The Express.
London, England, 1862-08-19 00:00:00

AGRICULTURAL PROSPECTS.

The week Voogd Mealy ; although the first day
was dull and cloudy, but there was no rain. Wind W.N.W.
to W. Barometer well up. The ReCOnd dry MY dull up to
2 p.m., when it became sunny and warm, held fine the re-
mainder of the day, and harvest work penoseded; vigorously
in all the early districts. On Tuesday the morning was
thick, but with the afternoon sunny ; wind &W., thermo-
meter 70 dwi., barometer 30.20 inches, but slightly falling :
another good harvest day, and great ;smells reeking. Our
advices from Suffolk : " Harvest n rapidly progressing, and
fourteen days of fine weather will see a large breadth safely
housed. The yield of such fields as lime been
thrashed out is very disappointing bushels per
n acre i the lowest we have heard of ; this was blighted Tale-
vera, and sold at lets. per qr. • whereas the largest yield is 40
bushels, which was exeepuorselly good. A great breadth of
the early wheat will not yield more than 16 bushels per
acre." Wedoesday proved a warm dull day ; barometer
falling steadily, wind but no rain up to 11 p.m.,
although very threatening. Hey eet work proceeded stea-
dily, bat was the last favourable day of the week. From
Norfolk, near Attleborough, on that day, it was remarked :
—"We have not yet bervest, but shall do so about
Friday, weather perml Our wheats ripen most un-
kindly, and I think, cannot prove an average yield. Barleys
are good, and all we now want is firm weather to secure
Man ; but we have &poem-mom of rah today.* Oa Thurs-
day morning it appeared that much rain in the mat night bad
fallen, and the day was showery, warm, and close. Wind
S.& W. A bad harvest day wherever such weather was
experienced. On the meat of Suffolk our advices run :
" The weather with as during the past week has been
dry, yet smiles' ; to-day we have nice showers, which will
mellow our barley and help our root crop. Our reports of
the wheat crop as it cute up are very unpromising ; and,
although all the early wheats will be the worst, still we
look generally for a short yield and varied quality. No
coma opinion, though, can be formed until fairly tested
by threshing." From Somersetehire en the same day it was
remarked :—" lo our district the crops, on the whole, are
rtgood in quality, and I hope • fair yield ; but the
farmer
begins to complain that his yield he fears will not
be szir be goad as expected ; there is -ant the quantity it
to before cutting. Beans are good, and the
barleys en improved. Oats a fair crop. The weather this
week is broken ; today we have had very seeking storms,
which have put a stop to reaping. If the weather keeps
stormy we shall not have much new wheat to market
yard directly, sad I fear it will be hurried into riek before it
is thy. If the weather lied kept fie* today and
there would have been some dry wheat put together. On
Friday there was drizzling rain the greatest part of the
famooo, with sabsememtly some very heavy 'bowers,
which would prevent harvest work spin going ow Prom
Lincolnshire on that day it was stated : "As far as harvest
is tioneerned, we seem to be little or no neater than het
week. Some people mate a beginning, but have Moo obliged
to suspend operations awhile, and yet grain is doing well,
and both wheat and barley promise to be large in the
bony and I think hereabees our barley will not be
blackened as it has been of late years more or less.
The high wiodi have damaged the wheat by eorm,
break* the thin crops, and Ibis maker it difficult
to mow ar nap." From the West Bidiag of Yorkshire,
the same day, our advioes say: " We have not had much rain
during this weak, but almost everyday has been very gloomy.
Many of the farmers to-day say that they will be ready for
harvest towards the mid of next week ; and en looking at
Revere fields of wheat last night, I found that the straw to-
wards the bottom was riper than at the top ; so that a few
sonny days would make it appear quite ripe." Another as-
count from the same quarter save : "The weather since lee
Friday, though cloudy, bas beau mostly dry, end to-day was
fine. A few Mesas of wheat are cutting between Doseester
and Barnsley, and more will begin on Monday if weather
permit." Saturday morning was rather finer, the wind
having gone round to the north-east ; but rain commenced
before noon, and a good deal fell throughout the remainder
of the day, making the third unfavourable day for the pro-
pees of harvest, and any thrashed during that period must
come forward in poor condition. On the whole, this has
been a very unfavourable week ; and unless the weather
holds up, the atmosphere is so close, that sprouting of both
wheat and barley may soca take plase.—Mort Lam Er-
prr.u.

itirritOPOLITAN RAlLWAY.—Yesterday the con-
tatieders sad their workmen controweed operations connected
with cerrytog the public rend and bridge war the seaway
running from Ray-street by the Middlesex Seesiose-hoes
to Hatton-gardeo, and which will be formed of a series of
meagre iron girders, now ready on the ground for lire:
The winger stations at Farriegdon-street and IC s-
aves are nearly completed. They are both of considers
extent. That at Farriegdoumtreet, intended to be only •
tamper ly structure, is of timber with elated roof, the one
at Kn.'s-cross of trick with • glass and iron girder roof.
The company were applied to to construct the girder bridge
Ray-etreet of greater width, but objected oa the ground
that it would cost an additional 1,2001. .

