MONTHLY AGRICULTURAL REPORT./ THE continued rains which fell during the close of the last, and beginning of the present, mosth, have not proved injurious to the grain crops. They look well in most places, and the harvest will, without doubt, turn out much better than was supposed. The wheat in many of the southern counties, has been already secured, and found to prove well. All the other sorts of crops are coming on fast for the sickle; and both barley and oats have been reaped in several places, to a considerable extent. The harvest will immediately be general in most parts of the kingdom. The potatoes have been everywhere greatly improved by the rains in the beginning of last month, and will now mostly prove good crops. The turnips are likewise everywhere in the most promising state, the rains coming extremely seasonable for them, especially those sown at a late period. The grass in general looks tolerably well, and in some places there will be found crops of aftergrass. The prices of grain continue pretty nearly the same as in our last.-Wheat fetches from 60s. to 100s. per quarter; Superfine ditto, 118s. to 122s.; Rye, 38s. to 44s. ; Barley, 30s. to 42s.; Oats, 20s. to 30s. Both fat and lean stock still keep up to their former prioes.-Beef fetches from 4s. 4d. to 5s. 58. per stone of 8lb.; Mutton, 4s. 8d. to 5s. 8d.; Veal, 4s. 8d. to 5s. 8d.; Pork, 5s. 8d. to 65. 8d.; Lamb, 5s. to 6s. Hay and straw were sold as follow in the last market.-Hay fetches from 61. Os. to 101. Os. ž Straw, 21. 10s, to 31. Os. MONTHLY COMMERCIAL REPORT. RITISH TRADE AND MANUFACTURES.-Although the distresses which have of late B prevailed in the mercantile world are not quite terminated, yet, we are happy to state, that they have in a great degree subsided. Many of the embarrassments were of a merely temporary nature, and several persons, whose entire failure would have involved numbers of the middling and lower orders of society in ruin, have given their creditors full proof of their ability to discharge all demands ultimately; and, in consequence, have obtained time for the fulfilment of their engagements, and been permitted to pursue their various occupations. We understand that meetings have been held at Exeter, and other places in the west of England, at which a number of banking-houses made frank and unreserved displays of the state of their property, by which it was satisfactorily shewn that they were possessed of funds fully adequate to meet the present juncture. The consequence has been a general restoration of confidence in that wealthy and populous part of the kingdom. The manufac turers of Manchester have been considerable sufferers by the failures of the London houses; and we are sorry to learn that trade is in a more stagnant state there than it has been for several years past. The woollen manufactures of Yorkshire have been somewhat revived by the renewal of our intercourse with America: the total quantity of cloths made in that extensive county during the year ending March 25, 1810, amounted to 15,777,305 yards; being an increase above the preceding year of 1,447,833 yards. In a former report we noticed the disgraceful manner in which French privateers are suffered to interrupt our maritime commerce on the very coasts of Great Britain, and we are now once more under the painful necessity of recurring to the subject. That we have some cause to complain of the inattention which the legislature evinces on this point, the following fact will clearly demonstrate :-On Sunday the 16th of last month, several ships were captured by French privateers within a few miles of the North Foreland, although, shameful to relate, there were three gun-brigs at the time lying in Margate Roads, which never attempted either to interrupt the proceedings of the marauders, or to protect their own shipping! We trust the suggestion which we mean to convey by this statement will not be disregarded. EAST INDIES AND CHINA. From the east there have been no arrivals of importance since our last. The prices of goods are as follow:-Tea: bohea, 1s. 8d. to 2s. 1d.; singla and twankay, 3s. 6d. to 3s. 9d.; congou, 3s. 3d. to 3s. 8d.; souchong, 3s. 7d. to 4s. 6d. ; pekoe, 4s. to 4s. 9d. and fine hyson, 5s. 10d. and upwards, per lb. Sugar, Sl. 15s. to 41. 