The Express.
London, England, 1853-08-23 00:00:00

RUSSIA.

TEFLIS, JULY 15.
The Russian government is preparing for another
campaign against the tribes of the Caucasus. The
operations will commence in the latter part of
August. A flotilla is being armed in the Sea of
Azof to support the movements of the army.

INDIA.
THE OVERLAND MAIL.

TILIOPAPH.)
TRIESTE, Avousr 22.

The steamer Bombay arrived at half-past 2, p.m.,
111 hours from Alexandria. The Indian Mail has
arrived at Alexandria with dates from Calcutta 16th
July, Bombay 20th July, Hoag-Kong 7th July.
The King of Ave, being starved into submission,
has sued for peace, set the British prisoners at lib-
erty, and requested that the river blockade may
cease. The Governor-General has assented, and

proclaimed peace, although a formal treaty has not
been concluded.

Trade in India dull, market easy.
In China the Imperialist forces had attempted to
regain Ching Kung Foo, but without success, not-
withstanding foreign aid.
Markets dull.

CANADA.

TORONTO, Anourr 7.
The most important Canadian news that I have to
send you this week is an account of the wheat har-
vest. The yield of wheat this year in Upper Ca-
nada is enormously large, larger than has ever been
known before—it averages forty bushels to the acre.
The following reliable account of the state of the
country is extracted from the last impression of the
Daily Colonist, published in this city, which I may
say agrees with private information I have obtained :
In view of the great importance of the subject to most of
our readers we have been at pains to collect accurate in-
formation relative to the state of the crops in Upper Ca-
nada. In the first place, to take the fall wheat crop. . All
the accounts concur in stating that in every part of Upper
Canada these are unprecedently large. Nobody remembers
any year before when they were so large. A gentleman con-
nected with this office, well acquainted with the country, and
well capable of forming a correct judgment, has just returned
from a tour over that part of the country between Toronto
and Kingston, and reports that throughout the whole of
that section the average yield of fall wheat is 40 bushels to
the acre. A gentleman in Buwmanville, whose experience
and judgment we esteem highly, andwho maybe considered
a good authority, states that it is his opinion, the fall
wheat, for 10 miles around Bowmanville, averages more
than 40 bushels to the acre. This gentleman also states
that from the accounts which he has obtaiaed of the crop in
other parts of the country, and, from a calculation which he
has made, Upper Canada will have 4,000,000 bushels of
wheat more for exportation this year than any former year.
From the west we have information from a gentleman
whom we consider a competent authority, and his accounts
are of the same character u those which we have from the
east. The country papers concur in making the same state-
went. We have also the same accounts from the north.
We farther learn from these various sources that the wheat
was never cleaner or better, nor the fields in better order.
The harvest for the most part is now well secured.
I need hardly add that fall wheat is the great
staple of Upper Canada, or that this bountiful har-
vest is a source of great rejoicing to the inhabitants.
A wheat harvest, yielding an average of 40 bushels
to the acre over the whole country, is a remarkable
fact, and you will not find any parallel to it in the
much vaunted wheat-growing states of the neigh-
bouring republic.
The spring crops, however, are far from being so
good as usual. The " long continued dry weather,
succeeding the continued cold and wet of the spring,
has geuerally injured them, and been absolutely fatal
t. them in some localities." Spring wheat is good as
far as it goes, but it is a short crop. Not much,
however, is sown. The other crops, such es hay,
oats, potatoes, turnips, &m., are much injured.
From Lower Canada the accounts are substantially
the same, with the exception that comparatively little
wheat is grown in that section of the country.
The railways in different parts of the province are
making rapid progress, and altogether the prosperity
of the country is very decided. It was never so much
so before, during the palmiest days of protection of
colonial produce in the home market. This is a
patent fact, and it dissipates those gloomy prognosti-
cations with respect to colonial ruin, that were enter-
tained by many respectable persons at the time of the
passing of Sir R. Peel's free trade measures, and
indeei for some limo afterwards.
Lord Elgin, the governor-general, has made a trip
to the Ottawa, and his progress was marked by de-
monstrations of respes:t. The ministerial organs say
he is going home on leave of absence for a short time
with Lady Elgin.
The Lower Canada paper: confirm the statements
of the i sistence of gold in their part of the country.
I believe professional opinions are to the effect that
there is sufficient to repay skilled labour, but not un-
skilled. We think, however, far more of our large
' wheat harvests than of the presence of gold.
Some hid feeling still exists in reference to the
Givitszi riots at Montreal and Quebec, and in the
former of these pine(s a portrait of the mayor (who
rendered himself very obnoxious on the occasion of
,these riots to the protestant population) has been
' mutilated. This portrait hung in the city hid). No

steps have yet been taken to bring the homicides to
justice for the shooting of peaceable citizens on the
tith of June.

In politics there is nothing to relate ; the country
is sore occupied with railroads and material im-
provements.
Mr. Stevenson, M.P., the engineer, is daily ex-
pected, on a professional visit in connexion with the
Grand Trunk Railway, and the construction of a
tubular bridge across the St. Lawrence, opposite
Montreal. This bridge, when made, will be the
most magnificent work on this continent.
Trade is generally good, and the prices of produce
rule high, but these are not fixed, principally in con-
sequence of the uncertain accounts recently received
from home. A good deal of speculation is going on
in land, and the price is very high.
The weather is very dry, and has been so for some
time.