!564 State of Public Affairs in October. 



Lamb 4s. 4(1. to 6s. 6d.— Pork 4s. 8d. to 6s. 4d.— Bacon 4s. 6d — Irish do. 49.— Oil* 

 cake 111. per thousand.— Fat 43.— Potatoes 2). 10s. to 41. lOs. per ton. 



Corn Exchange: New white wheat 8'iis. to 96s.— New red do. 78s. to 90s.— Old 

 do. 80s. to J 14s.— Barley 5()s. to 60s.— Oats 25s. to 40s.— Tlie Quartern loaf in London, 

 411). h\nz. from 14d. to 15id.— Hay 31. to 6l. per load.— Clover do. (new and old) 

 from ol. Os. to 81. 83.— Straw 21. to 21. Us. 6d.— Average price of wheat for EnslaD4 

 and Wales, 93s. 9d. 



METEOROLOGICAL REPORT. 



Kept hi/ C. Blunt, 38, Tavistock-street, Covcnt Garden, 



Thermometer. 

 Highest 67°. Sept. 27. Wind S. 

 Mean barometrical pressure of the 24 



hours, 29.86. 

 Lowest 34°. Oct. 22, Wind E. 

 Mean barometrical pressure of the 2\ 

 hours, 29.72. 



This variation oc- 

 curred between the 

 night of the 9t!i iust. 

 land the same part of 

 'the following day ; on 

 .the former day the 

 liliermometerwas at 39 

 Fahrenheit, and on the 

 following day at 45 of 

 the same scale. 



The total f|«antity of rain by the ^aiige is rather more than hall an inch, a little in- 

 crease upon the quantity reported of last month; the number of days to be termed 

 ramy four, showery four, slisjhtly showery three. 



The mean temperature of ilie whole period is 51" of Fahrenheit ; the mean barome- 

 trical pressure 29.75. 



The winds dnriug the first eight days of the period were from south and westerly 

 points ; during eight or nine following days progressing by north-west, north, and north- 

 east, to east ; then seven days shifting between south-east and south; the remainder of 

 the period irregular, shifting between south-east and north-east. 



Barometer. 

 Highest 30.30. Sept. 28, Wind R.V/. 

 Mean temperature of the 24 hours, 55.5. 



Lowest 29.50, Sept. 30, Wind S.W. 

 Mean temperature of the 2 1 hours, 53". 



The mercury 

 was on the 28th 

 ult. at 30.30, 

 and on the next 

 day, at the same 

 hour, it was at 

 30. 



Greatest "1 

 variation in S 6' 

 24 hours, J 



POLITICAL AFFAIRS IN OCTOBER. 



Containing official Papers and Authentic Documents. 



RII.SSTA. 



THE politic government of this co- 

 lossalcmpire having.bvtlie unhappy 

 infatuation of the P.ritish ministry, been 

 ' enabled to raise a vast army, and esta- 

 blish frontiers wliicli g,i\e it tlic com- 

 mand of Asia and Europe, a-.id to intro- 

 duce British niannlactures, which render 

 it independent of ('orei<;n nations, is now 

 busily employed in building a prepon- 

 derating navy in its nnnierous ports on 

 tiie Northern, Baltic, Black and Pacific 

 Oceans; and it cannot b< forgotten, tiiat 

 Viiole Russ-an fleets were some time 

 since admitted into Britisii ports, for 

 the avowed purpose of acquiring nau- 

 tical disciplipe ! 



fRANcn;. 

 New elections have taken place of 

 a Chamber of Deputies, and much 

 stress is laid by the newspapers on the 

 probable eU'ects of the preponderant e of 

 j)arlies in tlie ucw Chamber. These po- 



liticians forget, liowcver, lliat 150,006 

 foreign troops still remain in France, or 

 they would surely forbear to insult us 

 by di.scnssions in regard to the value of 

 the deliberations of any assembly ia 

 France. At [ircsent the French people 

 are bound hand and foot, and we wait 

 till they arc inibonnd before we attach 

 any interest to French politics. We 

 are assin^ed that in one department, by 

 way of illustration, the electors, instead 

 of returning Frenchmen, elected the se- 

 veral allied sovereigns, and that tli0 

 Prince Regent had a considerable mar 

 jority of voices! 



GREAT BRITAIN. 



As a proof of the re-action of opinions 

 after a ministerial tyranny of nearly 

 twenty-six. years, we proudly quote the 

 re-election of the patriotic Lord Mayor, 

 MATTHiiW Wood, to .serve that distin- 

 guished office for another year. It will 

 be ill tlic recollection of oui readers that, 

 owiiiij 



