3£0 Monthly Botanical Report. [May 1; 
COURSE OF EXCHANGE. 
) .April 5. | April 12., April 15. Prices of Hops. 
Hamburgh. . | 34 
Altona .. .| “4 
Amsterdam |35 
Bae. Vs e923 ah ahs ae 
Leghorn... ../492 0.6.0. (492.02. 
Naples: i... {42 42 cee ce [42.. 
Genoa .... [452 -/452 2.6. /452E 2... 
Lisbon .... {50 
Oporto .... 165 
- Dublin....110L 2... 
Agio of Bank of Holland 62 per cent. 
BE ; 
7 ..|34 7 ..|Bags.—Kent, 41: 10s. to 61. per cwt. 
7 5 7 ..|—— Sussex, 41. 10s. to 51. 5s. per cwt. 
Essex, 41. 15s. to 51. 12s. per cwt. 
2 ....|Pocketo.—Kent, 41. 15s. to 7]. per cwt. 
| Sussex, 41. 10s. to 51. 5s. per cwte 
Farnham, 61. 10s. to 101. per cwte 
The average price of Raw Sugar, ending 
-...j13th of April, 1808, is 36s. 6d. per cwt. 
chaiat of duty. 
as 
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The following are the average Prices of Navigable Cana’ Shares, Dock Stock, and Fire 
Oihce Shares, in April, 1808, at rhe Office of Mr. Scott, No. 28, New Bridge-street, Black- 
friars, London:—The Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal, 6351. dividing 401. per share, 
perann.m, clear of the Property Tax.—Leeds and Liverpool, 176]. with the half yearly divi- 
dend of 41. per share.—Grand Junction, 921. to 93].—-Grand Junction Loan (not optivnal) 
8!. per cent.—-Trent and Mersey Navigation Bonds, 10 per cent. Discount —Derby Canal, 
941.—€roydon, 551.—Ellesemere, 541.—Grand Surrey, 451.—Huddersfield, 171. to 19].—- 
Kennet and Avon, original shares, 221.—West India Dock 1451. 10s. to 149]. per cent. 
T.ondon Dock, 1091 Globe Insurance, 1111. 
' The following are the average Prices of Canal Shares, -&c. &c. at the Office of Messrs. L. 
Wolfe and Co. Change-alley, Cornhill.<-London Dock Stock, 1101. per cent.—East India 
ditto 120]. per cent.—West India ditto, 1471. per cent. —Commercial Dock Shares, 1261. per 
cent.—Grand Junction Canal, 921. per share.—Grand Surrey Canal, 601. per share.-—Im- 
perial Fire Insurance, 111. per cent premium.—Globe Fire and Life Insurance 1111. per cent. 
—Albion Fire and Life Insurance, 3]. per cent. premium.—Hoye Fire and tife Assurance, 11. 
per share premium.—Rock Life Assurance, from 5s. to 7s. per share premium —East London 
Water Works, from 551 to 601. per share premium —West Middlesex Water Works, 18 
Guineas per share premium —South London Water Works, 561 to. 601. per share premium.— 
Golden Lane Brewery, 75]. per share.—Weston-street or Southwark Rrewery, 201. per share. 
——London Institution, 85 Guineas per share. Commercial Road, 1161. per share.—Eagle 
Insurance, 5s. per share premium diy 3 
During last year 6,240 ships cleared the Sound duties. Of this number 3,387 came from 
the North Sea; viz. 648 Danish, 664 Sweslish, 142 Prussian, 47 Pappenburgh, 13 Hamburgh, 
21 Rostock, 9 Lubeck, 65 Russian, 102 American, 22 Portuguese and 1559 English. 2851 
came from the Baltic, viz 564 Danish, 715 Swedish, 125 Prussian, 52 Pappenburgh, 12 
Hamburgh, 82 Oldenburgh, 25 Bremen, 21 Rostock, 4 Lubeck, 54 Russian, 102 American, 
22 Portuguese, and 1073 English. In 1805, 11,537 ships cleared the Sound duties, and in 
1806, 7,140. 
Within the last six months, a very considerable fall has taken place in the price of copper. 
This is ascribed to the great success of the Ross Island Mining Company, at Killarney, in Ire- 
land, where there has been raised and sent to England, during the last year, no less than 
73,284 cwt. of copper ore. This is to be considered as one of the many and growing advane 
tages resulting from the political union of the two islands. 
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MONTHLY BOTANICAL REPORT. 
F a curious inquirer would make out a bill of mortality of the botanica! publications that 
have appeared, or were intended to appear, periodically; he would find that a great 
number of them, after having blushed for a while unseen met their untimely fate, with 
scarcely a hope even of having their ephemeral existence mentioned by some future 
synonymist. ‘The Botanical Magazine has, in the last month’s number, completed its twenty- 
seventh Volume. Stout and vigorous as it stands before us, and fully arrived at the period 
of manhood, we make no scruple to congratulate it, as having steered clear of those symptoms 
of decline which regularly endanger the youthful days of such publications, and have proved 
fatal to so many. Thus happily arrived at years of discretion, the Botanical Magazine, (we 
suggest it at the risk of being pronounced morose, captious, critics) might as well give up 
those sentimental mottos, which, though perfectly innocent in themselves, appear to be out 
of place in the title pages of a work not intended to record the intrigues of the vegetable 
world. ‘The numbers before us contains, 1. Andromeda coriacez, Jacquin mistook this for 
the mariana of Linnzeus,and Willdenow,of course, preserved Jacquin’s synonym to that species, 
which, as Dr. Sims justly observes, is very different from it. 2. A species of Veratrum, the 
Igtter press to which will be given in a future number. 3, Lachenalia guadricolor.~ Ru , 
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