The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-09-28 00:00:00

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THI lIANTIST IN IRELAND.—The Banner of niter
ooncludes a long review of the state and prospect." of the
harvest in these terms :—" Reaping may be reported as
finally linialied, except in rare oases, and on very late
Linde. Stackyards begin to asinine the appearance of
later autumn, and old sites are often found too email to
oontain the ample produce ready for storing. We may
sefuly predict that by the middle of next month there
will be safely atacited at the farmsteads in the north of
Ireland the largest
.quantity of unthrashed grain ever
seen in this oountry. ' There are further reports from
the north, equally ea favourable aa the foregoing.

TIIN WICATHEN IN DUBLlN.—Wedneiday Dublin
will visited by one of the most remarked!s falls of rain
which hes taken idase here for sonic 15 years put. It
oommenood at 5 o'clock, sm., and the downpoor lasted
with scarcely a minutes intermission for nearly six
hours. Ono of the pepors thus truly describes the
plionomonon ;—" The rein mooned to have adopted a
plan of coming down in sheets, instead of showers, and
in about ten niinutes after its 00111111.11010011 i tlle streets
wen. flooded in several parte, and nut a soul we. to be
soon In any direction, tans a few polioeinen running as
hard u their big. oould angry then to the neared place
of shelter. For about two hours nothing short of a
deluge amid surpass the violetioe of the rain, which
washed the streets as clean as the decks of a ship in a
gale of wind. Tradesmen and labourer, going to work
had to Beek refuge where best they could And it, and
hundreds of persons residing in !cellar", in back streets,
and lanes, had to make Fluty exits front their subter-
reneen dwellings, which became doodad in many in•
stenoss several feel deep, Shoal. of rats in the sewer+
that had remained in quiet possession of their holdings
for several generations were summarily ejected, and
were borne down by the force of the current to the
river and drowned. The rain gradually moderated up
to 10 o'clock, when it partially ceased, and occasional
showers fell during the day. The sun shown out about
4 o'clock and tile evening continued line. At nightfall
the atmosphere bowie exceedingly sultry and °ppm-
lye, and ahortly after 11 o'clock the rain came down
again in heavy shower., which mule the night carmen
and pedestrians beat • huty retreat. At 3 o'clock Thurs-
day morning the weather still presented a very unsettled
appearance ; and from the swollen state of the Liffey and
the rivers running into it there is every reason to fear
that much damage has been done to property not pieced
above the reach of the dood."

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THII CROPS IN ULSTZR. —While the Southern and
Western papers are filled with details of the late de-
stnnitive inundations in those quarters, the Northern
Whig of Thureday gives the unused satisfactory report
of the crops in Ulster :—The weather during the peat
week has been of a character in the highest degree fa.
Towable for farming operations. During several dap
the heat wee intense and immense progress was made in
getting in the harvest. On the important question of
the itaW of the potato crop our amounts generally min-
tier in stating that the disease has not recently increased
with much rapidity, and, as we predicted at an early
part of the season' the result will show • splendid yield this Important article of food. Our Beinteeld corres-
pondent informs us that • few days will now complete
the harvesting of grain In that neighbourhood, and, on
the whole' this will be pretty satisfactorily saved. Any
heating of stacks that occurred have been favoured with
drying intervals, which the farmers were not slow
in °etching. One favourable symptom, he states, in the
potato crop of this year is, that in passing the
bids, the effluvium Is mush less offensive than in for-
mer years. Our Bendalstown correspondent, while
making a lengthened visit in that neighbourhood, was
greatly outlawed, but agreeably disappointed to observe
that not only had ell the wheat, but a eery large portion
of the oat crop, been suety nuked. There were no
standing oats in that Motility, and • few days of Ane
weather would secure the last sheaf. He perceived that
• few farmers who were unable to welled their hay

sooner were busily at work. The present week, our
oorrespondent believes, from all appearanoes, will secure
areal' and hay, and • large quantity of turf, the drying
of which was greatly retarded by the oontinuous rains.
No doubt in that locality there bee been a potato blight,
but in • very mitigated form, which will do very little
injury, eon4dering the large breadth planted and the el.
namely good quality and very great yield. From New.
lownletnavady we learn that the weather in that dietrist
has been very fine during the week ; but, notwithetand.
Mg this, there has been some Increase in the extant of
the potato disease. The correspondence we hare re•
aired from other localities reports favourably of barren
operations, and of the successful prospects of the
fanner.

INUNDATION AND LOU OF LITE —A correspondent
of the Zroesing Mail supplies the following melancholy
results of the extraordinary fall of rain with which that
part of the country wee visited on Friday week
Abbeyfeale, September 18.—Thie place was visited with
an awful flood on Friday evening. About 7 o'clock the •
river Feels began to rise, and soon were seen cooks of
hay, stacks of rata, roofs and doors of hours floating
down the rapid current. The night was closing in, and
apprehensiorui began to be entertained for the beautiful
new bridge whith unites the *aunties of Limerick and ,
Kerry at this place. About 9 o'clock the water had •
risen to within about nine inches of the top, when, al-
most without a sound greater than that of a boat moved
Into the sea across a shingle, the whole struoture, which
wee of limber, gave way, and was carried off. Some
dead bodies were also seen, but the extent of the calamity
multi not be known till this morning, when • report
reached the village that Feale-bridtre, too, was down,
and that in that neighbourhood, two or three miles from
this place, no less than five persons were drowned. On
repairing to the spot, I found the report but too true.
Mr. Roark, clerk to the Rev. Hr. Norman, Mrs. Bailey,
an old lady about 80 years of age, who lived with her
aged husband in • cottage near the bridge—which was
swept away by the foroe of the water—a respectable
fanner, named Denis Connor, a workman named Shee-
han, and a girl, whose name I have not learnt, had all
been carried away by the flood. The bridge itself, one
of the handsomest structure, of the kind, consisting of
a single arch, was safe, but two dry arches in the raised
road leading to it had burst from the accumulation of
hay, ke. carried down, and the scene of desolation
canoed by it was frightful. Large stones were carried
more than a hundred yards over Mr. Norman's farm.
Some acres of the reverend gentleman's land are covered
with the mina of the bridge—large stones, gravel, and
sand—and I understand about ten acres of oats belong.
lug to him, as well as his fences, have all been swept
away. I have heard his lost calculated at at least £l5O.
Mr. Harnett, of hfoynha, has lost in ode and hay more
than double that amount' while many of the farmers
whou lands adjoin the river Peale and it, tributaries,
have loot from three or four to six or eight years' rent.
Thou in the uplands escaped very well. The cause of
this inundation has not been appertained; it came on
most suddenly, and quite unexpectedly. There had
been some rein during the day, and about 4or 5 o'clock
It beanie rather heavy, but not to any great extent.
Some think there must have been • water-spout some•
where among the mountains in the north-western part of
the oclunty Cork, where the river Fula rises—but all
this la conjecture. The oertain facts are, lives have been
lost, bridges and houses thrown down, and many thou•
sand pounds worth of property destroyed. It is said
that in ether pluses theme have been much greeter loam.
But I only spook now of one locality. The county of
Cork was also vlaited with the storm of Friday, fol-
lowed, as in ether plum, by inundations and destrue-
lion of property. •