1830.] 



Agricultural Report. 479 



Alas ! that we cannot apply to our own coloni (husbandmen) the fortunati nimium 

 bona si sua norint. The great majority of our farmers are in a most depressed state, 

 utterly unable to pay the present rents, and poor's rates increasing ; yet, strange to 

 report, many farms, given up from distress, have been let at the old rents. Complaints 

 are reiterated of the hardness and severity of landlords, to which Sir Robert Sutton is a 

 noble exception ; from his beneficient consideration towards his tenants, he has deserved 

 well of the country. The general depression of price, on articles of produce, is calculated 

 at from fifty to sixty per cent. Hops are a steady article, and considerable speculation 

 in them is stirring. The fall of lambs may be deemed successful ; but it is said that 

 many ewes and lambs have been lost from the too free use of salted hay and of turnips. 

 Sheep, rabbits, and deer, require much dry food. The rot has prevailed much among 

 sheep and deer. Barley, from the inferior quality and low price, is one of the most losing 

 articles to the grower ; not one half of the last crop will be malted. Scotia, that northern 

 land of promise, has had so favourable a winter, that even tender garden plants have 

 received little or no injury. Who would not be a Scot ! 



SmithfteldBeef 3s. Od. to 4s. 2d Mutton, 3s. 4d. to 4s. 6d. Lamb, 6s. 6d 

 Veal, 3s. 4d. to 5s. 8d Pork, 3s. Od. to 4s. 8d., best dairy fed, 5s. Od. to 6s. Od Rough 

 Fat, 2s. lid. 



Corn Exchange Wheat, 46s. to 94s. (best foreign)_Barley, 26s. to 38s Oats, 



18s. to 31s Fine Bread, the London 4 Ib. Loaf, 10|d Hay, 55s. to 95s. per load. 



Clover, ditto 63s. to 115s Straw, 46s. to 56s. 



Coals in the Pool, 25s. 6d. to 34s. 6d. per chaldron. 

 Middlesex, March 22. 







MONTHLY COMME ^lAL REPORT. 



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SUGAR. The demand for West India Muscovadoes has been steady ; the estimated 

 sales for the week have been 2,000 hogsheads and tierces. The prices are without the 

 slightest alteration. In refined goods there is rather more business : there is little altera- 

 tion in the currency. In the refined market, the low descriptions of lumps, from 70s. to 

 72s., have barely supported the quotations of last week, having been only in limited de- 

 mand ; but the better descriptions of shipping qualities, say low single loaves and 

 Prussian lumps, have been all taken out of the market. The refiners are very firm in 

 their demands, and, in some instances, have obtained a slight advance. The sales of 

 crushed Mediterranean have been small this week ; although offers continue to be made in 

 the finer descriptions, there has been less doing no alteration in the quotation to be 

 noticed Foreign Sugar A limited parcel of good white Pernamo has been taken 33s. 

 to 34s. The public sale of 543 boxes of low soft yellow Havannah, met with few offers ; 

 only one or two lots sold, 23s. 6d. to 25s. ; 97 chests of Havannah, in good order, sold at 

 26s. 6d. ; the Brazil not sold __ East India Sugar. Fifteen thousand bags of Mauritius 

 sugar, sold this week at public sales, went off, with great briskness, at full prices; brown, 

 45s. to 48s. 6d., white, (low to good) 25s. to 29s., yellow, (fine) 22s. 6d. to 23s. 6d. 

 ritf^JCoFFEE. The public sales of coffee have been rather extensive; the East India 

 descriptions, of which 3,400 were in one sale, they were mixed, Java, Cheribon, and 

 Sumatra. Yellow coffee went off at high prices ; Havannah and coloured Brazil went off 

 ffteely. 



J>*s -RuM, BRANDY, HOLLANDS. Some proof Leewards, and rather over sold at Is. lOd. 

 In Jamaica there are few sales reported. Brandy continues firm price for Geneva is 

 2s. 6d. British spirits are advanced lid. per gallon since the duty of it has been 

 levied. > 



HEMP, FLAX, AND TALLOW. The tallow market is steady without briskness. In 

 Hemp and Flax there is no material alteration. Letters from St. Petersburgh are dated 

 the 2d. March. Exchange lOd. 13. 32. Tallow 39. a 90. Bought 2,000. 



Course of Foreign Exchange Amsterdam, 12. 8 Rotterdam, 12. 8 Antwerp, 

 12. 8 Hamburgh, 14. 3 Paris, 28. 85 Bordeaux, 20. 15 __ Berlin, __ Frankfort- 

 on-th<r-Main, 15G. Petersburg, 10 Vienna, 10. 21 Madrid, 35. Of __ Cadiz, 

 35. Of Bilboa, 35. Of Barcelona, 35. Seville, 35. __ Gibraltar, 47. 

 Leghorn, 47- Genoa, 26. 10 Venice, 47- Malta, 48. 0^ Naples, 39. 0. 

 Palermo, 1 1 8. Lisbon, 44. Oporto, 44. Rio Janeiro, 22. Oi Bahia, 25. Q. 

 Dublin, 1. OA Cork, 1. 0. 



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

 3. 17s. 9d. New Doubloons, 0. Oa. Od __ New Dollars, 0. Os. Od __ Silver in Bars 

 (standard), 0. Os. Od. 



