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

SUSSEX AGRICULTURAL REPORT.

With the exception of a few fine days, at the
commencement of July, the weather has been of the same
unfavourable character as we had during the whole summer.
There has not been a single really wpm, sunny day ' • the
rain at times has fallen in torrents, sad we have also had
several severe thunder storms. Such weather cannot fail
to be prejudicial to the growing crops. There was at one
time a prospect of a heavy crop of hay, but a very large por-
tion is all but cpoiled, and, on some of the low lands,
nearly the whole of the crop has been carried
away by the Hoods ' • during the few fine days we
had, some portion was secured in good order, but the great
bulk of the hay this year will be of very inferior quality.
Every one is Dow anxious as to our harvest prospects, and,
so far as all experience goes, it has been any thing but a
favourable time for the corn mope, but, in spite of the
weather, the wheat looks better than could be expected. It
is true there is a good deal that is thin, and, on the cold,
wet soils, the crop will be had, but there are many pieces
that look as promising as any we ever saw and the ears ap-
pear to be well filled, but we can hardly expect good
quality if the present ungenial weather continues. -The
harvest must be very late ; the most forward Talavera
wheat will not be fit to cut for the next ten days or a
fortnight, and the great bulk of the crop will not be
ready before the last week in August, so that the millers
will have but little chance of getting any new wheat
until the end of the month. On looking back for
the laid twenty years, we find that the latest period at
which we delivered oar first lot of new Talavera wheat was
the 10th of August., and the earliest the 20th of July, so
that the harvest this year will be considerably later than
any we have had during that time. On the Down farms •
and dry soil. the We and barley are very goad, but on the .
clays they have been bad from the time they came up, and
have never improved. Winter beans vary much ;in some
places they are good, and in others very had. Peas upon
stiff soils, are completely gone, and the haulm has been cut
and the land ploughed up; on dry soils there is nu abund-
dance of haulm, but the pods are not very numerous.
Winter tares do not Itid well, and we quite ex.
pect they will be very scarce and dear. We regret to
say that there are unmistakeable signs of the
potato disease ; as yet, the tubers are not seriously affected,
and should we get fine, dry weather, the crop may not be
greatly damaged, but a continuance of wet would uudoubt-
edly spoil • very large portion. The most =favourable
symptom is the offensive smell that comes from the decay-
ing green tops, which is very perceptible early in the morn-
ing and late in the evening, bat it is scarcely to to detected
in the day time.—BriyAtoir Garotte.

MR. J. B. GOUGH'S FAIZWELL ORATION.
Yesterday evening this celebrated temperance orator deli-
vered lus farewell oration in Exeter-hall, which was
crowded. Mr. George Cruikshank resided, and having
made a few remelts, Mr. Gough rose and spoke with great
animation for an hour and a half. Mr. Tweedie then
stated that Mr. Gough had that night concluded his
three years engagement with the National Temperance
Lc.gue, having besides spent a period equal to one year
under the direction of the Scottish Temperance League, for
whom he viaited nearly every town in Scotland and several
of the more important towns of Ireland, holding large
meetings in eels. He had delivered in England three hun-
dred and ninet -nine addresses, averaging four orations
• week, and addeausd to at least five hundred thousand
hearers, of whom about twelve thousand have signed the
pledge of total abstinence. A larger number, there was rea-
son to believe, have also been led by his appeals to become
abstainers who have not identified themselves with the
movement. Those who have signed the pledge have been
chiefly of the middle class, although many of the upper
have also joined, besides numbers of the working classes.
Mr. Samuel 13ow1y presented an address to Mr. Gough, in
which he was highly eulogiied, and in which a hope was
expressed that be would return to Faghusel. The address
was signed by Sir Fitzroy Ke'ly, M.P., Mr. Gurney, M.P.e
Mr. Puhnore, M.P., Mr. Creas M.P., Sir G. Strickland.
and 280 other gentlemen. Mr. Ileputy Judge Payne them
presented Mr. Gough with an elegantly bound Bible, the
gift of the persons who had signed the pledge after hearing
him in Exeter.hall.

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WHAT—
CAN BE BOI7OHT WITH RALT-A-CROWN.--
For example, a poor widow came with her two little boys
in the "slack season" of needlework, to the Refuge at
Field•lane. Eager to return to honest independence, she
was started on her owe amount in a, bare room, and obtained
the loan of a chaff bed and bolster. What sum would suffice
to furnish her with necessaries! Halfa-crown was all she
borrowed for the purpose. She hunted up a chair with
three legs and no back,which she could have for threepence.
and she knew •Fiuyeater who had a spare leg of a chair.
In the same spirit she made successful search for all her
other furniture : found a table, a cup, a saucer, a plate, a
kettle, and so forth; leaving livepsisoe of surplus when her
furniture had all been bought. The flveperice she, with all
simplicity of heart, mrried back to her benefactor.
Diekends " Allike Year Round."

VALUE OF LANDED PROPESTY. —The Berkswell-
hall Estate, Warwickshire, ten miles from Leamington, in
a favourite sporting country, was submitted to public auc-
tion, at the Part, City, yesterday, by Mewls. Chinnock
and Galiworthy. The sale attracted a large attendance of
gentlemen from the midland counties, with their agents.
evidently intent on purchaaing this fins estate. The rental.
as stated in the particulars, was 2,350/., including the cot•
tages, and 2501. fixed as the estimated rental of the mansion.
The bidding, commenced at 60.0001., and after a spirited
competition the price reached 81,0001., at which it was sold
Ito Thomas Walker, Eat. of Orgreaves Park, near Lich-
field, thus realising 34 ream purchaae on the total rental,
With the addition fitiabir at