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AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 



It is natural enough for those whos uffer to cry for help ; and hence 

 complaints, both loud and deep, resound from one end of the kingdom 

 to the other; from those who perseveringly promoted, and for a while 

 fattened upon, a system, which, containing within itself the seeds of its 

 own destruction, was sure to crumble to pieces at no distant period. 

 Complaints were stifled as long as possible ; legislative enactments, in 

 opposition to reason and justice, were vainly brought forward for the 

 purpose of arresting the progress of that alarming retrocession which 

 appears to bid defiance to all restrictive appliances ; for, as the rise of 

 the tide had been unnaturally rapid, so its reflux became equally astound- 

 ing, till at length, it has eddyed into a terrific whirlpool which threatens 

 to swallow up the agricultural interest in its unrestrainable and frightful 

 vortex ! 



Although the interest of all those who have come forward to vent 

 their complaints in public must be mainly the same, it is not surprising 

 that a difference should exist as to the mode of relief; which, after all, 

 can arise neither from the repeal of the malt tax, nor the re-establish- 

 ment of that system of currency, which was so injudiciously demolished 

 by Mr. Peel, and which has produced more mischief and misery than all 

 the measures which have given to the memory of his prototype, Mr. 

 Pitt, an infamous immortality : an alteration of the monetary system might 

 appear necessary perhaps, during the ill-fated and ruinous administration 

 of Mr. Peel ; such an alteration, however, as this WTetchedly-miserablc 

 politician effected, which tripled his own enormous cash account, and 

 filled the pockets of the fundholders at the expence of the Agiicultural 

 interest, could not operate as a remedy for the evil, (if evil existed ;) 

 but must, necessarily, produce those ruinously-desolating results which 

 are as impressibly perceptible in the manufacturing parts of the king- 

 dom as in the rural districts. 



The Agricultural Reports of former days, which had reference merely 

 to the influence of the weather, and the appearance of the crops, are 

 superseded by political discussion ; since, however abundant the returns 

 of grain may be, the blessings of Providence are, generally speaking, 

 rendered unavailable by the wretched pecuniary incapacity of the work- 

 ing classes : — hence the present depressed price of agricultural produce. 



TEH QR. PER QR. 



Wheat, English, white S-is, 38, 42, to 45 



red 34, 36 40 



Lincolnshire red 34s. 36s. to 38, white 37 40 



Yorkshire 32,34 36 



Northumberland and Berwick .... 32 to 34. fine white 37 88 



Dundee and choice Scotch 38 to 40. extra 



Irish red 30 to 33. fine 34 — 



white 33 35 



RvE 30 32 



R^„, /English, Grinding 23 to 26. distilling 26 27 



\lMalting 28 to :n 3'i 33 



Irish good Grinding, about 27 to 28 stoi.e to the quarter 21 23 



line (30 st.) 22 35 



Malt , 44 to 54. fine new 56 6i 



