Star.
London, England, 1827-07-05 00:00:00

EDINBURGH, JULY 2.

Tits Caors.—•The wheat in the neighbourhood of
this city has been greatly improved by the favourable
weather. Many of the fields which early in the spring
exhibited blanks, and had on the whole a most unpro-
mising appearance, have now a fair crop, and in some
places it is getting into ear. The oats look particularly
well ; and on the pastures a more vigorous and bet-
ter sward has been seldom seen. Some of the farmers
who ploughed down their wheat, and sowed the ground
with barley, are complaining that the crop is thicker
and stronger than they would wish. _

CAUSE, or FALILIRC.—The crops in the Carse ex-
hibit, perhaps, as luxuriant an appearance as they have
done for a great many years, with the exception of the
wheat, which, in many instances, has completely
failed, and the fields had to be ploughed over and sown
with barley, and that part of the wheat crop which re-
mains is in general very deficient. The crops of
oats, barley, beans, and potatoes, however, have an
excellent appearance, and promise a most abundant
harvest. There was a greater abundance of fruit blos-
som this season than has been known within the me-
mory of the oldest person here ; and the fruit, besides,
has set in great quantities; gooseberries and currants
seem but an ordinary crop. In the muirlands of Fal-
kirk the crops are proportionably luxuriant.
F. iday se nnight Mr. Lyall, of Uras, bad two cattle
killed by the lightning. They were out in a field
along with a number more, and the boy who waited
on them was only a few yards distant when the acci-
dent happened.
The improved state of- trade and manufactures in
the neighbourhood of Glasgow, still continues to give
full employment to the working classes in the suburbs,
the streets of which, during the day, are remarkably
quiet, and very few idlers to be seen. •
Dummies, JULY S.—We conversed last week with
an agricultural Gentleman who had just returned from
a visit to Ireland. In the course of his tour he travelled
through a great number of counties, paid particular
attention to the state of the crops, and picked up infor-
mation from all and sundry. And never, to use his
own words, " was Ireland blessed with the prospect of
such abundance, since she arose from out the azure
main.'" The wheats where sown, look a great many
per cents. better than ;hey dp in either England or Scot-
land ; and although they have been kept down by early
cropping, are still so luxuriant on good land, that they
run the greatest danger of being ultimately lodged.
The oats, too, are such a prodigious crop, that the
stalks, in not a few instances, resembled a bed of young
willows. Barley, though not so far advanced, is equally
promising to an experienced eye, and will probably fill
and ripen better than any other species of crop. The
grasses are so strong that they can hardly be worked ;
and our friend talks with rapture of meadows which
will yield as much produce per rigg, as can be obtained
from an acre in most parts of Scotland. The potatoes,
the staple culture of the Island, were rowing and vege-
tating like cedars in a nursery; and the peasantry,
though wretched enough at present, seemed to be re-
joicing in the prospect of a sufficiency of food. The
fair earth, in a word, is groaning under a burden of its
own creating.—Dentfries Courier. -