In Ipswich market, on Saturday sennight, there were samples of
new oats, and the wheat harvest began in that neighbourhood last week. In the Northern as well as the Midland counties, the harvest has fairly commenced. There have been several specimens of oats at Leeds mar- ket; and many fields of barley have been cut in Durham county. In Ihmts, Dorset, Devon, Somerset, 'Wilts, the harvest of all sorts of grain has be- gun; and in the earlier kinds it is considerably advanced. In Scotland, it is rapidly approaching. The Caledonian Mercury of Monday mentions an instance where a single farmer of East Lothian would have one hundred acres of wheat ready for the sickle in ten days from that clay. Everywhere, bounteous Nature is described as pouring forth her stores in boundless profusion. The coming winter bids fair to be one of plenty for man and for beast, and a season of rejoicing to the poor of the land. For the last twenty-five years, the most diligent observers in the country have not remarked one. of equal abundance. Amidst all -our evils, this is great and good news, and demands corresponding acknowledgement to Him who has "commanded his clouds to drop down their fatness" upon our native land. If the visitation of the cholera called for a day of general prayer and humiliation, much more -should the prospect of so mighty a blessing as a plenteous harvest call for one of general thanksgiving and rejoicing.
Posting through Leicester was never known to be so great as during the last few days ; which is ascribed to the anxiety on the part of the upper classes to get away from the scene of cholera.—Leicester -Chronicle.
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