The Express.
London, England, 1852-08-20 00:00:00

THE HARVEST.

TO THI SUITOR OP THI LITRIESII,

SIR,—I have this day read your leader on the
destruction of corn crops by the late storm. lam a corn
grower myeel4 bet not the largest in the neighbouthooJ.
I immediately went and east:tined my crops closely, and
scores of acres besides, and have not been able to discover
sues destruction as the quotations from the Heralt in
your aricle would have led me to expect. But on the erm-
trary, find the crops both of wheat and oats generally
good and heavy. I congratulated an extensive corn grower
on the abundance and healthy appearance of his crops,
which he at once admitted, but said he had heard that
mildew was very prevalent. Now, I have been through
and examined the wheat on no less than ten farms to-day,
but can detect no such blight, either by disease or storm.
I am very mach inclined to think that a hundred times
more is made of the bugbear than t►e reality will warrant,
feeling confident that for miles round oar own neighbour-
hood the crops are far beyond an average. But in the tone
of nearly all the farmers, I see such an inclination to make
• dark side to every white one.
A TENANT FARMER.
Chesterfield, August 17, 18.52.

THE OLDSWINFORD SHOOTING CASE.—(From our
Correspondent.)—William Woolridge, one of the parties
shot by David Davis, under circumstance, reported in this
paper, on Monday last, lie, in a very precarious state, and
doubts are entertained of his recovery. Mrs. Drentnall is a
little better, and the two other sufferers are going on well.
A subscription is being got up fur the family of Mrs. Par-
doe, who was killed.
A UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE. Music has hitherto
been generally regarded rather in the light of • luxury thin
as one of the prime neeesevries of life; but a Mons. F. Sudre,
propose, to turn it to practical account by making it no less
than a perfect means of international communication—the
dragoman, in short, of all the nations of the earth, just as
Latin was of the medieval saran,. Seeing what take,
place in every frontier country, M. Sudre conceives that
there would be no difficulty in every person learning two
languages—. to maternidle," or that of his mother-country,
and "la gentrak," or the musical language which he
has invented. Of course if this were done, the object
he has in view would et once be accomplished.
His new language professes to be characterised by
great simplicity. It is founded upon the seven
notes of the sale, and no word contains more than four
sounds. It may be played on any instrument, or sung ;or
he note, may be simply named or indicated, d la Mullah;
or the fingers ; so that the system would also be available
for the use of the deaf, the dumb, and the blind. M. Sudre
likewise proposes to substitute, for the cumbrous code, of
signals in use in the army and navy, • code of his own,
founded upon the three sounds 0, C, 0, executed on a
bugle or drum, or represented by anon of different ca-
libre, or indicated on • telegraph. Yesterday he performed
at the Hanover-square Rooms a num',er of expenments be-
fore a large and respectable audience. Various phrases
were propounded to him by ladies and gentlemen present.
He then gave expiration to them in the different modes eau•
merited, and his pupil, Mdlle. Josephine Hugot, instantly
supplied the correct interpretation. The experiments in
telegraphing, or signalling, were particularly striking, and,
whatever may be thought of the larger scheme of the inge-
nious inventor, this at least promise, to be of great utility.
M. Stare and his scholar were exceedingly well received.

THE 00140 N LAW BAK—Before—the commence-
ment of Miehaehitas term neat, many a hundred banisters
hitherto enjoying a moderato share of pretties, will have
been eolopletely removed from the opportunity of competi-
tion with their forensic brethren. Wo allude to the judges
of the emonty courts throughout England and Wales, who,
up to the nt moment, have not been discpalified,
throe& their judicial position, front active practice at the
bar. -Hafer the act, however, jest paned, regulating the
▪ utiso et ethaty courts, it is MO beget eampstest for say
judge of *see smarts to set ss a barrister er vestal pleader,
or to be esaesraed, either directly or hedireedy. es • Oft-
yeruscer, Witter, atesesey, Sr setery. Many of the
judges of the aunty SSW* have keg ego voluntarily
retired from prudes et Ow kw while net • few lave
still 'Mimed he the The MOM iliesass la the
profaeles—akdk Weis hem the otheeeka of Its peens
of them lethwele—see dews to have missed. k wiemer-
ewe meth Meuse of hum 2,0001. to MIK ammthe to
kw lam 11,10111. meat t and many ef ma-
sliewhk muse ham in amerquenee besethe sot
ealy amwfsae ef the polities ef meaty emelt Judie, bat
have them less themeighly seesetelled to the this which
blew them kr weer Seth reeks, et the bar. Not-
the imams' suadme ei theshin of the
bar, to about 2,000, the swap somber
of peaking lmesisters, or barrfst,. laying themselves
out tor ponslise, at the amines kw barp be the last
ten rem. hoe hum gest al, upwards of ths
of wawa ere keeled withia the premium of the
Temple. (heathy that cab thethalf the number
et emusty court jeeps have aseibmed till tke present mo-
ment in emirs rwakies, ear eapieeks that. es an aver-
see, they did wet as each sews Om MI. per annum,
sew Mahe leash auk ammeeft
msWee~ ken thees reepeat
amp be *see wise lam What, 1 te e
with thwa. Ot the 300, at react 165 never task the lam
of atteTsey er dimmtow only ea meek= " few sad far be.
twesa, ' so that he natty there are ark about 160 who ac-
tually enjoy pressisa Of this awake of 160, there are
about 80 whose e. eeraleeps are derived from the defence
of prisoners' either ea *Mit, or at provincial ses-
sions, or at the Central Criminal Court, and not
from their skill in the law of nisi prim, or law proper,
as displayed in the Nisi Pries Court on circuit, or
in the courts of Westminster Hall ; 40, again, may
be said to possess pectin, embracing both the defence of
prisoners and cases at nisi prius ; and this number, added to
the previous 80, makes 120 who are in the enjoyment of very
small practices, averaging from 1001. to 6001. per annum.
The great prizes of the profession, arising from the great
bulk of business of the moot profitable kind, fall into the
' hands of about twenty men; and these are the names daily
scan in the newspaper law reports. Of these twenty, again,
only about ten or twelve are in leading—that is, first-rate '
practice; while the remaining eight or ten are only second-
raters. Sir Fitzroy Kelly, Sir Frederick Thesiger, Sir Alex- I
under Cockburn may be regarded ss the most prominent of,
the former : but it would be invidious to mention any other
name of the number as entitled to greater prominence than
their fellows.

PIABOLIIII.—FIRE AND Loss OP LIFE.—On
Thursday morning at about half-put two o'clock, a fire
broke out in a house in Vauxhall-place, Vauxhall-street,
in the neighbourhood of Sutton Harbour, whereby three
lives were lost. It appears that Mr. Blsgdon, who is a
briekmaker, was at work at some distance, and his wife
went to bed leaving the candle burning. From what we
could learn, it is suppoud that the candle by some acci-
dent set the clothes of the bed on
.fire, which soon
spread over the room. Mrs. Blsgdon and her two children
(a boy and a girl) were in bed together, and when the
policeman went into the room, the woman was lying partly
out of the bed, as if she had made an effort to get out of the
room, and the smoke overcoming her strength, she fell
buck suffocated. The woman is thirty-three years of age,
the boy three years old, and the infant twelve months.
The West of England engine was soon on the spot to
render the seminary assistance in extinguishing the flames,
but we regret to state that it wu more t►an half an hour
after it arrived, before any water could be procured. The
unfortunate sufferers were not much burnt, so that it
would appear that suffocation was the muse of their death.