The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-09-16 00:00:00

CLERICAL AEIVN.

THE HARVEST AND THE CROPS,

KENT.—We are happy to say that the crops are looking
uncommonly well in every part of our neighbourhood, and
in but few instances do we bear of any complaints. This
is not the case, however, with the potatoes ; tor we believe
there is scarcely a bound bushel in the Marsh, and most
of them appear likely to rot long betore the winter shall
have passed.—Kentish Observer.
SOMERSETSHIRE.—The fine weather has been so fa.
vouratde tur ban eating, that not only has the when crop
been almost everywhere carried, but much progress has
also been o ade w.th the barley, a large portion of which
has been stacked in excellent condition.—Taunton Cou-
rier, Sept tuber 10.

H ER;FORDSH I RE.—A large breadth of grain has been
housed in excellent condition, but in the less forward
ti u tions there is still a good deal out, some of it not
being yet cut even. The weather has been all that could
be desired, and a continual ion of it fur a shot t time would
find the whole of this district of the country gladdened
with the shouts of the " harvest hunxe."—Hereford
Journal, September

NORTHUMB6RLAND.—The weather throughout this
district continues highly favourable for the harvest, which
is now in active operation, and affords promise of a much
more smisf,ctory result than was anticipated a few weeks
ago.—Newcastle Journal.
DURHAM, SEM'. 12.—The weather since our last,
though nut so blight and " sunny" as could have been
wished, has nevertheless been tavourable to the cutting tit
such of the crops as were ready for the sickle, and a c.n-
siderable quantity of bo h wheat and burl, y, as well as a
portion of oats, have been reaped. The unripe corn,
from the want of sunshine, approaches rather slowly
towards perfection, but it is gratifying to knoN that it
daily improves, and promises a mote abundant yield than
that which is in a more forward state.—Lurham Adver-
tiser.

GLASGOW.—The weather continues favourable for the
harvest, and every heart feels gratetul. On all hands
the fields are now covered with cut grain, in excellent con-
dition, and in every favourable situation what remains
standing seems ready for the sickle. We have just seen
a gentleman aho has been travelling in Perthshire. and
anutner who has been in Galloway, and they both de-
scribe the crops in these districts as being everything that
the heart of man could wish.

PERTHSHIRE.—We are still favoured with most aus-
picious weather, and the harvest gets on rapidly. Every-
where the reaper is at work. and so fast has been the
ripening process within the last fortnight. that the scythe
in many instances uiust be employed to supply the lack
of hands. Upon the whole—notwithstanding the en-
genial backwardness of Au,:ust—we believe the harvest is
nut above a week later than last year.
ABERDEEN.—Harvest is now general, and is not later
than the average period of the last five years. Ihe
damage sustained by the heavy and protracted wet and
stormy weather has been greatly exaggerated, as acounts
from all quarters speak of the (Top as most abundant, and
being gut in lair condition.—Montrose Standard.
The reports are of a similar character from Caithness-
shire and Elainshire.

IRELAND.—The harvesting of the wheat and barley
crops is vet y far advanced, and also to a 1-age extent in a
state of co.n partitive safety. The reaping of oats up to the
present date is only partial. The wheat crop presents de-
cidedly above an average bulk upon the ground ; but in
ref- rence to the article of grain, it is neither so good nor
so bad as was expected at different periods of the season.
The oat and ball, y crops present a tull average, with the
last few years, both in quantity and quality.
The greater portiva of the corn crop in our
vicinity has been cut. The chief complaints we hear of
are relative to the wht at crop. It is aileged the ear is of
a very interior description, and the straw poor and bad.
Potatoes are a most abundant crop, and are now selling at
a very low price.—Tepperary Conelitution.
The weather is delightful—more beautiful harvest wea-
ther we have never seen. If blessed with a continuance
of it we will have average crops. Oats we believe to be
thin, and think tnis grain will be high the ensuing season.
Many complaints are made of the produce of Potatoes on
guano manure, as not being equal to the appearance of
the tops when growing.—Athlone Sentinel.
The weather bas been delightfully fine for some time past,
and favourable for the op:rations of the sickle, which has
been pliantly at work in the last week; harvest cutting
has MY, how. ver, become genetal as yet, but by Monday
next, if the weather bolds fine, the corn crop will be vi-
gorously attacked and laid prostrate. The hay crop is
saved throughout the country, and in the majority of
cases is matte up in the haggard or in field ricks. There
will be an abundant crop of farm produce this year.—
Westmeath Guardian

FAILURE OF THE POTATOE CROP.—We regret to have
to record a failure of the crop of this important vegetable,
which appears to pervade the whole of the southern coun-
ties of England. In Ireland and in the north of England,
at present, happily, we hear nothing of it. We h-ive in
this immediate neighbourhood no indications of such a
cala:nity ; and the Irish papers do not notice any indica-
tions of it in that country.

GRAIN CROPS AND ItOOTS.--Whilst we are promised
fruits in abundance for mankind, throughout every dis-
trict of tire kinedotn, it is gratifying to find that we are
likely to have ford for catce in qual abundance. The
dripping season, which almost sent our Anti-Corn-Law
men into fits of extasy. has made every field a good pas-
ture, and made the " lean kine" fat beasts. A southern
contemporary rays, " last year the difficulty was to find
food for cattle; this year it is to find stock to eat the
food." Happily our prosperity enables us to find men,
women, and children to eat the stock. We shall have
bu chers' meat at a price which will enable our working
classes to eat beef, instead of vegetating upon cabbag,
with the new poor law food of bacon to eke out their ne-
cessities.