The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-07-13 00:00:00

THE CROPS AND THE WEATHER

The most gratifying accounts have appeared in the
papers during the past week of the unusually rapid pro-
gress of vegetation, and, with scarcely one exception, of
the health and luxuriance of the whole of the crops,
throughout England, Scotland, and Ireland, and we may
add, Europe. We can vouch for the fact, too, that our
own immediate agricultural districts are resplendent with
all that in verdure or bloom can gratify the eye, or give
promise of an abundant return to the husbandman and
horticulturist. The weather has been generally sultry,
and seldom under the temperature of summer heat, with
genial and repeated showers of rain, which, with the in-
tervening ardent sunshine, have amazingly promoted the
rapid growth and strength of vegetation in field and
garden. The landscape, wherever the eye is directed,
presents a charming picture, even the lane sides and
ditches being adorned in profusion with herbage, and
wild flowers, and plants, of a height and strength rarely
witnessed.

A great portiou of the hay has already been got in, in
excellent condition, and the crop generally is heavy, and
of fine quality. The haymakers are still busily at work,
and their final labours will be on the cold-bottomed
fields where the grass is not yet quite ripe for the scythe.
The stacks will be large, and the price of the article will
no doubt drop. The wheats are advanced in ear, and the
plant of extraordinary height and strength. We have
also seen some splendid fields of oats, surpassing indeed
any we remember to have seen. Barley in some
parts, is not so promising, but• may, on the whole,
amount to an average crop. The potatoes, notwithstand-
ing all the croakings of alarmists, are excellent and excel-
lent in quality ; we mean the earlier sorts. The late are
coming un in proportion as to time, and, as yet at least,
show no symptoms of disease beyond what might be here
and there observable in the best seasons for this root.
Turnips and mange's look very well, as do pease and
beans, especially the former, which will certainly be
abundant. Pasture lands are also prolific. Gardens,
where at all attended to to keep down a vast growth of
weed, and destroy insects, will amply repay the culti-
vators. Our markets are well supplied with fruits and
vegetables in season, at moderate prices. From all
quarters, the accounts are equally cheering, including the
continents of America and Europe. We had some partial
thunder storms on Wednesday, and subsequently, by
which, in the south, (it will be found by another para-
graph,) several persons lost their lives, and a considerable
number of houses, &c., were burnt down. The air was
charged in many parts with electric matter, but we do not
find that it has injured the crops in any direction. The
atmosphere is still (Monday night) sultry, with some ap-
pearance of rain.

The Royal mail steam-ship Cambria was expected yester-
day (Monday), but will not be more than due, should she
come up this day.
DEATH OF A CLERK IN THE PARISH OFFICE.—We
regret to learn that another of our efficient staff of clerks
employed in the parish office has fallen a victim to the
fearful epidemic which still rages in town. The gentle-
man to whom we allude—Mr. Irwin—was well known to
a large circle of friends, by whom he was highly esteemed.
MEETING OF MAGISTRATES YESTERDAY.—TRANSMI-
ORATION OF PAUPERS. —A meeting of the borough ma-
gistrates was held yesterday, at the Sessions Court, to
take into consideration the operations of the new poor-
law and vagrancy bills relative to the transmigration of
Irish paupers ; but as the meeting was private, we have
not learned the result of their worships' deliberations.

AWFUL EFFECTS OF THE HOT WEATHER.-It was
remarked, at Wednesday's Council, that " it was thought
that the people of London would bleed" for the Birken-
head Dock Commissioners, " but it is now ascertained
that they will not bleed." How could it be expected,
when people everywhere are perspiring so much ? Sub-
mitting to be bled, in such weather as this, would be
almost suicidal.

DARING ROBBERY IN CASTLE-STREET.—During the
night of Friday, the premises of Messrs. Robert Forrester
and Co., tailors and drapers, of 51, Castle-street, were
entered, and property to the value, as is supposed, of about
£4O was carried off. The thieves effected an entrance
through a narrow passage in Harrington-street, which
leads to the back doors of the premises, and they got into
the shop by forcing open the doors with an instrument
called a "jemmy." The whole of the property stolen has
not yet been ascertained. A reward of £5 is offered for
the apprehension of the thieves, and the recovery of the
property, but no clue has yet been obtained to either.
THE CORONER'S COURT.—An inquest was, yesterday,
held on the body of a child, which was found in Fair-
dough-lane, on Sunday morning last ;—when found, it
was wrapped up in a piece of newspaper. It appeared
that the body was much bruised, especially about the
neck, and on other parts of the body there were marks of
violence ; but the surgeon deposed that, on apost mortem
examination, he found that the child was still-born.
Verdict accordingly.—Also on the body of a female—
name unknown—who died in the passage of the night-
asylum, on Sunday morning last. John Jackson deposed
that he was sitting on a form beside the deceased before
she died. On being taken ill she gave a groan, stretched out
her arms, and expired in a few minutes. Mr. Wood,
surgeon, deposed that the deceased died of disease of the
lungs, and other natural causes. Verdict accordingly.—
A verdict of death from natural causes was also returned
on the body of an infant, who also died in the same in-
stitution.

