The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-06-25 00:00:00

THE WEATHER AND CROPS.

The weather in this district has been very 'unsettled
since our last. Until Thursday there were heavy show-
ers of rain every day, with high winds occasionally.—
With The exception of the hay grass, however, which the
floods and rains have injured in some situations, we do
not find that any Material darnage has been done to the
crOps. Every aescription.of grain.crop is represented as
looking most promising, generally. The laud prepared
foi.turnips has been rendered until for them, without the
work being done anew, which will retard their sowing.
We hear complaints of the potatoe crop giving symptoms
of failure in some. situations, but we 'believe it, will be
fotindlo be to an inconsiderable extent. The weather
is now most seasonable, and has every appearance of be
ing settled.
The appearance of the growing corn was never more
favourable at this season of the year than it at present,
in the lower district of Annandale. The grub worm has
no. where done anyinjury worth a moment's notice, and
the late rains have entirely removed the fears entertained
from the effects of the previous long continued dry wea-
ther. but- not so the potatoe crop, the appearance of
which is, in many places,. as lamentable as it is unprece-
dented, In whole fields not a single shot is to be seen,
in others a few here and there,, and in some few the one
half or third, exhibit every appearance of a luxuriant
crop, contrasted with the adjoining sterility. The de-
squetion:of vitality in the seed potatoes is beyond all
doubt. the cause; but what this circumstance can be
ascribed to in a plant where there was no sign of disease
or decay is not so easily determined;. but some, (and I
think, with. great probability,) attribute it to much of the
crop last year being raised before the potatoes came to
maturity--Carlisle Patriot.
Field crops exhibit the effects of the rain in an im-
proved appearance, the sickly hue occasioned by a long
drought hating given place to a fresh and vigorous
1,1.-2,oT.eite:P.a4ne jOVonrattiMity of inspecting various
groxiwTreth.
farm's in this neighbourhood. The wheats are pretty
generally in ear, and the crops in Angus-shire and po-
tatoe oats, among the finest we ever saw, or could possibly
conceive. The wheat ears are more remarkble for plump
ness than length. A considerable portion of the rye-
grass and clover has been beaten down by the late rains,
and will sustain damage unless the weather speedily
" take up." The air appears "to 'filled with electricity,
and' the .barometer.vibrates. c.onstantly.up and down. 7—
Dumfries Courier..
The weather is ,rather against the crops in this county.
A few smart showers would be of infinite' service, as
the ground'is very pinch dried up: South of :Derby
there has been scarcely any.rairi,during- the last month,
and in the hundred of Scarsdale. and -High Peak, al-
though there have been some chance showers, they are
insufficient to give the earth, that degree of moisture
which is so necessary for vegetation.--Derbysh. Courier.
The growth of grass, clover, and corn, in the north
riding of Yorkshire, has seldom in the memory of very
old men made a more rapid advance than in tile last
three weeks, *Every kind of grain, particularly wheat
and beans, looks very well in the neighbourhood of Rich-
mond, Thirsk, Northallerton, Ripon, and Masham. At
Guisborough and Stokesley, in Cleveland, 'where the
land is cold, the Corn has been seen 'to look Much worse.
In -some parts of :the 'County of Ihrhato, 'bordering
on
Yorkshire, and particularly between 'Northallerton and
Darlington, the grass and corn are backward and thin,
and it will require a continuance of warm weather to
bring the corn to a good colour. The turnip land is get-
ting' into good condition.—Yor
THE WEATHER.—The.storm of thunder and rain that visited
this* place on Tuesday the 11th instant, and which we spoke of
in our last, appears to have been general -over hoth:Englanct
and Scotland. In many places it was accompanied by a violent
wind, which did considerable-dainage in the fields and woods,
as well as in the crowded city: Yet we hear of few shipwrecks
on the coasts in consequence; though it was expected that the
shipping would have greatly suffered from the late hnrricanes.
The weather here during the week has been cold -and damp,
and often rainy,,-altogether unlike the sunny time of midsum-
mer. The month of June is generally the driest andd the finest
of the whole year. Not so this season, when•the dog-days have
been frequently characterised by the cold and wet.of "March or
October. On the Wednesday the sky assumed a more, settled,
appearance, and drier and warmer weather is evidently setting
in, to the great joy of the traveller and the intended tourist,
who meditates his annual excursion as soon as next month ar-
rives; to the schoolboy, who looks forward .to his midsummer
holidays • and to the farmer, who dreams of his ripening corn,
and is already whetting his scythe and preparing his rakes. for
a heavy hay harvest. All that we sec and hear and read of the
crops in this district: and in other -parts of the kingdom, is
cheerio... and inspires hopes of future abundance. They are
described to be in the healthiest and most luxuriant state; no
complaints of even partial faiaires are made, with the excep-
tion of the potatoe crop; and warm, dry weathir seems only
wanted to bring on a speedy and plentiful harvest. The sowing
of turnips, we perceive, is not yet over; but another-week will
see that important operation finished. If warm.weather set in,
the young turnips must come finely away, as the ground is al-
ready well watered. In another week, too, haymaking will have
become general; it cannot begin, too soon, as the hay is very
heavy, has evidently reached its full growth, and in many places
is lodged with the fate rains.—Damfries Journal.
Hops.—From a rather extended and close observation it may
be safely affirmed, that the hop-yards present as favourable an
appearance as at any former similar period in the season. The
blues are topping the poles, and the plants look remarkably
strong and luxuriant, an observation which will apply to situa-
tions where last year the produce was deficient, or nearly failed.
The late unusually high gales have blown the plants about a
good deal, but there are, as yet, no accounts of any serious
mischief.—Hereford Journal.
Never in man's remembrance did the crops in, this neigh-
bourhood look• better than at present. Wheat, of which there
is a great breadth sown in this district, will be a heavy crop,
and is now getting into, ear. Oats, which were rather thin and
sickly on dry_soits, have improved wonderfully since the late
rains, and are now strong and healthy. The grasses are in
great abundance, arid, hay will be above an average crop.
fact, the promise which the Sea Son gives is equal to a counter-
' tote of the Commons on the corn laws.—Kilmarnock Itqlormer.

. .
On Wednesday last a party proCeeded to Aylesbury Church
for the purpose of christening a child. The officiating, minister
objected to.the baptismal name, which was. Eliza, stating, as his
reason, "it was but half a name," and, therefore, he could not
proceed with the ceremony, One of the early, remonstrated
with the rev. gentleman on the absurdity of the ol'ijection, but.
to, no purpose. lie would christen the child Elizabeth, if the
parents pleased, but this would not do, -as the mother was
anxious to have. the
.ehild,;.named
_after herself. liollemer, the
res,,,gentlernAn was inexorable, and. after. some angry feeling'
being displayed on both sides, the child was christened 'Maria!
--Lincoln Mercury.