During Friday and Saturday, Liverpool wcs dr-Lased with heavy and
incessant showers of rain. The accounts which have beers received from the adjacent agricultural districts confirm the reports already cir- culated as to the ravages which the glut) has made in the rising crops ; and the return from this district of the kingdom, there is too much reason to fear, will he unusually meagre. We have been supplied with specimens of the corn growing in various portions of the neighbour- hood ; they were plucked indiscriminately from the fields, and were not especially selected because of their unhealthy appearance. In the greater portion of them a white worm had devoured upwards of a third of she grain in each ear. In some of them the insect was yet alive, in others of them the husk contained nothing but is residuum of red dust or powder.—Lciter from Liverpool in the Times.
The crops in the neighbourhood of Wakefield are very backward, arid the hopes of the farmer have beets depressed by the boisterous and rainy weather since Sunday morning last. The blinks of occasional sunshine are hardly sufficient as a set-off against the wet and cold. There has been no corn cut as yet in the immediate neighbourhood. At Oulton (four or five miles distant) a portion of a field of wheat has been cut during the week. As far we can learn, it will be some days before die harvest is general hereabouts. The crops, as we have before observed, are good, and only require a suffieieney of warm weather to ripen them. Such as did not snake bay while the sun shone at the early part of the season have been considerable sufferers.— West Biding Herald.
The showery weather of the last few days has materially impeded the harvest work, but some wheat has been carried, and a few days of sunshine would secure nearly all in this part of the country. No ma- terial damage has yet been done, and the general opinion is that the wheat crop is an average one. A good breadth of barley has already fallen before the scythe, and of this and oats the crops are unusually bulk y.—Berhs Chronicle.
In Kent, most of the wheat has been carried, and generally the pro- duce has been equal to that of an average crop.
The ESSe.r Herald says that considerable damage was done to the crops in Essex by a storm on Thursday week.
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