The Express.
London, England, 1849-06-09 00:00:00

THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS.

Seßormiae.—Never did the multi), lock more'
beautiful than it does at present withregord to vegetation. The
splendid and guild weather we have tad for the last twelve
days has dose wonders, end the trope, wheatland and rye.
land, promise abundance of all descriptions of grain. The
apple sad other fruit trees look well, and last, though not
lout, we have to thank Presiders* that the notate crop,
throughout this extended district look beulthy and well.
We have not yet heard of any instance in which the blight
or disease which prevailed last sauna has mardiested itself.
—Ten Towne Messenger.

Beer Lovatans.—Se far as regards the mom, the pros
pees of the amides Watson are very encouraging to the
agricul,urist. We west that the event us y reel se the pros•
mise. Few compleints have hitherto 'goats ed :r ma Scotch
lumen, whilst Omar some parts of Easiend s laud cry of
agricultural (limbos has been raised. This has in part Won
produced by keel cancer, but it cannot be deni.d that
too, of the Ronk here lstely endured adverse tim•a. The
pra.s of gtato have b-en low, whilst the pest winter h.s
been most latifivoerable to the leaden of stock.—Ayr Adver-

Aar.
Sone* or Ostrom—The weather has been very
hot, with ew refreshing stones during the past week.
sad Inge has progremed with unusual rapidity. The
appear .nef.of the crop promises abundance The late rain
has also thrown up an abundance of grass. We are sorry to
observe that there is a severe blight on the blossom on some
sorts of apple trees, pert,mlarly that of the sweet broadmem
Cabbages are be pientiful.—Exeler Frying Post.
SueSEX.—The weather during the past week for thectem
has teen newt propitious. The wheats on dry good mils
never looked better. Oldest), in appearance, they tepees
former yeses far a long period. The plant is very Melly,
and stands *Lick on the ground, and, it tin hot
weather continuer, it will be in ear in a few
days. On the low grounds the wheat has ^planted
nut" wooderfully. We know of fields which only a
few weeks back, looked like fellows, and wk.'', con-
siderably later, the plants ems up me thin that
is wane cams they were fed of—a step which bat since been
regretted, v. where it was let alone, the plantieg off has
been most miraculous; for, where a miserable crop was ex-
pected, the ground is well covered with setae pl:nes, and
the produce will at least be from four ti five quarters
per acre. Altogether, there is now every probe
b.lity of the re being a most abundant harvest. The
barleys and cots look equally well oe gooa wile. The
fine rains and bright many days have done wonders.
Oeing to the backwardness of the +vim, many farmers had
consumed their stock et hay. They ha'', thereon+, tither
to purchase hay or straw, or to part wird their leas stock.
Some of them adopted the latter course, fee which
they are sorry enough now, as the pastures are most
abundant, rad would keep far more than the usual
slumber of stock. We hear that the poet° is failing
retain in Ireland ; but al: that we have sera in this m entry
Gave as healthy an appeareice as can he desired.
The bay-harvest has commenced in this neighbourhood, and
the swath falls even over the scythe. Shetp•shearieg is in
hall }regress throughout this part of the country ; but where
they were t xposed on Wednesday night atter shearing they
suffered considerably. Whole flecks to,k more violent
@Ads time sweet, and same died from the effoc:s where the
hail descended so impetuously. Some Sells of peas were
also defamed up the country by the het., wheh, is some
places, did considers be damage to cis r mops. The grass
gram lauds look beautiful, and the grabbing,' hove come for-
ward so prolifically that trey have been cat alreadr. If the
butler-cup be ss meek:eau* as Mr. Wttitlaw mosiders it,
there was neve-r m.n Triune Man at I resent to regret
that Rio not deatroyei; for it never grew more eigermed,
aid ;menially than at the present tima.—Brighton Resell.
