The Express.
London, England, 1864-08-02 00:00:00

AGRICULTURAL PROSPECTS.

(From the Mare-lane Express. )

The week opened with a dry and fine day, wind
&W., bet at eight rain threatened. Early on Monday mora-
les some heavy rain fell, but the day cleared up, and it held
dry until 7 p.m., who rain was experienced. • The night
was wet, thermometer 70 deg., barometer 29.85 inches, wind
S.W. Tuesday proved • floe warm day, although there was
not much sun. Oa that day oar &deices from Suffolk
state :—" Nothing new to report of the crops; the com-
plaint& certainly are sot fewer, sod many growers who tee
days ago thought they might have got a fair promise, now
toll us the red gum has made its appearance, middens much
injury." From soother part of the county on the same day,
it was remarked : "We have had &great deal of brilliant sunny
weather, with little or no min. A good shower would be
serviceable." From Norfolk it was said—" The weather
since this day week has hese dry and hot, excepting a few
hours' rain last night. Raley' are represented to be
ripening prematurely." From the West Riding of York-
shire—" Since last week we have had lees !might sunny
weather, but still little rain. The crops of Fain, especially
barley and wheat, have improved matiwially. Root crops
are stal suffering from want of moisture." Wednesday
was a fine warm and sunny day, and harvest work pro-
ceeded rapidly in all the early districts. The accounts
which came to hand were very conflicting, but generally
agreed in the weather having takes a favourable turn—not
so scorching, and slight moisture having fallen in many
districts early in the week, an improvement in appearanee
had been manifested. Oa this day a sample of new Talavera
wheat was shown at Bury St. Edmunds, of a very good
quality ; the price at which it was sold not named. From
Nottinghamshire on that day it was stated :—" During the
past few days the weather has bees cooler, and rain has
fallen. The corn crags are looking healthy, but the root
crops bare suffered severely from want of moisture. The hay
harvest has proved light, and pastures bars bees almost
burnt up." From Berkshire our advice. are more un-
favourable than any :—" We have had bad ac-
counts from the farmers of the growing crops :
severe acres in this neighbourhood have been mown
doers and carted to the manure-yard. Wheat reap-
Mg has commenced, and will be general next week. The
crops on the thin soils will be short, but fair on good deep
lands." Thursday peeved a fine day, with not so mach Nun.
From Suffolk it was reported :—" Oa Monday last we hail
four hours' gentle rain along this coast, bet it did not extend
far ialand. All the wheat crop approaches maturity its &-
Isola are the more apparent, for there is doubtless some goad
reason for croakillihaut as we have to-day commenced cut-
tins on our early we had better defer until Past week
the facts we glean. weather too scorching for the
barley upon our hilly, poor, light lands, but upon
all cool-bottomed soils this pun is ripening Moldy."
Mare inland from the same county it was stated :
We have had partial showers in this dis-
trict ; more rain is much wanted, as the crops on light
Lads are said to be ripening prematurely." The remainder
of the week proved dry and fine. On Fnday, from the West
Riding of Yorkshire :—" We have had splendid weather,
and have two or three fields of oats cut Dear here." From
Surrey, near Declaiming. accounts were very favourable,
stating :—" The largest tenant farmer in this pariah will
have nearly finished cutting his wheat tomorrow ermine ;
and splendid it is, to all appearance. I have been through
a great deal of it this morning. You meat knew that in
this hamlet the fields, which used formerly to be mostly
from ice to tea sores, are now laid open from fifteen to
twenty-four and thirty acres, sad a vast deal more cora has
been grown on the same lead ia coasegesece. The wheat
has ripened off very fast ciao& last Friday : hence the rapid
cutting It appears very probable that, with another week
of such weather, pool prognm will be made with reaping
in all the early districts ; and new wheat will then soon be
offered freely, the first deliveries generally commanding
high prices. As regards the pastures. we seldom recollect
seeing them so brown and burnt-Dp ; there is no prospect
of after-grass, and no bite for the cattle. The provident
farmers an on the qui-rire to secure food for future con-
sumption. Cakes have commanded much attention, and
are advancing. Feedingotuffs generally are run after, and
foreign rye at 100. per stone is attracting attention, as a
cheap substitute, for the beasts. Hay points up Is many
parts of the °matey ; the supplies in the metropolis pro-
vent mach &drapes, but ultimately it must be dear. Nam-
pa& stand their ground better than turnips, the latter
having suffered fearfully. The rain-fell in July has proved
very limited, none hating fallen foe twenty-six days, and
little on the other five.—July 30.

