The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-08-15 00:00:00

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It is now sufficiently ascertained that the wheat crop it
good and the oats very deficient ; in consequence of which
latter circumstance, the price of °atm& is getting Very
high in those places where it forms a. priteaipal article df
human sustenance. It was expected that the ports would
have been opened for the importation of oats on the ISth
inst.; and, if Scotland were taken into the list of averages;
there would have been no doubt in the case; but as mew
ters arc at present arranged, there is a great chance that
that:lost desirable event will not take platy. The next
two averages, being the last of the sit which regulate im;
portation, :oust amount to 28s. each, to open the
ports ; but the last average being only 265. 10.1., it is
scarcely to he expected that they will reacb so high;
—Thus circumstanced, wr beg leave again to euggest, that
if the porta he nut opened for oats on the 15th of August,
in virtue of the present regulations, Ministers should tranta
fur the discretionary power which they have of importing a
certain quautity of wheat, to the importing of a definite
quantity of oats. To admit the importation of wheat is not
called for, and 'it would cause much dissatisfaction among
the growers of that article ; but the importation of oats is
absolutely necessary ; and it would give umbrage to no owes.
as there are few farmers who will not consume in their own.
I establishments the whole of the oats which they raise due
year, and high or low prices are of course equally indifa
ferent to them. The number of quarters, however, ought
to be much greater in the one case than in the other, sc+
cording to the difference of the value; and the easiest way
of settling the relative proportions of the two is, by re.
faring to the opening prices. Thus, wheat opens at 80s.
anti oats at 275., the farmer being very nearly three times
as• great as the latter; cons4quently three quarters of oats
should be admitted for one of wheat; and the privilege
' granted to Ministers for opening the ports for the impor-
tation of half a million quarters of wheat Mill extend to
nearly one million and a half of oats, or, speaking more
precisely, to one million four hundred anti eighty-one
thousand quarters.
By this mode Ministers surely incur no responsibility.
Indeed, more extended measures of relief might be well
justified by the price of Oats at the London Corn Ex-
change, leaving our Scotch markets, and the state of a
large portion of our Scotch mouths, entirely out of the
question. .

The harvest has been going on rapidly, but although it
commenced as early in this neighbourhood as in any other
part of the country, still we suspect there is not so much
carried with us as in other places, from the extreme
anxiety of our farmers to have the grain well hardened in
the stook, and from their over-confidence in the continu-
ance of the late fine weather. tire are afraid some of them
have been caught in the rain which began yesterday afire.
noon. We should add, however, that the rain is very gene.
rally acceptable, more especially for the potatoes in strong
clay ground, where it is staid the moisture, in many in.
stances, has never yet got down to the dung; but a long
continuance of rain would not only interfere with the
harvest, but cause a very hurtful second growth to those
potatoes which are at present doing well.
The harvest draws towards a conclusion In Cumberland.
En some situations, the oats were so thin, that the owners
have been obliged to pull them up 'by the roots. 0:t
Thursday evening we had a fine fall of rain, which will
be of groat ►ervice to the late turnips and potatoes.—Letter
from Mary port, Aug. 10:—During the week, the demand
for shearers in this town has been brisk, wages 3s. to 3s. 6d.
a day, without victim's. The corn, about here, is chiefly
cut, except back-sown barley. Crops light, particularly
barley and oats ; in many places it has not been found
possible to cut the latter with the sickle. Wheat a full
crop, on ground well managed. The potatoe-tops already
decline, and the produce will be small. The first-sown
turnips totally failed ; and the second sown are little better.
The pisture lands scorched up. As for fog., there is none.—
Carlisle Patriot.

