HOE i 2 7 Commercial and Agricultural Report. 
The Coventry, or ribbon-trade, has been reduced to.a fate of much lef: tee than 2 
few years fince, from the two principal markets of France and'Holland appre and the 
American trade being in a ftate of much infecutity 5 the prevailing fafhions at home have 
alfo, ina great meafutre, excluded ribbons as an ar a of female decoration. 
"The price of thrswn filk is at prefent declining, and probably will continue fo, from the. 
exportation te Ireland and America being atprefent fufpended. Kaz f/k continues much the 
fame in price.as for fome time pat. Italian raw, from 33s. to 34s Foflombron, about 398. 
China, from 24s" 6d. to 25 . 
The price of stocxs oe during the month, continued nearly ftationary 5 and very. 
little bufinefs has lately been tranfatted. As the bank have agreed to make the payments 
due upon the loan, Small quantities of ftock are brought to market. Bank frock, on the. 25th 
laf month, was at 1183; and was'on the 26th June at ‘1132. 5 per Cent Annuities fhut for. 
the div dead on the 6th June, at 76. 4 per cent confols. were, on the 27th lat month at 
60%, and have fince rifen to 615) at which price they continue. 3 per cent conjols. fhut for _ 
the dividend on 25th May, at 483, and will not open till the roth Augutt, on account of. 
going into new ledgers. = 
“WN. B. In the profecution of this Te we fall be bappy to avail our [elves ¢j f refpettable ca contmu= 
ications on the fubject, efpecially when confined to facts indicative of the real fiate of any branch of, 
trade, its extent, valuc, advance, or decline.’ This firft paper is rather gencral and mntrodutioryy , 
that acorredt fpecimen of the ufeful practical mode in which the article may ins future be condutied. 
MONTHLY AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 
N the fouthern ditri€@ts of the kingdom the weather has ftill continued favourable to. 
~ the procefs of vegetation, and for the various purpofes of practical hufbandry 3 but our. 
accounts from the northern parts of England are not, by any means, fo flattering. Tn 
many places the feafon has been fo droughty as to render the hay-crops flight ; and the 
corn-crops have not altogether paffed without injury. Our correfpondent, alfo obferves, that, in 
Wales; peas, oats, and barley are almoft burnt up with the long continuance of dry weather 3 . 
and Ihave, fays he, feen fome pieces of wheat which, in addition to the fhortnefs of the 
ftraw, are almoft’as feer at the roots as old ftubble after the harvett. The rain which has" 
been flying about thefe three or four days, in fome degree revives our hopes; but much. 
injury is already done. In the diftriéts of Scotland, particularly the foathene it does not 
feem to have operated in an equally unfavourable manner: Our reporter fpeaks of crops be- 
ing extremely forward. On his own farm he mentions having feventy Engiue acres of 
wheat now in the ear; and that wintér-fown wheats are in general fhot out. - The harveft _ 
promifes to be general in thofe parts at an early period, perhaps fo foon as the firft or fecond . 
week in Auguft. Crops have, indeed, here fuffered little, xcept on poor thin clay, or 
gravelly foils: “The crops of clover and rye-grafs in thefe parts 2 are roche good, though 
by no means heavy. ? 

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For the preparation of turnip-grounds the feafon has every where been uncommonly fine ; 
and the fhowers that have lately fallen in mony diftriéts, have es very fuitable for the - 
fowing and {prouting of the feed; a large portidén of which would otherwife have been loft. 
Our communications veteehag fruit from fome counties are flattering ;- but, in Wales — 
and the neighbouring diftricts, we are informed that there is a general “di ifappcintments . 
eCeeas. indeed, A fays the reporter, *¢ will be plentiful in this part; but the apples, nof- _ 
withflanding the long continuance of favourable appearances, almoft éntirely fail: We * 
have been vifited by a great blight, even after the time when every thing is generally é’ 
deemed fecure. In this part of the country, indeed, there hardly ever fails to be fomething 
ofa crop. “but in Herefordthire there are none: This circumftance Kas produced a great 
rife in the price of cyder. Good family cyder fells, at Hereford, as high as 8 guineas, and 
the beft at 10 or 12 guineas per hogfhead of 110 gallons.” 
The blight of ‘fruit, We are iaeitned to believey has been pretty general throughout the | 
kingdom. - 
‘The.prices of grain have not varied very much finee our latt. . 
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The average price of WHEAT, throughout England.and Wales, is 50s. 9d. Of BARLEY, | 
205, 34.—OfF OATS, 21s, Icd. 
In fome parts’ the price of cattle has lowered, in coefeeneace of the drynefs of the feafon. 
—BreEF, averaged in Smithfield on the 25th, from 3s. 4d. to 4s. the ftone of S$1b.—«_ 
MutTen, from 3s. to 3s. 6d.—Vrat, from 4s. to 5s. 2d.—-Porx, from 2s. 44. to 3S.—_ 
And Lamp, from 3s. 6d. to 4s. $d. The number of BEASTS in the market were T800— 
of SHEEP 12000—and LAMBS 2000.» 
Hors.—Although the prafpeét of the growing crop of ae is lefs favourable than a 
svéek -ago, the duty being now laid at 60 inftead of 65,0001. the market is dull, and , 
rices lower, probably, from their being previoufly pufhed up teo high, or the quantity or 
wand being confiderably greater than at any former petiod at this feafon of the yearn 
Pockets él. to ai to 1, Pee Ol. 6s: to 71. 128. 
