Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-06-04
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NATIONAL
,NTELLIGENCER.
ER0MOURJ
,ONDON CORRESPONDENT.

This LONDON, MAY III, 1000.
agsr month, which has hitherto peen cola anu
"a lal, has at length assumed something OF the
.acter which poets give it; the sun at last is
lining. Miles Of grass and meadow land are now
turning from a russell blighted hue to beautiful
and vivid green, almost in the course OF a single
nicht and the field which at shutdown looked
mere dusty level is brstling with the blades of the
sprinrng grain by noon of the next day. Trout
begin to be plentiful at country breakfast and din
acr tables and gnats to swarm about the faces OF
chose who are taking possession OF garden chairs
For the first time this season Fires are suffered to
expire in our breakfast parlors, and ladies are Sc
caring the furs, which have been in request from
last November to last Saturday, against the ravages
of moths until November comes round again. Citl-
pens' wives are asking their city-smoked spouses
where they are to take their midsummer's holyday,
ami hotels and boarding houses all round the coast
arc painting up, replenishing and providing for
the expected crowds of visitors. The Whisuntide ho
lydys have given hours of relaxation to tens of
thousands of cockneys Parliament has adjourned for its
usual Mr. GLADSTONE is revising his long nan-
ial statements in the country and Mr.. DlsRAELI pol
fishing and sharpening his satirical oratorica weapons
Sportsmen making up their books for the Derby and
Lord DERRY is counting up his rank and file in both
Houses of Parliament and finding to his dismay that
Minister is lit 5le many disappontments GAYS
s4Hare ph MAJ, friends" This is in truth pleasant
season, and furn much Of mental qualification and
corporal enoyn MT; but like every thing else, it has
its t.sabacks We have had hosts of weddings the Re-
gstrar General tells u.s. but have also had hosts of
fanc,a and old people and infants yet being carried
in unusual nnmbers to their graves Bronchitis and
Group typhu and consumption have sent more to their
marrow homes turing the last half year than were ever
known to die except in the great cholera and influenza
seasons There multitudes of parents who cannot
enjoy the fine May weather it has come, for its de-
av has them the infants who should have reveed in
it like tie young lambs. There many weddings put
off till the days of family mourning past In the
country the farmers gloomy in many districts Ihas
been Of the worst Landing known, and
the young calves have been severely dealt with. The
have persisted by hundreds and the mortality among
sheep Of every kind has been unusually great Early
potatoes have failed and almost all spring crops very
Backward. These are heavy drawbacks. People would
like 10 know little more would like to know what the
eeaise really is of such weather have had in Eng
Hand for eight months past for mere conjectures
ve can have nothing but conectures about matter
which nobody thoroughly understandable very unsats
factory. It's very pleasant sending ones Imagination
wandering about the universe ransackng all the
TO which philosophers attribute atrocious
sea EARTH atmosphere, COMETS icebergs central fres
sind what not but neither they lay down the
law Of the case only learn the very homely but
ful lesson that, until know about the matter
rs mans business be prepared for such all
times for such preparation will always be prudent until
he becomes lord of rain and sunshine One necessary
step viii be to know what preparation we can make the
next to better ourselves and to make it
About short grain crops told by journalists
and politicians of the dominant school to have
easy conscience. The trade of the world say they
Is thrown open nearly wide it be thrown and
gain from it not only the power of supplying our
selves from abroad with those things of which we
and of paying rising prices from the extension of our
snce The next thing be attended to in England is
e application Of practical science agriculture and
make the land productive by better drainage cul-
aviation, &c.
But let US descend from generalities particulars
yhe Of the season. the unfavorabe condi
zion of the ground during many months for tage, the
comparatively small quantity of bread-corn which has
been sown and the cky appearance of the young wheat
An many districts mpart great interest at this moment
% the trade in Last year at this time the
price of wheat 40 Id the quarter il is 44s.
I'd or Is 3D. higher but the fluctuations last year
two and half times greater than they have been during
c present one This fact is Of great Importance
ing that fluctuations in the price, that the supplies
are drawn from very large surface, caused by
che variations in harvests than by those in the
foreign supplies To April 9TH Of the present year there
vas imported quantity Of grain of all kinds and -four
equivalent to about $685. quarters Last year the
Suantity was 1889 725 quarters To the 7th May the
quantities for the four months have been,
DO do do do 1882. l,72l, GAG