The Express.
London, England, 1850-07-08 00:00:00

THE 1, X PRESS, MONDAY EVENING, JULY 8, 1850.

ministerial 1111AllUP. Marh severs and bitter attack has
Uri Rads s the ministry for this reavon.
I will defer marks on the @Manorial t. nuts, as well r on
es • or tiro other important questions, as I believe my hotter
is tunaiontly long already.

COMMERClAl:.—Thebutintes season is Levey over.
The traseactious have been large, bat sooner over than cue.
totality. I understand the quarterly trade returns will s►ow
en laortased business is importations, sad that the taporu
to Englaud v ill be rathir light, r than usual, while those to
the Baited States will show a large Isersas►.
LAMBDA.

We take the following from the MOliereal Courier,
cf the 18:h June, respecting the recent distsfroas
conflagration :
It is with deep regret we mall the attention of the public
to the (bolsi.s of the tats calainiteue fine. The raisin thereof
has been travel to the carelessness of some persons who,
while smoking in a bon', herd by the Protestant Chords,
near the Om work', threw the m Aches among suns shay-
isgs, which quickly ignited. T. result was, in the fullest
sense of the worJ, disestrius—it was ruinous. Oat of the
thickly peopleddistriet of Ordfintown, GOO pence. have Mee
sufferer., having lost, by this wide-wrestling mlefortune,
house, hone, and goods—and all these able-bodied men, and
of matured yeses. If we estimate the number of persons
thrown upon the world by this event, we would condole
that trellis that number have been the sufferers. The Gist
sodas of the flee was given by the persons In the neighbour-
hood of the carpenter's shop were It originated—this was
agent the hour of 4 p.m. Up •n artist., at the epot.
a lugs timberyard in Prince's-swat, surrounded by
wooden pilisades, was discovered to be on fire, and
this event was the greatest stimulus to the flames
that could have occurred under the c'rmsnytanees.

The Imes quickly spread thine* in'o Dalhousie.
street, nit!' fetal success ; 'Wellington-street shared in the
toed titration, Prince's-street, and Ann.street. These five
streets, formitg a querter of a mile in depth, wer , t
coarse of forty mina 'es, counttog Isom the cmninenceusent
the Ire, enveloped in dames.
Yesterday (8 today) a vast number rf periors of all
',OW visit( d Ortflintown, in order to ascertain dearly the
amount of destruction. Certainly the prospect that met
their gear was well calculated to awaken their eyes; &thistle
Iluodrods of respect .1.1. tamiles, thrown opon the world's
wide ernmon, were yesterdsy to be seen in Orifnetown stalk-
ing emi•l the ruins that had protected their infancy, end wit-
nessed their honest and edifying in luetry. A lugs crowd
c Alerted in Dalhousie-street, around the cellar where a re.
speeisble woman, named Mrs. Livingston, had fa:ion a prey
to the flames. Looking urzte the spot where her body re
posed, we dhc)vered a hollow in the ashes of tho ruins, hut
to discover any traces of the deceued, save this, ot.s
Im-
possible,so ennple:ely had her reinairs been calcirdil to
whey, which the chemists Anne could recognise 111 those of
human clay. It appears that the deceased ke;d a dairy, and
hal same cows near the house in an enclosure Ilev.ng
escaped along with her neighbours, she resolved to return
for some of her property, probably for some money, and,
wpm siuleg so, less enEseated by the fiance.
Two children have been miming since Saturday, anti
we fear, have perished. Dalhousie-street hes been entirely
consumed. Prsvidentielly, the loss of life hu been confined I
to this one instance, hat that of property has extet ded over
ter s hundred and fifty 'Undies, which all upon the chetity,
the gene rattily, and toe discernment of the tublic.
believe the following are, as nearly as pcsei'll3 the
liabilities of the tutrerent insur.not-Alices, as far as can be at
present ascertained:
Montreal, from 1.4001. to (lashes, 1,2001.; Globe,
from COL to E as, Protection. end Dartford, 10,4.401 ;
Mutual, from 9,00J1. to 10 001 ; North-Western, 7501.
The total number of bnildicete destroyed was two ►undred
and my. n ; In Dalhowie-street thirty.sine were destroyed;
in Gabriel-street, forty-six ; Ia N th-street, thirty-two;
and in Wellington-street, seventy-three. In the latter street
many of the house. were of a superior destaiptioa, having
been of recent

THE BRAZILS.

FALMOUTH, JULY 7.

