The Express.
London, England, 1855-08-17 00:00:00

THE CROPS.

In the neighbourhood of Bury the sickle and the
scythe are now in active operation in many pexishes ; during
the last few days wheat has been cat by Mr. F. Nunn, at
Fornham, and others. The crops appear in excellent con-
dition, and promise well for yield. Barley will doubtless be
• good crop, though considerably laid.—Bury Post.
Wheat cutting has now fairly commenced, and the
weather bu happily become exceedingly propitious for
harvest operations Though the rain which fell so heavily
a fortnight since did much damage, yet it may be questioned
whether it would not have done much more if it bad come
now instead of then. We believe that the crop will be an
ge one, though the sample will be deteriorated end the
weight lessened because so much of it is laid. Farmen are
beginning anxiously to ask how they may strengthen the
straw so as to make it stand against a heavy shower. As a
general rule, farm-yard and ammoniaal manures produce
long weak straw, while bone manure and the nitrates make
it short but hardy. The cone wheat stands remarkably
well. There is some re-appearance of disease in the potato.

Worcestershire Chronicle.
Reaping has already commenced ironed Sherborne, at
Weyntoeth, and in other parts of our district. From all
we have heard and seen there is co room to complain either
of the condition or of the quantity of the crop ; but the
yield is a question which can n be accurately deter-
mined till alter thrashing. A great cry of ' potato
disease l" has been raised. We behove that this will be
found to have had its origin in some electrical disturbance
on a single Light, and that the extant of the mischief is, the
withering of some of the stalks, and the consequent
dwarfing of the bulbs ; bat at present the tubers are found
to be sound, and the favourable weather that now happily
prevails will no doubt check any tendency to rottenness in
the roots.—Sherborne Journal.

STRANGE SCENE ON THE

EXCHANGE.

—Om Wednesday evening, Mr. Alfred Yates Carr, 111. H,
of Manchester, the gentleman who applied for a warrant
recently at Liverpool against the captain of the James
Baines, emigrant ship, for placing him in irons on the
homeward voyage from Australis, canoed a novel sensation
by going upon the Beetling, and reading what he sailed a
" proclamation," accusing a near relative of murder, and
Mr. Ruttar, coroner for the county, of high treason. Having
done this, he threw down his glove, which of course no one
was bold enough to take up, save one of the porters, who had
no fear of a duel before his eyes. About midnight Mr.
Carr was found by the police kicking at a door
in Rushohne, and armed with two pistols, which he
presented at the officers, ordering them to stand off. The
policemen, suspecting that the gentleman's mind was
disordered, used soothing words, and having assured him.
in answer to his questions, that measure. had been taken to
bring the coroner and his relative to justice, he discharged
the pistols in the sir, and accompanied them to the police.
office. He was yesterday brought before Mr. Trefford, the
magistrate, at Salford, in a state of mind very painful to
winless, and oessmitted to the Prestwich haying' as a
wandering sad dangerous monads.