Sprin 
ais ton, Essex 
@appenden, J. J. and F, Stour- 
mouth 
Tate, W. Cateaton-street _ 
Tippetts and Gethen, Basinghall- 
Street 
Tomlinson, W. jun. Nantwich 
Turnbull and Co, Broad-street 
setshire 
Monthly Agricultural Report. 
~ O. Goningsby, Litcoln- Turney Ww. Buckholt-honse, Ley- 
Wagstatie and Baylis, Kidder- 
minster 
Walker, J. Jun. Axbridge, Somer- 
Wall, C. Coventry. 
Walton, S. Nantwich 
Warwick and Aldred, Rotherham 
177 
White, As Aldertpanbury 
Whitwell, S. Coventry 
Winscom, J, Andover 
Wood, J. Walsall 
Wood, P. Kingston 
Worrall, S.,:A, Pope, and J. Ed- 
monds, Bristo 
Young, J. G. Shiplake, Oxfords, 
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MONTHLY AGRICULTURAL REPORT. - 
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V HEAT harvest is at its height of acti- 
vity throughout the southern conn 
ies, and much corn has already been car- 
ried in the best condition ; also wheat has 
Deen cut in the most forward of the north- 
ern. So great a quantity of rain having 
already fallen, a very prosperous latter 
harvest may be rationally expected, From 
actual and close examination over a consi- 
derable extent and variety of soil, the 
wheat-straw is remarkably clean, but the 
ears bear the marks, in a greater or less 
degree, of having suficred from atmosphe- 
ric vicissitnde. Specimens of Sir Joseph 
Banks’s ‘hairy parasite’ are in sufficient 
plenty, even in the finest crops ; among 
which, also, may be found the black and 
red rust, which are the ova or eggs of the 
aphis, or wheat-blight insect. Hence, a 
number of the kernels in an ear are found 
shuunk and withered, and a considerable 
quantity of tail wheat may be expected in 
the present season. In the North, they 
complain of much smulted or putrid 
wheat, none of which the present writer 
has yet observed. Qn the whole, the crops. 
jiave escaped wonderfully, the variable 
nature of the season considered, the defi- 
ciency of solar heat, and the constant rains. 
This good fortune ‘is doubtless attributable 
to the long prevalence of the western 
winds, to the speedy absorption and eva- 
poration which have constantly taken 
lace, and to the cold alternations not 
peing of long continuance. The winds, 
during some weeks past, have alternated, 
almost daily, between south-west and 
north-east. In such a season as the pre- 
sent, with winds in the opposite quarters, 
(it has formerly happened) the whote crops 
of the country would be nearly destroyed. 
‘Late accounts from parts of Scotland and 
Wales speak of incessant heavy rains beat- 
ing down the standing corn, and eausing 
that to sprout which has been cut. For 
this calamity there is no remedy but in a 
favourable change of weather. ‘Take it 
throughout, the wheat crop:is great, both 
in corn and straw, a3 is also that of barley. 
Oats, good, but in few parts. In some 
favoured sitnations, the beans. have es- 
caped ; in general, they are the worst crop 
of the year, and with these hops may be 
classed. Pease.a variable crop. Turnips 
superabundant. Potatoes in vast plenty. 
There is a great bulk of hay, but the qua- 
lity generally ordinary, and muich of it 
damaged ; on which account, the reduced 
price of salt will prove beneficial. ‘The 
after-grass ‘is‘ most luxuriant and: heavy. 
There is somewhat more-life in the wool- 
trade, In fine, the country abonnds to 
profusion, in corn, cattle, fruits, raw ma- 
terials, and manufactures ; in all the first 
necessaries and luxuries of life, one thing 
only is wanted, u knowledge of the cause, 
and a remedy for that ovcrwhelming distress, 
tinder which such numbers of our countrymen 
actually labour. 
Smithfield: —Beef, 9s. 8d. to 3s. 8d.— 
Mutton, 3s, 6d. to 4s.—Veal, 2s. &d. to 
4s. 6d.—Pork, 2s. 4d, to 4s, 2d,—Lamb, 
3s. 4d. to 5s.—Bacon, 3s. 8d. to 4s, 10d,—- 
Raw fat, 9s. 5d. per stone. ° 
.. Corn Exchange: —Wheat, 40s. to 65s. 
—New, 56s. to 62s.—Barley, 30s. to 38s. 
—Oats, 233s, to 33s,—London price of 
best. bread, 4ib. for 92d.—Hay, 76s. to 
1153.—Clover, do. 84s. to 126s.—Straw, 
368, to 463. 
Coals in the pool, 38s. 6d. to 453, 
Middlesex ; Aug. 25. 
rte ae ne caer ee ene 
POLITICAL AFFAIRS IN AUGUST. 
—— 
RUSSIA. 
we: lament to learn from an Eng- 
lishman long resident in the in- 
terior of Russia, and lately arrived in 
Loudon, that that empire is retrograding 
iv a melancholy manner into the state 
of barbarism and despotism, from which 
at one time it was hoped it was emanci- 
pating. All the plans of amefivration 
_ MontuLy Mag, No, 386. 
which had been adopted are Jaid aside 
and utterly discouraged, and every thing 
military, with alt its vassalage and op- 
pression, distinguishes the present policy. 
A regular army of above a million is not 
deemed safficient; but a large propor- 
tion of the villages are made military, 
j. e. taxes are remitted on the condition 
of the male population being exercised 
2A three 
