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MONTHLY AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 
"TBE inclemency of the weather in the middle of the preceding month, and the rain which 
has fallen fince, have very much impeded the bufinefs of ploughing and fowing. Th® 
Spring Corn and Barley Tilths on the {trong foils are now fo wet, that nothing at prefent 
can be done with them. 
The Beans fet or fown in the laft month are now above ground, and promife well. The 
young Wheats on warm d+y lands look weil; but on cold moift foils they appear to have fuf- 
fered from wet, and dry weather will be of ‘Effential fervice in recovering the vigour of the 
plants. Winter Tares, Rye Grafs, and Clover, have every where much improved, and 
with fome mild weather will foon afford a bite. The average price of Wheat throughout 
England and Wales is 74s. 3d. per quarter 3 of Barley, 343. 8d. 3 and of Oats, 25s. 7d. 
Turnips have been an abundant crop, and were never known at this feafon of the year to 
have locked better, being now perfeétly found and good. In many diftri€ts the farmers have 
not even been able to procure a fufficiency of Sheep ftock to eat them off fo early as they 
could wifh 
Ewes and Lambs have done well, and the Falls in general have been good, and with only 
few cafualties. Store Sheep are grown fcarce and dear 3 and it is much to-be feared that 
many flocks are fomewhat infe&ted, as the rot has been difcovered amongit Sheep feeding in 
low fituations, owing to the extreme wetnefs of the winter. 
Lean Cattle atthe late fairs have been in good fupply, but very dear. In Smithfield Mar- 
ket, onthe 28th, Beef fetched from 4s. $d. to 53. 8d. per itone of 8ib 3; and Mutton from 
55 fo 6s. 
Cows and Calves are now in requeft, and bring great prices. Fret Cart-Horfes are much 
wanted. And Porking-Pigs are fcarce and dear. 
Gardens in general begin to appear very Alourifhing, particularly the early fowa Peas and 
Beans ; and the fmall mits fruit-trees are in a very promifing condition. 
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Tie following are the average Prices at whick Canal and Dock Shares have been fold in the Cour fe 
of the Mor: 1b by Mr. Scott, the Agent, in New Bridge-fireet. 
The Loughborough Navigation, at per Share, 12751. 5—-Trent and Merfey, or Grand 
Tronk, 826]. ;—Leeds and Liverpool, 1811. ;—C ovenitry: 350). ;—Grand Junétion, 94l.5— 
Rochdale, aid. to 421. ;—-Lancafter, tgl. to hah j--Weit India Docks, at per Cent., 140. 
to £41l.3;—Eait India Docks, 1151.;—London Docks, F031. to 1051, ;—-Globe Infurance, 
991. os 1001, ;—Imperial ditto, Premium per Cent. rol. 
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METEOROLOGICAL REPORT. 
Difervations on the State of the Weather from the 24th of February, to the 24th of March, 1266} 
inclujive, two Miles NW. of St. Paul's. 
Barcmeter. Thermometer. 
Highett 30.4¢., March 6. Wind N.E. Higheft 56°, March 23 & 24. Wind S.E, 
Loweft 28. go., Marchi1o. Wind N. Loweft 25°, March 12 & 13. Wind E 
‘The mercury fell 
from the middle of The thermometer 
Greateft g 7-tenths Ythedayonthe oth Greateft ftood no higher than 
yariation in of an to the fame hour | variation in +12°. < 38° on the 17th, but 
24 hours. inch, on the roth, from’| 24 hours. & on the 8th it was as 
29-7 to 29. high as 50%. 
The quantity of rain fallen fince the laft Report is equal to 3.114 inches in depth. 
The weather during the prefent month has beenexceedingly variable ; and for feveral 
days we have had fevere frofts and heavy fnows; indeed more fnow has falien during March 
than during all the preceding winter. The wind has blown principally from the north points 
of the compafs. Towards the clofe of February the winds were very violent; but we have 
heard of little damage inthis neighbourhood. Inthe north the weather ia been exceed- 
ingly fevere, and once the thermometer was down to 20° below the freezing-point. 
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TO CORRESPONDENTS. a 
PSE following pieces do not fuit our Mifcellany :—-Verfes on the Grandeur of Nature ¢ 
Verfesby | B—na: by Lyons: Obfervations on Metallic Trators : Lines on Lord Nel. 
fon by a Young Lady : Wallace: Peter Pry: The French in Hanover: The Outlaw: Pu- 
teolenfis : Prologue at Gloucefter; an Infcription: M.N.: Tears of Britannia: Philo’s 
Remarks on the M. R. : Senex: Ercilla: J. S—k: B Pt: J.S.H.: T.S—e: T.G.: 
Epigram of H Stephens: Poems by J. D—1:—Specimen of Hexameter 
: Poem by Sterne: 
§. T.: Quattor: Muller on the Character of Frederic Lil, 