liostrom.—During the reason the weather has been, up n
the whose, favourable fur aorioulturaboperatioce, till within
the last month; whoa they wire aliment *topped by the con•
tineed heavy rains, in consequence of *hien saucy thowiands
of acres in tke marshes nod lowlands have been flooded. A
great event of land lies in the valleys of this emetv, vin the
tweaks of the Waventry, on cacti aide of the Tare and
the Wecsam, and along the Owe, !melba the land
adjoining n boor mamma; and all these lands have been
more or lea COInTe I wits water, and much injury has
been sustained. The greases are linurient, but it is anted-
oate d that the bey wie be of very little value. Tile iiff,rent
kinds of wheat have never look-d better or more promising,
though here and there a field may be seen too heavy in sp.
pearenew. The mason him been very unfevoureble for tne
barleys Ota mixed soils the barleys .presented a worm
appeareace. Owing to the longrentinuanoe of wet and cold
weather, hundreds of acres on the meld clay lands will pro.
duce very little more than the mod. With the es option of
a few place., nate are looking tolerably we'l, and the pm
and beams promise) a fair average crop. The number of sutras
s..wa kaa nut teen so great as in former peers Thera hag
been too much rain fee the pie.a•cier, but it is yet it o early
for soy judgment 'is he formed as to the az.ent or quality of
the crop.—Norfolk einvnicle.
OITORD.—IIay-m4king his begun in • preat may plum,
sad, should the weather er ntinele as it is, :he scythe will he
In Lull sun* in this neighb,urb,,od at the beginning of the
setting week. Int grass has the appearance of Swing full
nyc ; the meadows and upland. pronatee stuns crop ; there
ie a good bottom to the grass, and the quality, from great
rapidity et growth, will he fine,ehould the weather emtmue
favourable for making it. The lowlands arc still swampy
and bare of gram, and the., partaking of the Ottinwr che-
ese, r. which are considerable in eaten,. are stil under
water—ctireumetanots that will tend to pull 4..wa the aver-
age of the a*. The corn 6. Ids lush well, but on the cold
elap the wheat plait is thiu in the furrows ; we noticed this
appearacce to occur more frequently on the Bicester
site of this ei'y ohm elsewhere ; on the b liters
of Be rkshire it is just the reverse, and the fields
present one uniform cheat-it-4 and very sp'endid cep.
psarance. Barley, Math late end early sow el, is alike
plethoric, and we anticipate It will he proneuaeed too
big " on h*hly cultivated wile; a few instate. s art failure
occur on stiff land, Leto which barley ought rover to be
ca t. Of nets, hems, and peas, the prays. tis eneou-a 'Me ;
the winter bun may be oarticulariseal as a decide I hit, the
Amain in length and size is monstrous; we hod the curmity
to eu I up and menus? a stalk 'yawing is a field wear the
Kidlington turnpike, and found it Ow feet five In la a Its
height. The bean crap has, we fear, oar red parti.l Misery
from the storm on Tuesday more Mg, a heavy fail of hail
hay net (mum I in the northern parts of tbecounty.
Jackson's Orford Jaffna.

Tae New Rorie TO PARIS.—The time ransomed
in the sea passage by the sew route via Newhaven and
Dieppe, will 'virago little more than five hours, the Maii-
cian, belonging to the General Steam Navigation Company,
!wriest, on Tuesday lest, made her outward and how ward
tiip in that time. The saving by the land journey is Calle:-
derable, and the toil expense is also less than by oiler
TOW'S N. wham, it will be rememberwl, is directly oppo-
site Dieppe.
DESTRUCTIVE STORE AT IRE ISLE OF
Our enriespondent writes as folows :—" Cowes, June B.
