The Express.
London, England, 1849-06-29 00:00:00

TILE COMING CROPS.

.This is the tarning-point of the agricultural year,
sad it is satialsetory.to find that in most districts the
growing crops promise great abuniance. Already Ins
this acted as sec dative un the farmers. Closely goes.
filoasd,they have notthe fears for toe future @meet their
speeches would seem to betray. The quiet acquies-
ces°, of the protectioaists in this rep. al of the naviga-
tion laws hap dietpated that last bubbl- of monopoly,
and landlords and teeter farmers are very generally
fiskieg th.ir own measures to promote, in their owu
way, their eoonomical interests. But it s ems C.ai
another attempt is to he made by Mr. Dierseli to
render the short eri p if last year available for party
objects. The notice that kende man has given f r the
2nd of July, of Ira intention to call the attention of
the House of Commons to C e "state cf
the notes" will &tittle's furnish a peg en
which that inunious rlitieian will hang all
that tan be slid for t e exploded policy
of his f Men 1 arty. That he will able to raise the
tortures of ear par'y on agricultural distress is a win
notion. His a ihtkties have now no charms for the
icemen. They designate his n sir ions by the homely
but expressive term "humbug;" aid though quite
prepared to demand dimiuiebed local taxatioo, they
wr,ult deal with the qu.stion in a more determined
and praet;eal mencer than the "country party" de-
sire. 'I here is a strung and a growing op:eion among
the farmers tyat all loo:1 taxation and expenditure
must be seiminiateted by a board of local representa-
tives. At this moment, however, the agricultural
wind is ahembed in the prospects of the seem. The
growing crop. claim all its attention, and the most
tridte., lemurs are beginning to admit that they
may survive tee trade, if the harvest should turn out
as productive as it promises to be.
Everywhere we meet with illustrations of the dei-
eent produce of last year's crop. F. r instance, in
the Bomersetshite agricultural rep.rt of the Mirk-
lane Express, we find it staled that ore farmer
lead ouly 400 bagels of wheat from land which in
ordinary yews twined 1,000 bushels. So the
Farmer's bleipssies te June refers to the stock of
ferrigo wheat now Su grai:ary in this country, as
proving " that: the deficiency of ours wn growth last
Olt must have been very great; and adds, "0:
wheat aid flour the average importation of the last
three nu nths lets amounted to 600,000 quarters. One
mil ion atd a half quarters of foreign have been re-
ceived and have paid duty, in three months with: ut
causing any increase in the stocks in granary; indeed
within the last month, t e quantity in warehouse has
visibly diminished, std it is consequently clear that
furtter a pp Ls cn a large scale will be rcquired from
abroad." And in t .e Review of the Corn Trade of the
Express, the writer refers to the fact that, notwith-
standing uch a large importation of wheat, the stocks
Of foreign wheat at d wheaten Cur in this country are
estimated to consist of only about 700,000 quarters,
sad thou says :

These sets en esgLient to prove the extreme deficiency
of the lam harvest, and render It a question of soma Morn-
mot wirier oar availed, means mull.' prove adequate to
oar wants is else my material falling off Mould take place
is the supplied trim atami. Tne foreign now oa and
tirstald, ii Ins ONlawispion rh .nl4 Ws, jugs og &belts the ems
raft as is Awl' to hem token place by the quatites im-
ported, sod them Ott en Mod. mAce for at lout two 1
11)004611. Bat many prtin stow tut farmers will not be
tide to fame' watiplteo si an equal scale to what they have
hitherto deuce al 4 tk 4 • larger pmporties of lonian will
Sheresses be 'squired. Tide summoning' is eetainly not na-
mes stile, metag bow tittle jade vs" at there has been to
bold back ; with, we are Melina' to think that the moaliness
of me sosehe .111 hese 1131. ialisenos oa prism sakes sir
eametemes shoal Saar to Pm rise to ameelnem is ropect
Op the provriag mops, but it mum be at mete apparent that
we Mast he in an Awkward pookies to moot soother defi-
&at harmet. The weaker Is therefore likely to nerds.
even game than its accustomed logo'sa ea the trade.

Now, in f rt lugs an importation of wheat
as that allsdvd to, we And that the average price of
wheat throughout the kiariom, during the-last six
weeks, u V.v. 4d. per 9umter, and it is quite clear,
teat, with the In 4 6A:tent harvest, we should have
been " in an awkward position" had there nut been
an unrestricted t:ade in foreign corn.

