The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-07-10
Our Liverpool correspondence.

LIVERPOOL, June %, 1919.
The Crop of Potatoes-7He Mail Steamer-A
Floating Post Office, &C., &c.
Thursday, though nOminally the ''longest day."
was by no means lengthy. 1t was a dull, stale,
comfortless day-just what you could imagine the
longest day in the sulks But tits gone, and there
is no Sc complaining. Yes, Christmas, with its
icicles and its mincemeat is approaching, and here
we are, without a tidy bit of summer yet AS to
dog days-it seems that they have left us alto
geiher. Here we are, with a scarcity OF goose
berries-and apples do not seem to have gone in
pairs (pears) this year-complaunts amongst fruit
growers are naturally current. The potatoes-ah !
talking Of potatoes. | must be serious, for whose
toes, / should like TO know, may | not tread on.
Potatoes are certainly of prodgicus importance,
to almost every, perhaps every nation under the
sun; and To what country more than America!
In a word, then, we hear no mention OF disease
amongst them. There are IN our markets to-day
immense quantities TO be had, of excellent quality.
This week, having been partially wet, has done
wonders for vegetation. by the way, how deli
cIous do showers IN summer weather make ma
ture. i have not sufficient poetry IN my nature TO
speak touchingy OF skipping lambs, or risky old
runs in the scene, but allude to what painters de-
light To look upon-nature, washed and vanished
The editor If the Herald has, know, travelled the
civilized world over, and must often have glorled
in such prospect. To return Tor n moment 10
cabbages and the like. have 20 assure you that
through the length and breadth of this land, our
fields promise us abundance OF everything. Trade
however, remains in sadly depressed condition
the middle and lever classes in the commercial
world being only half paid, cannot be more than
half fed, and what matters TO many OF them how
cheap food u, If they have not money to buy 1t
with As TO railways-why ditch water, that or
binary emblem OF ilatness-i is champagne IN COM
parison with Them. Share brokers, who, three or
four years ago, were rs plentiful as backberrics,
hear nj of become
that most Indefinite Of all species, "accountants;"
Others offer to collect rents for you, who find 1t i'm
possible 90 collect their own rents, or make fast
fugitive buttons in their wardrobe. Well, shines
is bad" and these share brokers have only got the
brokers share.
The old Caledonia reported, in the usual noisy
style, her arrival here at twelve o'clock taoon) last
Mtntay. You ere, no doubt, aware before this,
that she Jaw the Europ, within forty miles Of
Boston. At twenty-five minutes past four r. NJ, on
the I1ih, he spoke the Hibernia, of loughall.
The Calrdcna came within three miles OF Cape
Race, and ou her home ward passage, as well as on
the outward, saw may ice5ergs-one about two
miles round. and 200 feet high. a friend OF mine,
who has been at sea ioIy years, and who ar
rived by the Caledonia, says lac never rccoHects
seeing 81, continuance ct smooth water as they
he'd ON The fassagc home; the sea was like pond.
The Caledonia will not take her turn out. ln-
stead Of her sailing Saturday next, although at
present The only steamer in port, the Niagara,
which We look for on Monday morning, will go,
so that Eyrie and his chums will scarcely have
time to ct their shirts and "vtes" got up before
he will have 10 bawl out again. "Turn ahead
slow" You will remember that some three
weeks ego told YOU that the steamer safe lite,
that waits on the mail steamers here, was likely 10
become a postofce. This, sure enough, Will
shortly BIZ the case. The object 10 to give the
public opportunity of posting their letters up To
the last minute Of that vessel being alongside the
great landing stage, previous TO departing with
the outward mails TO the steamer; and ! am as
sured that IN three weeks time this will be IN
operation. II will be a grand hit, and n vast con-
yenieucc TO us 10 be able TO send letter an hour
later than can under the present arrangement.
To-da, for instanco. we can't, for love or money,
(and there Is net suberabundance Of either.) get
letter for America into the post-otilce, TO go by
the Canada, after ten O'Clock, A. M, although
that vessel will not sail until after forty hive
minutes after eleven. When the Satellite is once
established as floating post-oilice, she will per-
haps become buoyant customhouse, too; why
not
of one of the most delightful hotels IN the neigh
borhood Of Liverpool. mean the Birkenhead
Hot tel" close to the Liverpool corporation ferry al
South Birkenhead. The house (as well as the fer
ry) is the property OF the corporation Of Liverpool
and il has lust undergone such thorough cleansing
and painting that IL is quite refreshing TO look
You may recolect that II rs on the bank of the
Mersey, and from its windows, which overlook the
river and the town of Liverpool there is one OF the
most charming prospects TO the south that ~ to be
met with in England. You look up the river as
far as Runcorn. Weston Point, Chester, &c, a
dozen miles. II is a most healthy and quiet place,
"plenty Of entertainment for man and horse, and
with such host as Jones, what more can man De
sire The place, once seen, commends Itself
and as Captains Ryrie, Lott IL Go. know Jones Of