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London, England, 1847-09-07 00:00:00

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Oats bays cut up well, and will prove a good yield,
except on some of the poor thin 'oils, where um drought
in July we, too much for them. Beans are not likely to
be nearly so good as was expected, in consequence of the
check they received from the hot, dry weather. Tke potato
crop has gone on muck more favourably than was at one
time expected. Blight is found occasionally ; but there is
every reams to expect an ►verage crop from the quantity
sown, which, as compared with other years, WU small. Of
turnips we are not able to speak so favourably as we could
with . they have not only suffered much from want of mois-
ture, but also from the grub. The mangold wurtsel, we are
pleased to say, is, generally speaking, good, which will assist
to making up the apprehended deficiency of winter-food for
the tattle. . .

LT;C.;I;I4IItII.—A great quantity of grain has been car-
ried, but a good deal remains out, and the weather is
much broken. Of the potato crop we have little to add
to last week's report. The Itivel 11713 all fast withering
away, and the rot amongst the tubers goes on, hut still there
will, we have no doubt, be a very large available crop.
NORTILUMBERLAND.—Wheat and barley are above an
average crop. Oats and beans will not be an average. Peas
are an average. Potatoes are diseased in some gardens, and
plaoea enclosed by high hedges; and trees. * parties
who have taken them up have adopted the precaution of
dryieg them in the sun two days; we did the same last year,
and the potatoes kept well. Our pastures are much burnt
up ; the springs are beginning to run a little stronger, giving
us a prospect of rain. Our early-sown turnips are looking
well; our last-own are backward, and there was an extra
quantity sown.
OXFORIIBIIIBII.—The harvest is all but completed in this
comity. Generally speaking, our crop of wheat is an average
one. We certainly have districts that have experienced
mach blight, but they are the exception. We have seen
some very tine samples of new wheats ; and barley is excel-
lent, both in quantity and quality. Beans will produce an
uneven sample ; the top pods, having been injured by the
insect, will produce small beans, and thereby render the
sample uneven, perhaps more so than peas, although they
have suffered from the smother-fly. Winter vetches in some
fields are well earned ; in others, they have suffered from the
blight. They are likely to meet a good sale; the fields being
cleared early, and the turnip crop defective (owing, in many
cases, to the want of sufficient and timely care on the part of
the tanner), earl vetches will be grown as a substitute.
Seeds, owing to the heavy crops of bailey, appear to be de-
fective in plant, and will produce but litde.autumnal feed.

MORRIBLE MURDERS IN BRUSSELS.—A frightful
event, *triple 'nailer, has thrown the Inhabitants et this
city into a state of the greatest excitement. The scene of the
assusination is a large private residence,situated in the Place
Bt. Gery, the oldest part of Brussels. It type= that about
9 o'clock on Thursday night last the male servant of M.
Evenepael, the ownor of the house, returned there in order
to get some oats for his master's horses, and in peocceeding
to the kitchen to procure • light, stumbled over some heavy
substance, which on closer inspection he found to be the
dead body of one of the female servants. The next minute
he saw her fellow-servant lying near her, and also quite dead.
Both had several wounds m their throats, from which the
blood still hinted. The domestic immediately gave the alarm,
and the neighboun rushed into the house with the view of
effecting, it possible, the capture of the murderers. On
hastily searching the house, another horrid spectacle was
presented to their view. In a email room, on the fist floor,
lay the mutilated body of Ifdlle. Evenepoel, the sister of the
master of the house. It was soon discovered that many pieces
of furniture had been broken open, and that a quantity of
valuable property had been carried off. At the time the
triple murder was committed, M. Evenepoel, who is the
head steward or agent of the Count de liGrode, the repre-
sentative of one of the oldest and noblest families in this
country, was in his box at the Thane Ravel, and it was
there that he first received the distressing intelligence of
the murder of his sister and their two servants. The un-
fortunate victims Went interred on Friday sfternoon,
after a solemn funeral service had been performed in the
church of N. D. de Bon Snouts. An immense number of
persons followed the funeral. The male servant, after
having undergone • strict examination, has been set at
liberty. Two young men, who were courting the servants of
M. Evenepoel, are still in custody, as wen as a cab-driver.
Amongst the objects stolen were gold watches and chains,
diamond pins, several pieces of plate, Dutch 311. pieces, and a
quantity of English sixpences. The river Some, which runs
behind the garden, was dragged, but nothing was found in
it. Nothing of a suspicious nature was found on the male
servant, or the other two who axe still in custody. One
of the murdered servants wen four months gone with child.
She was shortly to be married. A large house-dog was also
found killed, and • little spaniel cruelly injured. Judging
by the marks of footstep" it would appear that there were
three persons concerned in effecting the murder. According
to all appearances, it appears that the servnate were imme-
diately attacked on opening the street door, stunned at
once with dreadful blows, and coolly massacred, and that as
soon as they ceased to exist, the murderers proceeded to
Mdlle. Evenepoel's room, where they also deepatched the
unfortunate lady.
How LOCALITY AFFECTS LIPE.—It is found, from
the last report of the Registrar-General, that in the Ulver-
ston district one person in fear attains the age of seventy; in
Lancaster, one in six; in Preston, one in fifteen ; in Man-
chester, one in seventeen ; in Liverpool, one in twenty.
A CLERGYMAN IN TROUBLE.—The Manchester
Courier mays " A melancholy eight was witnessed at the
Borough Court on Thursday norning, and such • one in
feet as, we trust, will not again be afforded to the habitual
loungers and spectators who daily resort there. A clergy-
man, a curate of the establishment, whose name, from
motives of charity, we suppress, ems, on that morning,
placed in the dock before Mr. Maude on a charge of
drunken and disorderly conduct. The misguided man in
question arrived in -Manchester from the scene of his
ministerial labours on Tuesday evening, and was staying,
we believe, at the Crooked Billet, in New Brown.
street. Whilst there his conduct was of so singular a
kind (as though induced by delirium tremens), that the
landlord found it necessary to eject him. Where he went
thence we cannot say, but he was next heard of early on
Wednesday morning, annoying and challenging to fight
gentlemen at the Poet-office. } rota here, however, he was
driven by Haalsm, the police-officer usually stationed there,
and he marched into the Commercial Inn. Whilst there, he
became quits outrageous, stripping off his coat to fight the
landlord, when a policeman was sent for, and he was given
into custody. Atter hearing the evidence, Mr. Maude was
evidently convinced that the prisoner bad lost the use of his
reason through drink, and, after expressing his regret that
any one occupying such a position should so far forget him-
self, he told him that he must be detained in custody until
his Mends could be communicated with.

