The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-11-08 00:00:00

GENERAL AGRICULTURAL REPORT FOR
OCTOBER.

Were we to retrace our recollections back to very distant
or even remote date, it must, it is conceived, be admitted
that finer and more seasonable weather than that which we
have this month to record, has never been experienced. This
must be considered as a happy circumstance to our farmers,
since it has given them great opportunities of endeavouring
to improve the condition, by a variety of plans, of the corn
which was carried in bad condition, besides serving, in no
ordinary degree, as a check to those unfounded and uncir-
estasstantiated reports relative to the growth of wheat, which
were so freely put into circulation during August and Sep-
tember, by interested parties still we fear it has not repaired
flop actual deficiencies is the growth, or the losses by the
heavy rains which fell during the first-mentioned month.
That a large portion of the soil's productions will inevitably
some to the various markets in a bad condition, is evidently
apparent, which calls for serious attention on the part of both
lwere andsonsussers. This very circumstance alone will,
our opinion, reduce the profits expected to be derived from
the crops fully 10 per cent on the average, notwithstanding
that the value of really fine parcels will command a high
range of currency daring the whole of the winter. Much of
the wheat has proved, we regret to state, so sprouted and
otherwise out of condition, that, in several parts of the north
of England, somewhat extensive purchases of such descrip-
tions have been made by distillers at very low currencies.
Amongst the barley growers, complaints of the stained con-
dition of their produce have been general, and we fear there
is too much cause for apprehending a deficiency of those par-
cels really fit for malting purposes. Oats are, on the whole,
favourably reported ; but a few breadths of this description
of grain are still exposed in the fields in Derbyshire and
Westmoreland. Beans and peas have not been wholly secu-
red, but a fair growth is expected to be realised. The tur-
nip crop is well spoken of, and a most abundant quantity of
sound Swedes is apparent on most farina. Potato raising
has been commenced in the north, several shipments having
already reached the port of London, in fine condition, whilst
• most bountiful growth is fully anticipated. Although co-
pious showers of rain have fallen in several parts of Ireland
and Scotland, no material obstruction has been offered to the
progress of the sickle in the northern parts ; yet the accounts
received thence, but more especially from Ireland, are by
no means so cheering as could be desired. In most of our
great hop districts, picking appears to have been brought to
a pretty general conclusion, under the most favourable au-
spices. An immense quantity appears to have been produced
is both Kent and Sussex, on account of which, the curren-
cies in the London market have been by no means remune-
rative. The duty is estimated at £225,000. —Farmer' s
Magazine for November.

MORAL FEELING OF THE FINS PEASANTRY.—We offer
the following as an illustration of an ignorant superstition of
the peasantry of this country, and the brutal feelings which
that feeling engenders. A poor man wishing to marry a fe-
male in the same humble rank of life as himself, both Roman
Catholics, applied to the priest, but not being able to pay as
large a fee as was demanded, he refused to marry him. The
lover thought it would do to be legally and honourably mar-
ried in the established church, applied to the minister, had
the banns published, and was married. What was theresult ?
He had business at the present sessions at Sligo, and on pas-
sing down a public street in this town, he was knocked down
senseless by a blow of a stone, and is at this present moment
in the county infirmary. Let it be remarked he has not left
the Roman Catholic church. He and his wife still go to
mass. Had he got himself buckled by some degraded priest
for a pint of whiskey, or even lived with the female, in vice,
it.woul have been all right ; but he committed the unpar-
do &nee of allowing a Protestant clergyman to marry
Ai 11ettny$ suffer the consequences:—Sligo Journal.
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