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1825,] 
** Benedeta sia la Madre.’ Kialmark. 3s. 
Goulding and Dalmaine.— Rondo on a Theme 
from Der Freischiitz. J. A. Tattet. 2s. 6d. 
Gow and Son. “ Teil me, my Heart.” 
Variations. Kialmark. 2s. 6d. . Goulding 
and Co.— These pieces are all easy of execu- 
tion. The two first are good, the second 
particularly so ; the change to E major is 
beautiful. The last we cannot admire. 
The Incantation Scene in Der Freischiitz, 
adapted for Harp and Piano-forte, with Ac- 
companiment for Flute and Violoncello, ad lib. 
Bochsa.. 6s. Boosey.—¥rom._the wildness 
of the modulations, and the rapid changes 
of key, we should have thought this the 
last piece of music a harp-player would have 
selected. Mr. Bochsa has done, in point 
of effect, what we should have thought im- 
possible ; but, after all, it is not the proper 
style for the instrument. 
Fantasie Brillante, introducing the Bride- 
maids’ Chorus and Cavatina, from Der 
Agricultural Report. 
for the Flute. 
269 
Freischiitz. C. N. Weiss. 3s. 6d. T. 
Lyndsay.—These airs are beautifully ar- 
ranged, a la concertante, for the flute and 
piano-forte. The variations are brilliant, 
and the two instruments well contrasted. 
The flute lays well under the hand. 
The Nightingale, consisting of 12 short Solos 
C. Weiss. 3s. T. Lyndsay. 
These studios or preludes, being completely 
all’ improvviso, do not admit of an aceompa- 
niment ; they are most excellent practices, 
comprising almost every sort of passage, 
and if executed with taste, are very elegant. 
The Beauties of the Preciosa, arranged for 
the Flute. C. Scust. 2s. 6d.——Cock’s Selec- 
tion of Irish dirs. Do. Do. 3s. 6d.-— 
Every body knows the delightful taste in 
which Mr. Saust breathes his melodies ; he 
has paid great attention to the marks of 
expression in these little works, and who- 
eyer observes them, cannot fail of imbibing 
a great deal of his exquisite style. 
MONTHLY AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 
E have had nearly a week of dry 
weather, and have, fortunately, 
gathered a peck of March dust, which, we 
trust, will ransom our crops. This change, 
short as it yet is, has had a visibly good 
effect on the strong and low lands. With 
respect to the crops on the ground, and the 
spring culture, little, at present, can be 
added to former reports. A considerable 
breadth of wheat was sown in February,— 
too great a portion of the seed of inferior qua- 
lity, as are also the grass-seeds. The diffi- 
culties of the season considered, the lands, 
for the spring crops, have been well worked ; 
high prices and growing prosperity acting 
as a stimulus and encouragement to the 
farmers: who yet complain, many probably 
with reason, that some of the landlords 
have been too hasty in withdrawing the 
per centage, and in demanding the full rent. 
Bean-sowing has been completed, excepting 
in the distant northern counties, and with 
extensive improvement, since the abomina- 
tion of broad-casting this pulse has been 
relinquished, in all districts where the com- 
mon sense of husbandry prevails, and in 
some others, where that sense is at length 
nascent. Beans, however, have been very 
generally dibbled,—few bean-lands, in this 
moist season, being sufficiently friable for 
the drill. The pea and oat-sowing will 
soon be finished; and indeed all the spring 
crops, should the present favourable wea- 
ther continue. The stock of wheat on 
hand is now found to be greater than 
hitherto stated; and the barley, beyond ex- 
pectation, will be fully equal to the demand. 
Oats, pease and beans are in great plenty. 
The hop-growers are on the alext, and the 
culture extending. A moist and. yariable 
winter is not the most advantageous for 
grazing: but the high prices obtained for fat 
stock, more particularly sheep, have com- 
pensated for all difficulties. Store cattle 
are said to be cent. per cent. plus, higher 
than four years since; milch cows, in that 
respect, ranking next to horses, which have 
advanced even beyond our last report. 
Cart colts greatly in request; indeed all 
kinds of draught cattle, in defiance of 
the threat of steam and rail-roads. The 
cowitry is not unanimous, in opposition to 
the new corn-bill ; but the majority set their 
faces strongly against it; assuring themselves 
that Ministers will do the same. If so, it 
must arise from two causes,—the fear of 
offending a powerful parliamentary interest, 
and that their minds are not yet made up 
as to the amount of the import duty. The 
state of the farming labourers is suddenly 
and most advantageously changed through- 
out the country: there is no longer any sur- 
plus. Wages have considerably advanced ; 
and it is most desirable that they should 
still advance. It is amusing to find the 
farmers assuming to themselves the credit 
of this fortuitous circumstance ; equally so, 
their display of the vast national advantage 
of dear bread-corn, and a heavy and whole- 
some load of taxation. The immense in- 
crease of commerce and manufactures has 
already had a considerable, and will have a 
decisively favourable effect on the interests 
of the agricultural labourers, male and. fe- 
male, hitherto far the most numerous class 
in this country, and, during past years, 
overrunning the demand, whence they had 
no power to preserve themselves from 
pauperism. There is now a fortunate com- 
petition for labourers, between the agricul- 
tural and manufacturing interests ; which, 
together with the right of valuing their own 
labour, so long withheld from that impor- 
tant class, by the grossest political fraud, 
but of late years legally restoréd, will ope- 
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