The Express.
London, England, 1847-08-17 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

THIS DAY, Four o'Clock.
EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

The letters of our Paris correspondent of yesterday
base reached us by extraordinary express. There is
so French news of general interest. The Prince de
Joinville was expected hourly in Paris from Toulouse,
whence he had departed on the I Ith. The apart-
ments of the palace at Compiegne were in prepara-
tion for the royal family, who are to peas some time
there. The troops were to have been encamped there
on Sunday. Yesterday, being the Monday of the
Assumption, the publication of several of the journals
was suspended. A large portion of those which
appeared was filled with reports of, and comments
on, the English elections.

Letters received from Berne, of the 12th, my that
Mr. Peel, the English minister, had an audience of
President Ochbensein on that day, at which he read
to the latter a despatch received from Lord Pal-
merston, which is represented to be written in the
most friendly spirit towards the federal government,
and in which, among other things, it is avowed
that England will oppose any intervention directed
to paralize the legal action of the Diet.
it is added in this letter that the prevalent
opinion in Switzerland is, that a pacific issue of the
existing difference is now impossible, considering that
in forty-eight hours the minority pretending to resist
the decisions of the Diet have raised sixty thousand
men, and that consiiemble financial resources are at
their disposal.

Hamburg papers of the 13th inst., supply us with
some further particulars of the hostile operations of
the Russians in the Caucasus.
Accounts last received speak of the military opera-
tions in Deghestan, of the cordon of Leighi, and of
Tschetschnia. An expedition set out on the 20th June
from Gergebil to Chodsel Machi, which was not dis-
turbed by Shamil, who was in the neighbourhood. He
quietly suffered the attack to be made upon that place,
and did not make a sally with afew hundreds of his men
apron the Russian troops, till they were returning.
Count Argatinaki Doloorvaki compelled some of the
mountaineers to fall tack upon Kiva Hoissah, and
then continued his march, without further molestation,

to dieKaaikimaki Chanel. Chodsal Machi is to be
garrisoned by several battalions, and to be put into a
position of defence. The cholera had un to ap-
pear among the troops. The wmmanner-in.chief,
while the Sam= detachment was passing through the
village of Clagar, ascertained, by personal inspection,
the existence of coal mines, which had been discovered
by Professor Atria. This circumstance is of the utmost
Importance for the welfare and defence of Daghestan.
The want of fuel has hitherto hindered us from
stationing troops in the districts till the month of
October, so that Zudachar Akashi' and Kaisikimski
Chanel were exposed to the attacks of the moun-
taineers for more than six months of the year, and
could not always be kept back by the timely advance
of our troops. This great evil will, henceforward, be
entirely abolished by the discovery of these coal
mines. From the last report we learn that Shamil
has withdrawn to Zilitti. The cholera has begun to
commit fearful ravages in the unsubdued districts of
Daghestan, and especially in Amelia. The accounts
from the cordon line of Leighi were, that Shamil had
commanded the chiefs and companies to approach the
line, u he intended shortly to be in Ankrake himself.
In consequence of this every point is being de-
fended and garrisoned. Daniel lick in his retreat to
Klessnmh is said to have suffered very much from
sickness and distress. The cholera is diminishing in
those quarters. In Tschitachma General Nesteroff
was approaching by a secret passage in two columns
against Naib Mir Ali, who had encamped at Gechi,
OW the rivers Walorck and Shelaaki, for the pur-
pose of protecting the flocks which were at pasture
there. The Ischerksians were therefore suddenly
attacked, but the skirmish appears to have remained
undecided. The Russians withdrew with nine pri-
soners and 18 slightly wounded. No news of im-
portance from the rest of the Caucasus. The cholera
has not appeared very generally in Tiflis.

MEMBER RETURNED.
BEAIMARIS BOROUGH.
Lord G. Paget. No opposition.

STATE OF THE POLLS.