Shortly of er eleven ceclnt k, a m., this day, a violent storm
of rata came on, deluging the streets and houses, in many of
which •he water rose to the height of eighteen inches ; and
immediately alter came on • most terrific visi•ation of
thw.der ind lightning, heavy and vivid, which providm-
Nally d;d not last more than half an hour. After the storm
had slightly abated, every one wee out to learn what amount
of damage had been sustained. At Osborne, the marine re
silence of her Majesty, it is stated that three of the
men engaged on the works st present going on there were
struck by lightning. Dr. Hoffonister, surgeon to the house
hold, was immediately amt for, and promptly attended, asel
aimainistered the necessary means to the sufferers ; and we
hear this evening that all are still livirg. A fine ki tch, just
built by Mr. Joseph White, of East Cowes, and ready for
launching, was strcek by the electric fluid ; her meat I. tom
pletely destroyed, being almost split to ribbons ; her deck
torn up, end other injuries sustained ; fortunately no one was
on board at the t•me. At West Cowes, the R. Y. S. yacht
Hobe, Just hauled up on the slipway of Die. Ratuy, the
yacht builder, had her mast struck by the lightning, and
rent to pieces. There were several aen working on hostel
this yact.t at the time, but although they eat:eine' ced smart
shock, no one sustained any injury. At Bar. Cowes Perk,
the mansion lately occupied by O. Brookes, Big, was in-
jured, ar.d many minor casualties occurred.
THE SALE AT STANFIELD HALL.—Nomcroc a eitifore
attended the sale of the hrusebold effects at Stanfield
Hall. Tte announcement that the furniture remained
Alm et in the same state as on the night of the muster no
doubt tended much to attract the Curious. The sale com-
menced on Tuesday, and extended over the two following
days. The London trains took numerous parties down to
view the scene of the Norfolk tragedy, and as the entree
oiled be obtained by purchasing a catalogue, price is 6d.,
the hall was crowded. Several of the apartments were fitted
or in a very superb manner, the furniture, which was mostly
in the Louts Quatorxe style, fetching good priers. One lot,
No. 62, a costly state bedstead, 9 feet high and 6 feet wide,
formed of Spanish mahogany, French pilished, elaborately
carved with the Jersey arms, was knocked down for 381.
massive, beautifully-constrted bedstead, formerly belong-
ing to the Empress Joe. phine, only realised 191.) The hall
is now untenanted, and doubtless will continue so, the alleged
claimants to the estate having, it is mid, protested against
its sate.
REBELLION Longs (CANADA.—The appendix, last
print-d, of the first report of theeonstaisaioners appointed to in-
nquire into the losses measiosted by the troubles in Canada in
1837 and 1838, and into the damages arising therefrom, con-
tains a lista( the names of the claimants, by which It appears
that they are 2,176 la number. The total sum claimed
before the former cessmisoloa was 70,6611. 3e. 9d , and of
this amount 10,2921. 4e. 11. was awarded, 3,6201. 6s. re-
jected, and 69,4034 16a.104. not investigated. The amount
claimed before the present commission is 241,9661. 109. 6.1
The yr perty, real or personal, damaged or destroyed, is
linO,CBBl. 12s. Bd., and the claim for casual, specalattve, or
other losses, 61,8761. 17s. 9d.
MIBBIONAIIIEL.-41 vessel celled the hoe, which
mailed from Liverpool, yesterday, for Africa, carried out about
• dozen methodist seisaiessriss.

NirraOPOLITAN CHARITY HCIIOOUI.—On Thurs-
day the sanivermry suedes el the dimity children of the
meuspolitan schools was held at Ilt. Pure Cathedral.
Within the issue's spies hoes the organ loft to the western
mimeses of St. Paul's, there meld ace have been less than
from 16,000 to 16,000 lamas being' seenabled. The seats
in the centre able had, by a new and very judicious arrange-
meal, been slightly raised, in tiers in the centre of the tran-
Mille time kg the eitileleme were in the unal circular
.......langsitepot for etch school, and the whole
6•41 the basement men than half way up the huge
pgleggimen which *edema le supported. Within the space
thus Weald pews had been erected for the elite cs the
ofkand hers ale,wmglaced the pulpit for the preacher
-charity sermon. This outline of the arrangements
some idea alike spend, which the interior of the
presented whim, at 12 o'clock, the service com-
l.'. Perin standing in the centre of the transept's,
aboat him a dis•hignished asoemblage, among
R,,... Marquis of Westminster and hie son, Lord sad
I listkiren, two daughters of the Doke of Sutherland,
the ight Hon. Mr. and the Hon. Mrs. Pox Mauls, Lord
and Lady Charles Russell, the family of the Prussian
Ambesesdor, the Lord Mayer, Aldermen, and Sheriffs, in
their rotes of state. many of the clergy in their robes, and
the Bishop of Oxford, the preacher of the dimity sermon.
