The Express.
London, England, 1868-07-10 00:00:00

FOREIGN MAILS.

QuerNpruwm, Jvi.y 9.—The National Steamship Company's
steamer Pennsylvania, from Liverpool, arrived here at 11.30 a.m.
to-day; and having embarked passenger., prooooded for New
York ; all well.
filLssuow, Jetv9.—The Allan Comma?. steamer St. Andrew,
from Quebec on the 27th alt., arrived here this morning.
GIBRALTAR Jute 9.-7 be Peninsular and Oriental Steam
Navigation COmpany's steamer Delta, tram Southampton on the
4th instant, arrived at 8 a.m. to-day, and kayos at fra.m. for
Alexandria. She experienced fine weather. All well.
GOVIIIARPTON! JOLT 9.—The Royal Mail Compant's ateaniship
Plata, Capt. Moir, sailed this afternoon with the Brasil mails, &e.
hie took out 89 passengers and a general cargo, including Roglish
specie, !44,446; bar salver, 17,800; jewellery, 1235 ; and French
jewellery value 14,718.

ROYAL COLLEGE OF Summons. —The annual
election of fellows into the council of the college having
terminated has been succeeded by others amongst the
members of that body who, on the. ' 9th mitant,
elected Mr. Richard Quoin, F.A.S., consulting sur-
geon to University College Hospital, to theresi-
dent's chair, vice Mr. Hilton, F.R.S., retiring in the
prescribed order ; and Mr. Edward Cock tad Mr..
Samuel Solly, F.R.8., surgeons respectively to Guy's and
St. Thomas's Hospitals, were elected vice-presidents of
the college for the ensuing collegiate year. At the same
meeting Mr. Richard Partridge, F.R.8., was elected an
examiner in dental surgery in the vacancy occasioned by
the resignation of that office by Mr. James Luke. Ano-
ther important election which took place the same day, and
for which several candidates were nominated, was that
of examiners in medicine, when Drs. Peacock and Wilks,
physicians respectively to St. Thomas's and Guy's Hospitals,
were elected. It •nay not, perhaps, be generally known,
even amongst the members of the profession, that owing
to a desire on the part of the council to raise even the
present high character of the diploma of membership of
the London College of Surgeons, it has been resolved that
on and after the lst of October next, all cuclidates pre-
renting themselves for the final examination for member-
thin will be required to pass an examination in medicine
at the college, or to produce a recognised degree, diploma,
or license in this branch of knowledge, before receiving
the diploma. At the same meeting of the council, Messrs.
Huxley and Le Oros Clark were re-elected professors of
comparative anatomy and ph logy, and of surgery' and
Eat.lkaol respectively And Mr. J. W. Hulke, of KW.
Col age Hospital, received the new collegiate appointment
of lecturer ou anatomy_ and
110Y:408 Thollas.
WatkinaViLliains, of Meech& -street, Birmingham, was
admitted a fellow of the college, his diploma of member-
ship bearing date April 3, 1840.

MX.IDEXT MT TEE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.
—On Thursday afternoon an accident occurred on the
Great Western Railway, near Oxford, which might have
been attended with very serious, if not fatal consequences.
An engine bad been shunted on to a side line not far
from the elation. and the Fointsman having omitted to
close the switch the train which left Oxford at 347 ran into
the engine, and such was the force of the collision that
several persons occupying third class carriages in the fore
part of the train were thrown against each other from the
opposite 'Wes of the carriages, receiving • very severe
plinking, and some received cute about She head. ceasing
the blood to flow freely. One or two children had some of
their teeth kncekett out. The guard was so much iajared
about the fate that he was sent on to Oxford to have his
wccutie diem ecl. All the injured persona wore immedi-
ately att.. sided to by the railway officials. but nose were
fiwaid to have been se.rieudy Injured. After a delay of
about ten minutes, the train was dc-intchod to London.
REDUCTION IN 'rim TEA DUTY.—Hornimaa's
tete Um, are ed. per aimed shearer. Their with! is all partial
ilea lawless are_esanuniar 'genets( Irma mambo et thane lair
awned 8011& MO (mils pasksia--Wivatissowasj.

DENMARK.
00PRIttLiONN, JOLT 9.
It is asserted upon good authority that the be-
trothal of the Crown Prince of Denmark with the
Primness Royal of Sweden will take place the day
after to-morrow. Count Wachtmeister, the Swe-
dish Minister for Foreign Affairs, who had been
ppecially despatehed to this capital to sign the act
of betrothal, has arrived hero.

