The daily gazette., 1879-07-23
IFrpan fhs N. X. Herald.

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4. The Herald special cable dispatches
this morning have gloomy and sodden
tone; they record another great rain
storm in England, the seysrest of an un-
pfecedented season Of rains, and one
which It, is admitted has destroyed all
hope Of even half crop for the most i'm
portant part Of Europe. On Saturday,
the 10Th, three days. storm--nottce Of
which had bean sent IN advance BY the
Herald Weathsr Bursau-broke over
England, Ireland, and Scotland. On
Sunday tho rain moderated In some
places, but . violent wind storm prevail
ed, and ON Monday the rain fell again In
'tOrrents. In the north Of Ireland cut hay
In the fields was floating about and al
the dow lying country was flooded; rom
Sheffield the report Is that on Saturday
and Sunday floOds of rain fell, and the
storm Was one ofthe sevorest ever known.
Similar reports come from Y Yorkshire and
Derbyshire, and while the British Isles
seem to have been the severest sufferers
from this deiuee our special cable reports
show that there were heavy rains also
over Germany and France. Not only
grain and hay, but fruit and crops of all
kinds have suffered serious damage, and
90 hopeless is the prospect that even fine
weather for the rest Ofthe summer would
not, il is now admitted, do more than
lessen the great losses somewhat. The
London stock market was enlivened for
an hour yesterday by q gleam Of sun
shine, but tho clouds closed uver almost
Immediately again, and railway shares
were heavily depressed, while from the
manufacturing districts the news is Of
the most gloomy kind-markets dull,
money idle, enterprise stopped.
We cannot even offer our British cOus.
ins the poor comfort Of a relief from the
terrible weather which is casting gloom
over their spirits for before our readers
here see this 1t IS probable that another
storm of rain and wind will have reached
the British coast, which will probably
spread over Germany and France also
and last until the 23d; and If, as to the
Herald Weather Burea seems likely, this
storm shall clear up with cold weather
that will only be an added misfortune.
So great a proportion of the people o
Great Britain, Germany and France live
from hand to mouth, and depend, no
merely for comfort, but almost for exist
ence, on cheap bread, and therefore OF
abundant crops, that the long continued
bad weather is very great calamity
Before the effects of this latest three
days storm were known it was alread!
estimated in London that Europe nee,
to buy this year three hundred million
of bushels of wheat, thTee-fourths o
which would be needed by England an,
France. 10 this vast amount larg
percentage must now be added. For
tunately the crops in America are un
precedently large aud good and the re
ports fiom Southern Russia are ais
most favorable. There is in the prt
sent circumstances of the world no fes
of famine in any part of Europe, but til
prolonged depression Of commerce, u
dulness in all manufacturing busine.
! and the consequent lmpoverishment I
. the laboring classes makes the calamit
of short crops the more terrible an
dreaded, especially when this is onl
one of succession of bad harvests.
tits estimated in England that Ell
rope will have to pay out about 81
hundred millions of dollars this year
foreign countries for food and there
reason to believe that half this prOdig
ous sum will fall to the share of Amer
ca. To us, of course, this demand wi
be great immediate advantage, thong
the impoverishment Of our custome
must in the end affect us badly. Still
. we are in the situation of the bake
who, as the proverb says, has got
trade because his children have in al
+ case bread enough. A country whit
, has in great abundance precisely VIII
, other countries happen most to need
, doubly fortunate, and this is our POI
tion this year, as it has been for sever
, years past. CT