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

THE CROPS.

We are informed that the maggot, as referred to by on last week,
has, in some districts, considerably shortened the crop of wheat..
Whet remaina however, will be excellent in quality. That which the
in-tvt touched it has totally destroyed; the rest is uninjured. hot.
withstanding the drawback mentioned, the yi id is likely to be much
larger then was anticipated to the .pring, and In some places it would
be bully an average, il not more. The burley, especially on the strong
ground.% hes been much beaten down with the wet. Bogie blieht has
been charmed at various place. in the potato haulm ; but this does
net as yet appear to be very extensive. It baa, r, generally
been found to spread rapidly alter its appeerance. In another week
or two It will goat likely be ascertained to what extent the main erop
may be affected.—South Eastern Gazette.
Op to the present time we believe 1.0 various mischief has been tone
to the grope, but Ihe time has arrived when genuine harvest
weather is most desirable, and when the continued absence of hot
suns and a dry atmosphere will materially injure the quality of the
gram lhe reports of the potato bight arc, we regret to say, de2idedly
on the Menses, leering no doubt that this huh:nous enemy is at work
and leading to the calcimine that the iseent wet weather has tended
toils extension more rapidly than might oth rube have been the
atm.—Seam Adrert

Hove.—aa a criterion of the probable duty on hops for MS, world.
tag nothing inaterlallv abould ae:ur to cheek their present lusurlant
growth, we glee the following table. It may owlet end operate aa a
caution to many of our friend* who speculate largely as the hop duty,
taking ono oirmideration the greater:rare of acne now In plant.
Growth per
Tear. Acres in acre. Old

lia;t7 ea. Duty.
1805
1424

I'4o
bo. of cwt per WW mulles
WPM NT& Duty.
1653
.. 2, 11 IA ......
10 I3i
—deotisA GosrUs.

GREAT INDIAN PENINSULAR RAILWAY.—The
Rust India Company have Iv/tidied to the Great Indian
Peniseslar Ratlwey that 5 per sent. will be allowed
oo the 100,000 ahem of 51. each os which 11. is paid. The
proprietors are to have the option of paying them op in
fall, and also those on which 2/. has been paid. It is
/wooded to convert the whole of the sham of this under
taking into a (moth pert of their number, by making them
201. each. The passenger Wet of the line, it ill said, con
house to exceed expectation.
A SIM ABANDONED AT SILL—QUEENSTOWN,
Atterre'r 6.—Tbe Brodreoe (Norwegian ship), from Caraiffl
to
eft
1, with coals, was fallen in with, when teal
days eel, about 180 miles W. by 8. of Caps Clear, Malty,'
sod with roddeg roe, sad her mew were token odor tbs
Assam, Notre'', which km pat ia hat.

SHIPPING INTBLLIGENCa
LIVIAPOOL ilzrza AT FOARIGN P 01711.--
Blue Jacket, Salem, and Ultonia, at Ke:ouurae; N13171:11.11.
at Puerto Cabello • Astriloger (se.), asel Lioaess (r.), at
Constantinople ; Oid England, Kepi. Lea, sad Teo/trigs
(es.), at Smyrna; Cumberland, at Corfu; S. Pietro, at
Malta; Csl,so (se), Naples; Esk, and Presid,ot, at
Dada ; Alphosine foam's, at Barcelona; Earl ofeaniek
(a), Arabia (L), and City of Aberdeen jai.), at Gibraltar;
Dist. at Palma; Bllids, at Daatzta ; Elizabeth, at Shinn.
sande