Tai CAPSIZING Ur THS SHIP GANOLS.—Yester-
day afternoon Ur. Humphreys resumed this inquiry (vened
on Saturday), at the Albion Tavern, High-street, Sbndwell,
into the circumstances leading to the deaths of the Are

foacars, Seamen and surgeon-"who were drowned io the
Ganges when that vessel capsized in the river off the Shad-
well-gate of the Loudon Docks, on Tuesday last. Some ad-
ditional evidence having been taken, the coroner, in sum-
ming up, directed spode] attention to the point of ballast,
mare especially to the opinion expressed by the captain,
that the ship would not have gone over if she had had 100
tons of river ballast on board ; and to the opinion expressed
by the mate, that the mese of the accident was the power
of the tide acting upon the keel, in the same way as if a
man's legs were struck from under him, the tightness of the
tow-rope and Use heeling over of the vessel at the same
time. The jury, after a brief retirement from the room, re-
turned as their vindict, that „the five Lamers bad died
from suffocation closed by the upsyttiog of the ship Ganges
from the insufficiency of ballast ;" and they appended an ex-
pression of their opinion, that "ships am too frequently
sent from wet dock to dry dock in a dangerous condition
from the name cause.'

SINOLL•11 Dr it.—Yesterday Mr. Langham
held an inquest at St. George's Hospital on the body of
William Wards, aged 25, a police-constable, who lost his
life under the following circumstances. George Lansford,
321 X., said he knew the deceased, who resided at 3. Dean-
street, Westminster. On Saturday het witness, deceased,
and another police-constable were returning from the Ex-
bibitioe at shoat 8 o'clock in the evening. They were in
the Cromwell-road, and as it was raining hard, they all ran
to catch an omnibus which was standing at the corner of the
Exhibition-toad, deceased being in advance. Soddenly he
stumbled sod fail, hie head being is the road, and his feet
and legs on the path. Finding he did not rise, witness and
his other companion went to his assistance. He was quite
iseensible, and a cab being procured, be was taken to St.
George's Hospital, when the medics' alter pronounced him
to boded. Mr. Hall. satismot house-surgeon, said he saw
deemed on kis admierion on Saturday. He was quite dead,
and there wee nothing externally to account for death. He
bad Moe* made • pose-wortent examination of the body, and
found three false teeth at the entrees) to the glottis, which
' had mused suffocation. sod produced instant death. All
the organs Were healthy. The jury returned • verdict.,
" Accidental death." Tbedecieeed, it appeared in evi-
dence, had obtained leave of absence on Wednesday lest for
two hours, for the purpose of having the three teeth put in,
which caused him to lose his life in so singular a manner.
EXICUTION AT BODNIN.—John Doidge, who was
tried, convicted, and sentenced to death for the wilful
murder of Roger Dye* at St. Stephen, by Lounge:doe, on
the 7th of June last, wee executed yesterday in the front of
the county gaol at Bothnia. His general dem.-auour since
that time has been subdued, and at times papaw:it's!, and
be has little to any one but the Rev. W. F. Everest,
the chaplain, and even to him he was rot very communica-
tive. The unhappy man amass to have been through life
• neglected outcast—the illegitimate child of • most sinful
mother, committed in Mfancy to the care of an old
woman, who as his foster mother gave him little nurture of
an educational character, but left him to grow up without
any training, instruction, or guidance. The constant exhor-
tation of the chaplain to penitence, faith, and subniissioa to
the Divine will have led the culprit fully to cookies his
crime, and to acknowledge that he deserves his fate. He
bas expressed himself in terms of foreiveneas to those who
be thinks spoke more than the truth to procure his con-
demnation. The wretched man has throughout the period
mime his ooanctiou attended chapel with much apparent
devoutness, and on Sunday morning seemed particularly
earnest in his prayers. He appeared penitent to the last,
and was attended to the scaffold by Mr. Edmond Carl yon,
under-sheriff ; Captain Gdville, the governor ; and the Rev,
W. F. Everest, the chaplain. The unhappy man died
easily. There was an immense crowd of swersent.
SINGING Mica,—Mr. F. T. Buckland,
and,ill a letter
to the Queen, says :—" Mr. Kidd writes very tenderly about
singing mice, but does be know what makes the mouse
slag? I believe (sod so does Mr. Bartlett, of the Zoologi-
cal Gardens, a gentleman who has great experience and
observation) that this singing 14-6 cry of distress and
psis. I have dissected many singing voice, and my ob-
servations agree with those of other observers, that singing
mice invariably have a terrible living parasite in the
substance of the liver. This horrid themes keeps the poor
MOMS I. • terrible state of pain and irritation, and he
can't help lettnig us know, in his own pretty way, that he
is in pets and distress. If Hr. Kidd likes, I will send
to your °See a Waging mouse dissected, to show this
canons disease."
Subscriptions are being raised at Southampton
to provide a one hundred guinea challenge vase, to be shot
for by the volunteers of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.

FII N, EVERY WEEK, ONE PENNY.