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fact, every town in the kingdom where any manufacture is carried on, ate busily employed, 
being all full of orders of every descriptio | of goois. Even the potteries of Staffordshire, as 
well as Stourbridge, for glass ware, have gor thetr share : 
The very extensive imports lately made of tallow from Brazil, has caused a reduction t@ 
take place in the prices of soap and candles; and it is tobe hoped that a further reduction will 
soon take place,as large quantities of tallow are expected in the next fleet irom SouthAmerica, 
as likewise barilla, from Spain, the Meditérranean, Sicily, &¢. é&c. : i 
Several Greenland ships have arrived at Hull, Whitby, &c. with complete cargoes, 
which circumstance, no doubt, will revuce the present high price of whale-oil. Upwards of 
4500 bags of Italian rags were brought home by the last Mediterranean fle-t, in consequence 
of which London rags have lowered in price nearly 4s. and canvas has fallen to 433. the 
commissioners of his Majesty's yards having latterly sold the canvas, without siving the good 
pieces for other purposes, as they formerly used to do.” Wools are very low, from the large 
quantity on hand ; but weare happy to say that a considerable degree of activity now prevails 
in the Yorkshire manufacturers. In Londonthe merchants are at present making large pur- 
chases of baizes, sergés, flannels, Yorkshire cloths, &c. for Spain, Portugal, and South Ame- 
yica. 
'~ Few circumstances could more strongly marle the depressed state of the woollen trade than 
the fact of no’wools having been sold at Lewes, Thetiord, and two or three others of the 
principal fairs for this article, lately held. The holders of the articie at these places have 
Hot, it is true, adopted (he most likely means for disposing of the same, especially in a falling 
market, by generally concertirg a price, before consulting with the buyers. At Hounslow 
fair, where a more liberal policy is pursued, a!! the fleece in the fair, amounting to 700 tods, 
were sold at about 2s. less than Jast year’s prices ; of the finer sorts, viz. South-downs from 
51s. to 47s. per tod of 28 Ibs. Wiltshire from 44s to 44s. and Dorset 4%s. to S8s. per tod. 
At the present conjuncture, when a great portion of the Merino sheep are likely to become 
food for the armies contending for the possession of the northern provinces of Spain, where the 
flocks are at this time depasturing, it seems of the utmost consequence to adopt every means 
for facilitating the increase of this invaluable breed of sheep in England. An annual fair for the 
sale of Merino and Merino-crosscd wools only, has, by the active zeal of Lord Somerville, 
been established in Mr. Sadler’s Repository Yard, in Goswell-street, which promises to be of 
the utmost service to those entering on the cultivation of Merino wool, by enabling them tq 
Send up any quantity, great or small, for djsposal by auction, at a sale which the London 
wool buyers can attend with as little inconvenience to themselves, as to bid fur cargoes of 
Spanish wool at Garraway’s: and accordingly their attendance wes very full at the first of. 
these, on the 28th of July, when a large quantity of wools, crossed in every degree by Spa- 
nish rams, were readily sold, wnscowered, at 2s. to 4s. 1d. per pound, according to their res 
Spective fineness, 
3 COURSE OF EXCHANGE, 
Aug. 12. Aug. 16 | Aug. 19 Prices ef Hops. 
Hamburgh../35 2 ..++135 2..495 2 -- 
Altera. tcf B pi Biivcaie se ABs edo Bene Bags.—Kent, 31, to 41. per cwt. 
Amsterdam 56 3 ....)86 3 ..)36 3..)—— Sussex, ¥l.-16s. to 31. 15s. per cwt. 
Paris ... 000 [24 cele eweo {Zh bah cf Pe ee Essex, 2I. 16s. to Sl. 15s. per cwte 
Leghorn..../493 ....../49% .... [493 .... Pockets. —Kent, Sl. 3s. to 41. 6s. per cwt, 
Naples ....]42 ....-.|4% 2... ]42. 2... | ———Sussex, 31. to 3115s. per owt. 
Genoa sere l45d eeee ee HOE 0... [452 toda Farnham, 51. to 71. per cwt. 
Lisbon ...6J00' sccve+|60 2... |60*.... 
MOH Orta sass AO, yivrnrosaie ai lis Hie BOF desist ane average price of Raw Sugar, ending 
Dublin ..../02 ...,... {102 ....]102 ..,. [10th of August, 1808, is 37s. 1ifd. per cwt, 
Gork: was 114) eSeeds nt eoee {412 ,...Jexclusive of duties. 
The following are the average Prices of Navigable Canal Shares, Dock Stock, and Fire 
Office Shares, in August, 1808, at the Office of Mr. Scott, No. 28, New Bridge-street, Black- 
friars, London :—Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal, 6551. per share, dividing 421. per © 
annum, nett—Leeds and Liverpool, 1781. dividing 81. per annum, nett—Grand Junction, 
1271. ‘0 1521.; the tast half-yearly dividend was 9l.—Leicestershire and Northamptonsbii€ 
Union Canal, 35|. for O61. paid—-Huddersfield, 181. per share—Kennet and Avon, 241.—— 
Ellesmere, 54]:—West-India Dock Stock, 1561. per cent. dividing 101 per cent ‘nett— East 
India Dock Stock, 140i. per cent. dividing 5). per cent. nett—London Dock, 116]. per cent: 
dividing S21. per cent clear-~East-London Water-Works, 501. to 521. 108. per share pre= 
Miume~W est® Middlesex ditto, 181. to 241. per share premium—Globe Insurance, 1161. per 
Cent Albion ditto, at parto 21. per cent premium, NED 
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