go's Agricultural Report. [Dec. 



greatly indeed, to afford so heavy a reduction under the existing pressure of taxes and its 

 consequences. The case of the labourers yet presents the greatest difficulties, such, in 

 fact, as from their nature, must be perpetually recurring, unless by constant employment, 

 a surplus of hands can be avoided. Government can do nothing in this concern, which 

 appertains exclusively to the landed interest and their tenantry. It ought not in these 

 days, to be a novel doctrine, that every human being born in a country, and willing to 

 contribute to the general weal, by his or her labour, is intituled to a fair and sufficient 

 support from that country, to which their right is fully equal to that of the most opulent 

 man to his great possessions. The denial or withholding this riglit from the poor, inevit- 

 ably drives them to the most criminal and dangerous resources, for which their dereliction 

 and necessary preservation of life, furnish them, from the ideas then naturally uppermost 

 in their minds, with an ample apology. Alas! however, their gross and abominably 

 vindictive practices, and deplorable ignorance, admit of no apology, as the following 

 paragraph, among such multitudes of similar horrible examples, but too fuUy testifies. 

 " A mare, the property of a fanner in Lincolnshire, was lately found thrown into a dyke, 

 with her eyeballs torn from the sockets, and half her tongue cut off!" With what face 

 can such wretches look for justice or compassion? 



Smithjield.— Beef, 2s. 6d. to 4s. 2d Mutton, 2s. lOd. to 4s. 6d.— Veal, 3s. 4d.to4s. 6d. 



Pork, 3s. 8d. to 5s Rough Fat, 2s. 2d. 



Corn Exchange Wheat, 433. to 80s — Barley, 24s. to 38s — Oats, 12s. to 34s — 



Fine Bread, the London 41b. loaf, lOd — Hay, 42s, to 90s — Clover, ditto, 60s. to 112s — 

 Straw, 28s. to 44s. 



Coals in the Pool, 28s. to 3Cs. 9d. pet chaldron. 

 Middlesex, November 23rd. 



MONTHLY COMMERCIAL REPORT. 



StTGAKS. — The demand for West-India Muscovadoes has revived this week ; the pur- 

 chases have been more extensive, but no improvement in prices, and there have been few 

 sales to-day, on account of the darkness. In the Refined Market, there is little variation. 

 The request for low lumps is very limited ; there has been more business in low lumps for 

 packing for the Hamburgh market, but at Gd. to Is. lower in prices than last week; 

 71s. 71s. fid. being the price at which several parcels have been sold. Small lumps 

 low single loaves continue to be taken off freely. The buyers for the Blediterranean 

 continue their purchases, but no improvement in prices. Molasses Lower, Foreign 

 Sugars, some inquiries for the 3Iediterranean, but no purchases to any extent ; about 

 30 chests soft brown Rio are taken for shipping, at 13s. 6d. ; small parcels of low white 

 German, for refining, at 2Cs. East India Sugar, by public sale, 5,1C2 bags Mauritius, 

 went off heavily at a reduction of Is. per cwt. Low to good yellow, 46s. a 56s. The 

 premium of Is. Cd. continues paid for the East-India House Sugar sale. 



Coffee The public sales of Coffee this week liave been inconsiderable, consisting of 



small parcels of British Plantation ; they have sold with more spirit, a small improvement 

 in prices. 



Rum, Brandy, and Hollands — The Rum Market has been very dull; small 

 parcels of Leewards a little above proof, at Is. 9d. ; Brandy and Geneva are without alte- 

 ration. 



Hemp, Flax, and Tallow The Tallow Market has been more firm this week, 



and the prices have been gradually improving ; Hemp and Flax are also held with greater 

 ■confidence. 



Bullion per Oz Portugal Gold in Coin, £0. Os. Od — Foreign Gold in Bars 



.£3. 17s. 9d New Doubloons, £0. Os. Od — New Dollars, 4s. 9id — Silver in Bars, 



(standard), Os. Od. 



Course of Foreign Exchange Amsterdam, 12. 8 Rotterdam, 12. 8 An- 

 twerp, 12. 8.— Hamburgh, 14."l Paris, 25. 90 — Bourdeaax, 26. 15 — Frankfort-on- 



the-Main, 154.0 Petersburg, 10 Vienna, 10.12 — Trieste, 0.0 — Madrid, 36. 



—Cadiz, 36. Bilboa, 36. Barcelona, 36. — Seville, 30. — Gibraltar 47- Oi. 



—Leghorn, 4?. 0^ Genoa, 26. Venice, 47- OJ — Jlalta, 48. Oi — Naples, 39. OJ— 



—Lisbon, 43. Oporto, 43. 0. — Rio Janeiro, 24. 04 — Bahia, 28. Oi — Dublin. 



1. 0=1 Cork, 1. 04. 



Premiums on Shares and Canals, and Joint Slock Companies, at the Office of 

 Wolfe, Brothers, 23, Change Alley, Cor/i^i/A— Birmingham Canal, 306/. — Coven- 

 try, 1,080/ Ellesmere and Chester, 105/. — Grand Junction, 304/. — Kennet and Avon, 



271/ Leeds and Liverpool, 475/ — Oxford 675/ — Regent's, 22^/ — Trent and Mersey, 



( j sh.), 790/ Warwick and Birmingham, 270/ — London Docks (Stock), 90/ — West 



India (Stock), 190/. — East London Water M'orks, 112/ — Grand Junction, 49/. — 

 AVest Middlesex, ^2\l. — Alliance British and Foreign Insurance, 9i,'/ — Globe, 1634/. 



Guardian, 25/ Hope Life, 5^/. — Imperial Fire, 112.y — Gas-Ligiit Westminster 



Chartered Company, 55/. — City, 1874'' — British, 11 dis. — Leeds, 195/. 



