1825.] 
fair, and in quantity beyond expectation. 
The spring corns and pulse prove full as 
good as we have before stated: oats are 
the most deficient crop, and, notwithstand- 
ing the import, will be dear in the spring; 
beans and pease will also be then in much 
request... The crops of natural grass have 
been immense throughout the autumn, and, 
in clays, were much trodden and poached 
during the wet weather. The eddishes of 
cloyer, and of the various natural grasses, 
have proved a fine resource for sheep and 
cattle, and serve, fortunately, to economize 
the defective crop of turnips: which, how- 
ever, turns out superior to promise. Win- 
ter vetches, winter barley and rye, are also 
a resource to our ablest cultivators. Man- 
gel wurzel has not,-perhaps, been grown 
to the usual extent during the present year. 
Potatoes, not a general good crop, whether 
in respect of quantity or quality, are ex- 
pected to be dear in the spring. The past 
season was not favourable to either hops or 
seeds ; the former, however, have not ad- 
vanced in price equally with the expecta- 
tions of speculators. The price of barley 
has not declined on opening the ports, a 
sufficient proof of the real need of impor- 
tation. - All kinds of live stock, together 
with the meat markets, have suffered some 
depression : but it is now, perhaps, too late 
in the season to expect much or any ad- 
dition. The acorn pork coming to market, 
has somewhat reduced the price, and the 
dairy-fed is a penny per pound lower. Far- 
mers are, perhaps, generally inclined to 
keep their cattle too long abroad ; and the 
few cold and wet nights we have had, it is 
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said, have had an ill effect on the animals, 
which would have been more safe and com- 
fortable in the fold-yard. The cow is par- 
ticularly liable to chill in the loins, and to 
a hoose or cough at this season, of which she 
may not recover until the month of June; 
and never, should these affections become 
chronic. The wool trade has received: an 
additional depression, from the obstruetion 
to manufacture occasioned by the late com- 
binations. The quantity in the hands of 
the growers must be very considerable. 
There are complaints from the tenantry, in 
some counties, of a premature raising of 
rents. _ Horses have given way a little in 
price, but it is supposed will be dear beyond 
all precedent in the spring. The majority of 
our farmers have been led into dreadful ap- 
prehensions of a free trade in corn ; but, 
sometimes, that which we most dreaded, ’ 
after the first and necessary shock of change, 
has proved of the greatest benefit. All 
crops in the corn countries of the Con- 
tinent are large, peas and beans excepted, 
and the stock of wheat on hand very great. 
Smithfield : —Beef, 3s. 8d. to 4s. 10d.— 
Mutton, 3s. 8d. to 5s. Od.—Veal, 4s. 6d. 
to 5s. 6d.—Dairy-fed Pork, 6s. Od. to 
6s. 6d. i 
Corn Exchange :— Wheat, 50s. to 78s, — 
Barley, 30s. to 50s.—Oats, 25s. to 36s.— 
Bread (London), 10d. the loaf of 41b.— 
Hay, per load, 65s. to 105s.—Clover, ditto, 
80s. to 125s.—Straw,' 36s. to 45s. 
Coals in the Pool, 36s, Od, to 46s, 6d. per 
Chaldron. 
Middlesex, Nov, 21st. 
MONTHLY COMMERCIAL REPORT. 
OTTON WOOL.—There was a very fair demand for cotton last week, chiefly for 
exportation; the purchases were made at former prices, and, in some instances, at an 
advance of 4d. per lb. on the last East-India Company’s sales. Should the continental 
demand continue, prices may be expected higher. 
5,110 bags were sold last: week as 
follows :— 
{ 400 bags Upland, ordinary to fair .... 72d. to 93d, per Ib, 
500 .. Pernambuco, fair to fine .. ..124d. to 133d. 
160 .. Mina Nova, good.........- 11d. 
- 400 .. Egyptian, middling to fair ’:. Ld. to 113d, 
) 2,400 .. Surats, middling to good ...'.' 53d. to 63d. 
1,000 .. Bengals, ordinary to fair .. +2 52d. to 6d. 
w. SOW tes! Madras, fair s.'o 0). em a hones 63d. to 64d. 
And by Auction 200 .. Boweds ..........+-. sseee 88d. to 10d. 
Cotton Wool has been in fair demand this week, 3,000 bags have been sold ; and latterly, 
Bengals, Surats, and Pernambucos at an advance of 7d. to 4d. per Ib. 
Sugar.—lIt is rather a difficult task to give an accurate statement of the British Planta- 
tion Sugar market this week, in consequence of the many opinions entertained of the 
article. - Several holders have appeared anxious to submit to the reduced rates offered by 
the grocers ; however, the greater part of them have withdrawn their samples from’ the 
market, from an opinion that the market will be maintained. Low Brown Jamaicas have 
been sold at 68s., good 70s., and middling 72s. per cwt. 
Refined Sugars are dull of sale ; there were some purchases of large lumps made at 87s., 
but, generally speaking, not more than 86s., or 42s. 6d. on board, can be obtained,’ Single 
loaves, 91s.to 96s:, or 49s. to 545, on board, In Powder, Hambro’, and other finer goods, 
little doing, and prices lower. 
East-India 
