GLEANINGS OF LATE ENGLISH NEWS. [From the "European Times," June 28.]

New Zealander, Volume 7, Issue 579, 1 November 1851, Page 3

GLEANINGS OF LATE ENGLISH NEWS. [From the " European Times," June 28.]

THE WrATIJEtI AND THE CflOrP. The weather, after the late heavy rains, has become sufficiently warm to promote the growth and lipening of the crops; anil in all the accounts from the country there is a (one of rejoicing at the prospect of forthcoming abundance. In the midland counties the hay harvest has commenced, and also paitially so in the metropolitan district. The crops are regarded generally as a fair,average yield, but not so full as those of last year. Hands will not be found wanting to- " make the hay whilst tlie sun bhines," for the bndle loads and lanes swarm with Irish of both sexes, who are to bo noticed loitering and lingering about the grass farms, anxious for tlie aniral at the mowers, that they may follow vi their turn the operations of the scythe* In the Lothians we learn that all sorts of cop have thriven well. Wheat, especially, is both healthy and sufficiently thick, and piet.ent appearances give promise of n, good crop. Oats, beans?, and barley havu a, healthy hue, and aie at present thriving-. Potatoes, of which there is a larger average than for some years past, are in very different circumstances: those_ that were pat in parly, and in dfy condition, arc thriringWell; while those that were wrought wet are, lilco Roman -cement, stiff and obduiate. Grass looks to yield a poor crop of hay, cold drought haviug forbid itsgrowth, j . ■ In Ireland, although the extent of wheat is generally but limited, the propoition' is larger in Kdketfny antt Tipperary than in other districts. Tn the counties of Down, Armagh, Londonderry, Tyrone, and Antrim, the crops everywhere 'maintain a cheering appearance of health and vigour. Barley may be seen m ear in several localities,in the vicinity of Belfast. Oats are springing up healthy, and promise well. As regards whpat the s,\me may he said, and we have heard of coses in which, such is tbe forwardness of the crop, the ear has shot out already. Potatoes, especially the late sown crops, have suffered something from piercing north winds in exposed situations, hut no fears thattbev crops will bo injured to any serious extent are eutertained, Iti Armagh the breadth occupied by green, crops is much larger than could have been anticipated, and report spraks favouiably of their condition. Orchards have bean injured, to a consumable extent, and it is feared that fr6it will be scarce this autumn, from the present unpromising aspect'of the fruit trees. The grain fields are looking well. ,In .Tyrone it is said that the crops present a very luxurious appearance, and give promise of an abundant harvest, and the same applies to Londondeny, except in exposed- places on the coast. ' j

Lady Franklin is still sojourning 'at'Siromness. The Court of Exchequer have decided that it is not an indictable offence for a mother to abandon her illegitimate child. , It has been decided in the Court of Queen's Bench that " private" libels are not actionable. We hear it costs the Caledonian Company £60('a week for sheriffs officers to ride with the trains, and to take caie that nobody mns away with the railway 1 A monastery, 200 feet in length, and to cost £12,000, is to be elected at Edgbaston, near Birmingham. There will be a church alaqj*},A farmer and his labourer, near Melton Mowbray, have been mulcted in £20 damage for malioiously sowing a. neighbour's held of wheat (five acres) with ketlockseed. The two foremasts of the screw-steam ship City of Manchester are formed of tubular iron of great strength, and her standing riggings of wire rope. A body of Highlanders, numbering- upwards of 700 tenants of Sir John Mathcson's estate in the island of Lewis, lately embarked at Oban for America. It is surmised that the Princess Cluilotto, daughter of the King of the Belgians, is intended as a wife for the Prince of Wales. The Bishop of Dm ham has subscribed £15 towards an independent chapel in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. . The command at Shecrness has been conferred on Vice-Admiial the Hon. Joceline Percy, C.8., recently promoted to that rank. The Bristol Times has spread a report that the late Richard Lalor Shed was poisoned by the Catholics at Florence, because he was favourable to the circulation of the Bible! It is said that the subject of the Cape of Good Hope mail-packet station is about to be reconsidered, tbe present station being found inconvenient, on account of its distance fiom the metropolis. A wedgu of pure gold, from California, weighing 1 10a ounces, the produce of five months' digging in the gold regions,by a young gentlemen of Somertsbire, has been exhibited at Bristol. In the West Indies an experiment has been made for the production of ga*: fiom the Tiinidad bitumen. On.a bundled pounds of the bitumen, it is said, made about 1,009 feet ot gas oi great purity, and at a light cost as compared with coal gas. The 51st. (King's Own Light Infantry Rrgimpnt), at pioaent serving in the Madras presidency, hft9 been placed under orders to bold themselves in'readiness to embark for the C.ipr> of Good Hope. Another lar»<2 slip doer, in connection with* a biiililinfryard aud exiensm'piemises, has hepn lately opened, at Kelvinghnugh, ou the Clyde, commanding one of the be.v launching sites on the river. Fifty lluiignuan refugees hivfe eitibhrkpd at Portsmouth on board the emi«iant s!»p Black Kagle, bound for .America. They bare hpeti allowed by tlio English Government, during thoir stay m this country, Is. Gd. a'dav each: each on" r.lso has been allowed 20s. for clothes and £6" IJ3. for passage money.