The Express.
London, England, 1860-09-08 00:00:00

THE CROPS

The following reports, which we have selected
from to-day's provincial journals, will be interesting at the
Present juncture :
Km.—Tie farmers in this neighbeerhood have availed
themeelves of the fine weather which has prevailed during
the week, to cut a coesidatable breadth of corn, and get it
lately housed. After all foreboding*, the wheat trop
to be
been p
the grain being well developed.
Tie seta bays been partially laid in some pleas, but DO
merlons Wary to the crop ID likely to ensue.—Maidstone
Joe nut/.

weather during the weak has
born alkali* could be desired, so that harvest opeattions
have been curled on without impediment. In this district
vast quantities of wheat Lave been scoured, and some of it
has already found its way into the market. The accounts
in this district continue to be most deplorable respecting
potatoes ; the Regents appear to have suffered mast, but
with them the deatruction is not universal, for a friend
brought to our office on Thursday a sample of some he had
been takingvp, and they were splendid potatoes, weighing
three.quarters of a pound each.—Combridue Independent.
YORILBHIRE. —During the present week we have hail an
agreeable change in the weather. tie now hope for a fine
season for the harvest, which will be general in the next
week. Cutting has been partially going on around us for
the last tea days, and the crops are on the whole quite as
good as the adverse season could justify us in expecting.—
Yorkabire Gazefte.

illattAll. —Taking the Mlle route in the beginning of this
week ea we had done a fht ago, we found two-thirds
of the barley- then as "colouring "--alrestly
in the sheaf ; and the oats and beans—then noticed ea in a
"forward condttion"—were also seat, although, ea we opine,
rather before they were ready, as, on examination, we
found the cots rather skinny, while some heads, left by the
hedge, exhibited the grain well filled, plump, and hard.
Wheat and rye have also improved wonderfully considering
the weather ; cud wo hope that, after all, things will not be
so bad as those chronic croakers, who wish to raise the
market., would have as believe. There is certainly no rea-
son as yet to be alarmed, so far as this immediate neigh-
bourhood is concerned. The ruin id plump and well filled,
and only requires a few days' sun to make it all that could
be desired. A correspondent, who has just returned from
Ebchniter and the shotley Bridge district, states that he
found the crops in his round remarkably good, and the
cereals in a condition egtudly as forward as the same grain
in this district.—Acwastte C7tronick.

GiIDAIXING.—nie farmers in this neighbourhood have
been very busy durnig the recent fine weather, gathering in
their crops. Most of the corn about ekidalinin,,,. is now har-
vested, sad we are glad to believe that both the quautity
and quality of the grain are eatiefeetory.—Surr, Stan,lord.
OXFURDSHIELE.— The reporta which have rea,.bed u,e fr•m
various parte of the county agree in speaking favounsbly of
the prospects of the harvest. Nearly all the wheat is cut,
and is being carted in every direction. The general im-
pression is that the issue of the wheat harvest in this
neighbourhood will be much more successful than was
anticipated a fortnight ago, both as regards quantity and
quality. The barley crop varies too much ti express an
opinion upon it. Oats are better spoken of. The most
discouraging aocounta are daily being received relative to
the potato crop, the disease spreading with a rapidity and
effect scarcely equalled in former peen—OA/ord Caruaide.
WEST or ENGLAND.—The progress of the harvest is
very satisfactory in the west of England. The wheat is
in much better condition than was anticipated. The long
range of cold wet weather seems to have dome the least
possible mischief so far as this district is concerned. The
low temperature, by keeping down vegetation, prevented
the grain from germinating, and the hne weather, which
we may date from Wednesday week, found the wheat, all
things considered, in a very much better state than mizht
have been expected. In low, fenny, and uudriined lands
there is much damage to be comp Lined of ; but so far as
this part of England is concerned the condition of the
mope is better than was expected.— W(eterii
EITAFFORDSEURE. —The anticipations respecting the
weather in which we ventured to indulge last week, have,
we are happy to env, been realised, harvest operations
h►ve become general, and a tolerable amount of core, prin-
cipally barley and oats h: c., been secured in good condition.
The yield will, it is still believed, be below the average,
though the general expression is that "the crops will turn
out much better than possibly could have been expected."
There will be a fair crop of turnips, and also of beans„and
the deficiency in the supply of hay, caused by the wet
weather, which spoilt much that had been cut but re-
mained uncarried, will, in a alight degree, be made up by
• second crop, to be gathered from the grounds which were
mown before the wet mother set in. At the present time
than s every prospect of provisions being obtained at •
moderate price during the next twelve mouths.- Stafford-
skin Advertiser.

