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yet heard of the effects in the north, of the late severe atmospheric attacks. 

 Amongst individual cultivators in South WALES, a very laudable anxiety for im- 

 provement has, during some years, subsisted, grounded on very accurate and solid 

 views of the subject. By them, the inestimable benefit of cleaning and aerating 

 the soil, and of placing the field upon a level with the garden, is critically under- 

 stood and reduced to practice. Not so with the bulk or Welsh cultivation, which 

 vies or out-vies with England, in the national ambition, as it would seem, of ren- 

 dering their fields hot-beds of useless and destructive vegetation. They have had 

 their share of damage to the crops, from the late severe weather, and their early 

 potatoe plants have suffered much, and also their late sown wheat. Some curious, 

 and we hold very useful cautions have lately been promulgated from this quarter, 

 on the danger to cattle, of the too common and profuse allowance of marigold and 

 potatoes. It is to be lamented that so few soils are calculated for the productions 

 of those greatly superior articles, carrots and parsnips, and that generally, the 

 arable produce is, comparatively with the two articles above mentioned, so small. 

 Wales, like the other parts of the island, is, as they say, glutted with foreign corn ; 

 but in probability, neither prematurely, nor overdone. Taxation seems to have 

 drained and greatly contributed to exhaust the capital of the country, and the 

 county rates, highway and poor-rates in certain parishes, are reported higher than 

 at any period during the war. 



From Norfolk ana Suffolk, we have the pleasing information that land-draining 

 has lately been undertaken to a considerable extent. It has this vast advantage, 

 exclusive of its major consequence, no other improvement makes so speedy a re- 

 turn. In these great corn counties and in Essex, there is more dibbling of wheat 

 than elsewhere. A practice doubtless regular and beautiful to behold, hut with the 

 uncompensated disadvantage of the intervals being too close, ev ~ ':r<* a twc-inch 

 hoe; tne consequence is, an utter impossibility of sufficiently clea mg the land. 

 Price of hoeing in the present season 5s. to 5. 6*, pr acre. 



Smithfield.Reef, 3s. 6s. to 4s. 8d VeaL . is. lOd. Mutton, 3s. 8d. to 



4s. lOd Pork, 4s. to 5s. 4d. Dairy-Lamb, 5 6s. 2d. xlough fat, 2s. 5d. 



Corn Exchange. Wheat, 54s. to 80s. Bark / J;. to 50s Oats, 26s. to 33s. 



Bread 41b. London loaf, lO^d Hay, 56s. to 90s. (Fine Lapland and Ilye- 



grass.) Clover ditto, 90s. to 110s. Straw, 34s. to 42s. 



Coal Exchange Coals, in the Pool, 15s. 6d. to 38s. 6d. per chaldron. 



Middlesex, May 20th. 



MONTHLY COMMERCIAL REPORT. 



SUGAR. The sugar market is exceedingly heavy ; a reduction of Is. per cwt. 

 has taken place, brown Jamaica being sold at 46s. 6d. and 49s. ; the sugars 

 about 50s. are lower in proportion than any other description. There is great 

 heaviness in the Refined market ; the price of almost every description of ship- 

 ping goods is lower ; fine grocery goods have been purchased on lower terms ; 

 there is very little doing in Crushed sugars. Mauritius sold generally Is. per cwt. 

 lower, the low brown sugar sold in particular at very reduced prices ; good strong 

 white Havannah at 34s. ; of Brazil, the brown 17s. 6d. to 19s., middle and good 

 white, 24s. 6d. to 28s. 6d. 



COFFE. The coffee market continues heavy, but there is no further alteration 

 in prices, except in East India, which has been offered at public sale and private 

 contract at a small reduction ; Sumatra, 29s. to 31s. ; Mocha mostly taken in at 

 63s., good old pale Batavia, partly sold 36s. 6d. and 37s. ; the old to good old Su- 

 matra is Is. to 2s. ; Batavia Is. lower. The British Plantation at former prices. 



RUM, BRANDY, HOLLANDS. The Demerara and St. Kitts Rum sold at 2d. per 

 gallon lower, 3 and 4 over; Is. 9d. to Is. 7id. very good quality, 5 and 6 over ; 

 Hollands Is 7^d. to Is. 8d. ; the market is rather heavy and the fall of the prices 

 confirmed by private contract, a large parcel of proofs and a little over being sold 

 at Is. 6d. The demand for Brandy has subsided, but there is no parcels offered 

 at reduced prices ; Geneva is neglected. 



HEMP, FLAX, TALLOW. The Tallow market has lately been very steady in 

 price, few purchases of any extent being exported. Hemp is rather lower. Flax 

 supports the late advance. 



1830 1831 



Stock of Tallow in London 17,754 33,590 



Delivery Weekly 1,248 1,857 



Bullion per Ox. Portugal Gold in Coin, 0. Os. Od. Foreign Gold in Bars, 

 3. 17s. 104d. New Doubloons, 0. 6s. Od. New Dollars, 0. 4s. 9|d. Silver in 

 Bars (standard), 0. 4s. llfd. 