The Crown Prince leaves on Saturday for the
Castle of flofiero in Sweden, at the invitation of
lie Duko of East Oothland. His royal highness
will subsequently proceed, in oonipany with the
ging of Sweden, to the Summer Palace at
p kaskug•

PORTUGAL.
PARIS, JULY 0, Eviimuto.
The Epoque sweets thin evening that agitation
exiete in Portagal.

TUE NEW EGYPTIAN LOAN.
ALEXANDRIA, Jinx 9.

Negotiations have been suooessfully concludod
for increasing the loan for 6,000,0001., recently
contracted with Mears. Oppenheim, to 8,000,0001.,
redeemable in thirty years. This arrangement
enables the Egyptian Government to carry out
effectually its policy of totally extinguishing the
floating debt.

MK BANK OF FRANCE.
PARIS, Just 9.
The return of the Bank of France, issued to-day,
shows the following 'changes as compared with the
return • of last week : —lncrease.-•-Notes issued,
15,339,000 f. ; advances, 100,000 f. Decrease.—
Private accounts, 36,500,0001.; cash in hand,
14,7t0,000f. ; treasury balance, 6,600,0001. ; bills
discounted, 4,250,00(1.

AMERICA.
NEW YORK, JULY 9.

The Democratic Convention have unanimously
nominated, on the twenty-second ballot, Mr.
Horatio Seymour as candidate for the Presidency
of the United States. General Frank P. Blair
wit nominated candidate for the Vice-Presidency
by acclamation.
The steamers leaving to-day for Europe take
376,000 dole. in specie.
. The Allan steamship Damascus arrived out to-
day.
• (lasing Prices:—Gold, 1401; sterling exchange
on London, lun ; 3-20 United States Bonds, 1882,
113} ; ditto, 1883, 1111; 10-40 United States
Bonds, 1071. Illinois, 164. Cotton : Middling
Upland, 321. Petroleum, standard White, 35*.
Flour, extra State, 7.95, 8.55 dole. ; Corn, old
mixed, 1.15 dol.
(ay artAxxie CABLE.)
(MOM ova MOLL COBILBEKBIDIET. )
NEW YORK, JULY 9.
The Democratic Convention has nominated
Horatio Seymour, ex-Governor of New York, for
President.

sz.sorroa INTELLIGENCE.

CITY. OP LONDON.—An influential meeting of
members of the committee of the Liberal Registration
Association of the City was held at the offices of the
society, in Bush-lane, on Wednesday. for the purpose of
considering what steps should be taken in respect of the
ensuing election of members to represent the City in par-
liament, and also to ascertain the views of the present
sitting members. The meeting was, as preliminary meet-
ings generally are, of a strictly private character, and
confined entirely to members of the committee of the
society. There • was a conversation with reference to the
registration of voters, after which it was announced that
the present members—the Right Hon. O. J. %when,
Baron Lionel de Rothschild, Mr. R. W. Crawford, and
Mr. Mclennan Lawrence—intended to offer themselves
for re-election at the ensuing election. The announce-
ment was received with cheers.

Clientem.—Tbe conservatives intend bringing
forward Vice-Admiral G. Elliot, late Superintendent of
Portsmouth Dockyard, to contest this borough with Mr.
Arthur J. Otway, the present member.
CoLcrli.srEß.—We learn by telegraph that a
crowded meeting of liberals was held Let evening ; Mr.
J. B. Harvey in the chair. It was proposed by Mr. J. S.
Barnes, and seconded by Mr. E. Smith, that Mr. Rebow,
the present member, be invited to stand again at the next
election. It was then prod by Mr. F. B. Philbrick,
and seconded by Mr. W. Barrett, president of the Work-
ing Men's Liberal Aesociation, that the second candidate
be Dr. Brewer • and this was carried with enthusiasm.
Both candidates addressed the meeting, giving cordial
adhesion to Mr. Gladstone's measures.