Essurx.—During the week an immense amount of labour
hen been thrown into our fields, and a considerable breadth
of corn has fallen to scythe and sickle. Hands were never
known to he more plentiful ; labourer and mechanic have
came forward to mast in the harvest, and the result is an
unparalleled advance of harvest work. We are now in
a condition to give an opinion as to the bulk of straw,
and generally speaking there is a peat deficiency here.
We think we are not far out in estimating it at least
a fourth, and in many cases a third short of last year ; and
the can are by no means full. They feel soft to the hand,
and are what we call " entity," and our opinion of the
yield per acre is by no means favourable. Barley cuts
up very scanty to ewaithe, and we cannot help evtimating
that crop at least one-third deficient of an average on all
heavy lands ; it is rather better on light rich Linda ; but the
scythe affords strung evidence of a scanty yield. The
sample at present is excellent : we never remember it to be
better. It has dyed a beautiful colour, and will suit the
maltater in every respect, both in plumpness and quality, if
the ingathering is suitable. At the same time the clover
with it will make its harvesting very troublesome and pre-
carious. We regret to find that pest of the clover plant, "the
Dodder," very prevalent this seaaou.—Estez Tel grape.
WasemoaxcaND.—Within the last week a rust welcome
change ham taken place in the weather, which has become
highly favourable for harvesting operations. Below this
town (Kendal). to the south, the harvest is now becoming
general. and we hear good accounts of the crape of all kinds.
—Westmoreland Gaxtte.

INotaN INcone TAX.—The following communi-
cation has been addressed to the Bank of England, order-
ing the deduction of Indian income-tat from the native
securities held on this side. It created great surprise,
although the evasive answers given to every recent
in parliament on the subject had left the public in some
uncertainty on the point. Indian and Engli4l income-
tart will now be charged on the same stock,
that is to say, from the dividends henceforth to be
paid the flank will deduct 8 per cent. It seems im-
possible, however, that this practice can be main-
tained, and an impression, moreover, prevails that
if it is brought before the law courts it will be pronounced
Illegal :—" Gentlemen,—l am directed by the Secretary of
State for India in Council to acquaint you that information
haa been received from India that the Income-La Act has
been passed by the legislature there, and, in accordance
with the provisions of the said act, I am to request that you
will give directions for the deduction of 4 per cent. income-
tax on all interest due on and after the 31st of August last,
is respect of promissory notes endorsed ' Interest .üblect to
the deduction of income-tax and also in respect ~f stock
created by the registration of promissory notes which have
been in endorsed.—l have the honour to be, gentlemen,
your obedient servant, J. C. Maceut India-office,
Sept 6."
Eyesores ix 1871.—A clever little philosopher of
the last century (says Notes and Queries), the Abbe
Galiari, amused himself on the 27th April, 1771, with
writing to his friend Madame d'Epinay, from Nles,
sketch of " Europe ea it would be in a hundred years.' The
conjecture of a wit cast at random, sometimes hits nearer
the mark than might have been anticipated. As only ten
years are now wanting to the period of fulfilment, it may
be as well to know the fate which, according to the abbe,
awaits us :—" In 100 years we shall resemble the Chinese
much more than we do at present. There will be two
very distinct religions—the one that of the higher and
lettered classes ; the other that of the people, which will
be divided between three or four mete, living on tolerably
good terms with each other. Priests and monks will be
more numerous then they are now—moderately rich,
ignored, and tmisquiL The Pope will be nothing mote than
an illustrious bishop, and not a sovereign. They will have
pared away all his temporal dominion, bit by bit. There
will be large regular armies on foot, and but little fighting.
The troops will perform admirably oa parade, but scalier
officers nor soldiers will be tierce or brave—they will
wear rich uniforms, and that is all. The chief sovereign
of Europe will be the monarch of our Tatters—that is to
say, the prince who will possess Poland, Russia, Prussia,
and comnaand the Baltic and the Black Seas, for the nations
of the north will always remain less cowardly than those
of the south. The remaining princes will be under the
political mastery of this predominant cabinet. England
will separate herself from Europe as Japan has done from
China. She will unite herself with her America, of which
abewill posses* the greater part, and control the commerce
of the remainder. There will be despotism everywhere, but
despotism without cruelty, without effusion of blood—a
despotism of chicanery, founded always on the interpreta-
tion of old law, on the cunning and alright of the courts
and lawyers, a despotism of which the great aim will be to
get at the wealth of individuals. Happy hi those days the
millionaires, who will be our mandarins. They will be every-
thing, for the military will eerie only fur parade. Manufac-
tures will flourish everywhere, as they do now in India."
Citowx-omcs, Barr. s.—Member returned to
serve in the present parliament for the borough of
Ludlow—Captain the Hon. George Herbert Windsor Wind-
ear Clive, of Oekly-park, in the county of Salop, in the
ream of the Hoe. Percy Egerton Herbert, who has secepted
the elite of steward of her Majesty's Chiltern Hundreds.—
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