The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-09-03 00:00:00

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From many parts of Ireland, the most gloomy
anticipations are formed concerning the crops. The
Northern WI is says :—" It is imOomads he elallethe the
lOW ingleted by each day's rain; every symptom of •
chance is welcomed with eager anxiety. for the fate of
our harvest this year is trembliax in the halauce, hot
the splendid promise of the early simian is eats. he
fedillted." In the neighbourhood of Derry, the total
dritroetion of property is ealoulated at not lees than
210.000, many of the small tarsiers having lost their
crops. From the South and West the acoonete are
equally alarming. A Wexford paper says Every.
where winter Appian to be upon as, the sky wears coo-
Moodie a leaden mood, the lands are flooded, and the
too 'sides are filled with the sere and yellow leaf." In
Wexford and Carlow ootnitioa, remarkable for their
good tillage, the sem,' have ripened ratty, sod have
been toierebly well savrd. But in Tipperary • large
portiee of the grain crop ia still milli for the sickle. A
writer says that if an efficient system of draisep was
adopted, the frequently dissatious effects of the moist
and variable climate of Ireland would he prevented.
Ti, La= or Dossinsoos FAIL—Alta all the
efforts that have been tried to extineni.la this long-
standing nuisance., a remnant of it still exist& It Is
merely a mow* to be sure, but still there is quite
enough ef it to give annoyanee to the respectable in-
habitants at the aSlghbo,lrllOO4. and to show that the
old spirit still lives to bOta• extent at least Ott Sunday
there wens ambers ie the vicinity of "the Green,"
but, of coarse, few in compoison to the crowds that
used to assemble two or three years men. Monday
there yr a small crowd of idle's throsighoot the der,
and increased numbers of inechanien and labourers in
the evening; bat up to eight o'clock there were net
more than perhaps Are or air hen.lred people. The
enclosure known as " field." however, Iraq
epawded—" meters° rounds, maing-boote, and such
like umehises mare pretty folly osscapied, and the minor
apparatus of fetrismoo gamblers wee steadily kept
going. Whiskey teats were erected, but did net
appear to have hese ercapiel, though the lebho houses
man fell and noisy. There was no disorder, and only
soeuparatively few 0041144 Med were oo the ground.
There is 11“ U doubt that this will prove to be the last
&universe?, of Donnybrook Fair. A horse fair was
held on Moeday morning, the market coonalsting of
about BE bones, and It is said the demand was
I gond-
M CIAMMOLT 000171118N011 IN DUBLIN BAIN-4kt
Wednesday moreisa, between riz an I seven &Week, •
bins vessel, celled the Gold Beam, the property of
Mr. Kelly. of Binpiown, while sailing for Howth,
heavily .laelen with herrings, went down in meves
fathoms. The hands oo hoard, consisting of eight men,
haring for eon» time struggled in the water, had at last
to yield to inexorable fate, with the exorptioo of two,
one of 'whom haring by an almost superhuman effort
held op the other for about an hoer tin they were taken
cm board another craft quite exhausted. Four of the
poor (allows who were drowned were named Byrne, and
were members of one Tamily.