BLUE COAT lIOSPITAL.-We feel treat pleasure in di-
recting the attention of our readers to an advertisement
in our paper this day, announcing that a sermon will be
preached in St. Barnabas Church, Parliament-street, on
Sunday morning next, in behalf of this favourite institu-
tion. There is no doubt that our various local charities
have of late years been too much neglected by the clergy
of our town, and we therefore hope that the example set
in this instance will be generally followed. Notwith-
standing the numerous families taking up their residence
amongst us, this and other institutions do not exhibit in
their subscription lists that amount of increase to their
funds which is naturally expected, but, on the contrary,
from deaths and other causes, the funds are languishing.
It is only, therefore, by the clergy bringing forward the
claims of our institutions annually before their respective
congregations that a proper result will follow, and in ex-
pressing our best wishes that the response to the appeal
in the present instance will be one worthy of the cause,
we at the same time say to each of the clergy " go and do
thou likewise."

MARKET CIRCULAR LITERATURE.—The purveyors of
commercial information, in their anxiety to be brief,
sometimes perpetrate very funny things. Indeed, they
prove that not only is " brevity the soul of wit," but of
fun as well. We give a few specimens from last Wed-
nesday's " Liverpool Markets," as given by our contem-
porary the Advertiser. He says, "We have no-change
to notice in the rum market." This is certainly a very
queer name for a market. We should like to know where
it is, and who is the superintendent. Again : " Nothing
of the least importance has occurred in coffee." This is
not quite true. Parties who use cream in their coffee
have observed it curdle of late. Perhaps, however, it is
intended to inform us that the chiccory usually in coffee
has not been misbehaving itself. " The tea market,"
we are told, "is rather improving. The greater part,
however, of 4,000 packages offered by auction (being
chiefly greens of last year's import) were withdrawn."
Very properly so. People could not be expected to buy
" greens," whether foreign or home-grown, as tea, al-
though at tea a nice fresh lettuce is very desirable just
now. Again we hear of the business done "in rice"—
"in pot and pearl ashes," &c. " A small quantity of
brimstone," it is said, " went off." "In saltpetre," .the
next paragraph says, "we have little to report." The
two, put together, would have " gone off," and made a
" report" for themselves. Some nitrate of soda, we are
also told, " went off." More shame for the saltpetre,
which was so much more calculated to go off. Some
parcels of dyewoods " found buyers." Very clever
woods they must have been. We would recommend
them to the notice of the Woods and Forests. They
might, perhaps, be able to find buyers for the Birkenhead
Docks, or money to finish them. Seriously, we cannot
see why mercantile houses should make use of so much
slang, and so grievously outrage grammar, in their com-
munications to the world. They should reform it alto-

FURTHER PARTICULARS RELATIVE TO THE IRISH
bout 300 of the poor Irish were sent home by
They nearly all left reluctantly. Twenty of
itely refused, and had to be taken before Mr
The process of.

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them resc

:ompelling them to leave is
r all offered various reasons
)ermitted to remain, but none of
these arguments had any effect, as they had, up to that
time, received parish relief. Mr. Rushton told the whole
of them, what they appeared to be ignorant of, that the
system of giving out-door relief, as in England, was now

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whir they ought to bi

in full operation in their own country ; that they had long
enough been a burden upon the industrious shop-keepers
of Liverpool ; and that they must go back that night and
be supported in future by the Irish landlords. And, ac-
cordingly, that very night, they were sent by steamers to
Mayo, Roscommon, Cavan, Louth, Dundalk, and Drog-

heda.. The act has already had the effect of diminishing
the number of applicants for parish relief, and the ex-
penditure has been materially lessened, and will, no doubt,
continue to decrease. The act has also greatly checked,
if not cut off, the influx of paupers from Ireland, though
the numbers that have come in search of harvest work has
been considerable, being on Friday 1,014. Another cir-
cumstance is gratifying. The fever is in the decline, as
shown by Dr. Duncan 's report, yesterday, to the Health
Committee. The Irish are now leaving Liverpool in
shoals, not, however, for their own country, but for the
interior, in expectation of obtaining work at the harvest,
many of them unfit for the exertion. The great influx
would, moreover, probably defeat the object in view, even
amongst the able-bodied, by reducing wages to the detri-
ment of all—English or Irish. At Warrington—where,
by the way, the fever is more prevalent than here—the
streets were so crowded by these wayfarers, that the po-
lice-officers had to use every exertion to keep them away.
Application was yesterday made by the Irish steam-boat
agents, to the health committee, for a relaxation in the
quarantine orders. In consequence of the few cases of

fever that had appeared in their vessels the applicants
did not consider it necessary that they should be submitted
to the present harrassing regulations, by which their ves-
sels and passengers were detained in the river. It was
also urged that the delay was the more grievous at this
season, when there were large importations of salmon,
which might become unsaleable in the present weather,
and, moreover, procreative of disease. The application
was, we learn, not acceded to.
The freemen of Lincoln are likely to be much enriched
by the approach of railways to their city. From the
Great Northern Company they claim £BOO per acre for a
common, and £lOO per acre as severance ; the quantity
required will be 28k acres, so that the compensation
claimed amounts to £25,000 ; they likewise claim £l,OOO
per acre for two acres taken by the Midland Company, the
two sums making £27,000.