Her Majesty's packet ('rune, L:eut. Parsons' has
just arrived from Rio Janeiro, May 14; liabia,May
29; Pernambuco, Juno 3. Bhe has a specie freight,
amount not sues taic:.ble, as the packet has acme in
:ust ar tic mail is starting for London.
The Mures ef deaths at Rin, from yellow fever,
gave 14,000 inhabitants, 120 English reaideete, 133
English seamen, including 8 masters and 18 mars;
a gnat number of ftlfiign stamen, not computed ; the
Portuguese line.if battle ship Vasco. d'Oarna
last 150, and the Constitution 100. Her Ma-
jesty's ship Tweed, 18 officers and seamen ; and
the Cormorant 12. Trod° remained stagn-eted.
The &wage was abating at each of the porta except
among the shipping. A large French fleet was
lying in the River Plate, but this packet brings
ne.tisg decisive from that qa.srter.

Both sorts show a full average bulk, and may ulti-
mately when cut, present a large one."
In East Lothian the weather daring the past month
is said to have been delightful. "The early part of
ir, in particular, was warm and growing, and frequent
showers having aided the heat, vegetation made more
than n,nslly rapid progress, so that there is now
every prospect of a early and abundant harvest.
. . All the grain crops look particularly
luxuriant and promising. Winter wheat is now [lst
July] fully in the ear, the heads being a full size,
larger, indeed, than might have been expected from
the thickness of the crop on the ground. The blos-
soming is going on most satisfactorily, and the fine
breezy weather is giving the [wheat] fly little chinos
of doing mischief."
Barley is sad to be very bulky, both in Mid and
East Lothian ; ix the former county it is reported, "as
regards closeness and length this crop is decidedly
the bulk.est peen for inane years." Tne wheat is
equally well spoken of West Lothian and Fifeshire.
La the former county "many fields of wheat are now
[let July] in full ear (which by the bye appears to be
unusuaby large), and all are rushing rapidly into
that star.. Even spring wheat appears to he close
on the heels of its rival in this respect, and all de-
scriptions are uncommonly luxuriant. Barley. in
some cam p, is elan in ear, end generally approaching
to a full development. flats are thick on the ground
and vigorous, the ravages of the grub being no longer
diecernsb.e. On the whole we never saw our cereal

crops of every kind diFplay greater prom:se at this
'neon."
In Fifeahire, it is said, that op to the 12. h of June
" the progress of all kinds of crops was uncommonly
rap cl, so mach so, tura we have scantly ever seen
such a flush of vegetation. On all moils in good con-
dition the early sown siring crops had every aprar-
ance of being tom borne down by their own weight,
but we have had no rain since the middle of the

month, which has tended to allay fears on this head.
Hot weather has alternated with bracing wirds, which
will now otablo these crops better to withstind the

vicissitnolt it of eason.

Autumn sown wheat bag

steadily imptored, and the earliest fields have been in
bloom for some days: the first ear of wheat we ob-
. _ .

served baret out this s.ason was on the 15th of June,
and some Tal wheat eowa on the Ist of
March we observed in ear on the 21st of
Jure. 'the common varieties of wheat which were

spring Pawn are now elect appearing in ear, and on
sods where a good mould was obtained before sowing,
ti.is crop is perCculcrly luxuriant; but on the stiffer
soil*, where part of the roots had been consumed on
the ground, the crop is more irregular." And here
this practical writer makes a remark which is of
great significance in the laintl ignite dale act of bus-
h rerdry in this country. Ile says, " the ft rdirg of
sheep on all descriptions of land is evidently ca:lied
to excess in too many instances—the mere important
mechankal conditions °idle land being sierifieLd fw
those of higher manuring ; but how frequently do we
see the one useless without due regard being paid to
the other." And this is even mere applicable to
Engler: I, where the clays are far m Ire stiff
and tenacious than any soil north uf Twerd.
Tne importarce of manuring tits land OTT-
Wally and elsaply by feeding sheep oval
it at all seasons is adulated to be very great; and
this quality forms one of the greatest advantages
light land has over heavy land. We doubt whether the
Ntrefolk or four-course rotation can ever be usefully
adopted on strong land, for that s=ift mainly rbpends
upon the feeding ;elf turnips previously to the spring
sots teg of barley. Some seasons, each as the present,
it may do very well, but to expect to constantly grow
a good crop of corn if sows in spring, efter consuming
turnips on the land, is a vain thing. Autumn culture
is the best and cheapest for strong land, and is most
to be depended upon. Nor is it nieces try to give up
feeding slurp on such laud, only that it bhould be done
in the summer. For instanet., winter tares, sown in the
autumn with a moderate dressing of mature, never
tail to produce a heavy green crop upon strong land
which will be ree.dy for feeding off by the time the
sheep are taken from the clover. The taresw.ll be off
in time or a crop of white turnips, *WA can again
be fed in the succeeding autumn, and the land 1
ploughed up during early winter, and be tit for beans,
peas, or sprint: corn, as may suit the fsrmes' purpose.
Cue tans might, and naturally would follow a wheat
crop, mad there would be an opportunity of cleaning
t:le 1 end immediately alter harvest, b. fore sowing the
tares. By this plan, arrin.l wade, the pests of the
heavy lard farmer,aretlir,pt down, for it is in the spring
sown crops that :he annual weeds are n.ott prevalent.
'lruo it is that more shed and yard accommodation is
required to farm heavy land properly, than we gsner-
, ally meet with at present, but the time is come when
' landowners .0 farmers mut t not expect to prosper
lunless they us all the ..=Pans of success which are
within their reach.

