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Osl)orne,H. NewBrentrnrd 



Pelliam, J. sen. Cliart, Kent 



Pigram, J. antlT. R. Mmdsionc 



Kainey, G. Marslullsireet, Cjr- 

 naby-square 



Ramsay, T. Mark-lane 



Raxirr, R. Soulhwaik 



Read. J. Gospel-oak, Staffordshire 



Keid, A. Pimlico 



Riclurds, T. Bridgwater-sqnare 



Rose, T. Cape Royale, Regent- 

 street. Pall Mall 



Runcorn, R. Manchester 



Sampson, S. Size-lane 



Saunders, J. M. Ipswich 



Agricultural Report. 



.^edsjlev, VV. Dudley 



Sliei wood, W. Liverpool 



Skdler, E. Rochester 



Stalker and Welch, Leadenhall- 



sireet 

 Stevens. J.Stafford 

 Steele, J. Liverpool 

 Taylor. J. Leominster 

 Thompson, H. Sculcoatep, York- 



Bhire 

 VVagstaff.S. and T. Baylis, Kid- 



(lerniinsier 

 Walwyn, R. Wood-st. Cheapside 

 Walker, 15. West Smithfield 



36.5 



U'.5rwirl>, T. O. and J. Aldred, 



Ritherham 

 Wf hsier, G. Toner-streej 

 Wellcr, T. Croydon 

 \\ i?tall, H. Sheffield 

 Wilcux, J. S. and T. J. Titlerlon, 



Tlieobild's-road 

 Willc't, F. and R. Thelford, 



Norfolk 

 William', .r. Cornliill 

 Wilson, R. Friday-street 

 Withers. W. Cheltenham 

 Wood, J. Cardiff 

 Worth, J. and J.Trump-strect. 



MONTHLY AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 



WITHIN the last ten (Jays, since the 

 cutting north-east and norih winds 

 liave given place to more sjenial aiis, vege- 

 tiilion lias been geni^rally improving, and 

 •great diligence has been used in getting 

 ill the remainder of tiie spring crops. 

 Karley and oat sowing, however, will 

 scarcely be finished by the end of tiie 

 present month. The rough anti wetlands, 

 Ironi tiie variable stale of tlie weather, 

 tnrncd np heavy and clodded, not in the 

 best order for sowing ; they may work 

 more favourably for the future operations 

 on the potatoe and turnip grounds. As in 

 most varial)le seasons, the wheats look 

 strong and promising on the best lands 

 and most favourable situation*, but some- 

 what weak and sickly in others; with, 

 nevertheless, a cheering prospect on the 

 whole ; and the same may be warranted of 

 the national crops generally. Our corres- 

 pondents seem disposed to say little or 

 nothing of hops at present. Timber and 

 wood is in demand at a good price. 

 Long wool advances but slowly. Fine 

 wool, since the pijiing times of war and 

 scarcity, seems a neglected article in Bri- 

 tish husbandry. Instead of seventy guineas, 

 as heretofore, five crowns is now a gootl 

 price for a Merino sheep. Farming stock, 

 and ntrnsils, find their real value at sales. 

 The fall of lambs seems to have been uni- 

 versally plentiful, and the loss of them far 

 Jess than really merited by too many expo- 

 Kures and neglects; by which, likewise, a 

 considerable number of sheep have been 

 rotted. Many a farmer has said to him- 

 self, of late,—" Oil I that I had but an acre 

 of .Swedish turnips!" To such we now 

 «ay, and not for the first time, — " Why, 

 then, had yon not?'' The flocks, in the 

 afigregate, are numerous, and the same 

 flattering of the herds, swine included, 

 may be depended on ; tlie prices, al.so, re- 



spectably high. T!ie vast accession of 

 price, within a few years, is perhaps not 

 easily to be accounted for. The Liver- 

 pool merchants have been lately accused 

 of, indeed a very arduous attempt, no less 

 than that of opening the ports for wheat, 

 at the next period of the niiraculotis, and 

 so highly belauded operation of the 

 " ascending and descending buckets." 

 This tour will not, perhaps, confer mucU 

 honour on their sagacity. A farming 

 friend just arrived from France, quotes 

 tlie highest price for wheat at 47s. reck- 

 oned by the English quarter, on a certain 

 day, when the highest London price waft 

 84s'. Such a difierence in the price of the 

 first necessary, between the two countries, 

 is matter of interesting specuhilion. Botli 

 the coniinental ami home demand for 

 hor.'cs seem even advancing. We have 

 received a letter from a reverend clergy- 

 man, of an eastern county, reproving us 

 for as.signing, in our last Report, a pros- 

 perous and satisfactory state to the la- 

 bourers in husbandry. We spoke merely 

 by comparison with less favourable times. 

 It has ever been our full conviction, that 

 a thorough reform is absolutely necessary 

 with respect to the social rights of that 

 ever most degraded, though most useful 

 class of hiimnn bein<;s. 



Smithfield:— lieet', 2s. Sd. to 4s. 2(/.— Mnt- 

 ton, 3s. to 4s. '2d. — Veal, 3s. 8rf. to ,'is. 9d. — 

 Pork, 3s. 4(/. to 6s. 4d. — Lamb, 4s. 4rf. 

 to 6s. 9(/.— Bath Bacon, 3s.— Best Irish, 

 4s. 4d. 



Cum Exchange :— Wheat, 44s. to 80s. — 

 Barley, 34s. to 42s.— Oats, S'^s. to 3ls. 6d. 

 — Lontlon price of best bicatl, 1 Irf. lor 

 41bs.— Hay, 80s. to 126s.— Clover do. 90s. 

 to 136s. — Straw, 42s. to .52s. 



Coals in the pool, 31s. to 44s. 6d. 

 Middlesex ; April 26. 



POLITICAL AFFAIRS IN APRIL. 



GRliAT IIUITAIN. 



TIIE Briti.'sli empire was never in a 

 liifjiicr state of piosperily ami acti- 

 vily than ;it tiio present (.pocli. A sii- 

 pciabuiidaiico of c:ijii(aj ajipcars in 



every department of speculation and 

 indiislry. The public funds havercacii- 

 0(1 an unexampled elevation ; insoniuch, 

 that they yield little more tliaii fliroo 

 per cent.; Lciice iiionoj! is plentiful, and 



good 



