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according to appearances, will be a lighter crop than last year, which was 

 also inferior to the preceding. Mangel Wurtzel in the same, or a worse pre- 

 dicament, since much of it has been ploughed up as worthless. Turnips, 

 that supposed successful and safe crop, have also gone off from the drought ; 

 and, strange as it may seem, the fly has really attacked them in this late 

 stage of their growth. As an old stager lately said to us " who the devil 

 would now be a farmer that could help it ?" Oats are still deemed the best 

 crop of the year, together with tares, and some of the seeds. Hops have 

 hitherto borne a good report, though in a season one would suppose more 

 favourable to the fly than the fruit. Betting on the duty varies between 

 170,000/. and 200,000/. From the want of rain the pastures, particularly 

 upland, and those in light and dry situations, are as bare of herbage as the 

 King's highway ; in course, the holders will no longer find themselves at a 

 loss as to what to do with their large stocks of hay. There is nothing else 

 left wherewith to feed ; and in those countries where labouring oxen are in 

 use, the consumption of hay will be great indeed. Late cutting the clovers 

 has greatly reduced the second crop. Of what value would a score acres of 

 well-cultivated, clean lucerne now prove ? but who is in possession of such a 

 prize? Though cow-grass hay, trefoil, and water and best meadow, have 

 proved crops, but generally the quantity of hay is far short of last year's. 

 Fat cattle, on the whole, hold price, with temporary and local variations, and 

 mutton has experienced an additional demand, from the opinion of the medi- 

 cal faculty of its superior salubrity, in these our days of apprehension from 

 cholera morbus. Store cattle also hold price, notwithstanding the scarcity of 

 feed. Wool, so long a drug, has advanced 40 per cent, during the last twelve 

 months ; and there is yet a demand, in particular for the long or combing 

 species, the exclusive produce of our own country. Of the fine, or clothing 

 wools, the supply has been great from the opposite continent, and from New 

 South Wales and Van Dieman's Land. At the late great fair of Horncastle, 

 good horses sold at very high prices ; many foreign purchasers attending, 

 and going to the price of one to three hundred guineas. 



No part of Northern Europe seems to have had such a harvest of settled 

 fine weather to boast as England. In the northern parts of Scotland they 

 have been impeded by rains and high winds. In Germany, particularly the 

 northern parts, their harvest has been obstructed by cold rains and high 

 winds, and their general expectations, from this year's crop of wheat, are 

 below our own. To the Southward, in the Italian States and Sicily, the 

 crops have proved most abundant. Our own dear and fortunate country is 

 still disgraced by damnable INCENDIARISM, whilst "the divine justice of 

 retribution sleeps \" 



The Dead Markets, by the carcase, per stone of 8lbs. Beef, 2s. to 3s. 6d. 

 Mutton, Is. 2d. to 4s. Lamb, 3s. Gd. to 4s. lOd. Veal, 3s. to 4s. 6d. Pork, 

 3s. to 4s. 8d. 5s. dairy. 



Corn Exchange. Wheat, 40s. to 66s. Barley, 24s. to 35s. Oats, 14s. to 

 24s. Hay, 50s. to 80s. Clover ditto, 75s. to 95s. Straw, 25s. to 30s. 



Coal Exchange. Coals in the Pool, lls. to 20s. per ton. delivered to the 

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



Game at Lsadenhall Market. Accounts of the Grouse from the North, and 

 the quantity of Game generally in the country, highly satisfactory. On the 

 17th the market was first well supplied, and the Game in high condition. 

 Partridges were sold at from 6s. to 9s. the brace. Leverets of good size, and 

 remarkable fine condition, 4s. to 5s. each. The market, on the 24th, was 

 well stocked with Grouse, in fair condition, selling at 4s. to 6s. the brace. 

 Black Game, fine and plentiful, from 7. to 8s. Plenty of good Leverets at 

 4s. each. 



Middlesex, August 26. 



Baylis and Leighton, Johnson's-court, Fleet-street. 