I Hensmag in this easemblege, like the wall of en aasphie
theatre% were placed the children of the different charity
schools in the metropolis, to the number of 6,000 and up-
, gaols& vast and shining Gran f, ranged in compact and
array, and presenhog • solid mass of health,
and youth, wash it was impossible to survey
wi t emetion. The service was performed with the usual
leVal
, and effort, the ohildren signing the parts allotted
with more tints ordinary presides. It is quite,
imie seible to appreciate, without having heard it, the
dividing effect produced by the voices of 5,000 children jerked
in the antic of the church. The Bishop of Ox` rd preached
an el•quent sermon from the text, "Ye are the light of the
world The collection male at the doors of the cathedral
exceeded that of last year by 1501, and amounted is all to
apostle of 7001. la the evening the patrons of the festival
dieted :together at the London Tavern, the Lord Mayor
presidirg. The musical arrangements, both at the cathedral
and the dinner, wen under the sole direction of Mr. GM,
the organist.
THE NEW SAVINGS' BANK BILL. —We bare
heart i: rated, and on seemingly good authority, that OA
bin to be brought in by the government will propos& a
further reductive in the rate of interest allowed by the
Tutus,' v. a. from IL has. to 31. 2a. 6d. per cent., of *hide
21. 10e. is to be paid to the depositors, 7s. Yid. for maw.
meet, and be. to the treasurer for being reversible for the 1
delimits, As regards the truth of this repent, we can only
say the: the name of a high legal hasMoaary was stated
26 ma authority in the matter, sad that, se far, we have I
teases for believing soch to be the iatentien of government. I
It would, of emcee, be premature to oroke any remarks'
stAtil the pmposed plans are fairly before %he public, bet any
such fee settling what to us is the easiest of all oceetions,
will, most assured‘y, meet with our do:i 'ed opposition.—
The Reporter and Se:dingo' Banks Aerocate.
1111LITART COLLEGE, ADDISOOMBE.—Yesterday a
deputation from the East India-house, and a large body of
I the nobility and gentry, she had received invitatione, pro-
ended to the military seminary at Addiscombe, for the
purpose of recenieg a report from the Lieutenant Governor
of the progress made by, the cadets, and distriituting the
rewards gamed by them wenn the last term. The examine-
Voss were conducted by Sir Charles Parley, B. E.; ant the
rem it yeomen, nded that Moors. Montgoneerie, Warned,
Ryres, D nit:deem. Cowan, ant Blagrave be selected to the
Eeeneers, the 17 following names to the Artillery, and the
remainder to the Infantry. The fo lowing Ms s were then
awarded: Ur. Montroinerie—First prize is H adust.iaLfi.at
good conduct, and the Pollock medal. Mr. Warrand—Fint
prise in mathematics. Mr. Donaleison—Pr:z• a in military
drawing, chemistry, and civil drawing. Mr. Cotgrave—
Second ,erize in good conduct, and second in Hindustani.
Mr Blagrave—First prise in fortificaticr. Mr. Hughes—
'Second priz •in fartificetion, and prise in Ledo. Mr. Trevor
—Priz •• in Hindustani, and third good conduct. Mr. Brown-
low-1f ilitary surveying, and prize in Latin. Mr. Jam, 8—
' Prize in civil mewing. Mr. Defree—Second price in ford.
i *cation, and prise in military drawing. Mr. Campbell—
;Prze in Freud', and fourth good ceaduct. The cadets
I afterwards went through the mental exerdis.s, and the court
broke op.
