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THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS

We have had some dZghtful growing weather
late:y. The wheat plant has improvcd wor.dtrfuliy
both Devon ar.l Cornwall, and all otber grai
crops are excellent. Potatoes are looking; hea!thy,
and are coming up strong. J'a3s is very luxuriant.,
and the country looks v.-ell. We are at present pay-
, ing high prices for corn ; but let us look forward
with cheerfulness, as, according to some ,accouuts,
we have yet a prospect of plenty.— West lilxiton.
CARMARTIIENSUIRE.—The crops of wheat in this
part of the country (owing •-to the late genial rains
and warmer weather) are greatly improved; the
early sown spring corn hat also at present a very
healthy appearance.— 117e/Ahm„n.
Another most congenial week ; the appearance of
the country becomes daily more delightful. We
never recollect to have seen a more genial " bit "
than the pear tress everywhere Protaie ; the blossom
has fallen, and the fruit is clustered like grapes. The
apple trees are also blooming beautifully, and RS the
blossom is so late, the fruit is now confidently ex-
pected to " knit" and stand. The bent-ficial effects
of the sun are rapidly becoming more obvious ; the
wheats, &specially on the cold lands, are greatly im-
proved; the blade opens more vigorously, and as-
sumes a darker hue, a sign of health. The Lent
grains, in fact, both field and garden, are manifestly
encouraging signs of a bountiful future.—Bereford
Times.

We have had another week of glorious weather for
vegetation, which has progressed with surprising ra-
pidity within this district during the last few days,
abundant irrigating showers of rain having fallen
each successive day ; and all that is now heard com-
plained of by the agriculturists is the want of a little
more seasonable warmth. We centiume to hear the
potato crop spoken of iVith great hopes 'of success,
both in quantity and quality, while the grain crop is
giving every appearance of being a bountiful one.—
Kendal Mercury.
Tile weather has been very seasonable since our
last. Much rain fell on Saturday evening and Sun-
day morning. The electrometer indicated a day or
two previously a very disturbed state of the electri-
cal fluid in the atmosphere. Vegetation is making
rapid progress, and in Worcestershire there can be no
doubt but that the crops of every description, as far
as they have gone, are in the most promising state.—
Worcester Herald.

Upon the whole, there is promise of an abundant
if not an early harvest. On some lands which are
undrained, and in the wheat fields which were last
year clover, the plant certainly looks rather thin; but
the very warm and genial weather which we have ex-
perienced for the last week has given it a luxuriant
appearance, ani the tiliering out or extension of the
plant is taking place most satisfactorily. The oats
%nd barley are well up, and perhaps in no previcus
year has the promise of abundance been greater or
more encouraging. It is an old saying that a late
!,pring, preceded by a severe winter, generally ushers
in a fruitful year; and this year, the two premises
have been fulfilled, we must hope that the same con-
-.lusionmay occur. If the weather should continue
warm, it is not yet too late for us to have a harvest
not protracted beyond the average season.—Dover
Chroni,:qe.

The extreme high prices to which the grain markets
throughout the kingdom have risen, and the existing
probability of further increase taking place,
threatening airrost a famine in the country, Data; ally
makes the gro,vin,.; crops of -he season a sulj-ct of
anxious consideration. It givei us great pleasure in
'-ieing able to state that, so far as we have learned, the
crops in this and the adjoining county of Westrocre-
land bear a most favourable aspect ; wheat, oats, and
barley, were perhaps never, of late years, known to
look *better. The wheat, it was feared, would have
suffered considerably from the virulence of the frost
(videh often has the effect of thinning it) during
winter; but it ha-: withstood the attack in a re-
•naTkable manner, and gives every prospect of
being a plentiful crop. The wet weather (luting
March and the beginning of greatly retarded
the tanners in preparing their land for sowing the oats
and barley ; hut notwithstanding this. those crops are
in a much more forward state than last year, and the
extent of growth appears to be somewhat more than
the usual average. During the last ten days or a
fortnight every kind of vegetation has sprung forward
with an amizing rapidity; the pastures and meadows,
which before bore but a very bare appearance, are in
most places very fu:l of grass, and the hedges and
trees are fast assuming their summer garb. Th 6
fruit trees hold out every promise of a good crop, the
gooseberry trees in the gardens are superabundantly
clad, and if the eppk and pear trees are not visited to
any extent by the insects, there will be a good crop
of those fruits.—Carlisle Journal.

THE Hors IN KENT.- —Maidstone—The hops are
now growing
fast, after the warm showers; the tyers
are engaged everywhere, and will be troubled to get
them to the poles fast enough. At this place the flea
has laid hard upon them, but they are now getting
away from the flea. The hops are rather late this
year, but there seems to be a great deal of vigour in
the plant. Wateringbury—The hops never had a
more healthy appearance, nor grew faster. Some
grounds were infested with the flea at first, but the
late warm weather has enabled the bine to grow
completely away from them. Canterbury The
showers which we have had in the past week, with
somewhat warmer weather, have proved highly bene-
ficial to every kind of vegetation. The hops, par-
taking of the genial influence, have also made good
progress ; but we perceive that they are not yet all
poled, the backwardness of the season not having re-
quired this operation so early as usual.