16s. per cwt. Hemp, 501. to 601. per ton. Indigo, according to color, 6s. to 13s. 9d.; cotton, 15. 3d. to 1s. 6d.; cochineal, 6s. to 8s. per 1h. Ginger, 31. 12s. to 41. 2s.; madder roots, (a good article,) 51. 10s. to 61. per cwt. Opium, 1s. 3d. to 1s. 4d.; Jambee pepper, 92d, to 10.; Billapatam ditto, 92d. to 10d. per lb. Messrs. Bowden and Tucker lately sold by auction, on account of the Company, 29 chests of camphire from 241. 5s. to 251. per cwt. WEST INDIES.-The market prices of West India produce have been rather higher within the last month than we had reason to expect they would, and the sales more brisk. Fine coffee fetches from 51, to 51. 12s.; good ditto, from 41. 10s. to 51.; middling ditto from from 41. to 41. 10s.; and ordinary ditto, from 31. 5s. to 41; Antigua, Barbadoes, and St. Lucia sugar, 31. 14s. to 4 guineas; Dominica, Montserrat, Nevis, St. Kit's, and St. Vincent's, 31. 15s. to 41. 6s.; Tobago, Demerary, Trinidad, and Grenada, 31. 13s. to 41. 3s. ; and Jamaica, 31. 14s. to 41. 5s. per cwt. The sales of rum are very limited, and the prices stationary. The quotations for Jamaica are from 4s. 4d, to 4s. 6d. and Leeward Islands, from 33. 10d. to 4s. 6d. per gallon. Dye-woods are in good request, and the following prices are easily obtained; for chipt Jamaica logwood 301. to 321.; for Jamaica fustick 201. 10s. to 20 guineas, and for Cuba ditto 241. to 261. per ton. White Jamaica ginger fetches from 41 15s. to 81.; black ditto, from 31. 16s. to 41; and Barbadoes from 41. to 41. 5s. per cwt. Cotton goes off pretty freely both in the London and Liverpool markets. Jamaica brings 1s. 5d. to 1s. 6d. ; Tobago, 1s. 6d. to is. 9d.; Grenada, 1s. 7d. to 1s. 101d.; and Berbice, 1s. 7 d. to 1s. 9d. per lb. NORTH AMERICA.-We can now congratulate our readers upon the intercourse between this continent and the mother country being as completely re-established as we could wish. Liverpool is daily clearing out vessels for the United States, and London does not fail to furnish its quota. North American commodities are far from being dull of sale, the prices of the principal articles are:-Georgia cotton wool, 1s. 2d. to 2s; and New Orleans ditto, 1s. 3d. to 1s. 6d. per lb. Oak, 141. to 181. 10s.; ditto plank, 111. 10s. to 151.; pine, 71. 10s, to 81. 12s. and 11l. 10s. to 15l. 10s. per last. Tar, 11. 5s. to 11. 103. per barrel. Pitch, 13s.; black rosin, 10s. to 12s. ; and yellow ditto, 13s. to 15s. per cwt. SOUTH AMERICA.-The Court of Rio de Janeiro has published the Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation, between his Britannic Majesty and the Prince Regent of Portugal. In virtue of this treaty, the goods, merchandize, and manufactures, of Great Britain, are to be admitted into the Portuguese ports in Europe, America, Asia, and Africa, on paying an ad valorem duty of 15 per cent. The treaty is, however, subject to our principle of colonial policy, and hence the following articles, the produce of Brazil, are excluded from the markets of the British dominions, such as sugar, coffee, and other commodities similar to the produce of the British colonies; but they may be received and warehoused in the British ports appointed by law to be warehousing ports for those articles, for the purpose of re-exportation. The Prince Regent of Portugal reserves to himself the tight of imposing heavy, and even prohibitory duties, on all articles of British East and West India produce. All trade with the Portuguese possessions on the east coast of Africa which may have been formerly allowed to British subjects, is confirmed. Of course this does not extend to slavetrading. The principle of the Methuen treaty, respecting the wines of Portugal, and the woollens of Great Britain, remains unaltered. Saint Catherine's is declared a free port The treaty may be revised at the end of fifteen years. FRANCE.The following is an account of the terms upon which the French government is disposed to allow a commercial intercourse, by means of