8 JULY 1865, Page 3

Mr. Turner, who generally reports to the Times the prospects

of the harvest, estimates that this year the crop of wheat will be less than the average, of barley average, of oats under average, and of swedes half the average,—not a good prospect, except for farmers, who will get off their old stock at better figures. It is asserted that from the failure of the hay crop, meat, which L, now unpro- curable by the poor, will soon be dearer still, all of which must be set against the never-ending pwans about British prosperity and the increase of wealth.