The Express.
London, England, 1847-08-26 00:00:00

THE HARVEST.

(SOUTH).—Much grain is cut in
this neighbourhood; but the greater part of it still
remains in the fields. Another week of fine weather would
enable the farmers to make a general clearance, wherever
they have strength to do it promptly. The potato disease is
now almost universal in South Lancashire. It has burst
upon us suddenly at last, though not without frequent
warnings early in the mason. In many fields in which the
plant blossomed beautifully, end which presented
appearance of health at the beginning of lout week, the tops
of the potatoes ere now a mere mass of decay, offensive to the
smell, and painful to the sight. In some cases the tubers are
not yet much affected, but in others from a third to a half of
them are decaying or decayed. The districts from which
the worst accounts have been received, up to the present
time, are Cornwall, Lancashire, the Isle of Wight, Dam
frireshire, and the county of Londonderry, in Ireland,
though symptoms of the disease hare shown themselves in
many other parts of the three kingdoms. Everything
concurs to strengthen the belief that it will again be a
general visitation. This is what we have always expected,
for we are convinced that the real cause of the disease is the
exhaustion of the plant, and that neither season nor situation
can eradicate it, or do anything but slightly mitigate its
violence. The evil, however, is not likely to be so great u
last year. from the diminished cultivation of the potato; but
still it will proclaim a considerable difference in the supply Of
toed bath for Wipe and settle, and create an inereaserdemand
both for the finer and the coarser descriptions of gnio. L leer-
pool Times.—Lexclaran.—We have had glorious harvest
weather since our last. ' Tuesday was a day of soaking rain,
but beyond putting a moment's stop to the harvest, the
fall did no harm. The reapers ere now busy on all
sides. In Furness the harvest has made very consider-
able progress, and here, in our own immediate neigh-
bourhood, we are fast getting into the thick of it. With
regard to the crop', they are understood to be most abun-
dant: indeed, the rows of hattocks speak for themselves. Of
the potatoes we have nothing this week to add. The disease
exists, but, so far as we can find, it does not make much
progress, though, we believe, the tuber has ceased to grow.
The crop is amusingly large. Turnips, about us, are lonising
remarkably well.—Lancaller Gasette.—YORISIIIRII.
We have this week had an opportunity of viewing the
white and green crops in the west and north ridings of
Yorkshire to a considerable extent, and have had the pleasure
to find them on the whole in every satisfactory state,with suit.
able weather for getting in the grain. Reapinghas commenced
generally in the early districts, and partially in the more
cold and backward soils • and in some, though only in a few
cases, the corn is secured in the stacks. The wheat crops
generally look well, and will give a fair average produce,
and other kinds of grain hold out a similar promise. As to
the roots, in the whole district over which we passed we
scarcely saw a single field of diseased potatoes, though some
of the crops on heavy laud, not suitable to their growth, look
thin. The turnips will be much below an average, particu-
larly the white kinds, owing to the dry weather that fol-
lowed the seed time, but there are many good fields of this
root; this is, however, rather the exception than the
general rule. The Swedes may yield an average pro-
duce. Beans generally look unpromising, and will
prove a failure, from the attack of the fly, which de-
stroyed the bloom to so great an extent. The second
crops of clover are light upon the ground.—Leeds Mercury.
—Csanatnounteet.— In the early part of this
