The Express.
London, England, 1855-07-23 00:00:00

(Flto3l 01:14 OWN COIIIiEspONDZNT)

MALTA, Jur 16.
On Saturday tho St. Vincent transport, Captain
Ycung, arrived from Sordiuia, whit,,ar she hcd gme to
purchase mules. None, however, was to be had th. re, so
her peoi le purchased about fifty good strong hardy Las s
from four to sic years ohi, and trona 14 to 16 himds high,
varying from 101. to 121. each. SJII2C :300 et 400 :wire tryght
be hal from Sardinia at the same terms and of the same de-
reription. The St. Vincent went on the some day, taking
some 120 Maltese, at 2..61 per d sy, for the Land Transport
Corps, and three tuperintenclento, at 4s, each.

Yesterday the Sultan and the Yelrtta (1", nictular and
Cliental Company'a steamers) both arrived, and the Lions's
steamer nom Gibraltar and England; the trans;:ort Lanca-
shire Witch from Balaklava. Today we have had many
arrivals: among them ber Majtaty'a ship 1,,8 zible era route
to England; the Echunga transport, No. 41, from o,l,r,ltar,
with 14G mules and hones, 46 muletctrs end drivers;
and the Bremen steamer, Englis`; transport,Nu. 206, Harm,
Captain L Gurhen, from Baldslava, 3rd inst., with Captain
Braden, let 11yal Regiment; C awl Johnitm, 33rd;
Colonel Saab, A.8.C.; Lieutenant Johnston*, 83:d ; Major
Armstrong, 49th ; Litutenan; Logan, 77th ; Major ViUi‘re,
47th; Major Montgomery, s:h Dragoons; Lieutenant
Kemp, 18th Regiment; Lieutenant Seembey, 18th; Copt.
Gordon, ME.I.C.A.. ; Dior Palk, 7th Regimelat, sarposs
Langley and Brown, Dr. Ilt Sermon ; Dispenser Gleyre ;
Captain Kernshing ; Lieut. Brcaigau ; Major Wrstawcott,
18th ; Col. Hawkins. 206 rern and three woratn of various
regiments.

The Osar sterner is just in from Dalaklays, bringing
Captain Boston, 97th; Captain Dickson, G7th ; Captain
Watson, 69th; Captain blulyneaus, 4th Light Drago, ;
Captain &grave, 140 ; Captain Turner, &tits Fusilier
Guards; Captain Wilkinson, 4.h Dragoon G ils ; Captain
Walker, 3rd Buffs.

JULY 17.

The allowing letter is this dry publibbed for the iaforma•
tics of the public :

"H.B.M.
Consulate, Alcesiba, July 14.
" Sir,—l have the honcur to infirm you that LI. vess,la
arriving at this port Ir,ni the ishar.d of Malta will he sub-
jected to ten days' quarantine.—l Imre the honour,
(Sgutd) "JOsErlt RICHARDS.
In charw, of the Consulate.
" To Sig. R. C. Legh, Act. P. 3. tuGcverr.u.cat,
Blahs."

This is Inspected to bee political 0101,111 TC, to preveet our
obtaining horses, mules, and other necessaries we may
require from Sicily. We have lately had a gnat many vcs-
Itli from Messina, with horses nod snu:es (or the Crimes.
Malta was never more healthy.
We still continue to have a raptd succession of transports
and troops. One day our streets are croward with
Tunisians, the next with Freinh ; but this mr ment thry
hove obtained refreshments and store% they seer if nga:n.
- . .

Two French steamers gime, the 'ellen mica Cris't pie
Colorub, brought 2,200 French 'Alien nA reint-rcement. Iry
the Crimea.

The Oscar, Captain Thatcher, and Europa, Captain
Leitch, leave this day for England, with invalids and
wounded.

DIORAMA OF EVENTS OF TlvilEitseni.VitißA.B—r:Sminonit:::,st,hoyedf.
visit of the Hoye! Family to this dicraina at the Dupery of
Dluetrstro, it has been hneo”re.i by the presence et the
fullowing distingufahed persotr.rs :--lhe Hemditary Grand
DIMINO,* of Meeklenburg &rel.,' and party, attended by
Major Home Durres; the Duke ad Duchess of Beaufort
and party, the Marquis sod Morchinness of Drngherle, Karl
end Countess Forteecue, the Countess cf Darnley, the B rj
Araugh end family, the Tnitish dinhasesdlor &rd party,
LpireniradifOOdtyyet.:lctnrio4ll:Urteduiroanftel:o7loDdeelifetkier:LpOd rtof-7_ _ tent - _ _
Lady Croft and pa
p rty, Lady Garvagh
party, Lady Vane ani
Aanstral Sir George I
purl, Sir Stephen
Talbot and party, Si.
party, the Hon. Captain
party, the Hon. Mar.
Colonels Gooch, Cann.
Butcher, West, Dunne,
Taylor, Manday, W

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ty and par y, lord Georg• flerv‘y,
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TO CORRESPONDENTS.
Abatements intoniod tor ../tai Expraik. Loudon Iwo* mow,
moat to at the Oda% 10, 60,1111.104tf1et. by Two rank ow ilio
day of publication.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Ti;II DST—Morning, 7h. yea Aftsino4ll, Rh. Ur&
Tomosaow—Morning Ob. 43a Afternoos. Rh.l9a.

LONDON, MONDAY, JULY 23.

