contend with an ibilux of forei..91 eorn, which is now admitted at an import duty of only 4d. per busitel.—Ihistuf Journal.

(Mid Lothian.) The damage dove tr. thc creqrs wcrk, we are afraid, has been very set ions. From Monday night till early in the

morning of yesterday the rain fell in torrents, and almost without in- termission. Yesterday, though dull and heavy, wits dry ; and we would fain hope that a favourable track of weather is before us. The Water of Lehi. is greatly swollen, in consequence of the late rains, end numerous Iii Ids in the neighbourhood of the city have been very much flooded.—Scoesthan.

A more severe storm of wind, and of heavy and constant rain, has scarcely been remembered than that which commenced here on Mon- day night, and continued without any intermission until Thursday evening, about seven or eight o'clock. The last of those days, the rain fell in torrents, with a violent gale from the north-east. We ob- serve that the same weather has been general over the North and West of Scotland.—Edinburgh Courant.

(Ayrshire.) Ruin has fallen, with very little intermission, for several days in succession ; and in those fields where the grain is heavy, (and it is generally so,) it is beat down, and must be muck injured. Had this week been favourable, several farmers in this neighbourhood would have begun the harvest, although it could scarcely be general for some time.—Kilmarnock Journal.

(Lanarkshire.) The continued ungenialness and unvarying wetness of the season begin to fill the minds of' the highlanders—blessed though they are inn general with crops which, as to bulk, are unusually heavy —with the most anxious foreboding about the conclusion of the hut- vest.—Glasgow Argus. (North of Ireland.) Since the date of our last report, the weather Las, for the most part, been exceedingly unfavourable for bringing the

crops to maturity. During the first three weeks of the past month, there have not been more than two or three days on which rain did not fall at some period of the day ; and in several instances it continued raining throughout the day without intermission. As might have been expected, such heavy ruins have had a very injurious effect on the crops, and in every case they have sustained more or less injury. * • •

Wheat has, no doubt, been injured to a considerable extent, and will be very generally diseased; however, it will be more deficient in quality

than in quantity ; but it has, in common with the other grain crops, improved decidedly since the late favourable change of weather, a continuance of which is only required to allay the fears of the manu- facturing classes respecting the probable high price of breud.—London. dory ..`ettlinel.

((Jounty Louth.) Although the weather for the past week, with the exception of Saturday, has been all that our farmers could desire, and

will do incalculable service, yet there is no doubt that serious injury

Las been done to the crops of wheat and barley ; some of theformer are partially blasted, and, in several, the loss by " gapping " is very exten-

sive. Oats and potatoes seem to have suffered no injury whatever,

and will be both abundant. To prove the mischievous working of our present Corn.laws, the farmers, inn the face of a partially deficient hat vest, will be obliged to thrash out their wheat to pay their rents, at a period when 1,000000 quarters of foreign grain shall have been thrown on the market at a noodled duty ; thus forcing prices down to a level, for a time, below the real value of the urtiele.—Lelter from Dundaa, in the GlaS9011:

[Our own private accounts state that much of the wheat, which bad and has a thriving appearance, upon examination is found to have suf- ered much from the "maggot."]