EAST SUPFOLIC.X private meeting of the
secretaries of the Association for the Liberal Election in
East Suffolk (appointed subsequently to the last election
for this division, in order to organise the party for the next
contest), has been held at Ipswich, and it was agreed to
send a deputation to ask Mr. George Tomline, of Orwell:
park Nucton, to come forward in conjunction with
Colonel Adair. Mr. Tomline has hitherto represented
Shrewsbury, end was one of the "Adullamites.'
GREENWICIL—Lest evening a numerously at-
tended meeting of the leading liberal electors of the
borough of Greenwich was held at the Literary Institution
of that town, for the purpose of securing the return of the
R*lit Hon. W. E. Gladstone aa one of the representatives
of the borough at the forthcoming general election. Mr.
W. Angerstem, who presided, said he had great pleasure
in allowing his name to appear as the chairman of the com-
mittee which had been formed for the bordugh of Green-
wich to support the return of Mr. Gladstone. By return-
ing Mr. Gladstone they would do honour to themselves,
and also honour the right hon. gentleman whom they
all desired to return, for should he fail for South
Lancashire, then they could offer him a seat for
Greenwich, and if elected for South Lancashire, as
he believed Mr. Gladstone would be, they need
not be ashamed of having elected him as one of their re-
presentatives, for Mr. Gladstone bad entered parliament
as a conservative, had grown to a strong and stronger
liberal, and was the best man to lead the great liberal
party in the House of Co:Onions. Mr. Dickson, of Dept-
ford, and Mr.Jolle, of Woolwich, reported the results of
meetings of the liberal party held in those towns, fully
concurring in the object- of the meeting, Mr. Jolly adding
that so astounded was a leading and well known
conservative at the step the liberal party had thus
taken, that he raid the only way to defeat it was
to bring forward Mr. Disraeli as a candidate.
Mr. W. C. lienoett moved the first resolution, accept-
ing the Eight Hon. W. E. Gladstone as one of the candi-
dates for the borough. He observed that at the meeting
held at Woolwich on Tuesday evening, Mr. Baxter
langley, who was before the constituency as a candidate
for the representation, had stated that he was too good •
liberal to stand in opposition, or to divide the liberal in-
terest against two such candidates as the Right Hoe. W.
E. Gladstone and Mr. Alderman Salomon,,, and had pro-
mised to give every eupport in his power to secure their
election. (Applause.) They had also heard that Sir W.
Codrington, who had formerly represented the borough,
was likely to become a candidate, but he held a
communication in his hand, and which he was
at liberty to read, in which Sir W. Codring-
ten said :—" Although there may be some doubt
whether Mr. (Hailstone would separate himself from the
great constituency he at present represents, it certainly
would be injudicious for another liberal candidate to come
into the field rending the reply of the right hon. gentle-
man to the invitation whieTt may bo conveyed to him."
(Applause.) Sir William Codrington also "No
second liberal candidate could afford to lose thesupport,
from whatever came, of the body of gentlemen who are
endeavouring to secure for the borough of Greenwich the
distinction they are now seeking to obtain for it." Mr.
NV hite reotsided the resolution, which was carried with
acclamation. It was then determined to form local com-
mittees in the several towns in the borough, and a vote of
thanks to the chair man closed the prooseisgA

Admiral Farragut haa written to the Mayor of
Poutbaroyton orpressing his regret at being unable to
accept tU invitation of hie worship to a public 4ixter-
taiament.

