The Express.
London, England, 1852-09-01 00:00:00

effects of the actual "deluge" which hail come upon i
them, and damages of all kinds to the growing crops •
were much talked of. On the light soils, the super-
abundant moisture was at once admitted to have
%cep very beneficial. but the heavy lands were so
completely saturated with wet, that all working of
ouch land-was put a stop to, and some time would
obviously be required for the recovery of such of it as
was uuder erop. About the lath of June a general
change teak place, the weather became warm, and
from that thee vegetation benne so rapid and luxu-
riant as tollittmet very marked observation. The
pass, which had before the rains tees renteritahly
backward and stinted, became on wet geed leads
"full bottomed," and is the hay districts amend
London a gaod, though late, crop was considered to
be certain. About the 25th of June, and after hay-
making had commenced, the weather for a week or
ten dais again became showery, and much hay was
in consequence stacked in rather indifferent condi-
tion. (limn food became at this time so plentiful that
Its valise to sell fell to about half its ordinary tate.
Store sheep advanced in price and lean cattle also,
bu. not to the same extent as sheep. On strong and
well-farmed land the wheat began to show too much,
Sag, and apprehensions of mischief from too greet
exuberance in the growth of the straw were enter-
tained. Thus early many of the more luxuriant
wheat crops were beaten down, and notwithataad-
log the subsequent hot weather the plant never en-
tirely recovered its upright position. Absence of
sun had up to July been much complained of, and ,1
the general appearance of the growing crops by no,
means justified those extremely sanguine newel
which afterwards for a time prevailed.
The Farmers' Magazine, in reviewing the corn
trade for June, after referring in detail to the state
of the different crops, said, "the prospects for the
farmer cannot be regarded as very encouraging," and
the worst effects on the fortunes of agriculturists
acre predicted as contingent on a bed harvest.
The crops of oats and barley profited from the
rains, perhaps, more than the wheal, and became
almost universally full and vigorous. At this time
potatoes were healthy and generally promising, hav-
ing grown rapidly after the wet weather. In the
latter put of June the wheat in the forward counties
mono into blossom, and in the first week of July
blooming in the south of England became general.
Occasional rumours were heard that the winter beans
bad suffered in some places from blight, but up to
this time little was thought of it. Prices acorn at
this time continued firm, notwithstanding the pro-
mise of an cxtraordivary crop at home, for importa-
tions were light and the stocks of home-grown and
foreign grain were known to be smaller than they
had ken for several years.
A considerable improvement had taken place in
the demand for fat stock, arising partly from the
great consumption going on amongst our well-
employed population, and in part from the rise in
the value of barrel provisions for the Australian
shipping. Pork, too, had become absolutely scsree,
and, as commonly happen. after such an excessive
production of pork as occurred a year or two since,
pig stock has this season been found to be unusually
short. This will soon be corrected, for the rapidity
with which swine may be multiplied, and the facility
with which the old stock may be fatted off, are the
main causes of the fluctuations which constantly
occur in the supplies of pork and bacon. I may add,
too, that the moderate price at which beef and mut-
ton have recently been sold has rendered the humbler
classes less dependent on pig meat and less exclu-
sively bacon eaters than formerly. As proof of the
thoroughly wet character of the period I have just
described, I may mention that, of the twenty-six
days, from the 26th of May to the 20th of June,
both inclusive, there were only two dry days,
namely, the 30th and 31st of May; and the rain was
of that extreme kind which seems to have
been the characteristic feature el all the
changes of the present season. 'The districts
visited by violent hail storms iris Juno
were very numerous, and the damp bas in
many instances was very severe. In the early part
of July still more severe hail stonemeesurred in Berk-
shire, Somersetshire, Hampshire, Glouces-
tershire, Buckinghamshire, Wweestenike, North-
amptonshire, Wiltshire, Oxforehire, Warwishalike,
Nottinghamshire, and Yorksidre. The rasa end-
',lied almost daily until the Nth of law, bat ea the
let sfJuly the weather cleared sod mail the SO*
with the exception of a shop Mew en the
16th, continued dry, with leight denim eon, and
a temperature of extreme brat. 11.. y Ulna of aoa
stroke are reported to havoessonad, wed lep mows
@agent it is sawed that web greet hest has not
within the asesery of living perms less hasten in
this cocatry. The set of this vodka en the Za
crops was —it the wheat rimed as
that Woad era bib harvest amp fano= been I.

