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breaking and blowing off by the storm there is yet such a residue generally upon 

 the trees, as to yield above an average crop ! Of other fruits, the accounts, in a 

 few places, are splendid, in most very moderate, although in the metropolis the 

 markets have been so amply served, that we have heard it said in town, " there 

 seems to be no end to fruit and mackarel this season." The walnut crop is 

 said to be almost too heavy for the trees. Bark is a declining trade, but tim- 

 ber is of rather a briskish sale. Wool, more especially fine fleeces, are in 

 great request, the long or combing species most so. The import of foreign 

 wools from the continent, from Australia, and Van Dieman's Land, is great 

 beyond all precedent, and the prices have experienced an advance of upwards 

 of 40 per cent during the present year. The finest crack Sax-merino wool 

 is worth 6s. 6d. per pound. Thus, Saxony has rendered merino, or Spanish 

 sheep, worth something, which Britain almost unanimously decided to be 

 worth nothing. But farmers differ equally with doctors. The price of wool 

 is yet said to be rather inclined to advance than recede, such is the present 

 most favourable improvement of our manufactures, and of trade generally. 

 The Tithe Commutation Bill seems to be thought well of in the country, but 

 an abolition bill would have met with far higher and more general approba- 

 tion, both in England and Ireland. From the unfavonrable weather of last 

 winter for the sheep, the clip of wool this season was generally light in 

 weight 20 to 30 per cent, below that of last year ; but where well kept 

 and sheltered, the clip has been good. 



Store cattle in the north, and perhaps throughout the country, are, if at 

 all varied in price since our last, somewhat cheaper. Sheep and mutton full as 

 dear, meat generally rather cheaper. There is a brisk demand for large 

 cart horses and working oxen, and also for good ordinary hackneys, at a 

 somewhat improved price. They write from France that a disease has oc- 

 curred among the cows, probably atmospheric, of which 20,000 have 

 perished. 



On the rise in wheat we have seen the following disheartening calculation, 

 by a Devonshire farmer, in print. " The state of the growing crops has in- 

 fluenced the corn markets during the last month, and wheat, which, through- 

 out the winter and spring has been sold for less than its cost price, by 14*, 

 has got up 6s. per quarter, still leaving the grower 8s. per quarter minus. 

 Whatever advance might now take place, there are only a few who would 

 receive benefit in this county, the greatest part having no corn to sell." Ac- 

 cording to letters which we have had the opportunity of seeing, the crops in 

 those parts of the continent whence we derive our regular supply, are in 

 much the same predicament with our own, and in reference to culture, much 

 worse. Their farmers, too, complain equally of distress with ours. The ex- 

 port of wool seems their great dependence, as it is that of our Australian 

 colonies. The German wool market is most extensive and important, and 

 their dealers, to use a phrase from our Stock Exchange, actually do a great 

 stroke of business " for time," contracting for the clips years to come. The 

 late clip has been like our own, defective in weight. In the Rhenish provin- 

 ces they are about to introduce machinery generally, and greatly to extend 

 their manufactures. The last week's arrivals of foreign wools amounted to 

 nearly one million of pounds'. 



The Dead Markets, by the carcase, per stone of 8lbs. Beef, 2s. to 3s. 8d. 

 Mutton, 2s. 2(7. to 4s. Lamb, 3s. 10t/. to 5s. Veal, 3s. to 4s. 4d. Pork, 3s. 

 to 4s. 4d. 4s. I0t/. dairy. 



Corn Exchange. Wheat, 40s. to 70s. Barley, 23s. to 33s Oats, 14s. to 

 25s. Hay, 45s. to 80s. Clover ditto, 55s. to 100s. Straw, 27s. to 34s. 



Coal Exchange. Coals in the Pool, 12s to 15s. per ton. delivered to the 

 consumer at an addition of 9s. to 12s. per ton. 



Middlesex, July 22. 



Leighton, Johnson't.coitrt, Fleet-street. 



