The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-06-17 00:00:00

THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS,

We have had another week of very hot dry weather ; we
hear, indeed, of showers having fallen in the W.,•st of Eng-
land, but they appear to have been of an extremely partial
character ; and there can be no doubt that all Lent corn, as
well as spring-sown wheat, must already have suffered from
want of sufficient moisture; and fears are entertained, that,
if the rain holds off much longer, serious injury will be done.
The autumn-sown wheat has been pushed forward by the
high temperature, and is in many districts now in ear : the
reports respecting the appearance of this grain continue ex-
tremely various ; from the northern and eastern counties we
received, on the whole, more satisfactory accounts than from
Essex, Kent, and other of the home counties ; but generally
the plant is admitted to be thin on the ground, and the straw
short and weak. We have also w ithin the last day or two
heard complaints of red-rust having manifested itself in
some parts of Sussex ; the reports cannot therefore, on the
whole, be considered as favourable, still the trade has be-
come dull, and though no actual abatement of importance has
been submitted to, prices have rather tended downwards.
That our stocks of home-grown wheat are very short in
all parts of England, no longer admits of a doubt ; and
so completely are the granaries exhausted in Ireland
that the utmost distress prevails there, and shipments
are now in progress from most of the ports along our
western coast to the sister island. In this state of things,
any material decline from the present prices can scarcely be
expected, particularly as the importeys of foreign still refrain
from paying duty, except in retail quantities. All descrip-
tions of spring corn seem likely to advance considerably in
value, unless we have a speedy change of weather ; already
prices have crept up at most of the leading provincial mar-
kets held during the week. Whilst drought is so much com-
plained of in England, it appears from our Scotch and Irish
advices that partial showers had fallen lately in both those
countries, and the rain having been accompanied by a high
temperature, the growing grain crops had, we are informed,
made rapid progress. From Scotland the reports are almost
universally good, and from Ireland there are fewer complaints
than usual, as far as regards the prospects for the future ; but,
whilst the fields hold out a promise of abundance, the barns
and granaries have been nearly emptied of their contents, and
the utmost misery Rrev ails, owing to the scarcity of provi-
sions in many parts of the island. In quotations of grain no
material change appears to have occurred—as well in the
Scotch as in the Irish markets, wheat has maintained its
former value, and oats, barley, beans, and peas have slightly
advanced.—Mark Lane Express.
In almost every newspaper that has come into our hands
during the last few days, we find exhilerating accounts of the
but
vvet thelookingv ebeneficial results that have attended the recent abundant and
seasonable rains. Throughout England, Scotland, and Ire-
land, the fields are clothed with beauty and richness, and
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garden with beauty ; in short, it has
imparted to the
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whole face of nature a smile that must excite in all breasts
feelings of animation and joy, and call forth thanksgiving
from all hearts. In our own favoured county the hay har-
vest has commenced, and the crop promises to be one of
"un-
exampled abundance. A good harvest of wheat and corn,
"t
the country in the present distressed condi-
tion of its labouring population, and give to trade an impe-
tus which it cannot be expected to derive
conferredile staff
uponpl' life, would be the greatest boon that could be
from any other
source.— Western .Luminary.

A father seeing his eon doing mischief, cried out, " Sirrah,
.into did you ever see me do so when I was a boy ?"
LORD HowicK.—Our readers will have been as much sur-
prised as we ourselves were, on hearing of the petition against
the return of Lord Howick having been withdrawn. From
the knowledge we have of the cases which would have come
before the committee, we are quite certain the investigation
would have ended in Lord Howick being declared not duly
elected ; and, with this conviction, we exceedingly regret that
!Ay arrangement, however beneficial, should have been en-
teredto abandon this petition ; and we do not think any
consideration,atbes aeawebva.esrtcyogaennat, can justify what we
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Arthern Times.