The Express.
London, England, 1850-09-10 00:00:00

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200,000 ponds short of lest year. In the grain
market about 16,000 diets. wheat had been taken it,
23 t0t022 for Coma of 1847,211 for Sam*, and 231
for Saimaa, sad higher prices ware asked.
Frei arrivals were sot expieted he some tints on is
September. Heavy rye was inquired for at 181 to
14r. Deals, °roma, meld not be bought under 14r.,
and ie Wybmg they wens soared: to be had. Freights
were slathemeg. and thought likely to Good:see lat.
Exchange se Landes, three months, 38 1.16 to 3.16.
Papers lately received from New South Weiss
mention several circumstances bevies testinicery to
the gr.twing Importance of eke cultivation ..in, the
Heater River diewiet, and which will illustrate its ,
operations la the adony. Each successive meeting of
the Hunter River Vineyard Association shows an
evident improvement in the general qualities of the
wises, which 4 of much mote importance titan in-
sists' of quantity, and the wines submitted at the
lath meeting were decidedly superior samples to any
b eve yet been exhibited. The importance of
branch of industry, which will affard occupation
it large amount of capital aid labour, more pr-
tienlarly that of women and chiklren, was attracting
general attention in the colony. As a rough tauter-
tion of the general character of vise cultivation as a
productive industrial pursuit, we may take a return of
the number of acres of land planted with the vim
in the Maitland polio* district, and the quantity and
vales et the produce derived therefrom. According
to this return, the number of acres under the vine is
about 100; the produce in winch stated to be 18,280
gallon', and in brandy 420 (alms. The quantity of
LT;sold for consumption is not given, but could
lave been km Use 100,000 lbs. Of the 100
sews a considerable portion, it may be wieutimed, has
been only recently planted. The quantity of wine
and brandy above given is the prod** of, at the out-
side, not more they 60 acres of vines, and some of
thee. sot in fall beneing. Veiling the wine at 2s. 6d.
per gallon, and the brandy at 3c, the sexpiet of the
probes of these 80 sores is 2,8481, or nearly 401.
per acre, without taking Into acroant the grapes
which were used otherwise than in the vintage, and
which would probably yield another U. per sere
making, altogether, 451. per sore. This calculation
can of coarse be regarded cooly as a rough appromma-
tion, but from one of the vineyards a more exact re-
torn had been obtained, which enables us to ascertain
with more secarsey the grow produce of an aces of
vines, and its probe le market value. This
vineyard. ie GI acres in extent, and is almost
entirely in full bearing. The produce this year is
2,700 gals. of wine, 70 gals. of brandy, and 8,000
Ins. of grapes add for consumption. Pitimatieg
the wine at 2e. 6d. per galloo, the brandy at 3f., and
•he grapes at 1 Id. per lb., the value of the gross pro-
duce of this vineyard is 3901., or nearly 681. per acre.
" Toni return," observes the Maitland Mercury, "is
sufficient to pat beyond deabt the productive charac-
ter of vine cultivatioe—looking at the quantity Gilead
under culture, and we believe we may add, at the
amount of capital employed. Whether the pariCt
be also a profitable as to the producer, is of motes a
distinct gaieties ; bat the fact that the members of
our Vineyard Association express t.:tm.elves es tho-
roughly satisfied on this head, cif wds good grounds for
believing that vine cultivation is as profitable as it is
productive." Anchrr very practical and mediatory
proof of the progress of vine growing is to be found
in the increase which is steadily taking place in tbe
export of colonial wine from the Hader River d,a-
tnot to Bs dney. In the half-year ending March 31,
1849, the value of the wise so experted was 2661.; in
the haltyear epilog Sept. 30, 1849, 4911.; and in the
h tlf-year, mullet 31st March last, 6661. The success
which has attended the opermions of the Hunter
Rive Vineyard Association; and the extent to which
public atteatioa has been aroused by its proceedings,
may be judged of from the dream stases that a
sew afeesistioa was being formed. under the
title of 0 The Central Vineyard Association,"
which will bold Its "seeder is Spleen and of which
wine-growers from all proof' the seleay are invited
to become member& the-grovrhig ft dive tress had '
also been started by same esempthshm Individuals,
and a quantity of olive di so meaufsetmed had been '
publicly exhibited.
From Sydsey, we are Wormed that subscriptions
to the amount of 7,0001 lad been paid into the trot-
enry on account a tin railway scheme, and that the
remaining 3,0004. istniessi by the government to in.
sure the gmelettled Wisest would be made up fa
about a saretha.. t
Lstlesafrom the lank at Bt. Martin's. received
tie the limited SOO% mmeden with retinae, to the
yield of salt, that freak Si be 30 per cent. of the an-
Dual product had been melted or blown away by the
hareems' of the 11th lily, and that owing to the
heavy rains, which bad caused a depth of worn ten to
fifteen feet of water in the peed, there is net the
flightiest prospect of having a salt crop again for the
next four or Ave years, Which is of material interest
to oar sake:owners at Turk's Island, and likewise at
hoses. In 1837 the island was visited with a similar
handsaw, and no salt wee gathered till the per
1812; aid en the 21st Angest et that year,
a Lod of rain having Ailed the pied, no
crop wee made till 1845, aced then only a
partial see. la 1846 none was gathered, and it was
not till the year 1867 that a fall seep was gathered.
Sines then there have heft three seareesives.
Judging from experience, the pond is not expected to
yield salt again foe mem time, mace it mow empties
itself by foie channels into the sea, and there are no
twins of draining it' bolo* the depth of Ave fed.
which brings it on a level with the seas emsweestly
four feet of water over an expanse of fear moire re
circumference melt be evaporated by the beat et the
dun's rays before it ma protium salt.
ANNOWICZKLIT ormiesemmise timm WITRDIAWAL
On PAT= KONIT.—The MitilliMilts et pram* Beim,
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