The Express.
London, England, 1850-08-26 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY

markets wherever there were men, bat had:nowhere
sorra can. Oar food mist pow within the marrow
Donnas of ear WWI Mead. Upon the ascertain
climate of seek a small speck la the world did the
people of Eagland for more this thirty fie allow
their prosperity or adversity to rest. would
work for the world, bat only the land of ngland
mast feed them. The shrinking of the tax before
famine prima little mended the ease. Foreign far.
suers grew nothing for the chanties of &blish
harvests. - - -

Bat in the present state of the country we have a
changed pieta's. Three weeks sinee, the prospects of
the harvest were preordain, and the general
belief wee that the wheat crop would exceed an
average. But the latest accounts are that
in consequence of the recent clouded, cold
wet weather the crops have almost everywhere suf-
fered more or leer. In Cambridgeshire, from blight,
the wheat will be not less than one-third below an
average. In Devon the wheat on the low lands has
rust amongst it. In Durham, though the quantity is
an average, the quality is not good. In Gloucester the
quantity is short, and there is a great deal of blight.
In Huntingdon fens the wheat is mildewed; on the
high lands the 9uantity la fair, but the quality infe-
rior, and the entire crop tot more than two-thirds en
average. In Lancashire there is '
some mildew; in
Lincoln a great deal, and a short crop. In Lei-
cester, Nottingham, and Norfolk, the quan-
tity short and quality inferior. In North-
umberland, good in some places ; in others
inferior both in quality and quantity. In Northamp-
ton mildewed, and much below an average both in
quantity and quality. Yorkshire, below an average.
both as to quality and quantity; and though Stallard
seems to have a fair crop, and Suffolk and probably
Warwick a nameable average, it is not possible to
doubt that the entire wheat crop of the kingdom is
very much below an average both as to quantity aid
quality. The weather, too, is still against the har-
vest; the reports worse than last week. In France
the wheat crop is understood to be short; in
Belgium the floods have swept away or utterly
destroyed immense quantities of wheat and
all kinds of grain. Still there is no wild
speculation in grain, no sudden the in our markets;
fur the last six weeks' average wheat wee set down
at 435. ld. The last week's average, given in the
Gazette of Friday, is 435. Bd. The average for the
six weeks to the middle of August last year was
475. 11d. The crop of last year was below average.
There are no heavy stocks of home-grown grain on
band ; under the corn law wheat would hays jumped
in the last few weeks to 765., 80s., or
1025., per quarter the prices of 1828, 1839, and
1847. The whole trade of the country would have
been checked—the winter would have been looked to
with dread as the sure bringer of severe distrers upon
all classes of workmen. But we have escaped from
the chances of the clouds of England—spite of the
weather the workman has his cheap frte-trade last
Wheat is no longer under extraordinary need to be
suddenly scraped together for an emergency. It is
regularly produced throughout the world as an
article of commt rce for England, and our large and
growing demand is security to the rest of the world in
common with ourselves not only against famine but
:;gainst scarcity, sudden fluctuations in price, and
consequent disturbance of every branch of production
and trade.

From the first in 1816 to the lut in 1812, every
corn law after corn law, each an amendment on its
ucsucceesful predecessor, promised the rumen
steadiness of price. It was to be 801., 705., tile.,
305.; but, great or small, a certainty for the farmer to
depend upon as • fouodaion for rent. There is no
need we should trice dates and prices to remind the
farmers how seldom wheat reached, and how con-
stantly rent kept, to the fixed corn-law price. At
length there is some certainty of price—a certainty
ensured by the varied climates of our world-wide
corn fields. We have now our share in all the har-
vests of the earth ; fair wages for our fair day'p
work, in open competition with the world ; and it
rests with farmers now to mako bargains with their
landlords upon the basis of the tree-trade prise of
wheat.

GERMANY.

PRUSSIA.
Oar corrtsp:mdent writes:

BERLIN, Aro. 21.

