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hepe the interference of the legislature will give speedy relief tothe poor silk weavers, ae 
above stated. i 
Tn consequence of the want of flax-seed from America, the late linen market at Belfast and 
Dublin has considerably advanced, particularly the coarser kind of linens, which have already 
risen from 13d. .to 2d. per yard. ‘The finer sorts being less. demanded, have had a trifling ade 
vance. -As large quantities of linen rags have come in the last fleet from Malta, we should 
naturally expect the price of paper to lower. At present, the price is so very exorbitant, 
that we do not wonder that publishers, &c. should be discouraged from bringing out their 
usual and accustomed productions. If with the article of silk, that of rags from Italy, re- 
¢¢ived Parliamentary aid, by means of some kind of bounty on importation, it would, ef 
gourse, promote literature, as well as give bread to thousands employed at the press, &c. 
: COURSE OF EXCHANGE, 
June 3. ee 10. , June 14. Prices of Hops. 
——— See eee tel 
Hamburgh..[34 9 «+e. 
Altona 22.2154 10.20.48 18 
Amsterdam {56 1 ....[¢ 
Pats, Siac ache. ead eke 
Lezhorn....|492 ...... 
Wanles ..0<}42 as eee |! 
CEO] de nie ALDH we ccartis 
Lisboa ways: i uc eakh | 
Oporto 0... /67 sacees The average price of Raw Sugar, ending 
8th of May, 1808, is 40s. Sid. per cwt. 
. |Bags.—Kent, 41, 10s. to 51. 8s. per cwt. 
-|——— Sussex, 41. 8s. to 41. 18s. per cwt. 
Essex, 41. 10s. to 51. 5s. per cwt. 
Pockets.—Kent, 41. i4s. to 6). per cwt. 
; ~Sussex, 41. 88. to 51. 5s. per cwt. 
—-——Farnham, 61. to 91. 5s. per cwt. 
Dublin eves il vere ee ; 
Cork . ...H11E oc eeee dd 3 exclusive of duties. 
The following are the average Prices of Navigable Canal Shares, Dock Stock, and Fire . 
Office Shares, in June, 1808, at the Office of Mr. Scott, No. 28, New Bridge-street, Black- 
friars, iondon:-—The Trent and Mersey, or Grand Trunk Navigation, 980!. to 10001. per 
share, with half year’s dividend, paying 401. per share per annum, nett——Oxford Canal, 4501. 
to 4651. per share; the last half yearly dividend was 111.—Grand Junction, 1161. with half 
year’s dividend of 21. per share—Ditto Bonds, 901. for 1001.—Ellesmere, 531. to 541.—Ken- 
net and Avon, new shares, 41. 10s. per share premium—Ashby, 221. per share—-Globe In- 
surance, 1161. per centg-West India Dock Stock, 1551. to 1561. per cent. with the half 
year’s dividend of 51. per cent.—J.ondon Dock, 1171. to 1191. per cent. 
The following are the average Prices of Canal Shares, &c. &c: June 21, 2808, at the 
Office of Messrs L. Wolfe and Co. No. 9, Change-alley, Cornhill.-London Dock Stock, 
4191. per cent.—-East India ditto 1191. per cent.—West India ditto, 1551. per cept.<Com- 
mercial Dock Shares, 127i. per cent.<-Grand Junction Canal, 1101. per share.——Grand Surry 
Canal, oO). per share.—Imperial Fire Insurance, 1141. per cent. premium«+Globe Fire and 
Life Insurance, shut—-Albion Fire and Life Insurance, 21. per cent. premium—-Hope Fire . 
and Life Insurance, 114s. per share premium—Rock Life Assurance, 5s. per share premi- 
um-——East London Water Works, 50 guineas per share premium—West Middlesex Water 
Works, 151. per share premium=South London Water Works, 501. per share premiume« 
Lendon institution, 84 guineas per share. Easritoh 
MONTHLY BOTANICAL REPORT. 
"PRE Botanical Magazine for the last month, the letter press to which, has been of late 
years a regular copartnership between Dr. Sims and Mr. Gawler, contains by the latter 
gentleman, Crocus versicolor, now for the first time, among modern botanists, taken up as 
a distinct species. Mr. Gawler has taken this opportunity to propose a mew generic charac- 
ter. Crocus ma@riacus, B, a pale coloured variety of the common yellow Crocus, We are. 
however i some sott recompensed fur thus having only a mere variety by a Synopsis of the 
whole genus, the species of which, known to Mr. Gawler, amount to eleven. Uvularia 
grandifora, considered by Michaux, and formerly by Mr. Gawler himself, as a variety of U. 
perfoliata wut the latter has here fallen into Dr. Smith’s ideas of its being»a distinct 
species. Indeed it is probable that it was only from not having seen the living plant, 
and too greata deference to the opinion of Michaux, that he ever united it with U. 
perfeliata’ Mr, Gawler has said nothing of Dr. Smith's U. fava, a plant no way to be dis- 
tinguished from that published in the Botanical Magazine under the name of U. perfoliata. 
Erythronium americanum, We have no doubt but that the yellow flowered Dog’s-tooth vio- 
let from North Ameri¢a is here very properly considered as a distinct species from the one 
usually cultivated in our gardens: yet is was not very easy to’ find any specific difference be- 
tween them. The American plant is much smaller in every part and constant in the yel- 
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