It would be difficult to find a more charming
suburban retreat than Hurlingham-park, Fulham.
" The New Red-house and River-side Club," as it
has been recently dubbed, gives but an inadequate
notion of its quiet retirement and sylvan beauty.
" The Red-house ! "—coupled, too, with the
" river-side"--auggests the dreadful tavern, now
no more, which made Sunday hideous, which
caused the steamboats to be crammed with cheap
and noisy pleasure-takers, and made the old Bat-
tersea-fields the centre of the kind of jollity we
associate with Bartlemy or Greenwich fair. Donkey
boys from Hampstead-heath, pigeon fanciers from
Spdalfields, Jew cigar vendors from Whitechapel,
the " knock-'em-downs," three-card men, hawkers
of cheap jewellery, Punch and Judy shows, the
sharpers and "bonnets" of our raoe-courses, were
all crowded together to shout and swear on
Sunday evenings in the vicinity of the Red-house.
The tavern itself was respectably conducted, but
the grounds near it had the fortune to collect to-
gether as motley and boisterous a crew as London
could furnish, and the Rod-house is a synonym
with most people who remember it for coarse and
turbulent enjoyment, and rough-and-ready deeds.
But it had a smack of sporting too, and shooting
matches were held to be its speciality. The new
Red-house--or, as most people prefer still to call
it, Hurlingham-house—is the reverse of all this,
save that, like its departed namesake, it is sup-
ported by both sexes, us situated on the banks of,
the Thames, and is devoted to the slaughter of
pigeons. But these points of similarity admitted,
the divergence is complete. The " red " of Hurl-
ingham, instead of being the blase of coarse colour
appropriate to a public-house, is of the mellow
respectable sort we all admire in ancient palaces
and well-established country seats. It is quiet,
secluded, aristocratic. No vulgar omnibus or
fussy coach runs by its gates; no noisier thorough-
fare than " the silent highway" can be seen from its
park or grounds. The plebeian who seeks to visit
tt for the first time had better lose himself about
Parson's-green, and then select the quietest and
most retired lane he can find to take him to his
destination. • Down this—not without a nursing
sense of wonder at the green fields and fresh
country on either side of him—and our represen-
tative stranger finds a lodge to his right, beyond
which is a spacious avenue of grand old trees.
But for the glimpse ho has had on his way of
some new oak palings—suggesting in their un-
painted freshness a recently erected circus or show
—through the thickset hedge, coupled with
the sharp and continuous crack of gun-firing
beyond them, he would havehesitated at stopping.
As it is, he asks one of the policemen who are
lounging near the lodge-gate whether this be
the suburban club he is in search of ; and then
showing hie credentials to the lodge-keeper, he
passes through a handsome private garden up to
an equally handsome, old-fashioned private house.
Through this, again, and noting that it is only
partially and temporarily furnished, and he is on
a grassy and flower-bedecked bank, looking on to
the Thames. Once admitted by the lodge-keeper,
he is free of the place. The garden he is in now
is full of rich and varied beauty. The river glides
swiftly by the lawn and the sloping banks to the
left, while, hidden by the umbrageous trees which
bound the grounds by the west are Putney-bridge,
Fulham Palace, and the modest little house still
pointed out as the whilom residence of Theodore
Hook. But turning from the water and looking
into the grounds, the leafy splendour of the
nthle trees—the one feature in landscape garden-
ing which money cannot buy ready-mad.e—the
quiet calm of the shady vistas, and carefully-pro-
tected grassy ladle to right and left, extort-ad-
miration even from the least observant. The
place is so calm, and still, and beautiful,
that it is difficult to realise that it is only
half an hour's drive from the most bustling parts
of London; and one proceeds in the direction of the
shooting ground with a vague sense of staying at
a country-house with a mixed party to dinner in
the evening. For here and there among the trees
and shrubs may be seen a light and wavy robe or
two, a bit of bright colour, or a gay head-dress ;
and the soft sound of feminine laughter floats upon
the air as we proceed. Through the gardens, and
past more fine oaks and elms, greenhouses, retired
paths, undulating grass-plots and flower-beds, and
a park is reached, in the best part of which is a
spacious enclosure separated from the rest by the
oak palings previously seen. The house and gar-
dens and park, the retirement, the cultivation, the
beauty, are all dependent upon what is now taking
place here. These things are kept up that pigeon's
may be killed. Here is a grand stand, which is
unoccupied to-day, through the wind being, as we
are told subsequently, in " the wrong quarter for
killing from it" ; and those who would have
filled it occupy a long line of chairs upon
the grass. Youth and age, beauty, rank,
fashion, culture, high names, and lofty lineage
are all present. The ladies seated with their
attendant cavaliers come first. Whatever Eng-
land has to show of refined and high-bred beauty
is to be seen among them. The most ancient blood
and the most graceful forms, the people, not who
are admitted amongst but who themselves con-
stitute the eri4ne de la creme of modern society of
both sexes, are here. The arrangements are
admirably suited to their purpose, and every fair
sitter has a full view of half a dozen little square
boxes—like those for bon bona—which are stationed
in a row from twenty to thirty yards from the line
of chairs. Each box contains a pigeon, which it
liberates by coming to pieces directly the string
attached to its roof and aides is pulled. The
instant the bird moves it is shot down. A little
lower down, but in the game line with the ladies,
the gentlemen are seated who have come un-
attached ; and from these the pigeon shooters
principally come. The July Handicap of five
sovereigns each, and confined to members of the
Hurlingham Club, was shot for last Saturday
afternoon. Among its competitors were peers
of various ranks—peers of the future from the
heir to a dukedom downwards; members of the
House of Commons, baronets, officers in the
army, including at lima one whose valour in the
field has been rewarded by the Victoria Cross; and
county gentlemen with historic names, and great
London " swells" by the score. Each of these
had been handicapped by Mr. Frank Heathcote,
one of the leading authonties of the world on this
particular phase of sport, and followed each other
in rapid succession to the "firing place. The dis-
tance at which they stood from the pigeons varied
according to skill and reputation, but in no case
was the person firing more than twenty-eight or
less than twenty-one yards from the bird he
aimed at. It is superfluous to add that a general
slaughter was the result. (At 21 yards, accord-
ing to Cunningham's " Handbook of London,"
the crack shots of the old Red-house would
always back themselves to kill 19 pigeons out
of 21.) Guns, ammunition, loaders, and at-
tendants behind the chairs ; a table with soorers
and list-keepers in front; long strings run-
ning from the little boxes to the table-feet, and
men to pull them when each shooter has taken his
place and given the word ; a pile of hampers from
which the pigeons were taken alive to the boxes,
and to which they are brought back dead by an
ugly hut sagacious black retriever, made up the
properties of the scene. The proceedings lasted
through the afternoon, and every bird shot et
was wounded, and with few exceptions killed. It
was laid that the pigeons supplied were
less strong on the wing than usual, and
were quiet and frightened—and that the
wind impelled them to fly on to the guns. Whe-
ther this was so or not the betting men—without
whom no English sport, however aristocratic,
would be complete—made a harvest by laying
three, three and a half, and even four to one that