In Scotland the turnips are well planted, hat the
fly has been more than usually busy, and very many
fields have been re-sown. Everywhere they are now
angling u.s the plants. Southward we are more
ba-cward with turnips, and in fact our drier climate
forbids any thing iike competition with S offini in
turnip crops. Here we ought to rely more than we
do on inenguld wurzel, which, when once est t! lished,
grows well in spite of the dr:est season.
In mai of the light land districts of Englard both
barley ai.a oat crops are likely to be short in the
straw, cs are also the spring-sawa bears; winter
beans., on Le eontrary, are everywhere described as
very firm. I'eas before the recent rain, lel-1...h will
bar of great use to them, were no: promising, the
plant having been injuriously Rile:tett by the heat.
I lay crops are almost universally light, sad provender
of this kind will probably prove abort in quantity.
The V:COUR:I of the pot .tots vary greatly, though
there is a preihmleranea of reports of goad
and promising crop,. ()a all hinds it, is
admi.ted that more hive been planted this year
than at any time shire tho first app.:dray:co of the
potato die use. At present there is little e'gn of
d.ee..so in Itoelied, but in Leland its reappearsece is
said to he enthused. It is rem'rkablo that the ex-
tension of potato culture we advert to has taken place
nutwithstandiog very large importations of that CECtI•
lent. laded we see no outward or ei,ible sign of
that despair and dispi.ndecey amorg farmers of
which some sheet time ago we heard so much.
Never were greater exertions made un the
part of the general. body of farmers than
during the last twelvemonth, and very much
art real discontent which exists resolves itself
into complaints against landlords, either for not pro-
vidiag preper repairs and accommodations on their
ferias, or for screwing out of their teoants excessive
rents. Not that we believe rents in England are, as
a rule, too high, if the farmer had kis laud on secure
tenure, and in a lit state for eccupation; and without
either uo farm is worth cc:upying upon any terms as
regards mere rent. As for land going out of cultiva-
tiers, as was to occur, according to the protectionis's,
as the result of free trade in corn, directly the
contrary is taking place; for improved cultivation
is felt by all to bo indispensable to success..
I.2cemcesnary abates of rent to the extent of
10 and 15 per cent. are in some instances given to
farmers, but no real or effectual effort seems to be
making by the landlords to Desist their tenantry by
the permanent improvement of their own property.
A Scotch farmer who has recently visited Norfolk, in
allusion to the advancements in husbandry effected by
the late Earl of Leice..ter, says : " I consider the late
earl's chief merit to rest on his clear practical views
of his duty [we may add his interest) as a landowner.
The rule of action by which this prince of landlords
was guided appears to have been, to grant long
leases on liberal terms—to erect comfortable dwelling
houses for his tenantry and cottages for his labourers
—to give every encouragement to men of ability
with sufficient capital to offer for his farms. Tani,
joined to the aid which he gave to those who perms-
neatly improved his estates, formed the true secret of
his success, and laid the foundation of the improved
bystem of agriculture now followed in Not folk and
Suffolk. And he not only reaped the advantage of
his liberality in securing a greatly increased metal,
but all reading on his estate, and all within the
sphere of his influence, benefited in a kisser or greater
extent." It is due to the present Earl of Leicester to
say, that ho is every year expending large sums of
money in the ezection and improvement of the farm-
building on his estates. Nothing but such liberal and
business-like maragement, giving rational leases to able
tenants, will promote the improvement of husbandry
and the of tenants, so far as the acts of the
landlordp arroserrltY tither.

APPROACHING MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.-It is
stated that Idajoe Edwards", C. 8., is about to load to the
hymeneal altar an accomplighed and youthful lady, whom
1 the gallant tear will shortly take with Lint to the lit.