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MONTHLY AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 



ACCOUNTS, of the date of last week, report corn even then abroad, in various 

 parts of the country. Spring wheat has been particniarly backward. Much wheat 

 ^nd barley which, in order to take the utmost advantage of the intervals of fair weatlier, 

 Was carried prematurely, has fermented in the stack, and been returned to the field at 

 great labour and expense, in order to be sufficiently dried. A vast quantity of corn has 

 •peared in the tield and in the stack. The potaioe crop is variously reported, but may 

 probably be reckoned one of the best of the present season ; turnips and grass decidedly 

 so. Wheat-sowing necessarily backward, on the fallows particularly so ; the operation 

 by no means well pci formed in general ; the seed difficult to be procured good, and at 

 an enormous price ; the sowing of extensive tracks ninst be deferred until spring. 

 The price of all kinds of live stock, with some exception in favour of sheep, remains in a 

 depressed state. The difference between the market price of old and nesv wheat, and 

 a rise of some shillings per quarter at the Corn Exchange, on opening the ports to a 

 foreign supply, afford a satisfactory explanation of the opinion of the dealers. Weighing 

 the earliest and best- harvested wlieats against the latest and most defective, and taking 

 into the account the unquestionable dcfixt of quality in all, it is perhaps not an exag- 

 geration to rate the present crop, with respect to public consumption, at only one half 

 an abundant one ; nor are the present high prices in any degree remunerative to the 

 generality of farmers, a body of men under the most pressing circumstances, ami fully 

 deserving the utmost consideration from their landlords and the public. 



Sraithlield : Beef as, 8d. to -Is.— Mutton os. to 4s. 4d.— Veal 4s. to 6s.— Pork 4s. 

 to 5s. 4d.— Bacon 4s. 6d. to 6i. — Irish do. 4s. to 4s. 6d. — Fat 3s. 4d.— Oil-cake 14l. 

 per thousand.— Potatoes 31. 10s. to 51. per ton. — Onions Is. 3d. to is. 6d. per bushel. 



Corn Exchange: New wheat 8()s. to llOs.— Old do. 34s. to 130s. — New Barley 

 58s. to 56s.— Old do. oSs. to 69s.— New Oats 22s. to 42s.— Old do. o.'s. to 50s.— The 

 Quartern loaf in London, 4lb. 5|oz. from 13d. to 16d. — Hay 31. to 6l. 6s. per 1 wd. 

 — Clover do. from 41. to 81. — Straw 11. IBs. to 2l. 8s. — Fine Hour 85s. to 105s. per sack. 



Coals in the pool 36s. to 50s. per chaldron. 



METEOROLOGICAL REPORT. 



Kept by C. Blunt, 38, Tavistock-street, Covent Garden. 



Barometer. 

 Highest 30.05. Nov. 19, Wind E. 

 Mean temperature of the 24 hours, 36 Fah. 



Lowest 29.19. Nov. 8, Wind W. 



Mean temperature of the 24 hours, 48 Fah. 



The height of 



the barometri- 



I cal column was 



'on the 9th nil. 



I at 29..S8, and 



'on the following 



day, at the same 



hounitwas 29.70 



Thermoweler, 

 Highest 57°. Nov. 3. Wind S.E. 

 Mean barometrical pre^iire of the 2it 



hours, 30. 

 Lowest 28°. Nov. 18, Wind E. 

 Mean barometrical pressure of the 21 

 hours, 30. 



This variaiion oc- 

 curred between the af^ 



kteruoon of the 9thinsf. 



Jand the sann; part of 

 the following day ; on 



Uhc former day the 



'thermometer was at 50 

 Fahrenheit, and on tlio 

 following day at 44. 



The quantity of rain fallen this month is still less tlian that of the last report; the 

 nnniber of rainy days have been four, showery days four, and days on which rain ha* 

 fallen in a slight manner three; the total quantity by the gauge somewhnt less than half 

 an inch. Snow has fallen, in small quantity, on four days. 



The average or mean lemperatiire for the period is 38.97 of Fahrenheit, the average 

 or mean height of the barometer is 30.06. The winds have been for the most part 

 from north and easterly points. 



Greatest "i 

 variaticmm S 6" 

 24 hours, J 



POLITICAL AFFAIRS IN NOVEMBER, 



Containing official Papers and Authentic Documents, 



GREAT BitiTAiv. Iiefoic tlie .stopp.i^c of (h Bank, nnd 



FT appears by the Parliamentary do- while .sjK-cic still toiBied > loliiefcnr- 



L cuments, that in 179w, the year rc;icy, tlie tiigbcst issua o Boiik-iuitos 



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