The Express.
London, England, 1848-07-17 00:00:00

THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS.

Many of the beat journals now chronicle the ap-
pearance of the crops and the state of the weather in their
various localities. These accounts will be read with inte-
rest as afforiing some indication of the prospects of the har-
vest : . . . .

BEHILSHIRE.—The sudden change which has taken place
in the weather during the last week has been of the most
cater giro benefit to the agriculturist, and enabled hi n to
proceed with carrying his hay in tolerable condition. The
wheat is fast ripening under such favourable auspices, and
the increased value a week of such brilliant sunshine adds to
the crop, and consequently to the wealth of the country, is
almost iucaloulable, besides its advantage in bringing har-
vest-time leeward. There are as usual very conflicting
accounts as to the probable yield, and even the best authori-
ties differ: some pronounce it to be far below, others a fair
average one. We are inclined to believe that it will be •
fair crop, and, if the present weather holds, of excellent qua-
lity. There are few complaints of summer cora, but the
crop of barley is not equal to that of last year. Reaping is
expected to commence on the forward land in this neigh-
bourhood in a week, but this must of course depend upon
the weather which may intervene.—Berkshire Chronicle.
CORNWALL.—A sample of new barley, says the {Veal
Briton, was exhibited at Truro market on Wednesday last,
and a field of oats has been cut near li,nwyn Chords, be-
longing to Mr. Cradock.
OTTINGHAMBIIIRE.—The Notting/lam Journal states
that the weather still continues propitious, and heavy crops
are expected. The hay harvest is almost over, and good
supplies will be laid in for the winter. Wheat looks healthy
and strong, the heads being large and full, and the reeds tall
and firm. Barley and Oats have sprung up amazingly, and
look very heavy. The turnip crops are expected to be fine
in proportion as they were bad last year. The-potato plant
looks healthy. .110! - ir!1.2111
WARWICKSII/11.E.—The harvest prospect, up to the pre-
sent timras delightful as can be desired throughout the
whole dict. During the last few days we have had a
good deal of rain, which rather retarded the hay-cutting;
but the weather is again exceedingly fine, and a few days,
if not hours, of such sunshine will enable the farmers to save
all. The potato crop, respecting which much anxiety was
beginning to be felt, is also going on well. The wheat har-
vest is also promising, and the fields throughout the entire
county are luxuriant.
SCOTIAND.—The Edinburgh Witness says : The cold and
ungenial weather which far none time prevailed gave way
on Sunday, and was succeeded by an increase of tempera-
ture and by an atmosphere more deliciously blandand balmy

