The Express.
London, England, 1849-06-04 00:00:00

THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS.

CitaLIBLF--The weather anthills* to ba highly
favourable for the oouatry ; en alternation of rain and sun-
shine kelpine forward vegettat'on is a most satisfactory man-
ner. Several farness La the vicinity of the city have cut
gram, sad the grain trope are progressing most vigorously.
Waive. The last favourable change in the weather
has materially improved the appearance of the growing crops.
Hay win be Is &bandanas, and every other agricultural pro.
daent,to Sadie tram present prospects, far beyond an &Mingo
mom, Kan favourable weather eanaot be deeired by
fusers. The potato continses to present the moat healthy
amen—.
TIPPSRAST.—The country never looked eo magniflosat.
All the leaps, owing to the extremely favourable weather
that has prevailed, are looking in fires rate condition. and
promise, with the blaring of God, as annalist harvest.
dosing that some failuve In the potato was noticed is the
W pers, we caused a strict inquiry to be made, and we are
delighted to may that we have the servants of experienced
agrieultoriets, and gentlemen who, from personal inspection,
an made aware of the fact, that no disease whatever has se
yet made its appearance in this neighbourhood—Tipperary
Free Prim.

POST-OFFICE NOTICE. - A contract having been
entered into for the imoveyanot of mails by steam-packets
between Ilsid and Altoaa end Hamburg, all letters and
newspapers for Bambino. Drumark, &e., specially addressed
to De forwarded rid Hull, will in future be tron,mitted by
these paekets. Tim postage on letter thus forwards&
will be the usual packet rates chargeable upon
litters to Hamburg, Denmark, &e. To those countries to
which newspepen are conveyed without charge by the mail
packets from London, newspapers will hereafter be for warded
, free, Ms Hall. It must Le eadetstood that all letters and
aewwtsppeeppeetra intended to be forwarded by these packets must
be addressed yin Hull; otherwise trey will be made up in
the regular mails despatched from London.

INCRNDIART FIRE NEAR SI(EERNEES.—At half-nut
tan o dock on Friday night two storks of straw were reco-
vered on fire in the farm yard of Borstall-hall, at Minster.
Borstal!-hall is in the occupation of Mr. J. Farrell. A
stack of wheat had been threshed on) oath* previous day by a
threshing machine. Several labourers bad been engaged on
the farm during some days previous to the fire, but at pre-
sent the incendiary has not been discovered. The farm-
labourers, waisted by Lieutenant Gale, R.N., and his men,
from the coast-guard station, at But-end, with
other neighbours, succeeded (by using blankets, jacks, &c.,
well wetted) in preventing the thatched rooh of the bares,
outhouses, &e., from becoming ignited. Mr. Farrell, jun.,
tame to the Royal Dockyard fur .-tnlvtanee, and the C aptain.
Superintendent, D. Price, ordered two fire•engines to be mat
up immediately, with all the available force of the polio
then on duty. There wee no other property than the Eraw
destroyed. A strong feeling was shown against the thresh-
ing-machines, and the labourers were very reluctant to me
them from the fire. This was, however, effected, much to
' the discomfiture of a few of the labourers, who were quietly
looking on.

SHORT PARLIAMENTS. —The following is a copy of
Mr. D'Byncou-it's bill for short, ning the duration of parlia-
ments: Whereas it is eapeciient to shorten the term dur-
ing which partiaintnts may now by law have continuance :
Be it therefore enacted be the Queen's most excellent
and ce Me-
jetty, by and with the advice annsant of the lords spiri-
t ual land temporal, and elinmito, in this present parliament
assembled, and by the authority of the WSW, that an act
passed in the first year of the reign of King George the
First, intituled An Act for enlerptng the time of conti-
nuance of Parliaments, appointod by an Act made in the
sixth year of the reign of King William and Quten Mary,
intituled 'An Act for the tretitie..t meeting and calling of
parliaments; be, and the came Islicreby repealed. And be it
enacted, that this present parliament, and sll parliaments,
that shall at say time hereafter be caned, astemb!ed, or
held, 'hall and may respectively have continuance ter
yeati, and no conger, to be acecunted from the day on
which, by the writ of summons, this present parliament bath
been, or any future parliament shall be, appointed to meet,
unless this present or any snob parliament hereafter to be
summoned shill be sooner diesolved by her Majesty, bar
heirs or successors."