week weather very dull, with some heavy rain; it is
now very hot and fine, aad harvest work going on favour-
thIi.—IIIINTINGDONBIIIRE.—This, the most important
an interesting operation of agriculture, would probably. this
week have beea general in the fens; but from the heavy
rains on the nights of Monday and Tuesday week, and the
subsequent cloudy atmosphere, the reaping of both oats and'
wheat has been in some measure suspended. The clean
standing crops et the latter are now falling under the
hooks and sickle, and the same may be said of similar
crops of the former. Should fine weather follow,
the fen rumen will then be in full employment.
—NORTHUMBERLAND. —A considerable breadth of
corn has this week been cut in various parts of the
county of Northumberland, particularly in Tyneside, Coquet •
dale, the Wooler country, Bamboroughshire, and the neigh-
bourhood of Alnwick and Wukworth, and it is expected
that in the course of a few days the operations of harvest
will be general throughout the north of England. The
weather continues to be highly propitious for secur-
ing the crops of all kinds, which are represented as
being most abundant and of the best quality.—
, THE HARVEST IN PRANCE. The harvest is now
terminated in all the south of Francs. The wheat has
everywhere been cut and carried, and the new grain
has appeared in most of the markets. It is admitted that
' the yield is most satisfactory, both in quantity and quality.
; In • part of the centre and north the harvest is not yet ter-
. minated, but a few days will melee to complete everything.
The quantity is just as abundant as in the south, but the
quality is in some places not altogether so fine. In the west
the rains interrupted for a time the labour; of the sickle, but
- the last amounts state that the weather was then multi&
cent, and that the harvest would be all saved in leis than ten
, days. In La Vendee and the Loire Inferieure the quality is
, unusually fine, and the quantity of about an ordinary
amount. In the east the harvest is somewhat further ad-
° sauced than in the west, and the yield is excellent.—
I CHISHI/11.—After a few damp and clouded days, which
had begun to cause some anxiety, the elements have bright-
, cued up, and everything looks harvest-like. The corn crops
, are now in very general cut or being harvested, and cer-
tainly look splendid. Oats are amazingly floe, and we
scarcely know how to report the wheats less so. We have
' little of barley or of beans in this part of the country, and
therefore we can say little about them. Green crops in
mural look capital and will undoubtedly prove abundant.
We• • have seen no mildew worth notice among Swedes ; In-
deed, it can scarcely occur during such a growing season.
Potatoes continue to decay in the haulm, and wherever
much manure has been used there the gangrene proceeds
rapidly. On the whole, however, it is scarcely so
virulent as last year at present, and if people will re•
move them in time, we trust they will be abundant.-.--
Resev.—The greater part of barley remains to be carted,
but peas have generally been housed. White wheat is defi-
cient of an average from four to six bushels per acre ; but the
yield of red must be exceedingly good ; in many cases, from
eight to sixteen bushels per acre better than the white on the
same farms. The new samples are not so favourably spoken
of as those of the last crop ; coarseness and unevenness ap-
pearing a general characteristic. Barley has prematurely
ripened, and, had it not been for abundant moisture during
the last weekethe samples must have been very coarse; never-
theless, there is an abundant crop. Oats barely an average.
Peas have so severely suffered by blight, as in many cases to
be hardly worth the cutting. Beans have improved, and
from two to three quarters per acre may be found, where