than we have had since May. Sudden fluctuations in the
barometer, however, indicate n•settled weather, and it is
possible the interval of drought will be of short duration.
It is difficult to add anything to our report of last week re-
garding the appearance et the crops. If an excep-
tion were to be made from • prospect as uni-
versally favourable as we ever remember, it might
be in regard to barley, which, when it is minutely examined,
seems, in numerous instances, thinner on the ground than
usual, and certain!y thinner than wheat and oats. There
seems to have been no recent failure amongst the potatoes.
Turnips are spreading out rapidly, and so great has been
their progress that en many farms difficulty has been ex•
perienced in obtaiaing a sufficient number of hands to single
them out. Much of the bay crop is cut and secured in good
condition. The second crop is aiming forward with great
luxuriance, and shows an unusual quantity of clover.
MID.LOTIIIAN.—The North British Mail ssys:—Since
the refreshing showers of last were, the crops of every
description have improved in a remarkable manner. Tao
wheat has improved, even in those patches which were al-
luded to last week, beyond all expectation. The stunted
and unpromising parts of fields have taken on them a
more vigorous growth; and even that "badly-rusted"
field we named is looking more healthy, and with a fa
better promise in the yield. The winter-sown is still in
flower, but the spring-sown has come out to ear rather back-
ward. Barley and oats are in luxuriant YiNOLIT, promising
abundance of straw and no lack of grain. Barley is well in tar.
The potato crop seldom or never presented • better or a
more promising aspect. There is, in fact, every prospect of
an extensive, an abuniant, and an excellent quality crop
this year. 'The turnip crop promises well also ; thinning is
proceeding rapidly. Some farmers we know have very judi-
ciously repeated their custom this season of ploughing up
their grass-sown land, after taking off their hay crop, and
laying it down immediately with turnips, instead of taking
the after.growth f grass. This is a good practice, for they
not only improve their land by the additional ploughing,
but enrich it, and secure a second and more profitable crop;
besides being enabled to clean their land for • wheat crop
next year, if they prefer it, which, in the ordinary course,
would have been oats.
iRELAND.—Since last we (Dublin Mail) touched upon
those themes, the weather has undergone • most beneficent
change. The high and cold winds have given way to warm
and gentle zephyrs; and the atmosphere, surcharged with
moisture, has become dry and genial. Since Monday morn-
ing the temperature has been most propitious to vegetation,
to the filling of the grain moor, and the growth of the
potato; and the gradual ascent of the mercury in the baro-
meter, together with the profuse dews which, in the evening,
refresh the soil parched with the fervour of the mid-day
sun. proirriosticates a long continuance of this blessed wea-
ther. After so lengthened a succession of rain and storm
preceding the rainy season, it is to be presumed that St.
Swithen, exhausted of his watery elements, will lack his
usual supplies of moisture, and will forward the hopes of the
husbandman by hastening the proeress of the crop towards
productiveness and maturity.

IRELAND.
TRUE BILLS AGAINST MR. MEAGHER.

DUBLIN, JULY 16
Yesterday true bills were found against this
gentleman by the Limerick grand jury. Mr.
Bennett asked whether he was prepared to take his
trial. This, however, was contingent on the form
of the indictment, of which Sir C. O'Loghlen, one of
Mr. Meagher's counsel, demanded a copy—Mr.
Butt is the leader. At one o'clock today, Mr.
Meagher stated he would either plead or traverse.
If he should adopt the timer course, the trial
will be placed at the bottom of the, criminal list, and
come on probably on Wednesday or Thursday. From
the loose manner in which the police take notes, and
the difficulty of fixing the exact language of a speaker
at open air meetings where the transcriber is not a
professional reporter, it is not unlikely that Mr.
Meagher may be acquitted.
A long statement connected with the arrest of Mr.
Doheny and the charge against him appears in the
Tipperary Vindicator. We learn from it that Mr.
Doheny is anxious to repudiate the idea that he con-
templates a republic in Ireland—on the contrary, we
are told he denounced the notion in the speech
which is charged as seditious. We are also assured
that, and the fact does not say much for his fecundity
in eloquence, " he has made the same speech on two
occasions, when government reporters were present,
and was not molested on account of it." It is added,
sy way of corroboration, that the policeman will not
swear positively to the words used. However cautious
Mr. Doheny may be and he is the shrewdest—far
the shrewdest—of his party, it is not impossible he
may have indulged some little enthusiasm extra,
perceiving that no short-hand writer was present to
record the eloquence. Mr. Doheny was to have
attended a meeting of several parishes at Slievena
'1 mon mountain to-morrow, but as he is yet in
daresse, he will probably forfeit his recognisance to
the " Tipperary boys " in that quarter of the country.
There is an odd discussion between the Castle and
I the Repeal press, touching the simple matter of fact
whether the grand jury of Wicklow did or did not
ignore bills sent up against Messrs. Magee and Holly-
wood. On this subject there appears in the Evening
Post the following letter :

TO THE EDiTOI OF ITIE DIYISLIN EVISITNO MST.

