The Express.
London, England, 1860-09-29 00:00:00

THE CROPS AND DRAINAGE.

The nave weeks at which, three months ago, we
enimatal the delay of harvest time by the weather of
April, May, anl June, have been doubled at the least by
the weather at Jule, August, soil September. We are
sow, over Mai of the southern counties, no wane the
artitel oar hereon than we were in the middle
eeth lest year. Having traversed many
of them onaties during the past ten days, we
are bead to speak of the bimentolde coonquences
which an mow at length following upon the perpetusl
rainfall of maey weeks. There as everywhere an im•
memo extort et barley either lying in swathe upon
the ipowed or beaten flat amidst the clovers which are
growing theeirgli it. A great deal of wheat, too, remains
uncunied 0. 41 the higher lands. And the high prices
realised for the few good ...melee in the market show bow
"emend is the opinion of the injure which has been sus.
Mimed Beside, the corn epee the land, then is, we
more water standing on the surface now than
then boor at any time for many peeving years.
And bemeath that surface the whole substance of the
sail is water.logged and saturate! more gemerany
than km been-known sines most of our drainage
emPasiers romineeced their operations. We caned
need
that dun ng the coming winter the mis-
treat between drained sod untrained laud will be
more obvious than ever. And the discussion. of
our a7icultural journals will turn almost exclusively. upoe
the anomalies of drainage legislation • and the practice and
the principlia.d th.• oper.ition it professes to promote. We
mast add that the oddness of this wet weather, while it
has delayed or diminished the injunes sustained by oar
corn crops, Ins greatly retarded the growth of an green
mops, and a dripping sem...w has not proved so beoeficial to
the growth of swedes slid mange( wunels am might have
been expected —.A:rneeltarel fia.-effe.

LOSS col THE CONWAY EMIGRANT SHIP.
The intelligence of the lose el the chip Conway,
belonging to Mew.. B•iDel. of Liverpool, was erode
ktiowe yesterday by the receipt el • Wean= at the Ad-
miralty ; cad, from the cirrundiancie Ilse weed bevies
obtained Nene notoriety previous to her roiling, the an-
taimicarrieut of her wreck excited ems seneatino at Lloyd's
sod the Jerusalem. In the early part of Int July the fedi'
Council adyerti.ed for tenders for • ship for the conveysnur
tmopi from EngLnd to Cakutta- Mame those ten-
dered waa the ship Cotiway, of 1,196 tom, built i• litAl at
tit. John's, but when surveyed by the officers of the couched
sbe was pros...uncut used for the mnioe, soil accordingly
declined. A few weeks afterwards the k:migraticai Corn-
tunianiers Intimated that 16 bad been taken u for the
pennon of emigrants, and Abe left Ec lasd with 364
ben, women, mad children—for Calcutta.
.'othherv°B7:eas heard of her until yesterday, when the fol-
lowing letter wee received at :

" Admiralty, flept.
" Sir, lam eornmanded by my Lords Commissioners of
the Admiralty to seqsaat you, for the information of the
Committee for margins the affairs of Lloyd's, that a tele-
gram has jod been received dating that her Mejostv's
dimmer Geyser, cm her arrival at Plymouth, reported the
&handsomest of ilk* Conway, of Liverpool, 300 mike N.W.
of Madeira, oa the 9th ism..., crew arid pamensen. :414 in
number, all of whom were saved kr the Sommer Cloud, of
linaluo, sad land-d at Marlalre. Pee Geyser has
the master sad mew ken. The 1.,,,5vn. were soldiers,
women, and children. for Calcutin—l am, sir, ke.,
G.
" To Captain Halstead, R.N., aserstary of Lloyd's." Ronanrs.
The Summer Cloud left the L .adoo pucks for isydney on
the 6th of August. The Colmar is pertly insured.