at one time all were thought to be destroyed.—
erer.—Harvest operations have been earned on pretty
freely during the put week. The slight rains we have had
have been beneficial rather than otherwise, by causing the
grain to hang better in the ear. Most of the corn which has
been reaped is excellent, both for quantity and quality.—
NORFOLL.—The weather has been most delightful ; during
the week a large breadth of corn has been cut, and in some
places the farmers have already completed their wheat liar-
veet—Stasix.—We are much pleased to find that the
prespect of the wheat harvest is most cheering—the reports
which we have collected from a great number of farmers
from the hill farms, as well as those in the Weald, uni-
formly bear teeth nary to a bountiful yield of corn. Several
of the farmers say that they indiveduelly have not had
such crops upon their lands for very many years. Reaping
is now universal. There will be an abundance of straw.--..-
BEDFORDSHIRE.—The wheat is east in all directions, and it
is generally thought, so far as regards this neighbourhood,
that there will be quite an average yield, if not more.—
COHN wen..—The wheat cutting has commenced, with every
prospect of a productive harvest. The barley and oat crops
are also Very promising.—Deaersuntes.—Wheet will be
as fine a crop as was ever gathered. The growing crop is
splendid. The same may be said of barley ; the crop is ex.
eeedingly bulky and fine. The oat crop will yield well, hut
it is not hear/ ; ths season has been too dry for this variety
of grain. Beans are nearly a failure, and very filthy.—
Benx..orttE.—Sellne of the farmers who cut green have al-
ready finished reaping; and in early parts there area few
farmers who have secured all their wheat, and a considerable
portion <Oasis barley, and in most parts of this county the
peas have been cut and carried in excellent condition. Most
of the wheat in this part of the country is deficient in the ear,
and the straw spotted and blighted more than for many
years past ; and so bad is it in some places, that the straw Is
nearly rotten, and fit only to throw into the yards to make
manure ; and on some of the gravelly soils the grain is so
shrivelled that it will not do for the millers, and some of it
will not be good enough for seed, but will be used for
chickens' meat. We do not state that this failure is general.
There is scarcely any of the white wheat on the light soils
but what is more or lees injured ; but on the strong clays and
the deep balmy soil there h the least damage done.
-LINCOLNSHIRE.—Much of the wheat is already in
stock, and is very heavy and fine. The same may be said of
the oats, and, with Nome few exceptions, of the barley. Tur-
nips and =angel& have swelled out amazingly, both in ver-
dure and bulk, and a heavy yield may be seLtirelaraticipated.
le —SUFFOLK, EAST.—The wises rapidly in
1 this district, and in • few days ewe the w cep will be
principally secured. Oa the geed beads, 'and where good
farming is practised, the seep is very balky in straw, but the
ears are not so well filled by Rag kernels as in some sea-
sons; the straw, however, is stiff
sad "ands up well, and
will probably yield an avenge drop as to qsantiq, but the
quality will be ter Massa M that of last yeer's growth,
being sluivellat emi deck ht milerer. Tide rim ken pre-
mature ripening make a saes" sea, peemilml dur-
ing July. Blight end mildew mist is =any beelemem, yarti-
arly in a 'lefties of wheat mesh eelievesei In ibis getriet
called " Taiwan," which is subject te that dhow man or
leas every year ; but when it is a tea emegle it is a great
favourite with millers, and therefoes war Airmen grow it, as
it commands a ready sale and good JEREB:OXFORDSHIRE.
—Cutting has now bemuse general, mad by the close of the