We quite these authentie" to chew that the true
Muss of the agricultural dirress of the present time
has been the defic,ency of produce, from which even
good termite hive not been exempt, though they
have felt it lets than alum. The Wiltshire report
states that rime the improved weather of the last
five wteks, " the change in the sppearanee of the
crops has been most wonderful and cheering, reviving
the hopes of the previously despairing farmers." The
same writer also stye: Tire wheats are file and
stun gon the mond, even in si•nations where com-
plaints were uttered in April that the wireworm had
commenced its ravages, now the plant app. ars thick
enough for a fair average crop; while in nine-tenths
of the country everywhere is to be seen leouience
and abu..danoe, promising to field ample return Lr
salivation bestowed, the beat managers of court'
showing the fines. plants." Such a report from a
district where such loud complaints were nttertd by
fannero some three month. ago is eery consoling. It
ls ee tain no land is there going out of cultivation;
Weed tLr ughout the best agricultural districts there
is a firm determination to meet the fall in prices by
improved cultirntion. We barn tram one of the
largest manufacturers of draining tilts in Essex that
he never had such an urgent dem? d as during the
past winter, and that ho was quite unable to furnish
all the ties his customer:. required. And we have
beard the *emu thing in other districts.
Bat perhaps the beet evidence of the more whole-
some cnudition of English huilrendry consequent upon
the withdrawal of . protection is to be found in the
Movement in the right direction making by many of
the lutdowners.
Formers who havesteure tenure. and are not short
of cipi al are sure to improve if their landlords will
let them ; and, notwit..standirg protectionist asser-
tion to the contrarT, all our modern advances in
husbandry have tnginsted in and been stimulated
by low prices. Every farmer knows that he can
increase the produce of his farm to an indefinite ex-
tent it he will only set about it in the right way. But
hitherto the land,,wnera have not been awaker.cd to
the n,..e-sities of their position. Now, however, they
are le g:uniner. to arouse themselves. Tuns the Earl
of Pembroke , m Wiltshire, is allawing ten per ent.
on the rent- of last year, and has promised to allow
fifteen per cent. on the current yesr's tent; and
he stipulet, s that the sums thus allowed shall
be ezpeedoi in dreir.irg. counting, and im-
peewit- g the tams. But he Ina done that still better in'
offertne to nig tenants " ttrar.t-right" agreements,
and items where the skill and capital of the tenants
jus ify ouch g.-arts. Mr. Sidney Herbert, M.P. for
South W.lts, has alto prtipts.d to make similar
armegements with his teraots. Again, Mr. &the-
✓m, the member he Mott Wilts, has offered to his
tenants eithc.r t. revise his rente with reference to ex-
istine nro-psets, or to adopt the
.principle of a corn
rent. finetuating frmi a giveti point agreed upon in
each c toe with the rise and fall of prices. He also
eleven to grant twenty-one 'vars. leases on the revised
terms, inotly stating that he objected to short leases
of seven or eig'it years as being injurious to both
landlord and tenant. And many other proprietors
are propuiing similar arrangements. And this is the
only way in which they can retain their present meta;
sad siithou, the concession of improved tenures, we
believe that no reductions of rent, temporary or per-
manent, would c 'able the tenant farmers to meet the
exigencies of th, times.

Thlt DANIS!! WAit.—DInTIIZMED STATE or WORK
max lc Hum. —Tome are two of the principal ebtopini,
hoary in tki. pet who hove at this imam% eel less than
h, ails oat of mealy. flowed them have beta in ski',
condition %was, aal when saversl months picking up me-
ta:ions work, aver e•ag from on. to two days a week. The
total somber of tinamployed abla-hidied workmen in the
toes is . 2, YA.any of these ars meet orderly asil
c ,aliared c.o.*, respirable and ted in their re.
ri,,.ecire walks to: 111 J. The mvrtigstimti width have been
going on lariat the hat ftw days is to the omdition of they.
very worthy pa .ore have dieclovd estate of things mint
harrowing to thr father of the lineman heart. The mina-
s:sail with who\ Iva accortesaed to kon it toil, have di,-
deified wok pareebi.l relief is highly to their credit ; but to we
their clothing and their hoiawhol4 gliededirposed of, week Oar
week, to supply the raCnrir of hunger, is Italy dirtreasing.
Thist who hair worried tht dopes! Into the matter have
sees thi "vial and o...antic affecions fully at week, mia-
%ie.§ aed friends itcp .veritklag themeelvte to keep three who
or• de to thPre, • lhly ed, from eylni to the
The erla-ei* s 110 wide-spread, and how it
eft• be &sir' i• onl i. • •tutii•hirir. Here are literally thou-
sand. aokiag for work We tenet that nom alike clergy will
figs igrierar.ce u mulct. If they ham say surptelon
set tk, ielitei a 4 refer th.m to far. John Solomon
Theorem, mondial.. 'hose siierecter foe madame sad
menutay is ten king AM to villain say comiesat, sad
whom perms' Whim A.m.,. with workmen is somidamble.
The mayor has Dien Ili hit.. convinced of the necessity of
something Acing dem hat he has /remised to preside a: the
swift to he Mid htosisy.—Zottens Am** Herald.