THE LATE FIRE NEAR THE POST-01TICE.---011
Monday Mr. Wm. Payne, the City Coroner, and a jury,
assembled at the Bell Inn,lsToble-street, .for the purpose
of inquiring into the circumstances connected with the
outbreak of the recent fire in Staining-lane, near the
General Post-office. Ann Taylor, of 9, Staining-lane,
said that her house adjoined the one in which the fire
originated, and which belonged to Mr. Paishaw, a paper
box manufacturer. On Friday night, about a quarter
past eleven o'clock, her attention was directed to the
premises by smoke issuing from the doorway. She
immediately rave the alarm, and informed Goddard,
the ward-beadle and engine keeper, of the outbreak,
Police-constable White Henderson (City fem.) said that
when the fire broke out there was nobody at home.
Mr. Falshaw, however, came home about three :.resat
morning. . He met him at the corner of Ftleen:sqoare,
and said to him, "You were wanted three hours ago ;
something has happened at your house." H- inquired
what it was, and witness replied " The pines has been
On fire." Mr. F,thhaw then said, " Vt'hy,l Ift Do one
there ;._how-can that- be ?" --Witness was unable to tell
hew the fire began. ' John !keit, engineer at Watling-
street fire-station, said he was called to the premises at
ten minutes past eleven o'clock. He repaired imm:;
iiiately to the place with a couple of engin.-a.
burning round the shop: Wunes• got on his kn. e,., and
hfieicnittlenOsturiaordfirVup4fligWita.the. Thehe" wee
:::int7eineasentdthh,!ng
was by that means ensbled to p.i,ur buck, to o! water on
.he fire until the engines were set fu work. After some
further &Yid, nee the inquiry wa. mi.j.,unitli for a %Pelt.
TESTIMONIAL TO THE EARL „F HA REWOOD.—
Upwards of` 00 finit!en, limy.- be n subsenned by the
gentlemen othe Brenham Moor Hunt, for the wipe*
of presenting to the Earl of lierewood, the present
master of the hunt, an .cpie.trian portrait Of his Lord-
ship. • The subscription wss 'recently origieated, and is
expected to a lielint to 1,000 guitiehti..fftdi Advertiser.
A Nice Houst.---•‘• -frlaminsi;" said a little fellow,
whose mother pat forbade him drawing horses'and ;lips
on the mahogany sideboard - w:.til o shaip • nail—
" Mamma, this ain't a nice house. At Sam Beckett's
we can cut the sofa, and pull out the hair, anfil ride the
shoiel and thins over the carpet, hut here we can't
get any fun at all.'
FLOWER FETE AT THE SURREY ZOOLOGICAL
GARDENS.—This day the *South London
Fif)rineuitna„rhael
Society will, hold their - fi-!et Jae
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at one o'eleck.
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xGpeserhtdeeden,fs.v,bi,nTitnnhgeendifiep2,4.
willcom:flmoeenceerse
dis-
playpromenadeplTenhdeidmepnyagro
arrived specimens of a new species of
mg the recently
pheasant, will also be open to the visitors to the fire.
poorer classes in this town, as well as else-
' `ll-Ev.su IN BBliwics.—The extraordinary _high
of the Scioengeeerotfl:Ganitbdratlhtaer.s
such a.
the poorer
and other diseases have begun to
• Of all kinds of provisions is beginning to tell Am-
erico,
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as
eassoald, alleys,
joiners, The
and
swteuhvlleeyrraleo.nefPtehythe deasely-crerwded by lappsar in
othersllet ; er
employed classes
of
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wages which viable them to bear uopr aks,ainsate
threeceeimvienrg
gency. The price of bread is now lld.ter:4lb. loaf, and
butcher meat Bd. and 9d. per lb. ; prices which prevent
large numbers of the population from obtaining anything
like sufficient quantity, of these necessary articles-of sns-
tenance.—Berwick Warder. •
THE 87TLI RZGIBLENT.--We much regret that
fever prevails to a serious extent amongst this well con-
ducted regiment. Last week five of the men sunk, and
the sick list is very numerous. We understand that active
ting medical attention is devoted to sreest the evil.—
sanatory measures are being adopted, sad that unremit-
ting
' Monmouthshire Merlin.
Tait HOP TRADE.—A meeting of extensive and
the Star Inn, Maidstone, C. J. Whittaker, Esq., in the
influential hop growers took place on Thursday last, at
chair, to take into consideration the propriety and nee-es.
city of raising a fund and making such arrangements as
inconvenience and expense of employing
may enable planters to dispose of their own produce
fwaietthoorau.—Cn
thea torbury Herald.
Tam:lE.—During the pist
OvNery little business done in 'his
have declined. To thy we quote for
,Taxed °weaerG'
kl"tt hsaeanrdew
numbers,PhraPics:a6sb:se7nper ton. P. 0.13., with more disposi-
tion to sell than to hue-.—National Advertiser.
[ADVERTISEMENT ] —CAPTAIN KRAMER.* OF THE
BASQUE WILHELMEE CURED' or .s DitßaDrri ticcatut/TIC nem-
PLAINT Ey lIOLLOwAT'S OINTMENT •ND ruza.-.ln thlsamouishing
ease the whole of the body and legs were covered with lam:* nearly
the size of Tonquin beans, at:d had been s, for the last thirty yiirS:
surprising to relate this terrible disease completely disppeart4 Man
the system ;0 the couree of a month, by havied.large qua:Aides of
the ointment well rubbed in every night and morning, alul taking the
pills in copious doses. 'I his cure is known to many respectable
people, as the vessel was discharging her cargo in the Thames only
about a fortnlgh• since.—Sole by all druggists, and at Professor liw-
lewsy's establishment 204 Strand. Lyndon.