The season for hop-picking is rapidly approaching. It is expected
that if the weather continues as favourable as of late, the season will be pretty generally commenced in another fortnight. Those grounds which have not suffered from blight are fast recovering from the ravages of the vermin, and promise a fair crop. Where the plant was doing well a month ago, the crops will be very large. The duty is still on the increase, and may now be quoted at 118,000L—Kentish Gazelle.
A paragraph, headed" Crows versus Turnips," has run the round of the newspapers, arid seems calculated to excite a crusade against a most
useful race of animals. It states that a flight of crows in two hours devoured nearly an acre of turnips. By crows, no doubt, rooks are meant ; and we will venture to assert that they did not eat or destroy a single turnip. Their object in pulling up the plants was to detach a grub from their roots, which grub would have destroyed the turnip if the rooks had not interfered. The farmer has not a better friend than this much-slandered bird. For the small injury it inflicts during a
very short portion of the year, and which it is not difficult to present, it returns him benefits a hundredfold, in the destruction of myriads of grubs, slugs, &c. that would devour his crops.—Staffordshire Advertiser.
The residence of the late Reverend Rowland Hill, at Wooton-under- Edge, has lately been converted into a cider-shop. The servants have been permitted to dispose of all the stock of cider, selling it in small quantities to any purchaser that may apply. It is highly creditable to the officers and privates of the 93d Highland Regiment, at present stationed at Canterbury, that no military flogging has occurred in the regiment since the year 1813, a period of twenty- one years; and yet only the week before last, the Commander-in- Chief complimented the officers on the excellent discipline of the regiment.
It is now found that the most disastrous effects have resulted from the violent storm at Glossop Dale ; it will require upwards of 2,5001. to repair the mischief done to the roads and bridges, while the injury sus- tained by the manufacturers is estimated at WOOL—Derby Mercury.
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