CAI 1.51 TO THE BAR.— LINTOLN'iI INN.—The
Trinity Term cells to the bar of the Monourahler Society of
ILine fres lon were made yesterday, and they com-
prised the after. mentioned rode men :—Fountain H. Elwin,
Beg.; Edward T. Wakefild, Bp ; John J. Stutter,
M.A.; John R. Brasier, MA.; George T. Pecan, BA.;
H 'riper J. Wilkireon, MA.; William R. Jones, M. A ;
P3iii.. H. Peps', MA.; &meal Senn, Bin.; ead Frederic
W. De raw. 11. A.-Itirtan TitiarLa..—The Trinity Ti Mt
' calls to Viet bar of the Inner Temple were mho made yester-
day, And they compr.'ed tho after-mentioned gentle-
m• n :—G. urge phallism Tucker, B.A. ; John Henry Brand,
D.r.L. ; Hoary William Sharpe, B.A. ; Willingham
I Frankl.n. 8.A.; Edward
R::ahtnn jun., B.A. ; David
Ainswor h, S.C. L. ; Thomas Broiksbtink, jun . B A ;
Fr, dark Stewart Mac Godlier. Esti. - Thomas Morrocka,
Foq ; Richard Berton, B.A ; Edward. Alexander Aubrey
Moriar.y, B.A. ' • 'Ratcliffe Print, E c..; Richard Areheum
Cone.. B. A. ; Bor.jarnin }Naples Haworth, B. A. ; and
Charles Edward Murray, Req.
SOUTH LONDON RAGGED SCHOGL.—On Thursday
Bright the third annual meeting , f this smo 4 wait held at the
ILori.sTavern,Kennioston,Mr.Llnder $ ierif Wire presiding,
sung irted be C. Hiridley. Rag.. M.l'. Rev. C. Kimble Mr.
H 1 Hussey, en others. The report gtated, that the Kimble,
generally is in a vend prosperous condition. The expenses'
for tLe past -.,-e.ir amounted to 1651. 17s. 6d.; and the re-
m line to the come moult. The number of boys admitted
sines Ltheommencerment is G2fi, and the number of girls
.533; the number of boys received during the year was
s•ar. 4 at itO, ar.d the Bids 147: and the average attendance
was A 1 keys, and 66 g irk. A great desire for impr .vrniont
was otwerwsble among all the roholan, many of whom are
both fa hatless tn.! modredess. The report was unanimously
Adopted.
THE GAME Laws.—For a boar time a strong feel-
isg has prevailed among the tenant farmers of %hie c iunty
'Oast the preservation of " game," or, as the tarsance
ear been aptly designated, vermin. Two or three years ago,
Geo. Finch, Erg., of Burley, very considerately paid the
Mal amt deference to this feeling. and liberally gave per-
Edwina to his tenants end others+ to destroy. all the game
they could find on Lis estates. The concesewn was at the
time received as a boon by Mr. Finch's tenants, and the
neioklyouring agricafturista I oked will something like
envy on those who were thus favoured. Surprise was,
theref te. fdt last week 'run an announeernent that one
of Mr. Finch's tenants wee a prosecutor is a cue of game
trespass; and by those who were unacquainted with the
nature of the charge, some misgiving was felt kit Mr Finch
lid changed 1 is mind relative to the game question : the
affair WIN rendered the more double' by the fact that the
person who had summand the scented had formerly giver
u-srance to a strong opinion respecting the evil of game-
preserving. It has turned out, however, that the incon-
sistency...al not on the part of the landlord (whose liberality
as such is estensiv ly appreciated) ; tor on the hearing of the
charge at the petty lessons at Ropinghem ten Monday lest,
Mr. Finch wan present, sad distinctly declared that he is
reposed to game preserving, and gives full liberty to persons
to destroy ash, game en his estates. The charge against the
alleged trispener was dirmiesed.— Lincoln Mercury.