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live’ stock and the preparing them for market most expensive, and flesh meat proportion- 
ally dear s,adding infinitely to the difficulty of employment and support of the labourers, 
under:the present.system of pauperism, howeyer induced. These apprehensions neces~ 
sarily reduce the price, of, all live. stock, affording indeed a fine opportunity for that fortu- 
nate elass of: purchasers who bold a sufiicient fund of proyision. The stock of wool in 
the country is, immense, awaiting the revival.of manufacture. Notwithstanding a con- 
siderable fall,,in the price of wheat, bread in the metropolis has by no means yet fallen in 
proportion,» Anjimmense and annually increasing population (and more especially should 
so justand necessary.an improvement take place, as that the habitually starving part of it 
should be! better fed), will infallibly absorb all possible ‘supply; whence the dread enter- 
tained-ofa free corn trade willat last prove a mere panic. Great numbers, however, of 
the farming class are getting over that apprehension, a circumstance which has been mis- 
taken for apathy in them, and.a neglect of their own interest. The loss of animals from 
eating slips of yew and box, an occurrence centuries old, and reviving in some quarter or 
other, at least triennially, seems to partake more of heedless and stupid neglect than of 
real misfortune ; and the almost diurnal advertisement of horses stolen, in the absence of 
all precaution, together with the successful boldness of gangs of thieves (a regular profes- 
sion in England) at our fairs, savour no little of the ludicrous. 
Smithfield. —Beef, 4s. 6d, to 5s. Od.— Mutton, 3s. 8d. to 4s. Od. Veal 4s. 4d. 
to 5s. Od-—Pork, 4s., Sd. to 5s. 6d.— Dairy 6s.— Raw Fat, 2s. 8d. per stone, 
Corn Exchange:-—Wheat, 45s. to 68s.—Barley, 33s. to 44s.—Oats, 25s. to 38s.— 
Bread, 4lb. loaf, 9d,—Hay, 60s. to 115s.—Clover, ditto 70s. to 130s. - Straw, 32s. 
to 40s. 
Coals in the Pool, 26s. 3d. to 37s. 
Middlesex, October 23d, 1826, 
MONTHLY COMMERCIAL REPORT. 
Cotion.— The market continues very dull, both in London and Liverpool. Surats 5d. 
to 52d, Bengals, 431. to 53d., good 6d. per Ib.—Paras and Egyptian, 8d. to 8$d.— 
West India, 64d. to 10d. per lb.—New Orleans, 7d. to 9d.—Madras and Bengals, 44d. 
to 6d. per Ib. Bourbon, Od. to 12d. per Ib. 
Coffee.—Steady in the market, remain 40s. to 90s. per ewt.—Dominiea, 30s. to 72s.— 
Berbice, Demerara, &c. 50s. to 78s.—Mocha, 60s. to 120s. per cwt. 
Sugar.—The holders of Muscovado have submitted to a farther reduetion of price.— 
Jamaicas, 54s. to 72s. — Demerara, St. Kitt’s, &e. 52s. . to 70s. per cwt:-—Refined 
goods, dull for exportation, and prices nominal at present ; but ere Christmas, prices will 
no doubt advance. 
Rum—remains steady : Jamaica, 2s. 10d. to 4s. on bond, per imperial gallon.— Leeward 
Tslands, 2s. 3d. to 2s. Gd.—Strong, 2s. 8d. per gallon. 
Tea.—The next sale at the India House is declared for Tuesday, 5th December, 
prompt 2d March 1827. 
Bohea ..... Ris senteecateea + sees Ibs. — 600,000 
CONPOULRC. (oe cctastscra terns: do. 5,450,000 
Twankay, @c¢. ° ...+0... «2. .-» do. 130,000 
FIVSOM »-caecovecesdoues vabateecne do. 250,000 
7,600,000 including Private Krsclen 
ices—continue dull, without variation, since our last. 
emp, Flax, and Tallow. —The Tallow market rather heavy; Yellow Candle, 386. 6d. 
to 39s, Hemp advancing, and Flax without alteration. 
Ou.—No alteration since our last. 
Course of Foreign Exchange.—Amsterdam, 12.'7.—Rotterdam, 12. .7.— — Antwerp. 
12. 8.—Hamburg, 37. 6.—Altona, 37. 7.—Paris, 25. 65. — Bourdeaux, 25. 65. — 
Berlin, 7.— Frankfort on the Main, 1544.— Petersburg, 8}.—Vienna, 10. 21.—Trieste, 
10. 24,—Madrid, 34.— Cadiz, 344.—Bilboa, 33. —Barcelona, 33.— Seville, 33.— 
Gibraltar, 43 — — Leghorn; 474— Genoa, 43%.— Venice, 46.—Naples, 38}.—Palermo, 1144. 
inp Lisbon, Ane sy ROFESS 481.— Rio Janeiro, 43}.—Bahia, 433.— Buenos ATH 43.— 
_ Dublin, 14,—-Cork,, 14. 
ullion per Oz.—¥oreign Gold in bars, £3. 17s. 6d:—New Doubloons, £3. 0s.— 
New Dollars, 4s. 9d.—Silver in bars, standard’4s. 11d. 
b “Premiums on Shares and Consols, and Joint-Stock Companies, at the Office of WOLre 
Broruens, 23, Change Alley, Cornhill.—Barnsley Cana, 280l.—Birmingham, 257/.— 
Derby, 200/— Ellesmere and Chester, 10044 —Erewash, 0.— —Forth and Clyde, 590.— 
Grant Junction, 271/.—Leeds and Liverpool, 382/—Mersey and Irwell, 800/.— 
Neath, 335/.— Oxford, 650/.—Stafford and Worcester, 750l.—Trent and Mersey, 1,850/. 