RELEASE OF ME. 811011 E.—The Western Times of
Saturday says The London committee having seen that
Mr. Ralph Barnes was determin, d no: to abide by his letter
to the Editor of the Times' of the 10th of March, sent down
the money for payment of orate in the Court of Arches snit,
end on Wednr s lay morning Mr. Shore was let out of custody.
Ihe rev. gentleman returned to Totnes by the evening train,
basing taken • cordial leave of the worthy governor of the
.gehem. Mr. T. Burch, and his family, from whom hs had
received the kindest of attentions throughout his confine.'
sent of three mouths. This release is a relief for the bishop,
who hes to thank the Lord n committee for the costs he
has received, and also for a relief fn m that sense of degra-
dation to which he must have been subjected, in reflecting
that he bad made a solitary exception in this ease, enforcing
the law against a man with whom he had had a persooal
quarrel. 'Poe old gentleman is cose-hardeurd, as we all
know; neverthelem, he began to fed a little uneasy at Mr.
Shore's obstinacy—for churchmen did not like the imprison-
ment, and the bithip's ingenuous candour and apostolic dis-
claimers did not et tirely satisfy them. Of all the men who
have seceded from the church, Mr. Shore was the only one
who had been punished, and Bishop Phillootts was the only
bishop who had enforced the law home to punishment—and
Bishop Phillputta had had a pereonal quarrel—and Bishop
l'hillpotts bed proleamd to deal very candidly and very consi-
derately towards his victim ; yet, notwithstanding all this
candour, the Bridgetown snare was laid for his ruin, and
here we have the result. Well, what will our right reverend
friend do next ? The costs were the consequence of in inter-
dict against pinching. That interdict hath been disregarded
and will be again. Mr. Shore will preach on Sunday;
Bishop Phillpotts proceed further ?"
Hors.—The total number of acres of land tinder
hop cultivation in 1843 was 48,156 ; 1844, 44,486 ; 1845,
48,058; average of the three years, 45,233. In 1134(5,
51,948. 1847, 52,327; 1818, 49,232 ; average of the three
yeah, 61,169. The average quantity of hops charged with
duty in the three years, 1846-48, amounted to 48,427,48511 m;
and in the three years, 1843-46, to 30,040,8561b5. The total
quantity m charged, in the three years ending 1845, was
90.122,5761b5. ; and in the three years ending 1848,
140,182,375:be., being an increase in growth of 6.5 per cent.,
and an increase in average of 13 per cent. The quantity of
British hope exported in the three years ending 1845 was
697,7681 he.; and in the three years ending 1848, 1,262,5671 be.
The average euantity exported, 420,8621b5. The quantity of
foreign hops reteined for home consumption amounted in the
three years, 1846 48, to 409,0681b5.
FOREIGN FRUIT AND VEGETABLES.—The steamer
Columbine, arrived from Havre, has brought 60 baskets of
green peas as • portion of her cargo, and has also brought
22 baskets of freak fruit, of French production, which is
the first importation of fruit from the Continent during the
preempt year. The steamer Beirut, from Calais, has also
brought 14 casks of green vegetables, as • portion of her
cargo, oonsigned to order. The steam-verde from Holland
have brought a quantity of fruit and vegetatles of various
descriptions The steamer Giraffe, from Rotterdam, brought
10 baskets of vegetables, and 23 baskets of cucumbers, some
melons, 297 bags and 8 baskets of new potatoes, and 97
baskets of fresh fruit of various kinds, the production of
Holland.
PORT or Niliwlretlat.—Arrangements are in pro-
gress for the Immediate establishment of a line of communi-
cation by steam vessels to carry passengers, Be., between
this place and one ei the French ports on the opposite coast,
Dieppe, we belts, ; and, in order to meet the public require-
' menu which will neceiranly ensue in consequence of this
addition to the sources of sawununication with France, pre.
vision will be made by the authorities of the revenue tor
the supply of officers to superintend the examination end
delivery of the baggage and effects of
_persons availing
themselves of this route to and from Fetuses and the
Continent.
MORE ATTEMPTS AT HOMICIDE.—At the police
court at Bristol on Saturday there were two prisoners ex-
amined upon charges of subbing with the knife, these mak-
ing the fourth or fifth offence of the kind, independently of
a wilful murder, committed in that city, and all within a
short distance of the spot on which the gallows were erected
for the lion of Sarah assriet Thomas, for the murder
of her mistress, Miss Jefferiers. The first cam was that of a
man named James Gillett, who was charged with cutting
and wounding a young woman named Ellen Shute. It ap-
peared that the injured female, who is in a bed .tits of
health and an oat-patient of the Bristol General Hospital ln
Guinea-street, will returning from her attendanse on the
surgeon of that institution, when she met the prisoner, who
accompanied her to the home of a young woman, a friend of
hero, with whom she was going to take a cup of tee
While there be sent out for some beer, shettly after
which he said he had been robbedof twomvereigns, and
charged the young woman with having taken them
from kis pocket. She of course denied the imtu-
ta_."tion upon which he attacked her in a furious manner,
fse would ma her bowels our, and stabbing at her
wit7h at knife which he drew from his pocket arid
opened, and with which he stabbed her in the face and
other parts of her pecan, inflicting 'crime wounds. A wii-
nmemmted Heehaw mafiruserl the testimony of the pron-
e:atria, deposing to the ferocity with which ha stabbed at
her; and a man named Stephen Kt.ieht, who had been
attracted to the !pot by the cries of " Mader," also spoke
to di/Ha/she prisoner; brandishing the knife end threaten-
to any one who interfered. The mairalwates fully
°omitted him se tub his trial for the teapfiak taws. In
the second ease the eneseed was • girl named Margaret
WWl's, who was comp& with feloniously wounding George
Bryant. The wearied mem being confined to his bed in the
infirmary wee ueablpie mar, but it would stem .than an
int~r katisaatty hid sahsiMee between the prissier .0
the Wieß alra'slayltleac, ell ease qaerrel amarrte:apia
that aettmaq in steak& she seined • kale and
stabbed Bryaat is mm, leaf this* The mail-
trans have remade. hide able to appear and give
evidence whim her.

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