16 JULY 1836, Page 9

Within a circuit of several miles round Maidstone, the hay

has never been known to have been got in better. The cinquefoil, clover, and trefoil, have produced heavily; and the grass, although not quite equal to the latter, except in good soils, is yet a good average crop.— Maidstone Gazette.

The hay harvest is fast drawing to a close in this county. The complaints are general as to the shortness of the crop ; but the highly favourable weather for its gathering, and consequently diminished ex- pense, have compensated in some measure for the deficiency of the produce.— Worcester Herald.

The wheat, wherever the soil is light, aril where the ear was formed during the drought, is short in the head, short in the straw, thin on the ground, greatly under an average crop. On the strong clay soils, cleaned and sown in the back end of last year, the wheats are pretty fair ; but even there exceptions may be found which attest sufficiently the effects of an untoward spring. The barleys, from whatever cause, are very unequal—in, some places splendid, and in others not even " pretty well ;" yet such as looked worst a fortnight ago have come so wonderfully round, that the produce, bulking good and bad together, if properly got in autumn, will.not be conspicuously under a fair average supply. Of the oats we can speak in the most flattering terms : East, West, South, and North, they are most luxu- riant, and wear uniformly the deep green hue which is the surest sign of vigorous health.—Newcastle Journal.

The wheat crop everywhere promises to be very abundant ; that of potatoes is deficient in all parts of the West of England.—Tountun courier.

In most of the country markets, wheat appears to be falling in price at the rate of one to two shillings a quarter per week.

The provincial papers from nearly all parts of the country mention that great damage was done by the thunder-storm last week, particu- larly in the West of England. The storm there commenced on Tuesday eveoim; ; and it was accompanied by a fall of hailstones of great size, which in ninny places destroyed the crops.