rO4 \ . Monthly Agricultural Report. [Feb. r, 
From the low exchange between Hamburgh and this country, foreigners have, for fome time 
paft, been enabled to purchafe, in the Britith funds, on much more- advantageous terms than 
perfons here. 
_ The Stock Excuanees, which has long been notorious as a fcene of apparent confufion, 
and often of filly fport, totally inconfiftent with attention to bufinefs, is about to: undergo fome 
reformation. The houfe, though built by fubicription, has been always open to the public, on 
- paying fixpence admifiion each day, but’ fome perfons having: frequently obtruded themielves, 
with whom it was unfafe to do bufinefs, or to accept thofe large fums of money in drafts, which 
amuft neceflarily be taken where fuch extenfive concerns are managed, a refolution has been 
entice ths by the proprietors, that the heute fhall be fhut.on the 28th of February, and then 
eeafe to be amopen Stock Exchange ; that in-future no perfon fhall be admitted but thofe who 
are approved by ballot, and that each member fhall pay ten guineas annually, and five guineas 
for his clerk, if he has any, *Were,we not convinced, that fo long as the national debt exifts, 
ftock-jobbing will be carried on fomewhere, we fhould be inclined to with the Stock Exchange , 
fhut up for ever. On the 24th Bank Stock was 153, and the 3 per cent. Confols 57a 
MONTHLY AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 
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SUCH has been the openne! fs of the feafon fince our aft, that the bufinefs of hufbandry has.con 
tinued to proceed without the ulual interruptions. In many diftricts the plough has been 
conftantly at work, and its operations are generally in a ftate of great forwardnefs. The want 
of froft, in tome of the low wet parts of the Kingdom, has however, been unfavourable to: the 
farmer’s g¢tting out their LA Ld se upon the grafs ‘and hay lands. + 
The young wheats in moft places continue to look well, the early fown ones, perhaps, in 1 fore 
inftances, n Lay be rather too forward and iuxuriantior the feafon ; but in general their appears 
ances may de tatd to be tavonrable. 
Grain of every kind fiill continues to k keep up to a high price. Wheat averages, 136s. tod. 
Tye, 93s- 2d. barley, Sis. and oats, 43s. 3d. 
Potatoes iikewiie continue high, but a correfpondent who -has been in moft of the ted pnt 
counties informs us, that from the mildnefs of the feafon, and the unvfual quantity of every 
fpecies of garden-greens, as well as from the circumftance of the crops of potatoes having turned 
Out better than was expected, there is every reafon te expect that the price ef . that root mult 
foon be confiderably reduced, which mutt tend in a great meafure to reduce the prefent extrava- 
gent price of bréad corn. ? 
Turnips and moft other articles employed in feeding or fattening animals begin to be extremely 
difficult to be procured, efpecialiy inthe mere northera partof the Ifland. 
Moft forts of jai /inck are on the advance though there does not teem to be any reafon ee its : 
lean flock are ue high in many places. In Smithfield beef fetches from 3s. 8ds to gs. 5. muts 
fon 5s. to 7s.; and meal 6s. to 7s. 6d. At Salifbury, on the 16th of laft. month, there was an 
unufually large fupply of fat oxen, and other neat cattle, but the prices were Jittle lower than at = 
the preceding markets, the buyers being numerous ;. the fale continued through the: whole: 
day ull evening, and fome of the prime beafts were driven on for Smithfield. 
Hogs, of the ftore kind, trom the icasciny of food are cheap; but pork is. high. Pork in 
Smithiield fells from 5s. $d. to 6s. $d. 
Hox es, oi the cart kind are very low, 
Hay, in St. James* s Market, averages 51. ras. and Straw 21. 
Hops, the faie of them rather heavy, and varying but little in i fince our laft. 
Provifions are at this time at the following encrmous prices in London:—Bread 21d. the 
quartern loaf, or nearly §d. per ibe; frefh butter 18d. Cambridge 16d, Irifh 15d. ; Chefhire 
cheefe 12d. inferior forts 11d and "od. ; eggs 24d. each; potatoes 13d. and 2d. per  Wh's milk 
4d. per quart; beef from 8d. to 93d. ; mution 8d. to 9d; ‘veal 93d. to 11d. and eee Bide: li 
‘METEOROLOGICAL REPORT, 
Conformably to rhe wifbes of many of our Corvefpondents, we foall, in our next, refume our 
Report on the Stare of the Weather. 
Errata :—Page 445, col. 24 line: 8, of No. 66, for *¢ 247,000,” read ¢* 347,000, vig 
187,0c0 at Newcafile, and 160,ccoat Hull, chiefly wheat andrye.” 
