The Express.
London, England, 1847-06-23 00:00:00

THE SEASON AND THE CROPS.

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Since our lest we have had great quanties of rain,
and the temperature has been lower than it usually is at
this season. Still the crops continue to look very well. The
wheat crop has now had quite as much moisture as it re-
quires, or as will do it any good; hut we do not believe that
it has sustained the least injury from the rain. The plant
has not shot in this neighbourhood except in a few favoured
spots, so that there is not yet any danger to the flowering,
but the coolness of the weather, if it should continue, will
cause the harvest to be a week or ten days later than wen ex-
pected during the first dry weather at the beginning of this
month. The spring corn of all kinds continues to improve,
and never looked better than at present. Should the weather
be favourable in July it will give a most abundant crop.
Hay making has been birun in this neighbourhood, but is
not yet general. The crops are fair but not large. The
rant crops hay- been Twirls improved by the heavy rain.
Turnips now promise to be a very heavy crop everywhere,
and Potatoes look well is moat places. Them are, however,
some exceptions to the latter observation. We stated in our
last week's paper that we had not seen any decided instance
of the Potstoe disease this year; but, on Saturday last the
tops of some Potatoes grown at Roby, by Mr. Richard Earle,
auditor of the estates of the Earl of Derby, were brought to
our office by Mr. Earle, which appeared to have all the symp•
toms of the disease of last year. That gentleman informed us
that they belonged to a variety known as Ashcroft's Earlies,
which suffered very severely from diseue tut wear. They were
planted:in the middle of a field, with drills of Kemp Potatoes
on each side of them. Up to Thursday week they had a most
beautiful appearance, being remarkably well grown and
thickly covered with leases. Between the Thursday and
the following Sunday they began to droop, and they have
continued to fall off ever since. A considerable number
of the leaves are entirely dead, and nearly the whole of
them are discoloured. The only exceptions are in a few
leaves near the top. One of the tubers of these Potato
plants has also been sent to us by another gentleman. It is
Ameessively unhealthy, and presents most of the symptoms
of last year's disease. The quantity of Potatoes affected is
about half an acre. The disease is confined to the Ashcroft
&riles., the Kemp', grown in the same field, and on both
sides of that variety, being perfectly sound and healthy.—
Liverpool Times.

DEATH OF MR. LEAHY.-011T obituary of this day
records the death, at hie chambers in the Temple, of Mr.
David Leaky, a barrister eminent ter his legal acuteness,
and distinguished in the press, as well as at the bar. Mr.
Leahy had been hut recently •ppaoted judge of the county
courts of Lambeth and Greenwich.

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COM,VERCIAL k MARKETS.
MONEY MARKET ta CITY INTELLIGENCE.
Two o'Ckek.—The atock market continues quiet,
and with prices oeeillating 1 per cent. between buyers and
sellers. Consols began at 881 to 1 ter the opening, and have
since alternated between those quotations and 1 higher and
lower. They ate now rather heavy, at 881 to 1. Ittduced