Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1885-08-15 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

IRISH AGRICULTURE.  The agricultural statistics for Ireland for the year 1884 have just been published The area under crops compared with 1883 showed a decrease of 63,957 acres, 94,660 acres being under tillage, while there was an increase of 30,703 acres in meadow and clover. There was an increase of 761 acres under wood and plantations, and of 154,429 under grass. There was a decrease of 1183 acres under follow, and of 90,050 acres under bogs, waste, and water. Compared with 1883 cereals showed a decrease of 79,072 acres, wheat having decreased 26,850 acres, oats by 33,460 acres, barley by 16,230 acres, here and rye by 71 acres, and beans and pease by 2461 acres. In green crops there was a total decrease of 8870 acres, potatoes having decreased 7515 acres, turnips by 2768 acres, mangold and beetroot by 3404 acres, while cabbage increased by 3660 acres, and carrots and parsnips by 1155 acres. Flax showed a decrease of 6718 acres.  NIMBI' EDDA'S CARMINAVVE in unequalled in relieving Inhmts from Gripm, Wind, Colic Guaranteed no narootio (ionibuulutel, .fe cure); la. per bottle.  Tint Russian Prince Alexander Gagarine has committed suicide at Monaco, owing to losses at the gambling tables. THE pensions payable to warrant officers of the army have recently been revised, and a Royal warrant just issued by the Secretary for War fixes these payments on a apw scale. After twenty years' service in the army, including five years with warrant rank, if retiring through disability, reduction of establishment, or on account of age, a pension of 35. ed. per day will be allowed; on retiring from any cause, after twenty-one years' service, the same amount; after twenty-five years, 45.; after thirty years, 4s. 6d.; and if a conductor (including fifteen years with that rank), es. per day. A warrant officer with twentyone years' service, and less than five years under warrant (including service reckoning as warrant officers' service), may on discharge be allowed 35. per 'lay. LORD DEVON has, through his solicitor, intimated to the tenantry on his County Limerick estates that, unless they have by the Bth inst. paid in full the rents due up to September last, immediate legal proceedings will be taken for the recovery of the amount. His lordship offered a reduction of 10 per cent., but the tenants demanded an abatement of 30 per cent., which was refused by the landlord. They have since been holding meetings, and threats have been indulged in to strike against paying any rent whatever.  SOME statistics have been published which show the extraordinary increase in the population of Hastings and St. Leonards as gauged by the growth of the Burial Board account. In 1857 the total amount received from the cemetery was £2Ol Bs., whilst the sum last year was £l7lO ss. 7d. Of the £ll,OO borrowed for the ground the authorities have now been able to pay off through receipts for interments the amount of £5OOO.  Owixo to the recent promotions the number of officers now serving in the army who have risen from the ranks as privates is exceptionally large. In the cavalry branch alone there are nearly 30 subalterns upon whom commissions have been conferred. Some of these have been given in recognition of services in Egypt. Colonel O'Connor, V.C., who recently relinquished the command of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, originally entered the regiment as a private. HAVE IT IN YOUR HOUSES, and follow the advice of the eminent Doctors Prout, Stevens, Morgan, Turley, Dowsing, Gibbon, Sparks, to., who have borne unqualified testimony to the value of LAMPLOUGH'S Frame