LIMERICK COUNTY.
Final close of poll—
Monsen 6BB
O'Brien 482
Powell
O'Connell 407
SOMERSET (WEST).
Close of poll Aug. Hi—
Moody 2841
Hood 2702
Bouverie 2019
Egcott 1965

HARVEST PROSPECTS.
BEDFORDSIIIKE.—WO are now almost in the thick-
. set of the harvest. The wheat is being cot In all directions,
sad it is generally thought, so far as regards this neighbour-
hood, that there will be quite an average yield, if not more.
CAM PRI no re niftr.-1 n the high parts of this county.=
femurs have cut the greater part of their wheat,
*mks thick, and will prove a good average crop; when the
wheat is not laid fiat, the sheaves are heavy. Some few
ralof barley have been carted in excellent condition, •
crop ; and where it is fiat to the ground, the quality
'steamily thin, but where a fall standing crop, or a little
lilting or bending towards the ground with straw of a yel-
law ma, always turning out a productive crop. The pea
crop, where Down early, has been stacked in excellent condi-
tion.. ; the straw sweet and valuable for the stock next winter.
sal been crop is mach better than was atone time expected.
UCKBERLAND.—The barley end oats harvest has com-
batted, but wheat-cutting will be a fortnight later. They
Cloak most promising. Peas and beans are indifferent
Potatoes excellent, sad turnips looking well.
• neitaissinz (Notru).—ln all our forward localities
"sidas hes generally commenced, and the prospect is grad-
tit. Wheat will be as fine a crop as was ever gathered.
rowing crop is splendid. The same may be said of
mew/ ; the crop u exceedingly bulky and fine. The oat crop
'au, yield well, but it is not heavy; the season has been too
▪ fa this variety ef grain. Beans are nearly a failure,
the fhb,'; but few are grown in this county, except in
eoutaern parte. The hay harvest is nearly over; the
• noon the whole, his fallen light, but never was p-
f"ft in finer condition. The turnip crop promises to be
eZebondant one, and becomes every year more and more
t
nuebs.ated. /arming operations generally are in a forward
Essex.—Ths crop will be a full average one, of good
4ftlit,, and will attain 26 bushels per acre. The barley crop
tnill heavy, hut, from the circumstance of much being
Cis"f.,,, lII', a large proportion will be coarse, and only fit
thme—,,...t. The yield will, however, certainly be greater
.11 taken place ter several years past, varying, as it
from five to eight quarters per acre. The oats are only
enrage quantity, and, in some districts, are even below ;

bat the quality will be good. Per and beau are only par.
geed. The potatoes have hitherto exhibited but little
appeasames of disease ; upon examination many of the sterns
have the ulceration nest the bottom, apparently within an
Inch or two of the original set, bat =loan appears en all the
early varieties to have overcome the disease ; nor has it been
found to spread to say extent at present among the latter
earietim.
KIUIT, Bier.—Wheat COMM down generally rather
Winter than some expected, and the quality is not ppeel to
last year ; there will be more tail. Barleys are • ly
bulky, though the colour is not quite perfect. Peas and
Beaus various, and bat few good, having been attacked
severely by epbides. Turnips suffering from the destructive
powers of the grub, which are clearing whole fields, and
principally the Swedish, which have been set out, and were
supposed to be almost out of danger. Many Acids of turnips
are also now jest showing themselves, having been prevented
vegetating through the very long drought. Seed.sanfoin
has proved to be a good crop, and was well got in.
St:max.—We are much pleased to find that the prospect
of the wheat harm' is moat cheering—the reports which
we have collected from a great number of 'amen from the
hill farms, as well as those in the Weald, tutiformly bear
testimony to a bountiful yield of oars. Several of the
farmers say that they Ladino:lmlay have not had such crops
upon their lands for very many yeses. Reaping I. now
universal. There will be an abundance of straw. Beans
almost a total failure.

Surrol.• (Pasr).—ln a few days the wheat crop will be
secured. On the good lands, and when good farming is
practised, the mop is very bulky in strew, but the ears an
not la well filled by many kernels so In some memos; the
straw is stiff, and stands up well, and will probably yield an
average crop as to quantity, but the quality will be llir diffe-
rent to that of last year's growth, being shrivelled and dark
in colour. Blight and mildew exist in many instances, par-
ticularly in wheat called " TunstalL" In the woodlands, or
clay soils, there will be an abundant, of straw, but the yield
will not be commensurate. On the whole, there will be an
average crop. Barley is a heavy crop, except in the light
soils. Oats are remarkably good in bulk, but will be light in
sample, from premature ripening. Peas and beans in many
cases not worth harvesting. Turnips • moderate plant, but
in many eases a total &Aare, and when they do take they
are much in want of rain._ _ . .