RAILWAY BRIDGES.—The committee of the town
council have come toa resolution to recommend the council
not to sanction any fiat•beam girder bridges for railways
within the borough of Manchester, and to submit to the
council a plan for arched bridges of which they recommend
the council to approve. The South Junction and Altrinch-
ham Railway Company are said to be desirous to meet the
wishes of the corporation in this respect, and, although no
formal resolution to that effect has been paned, there is little
doubt that they will substitute arched bridges for girders on
their line throughout the borough.
THE GRASS, Phalaris utriculata (the Alopeenrue
utriculatue of Persoon and Kunth) has been recently detected
by Mr. J. Hussey, near Swanage, extremely abundant in
one corner of a field. It is a native of France and Germany;
and it is not a little singular, says the " Journal of Botany,"
that Loath, in his " Agrostographia," gives " Anglia " as
one of its localities.

TRE DONCASTER CCE.—The cup this year, executed
after the model of Mr. Cotterill, comma of a cup and cover,
very handsome in figure and elaborate in execution. The
cup itself is richly decorated with tasteful ornaments in the
early Italian style, and the cover is surmounted by an
animated equestrian group of Richard Cirur de Leon and some
Saracens, one of whom he has cut down with Lis battle-
axe, and is preparing to repel the attack of another, who is
threatening him with his spear. The incident is supposed
to have occurred at the battle of Ascslou, where Richard
displayed, according to the old chronicles, great power and
dexterity with his mighty axe. The height of the cup and
cover is 3ft. 3lin., and its weight 263 ounces. The judicious
intermixture of the dead and burnished silver imparts ad-
ditional beauty to this racing cup ; and we cannot help con-
gratulating the stewards in having secured the talents of so
clever an artist to make the model-for it.

DEATH OF BIicKIsoIIAY, TUE COMEDlAN.—Yes-
terday afternoon, about half-past 3 o'clock, Thomas Bucking-
ham, aged 62 years, the well known comedian, expired
in Lambeth-workhouse, ander very painful circumstances.
It appears that he has for some time past been suffering
great privation and distress, chiefly owing to his bodily
infirmity aad long-standing disease. Latterly he has
been residing is a small room (almost void of the neces-
sary comforts his distress and reduced state of health unfor-
tunately required), in the neighbourhood of Oakley-
street, Lambeth, where he would no doubt have died from
want had it not been for the kind interference of Mr.
Macintelh, the worthy host of the Red Lion Tavern, West-
minster bridge-road, Lambeth, who on Saturday week
heard of Tom's distressing position. Ho repaired to the
unfortunate actor's residence, and, upon finding him in an
almost destitute state, ordered a cab, and had him removed
to Lambeth-workhouse, where he was immediately seen by
Mr. Thomas Oliver Duke, the eminent surgeon, of the
Kennington road, who, after examining him, ordered his
removal to the infirmary, where he received the most prompt
and kind attention from the whole of the °facia's. He con-
tinued under the care of the surgeon and Hs assistant, who
gave him wine, arrow-root, mutton, and every nourishment
his distressing condition required ; but, unfortunately, he
gradually sunk, and died from general debility at the time
above named. All playgoers must recollect his great talent
in various parts at all our London and provincial theatres.
He had a great and successful run whilst Elliston was in
, session 0 the Surrey, and his performance of Giles, in" The
Miller's Maid," was certainly a finished piece of acting. His
Miser, to " The Fortunes of Nigel," and his " Imitations of
London Actors," were unrivalled. Ile has left some relations
in London, but whether his funeral will be a parochial one
or cot is as yet not arranged. Surely a few of his theatrical
brethren can raise a sufficient sum to defray the expenses of
the funeral ceremony, and not to let the workhouse be the
" Actor's last Home.,'

COMMERCIAL MARKETS.
MONEY MARKET & CITY INTELLIGENCE.
Two o'Clock.—The accounts from the Continent
were thought this morning to look rather more en-
couraging, and it is hoped that any serious result
from the present state of political relations between
Austria and the Pope may, after all, be avoided. The
stock-market has, nevertheless, remained quiescent.
Consols are 87; to for money, and 87? to 8 for the
account. Exchequer Bills, 4e. to 7s. premium.
In the foreign house, the Mexican funds have again