30 AUGUST 1845, Page 2

The fine weather of the week has made a manifest

and unmis- takeable change in the prospects of the harvest ; and every day of drier, sunnier weather, is maturing the healthful food of the nation. It is difficult, indeed, to penetrate to the exact truth through the cloud of false reports,—false hopes, exaggerated by the agriculturists, anxious to suppress any notion that a bad harvest will give a finishing-blow to the Corn-laws ; false fears, spread abroad by speculators, anxious to get up a good price for their corn. But the sun speaks for itself. The reports from more distant tracts on the Continent are gloomy enough, and make it doubly desirable that our own harvest should not fail. But pro- bably even there the better weather has made some improvement.