From all parts of the island—from Inverness-shire, Perthshire East Lothian,
Lanarkshire, Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire, gussex, Essex, Dorsetsbire, Devonshire, Somersetshire, and Hampshire, and also from the South of Ireland, there are most cheering accounts of the wheat crops, and of the harvest, where it has been commenced. If the weather continue favourable, we shall hear of more "agricultural dis- tress " from the men whose motto is "down with every thing, but up with rent."
Grouse-shooting commenced on Friday, and from all we have been able to learn from the moors in our own vicinity, the birds have seldom keen known to be so strong and numerous ; they are, in fact, a bumper crop, and the sport has, in consequence, been excellent, and such as fully compensated the sportsmen for the fatigue which they were sub- jected to by the great heat of the weather. The Duke of Roxburghe's party, on the Lammermuirs, bagged upwards of fifty brace, of which no fewer than thirty-three brace were brought down by his Grace himself. The sport has been equally good on the Cheviot Hills, where several sportsmen have been eminently successful ; and in all quarters the sea- son promises to be superior to last year.—Kelso Chronicle.
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