neutral vessels, with this country, The licences will be granted but for such ports as are already pointed out. The licence will remain in force for six months, but shall be submitted each voyage to the inspection of the Minister of Marine, with a declaration of the Master of what he has done, and the occurrences of the voyage. The licence shall be delivered gratuitously. "The outward cargoes must consist of wine and French brandies to the amount of onesixth of the tonnage of the vessel, (to be ascertained by the tonnage on which she pays her duties,) and the remaining five-sixths to consist, at the discretion of the shippers, of wine, brandy, gum, herbs, seed, fruits, and the product of French manufactures, and salt, of which the exportation may not be prohibited by the regulations of the customs. "The import cargoes shall consist of timber, hemp, raw materials, iron, bark, drugs, rice, Russia tallow, wax, linseed, fish-oil, pitch, tar, potatoes, shumack, dollars, lead, minium, tin, white lead, arsenic, dried hydes in the hair, wainscot, and boards." We understand that our government objects to the above terms, because neither British manufactures, nor colonial produce, are included in it. P.S. We have been obliged to omit several articles of minor importance in this month's report, owing to the length of the foregoing documents, which did not admit of the slightest curtailment, those articles, however, shall obtain insertion next month. Current Prices of Shares in Docks, Navigable Canais, Bridges, Roads, Water Works, Insti tutions, and Fire and Life Insurance Offices, at the Office of Messrs. Wolfe and Co. No. 9, 'Change Alley, Cornhill, 21st August, 1810.-Grand Junction Canal, 2811. per share.➡ Leicester and Northamptonshire Union ditto, 1151. ditto.-Grand Union ditto, 61. per share, premium.-Wilts and Berks ditto, 581. per share.--Kennet and Avon ditto, 441. ditto.— Thanes and Medway ditto, 511. per share, premium.-Croydon ditto, 411. per share.— Grand Surry ditto, 761. ditto.-Huddersfield ditto, 401. ditto.-Rochdale ditto, 511. ditto.— Lancaster ditto, 281. 10s. ditto.-Ellesmere ditto, 751. ditto — Worcester and Birmingham, 51. to 61. per share premium.-London Dock Stock, 1251. per cent.-West India ditto, 1661, ditto-East India ditto, 1351. ditto Commercial ditto, 861. per share premium.-Strand Bridge, 31. to 51. per share discount.-Vauxhall Bridge, 51. to 61. ditto.-Commercial Road, 351. per share, premium.-East India Branch of the Commercial ditto, il. ditto.-Great Dover Dover-street ditto, 81. ditto.-Highgate Archway ditto, 91. 10s. to 101. ditto.-East London Water Works, 2201. per share.-West Middlesex ditto, (new shares,) 501. premium.-South London ditto, 27. ditto.-York Buildings ditto, 501. ditto.-Kent ditto, 411. ditto.-Colchester ditto, 481. ditto.-Holloway ditto, 31. ditto.-London Institution, 801. per share. Surry ditto, 101. per share, discount.-Russel ditto, par.-Auction Mart ditto, 751, per share, premium. Globe Insurance Office, 1271. per share.-Imperial ditto, 761. ditto.-Albion ditto, 601. ditto.-Eagle ditto, 10s. per share discount.-Hope ditto, 10s. ditto.-Atlas ditto, 10s. ditto.-Rock ditto, 21s. per share, premium. The average prices of Navigable Canal Property, Dock Stock, Fire-office Shares, &c. in August, 1810, (to the 25th) at the Office of Mr. Scott, 28, New Bridge-street, London.Trent and Mersey or Grand Trunk Canal, dividing 401. per share clear per annum, 1075l. -Coventry, dividing 281. per share, 6801. to 7071. 10s.-Grand Junction, 2701. to 861.Monmouthshire, 31. per share half yearly, 1351. to 1381.-Stourbridge, 2461.—Leeds and Liverpool, 1861. 10s.-Kennet and Avon, 431. 10s. 441 Wilts and Berks, 581 591.—Huddersfield, 391. 10s.-Grand Union, 41. 15s. premium. -Bath and Bristol Extension, 61. 153. to 71. ditto Ellesmere, 761.-West India Dock Stock, 1661.-East India Dock, 1361.-London Dock, 1261.-Globe Assurance, 1281.-Thames and Medway, 531. premium-Ashby-de-laZouch, 221. 10s.-Imperial Assurance, 761.-Atlas Assurances par.-East London Water Works, 2181.-West Middlesex, 145.