muck better than at one period was expected, this more
especially on the beat lands, where it has ripened eery kindly,
is good headed, and shock. up fairly ; nor do we perceive
that the worm we hear of, or the red gum, has done any ma-
terial injury.--OLOUCLSTEKSIIIaII.—The harvest is pro-
giesaing most favourably in this county. The late rains,
though retarding in some measure the housing of the early
grain, tended very materially to benefit the green crops. The
wheat crop will, beyond doubt, exceed an average yield, and
the same may be said of barley and oats. The
bean crop will prove • failure. A larger breadth of
I land than usual has been planted with the potato,
and we are happy to say that, with very few exosp-
Vona, • very prolific yield may be anticipated.—
HANTS (NORTM).-80100 Of the earliest whiten and barleys
were caned last week, and there !would hare been a great
breadth carried in the present week, bat for the rain setting
in. Wheat is a very variable crop; on some of the best
lands it is a most excellent one, whilst on some of the medium
soils it has suffered very severely; first, from the wheat
maggot, which has occasioned in many places a deficiency
of from four to eight grains in en ear ; and secondly, from
an attack of the mildew. Where this disease took a field at
an early stage, both straw and corn are almost altogether
destroyed, but in moss cues the straw has suffered more
than the grain itself, although the latter is much shrivelled
and will be tout a poor sample. Taking everything into con-
sideration, us more than • bare average crop can be expected.
Barley is a great crop ; the sample will, in many eases, be
very poor, having ripened too fast; a great deal of it will
surfer from being cut too late. Oats are but middling, but well '
headed, and will be an average. Peas have suffered, but not
nearly so much as the beans ; the former may be three-
fourths,
but the latter cannot be even half an average. Tur-
nips and swedes have been growing but slowly, suffering a
great deal from wireworm and grub but the last rain his
revived them, end they will be • geed seep, where they have
been drilled with a sufficiency of manure. -- WILTS,
Socru.—A few more days of sunshine will enable the far •
mers to make all safe as regards wheat. The few growers
who have thrashed, find from Bto 11 tacks per acre the
general yield, the weight from 21b. to 41b. per bushel above
that of last year. Much barley is cut and some carted, the rain
having rather benelitted than injured the same. By another
week ( weather propitious), the greater part will be gathered in.
Oats promise to exceed an average. Beans very deficient,
blighted to the extent of nearly onehalf ; of white, grey,
and other peas, large crops, nearly all secured. Rye is also
good, and promises to yield well. Spring and winter tares
in some pare are good, in others rather short in pod.
Cloven left for second crop or for seed rather light, the late
weather havi.ig been too dry for such. Taken generally,
Wiltshire is snore favoured for turnip crops than other
counties westward. We hear but few complaints of the di.-
ease in the potatoes.—lßELAND.—For the past week, the I
tickle has been busily at w,rk, and we have to record, with
greet thankfulness to a good Providence, that never, within
our memory, was the husbandman's labour rewarded with so
rich, productive, aad well-conditioned a crop. In some corn
fields the yield of wheat bas exceeded that of any previous har-
vest, and scarcely anywhere is there a complaint of deficiency
in quantity or quality. The interested rumours of blight
and smut and damage by worms, so industriously propa-
gated • short time since, have been signally failed by the
goodness of him to whom alone it belongs " to give and
preserve the fruits of the earth," and they are now being
gathered through the lend in bountiful abundance. Of the I
potato crop we are enabled to give the most cheering
accounts. The result of the very partial blight of this year
seems to have been in a great meant* confined, in the few
localities where it did occur, to the leaves and stem, and not
to have much affected the tubers, which are generallrgood-
sized, mealy, and well flavoured.—SCOTLAND.—During
the whole of the bygone week the weather has been of
the most gratifying kind for maturing the crops of every
description. Warm, sunny, dry days have been suc-
ceeded by clear and cloudless nights, and everywhere
the harvest is falling before the active labours of the
reaper. The yield of those fields which have been cut
is heavy and in excellent condition ; straw abundant,
and grain plentiful, and of good quality. Barley harvest
is now quite general in the eastern and western counties,
while wheat and oats are rapidly advancing to maturity.
Potatoes are variously represented as being altogether free
from taint, and also as being to some small extent diseased ;
but, in no instance, has the taint been of a very extensive
or malignant kind. Taking into account that the crop of
that most valuable esculent is, at the very least, a fortnight
farther advaaced towards maturity than it was at the same
period of last year, and that the virulence of the disease was
developed • month earlier than the present time, making in
all • difference of six weeks in favour of the plant without
any very wide-spread devastation, there seems every reason
to hope this year's crop will be, if not altogether free from
the scourge, at all events passed over with a much milder
visitation pt its attack.