In my last letter I communicated the particulars of
the late cabinet council, as far as these were known.
'Re ministers, however, have agreed to allow as little
as possible to transpire on the character of that sit-
ting, and keep tl.eir mutual promises PO well, that the
only conjecture on that subject is, that the resolu-
tions then taken were less honourable to Pruisia than

was formerly supposed.
We are dreading a new act of self-degradation on
the part if the Prussian government, and so mn:h
the more as Itadowitz has lately said that he
had had to employ all his ski,l and powers of
persuasion to re- strain the mini/14.y from making
a declaration in favour of the restoration of the
ield diet. It is probsb:e that the Baron has put
this statement forward as a feeler, to test public opi-
nion on the project referred to. You may, however,
be muted that even war ,itself is regarded as a less
evil than a return to that old institution, although the
unprejudiced and candid must admit that the unpo-
pularity of the Bond has arisen less from its constitu-
tion thaa from the practice of the governments in Nio-
, lating the latter.
To-day a very circumstantial report has arrived
here, according to which the Ituesian army in Poland,
histiad of going into winter quarters, as had been
conjectured, lase, in come quence of an order fr..m St.
Petersburg, moved its whole front towards the
Prussian ft-on•i'r. The reasons which have dic.at d
this unexpected movement are unknown.
While Prussia will, as I lately informed you, name
the Grand Duke of Oldenburg as one of the members
of the Schiedagericht to which the Mayence question
is to be referred, and Austria NN ill nominate the KiLg
of Bsvezia, the umpire will probably be the Xing of
Holland.

In consequence not only of the strong excite went
which the refusal of the government to renew the
treaty lately existing between the Belgian and the
Zollverein states has produced amongst the mercan-
tile classes, but also of the dissatisfaction of many of
the Zollyerein governments, the draught of a new
treaty has beeu prepared, containing the essential
provisions of that which his expired.
It was communicated on the 20th. on good
authority, says the Cologne Gazette, that the resolu-
tions taken at the late council were to the follow-
ing effect : Peewit decidedly rejects the invita-
tion to send a plenipotentiary; to the restricted
diet, but declares herself in favour of the administra-
tive commission, 'protesting at the same time against
any injurious conclusions which might be induced
from this assent. The teport is confinned to-day.
The resolutions, although approved, were not formally
adopted. To-day we learn in addition to the ab mu
that besides the above-mentioned protest against all
consequences inimical to the union, explana-
tions have been requested of Austria enceern-
Log the proposed constitution of the cienmis-
Men, for in the present as in former transactions,
Priem Schwarzenberg's votes have cot been
remarkable for clearness. Upon the Baden question
ministers were well agreed ; which was so much the
easier as Austria had adopted the Prussian proposi-
tion. This question has also called forth a protest,
the object of which is to prevent the whole question
of the right of removing the Baden troops froin
coming before the Schiedeqericht. The circuitous
route taken by the Baden troops has mrdo a bad im-
pression on Csrlsruhe and elsewhere. Tbe lietgnage
of the Baden jaurnals, to tl e street that the people
desire to s-ee a common understanding between
Austria and Prussia, brought eb tut by the endeavours
of all the other German governments, so that
the Austragal-Instanz, or court of decision,
would then be unaeccumery, is to us com-
pletely unintelligible. It is well known that the
Austragal-liistarz sum proposed for the specific pur-
pose of deciding the question of the II d n troops ;
• hat have the other German governments to do with
this? It is mentioned as a thing not improbable that
the Schleswig-Holstein claims for indemnification will
anon be Liken into consideration under favourab'e
auspices. A declaration notifying tho formel with-
drawal of Meeklenhurg Se!. Nt, I li from the unite is
daily exueeted. A similar do, ume.lt may eh irtly be
louk-d for from Brunswis k. In (*postilion to the widely
circulated report that the sem rement had been in-
' &teed by the rebult of the Ilaielt tel private) to tte'er-
mine to octroyer a tribunel for tiling elate processes,
we aro enabled to state positively that a proceeding
so repugnant to the constitution has never been

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thought plitioalay tie Hag oe tbo adahlry bat
that the War will ipso bias tis ebonies with •
bill on that oabjest.

DENMARK AND THE DIIGHIES4

Amounts from Rendaburg of the 20tb, state thef
the entire army of B:hleswig•Holatein wan in move-
ment, bat it was not known what direction it would
take. Oa the other hand, it is stated from Hamburg
that the Dame were fully prepared fora renewal of
the conflict, and that they have retaken the town of
Tonning. It wee reported, however, at Hamburg,
that an offer of mediation by France bad been re-
ceived, and would probably prevent the renewal of
direst hostilities.