New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-08-22

the black lice Still. all this does not very geaty
interfere With the grain crops. Oh Tow st9 ooeP
soil the yield 10 good and the harses' Eas Deguh
with fair promise The corr will be ligst and dry,
but there will DO an average amount of il, IND, if
the weather last, it will be gathered ia good CON
dition for food. On high, dry, and thln land INC
wheat end barley are undoubtedly burnt up ana
farmers are holding back for little rainfall 70
swell the grain and help 10 gil their SACKS. Inc
mischief of season like this is as regards the root
crops aud the feed for cattle. Beans and turnlps
are IN many places dying on for want OF moisture
in the East Riding fields upon fields OF both nave
been ploughed up In despair, to make summer iaI'
lows for early autumn wheat sowing. inc nay hnt-
vest was agood onoii quality, ard got dunng cap
ial weather, bu, second cut Is almost IN earu o.
and the first below the avcragein pontof quaint
ty Pastures all over the kingdom are loosn hkean
Indian MADAM in May and the stock arc eating
hay off the ground instead of grass we nave
heard Of water for them sold i'll Kent az I'd.
bucket, and Of more than ono town where the wcils
are so low that the fresh liquid is very marxetaDe
commodity. All this is really serious, for STOCK
have been becoming moro and more lately staple
OF agrculturists; and tho prospect OF the culunin
and WINTER with few roots and no fodder, Is POSI-
lively alarming Hsy has gone up already in price,
spite of large supplies from last year being still Oh
hand; and oilcaks, the last resource of such sea-
Sons, Ia dearcr BY 20 per cent. in ono month. Inc
consequence Of this is to cheaper lean stock and
10 enhance the value q fat cattle, thus making
meat dstr AT present ana IN prospect. ruhcis
won't biy cattio which they cant feed and those
"comiDg forward" for tho butcher are not equal to
the consumption, even with the aid Of linseed and
foreign rye, which are being used. Altogether the
domestic horizon is good deal couded for want OF
showers. Another fortnight Of such disastrous
sunshine will put tae turnips and Dangoids alto
eether out of their chance, and we may be forced to
odd TO our political considerations the elements Of
doarer food, both cereal and animal.
In addition to which we hear Of a terrific
storm which has rayagod ireland, raging with
sufficient violence to destroy Il large proportion
Of tho crops, and even 10 uproot the potatoes
from the ground.
London Of course. hass been anything but
agreeable dSing the prevalence of this unusual
weather. t. griny streets are dull and ietid.
it's MISUNDERSTANDING tho disiniecants
poured into it--stinks especially nocturnally.
One gets up in the morning from an unreireshed
sleep and, probably, dream that one is an hip
popo.amus with an unusually thick hide, being
baked alive in brick-kila or swimming for
ones LIFE amid seas Of ieather-beds) with clam
nv cnticle and conviction Of forthcoming sui
triness Accordingly was not soxy TO get out
TRIBUxg-,he "cutting oftho first sod, " or be-
ginning Of the East and West Junction Railway,
AT Towcester. in Northamptonshirc. Not that
it was any great spectacle, of moro Than local
Importance, though it involved what the Times
chooses 10 describe Us one OF tho extra-Parlla-
mcn;uy utterance., setting in with the close of
tho session.
Tho special train which conveyed us to our
destination, was 10 start at noon. Judging by
the light Of preconceived opinions, you would
think that this would DO tho busiest time OF tho
day at what il, perhaps, the greatest railway
station Of the biggest city in the world. But
views founded on preconceiyed opinions are
almost invariably wrong, hence l was not sur
pissed to find tho largo quadrangle at Euston
Square a little more massoleuIs-Eke than usual.
If a desolation, ike Belelutha's, did not .eSt
upon e, il yet looked so deserted that one might
have expected a notice on the street doors TO tho
OBJECT that tho line was closed in consequence
Il everybody having departed from town, and
nobody being disposed 20 return. However,
the familiar portor5 were there, in q state of I'M
usual deference, and . hundred intending fell
low-traycers, who stared AZ each other with
tia. peculiarly British blending OF curiosity and
imperthence, expressive Of distrust whether
their neiglbor light not be a Duke, or a convict
on ticket-Oi.leaye. state carriago was, Of
course, provided for Lord Palmerston, tho great
man of tho occasion. When ho came, a few
IL 10 nj aff ,rrrt
failed TO recognize him. Indeed il il always
difficult 10 associate the idea OF tho British Pre-
nirr wiph that Of his Office. Fancy why
canny looking old man, stumping along with o
bundle Of sticks and umbrellas strapped to-
gother, and looking like tbs most respectable of
family servants ont Of liycry-that is Lord Pal
mcrston--certainly tho most popular OF English
Prime Ministers since the oily, easy, jocular,
peace.loying Sir Robert Walpole, in the days
when England was in the words OF Fielding,
"as corrupt nation as ever existed under the
sun." pam" toddled into tho trains brisldy,
snd of we started instanter.
oar journey was evontial and dusty. Un-
known railway magnatec occupied tho same car
rage as myself, talking of debentures, and con-
tracts, and large profits, after their fashion.
Such people always seem 10 be making money
without trouble, and they exhibit such a
thoroughly podsnappish contempt of that large
section Of humanity not possessing that secret,
thatit wa with satisiacton that perceived that
tho dust was no respector Of persons, and that
it finally reduced them TO silence by choking
their mouths and nostrls. There vas dust
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