WitILE we are uneasy and perplexed about our
moral resources in regard to the war we moat not

overlook our advantages of material condition. It is

only elderly people who remember the last war who
can be sufficiently sensible of the blessing of our com-
merce being unembarrassed by the state of our
foreign relations. Having shut up Russia within
her own ports, our ships sail the broad seas of the
world without a thought of danger, and in the nar-
row seas have only pirates to fear in two or three

archipelagos where a little energy on our part would
have made all safe. Free commerce now, also, means

more than it did forty years ago : it means plenty of
food. Our chances of being sufficiently fed under any
kind of pressure are increased a hundred-
fold by the repeal of the corn laws—that
repeal having thrown all the markets of the world into

one for us to buy oorn in, and thrown open our
markets of manufactured goods to the whole world

which has food to sell. Under this change, it really
memo plain that the worst inflictions of a state of
warfare—the worst to us islanders, whose soil is safe
—can never overtake us again. As we now know
that food will always be in the market, at some price
or other, and that buying food is the same thing

(generally speaking) a; selling our manufactures, the
aspect of war is wholly changed to the great majority
of our people.

Last year. however, we were more manifestly thank-
ful for our own fine harvest than for our admission to
the granaries of other lands. The excellence of the
harvest here was a fact presented to all eyes, and re-
quiring no knowledge or thought to apprehend. And
the harvests abroad were so deficient that ours seemed
to be the only good one. Even in the United States,
where deficiency of food is no more dreaded practi-
cally than earthquake or invasion, and much lees
actually feared than the end of the world (the
Latter-day Saints being very numerous there), there
was a general expectation, for many months
of last year, of a serious scarcity of food.
Not only was the harvest bad; but the
same drought which ruined it caused fires,
which a multitude of fanatics in the romantic
West took for the last conflagration. Floods fol-
lowed, and every kind of damage and loss that could
be crowded into a 'tingle season. At the very time
that we were perceiving that we must not rely too
much on certain continental countries, we were told
by the Americans that they had not food enough for
themselves, and could sell us none. At the present
time it appears that the Americans naturally miscal-
culata their resources—new as it was to them to be

in the remotest danger of dearth. There wu plenty
all the time ; and there is a good surplus now. One cause

of the

was that the area of waste and

loss was compared (in a rough way) with the ordinary
amount of production ; whereas, so vast an addition
had been made to the area of cultivation as to falsify
this view completely. Prodigious as was the failure
of crops, the production was not so fearfully below
the average as the observers supposed. This becomes
apparent now,.when the crops are nearly ripe every-
where, and in many of the States actually garnered.
The enormous produce "shows how mach more was
under the plough last year than was imagined. As for
this year, the quantity at liberty for export seems
too prodigious for belief. There are other causes for
this than the favourable season and increased sowing.
Several countries which had depended on the United
States for a supply have arrived at growing plenty for
themselves. lit the first days of the gold finding the
farmers of the Mississippi valley sent corn to California
in great abundance, knowing that our Australian colo-
nies would be glad of any surplus if California should
be overstocked. Now, not only is Australia offering
to export, being ready for a large demand since the
opening of the Murray by steamers, but California

iaadvising the Americans to seed her no more grain
and flour, as she has some of her own to sell, after
supplying her own population. So we can have as
much American flour and grain as we please and
none know bettor than our manufacturing classes that
this is the same thing as saying that good times are
coming for them. Not only will food be cheaper,
but looms and anvils will be busier. Oar products
will be in demand to pay for our imports; and good
trade will accompany abundant food.
But at home our food prospects are excellent too.
We were reasonably apprehensive, to the last mi-
nute, that we should have no hay, and everything
else into and scanty. A few weeks since, hay was
71. a ton, and lean meat was cheap in country places,
because small graziers and farmers could not feed
their cattle, and sold them off their hands. The
winter crops looked irremediably frosted or nipped
with the east wind. Not only was everything a
month or more behind time, but it seemed doubtful
whether any sunshine and west wind would be of
avail. What a change has come over the scene!
Daring the recent hot weather, remarkable for its
heavy night dews, the grass sprang up like tropical
vegetation. It seemed scarcely to require a Fine-ear to
hear it growing ; and now a more than average crop
is housed, except in the northern counties. Even
the wheat will hardly be very late, it ST. SwITIIIN
treats us tenderly, and allows as broad intervals of
sunshine, like those of June. The soil was pules-
wised by the winter frosts in a way which we sighed
far during the series of mild win term that we have
apparently seen the end of; and the nipping
cold of spring has rid us of vermin to an
&Irma unprecedented degree. The fruit already
shows this. When were cherries and strawberries
more "perfect pictures" than this year—free front
slug and other matinees as they are! When did
apples, pears, and plums set more healthily than this
year? And it is just so with our grains. Nothing
can be finer than the sot. To the strong blade has
succeeded the large grain; and it must be bad weather
indeed—such as we have no reason to apprehend—
which will prevent our reaping a bountiful harvest.
The green crops seem to be in a prosperous state;
and as foe the potato, this is the first season for, we
believe, ten years that the latter part of July has
been reached without any sign of the dreaded brown
spot upon the leaf. After the experience d lbene
ten years, it will take long to enable us to believe In
a potato crop before we see it: but so far, the im-
mure* potato area in Ireland, ee well as elsewhere,
looks us well as can be. There is no crop more pro-
Alable• whoa an average or superior yield is obtained;
and we may enjoy it without drawback, now that the
Irish see no longer satisfied with a mere potato diet,
and are able to obtain a better.
On the continent, the romps., el the harvest are
equally good. The French pesgkqp salsring few.