: ISALUTINO VOLUNTEER OTTICERR--StrOrtg hopes
are entertained in military circles that the coder for saluting
volunteer officio., which has given on much umbrage to the
I I lower ranks of the regalar arias., will shortly be caneellexl,
or, et least, eo needified, as to deprive it of much of its
obteetionable character. -United Serroy G,-di,
lloN•0 ABED LINE-or-BArrtz SHIP:.—The time
' . has come when a decision must be arrived at as to whether
we arc t., le, aati.died with large fleets of wooden line-cd-
bottle Alp., or if we are to take advice front our 'wild--
hour, and adopt the nyeteto which they are bringing into
ay of having arniour-easol sewed. w 'rawer h to rot our
future hatt!es. We believe that the comptroller of the
is most euxiou. not to he behind in the race
which
Prance leas fair to run with us in the building of iron
steenorhijo ; and we are certain that any apparent delay
which has taken place in giving °niers for the construction of
a farther number of these formidable but most expensive '
ships, proeeeds merely from a desire on his part to be con-
vinced that he possessed the plans and models of vessels
wit ed
g„kui,,t pt.', only b. act ea engines of warfare but ae
safe a 'Abner The lord. of the
.tdmiralty have also,we
believe, felt reluctant to hazard any more of the public
inoneT in what might have been considered a hazardous
experiment, and have been desirous first of testing all the
various qualities of the W:trrior and Black Prince. These
ships should, sounding to contract, have twee read.; for
lied at the vice moment we are writing,' but
from delays which have arisen from various
...e., the time mentioned for their being fit
for soi vire is precisely the autumn of next year. We
hare taken pains to ascertain the reason of this serious
breach of covenant, and And that the authorities have a
right to. omplain .4 the tardy I, mduct of the contractors,
although, on the I •th,..r hand, the latter excuse thernselver
Icy se. ing that they are not to blame for the alterotious
whirl; have been made he the Admiralty during the time
the ships have been building, end for which they have
claimed en extension of the period originally LHOWO(.I them.
—Anne nod X.-2, tAr:olf.
A VILLAUZ OP ARP.r."4l,* EATEBR.—A stream
called Whitbeek rising in the Flladionmbe lionntain
in West Crimberland, contains arsenic in determinable
quantity. The arsenic is roost pruhalelv derived from veins
of a:rebd cobalt ore, through which it percolate', for a
few yards above the retire of the heck there ii the eutrance
of a mice which is very rich in sreeni, al ~e,.. Thr ar...i.
cal water is handtuaUv used for every peeper by the johahi.
tante of the little village of Whitlock, and with beneficial
trait, se appareut thst one might be justifies' in paradoxi-
tally characterising it as a very wholeeonie prison, the
deadly element in dilution being proloetoe of the most
sanatory effects' Ducks will not live if ,- eitined to the
Whitneek, and while trout .brand in all the neighbouring
weeder, so In. are ever found in the amentetesl stnsain.
Bat its use liy the villazirs does not give rise to R.,
symptoms of arsenical poisoning, but rather to the effect.
which arc observed in Styria amongst the ;Arsenic eaters
there. When the railway wan being carried past Whitlock,
the first nee of the wat, r preducal the ulna] masked effects
ma the throats both of them n and horses employed on the
work& The eereore 44 mouth from which they at first
suffered. soon ,however, duappearvel, and in th.• horses wive
ries to that ideeksese of coat Assigned as one .4 the . tfeeta
pemmemi by the administration of minute but rep aced
doses 4 arsenic. It is a question how far the rosy looks
of the Whitbeck children, and the old atm, which a large
' so of the inhabitants of the village attain, are to
reP:t7iirnited to the arsenic wrest in the water.— West-
tadorriow•l 1:17. We.

A N r.v/ 1112,11110 NWT-OFFICE FOR Tug WOR-
M,. In a few des. a new district poet-ogee will be opened
at the Weet-cod, for the greater conveelence of the lithe-
bitent• thee part of the metropolis. The building, which
was former's in the occupation of the Oriente! flab, is si-
tuated to Vert-street, r nfunlatreet, and extends in the
rear to hapol•phi,e. the lest, r pleas lain; for the accm-
modation of lens, the meters, and the general deli-
Trr, Patna's. The old post-Ake, in New Cavendishatnet.
bee les. n long complained of as beteg too contracted for the
nr-J ua their, wl.eu ID coLnaqUeafr of a repro-
's/nationharts;•omebate ,trztr heel) made to the P.,,t101111-
ter-i :orient, an enter ..as given by the !Secretary of Su do
to erect tie lair bedding.