The Express.
London, England, 1859-10-18 00:00:00

AGRICULTURAL PROSPECT&

There was a considerable fall of rain at intervals
during the firm four days of the week. Thursday wee dull,
but dry ; Friday, a very One day ; and on Saturday, with a
steadily falling barometer, there was not mach rain until the
evening. The wind mostly blew from the north end nest,
the thermometer ranging from 80 :8.6 tress at mipedadV
in the shire. Field work has been a deal atm
the heavy lands being too wet for wing, and not mocli
wheat hu been sown during the week. It is ocinaidered that
the autumnal tillage will be very backward, from present
appearances, as more wet weather has been experienced
during the past and present month than is usual at this
arson of the year. The fall of rain has been reported
by some parties over four inches during the month
of September, and on one day, at Southampton, it
registered two inches within the twenty-four hours. The
farmers now require very dry and line October weather to
bring up the work no far behind, but present appearances do
not indicate this desirable change. The selection of the beet
samples of nod wheat continues to go on with activity, and
the object of paying a few shillings per quarter rite, fee
approved descriptions is nothing, in mewls= to the return
at rzvest time. Those ferment who were eardul in this
respect last year have reaped their »weed the past harvest.
In Scotland there appears to be moss spirit evinced than in
England, and the sales there have been larger than usual,
from the fine qualities secured this year, and many shillings
per quarter more money have frequatly been given for
selected parcels than the millers would pay for them. There is,
however, little enoouragement given to the farmers to thresh
freely at prompt rates, although some Improvement is
wines( up. Almost Imperceptibly within the past gr./.
five Weeks the better sorts have advanced fully 4e per qr.,
bat yet Men is room for amendment. The sgricaltnrtsL we
entitled to still more than they are obtaining for all sorts.
There is more encouragement to thrash barleys than wheat;
and it appears to be the determination of formers to being
out fine samples freely. In the agricultural district. the
brewers are acting with more spirit than the merchants, sad
securing all the finest ampler they can obtain, giving up to
464. and 4Ss. per qr. These are picked out so deter-
' minedly that few really choice are
find their way to the
metropolis ; and the =litters there do not give over 445. to
456. per qr. for each as appear. The Burton ale brewers are
paying lc to is. per qr. more for choice Bavarian qualities
than they were offered at, in large quantities, for delivery,
about a month ago, taking the very same bulks then offered
them at 86e. pee qr. free on board now et 28s, per qr. in
London, with freight and other charges to add for transit
from hence to Grimsby, and thence to the rimer,. These
qualities Sr. every way suitable for their palest ales; and, for
want of sufficient fine English, they will have to resort to the
choice Seale and Bavarian (iodides throughout the melting
lemon. Intermediate qualities of English an the meet
abundant, prices of which range from 324. to 365., whilst low
grinding sorb are being used so freely on the farms that the
deliveries of these descriptioas are trifling end unimportant.
In some instances low stuff hu been sold at 20a. per qr.—
Oct. ls.—Jferk-lan4 Repress.

Aw OSPRET.—A few days Mum a beautiful male
osprey was shot in the neighbourhood of Dartford. It was
about for three or four days, coming to a millheed to feed on
the gudgeon. It measured five feet four inches across the
whop from tip to tip.

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ATTEMPTED SUICIDE FROM JEALOUBT.—Yinte-
day morning week, a young men. named Joesph Roots, is
the employ of Mr. J. C. Thorpe, of Charlton Mill, and lodg-
ing at Mr. Madden's, Chariton, staggered from the yard
into the kitchen of the latter, with a deep gash in his throat,
from which blood wee copiously flowing. Mr. Madden
pieced him on a bed and sent at once for a surgeon, who on
attending sewed up the wound, and Roots is now likely to
recover. The muse of the attempt seem' to have bean
jealousy. On the previous evening (Sunday) Roots had
paned • young woman (to whom he wee attached) in com-
pany with another man, when she avoided say recognition
of him, • slight which preyed heavily on his mind.—Booth
Stagers Besets.

Flatten TOO SOON.—An amusing affair took place
• few minutes peat five o'clock with the artillery at Stirling
Castle. The mail train from the north came up at • rattling
speed, and those on the look out for her Majesty thought it
was the royal train and fired off the salute, and PO, when the
royal train weed some time after, no sound of seance
reached her royal ear.-41Irra Journal.
THE CAPTURE OP THE NANA.—It i• high tinte
indeed, that the telegram should announce the capture of the
man who, of all men that ever existed. has done most despite
to England. It seems almost impossible that the slaughterer
of English women and infante should still live to renew his
defiance to our arms. Yet so it is—he that more than two
years ago deluged Cawripore with English blood to still a
king, still the leader of a host, still mocks at and insults the
power which oolong ego menaced him with instant vengeance,
still has with him English captive., and still fosters and builds
up the hops of all who hate the English name. We must
be pardoned If we think the triumphs of our armies are shorn
of half their brilliance so long as the Nana survive., and we
may be sure this, too,is the universal thought of the natives
of India. It may be said, however, that it is easy to
censure; not so to point out what should be done. Look
beck to the Afdlma war. When Drat Mahomed, • far more
formidable antagonist than the Nana, fled ken Cabool, more
decisive measures were undertaken against him. A body of
cavalry were selected for the pursuit, led by the Bayard et
India. James Outran'. Had It not been for the treachery
of Hall Khan Esker, that pursuit would have been into-
coastal. A similar exploit might be attempted now, with far
greater prospect of mew. The fastnesses of Nevin' are not
such that a fugitive could tartly extricate himself from them,
and to fly further east would be to hasten to certain death
amid the mown of the Himalayas. A thousned picked
cavalry, a Oorkha regiment of infantry, would suffice for the
undertaking. Promise two lathe to the troop or company
that takes the Nana, and • thousand pounds and the Victoria
Cross to the *facer who leads them, and the tenors that
cling to him now will soon be scattered to the wind.. and
their chief slain or • prisoner. The capture of the Hens
thue achieved, would do as much to restore the prestige. of
England ea the appearance of • fresh army in the fiekt—
Bornetrard Mail, Oct. 17.
SHAM MATERNITY.—Attother case of obtaining
peeseion of another person's child has occurred in France.
In the neighbourhood of Dereaselbs (Ammon), a widow al
nearly fifty years of age succeeded ems time ago in inducing
a young man to marry her; but," says the local journal,'
" wermay taste in extenuation of the latter that he is weak he
intellect." In the marriage settlement it was stipulated that
the woman should bare certain pecuniary advantages in the
event of b,c.,comine • mother ; but time having weed on
without that event being likely to be realised, she pretended
to be eerieste, and • few days ago announced that she would
seen be confined. She them weed to Decesovillo, and after •
while returned with a child, which she triumphantly pre-
seated to her husband as theirs. The man behaved her, but
the neighbours, having doubted her pregnancy, communi-
cated with the oommiseary of police, and from an investigs-
Poe made by him it turned out that she had pinhead the
child from • young woman who had just been delivered at •
midwife's in the town. The woman carried saturant:a so far
that she had made preparations for haulm' the child reen-
tered and cbristeued as her own. She has been committed
far trial.