The Express.
London, England, 1855-12-13 00:00:00

THE SCOTTISH AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS
FOR 1855.

Yersterdtee Scotsman contains the Scottish Agri-
Guttural Smuttier for the year and crop of 1855, &wig
the nature and 'menet of this year's prance of gnat
every sere of Scottish land.
It appears that while, as compared with lut year the
number of acres under cereal crops bat slightly inereiesd,
the production has decreased about eleven par cut. Sat
even that fast (says the Seaman) is insigoificaat conpued
with the ocarmatory evidence derived Iron this yeses
tables, that those estimates of the agricalteral probes ht
Scotland, and, at lout inferentially, those for leaked
alto, formerly in mammon acceptance, were prey now*
doable Me fact as new erecertanted. The follow*
figures show the grain produce of Scotland se
estimated in " Id'Calloeh's Commercial Dictionary," MI
other works of authority, and Mended oe mamma is wry
written and oral debates, and the actual grander as owe
tained in each locality for this and lut year, stated ia
quarters :
FORMER ESTIMIaII. ABCIR!AWID.

iss'T— —l-f:so:

Qrs. ...... —.
Qrs. Gin
Wheat
Baslory
Oats
Naas sad Pen

9.675,000 6,927,917 6,901,719
To this degrease of 626,638 quarters in the yeses mew
has to be added a cousiderable, but unucertainable
cleney in the mei& of this year's crop as Gemara eilk
lest. Remembering, however, that last year's was a der
above the average eves in acreage, and very greatly geese
in yield per sere, the decrease above shows meet le
regarded as very great, apeci"lly when we take iste se
count that there is no decrease, but a very eessiderabh
increase, in wheat, each quarter of which reprisals,
value, and almost in utility, two quarters of say of the ethergrains. If the produce of England has been affected oily
loth" Nita proportion. and if it be admitted that the pm
dues of last year the Three Knagdotne over was considers*
above an average, the present high prises are dilealtle
amount for by any decline is the supply. What
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returns shall ham been procured for Mislead, it will ed
improbably be foetid that we have been eatimatim
tM
consumption of the whole country at not greatly lea Ms
double the fact, so that we have been much more tam we
thought dependent on foreign supplies aid effected by le
retire prices.
Tomips and potatoes show a considerable iammes
acreage, and the latter an increase in estimated predate If
nearly 200.000 tom or about 30 per mat. Coesideringdi
extent to which potatoes coon in as a substitute for aver is
times of dearness, the great increase in this crop might bral
been expected to held prices at a lower level. We Weal
from the tables the average produce per acre of each kinds!
crop in Scotland in 1855. The grain crops we state is
bushels and peeks per acre :
Wheat. Barley. Oats. Ben. Beans and Pea
B. P. B. P. B.P. B.P. B.P.
26 2 32 3 32 Of 32 lb 27 21
The root crops are stated in tons and cwt.:
Tunics. Potatoes.
T. C. T. C.
14 7f 4 WI
The differences between different counties sad disUists it
in some mess apparently very grant—for Mame% Ps
produce of wheat per acre is 34 bushels in fistbalsedlioi
only 22 in Reentries; but, on closer scrstial, lb*
if
femme* are toned to be more apparent than Mao ...di
the inordinately large yields bolo" explainable
that they refer to crops, such as wheat in the U
meatier, cultivated only on choice spots and m &
rather of fancy than of business.

THE STRIKE IN LANCASHIRE.—Twenty MIAOW
each of whom acts as a chairman for his fellow. wartime. Mil
published a letter, Netting forth the good diets ofd
socistion which has been in existence for Woes yells
the carpet trade, its operetiNt extending frnos the Mit,
Scotland to the Midland Counties of Ragland. As SW'
IC
meeting is held in some central town; to .1. the
men of each manufactory end a delegate, es that of
grievant* eziatiog in the trade may be ken en st seer Pt
the masters and all the men. Sufficient scdeja
given that the annual meeting will take Pita; tts
of the muter, generally attend, end • delegate Is scli:
the wasven of each firm. The result of the pill istbs_la
the last fifteen years the delegates have onll orl.aP"Fli
with dissatisfaction, and upon that occasion ebey P./
mestere to reconsider their verdict. Tim mitten=
dietely held another weeds", and arranged the
point to the satisLetion of both parties " PermiteM
fore," exclaim the intelligent mechanics referred
.1
urge upon the masters and workmen of that
scant y (Lancashire) at once to adopt some board Wilt,
mos similar to the base described, and natio Mt,
themselves In the eye. of all Christendom by ptwo,"6l1tt
1.,..
a eanteet is which one side insanely eonmsplelns
et their employer,, and the other side papoose the
tics of the employed."
EXTENSION OP THE NEW AcT ON BILLS 01
CHAXOI.—Tbs new act en bills of inching@ is to be _a,
to the Hingstoa-rapes Hull Court. on the 23rd MOO."'
all the forms and rules made in pursuance of the gems
NEW ACT ON PLEADINO&—BI to
•Ili wklob
enalateuagly etwatiewinjutodesoper:ititohne,stuhpee seriterofotheuttiltssl,.....4l.4tb6o
silopll.
Ems la the forma of pleadings, has been ezteadel kr
pan.

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