Tax Potrero Citor.—Mr. M. Nicholson, in a letter to
the Manchester Exassiswr, says :—" Within the last ten
days I have bees through Devonshire, flossersetshire, Glou-
cestershire, Monmouthshire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire,
Warwickshire, Staffordshire, Shropshire, Cheshire, and the
county of Dublin. I have made inquiry in all these places
respecting the potato disease, and I have not met with a
single person connected with agriculture who believes that
either the disease of last year has re-appeared in any part
of that district, or that disease of any kind has affected the
potato crop to an extent worth naming." Another
correspondent of the same paper says—" I observe a
letter in last Wednesday's Manchester Guardian, purport.
Mg to come from Poulton.le-Sands, stating that, in a four
mile drive through the potato fields, at least one-fifth were
totally gone this is the impression sought to be made. I
have been residing at Poulton some weeks; and how many
fields do you think there are in this four miles on the road
side ? Why, sir, not four; and I have sought in vain for
one that was diseased. The crops in the neighbourhood
were early ones, and have been taken up perfectly sound
and ripe, their places now plants d with turnips; and every
farmer says never was such a crop seen. But I think, Mr.
Editor, I can set this matter of the Guardian's potato mania
in the right light before the public. Oa the road between
Lancaster and Poulton there are some bean fields which do
certainly look very black. Bo this ' professional gentlemen '
must have mistaken these for potatoes ; and this view agrees
with a story which has been going through this town, of a
gentleman, who said he was connected with the Manchester
press, going to Davyhulme, and asking the farmers to show
him their potato fields. One of them, a bit of a wag, took
him into his bean field, upon which the gentleman of the
press said, ' Well, I hare heard a great deal about the dis-
ease, but this is the worst field I have seen • '—at the same
time pulling up some bean stalks---' not a tuber to the root !'
The two professional gentlemen, surely, mast be one and
the same person." The same paper contains a long letter
from " One who has Whistled at the Plough," detailing the
result of his personal examinations and inquiries in the
neighbourhood of Lancaster and Poulton, on Wednesday and
Thursday last, in referee's to the statements in the
Guardian. The following extract may seem :—" As regards
their condition the universal testimony of the gardeners and
their men was, that in Poulton potatoes were never a
better crop than they are this year. It is true that in
root places they are withering in the stalks and leaves; but
they are becoming brown from the same cause that the
barley growing alongside of them is becoming yellow—they
are ripe. The so.l is a mixture of sand and gravel, rising
above Morecambe Bay, and is particularly adapted to early
garden crops ,• Ks much so, that two crops are obtained in
one season. The evidence of Daniel Bell, which I subjoin,
will explain why the potatoes of Poulton look brown in the
leaves. Mrs. Mary Anaty, who was digging up hers and
storing them away, referred me to the barley, which stood
ready for the mower. ' Hot !' said she, ' what do you
strangers want with the potato rot ? We are never done
having somebody asking if the 'tatoes are going bad. Is
that barley gone bad because It is done growing and Is ripe?'
My 'tatoes am done growing, and they are ripe, and I am
taking them up. What would you expect but to have the
tops of them brown when they are ripe ? I tell yen what,
sir, when you are as ripe as them 'tatoes, your top will be
both grey and brown.' "
Ittaxithm.—We are in the enjoyment of the most splendid
weather. The crops of wheat and oats will be immense.
The reapers are busy in all parts, and their ingathering is
magnificent. Potatoes mast necessarily be, in quantity, far
sheet of what they have been in former years, because they
were not sown in the same proportion ; but as to blight,
there Is no appearance of it, and those which have been
brought to table have proved perfectly sound, and in every
Mcirrxagmd-ien.—Barley is the best corn crop, but least in
acres. Wheat very good and healthy. Oats the lightest
corn cop, but looks likely to yield well. Beans fair, and not
much Injured by the smother By. Turnips magnificent.

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