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crop, the best parts of them look healthy in colour and sufficiently forward. 

 Beans, awhile since, appeared large and flourishing, but a close examina- 

 tion now will discover immense quantities of the ova of their proper in- 

 sects, which on a continuance of the present dry weather, will shortly push 

 into existence. The pease which bore so discouraging an appearance pre- 

 viously to the rains, have since improved rapidly, and with a succession of 

 favourable weather, both those and the beans may yet be productive. 

 Oats, in most parts, seemed to suffer most heavily from the drought, bear- 

 ing all the appearance ot a failing crop, whence their sudden and great 

 improvement from the rains has been most conspicuous. The grasses, 

 natural and artificial, have made an equally rapid start with the other crops, 

 but cannot be great, without the aid of some showery weather, and for 

 some continuance. The stock of old hay, however, is not great, notwith- 

 standing the waste of turnips incurred by those confident stock-feeders, 

 who ploughed up or sold for a trifle the remainder of the crop, and were 

 afterwards compelled to feed with hay. The gardens throughout the 

 country have suffered most severely and irrecoverably from the plague of the 

 blight, and there the writer expresses himself feelingly. Wall fruit, ex- 

 cept under the most careful protection, may be pronounced entirely cut 

 off; and fruit trees, covered with the most splendid and beautiful blossoms, 

 affording the earnest of a superabundant crop, in the course of four-and- 

 twenty hours were reduced to nakedness and apparent utter sterility. 

 We cannot here help noticing once more the regular monthly account from 

 Herts, where every thing agricultural and economical jogs on invariably 

 prosperous. O rare Herts ! what fortunes your cultivators must be 

 making ! 



The subject of live stock affords no novelty ; flesh meat sells well, or 

 God help the poor farmer ! Live stock is his best bower-anchor. Not- 

 withstanding the losses in our flocks, markets have not been ill supplied 

 with mutton, nor, under all circumstances, can the price have been fairly 

 deemed exorbitant. Pork has been reduced in price by the invasion of 

 myriads of pigs from Ireland, which have been seen parading on the Eng- 

 lish soil, from five to eight hundred in a drove. The supply of wheat, too, 

 has been great, appearing to ascertain a most important probable fact, that, 

 a superior culture premised, this country need be no longer an importer 

 from the Continent, but the two conjoined might become exporting 

 countries. 



Shameful, cowardly, hell-born, nationally-disgracing INCENDIARISM yet, 

 at every opportunity, lights up its flaming midnight energies of destruc- 

 tion. We repeat, and from our own knowledge, it was at first negatively, 

 even positively encouraged in conversations, both without doors and within 

 and how seldom has the subject been introduced, and how tenderly 

 treated by our patriotic writers ! What is still worse, no preventive mea- 

 sures have yet been attempted, nor in all probability even thought of. If 

 prevention and extreme rigour do not prove a remedy, the case is a settled 

 one, and without remedy. 



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

 3s. 6d. ; Mutton, 2s. 4d. to 4s. ; Lamb, 4s. 4d. to 5s. 4d. ; Veal, 2s. 8d. to 

 4s. 8d. ; Pork, 2s. 2d. to 4s. 



Corn Exchange. Wheat. 38s. to 56s. ; Barley, 27s. to 33s. j Oats, 18s. 

 to 28s. The London loaf, 4lb. 8d. Hay, 55s. to 84s. ; Clover do. 65s. to 

 100s.; Straw, 23s. to 34s. 



Coals in the Pool, 14s. 3d. 18s. to 21s. per ton. 

 Middlesex, May 26. 



N : BAYLIS AND LEIGHTON, JOHNSON S-COURT, FLEET-STREET. 



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