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counties, but the defect in quantity renders the price profitless. All the great 

 spring fairs have been superabundantly supplied with both fat and store stock, 

 sheep excepted, and with little occasional variation ; the late high prices, more 

 especially lor store stock, have not only been maintained, but considerably 

 enhanced. Immense droves of pigs have arrived from Ireland, and profited by an 

 increase of price. Saddle and coach horses, fresh, and of good figure, have been 

 eagerly bought up. The shew of draught and farm horses has been large, and if 

 net so quick in sale as the former species, the flower of them has found a good 

 market. In the fruit districts they represent the trees as healthy and abundant in 

 blossom buds; but should the easterly winds continue, with their invariable 

 variations from chilling cold to spring warmth, the effect on buds and blossoms 

 will damp the pleasing hopes of the orchardist. Cheese is ready of sale, and good 

 prices supported. 



The state of IRELAND is most dangerous and critical. The late examples of 

 savage ferocity in the lower people of that country are truly appalling. No living 

 man nas hitherto witnessed this country in a state of inquietude and agitation 

 equal to the present, which must be exacerbated in a tenfold degree, by the 

 dissolution of parliament. The complaints of farmers on the present state of 

 tenancy, and on the tithing system, are, in fact, universal. The sufferers from the 

 destruction of farming machinery, cry out loudly against the absurd and quibbling 

 anomaly, which shuts out the farmer from all recompense for his losses of precisely 

 similar nature and estimation with those of the manufacturer, whilst it admits the 

 latter to his full share. In Norfolk, a very fair and liberal plan has been adopted 

 by the farmers, of advancing the wages' of labour at the joint expense of the 

 employer, the landlord, and the tithe-owner. Mr. Horton's plan of emigration is, 

 by degrees, rising in the estimation of the country ; and the parish of Westbury, 

 in Wilts, has provided, and is about to embark 240 paupers as settlers in Canada. 

 Allowance of land to the distressed labourers to be cultivated by the spade 

 husbandry is on trial in Notts, and several of the northern counties, whilst the 

 grant of a rood of land, as garden ground, to the men with families is, with equal 

 regard to humanity and public benefit, becoming general. 



Smithfield. Beef, 3s. to 4s. 6d. Mutton, 4s. to 5s. 2d Veal, 4s. to 5s. 8d. 



Pork, 4s. to 5s. 8d. Lamb, 6s. to 7s. 8d. Rough fat, 2s. 9d. 



Corn Exchange. Wheat, 65s. to 80s. Barley, 30s. to 48s Oats, 26s. to 35s. 

 London 41b. loaf, 10d Hay, 55s. to 84s. Clover ditto, 65s. to 105s. Straw, 

 30s. to 42s. 



Coal Exchange Coals, 17s. 6d. to 30s. 6d. per chaldron. 

 Middlesex, April 22d. 



MONTHLY COMMERCIAL REPORT. 



SUGAH The supplies of Muscavadoes (West India) were on the most confined 

 scale, and chiefly of old descriptions ; boards of good new sugars were immediately 

 taken at full market prices ; for refined goods the demand is steady and considerable 

 both for shipping and home trade ; the prices were a little varied except for the 

 double refined bounty ; the latter were Is. higher ; considerable quantities of crushed 

 were sold 31s. to 33s. for the middling, and 35s. and 36s. 6d. for the fine. Molasses dull 

 and lower : there is nothing new in the refined market ; the purchases for low lumps for 

 Hambro' are very extensive. Foreign sugars: considerable sales of Havannah sugar 

 has taken place ; white, 33s. to 34s. brown Bahia, 15s. to 19s. 6d. inferior white, 21s. 

 to 26s. brown and yellow Rios, 15s. to 22s. East India Mauritius went oft' heavily, 

 at a reduction of 6d. to Is. per cwt. ; average price of sugar 1. 15^s. per cwt. 



COFFEE Foreign coffee by private contract continued in extensive demand ; 

 Brazil sold, 41s. to 43s. ; pale St. Domingo, 40s. good new, 42s. ; Sumatra, 30s. 6d. 

 and 31s. 6d. ; Batavia, 36s. to 38s. There have been extensive inquiries for British 

 Plantation ; Jamaica has been rated low and neglected ; the business for home con- 

 sumption improves ; the finer descriptions of Berbice are 2s. to 4s. higher. 



RUM, BRANDY, HOLLANDS. The purchasers of Rum had been confined to but 

 inconsiderable parcels, but there has been since inquiries for export, and it is stated 

 there are large orders in town for shipping. There is no alteration in Brandy or 

 Geneva. 



HEMP, FLAX, TALLOW The Tallow market fell last week to 45s. for parcels 

 on the spot, and 39s. for arrivals ; there has been since more firmness. In Hemp and 

 Flax there is little alteration. 



1830 1831 



Stock of Tallow in London 21,808 41,658 



Delivery Weekly 1,367 1,079 



Price (Monday's) 34s. 3d. 45s. 3d. 



Course of Foreign Exchange. Amsterdam, 12. 2. Rotterdam, 11. 19 Ham- 

 burgh, 13. 11. Paris, 25.25 Bordeaux, 25. 55 Frankfort, 151.0 Peters- 