the bird would die. Those who backed the gan
always won, and as fast as each man killed
his pigeon another was carried out—from a
hamper, through the chinks of which, by the way,
those waiting their turn oould see their fellows
shot down—and the box put together again to
detain it. It was capital fun for everybody but
the pigeons. The fair young girls and aristocratic
matrons watched it eagerly, and sat with scoring
card and pencil in hand, noting down the per-
formance of each of their male friends. To an
uneducated eye the element of sport seemed
wanting, for the simple reason that the - wretched
birds had no chance of escape. Each gentleman
was allowed to fire two barrels, and the sooond of
these effectually accomplished what the first began.
Now and again a wounded bird would essay to fly
out of the deadly enclosure, and then all present
watched its agonised struggles witk real anxiety,
for if it got beyond the prescribed limits to
die it was pronounced "No bird," and
the gentleman shooting it lost the score. This set
the betting men, both amateur and professional,
on tenter-hooks, and fresh offers and new bets
were made. Once a pigeon which had been hit,
but not killed, sought shelter in the spreading
branches of one of the trees under the shade of
which the ladies sat. It was badly wounded, and
gave a piteous little
.cry as it alighted. A few
seconds' suspense, during which the backers of gun
or bird anxiously looked upwards while making
and taking fresh bets as to whether it would die,
and their suspense was ended by. a mangled mass
of palpitating flesh and warm blood and feathers
falling plump into a lady's lap, to the infinite
detriment of the pale and delicate dress she wore.
To seize the quivering little moribund, and with
a dexterous wring of the neck to put it out of its
misery, was of course but the work of a moment to
the gentleman at her side; but blood does not
harmonise somehow with lavender silk and pretty
laces, and though the incident evoked mush
laughter from both the ladies and gentlemen pre-
sent, it brought the nature of the spectacle they
were enjoying rather forcibly home. The feathers
of departed birds were floating in the
air like moths on a summer's evening, a pile of
large hampers was filled with the slain, one
wounded bird which had got away was endeavour-
ing to balance its wearied body on the palings,
the dog which picked up the fallen was almost
beaten with fatigue, and the odds against the birds
were going steadily up to the thee we left. But
ladies were still flocking in, and every variety of
fashionable vehicle and acrowd of liveried servants
were in waiting at the doors. The grounds were
lovely as ever, and hurrying through them to the
killing place were the elegant figures to be seen on
drawing-room days and at botanical felon. What-
ever else pigeon shooting may be, it is undoubtedly
the aristocratic amusement of the hour. Yet it IS
difficult to absolve it from cruelty, and cruelty to
dumb animals waa once held to be the distinguish-
ing vice of the low and base. To torture
these has been described as " the certain mark of
ignorance and meanness—an intrinsic mark which
all the external advantages of wealth, splendour,
and nobility cannot obliterate." But different
times have different manners, and to see hundreds
of the birds universally regarded as the type of
innocence mercilessly and painfully slaughtered
from seats so conveniently placed that not a flutter
of the ruffled plumage, not a gyration of the
dying agony, not a helpless struggle to use again
the pinions which have been destroyed, not a con-
fiding look when the poor wretch sits down
and, without attempting to fly, looks its de-
stroyer piteously in the face, is minted—to
see these things closely and minutely is
a cherished amusement with the classes to
whom all amusements are within reach, and
whose station and advantages entitle them to be
looked up to and emulated as examples. Two days
after the experience recorded, we were present at a
boors' shooting match in a Surrey field. Nothing
could be more vulgar and common-place than the
surroundings, nothing coarser or more essentially
plebeian than the men. Sparrows were the birds
here, the prize was beer instead of sovereigns, and
the spectators were the roughest of the rough. But
they gave their birds a chance, and they had left
their womenfolk at home. Sometimes a whole
cluster of sparrows escaped scot free, frequently
only one or two out of a batch were killed, and no
female was in sight. The significance of such
pigeon-shooting as we saw at the exquisite Hur-
'lngham grounds on Saturday lay in the mur-
derous certainty with which each aristocratic
sportsman fell upon his poor little prey, and the
keen relish and dose interest displayed by the de-
licate, refined, and exclusive crowd of ladies
looking on.—Daily News.