calculate on an early, or at hada enrage one.
The blooming season of the whast was conshiseed
to have passed of well, and the pro the GNP
towards maturity hiring July was deseiapY sad
eatishaiwy. The Armors' Mnosiss reported the
isesipt "racy fineseable accounts" of the wheat
Imo en ports el Nagbad. "even from what moy be
formal the pear /Wrists fa and that the übleaming
nesse& had nand of eamashably wells Ades ease
an rail and bay ihnned, sad farther did 'ay low
Woman el light have ben net with.* Ileize•
mho of wheat, nth in pit dweight serf •
was said to be quits equal Is that died 7711
was the period of mast aseguime aaY atioos, is
which I confess I did not oboe to the vacant in
which so manryspicirmaz bream fleressos, and those
who
seeprofa to Ix theme bilged. I did
mot in the y.ripsafag wheat bib that risk
Dolour, either in the straw fee the ear, which
Is too invariable accomplishing of ssa an exuberant
podium as, daring hely, was genially mama
On the contrary, I Annul 'vise anion in
some part of nearly every whist 111 I inipasted,
sod a sort of faded apparanos of the slaw generally
which was anything but gather:eery. The heavy
storm on the 16th, too had bas Ant the strong
anis in a way which pat these oar ono met pro-
mising fields quits in the back ground.
About barley and oats there was less doubt, for
the crops of both attained great perfection. Ties
winter beans by July had everywhere failed, a
seating little man than black lifeless stalks.
in July, there were a few reported cases of blight
and mildew amongst the wheat, chiefly in the fin
districts. At first, the blight discovered to exist in
the wheat was attributed to premature ripening, and
tho rains which occurred daring the first week in
August were regarded by fanners es rather favour-
able than otherwise. But when a second week of
vet weather followed, anxiety and doubt began to
prevail, until now, after a math in which then has
scarcely been an interval of 34 boars without a fall
of rain more or less pleatihd, deopoudenoy as to the
Ewalt of the harvest-has takes posendon of ths agri-
cultural mind. Hops are gni in all the hop-
growing di:suing; and turnips. slower, seeds, and
after-gram are everywhere mast almadant. A further
rise has taken plan in the prises el store cattle sad
sheep, so that in all the lemeediag dieing:lathe present
yaw will give a good retiree to dee farmers on their
live stock.
I have entered thus fully and I. detail into the
course and variations of the preseat amen for the
purpose of showing that the weather hes throughout
boon periodical : at one time dry sad sold, though
without severe feast, for an unusually long time,
then wet, stormy, sad snakes; next, hot, dry, sad
forcing ; and finally, whim the time of honest ar-
rived, the weather has proved broken, ebserery, sad
very unfavourable for in the iron : sad nth
seasons seldom justify the Metal
which were rife daring the weather of July.
Neither es I shall presently show, boo the Wary to
the
as
stops hen es great or so Ginnie, as of
late as ban asserted.
And this anggeratisa el the prospects cl And.
awe st the tea time, sal et the attest af injury at
des other, may he based to the same scarce—that
political blight by which British husbandry has been
afilieted for easily forty years. I allude to protec-
tion, and the istweats and feelings which have
grown out of theinelsWve 'lna. It is the object
gof the PreteeßemGo sad th or in the prase to
keep up sad struegghes the approbserion allow rims
farmers .moral s sod those him ware worked
apes with pest muggy during the nasal elections.
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bomplib—at the sod vim amt liars, Mars I
edmis—iksie lard Deshie vennoak and theie
own bsiplersages wu to be gi
liedi=fitly sweat
to than, by asiarghig dm of the paw
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then
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