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the chief evils affecting the industri- 
ous classes, and those under contracts 
for fixed money-payments, arise from 
the altered value of the national mo- 
ney; it is the principle of a corn-rent, 
or reverting to wheat asa standard, 
by which to measure and estimate the 
original value of, and by which to re- 
duce now these monied engagements, 
which can alone cure these evils: but, 
unfortunately, no authentic and gene- 
ral tables of averages exist, which 
might show the averages of one, of two, 
of three, &c. years’ prices of wheat, as 
recorded weekly in the London Ga- 
zette, ending with and including each 
weekly return therein; although such 
proposed tables have, some time ago, 
and again lately, been deseribed 
and strongly recommended by a sen- 
sible writer in the Karmer’s Journal 
newspaper. BRITANNIA, 
St. Pancras; Oct. 10. 
—a— 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
EXTRACTS from a JOURNAL of METEO- 
ROLOGY and NATURAL HISTORY kept at 
HARTFIELD, for the purpose of record- 
ing FACTS which illustrate the PROG- 
NOSTICS of ATMOSPHERIC CHANGES, 
and the INFLUENCE of PECULIARITIES 
of WEATHER on ANIMAL and VEGE- 
TABLE LITE. 
By T. FORSTER, M.B. F.L.S. 
Member of the Astronomical Society of London, &c. 
[Dr. T. Forster proposes to communicate 
this Journal to us monthly, each number 
including the period between the 40 
days of the two foregoing months. Few 
observations having been made during 
the last month, the present article .con- 
tains the observations made since last 
Midsummer, including those made du- 
ring a tour on the continent. ] 
UNE 20, 1822.— Cloudy, with 
N.E. wind. Ther.67. Verbaseum 
wirgatum, V. thapsus, and V. lychnitis, 
in flower. 
—— 22.—Scabiosa atropurpurea in 
flower. ‘The sky exhibited to-day a 
vast variety of beautiful modifications 
of cloud; the atmosphere was what is 
usually termed highly electrified, and 
the clouds very red at sun-set.—Ther. 
73°; bar. 30°00. 
23.—The phenomena of yes- 
terday were followed to-day by very 
hot weather. Lilium bulbiferwn in 
blow. 
July 9.—A soft air and cloudy day, 
followed by rain. I noticed among 
patients the prevalence of vertigo, 
and other head-discases; indeed they 
Meteorological Journal kept at Hartfield. 
have been very prevalent in Sussex 
‘during the present summer solstice. 
17.—Travelling between Ca- 
lais and Boulogne, I noticed millions 
of butterflies, covering the fields for 
many miles: I never before witnessed 
such a prodigious ‘quantity of them. 
Cichorium intybus common by all the 
road-sides. 
28.—Ascended Mount Jura, 
where I noticed Campanula rotundifolia 
and Campanula alpina ; the former very 
abundant. 
29.—A remarkable instance 
occurred on this and the two following 
days of the coincidence of violent and 
mischievous storms of thunder and 
lightning. This evening one of the 
most violent storms ever witnessed 
occurred as I was passing between 
Gex and Noyon, about 6 P.M.* 
—— 30.—A repetition of violent 
storms to-day followed the lodgment 
of clouds on the tops of the mountains 
of Savoy: several persons were killed, 
and vineyards destroyed. The ther- 
mometer stood at 84° at Lausanne at 
mid-day. I have accounts, which I 
hope shortly to publish, of violent 
storms which occurred at the same 
time in various parts of Europe; 
which confirms an opinion I have long 
entertained of the simultaneous oc- 
currence of similar phenomena in dis- 
tant parts of the world. 
Aug. 6.—I noticed to-day thatsmall 
ficld-mice were particularly numerous 
all along the road-side through Alsace, 
from Vale to Colmar, and thence to 
Strasbourg. I noticed the stork, Cico- 
nia alba, on the wing. The last swift, 
Hirundo apus, seen at Strasbourg. 
15.—Butomus umbellatus and 
Senecio paludosus very common, and 
in flower, by the sides of the canals in 
Holland. 
Sept. 18.—Falling stars common to- 
night; they foreboded wind from the 
east, which followed on the 19th. 
Oct. 17—The last swallow, Hirundo 
rustica, seen. 
—— 19.— An unusually violent 
shower of rain and hail. Erysipelas 
prevails much, particularly among the 
lower classes of people. 
Hartwell ; Oct. 21. T. BF. 
N.B.—This Journal will be continued 
daily, with more copious observations, be- 
ginning with the 20th of October. 
* T have already published an account 
of this storm, and those. which occurred 
coincidentally, and therefore I was not 
minute in wy account in this Journal. 
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