August has set in with a good deal of rain;
but as the weather has been merely showery, with warm sunshine, the accounts from the agricultural districts are not as yet unfavourable. The wet, however, has delayed harvesting in parts. In some respects the rain has been very beneficial ; especially in enabling the farmers to sow their turnipseed, which the previous dry weather prevented. Should the sky clear shortly, an abundant harvest will be reaped. In Ireland, uneasiness is felt lest the rain should continue to fall for any considerable time longer. A hurricane visited divers parts of the coast on Saturday and Sunday, and caused a great destruction of shipping and loss of life. Several vessels were driven ashore at Tenby ; and six lives were lost. At Llanelly, on Saturday morning, the Friends, a fine vessel belonging to Ilfracombe, was totally lost on the Ceyfen Sands, in Carmarthen Bay: The captain, his wife, and the whole of the crew, were drowned. The Briton steam-tug parted from her moorings, and sank near the harbour. At Bristol, the hurricane was tremendous, with heavy rain, thunder and lightning: trifling injury, however, was done. At Teignmouth, Torbay, and Newport, the storm was equally severe. At Milford, a small vessel was lost with all hands. Great damage has been done all along the Southern coast ; and it is feared that many lives have been lost: the Kentish Mercury reports that six or seven bodies have been washed ashore.
A man was stung to death, last week, by bees, at Haddenham, in Cambridgeshire. A horse kicked down a hive, and the bees attacked the horse ; in attempting to rescue the horse, the man drew the bees upon himself; and they stung him so desperately that he died in ten minutes after they had been removed from him by the use of wet cloths and other means. The horse also died.
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