The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-08-10 00:00:00

)f most articles of field produce are

already in progress of being reali
land, as they already have been in the south

,d in the north of Eng-

The har-

vest has commenced in earnest in most of the counties.
and the general result is an abundant yield both of grain

of the best quality and of straw. Even so far north as
Cumberland, barley has been cut ten days ago, and other

weather has been highly propitious ; and though heavy
showers have been flying about, in some instances laying
portions of the wheat and oat fields, any loss that may
thereby arise will probably be comparatively small, and
will be more than made up by the advantage accruing to
the turnips, aftergrass, and other green crops, which for
some time had wanted water. It were easy to' quote,
from the different provincial journals, a column or two in
justification of these remarks : but this is superfluous, in-
asmuch as they all gratifyingly sing the same song, and to
the same joyful tune. There is certainly some slight Plr-

ception here and there as to the potatoes; the truth of
which time alone can solve. The general opinion is-that
the crops of the year will be considerably above the ave-
rage product, and of superior quality.
In Scotland the prospects are equally cheering. In the.
more fertile districts of that country—the Lothians, &c.—
..

colder, though later lands, the oats (yet green) are thick
and strong in stem, giving equal promise against the time
of harvesting, which will be quite as early as usual. Some
fine wheat has already been cut in Dumfriesshire, and the

grain fields generally are approaching to maturity. As in
England all the writers on the subject express their de-
light at the continuance of the finest possible weather for

h respect to Ireland (by skimming over bundles of

The reports are most encourag

ging 'from all

parts ; and certainly convey an assurance that the asser-
tions some time ago put forth, (probably by interested
corn-holders), that farmer and cottier had been alike ne-

ttul in sowing or planting, were, to say the least, muen
;gerated. Prolific as is the general soil of Ireland, we
vet to learn that. even there, he who " sows" not can

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The only drawback refers itself to the " potato." The
" earlies," and especially the earliest of them, have been
throughout the kingdom abundant and good. The
of this crop (now being gradually gathered) haveialli-
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last

is certainly somewhat ominous as to the late, or Win
" field" crop. The rot has in these shown itself in some
districts, but it is by no means very important as yet.
Some writers report that they observe no appearance of it
pinilythfleelfields
.Itthy have
isenotw surveyed,
ell, andtrust
however,
to
halloo thatb before
asorheohneaß-
is___.

Out, of the wood.
til about this tim

The disease didnot set in instyea;:in:
~ and it may yet exercise its halpful in-

But we see no cause for alarm, come what may;
inary course of nature's laws. Should one-half

be--,taking

!omit the fi

crops of other produce, and the large

—in a position far beyond the reach of
or of exorbitant prices. Should the potatoes escape with
but about the usual loss in amount of failure in ordinary
years, we may venture to prognosticate that in a fewmonths hence we shall have provisions of all kinds lower
in price than we have known them for the last twenty

warehouses

SALE OF SHAKSPERE'S BIRTHPLACE

of the Stratford Shaksperian Club, onthe 22d ultimo, the
following noblemen and gentlemen have formed themselves
into a committee for raising a fund for the purchase of the
house in which Shakspere was born :—His Royal Highness
Prince Albert, Earl Delawarr, Earl of Warwick, Earl Den-
bigh, Earl Howe, Viscount Villiers, Lord Lilford, Lord
_ _

Redesdale, Lord Leigh, Lord Brooke, Hon. C. B. Percy,
Sir R. Peel, Bart., M.P., Sir R. Throekmorton, Bart.,
Sir G. Skipworth, Bart., Sir Charles Douglas, M.P., D.
J. Shirley, Esq., M.P., W. Collins, Esq., M.P., the
mayor of Stratford, Dr. Thomson, Stratford, &c.
On the 4th instant, a meeting of the committee was held
at Stratford, Dr. Thompson presided, when the following
report of the proceedings of the committee was unani-
mously agreed to :
That a committee of noblemen and gentlemen having,
in the year 1835, at the instigation of the Royal Shak-
tshpeerii)aunrp o Club,of boebetna
oformed o
na tatSiot rnast fofor dr
-up
foorf
enabling them to preserve and renovate the tomb and
monument of Shakspere, and the chancel in which the

remains of the poet and his family ar _
the event of a sufficient amount being

nterred ; and, in
übscribed, the

tion and res

'the
which was t residence o nn Hathaway, afterwards
wife of Shakspere, and even to the purchase of the site 0`
New Place, the house in which Shakspere passed the latter
years of his life, and in which he died, a spot which being.

yet unencroaehed upon, they are most desirous of guardi",
from new erections, and consecrating to the memory e'
him whose name has rendered it, in their estimation, hol-
lowed ground. The means, however, placed at the dis-
posal of the committee (the subscription being limited to
£1) sufficed only for the primary object thendn view.
" Since that time no opportunity offered for the par-
chase of the house in which Shakspere was born until the
end of last year, when, in consequence of the death of tba
late proprietor, it became known that the property wow
be sold.
At an early period an application was made for the,
purchase of the property by private treaty, when it vai
ascertained that legal difficulties 'existed, which rendere,‘'
it incumbent upon the trustees to offer it for sale by p 11blic
auction, and, therefore,- not less so on the committee t°
move in the matter with the greatest "caution and-circully
spection, and hence the delay in announcing their Inter

tions.
" The sale is fixed to take place on the 16th of Septenv
ber, and, after much deliberation, the committee have
determined to abandon the plan which had been for sonic
time entertained, of a private guarantee fund, for the pur
chase of the house in the first instance, and to make
public appeal to the nation for the means of purchasing
and preserving so precious a relic of England's greatest

poet.
" That portion cf the property which is to be sold
P
sists of the rooms which have always been exhibited I;
the house in which the poet was born, and of the 50,19,4
and Maidenhead public-house, on the east side of it ; utTe
there are likewise within the area of the property, on t'o,
western side, four tenements, three of which were
verted into habitations at the beginning of the last centime
and the fourth, which, from the continuation of 'ig
framed timber front, and the form of the old door-" be
communicating internally, evidently forms part of,
birthplace, but which, iu 1771, was separated from it. ,ed
" The committee have within the last few days purella4,
,
the four tenements above-mentioned for the sum of 'l,se
wlich, as it puts them in possession of part of the 11°a0g
in which Shakspere was born, cannot but be regardepe
a most important acquisition at the present time. the
price which the committee have given for this part 00
property, and for the advantage of at once securing _
probably be referred to as some indication of the Ow to
required for the purchase of the larger and more valo3o
portion of it, which they understand realises, fr0na,,,,..e,
rental of the house and the exhibition of the 'birthnt,
from £BO to £lOO per annum. In the event of thiltei
tion of the property being also secured, the cowr_,
contemplate restoring, as far as possible, such portio% it
have been remnved. whe„ftt,

it as may from time to time_
would be placed under the protection of the govern ,jog
the Chief Commissioners of Woods and Forests bat'llue
signified that that department ' would willinglY .001
charge of Shakspere's house, as a just object of oat'

care."
of
The report concludes with announcing a d00ti°,,11.1.0
£250 from Prince Albert. The Queen Dowager 1111-5 '

George Jones, Esq. has offe
e Shakspere house and proper

00 f°f
sum of .£2O 100
3rovided that it is.' 0

of at privat

nd.theieb

,revent

_...,c of its being sold at public auction. Irre,'re-t;
of the name of Shakspere, the property is only V 8“/
few hundred pounds,