, 1866-10-19
English Weather and tbe C;raIn Mar,.,

There are ia England five or Fix weeks eyer,
year during which the first morning thop III
with The inhabitants Of every house. from m,
palace 10 the hovri, Is the weather The Minis
yer OF slate looks to the barometer aud scans
% ,ne reports 0f the markets, knowing well that
Tue next fvwsdays wifi test the ACCURACY of nj,
| revenue esiimaies for the curredt year. The
ieader OF the parliamentary opposition watches
DIS barometer with equal anxiety; speculntinv
on the chances for motion for a royal com,nis
| sion 10 irqHfr into the cause of the distress in
the agricultural DISTRICTS. upsetting he'cabiuet
and Putting himself and his party into place aud
power. The embarrassed landowner with a
| heavily mOrgaged estate watches the cluu,ls
| from hts library window with heavy heart.
fearing that his rents will come in sluwly and
that tis A"or'gHger may take the Opportunity to
ioTec!pSe aud turn him from his ancestral home
The foreign merchant rises in his suburban vii
! Ia in n hopeful spirt-he sees as the result of
the drippiag caves a chance of making a profit
ON foreign importations. The home lnanuhctu-
.rer Is drspondlug; to him short harvest means
dull home trade. The wife OF II poor clerk
with family Of hungry boys, thinks, as The
drops chase each other down the panes of glass
vi ihe hard patched and shabby ciothing winch
must be endured for twelve long, weary munlas
TO make up tor high priced bread. The smlii
tenant farmer, just making his rent by constant
Struggling anu hHrd labor, from five IA the morn.
!ng al eisHt al night, the year round watches The
uIceaSlnE rain beating dUwa the reward of Twelve
months work, with Visions OF baIiiif, and exr,u.
ton> fitting before his eyes. Even the dun lcaIeu
lnte!lect OF his lIb,rGT iUrcsres ia Ihe storm,
weather want, ,'hunser aud 1T last, the hated
shelter OF the worh"Uuse. This year ta.it part
OF E"g!sud in which hHTIesting Is generally
completed by the 2jth of August. has escaped
that loss that has tallen upon all The counties
north Of the Trent, upon Scotland, and upJu
lFaN sHFUH UH.srFaH Q sas--Fa
England see N the general loss improved prof IS
ir themselves. So do farmers of lllnuIs and
OAlS, aud 50 should those ut CAlifJrnia This
year the weather oi England, and the weight OF
Tie rams and tue strength of the winds Ia Brit
ain, is as important topic to the CONNER,
citl public Of San Francisco AS it is to The readers
OF the Lohdon IatrS or the Marx Lane Frysess
The prUvrrb that ut i'll wind that blows no.
body any good is As apt IN the mouth ut ii Cal !
lorna or Oregon rLuchman as on the lips of the
tenant farmers OF Essex ana Surrey. Tne news |
by the cable, aHd saOstautiated by the papers |
brought oy the steamers, show that three weeks /
of ) ,ptember had passed aud halt the grain of |
the Cnited Kingdom was sprouting in the shelf
or rouing ga the ground when most OF it should |
have been saiely stacked and securely thatched /.
IAe enited States nave oitea IN, coed s.mi- |
iar cea-,eucIes, aud can always bring ou; sup
ply OF breadstuds when high prices denote a |
YES in the Eastern States they eau supply l.
OJO, 900 or 5,o0O, 90 quarters; the shipments de-
pend more upon The price offered than the quan-
lily grown.
Tais year, we of California come fairly into
the tsld as grain growers for the li-st time and
by the results of the weather OF r. gland our
farmers wi, profit largely. The oAiy drawback |
at the lresent moment is rate asked Tor irei.,hts
so to % shiiliags ton the rate a month ago
for wheat, and, since the latest news has come,
10 ShlllngS, in an exceptiauai ease, has been
given by an outsider, though II aud pence is
about the hIgHcSt figure ever pud for wheat to
Liverpool at any timt. Each ftrmer must decide
for himself what course he will take-wheiher
hold or sell. He my rest assured that E igll.il
will have to buy 10000, 900 quarters of grain
from somewhere, and unless the north of Earope
md the countries bordering on the Mediterra,
mean and Black Sea have had a most remtrkl-
ple harvest, prices at least will be sustained.
lie must, also, take into consideration that
lights now nearly at the highest known
rate, and, Judging by precedent, are more likely
10 fall below the high sum asked thanIiSe much
above it; and that every shilling saved from the
'hipowners is % cents gained by the growers.
Justly, he should bear in mind that wherever
here is carron there will be crows; and this year
Wherever there is grain there will be shipS.-S.-
f. bQkLefiR.