558 Meteorological Report. — Public Affairs in December. [Jan. 1 



have hccn required for broatl-castinc and the state of low lands has been generally un- 

 favourable to drilling and dibblin:;. One fifth, probably, nf the heavy lands, will rcniaia 

 for spring sowing, the success of vvliich will again materially depend on the state of the 

 weather in the two first nioiitlis of the new year. As to the quality of the present 

 crop, it is said, of nats particularly, that one buslielof oldoats i.-, more than equal to two 

 of tiic new ; and, exclusive of ])artial surcess, firaiii and pulse, of everj' species, will be 

 found greatly tlefeciive. I<ean cattle are in i^reat pl?iity and low in price; fat stock 

 sell well. Pork will be deanr, from the hi;;h price of corn and of potatoes, which are 

 in gr';at demand for the use of the nietvopulis. Ordinaiy horse; worth scarcply more 

 than the price of their hide-^, (;ooil ones at a considerable price. Middling cows and 

 calves have been sold as low as 7/. each. In wool, no alteration. Tlie universal com- 

 petition for labour has again reduced the price, notwitlistanding the great advance in 

 the most material article of subsistence, an extreme peril to be guarded agauist by tiic 

 landed interest. Breaking up fresh lauds, lately, although ])artially connnenced, one 

 of our greatest national objects, will couiribute to the employment of the labourer; to 

 which end, the Iransplaiitin^' of wheat has been recomnieuded, but with no iiope of 

 success, from the novelty of the practice, although, at the present price, the savin;; of 

 seed would overpay the laljour, and ir.auy extra huiuis would be employed. The very 

 great advance in the prices of com has saved, perhaps, the whole body of necessitous 

 farmers from ruin, but the various difficulties and disadvantages of the present seasqn 

 have left them still in streighlcned circnmstau<-es. A vast national loss has accrncd 

 from the general necessity of sending the new wheats to market in such an unfit state, 

 and it is supposed that our chief dcpendaiice in the spring must be upon imports from 

 America and from the Baltic ; from countries, indeed, which, to the disgrace of our 

 own, have been many years in the habit of growing corn expressly for our support. 



Sniitlifield : Beef 'Ss. to Is. Cd.— Mutton 4s. to os. (id.— Veal 4s. to 6s. — Pork 

 3s. '8d. to .is. — Bacon 4s. 6d. to 5s. — Irish do. 4s. to 4s. (id. — Fat 3s. 4d. — Oil-cake 131. 

 per thousand. — Potatoes ,31, to 61. per ton. — Onions ys.to os. per bushel. 



Corn Exchange: New wheat ».is. to I'iOs.— Old do. 135s. — Barley ,'>4s. to 64s. — 

 Oats 2 2s. to 50s. — The Quartern loaf in London, 4lb. 5loz. from 14d. to 17^il. — Hay 

 ol. lOs. to 6l. per load.— Clover do. from Si. lOs. to 31. — Straw ll. 7s. to 2l. 2s. , 



Coals in the pool 37s. to 47s. per chaldron. 



METEOIIOLOC.ICAL REPORT. 



Kept hi/ C. lil.LNT, 38, 'J'luixtovk-strcct, Covent Garden. 



Barometer. 

 iTighest 30.78. Dec. 1, U'ind N.W. 

 Mean temperature of the "ii hours, 36 Fah. 



Lowest '^9. Dec. 14, Wind N.W. 

 Mean tcnipeialure of the 24 houis, 45 Fah. 



The height of 



C tlie baronielri- 



„ ._ .1 \ cal column \vas 



'?.T-'""'^on<lH- i 8th ins,. 

 I >3-huudrs. < 



J of an inch. J 

 f 



Greatest i 17-tenthi 

 variation in j3-huudrs. . ^^_^^, 



«4 horns, ^o'a""'cl'.j„„„„ ^•„,',„,,,„„ 

 day, at the same 

 hour,itwas30.41. 



Thermometer. 

 Hi-hest 51". Dec. 13, \V ind N.W. 

 Mean barometrical i)ressure of llie 24 



hours, y9.15. 

 Lowest 'i5°. Dec. !^0, Wind E. 

 Mean barometrical pressure of the 24 



hours, 50.00. 



This variation oc- 

 curred between the 

 evening of the 1 1 thinst. 

 Greatest "1 land the same part of 



variation ui J (P. -^ the following day; on 

 14 hours, ) Jlhc former day the 



iliermonietcrwas at3» 

 Fahrenheit, and on the 

 following day at 44. 



The qtiantity of rain fallen during the present period is, by the gauge, near three- 

 foinths of an inch. The number of rainy da;, s has been two, showery days three, and 

 <lays during which rain has fallen in an inconsiderable manner — four. Snow has fallen 

 un four days. 



POLITICAL AFFAIRS IN DECEMBER. 



Containing offieictl Papers and Authentic Documents. 



GREAT BRITAIN. Prince Regent to Ihe Petitiou of the 



ON Monday, Dec. 2, a meeting of last meeting, wliich Mr. Hunt had 

 thirty thousand jicvsons was held in delivered to liOrd Siduiontli. Mr. 

 Spu-ticlds, to receive the iuiswer of the Hum staled, that he went at first to 



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