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To Matthew Uzielli, Clifton-stieet, Finsbuiy- place, gentleman, for their improvements in 



square, Middlesex, Gentlemen, for improvements steam-carriages and in boilers, and a method of 



in the preparation of metallic substances, and the producing increase draft. 19th July; 6 months, 



application thereof to the sheathing of ships and To Thomas Bulkeley, Albany-street, Regent's- 



other purposes. 6th July; 6 months. park, Middlesex, M.D., for improvements in pro- 



To John Surinan, Hounslow -barracks, Middle- pelling ves-els, which improvements are also ap 

 sex, lieutenant and riding-master in the Tenth plicable to other purposes. 19th July ; 6 months. 

 Hussars, for improvements on bits for horses and To William Taylor, Wednesbury, Stafford, en- 

 other animals. 6th July; 2 months. gineer, for improvements on boilers and appara- 



To William Wedd Tux ford, Boston, Lincoln, tus connected therewith, applicable to steam-en- 

 miller, for a machine or apparatus for clea: s'ng gines and other purposes. 19th July; 6 months, 

 or purifying wheat, grain, or other substances. To Edward Riley, Skinner-street, Bishopsgatf- 

 6th July ; 6 months. street, Middlesex, brewer, for improvements in 



To Edward Cowper, Streatham-place, Surrey, the process and apparatus for fermenting malt 



and Ebenezer Cowper, Suffolk-street, Pall-Mall and other liquors. 19th July ; 6 months. 



East, Westminster, Middlesex, engineeis, for 5m- To George Oldland, Hillsley.Hawkesbury.Glou- 



provements on printing ^machines. 19th July; cester, clothworker, for improvements in the ma- 



6 months. chinery or apparatus for sheathing and dressing 



To John Rawe, Junior, Albany-street, Regent's- woollen cloths and other fabrics. 22d July; 



park, Middlesex, and John Boase, of the same 6 months. 



MONTHLY AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 



WE have the satisfaction to commence this Report, cheered by an improvement of the 

 weather, and the hope of its permanence, assuring us of the recovery and amelioration 

 of the too generally injured crops. The month commenced with rain, accompanied by a 

 north-east wind, and with alternate heat and chills. An uncertain and unfavourable 

 atmosphere continued until the 14th ; the wind veering between the south-east, north- 

 west, and north. It was nevertheless some improvement upon the weather of the last 

 month. The 14th, and three successive days, were highly favourable and in season. To 

 the present day, with the exception of a few light and flying showers and westerly winds, 

 we have no reason of complaint, but a good ground of hope for a prosperous harvest, which, 

 however, cannot be early. The generally unfortunate state of the country has been too 

 often and particularly detailed in the various Reports, to need repetition. There is no 

 doubt, in our poor low and wet land districts, a great part of every species of crop which 

 never can recover from the long-continued injuries sustained. On such, the wheat will 

 not produce half a crop ; the barley still less ; nor is there apparently any probability of a 

 counteracting advantage either in any of the other crops, or in a successful closing of the 

 year's account of live stock. From the northern districts, the north-west, and south- 

 west, including Wales, the heaviest complaints seem to proceed ; the bishopric of Dur- 

 ham and Herefordshire standing unfortunately prominent. On the other hand and a 

 most pleasant and heartening turn it is the crops on our rich soils, and on those of 

 medium fertility, but sound and dry, have borne the brunt of all the past rude atmospheric 

 shocks, with little, but happily no radical injury, and have been, since the favourable 

 change of weather, progressing in a steady course of improvement. Barley and oats are 

 probably their worst crops, the former materially so, on too heavy lands. On the best 

 lands of Essex, Herts, Suffolk, and Norfolk, the wheats are large and luxuriant, with 

 full-sized ears, warranting the expectation of more than an average crop ; an advantage 

 which we trust extends to all the superior corn lands of the country. Some time since, 

 the blades of these fine wheats were yellow and rusty from blight ; but they have since 

 recovered a shining and healthful burnish, and it is hoped that the blight has not, to any 

 considerable extent, affected intrinsically the ear. On that interesting point, however, we 

 shall have more certain information after harvest. During the ticklish period of the 

 flowering process, the weather was wet and cold ; but the wind (a favourable circumstance) 

 was not constantly in the most dangerous quarter. Two wet seasons have nourished a 

 pestiferous brood of slugs, against which the farmer ought not to fail taking every possible 

 remedy, the well-known one of heavy rolling especially, in order to protect the next crop 

 of young wheats. Wheat and beans are expected to be the most productive crops ; barley 

 and oats the least so, though our sanguine friends prognosticate a general average on good 

 lands, hops excepted ; the effect on which, from the blight, has been too heavy. Some 

 fear was entertained from the unsoundness of the bean-seed, and the excessive foulness of 

 the tilth is another great disadvantage, though, in many instances, they have been hoed 

 at the expense of 25s. or 26s. per acre. The peas also, a promising plant, partake mate- 

 rially of this disadvantage, being almost generally drilled a hereditary defect among 

 farmers at intervals too narrow for effective hoeing, even on far cleaner land than this 

 year presents. The fallows, as we have so often complained, are universally foul ; but in 

 the poor land counties, beyond all precedent, since the days of our great-grandfathers ; and 

 we have lately passed over some, indeed a great extent of land, which, from the luxuriance 



