[Dec. I, 
460 
Politieal Affairs in November. 
Prevailing Winds. 
Number of days > N. NE. E. SE. ' S. SW. W. NW. WSW. 
occupied by each ^ 0 3 4 3 410 10 7 0 
The total quantity of rain 4-920 inches. 
Character of the Clouds. 
N umber of dayson which each ) Cirrus. Cirro-stratus. 
description has occurred. >10 6 
The meteorological character of the pre¬ 
sent month differs from what may be termed 
the average character of the season, in an 
extraordinary manner. The mean tem¬ 
perature is greatly higher than we are ac¬ 
customed to experience in this country; 
the quantity of rain has been, in one fourth 
portion of the mouth alone, somewhat 
more than equal to the general average of 
the whole of former years ; the aggregate 
appears an extraordinary quantity, but the 
present condition of the flat tracts in the 
vicinity of the metropolis, as well as many 
of the lower parts of the town itself, afford 
tremendous exhibitions of its effects. The 
winds have been for much the greater part 
from SW. and W., stretching occasionally 
to the northward for short intervals, with a 
cessation of rain, and a small depression of 
temperature ; returning, however, quickly 
to the southward by the W., with the usual 
Cirro-cumulus. Cumulus. Cumulo-stratus. Nimbus 
59 19 10 
consequences; the character of the winds 
has, indeed, been that of heavy shifting 
gales, which have produced much general 
mischief. 
The variableness of our climate has 
never been more remarkable than of late. 
On the the 2d inst. at six in the morning, 
Fahrenheit’s thermometer stood at 601 de¬ 
grees, and at the same hour on the 4th 
July last, it was only at 52 ; so that at one 
period in the middle of the present sum¬ 
mer it was 8b degrees colder than in the 
month of November. On the night of No- 
vemberll) at York, the minimum of the 
thermometer was 49 j on the night of the 
2d of July last, it was 36 ; being thirteen 
degrees colder. On the 5th of November, 
at the same hour in the morning, the ther¬ 
mometer was at 30, being nineteen degrees 
colder than four days before. 
POLITICAL AFFAIRS IN NOVEMBER. 
GREAT BRITAIN. 
HE reduced monied value of all 
tlie productions of the earth, and 
of labour generally, and the consequent 
inability to pay high rents, interests of 
mortgages, and meet other time engage¬ 
ments in money in the present relative 
value of money, are the subjects which 
at present chiefly interest the people of 
England. Not only is corn at a price 
far below the cost of its cultivation, 
but neat cattle, which only two years 
ago fetched 201. and 211. will not now 
sell for more than eight, nine, and ten 
pounds^ and consequently are scarcely 
worth driving to distant markets. 
The effects are a general stagnation of 
trade, a narrow expenditure among all 
classes, and a decrease of that spirit of 
cnterpiize and speculation which a few 
years since distinguished this nation. 
The abandonment of farms from the 
inability to pay rents and taxes, tends, 
however, to fill the towns, and hence 
as these are on the increase, the build¬ 
ing trade thrives, not only in London, 
but in all large places, where industry 
flocks in the hope of thriving in a so¬ 
cial scramble for subsistence and for¬ 
tune. 
Such is the picture of England ; yet, 
till the minister can no longer get his 
amount of taxes, and till landlords are. 
universally obliged to cultivate their 
own farms, will it be felt that the re¬ 
medies are to rebuild the farm houses 
cruelly pulled down to get large rents 
thereon during the war, and to return to 
the ancient policy of the realm, which 
in numerous statutes prohibited anti¬ 
social monopolies of land and its pro¬ 
duce. 
In some western districts of Ireland, 
wdiere such prices are demanded for 
land as leaves no subsistence to the la¬ 
borious cultivators, a system of popular 
vengeance has been organized, and 
many agents, middle-men, and their 
adherents, have fallen victims ; among 
others, one entire family of seventeen 
persons have been barbarously extir¬ 
pated. 
FRANCE. 
Louis the Eighteenth opened the 
French Session of Parliament on the 
5th, with the following speech from 
the throne:— 
Gentlemen —It is with confidence, and 
on the present occasion under favourable 
auspices, that I come to open this Session. 
In preceding- years I was compelled to par¬ 
ticipate my griefs wflth you. More happy 
now, 1 have only to return thanks to the 
Almighty for the constant protection which 
he has vouchsafed to France. The son, 
with which Heaven has soothed my sor¬ 
rows, grows with the public prosperity. 
