404 Agricultural Report, Price of Stocks, tes ae 4 
Feet from high water line to the crown of the arch, and defcribing a fpan of 300 feet; with. 
two large fhore arches of 80 feet {pan, as near fo the butment of each fhore as advifeable, for 
keeping deep water along fide of the prefent below Bridge quays. From the confiderable in= 
creafe in the height of the Bridge which this would occafion, there would be a neceflity for 
feveral dry arches on each fhore, which on the north fide would be attended with the advan- 
tage of reducing the declivity of Fith-ftreet hill, but on the Southwark fide the arches mut 
be carried a confiderable way, or the defcent would be too great. It is propofed to convert 
thefe dry arches into warehoufes, but fuch an elevation of the highway would bea great dif- 
advantage to the houfes at prefent ftanding on that fide of the bridge. 
Coals, an article of fo much necefiity at this feafon of the year, have rifen very confidera- 
bly. The following were the prices on the 33d. inftant. ‘ 
Walls End - - Sis. ‘ Bourn Moor = = 46s. 
Heaton Main - ~ Sos. 6d. | Wylam - - - 46s. 
Hebburn = a gos. 6d. f Sheriff hill - = 46s. 
The Public Funds have experienced a very confiderable Au€tuation in price during the laf” 
month. Confol: have been as high as 58, and are this day the 26th Noy. as low as 532. 
The very great demand for Stock at the beginning of the month, by perfons providing for the 
sedemption of their Land Tax was the chief caufe of the elevation of the Stocks; and for the - 
prefent, that demand has confidcrably diminithed. Refpeéting the eventual operation of the fale 
of the Land Tax uponthe funds, the beft judges appear to be divided in opinion. 
Bank Stocx oh 7th Nov. was 144, and has fince gradually fallen to 1344, which was the 
price on the 24th ult. , 
Five PER CENT ANNUITES on 29th laf month were at 812, rofe on 7th ult. to7, and; 
were on 24th ult. at 81. 
Four PER CENT ANNUITES were on 29th laft month at 67 3-8ths, rofe on the 7th of 
Nov. to 783, and were on the 24th ult. at 66. 
THREE PER CENT CONSOLS were on the 29th of October at 54 7-8ths rofe on 7th of 
Nov. to 58, fell on 7th to 57§, on x6th to 54 7-8ths. again zoth to 53 7-8ths. and on 24th to 
53 5-8ths. | 
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MONTHLY AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 
#T1HE ftate of the weather fince our laft, has continued favourable for the different winter 
. crops; and we believe, that almoft every bufhel of wheat intended to be fown in Autumnys 
4S now committed to the foil. The operations of the plough in preparing the fallows for the 
February and March fowings, in the enfuing year, have alfo been continued without interrup- 
tions ; and much land has been thus prepared. The wheats that are come upin general, look 
well. Qne of our reporters from Scotland obferves, that ¢¢ in no feafon during thefe fourteen 
years laft paft, have agricultural matters gone on more profveroufly than in the prefent ** and 
that with many, farmers, little remains to be performed tiil next {pring in the particular of - 
ploughing.’* 
Turnips for the mof part are luxuriant, though the late fown crops donot onthe whole, turn — 
out fo favourably as might have been expeéted. This is mottly the cafe, however, in fuch 
foilsas are very dry: in the northern parts of the kingdom, they are beginning to rife in price 
very confiderably; this is probably, in part, owing to the cheapnefs of fheep at prefent in 
Scotland, compared with what they were in the beginning of the feafon. 
In thrafhing out the different forts of grain, we find the produce in general to correfpond with 
‘the ftatement in our laft report. 
Wheat in fome points, feems at prefent to have a fomewhat brifker fale. Little barley has 
yetbeenfold. Grain. WHEAT averages 475. od. BARLEY 29s. OaTs rgs. Iod. 
Potatoes are moftly we believe a good and pretty plentiful crop, and the prices of them ra 
ther low. , - : 
Cattrie.. The lean and in many places the fat too, have been getting lower in their 
prices. Beef fells in Smithfield from 2s. 8d. to 3s. 8d. per ftoue of 8ib.——At St. Faith’s— 
fair, in Norfolk, they averaged §s. 6d. a ftone. Beafts were very abundant notwithftanding : 
but the dealers faw plentiful crops of turnips, and they know that farmers muft feed them off. 
Horses. Much as in our laft. 
Hoes. Stil! continue low. 
Hay averages, in St. James’s, Market, 21.128 
Srraw in ditto, 11. 6s. 
Murton fells at Smithfield from 2s. to 3s. - 
( Hors. Bacs gl. 9s.to tol. 16s. PockeTs gl. gs. to 12]. 45s. per cwt.¥ 
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On the 15th of Fanuary will be publifhed the Supplement as ufual. 