95, Upper Gloucester-street, 15th July, reference to
an article appearing in some of the Dalin nesmpapers, with respect
to the ignoring of bale of indictment against Mears. Magee and
Hollywood, by the grand jury, at the last assizes for the county of
Wicklow, I beg to state that no bids of Indictment were preferred
against those gentlemen, and consequently could not have been
ignored.-1 am sir, your obedient servant, Joni( 5111snom, Clerk
Crown, County Widdow.
The Nation and Felon have appeared to-day—the
Tribune standing over until Wednesday or Saturday,
in consequence of incomplete arrangements. I have
seen them offered for sale and purchased in the pre-
' sence and without the interference of the police. he
Nation leads with an article on the clubs by Mr.
Duffy—dated Neu gate—and the very strong senti-
ments of Mr. Duffy are backed up in another leader
by Mr. Magee. Should the government attempt to
put down the clubs by any existing or future legisla-
tion, Mr. Duffy recommends a provisional council of
all the chiet officers, and to resist, if necessary, with
ands. Messrs. Martin and Reilly address the Earl
of Clarendon in the Felon. Mr. Reilly concluding as
usual with an immortal hatred.—A notice has been
served by the police at the residences of all the news-
venders in Dublin, cautioning them against the sale
of any felonious or seditious papers such offenders
will render themselves liable to prosecution. This
caution will check the sale of the Felon and Tribune,
which are now being worked up in their respective
offices in expectation of a large sale on Saturday.
The Waterford men are growing "fast and furious."
They are all running helter-skelter into the Wolfe
Tone and other clubs. As many as 700 were enrolled
on Thursday night,aad it was not until the secretary
got a temporary paralysis of the fingers that the in-
scription ceased.
The only place in the north where a collision be-
tween the Orangemen and repealers was feared is
Castlenellan, county Down. There is an eminence
outside the town on which the deputy-master de-
clared his men would hoist the flag of Antrim. The
repealers declared he and they should not—and, true
to their word, the repealera entrenched themselves on
the summit on the morning of the 12th, all armed, and
counting some 6,000 men. No attempt was made to
dislodge them. A military force was at hand to pre-
vent collision.
The New York correspondent of a northern paper
has a curious piece of intelligence—that the secret
committee is contriving means for tbe release of Mr.
Mitchel, but the exact nature of the agency is not
known. It appears, however, that a fleet of fast-sail-
ing schooners is being fitted out with an experienced
officer at the head of the expedition. One division is
said to have actually sailed in the last week of June,
commanded by Richard T. O'Connor, of the Irish
Volunteer. Another is ready for the beginning of
July, under Messrs. Robert Emmett and J. Tyler.
The committee of the Repeal Association have
again confirmed, by their resolutions, the " peaceful
and constitutional" doctrine, and postponed to an in-
definite period the extinction of the main body. The
committee of the League, on the other hand, are de-
termined to go on briskly. There will be another
meeting on Wednesday to deliberate generally as
well as to provide means of defence for the incarce-
rated, to which the country is invited to contribute.
It has been stated that the government has resolved
to suppress tbe clubs. This is the day of meeting ;
and, should any active suppression take place, I will
send you intelligence specially.

THE SLIGO ELECTION.—Tke poll opened cesterday
morning. At three o'clock the numbers were—Somers, 93 ;
Bartley, 82; Ball, 80. An express received in town this
afternoon states that Mr. Somers was returned.
CLUB OROBNLIATION IN TIPPEHART.—The government
have sent down Mr. Gore Jones, an experienced sti;en-
diary magistrate, to take Owned' Carrick-on-Sur district,
where the club organisation has become formidable. It must
be gratifying to the friends of order to know that Mr.
Ilarneberry and Mr. Power, cathol,c priests in the vicinity,
denounce the system. The Rev. Mr. Ryan, of Cashel, has
also publicly cmodemned it.
Mcnosa or td.troa MAHON.—Patrick Hasty, indicted
at Roscommon for conspiracy to murder Major Mahon, has
been found guilty. The origination of the plan to murder
the unhappy gentleman was clearly traced to the prisoner.
There were eleven Roman catbolico on the jury. The pri-
soner challenged twenty jurors ; the Crown, two.
MEEDER or THE REV. Me. LLOTIL—At the same assizes
Owen Benue was convicted of the murder of Mr. Lloyd.