Commercial Report, 



1823.] 



appearing somewhat unworthy of the age 

 of cool enquiry and deduction, in which 

 they, particularly the last, have been ha- 

 zarded. 



Some journals announce corindon, a sort 

 of spath, as the most proper substance for 

 giving the finest polish to granite. It 

 should be intermixed, not witli wax, but 

 with lacca. Tlie polish will be more beau- 

 tiful and durable in proportion to the care 

 employed in this latter operation. It is 

 requisite that the powder be of uncommon 

 hardness, and the corindon is selected for 

 this purpose. 



A remarkable physiological fact has been 

 discovered by Sir Evekard Home, in the 



461 



composition of the blood. This fact, or 

 theory, — for perhaps all the certainty that 

 might be wished on the subject is not yet 

 obtained,— is that a large proportion of the 

 blood consists of carbonic acid gas, and 

 that the fluid itself is of a tubercular struc- 

 ture. He says that the gas is given out 

 most abundantly from the blood of a per- 

 son after ;i full meal, and but in a small 

 proportion from a feverish person ; and that 

 he was led to the discovery by observing 

 the growth of a grain of wheat through a 

 microscope; having first seen a blob and a 

 tube passing through it : the former being 

 the juice of the plant, the latter the car- 

 bonic acid gas extricating itself. 



MONTHLY COMMERCIAL REPORT. 



PRICES OF MERCHANDIZE. 



Cocoa, W. I. common ••Ji'i l.i 

 Coffee, Jamaica, ordinary 4 10 



— — — ■ , fine . • 



, Mocha 



Cotton, W. I. common • • 

 Demerara- 



Currants 5 



Figs, Turkey 2 



Flax, Riga 63 



Hemp, Riga, Rhine .... 43 

 Hops, new, Pockets • • . 



, Sussex, do. 



Iron, British, Bars • • • 

 -, Pigs 



3 16 

 2 12 

 10 

 6 

 12 6 

 55 



Oil, Lucca 



— , Galipoli 



Rags 



Raisins, bloom or jar, new 



Rice, Patna 



, Carolina 



Silk, China, raw 



, Bengal, skein • . . • 



Spices, Cinnamon 



, Cloves 



, Nutmegs 



, Pepper, black. • 



, wiiite.. 



Spirits, Brandy, Cogniac 3 

 , Geneva Hollands 2 

 " ' ■ 9 



3 10 

 1 

 

 17 

 14 

 7 





 

 

 

 7 



H- 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 5 

 5 

 2 

 

 3 



6f 

 4 



April 'it. 

 to 3 10 

 5 

 7 

 9 

 

 

 5 

 2 



— 56 



11 

 15 



-, Rum, Jamaica 



12 10 

 56 



2 2 



3 14 

 1 2 







1 2 

 17 

 7 

 4 

 3 

 

 1 

 3 

 2 

 2 



2 18 



3 12 



Sugar, brown 



, Jamaica, fine • • • 



, East India, brown 12 — 15 



, lump, fine 4 13 — 4 16 



Tallow, town-melted- • .. 1 17 — 



— , Russia, yellow < . 1 13 6 — 1 14 



Tea, Bolica 



, Hyson, best 5 7— 6 S' 



Wine, Madeira, old ••••20 — 70 o 



, Port, old 42 — 48 



.Sherry 20 —50 



Premiums .(/"//iaMruwcf.— Guernsey or Jersey, 25.S. «30«. ..„.„,.„..., ^„ „o 



— Belfast, 25«. «. SO*.— Hambro', 20». a .50».— Madeira, 20s. « SOs.— Jamaica, '40s 

 50* — Oreenlaiul, out and home, 6 g». n 12 g-«. 



Cour,<.'»//:Tc/i«nA"',/»/<iy 27.— Amsterdam, 12 10.— Hamburgh, 30 4.— Paris 25 90 

 —Leghorn, loj — Lisbon, 51 — Dublin, 9{ per cent. 



PrcmxiLnvt on Shareg and Canals, uhd Joint Stock Cnmpatiica, at the Office of Wolfe and 

 £d»w«rf»'.— Birmingham, 30()i.— Coventry, 1040i.— Derby, 140/,— jillesmere, 63/.— 



Grand 



5 



10 



3 



















18 











16 



2 16 



8 10 



6 



12 5 



55 



2 2 



3 10 

 1 

 1 17 

 16 

 11 

 6 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 2 

 3 

 1 

 4 

 2 

 1 

 

 



20 

 42 

 20 



May 27. 



11 

 13 



68 

 43 





 



— 5 12 



— 3 10 



— 90 



— 70 



percwt. 

 do. 

 do. 

 do, 

 per lb. 

 do. 

 percwt. 

 perchest 

 per ton. 

 do. 

 percwt. 

 do. 

 per ton. 

 do. 



— 12.10 25 galls. 



— 56 per ton. 

 6 percwt. 

 do. 

 do. 

 do. 

 per lb. 

 2 do. 







1 2 



2 2 



1 i 

 12 



6 

 4 

 3 

 

 1 

 3 

 2 

 2 



2 18 



3 12 



do. 

 9 do. 

 2 do. 

 7 do. 

 31 do. 

 4 per gal. 

 1 do. 

 10 do. 

 percwt, 

 do. 



— 150 do. 

 — 4 14 do. 

 0-000 do. 

 6-000 do. 

 H — 2 5f perlb. 

 7 — 063 do. 

 — 70 per pipe 

 — 48 do. 

 — 50 per butt 

 Cork or Dublin, 25»-. a 30s. 