BOILZA EXPLOSION AND LOW OF TWILIT Linn.
At Wiliest 10 &dock on Saturday morning the inhabitable
of Moonley were startled by • load explosion, immediately
followed by a cloud of bricks, dust, steam, and other debris.
The cause was at once ascertained to be the explosion of
one of the boilers in othnexith with the oolhery. The
colliery village of Mooraley, or Low Mooreley, u it is
usually called, is situated about 2; miles east of Learn-
side Junction, on the North Eastern Railway, and fame
two aides of a quare, with the pit belonging to the
North Hellos Cual Caspian in the minim The boilers,
six in number, lie east and west longitudinally, and Sill
ranged aide by aide. Five of the bailors are 30 feet long,
and one—the one which exploded-25 feet lug, of the
ordinary ea in shape. The boiler which exploded was
the third from the south sad, and was, we understand,
entirely overhauled and repaired only • week or two ago,
the other boilers being principally new. It was the cus-
tom at the colliery to keep five of the boilers in use, the
other being kept ta reserve in case of accident, the boiler
to the north of the one which exploded being the spare
on. when the accident took place, which the terminated
so fondly. The village, as we have said before, forms two
skim of a square, with the pit and boilers in the centre,
sad when the boiler burst it was carried io four pines
high rap in the air, and over the tote of the bonus to dis-
tances of 200 to 300 yards. The bricks, broken steam
pipes, mod other debris were mattered in all directions,
damaging every house, some of them to • very great attest,
within a radius of two hundred yards. The two firemen
in attendance on the boilers were killed, and • child witting
in its grandmother's hones, sixty yards from the seat
of the explosion, was killed by a piece of seem
pipe
which came crushing through the root ; several
children who were near the pleas at the time
wen scalded. but none so far as we one ascertain very
seriously. This is most surprising, considering the dose
outignity of the houses and the quantity of nutter which
fell upon them. The houses present an appearance
is if they had been exposed to grape shot for half
an hour, there being hardly • roof which is Dot full of
holes, and hardly • window that has • whole pane of glass
in it. The cause of the explosion has not yet bees aster.
Weed. The boilers, when the explain= took place, wees
working at • preemie of 35tha. per square inch. The
body of one of the firemen wee not discovered until bal-
sams two, and then it was found in • eon field • distance of
200 yards from the seat of the explosion. The boiler lying
to the north of the one which exploded, and also the one
lying to the south, were both lifted entirely out of their
seats and thrown in opposite direction seven or eight yards.
The one to the north was throws violently against the
engine-bocsei, which being of wood it has damaged very
much ' • and the boiler being empty at the time, it has
' almost collapsed. The other doss not appear to be damaged
very muck. —Nnecasek Chronicle.
ACTION= AT TR/ MAHOATI RAILWAY STATION.—
Yesterday afternoon, as the 2.20 train was 'stung the Mar-
gate Dunne of the South Feelers Railway, either the steam
was not properly toned off, or sufficient brake power was
not'applied, as it was pot brought up till it had come into
violent collision with the Ramsgate train, then waiting to be
despatched. The London train counted of about sine
carriages, in addition to the brake van, engine, and tender,
and the Ramagale train counted of one third, the fit, any
one second oLr carriage, in the order we give them, the
third being next to the tender. Is the outer compartmeet
of the third elms carriage wee a woman, the wood and
first class carriages being also partially occupied. Such was
the force of the collision that the first clams was driven
up to the top of the roof of the statics, where it remained,
supported by the awned sad third olasees, formic( • vampish.
pyramid. The balers were broken off the carriages, two of
which were broken to pieces, and the permanent way tors
up for some distance. The woman in the third class cu-
rium was so severely injured about the heed that but slight
hopes/ire entertained of her recovery, her comb and porticos
of her hair being afterwards found among the ruins of the
carriages. Several medical ease were speedily as the spot,
and rendered the assistance possible under the circumehinces.
Two other paseengers were niter severely injured, bat they
were not able to be removed to their homes, the lady above
alluded to being taken to • house es the Lower Marine.
terrace. The railway of vial, and police of the town rem.
dried every assistance to the *and peruse. Kr. Cosbeed,
station-master at Ramage* and Mr. Derby, of the raw
station, were speedily on the spot, and at three o'clock the
sett trais was despatched to Remagete.
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