FOREIGN AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
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FOREIGN AGRICULTURAL NEWS, 
By the Steam-packet Britannia we have our files of 
European journals up to the 4th of April. 
Markets. —Cotton, 60,243 bales had been received 
at Havre, 290,000 at Liverpool during March, yet 
notwithstanding this large quantity and the great ex¬ 
cess of importation into these ports over that of last 
year, the price has slightly advanced within a few days, 
and it is the general opinion that it can not go lower. 
The week previous to the sailing of the packet, 23,000 
bales out of the large sales had been taken on specu¬ 
lation. Grain and Flour still continue dull. Pot and 
Pearl ashes were brisk. Lead dull—Turpentine diffi¬ 
cult of sale—in Provisions a large business was doing, 
and more extensive sales looked for the present month. 
Newstead 
Seat of the 
Abbey, the late residence of the celebrated poet, Lord 
Byron. We look upon this building as a rare gem of 
architecture, and well worth the study of country gen¬ 
tlemen in the United States, who wish to build on 
rather an extended scale. The front, partly enveloped in 
the “ ever ivy green,” is at once noble, rich, and beau¬ 
tiful, and can not but command admiration. Byron 
described the Abbey, as 
“ An old Monastery once, and now 
Still older Mansion—of a rich and rare 
Mixed Gothic. 
Embosomed in a happy valley, 
Crowned by high woodlands.” 
Heating Conservatories .—By means of a stove 1 foot 
,6 inches square, and 3 feet 9 inches in height, and two 
copper cylinders of the same dimensions, containing 
boiling water, a conservatory 67 feet long, 27 feet 
wide, and 21 feet high, is sufficiently well heated, with 
a consumption of only one bushel of coke per day. 
Paulawina Imperialis .—This beautiful shrub has 
proved sufficiently hardy in Paris to stand the winter, 
Cheese rather retrograding. Tobacco no material 
change. Tallow higher. Upon the whole, a decided 
improvement had taken place in trade, and a continued 
increase of commercial prosperity is predicted. 
Money .—There is no change in fiscal affairs since 
our last, and capitalists find much difficulty in invest¬ 
ing their money, even at the lowest rates of interest. 
The Britannia has brought out upward of* a million and 
a half of gold. 
The Corn Laws.—-The British Government proposes 
to introduce a bill on this subject after Easter, which 
will probably be quite as favorable, if not more so, 
than the present tariff. In the meanwhile, all manu¬ 
factured flour in Canada from grain grown in the 
United States, is received in England at the lowest 
duties as colonial produce. 
We present to our readers a front view of Newstead 
.—(Fig. 13.) 
Lord Byron. 
and it flowered in Apxil. The flowers are of a fine 
blue, somewhat like those of Gloxinia Caulescens, and 
they have an agreeable smell like those of the Phila- 
dephius. It has become so abundant now, that the 
price has fallen from 5 guineas to 2s. 6d. It is said 
that commercial gardeners have made more money by 
it, than from any other plant known. 
Remarks on the laying out of Cemeteries , and the Im¬ 
provement of Church-Yards ; forming an octavo pam¬ 
phlet of 130 pages, with above 50 engravings, has 
recently been published by Mr. Loudon. It is a work 
well worthy the attentive perusal of the American 
reader, for as a people, we are shamefully deficient in a 
proper care of these sacred grounds. 
To prevent Mice from destroying early-sown peas .— 
Take a few small slices of bread, and dust a little ar¬ 
senic on them. Place these slices on different parts 
where the peas are sown, and cover them over with 
pots or anything, so that nothing but the mice can get 
to the bread. 
We think this would be an excellent plan to adopt 