PROPOSED CLUB FOR WOMEN.—A new develop-
ment of the dub movement among the wage-paid classes
of the community is proposed, with the view of providing
facilities for recreation and improvement to the man
young women who are shut out from the benefits of ail
existing institutions by the exclusive religious character
of their regulations. A meeting to consider the subject
will be held on the 20th instant, at the School of Art, in
Newman-street. .

A CHILD KILLED ON THE MID-KENT RAlL-
way.—Last evening Mr. Payne held an inAlfredquest at Guy's
Hospital, on the body ofChance Hannam, an
infant one year and five months old. George Hannam,
station-master at Beckenham Station, said that he lived
with his family at that station. The deceased was his son.
On Monday last deceased got out to play With an elder
brother. At five minutes to one o'clock witness was going
in to dinner when, in psesingalong,he caught sight of his ohild
lying across one of e "four foot" rails ne►r the station,
and before he had time enough to get to deceased the five
minutes to one train came along and passed over him.
The child was picked up after the accident and was taken
to the hospital where one arm was found to have been
torn off, and it had received other injuries from which it
died on Tuesday. The jury returned a verdict of "Aaoi-
dental death," and added that a fence should be put up
to prevent children getting on the line.
Tus TaAmEs.—The fishing this season is the
best that has been known for years. The following return
of a day's sport is an example :—A few days since Mr.
Gray and Mr. Artus, two.of the best roach anglers on the
river, took three barbel. twentydozen (Loa, and four damn
roach, many of the latter exceeding lb. in weight. They
fished in the deeps at Twickenham. An angler on
chore close to the boat-house captured • bail:gel,
weighing 4 lbs., the same afternoon. The sneers
generally have had great success and there have
been many instances of from twelve to fifteen dozen taken
by one punt daily. There are plenty of barbel in the river
this season. The Thames Angling Preservation Society
have staked the river during past years, and it is owing to
the exertions that have been made by them that the
anglers are getting such good sport. The society is doing
• very useful work.

-
TUE WEantri AND OBOES IN SCOTLAND.—The
country is (observes the Ayr Advertiser), under the in-
fluence of one of the most searching droughts that boa
been experienced within the memory of middle-aged men.
We do not suppose that heavy land has been more rent
since 1826. The pastures are very touch embrowned on
light coast Lind; and on rocky or gravelly soils in the lute-
rice
or of county ; oats are stinted ; green cavil are
making no progress. Water is Karoo on many farms
where such a want is seldom felt, The channels of Amman
are dry, and farmers are looking wistfully for rain. Of
the crops, wheat alone has not suffered during the week.
ft has bad a choice blossoming season, and the earliest in •
tilling with as sound an ear as we have ever seen. With
the exception of deep rich land, the bulk of straw is
much under an average. The oat crop se gtetag
way rapidly on light and also on thin heavy land.
The crop in general has run rapidly into ear when it is
scarcely covering the ground. Mae must now be a great
deficiency of straw, and oats in an early season are not
likely to compensate for stinted growth by an extra pro.
duoe of grain. The weather has been favourable for hay- •
making, The general crop is light, arid there sem to be
a sure prospect of another winter of scarce provender foe
cattle. The reports of the early potato crop are the wont
we Jam ewer had in the sewed week of July.
VIL DE JONGII'I3 LIGHT-BROWN COD LTV'S
Gra—Dr. Officer of Health to the Ob al
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ou posesodur the same set of
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