SHERIFFS COURT.--(Tuu DAT.)
Beixe Yr. Under Sheriff Bluebell snd a Speck: Jury.
_ _-

CRIME. CON. BENZAOE o. BROMLEY. This was an
inquiry to amen damages for criminal conversation with the
plaintiff's wife. The plaintiff was said to be • gentisman of
large independent property, and the defendant is the son of
Sir Robert Bromley.
After the pleadings had been opened, and Sir J. Jervis
was about to address the jury, the counsel for the defendant
said that before his learned (need made any observations on
this painful case, he had, on the part of his client, to my that
he felt, more deeply than be could express, pain and
anguish for his guilty conduct, and, admitting what
had been charged against him, he was also most anxious to
declare that he did not, in the slightest degree, impute any
unkind conduct on the part of the plaintiff towards his wife,
still less to reflect on the unhappy lady who is the subject of
this inquiry, and who is, no doubt, under his (defendant's)
protection. The defendant is the only son of Sir Robert
Bromley, and has held a commission in the army, which warl
all the property he ever had, and which he had disposed of,
and the produce was now nearly all gone. He was aware
that he had done the plaintiff a deep and serious injury,
and, knowing that he deserved punishment, he was
content to bear it ; but, en order to spare the
baim which must result from a protracted inquiry,
e would make all the reparation in his power, and although
he knew that no pecuniary compensation would be corn-
=emirate to his offence, ho would at once submit to a ver-
dict for 6001., which were the heaviest damages it was in his
power
Jrto. I:ryvis, after consulting with his client, mid] that as
the defendant bad made such • full disclaimer of any im-
proper conduct on the part of the plaintiff, who did not,
however, for a moment shrink from an inquiry in public,
in order to screen the unfortunate offspring of the alliance be-
tween the plaintiff and the unfortunate lady, and as the pro-
position was made in good faith, a verdict for 5001. would be
taken ; for, although no money could compensate for the
injury done to the plaintiff, it was necessary, under the
forms of the law, for the plaintiff to come before a jury and
obtain substantial damages, in order to ground proceedings
to dissolve the marriage, as it would be utterly impossible
for the plaintiff to live again with his wife.
The under-sheriff said this being a civil case, the parties I,
had a right to agree, and all the jury had to do was to return
• verdict for 5001.
The plaintiff's rank in life was not mentioned.

CULTIVATION OF POTATOES IN PRUSSIA.—The
summary of the reports received from all the provinces of the
Prussian monarchy by the College of Rural Economy at Ber-
lin, relative to the cultivation of potatoes from seed, gives the
following results in 1846. 1. Fertile garden land appears to
be more suited to potato seeds than hot-beds. Some think
that the plants produced in open country are still better able
to withstand the influence of the climate. 2. The proper
sowing time appears to be the latter part of April. 3, Sow-
ing furrows is preferable to broad-cast sowing. 4. The beds
ought to be protected from night frosts by being covered
over. The young sprouts and plants must be watered. 5.
The proper time for transplanting is the first fortnight in
June, or earlier, but not later. 6. A strong soil ought to be
chosen for this purpose, but not one which has lately been
manured. 7. Many potato plants suffered last year severely
from drought. It is, therefore, recommended in very dry wee- '
ther is dip the roots in a mixture of clay, cowdung, and
liquid manure ; the plants must be kept carefully clean,
and otherwise treated in the usual manner. 8. Potatoes
raised from seed :re not exempt from the disease. 9. Poor
and heavy clay soils, and late sown plants, produce the
worst quality and the least quantity of potatoes. The
produce depends upon, and varies according to, the quality
of the soil, the time of sowing, the manner of treatment,
and the weather. The results of trials give a produce vary-
ing from some peeks and bushels to eighteen or twenty-four
quarters and more to the acre. The aim and colour of the
potatoes vary in the same degree from the same influences.
10. No doubt exists as to the possibility of raising potatoes
fit for food in one year from seed, though they do notsoquire,
until after several years of careful cultivation, the proper
quantity of meal peculiar to their species. 11 No seed
has been obtained from potato plants grown from seed.
12. The propagation by seed of potatoes thus produced is in
many cases impossible, several qualities, the Hamburg, for
instance, bearing neither blossom nor seed. 13. The seed
ought to be chosen from the centre of a large field, contain-
ing only one kind of potatoes, and only from very healthy
plants. 14. It is recommended in planting from potatoes
produced by Need to c.hoorre only the largest, and those which
hang loosely, and not In too great numbers, from the
roots. Although it appears from theme results that the culti-
vation of potatoes from seed is not deserving of much re-
commendation, it Is no doubt advisable that the experiment
thus begun should be continued with perseravace.—Berlin,
July 16, 1847. (Signed) J. TENOIRILI.

,
GEORGE SAND.—The celebrated authoress who
publishes ber works under this masculine name has com-
menced an action against the Echo ilea FesdUktorse end the
Echo Agricole, for publishing her novel entitled La More dad
Diable, which origfnaUy appeared in the Courrier Froarlic
The case came to a hearing on Friday, but it was pat off
until George Sand obtains the authority of her husband,
Y. Daderant, to prosecute her snit.