-Vauxhall Bridge, 51. per cent. discount. Hark! where the sweeping scythe now rips along: Prostrates the waving treasure at his feet. THE long-continued drought is at last at an end. During the present month we have had a considerable fall of rain, by which the corn crops have been surprisingly recovered. Those few farmers who ploughed in their wheat at the beginning of the spring, have now reason to lament their rashness; since, even in the least promising fields, the crops will prove on the whole by no means unfavorable. On the 3d of the month we had strong gales of wind from the south, south-west, and west; and on the following day from the north-west: on the 12th and 13th, we had the same from south-west; and on the 27th, from the south. We had rain on the 1st, 3d, 4th, 8th, 11th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 21st, 26th, 27th, and partially on several other days. In the afternoon of the 21st there was a sharp hail storm. There were thunder storms on the 1st, 8th, and 14th. The lightning on the morning of the 8th, set fire to a farm-house, and burnt it to the ground. July 1. Garden beans are more than usually pestered with aphides, or plant-lice. Some of the crops are nearly black with them, and have been so much checked in their growth that the pods are scarcely formed. The larvæ or grubs of the seven-spotted or common lady-bug (coccinella septem-punctata,) which devour great quantities of them, are also numerous. July 2. A privet hawk moth (Sphinx ligustri,) of unusually large size, issued this day from the earth of a breeding-box, in which its caterpillar, in the autumn of last year, had changed into a chrysalid state. The following plants are now in flower: Wild teasel, (dipsacus fullonum.) Yellow willow-herb, (Lysimachia vulgaris.) Purple-flowered or bog pimpernell,. (anagallis tenella.) Bird's foot clover, (lotus corniculatus.) Hare's foot trefoil, (trifolium arvense.) Common rest harrow, (ononis arvensis.) Common self-heal, (prunella vulgaris.) And wild parsnep, (partinaca sativa). July 7. The wheat is looking remarkably well; and the barley which had been kept back by the late dry weather, is now nearly all in ear. A large species of ants fly about the sandy fields and dry banks. July 11. A tortoise-shell butterfly (papilio polychloros), the chrysalis of which was form ed on the 5th of June, came this day to life; and on the following day a peacock butterfy (papilio io), the chrysalis of which had been formed on the 10th of June. July 14. The caterpillar of a drinker moth (bombyx potatorius of Haworth,) began this day to spin its nidus. It will continue in a chrysalid state until about the 12th of August. July 18. The farmers have begun to cut rye. July 19. I found a great number of the curculio, the larvæ of which feed on the water betony, (viz. curculio scrophulariæ.) They were just issuing from a pupa state. The follicle that is spun by each larva is about the size of a small pea, of an olive brown colour, and semi-transparent. These follicles, to the number of about a hundred and twenty, occupied Chamaerops bumilis. The only palm that is indigenous to Europe; unless two species have been confounded together, which may be the case, for otherwise it varies from being stemless to having a stem from two to twenty or thirty feet high. In the mode however in which palms vegetate, this difference may take place in the same species, as the trunk is merely an elongation of the caudex or upper part of the root. Gærtnera racemosa, from the collection of the late lady Hame, at Wormleybury From the observations the author has made, this genus appears to have greater affinity with Bannisteria than had been supposed. He observes that the germen is three-seeded, and has commonly two styles, with a rudiment of a third. If so Gartnera seems to be distinguished only by the inequality of the stamens and the glands of the calyx, of which Bannisteria has eight, and this plant only one. Crotalaria pulchra; from the same collection, raised from seeds sent by Dr. Roxburgh from the East Indies. This plant seems to approach very near to Crotalaria triflora; published in the first volume of the Repository, under the