The Express.
London, England, 1853-06-20 00:00:00

THE- EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, JUNE- 20, 1853

IRELAND.

Denim, Jetta It.
The rumours of changes on the Irish bench which
prevailed in legal circles last week have subsided,
owing to the recovery of Baron Lefroy, who it is now
expected will be able to go circuit. There is, how-
ever, no doubt that that learned judge is anxious to
retire from the labours of office.
The decided and progressive improvement in the
prospects of the Great Industrial Exhibition is a
source of general satisfaction. Each day there is a
perceptible increase in the number of visitors, and
the expected arrival of steamers end railway trains,
with large excursion parties, will have the effect of
very considerably swelling the number. On Thurs-
day the number of admissions was 8,742, yesterday
it was swelled to 9,432, and to-day, although a half-
crown day, the attendance is very numerous. Mili-
tary bands are in attendance three or four times a
week, and on other occasions there are performances
en the great organ, or on some of the grand pianos ;
but although these musical treats may be an attrac-
tion to the Dublin loungers, I doubt whether it can
be an advantage to those who come from a distance,
not to hear music, but to see the Exhibition. The
committee themselves now seem aware of the fact
that the leading manufacture of Ireland—that of
linen—is not adequately represented at the Exhibi-
tion. A letter from Mr. I)eane, the secretary, to
some of the northern manufacturers, plainly ex-
presses that deficiency, and makes it a subject of
some complaint.
The Cambria steamer brought over five hundred
passengers last evening, chiefly from the midland
counties of England, and principally no doubt for
the purpose of visiting our Exhibition. The express
steamer last night also conveyed a considerable num-
ber of visitors, several of whom were foreigners of
distinction. The city is beginning rapidly to fill
with strangers.
The reports of our harvest prospects are just now
of no slight importance, and I rejoice to say that
from all parts of the country they are satisfactory.
If there be any exception it is to be found in the
complaint that there is still a little too much
drought ; and in a report which is mentioned in the
Cork Eratniner, that in some of the western dis-
tricts of South Munster the old disease has manifested
itself in the potato in a slight degree. It is added,
howeeer, that the symptoms vanished after some
rain, and that so far from having excited any alarm,
the extreme slightness of their appearance has been
rather assuring. In Limerick the potato is described
as being in a flourishing condition, and the Leinster
Express gives us an equally ramifying account of the
crop in the midland counties. A Donegal paper
says the potatoes never exhibited a finer appearance,
and from other districts in the north we have a similar
account. The state of the other crops is also spoken
of generally in the most encouraging terms, and our
Irish agricultural reports at this moment may be
epitomised in the following sentence of a letter from
a central locality:—" The crops of every description,
particularly the potato crop, were not for many years
bank in so forward and luxuriant a state at this sea
son of the year as at present, nor with a promise
of so early or such an abundant harvest."

The Northern IVhig,in summing up the week's
agricultural results, says :

Merely judging from a town experience, the fall of rain
since last Friday would appear to have been oonsiderable.
By our agricultural reports, however, of this morning, from
nearly every district of the province, it would seem that,
welcome and useful as the rains of the last fortnight have
been, much more is still required. The complaint is, that
the rain we had has been showery, whereas a copious and
continuous fall would be necessary, such was the parched
and hardened state of the ground. We, however, agai.,
repeat that great and positive good has been produoed
upon all crops by the rain ; that of flax, indeed, has been
saved from utter destruction by it. The shortness of the
growth is still generally complained of.