Pop':Lenox oe Rosts.—The city is divided into
64 parishes, containing 37,630 families. The aeoleelaitleal
population Gonads of 39 bishop., 1,614 clergymen, 2,417
monks, and frian, 1,754 nuns, and 521 'lndents. The whole
population amounts to 176.883 inhabitanta net inploulino

BILLGIUM.-13RUMILL8, AUG. 24.—The silence of
the new ministry u to their future mode of proceeding,
especially in regard to the amelioration of the condition of
Flanders, being a subject which they have themselves been
forced to notice, hes drawn upon them a nest of hornets.
Friends and foes are at their complete reserve on
this point. L'lmpartial de Bruges reprimands the liberal
journals because they do not occupy themselves with the
Flanders question, to which the Journal du Commerce says,
hi reply, " These reproaches would be more just if they were
addressed to thy new cabinet, which does net make known
the. remedy which It has found." Saneho, again, finds
fault that in the programme there is not a word about the
amnia instruction, and observes, "Is it because M. Rogier
saw that this question was surrounded by too many dangers,
since it caused the overthrow of three ministers, be has
therefore thought it prudent not to rouse this terrible foe?
Does it arise from timidity, from incapacity, or what?
L'lndependance has returned for the third time to the
charge, in order to promote an electioneering etruegle on
the approaching re-election of the ministers who take part
in the chambers. Discussions if this nature cannot possibly
lead to any good result. There can be no doubt that the
ministers will be re-elected; and what is the cause of all
this clamour, we see not. The new ministry, in solving so
important a question as the state of Flanders, had better
Proceed. as they new do. with deliberation, and lay
their plan, when thoroughly digested, before the public,
rather than by precipitate communications lay themselves
open to the just charge of immature and inefficacious plans.
What is a week or ten days in a matter of such moment ?
little quiet waiting would be much more judicious, and likely
to lead to far better results, than this haste and precipitation.

PRUSSIA. BERLIN, Ate. 20.—THE POLISH
TRIAL.—The counsel appointed for the defence of hies-
menski, Malsnewitil, mid_ , were heart in meow'
sion. The counsel for the crown then briefly replied to their
charges against some of the government officials. A brief
rejoinder was made, after which the court rose.

CITY OF LONDON EtEcrioN.—The following cir-
cular has been issued by the Liberal Registration Asso-
ciation to the supporters of the four Liberal candidates at
the late election : " Dear Sir,—We have been especially
requested by Lind John Russell, Mr. Pattison, Sr George
Larpent, and Boon Lionel de Itothechild to return you
their most cordial acknowledgments for the suppert which,
through your vote and interest, the liberal cause has
received at the recent election for the city of London.
It will be satisfactory to the members of this Association
to know, in confirmation of their report to the general
body of the electors, that, even according to the official
returns, the avenge majority of the four liberal over the
four tory candidates, was 1,479, independently of 513 votes
given for Mr. Payne ; while the polling for Means. Pattison
and Reran, the only genuine test of the relative strength of
parties, exhibits a liberal majority of 1,762. The com-
mittee entertain a lively seine of the great share which the
unparallelled exertions and unwearied zeal of the general
body of the liberal electors bad in realising the present
triumphant result ; and whilst they conceive it to be their
duty to express a atroag conviction that the fourth seat
belongs in point of fact to the liberal party, they are most
anxious to join their personal congratulations with the
sincere thanks of the four liberal candidates to you,
and to our friends, individually and collectively, for
your efficient services in the promotion of those principles
of progressive legislation which have received such valuable
corroboration in the process of this great effort to secure the
ascendancy of the cause of civil, religions, and commercial
liberty.—We remain, dear sir, your obliged and faithful ser-
vants, John Abel Smith ; Thomson Hankey, jun., and P. A.
Taylor, deputy chairmen ; J. J. Travers, W. Hawes, W. J.
Hall, Arthur Pattison, business committee ; Sidney Smith,
Secretary; George Ledger, jun., assistant secretary."