mistaken name of Borbonia cordata. Glycine comptoniana. We suspect that this is merely a variety of Glycine bimaculata, which usually produces simple leaves, but in a fertile soil may probably enough become ternate-leaved. Whether it be a distinct species or not, it certainly belongs to the genus Kennedia, as established by Ventenat. Mr. Andrews ought either to have adopted this name, or have given us his reasons for continuing it under Glycine. Commersonia dacyphylla. Native of New Holland or Van Diemen's Isle; flowered at Fonthill. Another species of this genus was published in the Repository, under the name of echinata; which having been discovered to be a distinct species from the echinata of Forster, we are desired to expunge that name, and substitute that of Commersiona platyphylla. Malpighia polystachia. Introduced from the West Indies by lord Seaforth, and presented by him to Mr. Lambert, in whose stove at Boyton, it came into flower last April. It is a native of the Island of Trinidad, whence it was sent to his lordship, while governor of St. Vincent's by Mr. Thompson. Peliosanthe Teta; a new and distinct genus, sent from the East Indies by Dr. Roxburgh, whose barbarous name of Teta viridiflora is here very properly changed for one of classical origin, denoting its livid flowers. From the collection of sir Abraham Hume. Zieria smithii; a New Holland plant, named by Dr. Smith in memory of Mr. Zier. This gentleman was an excellent botanist and classical scholar. He was appointed Professor of Botany in a Polish university, but died of a decline before he could set off on his journey to take possession of his appointment, leaving the celebrated Monsieur (or Mademoiselle) Verdion, his sole executor. He left behind him an extensive herbarium, especially rich in cryptogamic plants. Clerodendrum tomentosum. collection. Native of New Holland, near Port Jackson; from the same Citrus nobilis; the Mandarin orange. This beautiful tree has borne fruit at sir Abraham Hume's, at Wormleybury, but we believe has as yet given no earnest of that superiority of flavour so boasted of in China. Citrus medica var odoratissima; the burgamot lemon. The drawing of this plant was also taken at Wormleybury. If it be true, as it is here asserted, "That it is only to those who have an opportunity of observing them in their original situations, where the spade of the la bourer has never disturbed their repose, that we must look for it," we fear we shall wait long "for their complete illustration." Ruellia formosa. Native of Brazil. Introduced by sir Charles Cotton from Portugal, to the Botanic Garden at Cambridge. This plant appears to us to be very nearly allied to Ruellia macrophylla of Vahl. Daviesia corymbosa. We are not sure that this is really the corymbosa of Dr. Smith, (Lin. Trans. vol. IX. [not VIII.] p. 258) though certainly very nearly allied to that species. The doctor describes this plant as having two peduncles springing from the same axilla; but,in this the flower stalks are solitary, as we have observed, not only in this drawing but in several living specimens which have fallen under our notice, for it is not true, as here supposed, that this species is in no other collection than that of Mr. Gibbs. The flowers of this plant grow rather in racemes than corymbs. Pæonia albiflora. A variety with double flowers raised from seeds, which Mr. Livingstone brought from China, by Mr. Whitley at Brompton. Peonies are so subject to vary under cultivation, that it is extremely difficult to decide with respect to the genuine species. The capsules in this plant, if we mistake not, but we speak from memory only, are not, as in the albiflora from Tartary, smooth; nor do the leaves appear to be so regularly triternate. We cannot conclude our account of the progress of this work without remarking that the letter-press continues to be much better conducted than it formerly was: the assistance of a good botanist is very evident; and as we observe that a large portion of the specimens are supplied from Boyton, our former surmise that this improvement may be attributed to the author's con nexiona |