The Express.
London, England, 1852-08-17 00:00:00

was is slunk; at addition to ti.e increased damage from
blight fis.d ridden, the berries in the wheat tar are
sprositisig ; its the early part of the wick, between the
show. the stall 110.1 v wrh great tardliailey and lower,
imrea-it.g the him, lets, sulfi,iently to induce the
comet. f.. t till tat of v. ge:ati.n, which the subs. fluent
moisture has encouraged. In same districts there is a
lug.• qientity of barley in swartn, which malt receive
damage Irani the. continuous rain : this is the beat
crop of our t. this •eauet, but we fear the quality
mot Au% he coarse; much mischief was done to this crop
is the neighbourhot d of Wheatley and Cuildesden by the
had storm of the VII instant ; the barley being ripe, and
the haileitenes abuts the size of cherries, it had the
'Met of threshing out a quantity which, we heard, was
estimated at three quarter to the acre, nee., the crop was
goad. 'lhe us; crop is next in hulk to the barley, but it
has kern ;domed all laid by the tempeduaus weather. We iih.
served on Tu. slay many parties t Mini: up Pule field pota-
toes; the haulm WAS in every Owens. .I.cayed, but the
tubers not generally diseased ; the loss in the crop will be
caused by the SMAilllrsl of the potatoes. which are gene-
rally about the sine of a walnut with the shell on; they are
very watery, deficient of the farinaceous property, and the
general °pm:on of the cultivators was that they would not
keep. Ihe other rent crop. promise en abundance, and in
the me alum. and uplands there will be a very large quan-
tity of afterieed. We cannot elem.^ this report without re-
ps &sing a hope that the cultivatien of the potato will no
longer be depended upon so a principal crop. but that atten-
tion will he given to the man' general growth uf carrots,
parsnips, and suck other vegetalil. s as msy be made a sub-
stitute for it in a firnilv.—lteleiril Journal.
Tit e eritoroht VAN Coe:cell:a.— l'he weather during
the past week La• heeu highly discouraging to the prospects
of the fanner; s.ueeession of showers and wind storms has
prevail, .1. On Wednesday, the storm was so severe during
the day as to follh• a pretty general insp. anion of the
labour, and at night to lay prostrate the greater portion of
sheave.; so powerful, indeed, was the wind in some plates ,
as to carry away the sheaves a long distance from the field.
On Thursday, the weather was equally boisterous, and the
glass rt MOM very low. The difficulties of the harvest field
added to the hoses created by blight, deprives the husband-
Ulan of those advantages which at one time lay before him,
and should the weather continue for any lengthened period
as it has het u during the las! few days, the Maws will in-
deed be eery severely felt by ell. Nearly all the seed crops
are qui r ready for rutting, and the present further sus-
pension is in, remising the difficulties which have already
arisen tram the shortnes of hands. (MOT, coast it has blown
a perfect hurricane from the south-west, which hasscattered
the abeam s about in all directions, end has blown out the
gr -in to such au extent that in many districts it might be
swept up by shoyelsfal. The rain has fallen so heavily as
perfectly to setutate the earn lying on the ground, and the
damage done is perfectly frightful. A fine harvest has been
in a few days destroyed. Never a heavy crop, the quality
is now dreadfully deterintated, and the quantity reduced
far below an average. In the parishes round Lewes, and
especially those between Lewes and the coast, the damage
is perfectly awful. Whole ti.loll of barley are blown out,
and the MIDST,' hope. perfectly destroyed. There is no
mistake as to the fearful result of Wednesday's and Thurs-
day's storm. From a mass of communications, we select the
following Ocodiemati, Aeuest I':.—The continuous and
heavy 'WAS of the past week have seriously checked field
operation. is this n. ighhourhood, sod have otherwise da-
maged a promising harvest. It is feared that the
wheat crop will be especially injured. WIALD Or KENT
(00VIWICAST), AVOUST 12.-1 am sorry ha report that
the wheat is not so good as anticipated. KNOtalloLT,
ArGriT 12. —'the potato blight is staking sad ravages in
tit a and surrounding villages; this stalks, in many instances,
being completely decayed, and in some places emitting a
most offensive odour. The heavy rains of the last few days
will, in all probability, add to its virulence. BiIIoHTLINO,
At o. 12 —Our whims are considerably blighted, and parti-
cularly the White. WALIMOM, Aro. 12.—The wheat is
Ruh blown out of the ear, and blighted on some grounds.
)latrirtii. Atte. 12.—Our oats and wheats feel the high
winds and heavy raise must severely • the sheave', sic. are
blown US all directions—in short, they are half threshed.
Minot rat.—The storm, amounting almost to a hurriaine,
with which we were vi-ited throughout nearly the whole
of Wednesday last, has been in every direction around us,
most disas-rous in its effects. Tiles and chinicey.pots,
trees and barns blown down, are, we are sorry to hear,
but trifles when compared with the damage actually
dune in the harvest held.. The wheat harvest has very
generally consmencrd in this district, but we are sorry to ob-
serve that the accounts respecting its produce &ivied indeed,
the blight hiving mule dreadful havoc with it. The p'a and
bean crop is spoken et as a decided kilt' re,a nd we fear we shall
have to report also of the general prevalence of the potato
disease ; the b walla at present is affected very much in some
places without the potato itself In Mg touched, hat how long
this maw continue to be the case is the rub. BittOMTON.
Ace, 12.—The corn is considerably blighted, and very
Motel), imbedded in the chaff. After going through a eon-
lidersble quantity of corn this morning, 1 have core to
the conclusion that there is about from am to eight bushels
of wheat blows nut per acre, but the reapers, I find, eon-
IWitf the quantity as much more. The greater potties of !
the wheat is dead rip., and in most places they are usman-
ally abort of hands. As to the oats and barley this loss must
be very great, but they are not so
the
riper the
wheat. The reports of the yield of t potatoes are worse
(v.ough with very few decayed ones) than they have been
sire the first year of the blight. A few weer back all
was promising well, and the farmers were looking forward
to a bountiful crop, and by that means were in hopes of
ribbing through another year, hoping to obtain from the
Isgislstro• (which must come) some compensation for the
dead folds ry that has been committed on the agriculturist.
This day (August 13) was liner, although cloudy, up to 5
o'clock, wit en it commenced at Lewes raining in torrents.—
&tams Express.