fat stock continues about the same price as last year. 

 Beef at Christmas, 13^. per score. Mutton, lod. per Ib. 

 Fat pigs, los. 6d. per score. Wheat, 485. per qr. of 496 

 Ib. All fairs and markets stopped about end of year ; also 

 transit of cattle from one magisterial division to another 

 (T. H. .). 



July and August 1*0 below average temperature 

 (Times). 



Wheat very much below an average ; barley under 

 average ; oats very poor crop ( Clarke) . 



Moderate heat, but excessive rainfall (Times}. 

 September 8. Thermometer, 84^ (IV.). 

 Rainfall at Greenwich, 2870 in. January, 3*32 in. 

 February, 175 in. March, 0*85 in. April, 0-40 in. May, 

 4*37 in. June, 2*45 in. July, 2*27 in. August, 3*97 in. 

 September, o*i6in. October, 5-90 in. November, 2*39 in. 

 December, 0-87 in. (Glaisher). 



At Hull, 23-80 in. on 170 days (Smith). 

 Very wet but mild autumn till January 10, 1866 (Cox). 

 The summer of 1865 (reckoning from April till Sep- 

 tember) was the warmest ever known. In this year we 

 had the hottest April and the hottest September on record 

 (Glaisher). 



Rainfall at Leamington, 26*484 in. January, 2734 in. 

 February, 2*573 in. March, 1*001 in. April, 0730 in. 

 May, 1*169 m - J un e, 2*087 m - July, 3 '5 7 7 in. August, 

 4*107 in. September, 0*187 m - October, 4*857 in. 

 November, 2*481 in. December, 0*981 (Jones). 



Three wet months, January, August, and October ; and 

 two very dry ones, April and September. Also in June 

 no rain fell from 4th to 28th inclusive, but '925 in. on 

 2nd, and 1*164 in- (the heaviest fall of the year) on 3oth 

 (Cator). 



In many places not a drop of rain fell from August 29 

 to October 8. Extremely dry weather in April, June, and 

 September (Bnimham). 



