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It is afcertained, that if the carrying trade between.this country and India were free and 
open to all, the freight between the-two would be reduced from 131. per ton, which it now 
cofts, to 51. or 61. perton. Should this reduétion of freight, be accomptifhed, net oniy 
indigo, but alfo filk, fugar, ftarch, hides, and fruits of feveral {pecies, might be imported 
with peculiar advantage. - 
The Anglo-Americans are preparing to purfue the fur-trade from Louifiana, in a manner 
in which they m may greatly ontrival our Canadian and Hudfon’s Bay companies. 
The 3 per cents. have Aluétuated, all this month, from.59 to 61. Others in proportion. 
The average Prices of Navigable Canal Shares na Dock Stock, for January 1607, at the 
office of Mr. Scorr, ¥5, New Bridze-ftreet, London:—The Coventry Canal, 4201. to 
4351. per fhare; the laft half-yearly dividend was 121 per fhare net.— sfhton and Oldham, 
201. per tripe. oes and Junction, 86]. to 871. ex. dividend.—Rochda'c, 431., incleding 
the latt call of 51. per thare —-Worcefter and Birmingham, at 391. per fhare, all calls paid. 
~——Lancafter, at 191.—Monmouthfhire Navigation, at 971. ex dividend-—Weft India Dack 
Stock, at 144i. ex. dividend of 51 per cent. net for the half year to Chriftmas.—Eatt India 
Dock, 1201. to 1921. per cent —London Dock, 1001. to 1051. ex. dividend of Ql. 24s. 
per cent. net half-yearly dividend to Chriftmas.—Globe Infurance, 1021. per cent. ex. divi- 
dend of 31. 10s, per cent. half-year to Chri(tmas. 
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MONTHLY AGRICULTURAL REPOR 
"THE mild weather which we have experienced i in the preceding month has been favourable 
to the wheat and tare crops, wltich in general look better than could be expected from 
the genera] humidity of the wieter, which hag been unfriendly to fheep-feeding on turnips 
and colefeed, althoagh thofe crops at this feafon were never more luxuriant and abundant. 
From the general good conditien of the paftures, much fodder has been faved, and the 
outlying ftock thrivé well. 
In the country markets, the prices of grain (oats excepted, from the great purchafes 
made by dettrathent) are much lower. Wheat averages, throughout England and Wales, 
77s 5: Barley, 40s. 3d. 3 and Oats, 27s. 2d. 
The weekly markets are well fupplied with fat.cattle and fheep at reduced prices. Caws 
and calves are now brought there tin plenty, and fell well; but at prefent there is litéle or 
no demand for lean cattle or ftore fheep. Much bufinefs is done in the: pig markets, which 
are well {upplied, and meet with quick and te fales. In Smithite!ld, Beef fetches thom 
4s. 4d. to 5s.3; Mutton, from 4s. 8d. to 6s. 3 3 and Pork, from 4s. 8d. to os. 8d. 
in the fen counties, where the practice of breedisg catfle has become pretty general, it is 
now the cuftom, and has been for a winter or two patt, to feed their yearling calves with raw 
potatoes and furne hay, on which they are found to do well. 
But the writtr of this Report recomments, from experience, the improved taethod of 
fteaming chem as food for hories and cattle, making them more nutritious ana leis laxative. 
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NATURALIST’S MONTHLY REPORT. 
And now; behold the joyous winter days, 
Frofty, fucceed ; and through the blue ‘ferene, 
For fight too fine, th’ ethereal nitre flies 5 
Killing infe€tious damps, and the ae air 
Storing afreih with elemental life 
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WE have had fomegrolty days, and on the tith of January a fall of fnow of a few hours’ — 
continuance ; but hitherto (January the 19th) the weather has been unufually, and 
unfeafonably, mild. 
- Chriftmas-day was°cold and rainy; but, on the day before and the day after, the fun 
‘fhone bright and watm, and the bees were flying about as at the commencement of {pring. 
On Chriftmas-day I obferved the following plants in flower: winter aconite, beleborus 
byemalis of Linnzus 3 greater periwinkle, vinca major; axlip, pr mula clatior 5 primrojes 3 
wiolets ; the drop=wor t, piveed filipendula ; wall-flowers, fios chs, marigolds, anemones, bepaticas, 
The china rofes Cats, were likewife in great beauty in the open ground. 
In the bottoms of fome of the fheltered hedges, expofed to the fouthern fun, I remarked, 
about the fume day, the red-flowered campion (lychnis disica), aud the pile-ewort irapanintas 
ficaria) ; the formera relic of the afitumn, ee the latter a harbinger of (pring. 
anuaty 1, 1807. The voung leaves of the elder and woodbine begin to < Sea ae The 
finft leaves of the milé thifile (carduus marianus) are alfo feen. 
At an eftate belonging to the Earl of Malmfbury, in Wilthhire, there was a razk’s nef? 
fontaining young ones fo early as the 1% of January. 
The ewes begin to produce their lambs i in the open fields, ne 
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