18l6.] Monthly Commercial Report. 455 



by frequent whetting while the animal resists the bruise which so often takes 



was living. place in marble at the point where the 



Dr. Green, of Drogheda, has disco- chisel stops, an efifect known to sculp- 



vered that one or more table-spoonfuls tors by the technical term stiinuing, and 



of oil of turpentine removes obstinate of which the result is a disagreeable 



obstruclions of the bowels. opaque white mark, generally in the 



Dr. Macculloch, in a valuable paper very place where the deepest shadow is 



on the Geology of Sky, gives tlie follow- wanted. 



ing accoiuitof its jnarble. — "The marble M. Leopold de Eoch has published 



of Sky is i>; a pure white colour, and ap- an interesting Alemoir on the Limits of 



pears sufficletiUy extensive and con- the perpetual Smjws in the North; by 



tinuous to be capable of yielding large which it appears that there never falls 



blocks. The purity of its colour is sel- at Bergen, in the space of a year, less 



dim coufatuinated; its fracture is gra- than (id inches of rain, and frequently 



nular and splintery, and its texture fine, 92 have been known to fall; whereas at 



less line t.'jan that of lona, but more so Upsal, in the same latitude, but in the 



than that of Assynt: its compactness, interior, the annual quantity of rain does 



hardness, and gravity, are greater than not exceed 14 inches. The following is 



those of tlie marble of Carrara, which it the table of his results in Norway and 



in fact resembles in little else than co- Lapland: — Metres, 



lour. It is apparently well fitted for all The Pine (Pinus sylveslris) disap. 



purposes of sculpture, as it can be pears at 237" 



wrought in any direction, and has suffi- The Birch-tree (Beltila alba) .... 482 



cient transparency, while at the same T^^^eMyiile (VacciMum Myrtyllus) 620 



time it assumes even a better polish than ^lie Mountain Willow (Salix myr- 



is required for statuary. It possesses a 



sinites) 656 



property not found in that of Carrara; ^I"^ ^'^'''^ yinch( Betulanana) • • 836 

 in compactness of texture by which \t ^ ^^ '"""^ "^"^ '" "'^" *^ ' !««« 



MONTHLY COMMERCIAL REPORT. 



SUCH is the diminution of travelling by stage-coaches, owing to the decreased trade, 

 that one coach-master in London received 501. per week less dining the last three 

 month; than during the corresponding months of last year. 



The receipts of the Drury-lane Theatre in the last season fell short of the calciilatioD 

 in no less a sum than 11,998/. lis. 5rf. owing, as is supposed, to the state of the times. 



On the continents of Europe and America, owing to excessive speculations on the 

 peace, British goods and manufactures have long been selling at from twenty to forty 

 per cent, under prime cost, to the extensive ruin of merchants in England, and of mana* 

 facturers in the countries vtere the articles are so undersold. 



The butter exported from Ireland in 1800 was 263,289 cwts. ; in 1805, 329,155 owts. 

 in 1810, 335,953 cwts. ; and in 1815, 432,154 cwts. 



PRICES OF MERCHANDIZE. Oct. 25. Nov. 22. 



Cocoa, West India . 3 5 to 4 10 3 5 to 4 10 per cwt» 



Coffee, W.India, ordinary 2 13 — 360 2 13 — 360 ditto. 



, fine . 4 10 — 5 4 lo — 5 ditto. 



, Mocha . 6 15 0—700 5 1 — 5 3 ditto. 



Cotton, W. I. common 15 — 14 014 — 015 per lb. 



, Demerara . 019 — 01 11 018 — Olio ditto. 



Currants . . 4 — 4 10 O 4 — 4 10 per cwt 



Figs, Turkey . 2 16 0— 300 2 16 0— 300 ditto. 



Flax, Riga . . 60 — 62 60 — 63 per ton. 



Hemp, Riga Rhine 43 — 45 — ditto. 



Hops, new, Pockets 11 il — 18 18 11 11 — 18 18 per cwt, 



, , Bags . 10 10 — 14 14 10 10 — 14 14 ditto. 



Iron, British, Bars 11 00 — OoO 11 00 — 00 per ton. 



, >P'S» • 7 10 0— 800 7 10 0— 800 ditto. 



Oil, salad . , 15 — 16 15 — 16 per jar. 



— , Galipoli . . 75 — 100 — per ton. 



Rags, Hamburgh , 240 — 000 240 — 00 per cvH. 



Raisins, bloom or jar, new 600 — ooo 600 — 00 ditto. 



Rice, Carolina, new .000 — 00 000— 00 ditto! 



— — , liaet ludid , 10 0~100 18 0— lOO ditto.' 



Silk, 



