1823.] 



Political Affairs in March. 



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Hurvey, M. B. and W. Willi.ini, 



Essex 

 Henderson, K. lyowtliiau Gill 

 Herbert, E.'l'. Feltei-lane 

 Hill, T. bedbnry 

 Hodson, T. C. Leominster 

 Huntinjjdon, .1. Snow-hill 

 .lohusoii, S. Skinner-street 

 Ketcher, N. Brddwell near the 



Sea, Essex 

 IVf'Noeli, \V. Chirles-street 

 Marsh, J. Sidmoutli 

 Marston, J. Birmingham 

 Alariindaleand Fitch, London 

 Merchant, J. Alaidstone 



Mitcliinson,T. Great Driffield 

 filooro, S. Ashliy-dc-la-Zouoh 

 Morris, J. Liverpool 

 Mnllion, H. Liverpool 

 Otlev, G. New Bond-street 

 Pickman, \V. East llsley, Berk? 

 Prichard, E. Llanrwst.Ueubigh- 



sliire 

 Richards, S. Liverpool 

 Roffey, B. New Bond-street 

 Kose, R. N. Holborii hill 

 Hose, J. and J. Synions' Wliarf 

 Roxliy, R. B. Arbour-square, 



t'oniniorciiil-road 

 Simpson, R. Crown-conrt 



Standen, T. Lancaster 

 Staliam, J. Collvliur-t 

 Stawpert and Co. South BIyth, 



Northumberland 

 Steele, J. Liverpool 

 Tarleton, J. Liverpool 

 Taylor, A. Kent. road 

 Thurtell and GIddens, Norwich 

 Vernon, T. Towcester 

 Wheeler, J.jun. Abingdon 

 Wilkinson, G. York 

 Willett, F. E. and R. Thetford 

 Wood, B. Narborougli 

 Wyche, H.Salisbury 

 Youdcn, J. Dover. 



MONTHLY AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 



T^HE variable weather of the present 

 -■■ ruoiith has in some degree impeded 

 the operations of agriculture; whicii, how- 

 ever, liold nearly equal pace with the 

 season,— in itself backward. Hay and 

 fodder have been scarce throughout, and 

 the spring grass will be very late. Swedish 

 turnips, where they succeeded, proved an 

 invaluable resource ; but, as it often hap- 

 pens, they failed in many parts, equally 

 with the other species. The clovers, and 

 all artificial grasses, have suffered conside- 

 rable injury. Wheats, on the whole, look 

 well. Tlie losses on sheep dtning the 

 winter were considerable ; and also in the 

 lambs, since the season, both from the un- 

 kindly weather, and a defectof milk in the 

 ewes. Wool, as usual, is quoted in some 

 parts as a rising article, in others as a mere 

 dnig: in the mean time, we liave seldom 

 any report of fine wool, as though eveiy 

 attempt to produce it had been given up 

 in this country. Very high prices have 

 been asked in the country for good saddle- 

 liorses, even to the amount, it is said, (for 

 capital ones,) of forty pounds each ; more 



than could possibly have been made in the 

 metropolis. The sudden rise in corn ori- 

 ginated in speculation, and the markets 

 will now depend chiefly on tlie opinions of 

 the speculators; some depression has 

 already succeeded. The market for cattle 

 and flesli-nieat generally follows that of 

 corn. The most remarkable a<lvance has 

 been in the price of pig stock; amounting, 

 on the average, to full fifty per cent. This 

 may certainly be attributed, in a conside- 

 rable degree, to scarcity ; since the exces- 

 sive depression of price had greatly dimi- 

 nished both the breeding at home and the 

 Irish importation. 



Smitlifield: — Beef, 3s. 4rf. to 4s. 6d. — 

 Mutton, Si. 8(/. to 4s. Sd. — Veal, 3s. 4rf. 

 to 6s. — Pork, 3s. to 4s. 6d.; Dairy, 5s. 

 — Raw fat, 'is. 2d. 



Corn Exchange : — Wheat, 32s. to 60s. 

 — Barley, 2oS. to 40s. — Oals, 18s. to 28s. 

 —London price of best bread, 4lb. for 8|(/. 

 — Hay, r>"s. to 90s. — Clover, do. 6Us. to 

 100s.— Straw, 4l.'s. 6d. to 6Gs 6d. 



Coals in the pool, 33s. 6d, to 48s. Crf. 

 Middlesex ; March 24:. 



POLITICAL AFFAIRS IN MARCH. 



GREAT BRITAIN. 



MANY questions of great national 

 importance have occupied the 

 attention of Parliament during the 

 in on til. 



Ministers, instead of relieving the 

 country by abating taxes, (except to 

 the extent named in our last,) and 

 enabling the people to make coniponnd 

 interest themselves, have determined 

 on appropriating all further surplus to 

 the creation of what, tlicy now assure 

 us, is to be a sacred sinking fund of 

 five millions, and whicli they propose 

 to increase, by compound interest, to 

 eight millions, and thereby liquidate 

 the public debt of 80U millions ! In 

 preserving tiiis fund, and a fraction of 

 the ol<l taxes, they, liowcvcr, of course 

 luuintain the entire macbincry and 

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patronage of tlic system, and their 

 purpose is answered. 



The wiiole emjiirc has petitioned 

 against the Insolvent Debtor system; 

 but we have not derived frojn one of 

 these petitions a ray of intbrmation, 

 except tliat the sj stem drives debtors 

 to extremities, and occasions them to 

 waste the whole of their property in 

 warding oft" the last exposure. We 

 repeat, but perhaps in vain, that no 

 amelioration can take place, imless a 

 certain majoriti/ of creditors are ena- 

 bled to compromise with the debtor; 

 and we may then expect that men 

 will make proposals while they have 

 properly left, because they will have a 

 chance of relief. But, without such 

 provisions, wc mur,t return to the old 

 system of perpetual and useless impri- 

 sonment, 



