The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-07-22
PROGRESS OF THE ZULU WAR
Successful Shipment Of American
Horses to France.
SLAVERY MUST END IN CUBA.
Bonapartism and It's Plans for
the Future.
DESTRUCTION OF EUROPEAN CROPS.

WHEAT, CORN AND HAY RUINED BY THE
HEAVY RAINs-sToRMs ALL OVER THE BRITISH
IsLANDs-THE TIMES ON THE SITUATION
AMERICA AND RUSSIA MUST FEED EUROPE.
by CABLE TO THE HERALD
LONDON, July 81, 1879.
The weather for the past three days has
been exceedingly boisterous all over these
islands. Heavy rain commenced to fall
late on Saturday and was followed by
short interval of clear weather On Sun
day morning heavy gale began to blow
and torrents of rain fell throughout
the Midland counties. The weather
to-day has been gloomy and de-
pressing in London, and damp fog
overlies the city. An evening paper says
that ''the weather seems hopelessly lost,
and the most sanguine have now given up
all expectation Of pleasant summer"
Last nights storm greatly damaged fruit
trees, crops and cut hay, and great guam
tity of the latter is floating about the fields,
which are flooded in terrible manner
There is little hope that any of it will be
saved, because it is rotting rapidly.
Woods IN THE NORTH.
AT Belfast the streets are deeply flooded,
and the low lying districts in Down and
Antrim counties are under water causing
much destruction of property. The re-
ports from Sheffield state that one of the
severest storms ever experienced swept the
town on Saturday and Sunday. Torrents
of rain fell, swelling the rivers and dam
aging the low lying country in Yorkshire
and Derbyshire. The crops have been
ruined by the storm and the agricultural
outlook is everywhere very serious
ALL HOPE OF THE CROPS GONE.
The Tines financial article says:-sIt
was hoped that we were about to emerge
from one of the wettest and dreariest sea-
sons on record. The stock market opened
on Saturday with better tone, there being
some sunshine in the early hours.
Toward midday, however, rain began to fall
again very heavily, and there was
return of the dulness which especially
characterized the English railway market
throughout the week. AS the returns of
wheat, hay and potatoes seems small there
is no doubt now but that the excessive rain
and the absence Of sunshine has done much
damage, and the only hope now is that the
deficiency may be minimized even yet by
little seasonable weather.
THE EUROPEAN WHEAT CROP SHORT.
''The prevailing opinion both in France
and Germany is that the wheat crop will be
short, both countries, like ourselves, having
suffered from heavy rains. Southern Russia
and America seem to be the only corn
growing countries whence an abundant
supply can be looked for. With
this outlook there can naturally
be no improvement in the Manchester
wool trade, which is as fat as ever, while in
the metal districts things grow worse rather
than better. 1t is no wonder, therefore,
that money remains nearly useless through
out Europe" The wind continues to blow
very hard at Scilly and the weather is cold
and winter-like. Although the depression
arrived between the 10Th and 18th, as pre-
dicted by the HERALD Weather Bureau, no
storm energy was developed within it until
the goth.
BlD OUTLOOK IN FRANCE.
The Standards Paris despatch says the
utmost alarm prevails at the prospects of
bad harvest in France.