The Express.
London, England, 1847-04-07 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL.

Teo Coors.—Every word of news about the crops will
now be read with interest. In many party of Sussex the
wheat is described as looking unusually well. In Lincoln.
shire the proapeets appear equally good. The Stamford
Mercury sayer—" The young wheats in the ' garden of
North Lincoln hire,' as the Lordship of Barton is poetically
termed, arc looking extremely well and premising. The
past week of line weather has bad a most beaencial influ-
ence upon them." From Hampehire the reports are leas'
satisfactory. "In consequence of the long-continued pre-
valence of easterly and north-easterly winds (says the /tamp-
Aire Advertiser), the young wheats in the hilly districts
have a pSning and sickly appearance, what on the stiff clays
of the lowlr.nda the plants are green and vigorous." The Isle
of Wight is soot what more fortunate. A correspondent states
that the spring corn has been got in with lees labour than for
some years past; the young wheats look strong and
healthy ; a good many potatoes have been planted, hut not
equal to former yearn, pertly from fear of the blight, and
partly from the expense of the aced. From Bedfordshire we
learn that " the wheat has improved much during the last
fortnight, and, for all that yet appears to the contrary, may
make a good crop. Barley was never put in better, sod pretty
much the same may be said of the spring cropping generally;
while, at the same time, the land has been admirably pre-
pared in many instance. for manrl war:el, potatoes, &e. ;
though the high price of the latter, together with the uncer-
tainty, of a healthy crop, will preclude many bcieg set this
year. Speaking of the state of the weather in the north, the
Doncaster Gazette remarks " The wheat lands have stood the
severity of the season remarkably well ; but, In some locali-
ties, the effect produced by excessive cold is forcibly risible,
without, however, occasioning any serisus injury." In an
agricultural report for the past month, the Alarli-lane
Express says:—" March has proved an unusually propitious
• ason for the agriculturist,. During nearly, or quite, the
whole of it, the weather has been extremely favourable for
all out-door operations, which have progressed with a degree
of rapidity seldom or never recollected. So far matters are
very satisfactory ; but we regret to be compelled to state
that oar accounts relative to the appearance of the growing
crops in some localities are by no means satisfactory. The
ycung wheats, taken us whole, are withered, the result, pos-
sibly, of the long-continued Mists ; yet we doubt not, a few
weeks of fine weather will set matters to rights in this particu-
lar. Notwithstanding the assertions of some parties to the con-
trary, there is a manifest inclination on the part of the
farmers to increase the breadth of land under wheat culture
this year; indeed, the quantity of land sown with that de-
scription of produce during the autumn of last year, and that
laid down for wheat cropping this spring, has never been
equalled for a long series of yearn put. Accounts from the
carious grazing dirtricts relative to the condition of the stock,
both beasts and sheep (but more particularly the latter), are
unfavourable. The epidemic his committed most serious
ravages amongst the beasts in Lincolnshire, Leicestershire,
and Norfolk ; while the lambing season, even allowing for a
full overage fall as to number, bas proved a disa:trous one—
immense losses having been sustained in the voueg lambs,
which have been suddenly wised with a disease peculiar to
that observed in the beasts, and which hays been carried oft
in a few hours."