A r•-spectable farmer at Wells, Norfolk, has cut his
crop of wheat, threshed, dressed, and sent it to the mill,
ploughed the land, and sowed it with turnips, which ap-
pear an exeellent crop, and all within five days.
From Belfast to Dundalk the crops are good, the wheat
is excellent, and the oats and potatoes are an average crop ;
the barley rather deficient. From Dundalk to Dublin,
and from thence to Limerick, and round by Cork and
Waterford to Dublin, the wheat was fully an average crop,
but the oats and barley were deficient, and the potatoes
suffering from want of rain. Throughout Lancashire,
wheat is an average crop, but oats are deficient, and
this is the case all along by Lancaster, Penrith, and
Carlisle. In Annan and Dumfriesshire, oats are at least
less than half an average in straw, but wheat is excellent ;
from Edinburgh toDunbar, the wheat is good ; oats and bar-
ley deficient. Turnips,with the exception of Swedish, are a
complete failure. The wheat harvest is nearly finished in
these districts. In the Carve of Falkirk there is an excel.
lent crop of every description of grain, especially of wheat.
In strong clay soils, the crops are everywhere good. In
dry light soils there is invariably a short crop ; but where
land lies high, and approaches muir lands, there are fair
craps. A cattle dealer in the north country considers that
lean stock, tfrom the scarcity of fodder, will not be
saleable, and that many of those that hold such stock will
he obliged to drive them to the hills to take their chance.
If it is a mild winter they may survive, but if it is severe
many of them will probably perish. The harvest in Scot-
land is only eight days later than in England.
An tined farmer, whose farm is a little south of Edin-
burgh, has kept a journal of his farm'ng operations for the
last thirty years; during which time the earliest periods he
has commenced harvest work, were, once, on the Ist, and
again, on the '2d August. According to his domestic recur:!,
the harvest this season has commenced six weeks emit,. r
than the average period of the preceding thirty years.
Glasgow Chronicle.

TIIE Mani NG FISI/ERl.—The following is a letter
from a gentleman in Orkney, eminent for his talents ant
extensive information

" The herring fishing in Orkney is g ing on with grAit succ
to
essthis season. This fishing shows clearly h.w unnecessary i is
foster aoy particular branch of industry, i i any particular situatior,
by aid or encouragement from Government. If the situa ion be
favourable, the trade to which it is adapted will grow up or itse:l.
Eight years ago, there were not eight he ring boats be ongi 'g •
the inhabitants of the Orkney Islands; and the curers and VCS.2:I
from the west coast of Scotland, and from Ireland, paa.e I throug't
the Islands to purchase herrings at Wick or Cromeriy ; and re-
turned, often late in the winter, with their cargoes, to wait in t se
Orkney Islands a favourable opportunity of getting to the west-
ward. There are now above five hundred tail of herring bua:s
sembled in the beautiful little harbour of Papa Sound, and betwi en
forty and fifty sail of vessels from Ireland and the wilt C(810 tr
Britain, purchasing their fish, and sailing every day with carp rs.
From the entire absence of aid and encouragement, with the cor-
comitant expenses of harbour dues, and pier dues, and anchortke
dues, and ground-leave for curir.g, and from the natural advantagi,
of the harbour, its easy acmes% its safety. its proximity to s
fishing ground, and its favourable situatiun for a start to the
ward, this station is now second only to Wick in that branch of
our northern fishery, which consists in supplying curers from Ire.
land, and the western parts of England and Scotland, with their
green fish. SAs the curers take their cargoes to their own ports it,
general, to be made up and branded fi r the bounty, this extensive
branch of the fishery does not enter into the annual reports of our
Scotch Fishery Board ; and, fortunately, perhaps, for this station,
the curers an as free tr on idle interference and regulations for ti e
conducting of their own business, as they ate from expenses.-
21 August, 1826."
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The herring fishing is now seriously begun on the coa,t,
near Montrose. On Monday night, one company's W.,
caught about eighty crane, and another seventy. Litt: •
success has hitherto attended the Johnshaven station, o&y
a few barrels having been caught.
In consequence of an arrangement entered into ny th'
partners of the late Congleton Bank (Messrs. Johnson
Son) and the creditors, the proposed trust deetlis abandoneo,
and the respected partners remain in full possession of their
real and personal estates. We have, in the stoppase cf
this respectable Bank, a lamentable instance of the terion;
and almost irreparable injury which the town of Congleton,
its neighbourhood, and the estimable firm, have experi-
enced, from the unwise check given to public credit, by
the injudicious interference of Government, and the re-
strictions it put upon the issues of provincial hauls, en--
nected with the half-measure system of free trade, which
it thought proper to adopt. This bank, situate in tlat
midst of the silk manufacturing district, for between
twenty and thirty years, gave an impulse and vigour to the
trade, and to which Congleton is mainly indebted fot t:ic
rapidity of its improverneuts.-.—.Maecleyield Herald.