1823.] 



Parry, H. W. Cudooa 



Petrie, J. Kempton 



Pi«le, W. Geortrelium, DevoilBn. 



Rawe, W. Pailstow 



Kichards, J. Aston, Warwickshire 



Richardson, G. Mccklci'.bnrgh- 



sqnare, aud T. Yokes, Clou. 



cester-Elrcet, Quceu-siiuare 

 Robinson ami Stead, Jjalton, 



Yorkshire 

 liobiosoii, S. Huddei'S&eld 



Political Affairs in June. 



KouksIey.J.Slicflicia 



Seamen, C. and G. EthcreJge, 



Norwicli 

 Sherbrook, T. Leeds 

 Shorcv, J. Croydon 

 Sieddou, W. Stockport 

 Smith, A. J. aud J. Shepherd, 



Brierley, Staffordshire 

 Smith, J. W. and T . Townley, 



Manchester 



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Smeeton, U. St. Mariin'i-lan« 

 Sowerby, P. and P. Liverpool 

 Stanton, T. IJiury-lane 

 Sterling, J. and W. Copllu|H- 



c(,urt 

 Tate, W. Cateaton-5treet 

 Taylor, W.jun. I>iver|)ool 

 Thomas, B. Liverpool 

 'J'ownshend, W. B. Little Cliclsea 

 Vernon, T. Bath. 



MONTHLY AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 



'X'HIS month commeuced with the most 

 ■■■ seasouablc and bcauiitul weather, and 

 south-western breezes. It bad been, in- 

 deed, warm and showery towards tlie end 

 of May, putting a fortunate ])eriod to a 

 series of drought, and cold bligliting 

 winds; which, however they improved and 

 forwarded tiie tillage of the fallows, con- 

 siderably endangered all the growing 

 crops. Great expectations were enter- 

 tained from the favourable change ; which 

 are, however, again damped by an atmos- 

 pheric counter-revolution, which took 

 place about ten days since ; during which 

 i'lterval, the wind changing to the nor- 

 thern side, and varying from north-west to 

 south-east, but chiefly stationary in the 

 north-north-east, has produced as rigid 

 and ungenial a feeli'ig on the air as has 

 been experienced during many years at 

 this season. Such a degree of cold, accom- 

 panied with much moisture, would blight 

 and ruin half the fruits of the earth ; but, 

 the air being dry, and frequently cheeriul 

 and elastic, very dangerous results aie not 

 to be apprehended. It cannot be doubt- 

 ed, however, that fiuctification has been 

 greatly impeded, and all crops injured in 

 some degree, more ef pecially that ot fruit, 

 — which, in exposed situations, has been 

 actually half destioyed. As to corn and 

 pulse, the l^ut crops are said to have re- 

 ceived most injury ; but the wheats also 

 mii^t have experienced a check, the marks 

 of which ihey will carry upon the haulm ; 

 and, should not a speedy change take 

 place, the blooming will not be fortunate. 

 Yet it ought to be recollected, that we 

 liave harvested pleniifid crops of wheat in 

 dry and blighting seasons. The present 



state of the weather is much against the 

 turnips and potatoes, which last are back- 

 ward. Artificial grasses, as better abiding 

 drought, have proved a more successful 

 crop this season than tlie natural, and hay 

 will be below an average tlirour,hout. 

 Hops have felt the effect of a variable sea- 

 son, and have risen in price. Sheep- 

 shearing has proved according to expecta- 

 tion; the ileece lii:ht,and the wool-market, 

 in consequence, advancing. Fat stock has 

 been much in request, and the i)rime has 

 been sold dear ; lean stores, from their 

 low condition, and the indiffcicnt prospect 

 of keep, have not been ready of sale, or at 

 satisfactory prices. Good store pigs hold 

 their price. The immense quantities of 

 corn and flour poured into the London 

 market, have checked the advance of 

 prices ; and, should the crop of wheat 

 prove an average, a considerable reduction 

 must again take place, notwithstanding 

 that a part of the Continent is eng£K;ed ia 

 warfare. Accounts of the crops in France 

 and the low countries are favouiable. The 

 wind has hud, at this in.-tant, a favourable 

 change westward; and the an- has acquired 

 a mildness to which we have been for some 

 time strangers. 



Sm!thfiild:—V,cci', Ss. 6(1. to 4s. Brf, — 

 Mutton, 3s. 4rf. to As. -id. — Ycal, 4s. to 

 bs. — Pork, 4s. to .5s. 4rf. — Baron, 4s. to 

 4s. 8rf. — Raw fat, 2s. 1 1 1 J. j.cr stone. 



Corn Exchavge: — Wheat, 4-is. to 70s. 

 — Uarley, 27s. to S8s. — Oats, 20s. to 50». 

 — London price of best bread, 4lb. for 

 iOid. — Hay, 63s. to 95s. — Clover, do. 

 80s. to lOjs— Straw, 4'Js. to 60s. 



Coals in the pool, 33s. to 43s. 6d, 

 Middlesex; June 24. 



POLITICAL AFFAIRS IN JUNE. 



TIIF. PP.NINSL'LA. 



DESPOTISM Ihushcs in the socket. 

 Such is the course of nature, 

 and of Ltiman aflair.s. IjKtabliKlic'd 

 effects or practices aie not to be ex- 

 tinguished iit once : they willllasli or 

 scintillate again and again. Jiut, it a 

 mine oldcstruetion lias been jdantcd in 

 the citadel of d(rspotisni, the ideet will 

 prove certain. The prinfiiifc-prcss, anti 

 knowledge, and the stiuguks of IM3, 



)G88, and 1792, have opened the eyes 

 of mankind, after a lorp(jr of twenty 

 centuries ; and the artful tricks of 

 despots will, we liope, be unable to 

 save tlieir ill-sotlen power. AVe fear, 

 however, that this gciicralion must 

 l>ass away before the tree of liberty 

 llourislies throughout r.urope; but as, 

 in the mean time, it will flourish in 

 Anicri(;a, perliap.s Europe may be 

 doomed to .succeed Asia and Afric.x 



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