Premiums of Insurance at Lloyd's.-Guernsey or Jersey, 15s. 9d. Cerk, Dublin, or Belfast, 15s. 9d. to 20s. Hamburgh, 12s. 6d. Madeira, 20s. Jamaica, 30s. to 35s. Greenland, out and home, 3 guineas. Course of Exchange.-Amsterdam, 38: 2 B. 2 U. Ditto at eight, 37: 8. Agio of the Bank on Holland, 2. Hamburgh, 35: 2:24. Paris, 24:50, 3 days. Altona, 34:3: 24. Dublin, 124. Prices of Gold and Silver, per oz.-Portugal gold, in coin, £4:0:6. New doubloons, £3:15:6. Foreign gold, in bars, £4:0:0. New dollars, £0:5:2. Silver, in bars, stand. £0: 5:34. ALPHABETICAL LIST OF ENGLISH BANKRUPTCIES, announced between the 1st and 31st July 1817, extracted from the London Gazette. Jackson, G. jun. London, surgeon Cox, G. M. London, toyman Chalk, W. New Sarum, baker Clark, J. Tring, Hertford, baker Coppard, J. Midhurst, Sussex, baker Davis, W. Birmingham, brass-founder Deacon, B. Red Lion Square, Middlesex, earthen wareman Druitt, G. R. Winchester, linen-draper Elliott, G. Woodchurch, Kent, butcher Elston, G. South Shields, ship-owner Eccles, T. Penkridge, Stafford, grocer Elliot, C. sen. Kirkandrews-upon-Eden, wood- Entwisle, J. P. London, commission-agent Fox, E. Saint George, Gloucester, horse-dealer Fawell, T. St Lukes, Middlesex, apothecary Fennel, T. & W. Benstead, jun, London and Brussels, merchants Kershaw, T. W. Southwark, linen-draper Knight, J. Castle Cary, Somerset, surgeon Lazarus, J. London, watchmaker Leader, B. Bristol, earthenware dealer May, W. Spittalfields, Middlesex, bombazeen weaver Mann, R. & T. Liverpool, iron-hoop-makers Mansel, T. Pembroke, apothecary Marriott, G. Melton Mowbray, horse-dealer Nicholls, R. Bath, butcher Nunn, R. Preston, boot and shoemaker Nice, T. London, linen-draper Plant, R. Sunning, Berks, cattle-dealer Parker, C. W. Halifax, merchant Pardow, G. Coughton, Warwick, needle-maker Reeve & Leigh, Manchester and London, warehousemen Sandmark, A. London, merchant Scotland, R. South Shields, ship-owner Smith, T. P. Bristol, whalebone brush-manufac turer Smith, E. Derby, bleacher Sherwin, J. Burslem, Stafford, iron-founder Smith, T. Wilsden, Yorkshire, dealer in wood Sizer, G. Holborn Hill, London, mercer Spall, G. London, coach-maker Tidswell, T. Stockton-upon-Trent, baker Taylor, J. Ottery St Mary, Devon, smith Whittington, W. Handsworth, Stafford, farmer ALPHABETICAL LIST of SCOTCH BANKRUPTCIES, announced between the 1st and 31st July 1817, extracted from the Edinburgh Gazette. Brown & Niven, Edinburgh, hatters and hosiers Hay, J. Delchirach, Banffshire, merchant Stevenson, C. Island of Islay, cattle-dealer DIVIDENDS. Calton Hill Foundery Company, Edinburgh; by Crombie, John, Colinsburgh, merchant; by James and cattle-dealer; by John M'Clure, builder, Gray, David, Kincardine, ship-builder; by James Gray, George, Peterhead, merchant; by George Macfadyen & Maccallum, Glasgow, merchants; Smith, A. Ayr, writer, builder, and cattle-dealer: AGRICULTURAL REPORT. THE almost daily showers which have fallen since the date of our last Report, and for some time before, and the present very unsettled weather, have placed the prospect of harvest at a much greater distance than we then delighted to contemplate; and the more weighty crops are at last beginning to fall to the ground. After a careful examination of very recent Reports, from Correspondents in almost every county in Britain, we are led to believe that the produce of the present season, in wheat, barley, and oats, is likely to be at least equal to an average on all early soils where sound seed had been sown; but that even in these favourable circumstances the harvest must now be late. It will be near the end of the month before reaping becomes general in the south of England; and in Scotland, the approach of the crops towards maturity has been so slow for these three weeks, that there is reason to fear the ensuing harvest will be almost as late as the last. Yet a month of clear warm weather, after so much rain, would rapidly change the hue of our fields, and call forth thousands from the abodes of poverty and despondence to the healthy and animating toils of autumn. Beans and pease will yield a scanty produce. The hay crop has not been so weighty as was once expected. Hops, and fruits of every kind, and the seeds of clovers, cannot be productive. Turnips are now suffering from too much rain; and, for a month past, little progress has been made in cleaning and dressing fallows. Potatoes are said to promise a very abundant crop, and, fortunately, a larger quantity has been planted than in ordinary seasons. Of all our crops, this is perhaps the one to which we may look with the most gratifying anticipations for the relief of the lower classes. The corn markets have continued to decline, though but slowly, since the middle of last month, for which no other cause can be assigned, than the great importations of Foreign grain; the effect of which, in reducing our prices, is now no longer counteracted by our exports to France, where the new crop begins to come into consumption. Butcher meat, as usually happens in the summer months, has fallen; and cattle for grazing, owing to the abundance of the pastures, are in demand, at a considerable advance of price; yet moderately good lamb about 18d. per quarter. tern loaf 14d.-new potatoes 18d. per peck,-beef and mutton 5d. to 7d. per lb.and market, on the 5th instant, oatmeal was 4s. per stone of 174 lb. avoirdupois.—the quarin every other line have full employment, though their wages are still low. In Edinburgh of the revival of our staple manufacture; and happily, it is now certain, that the operatives gone off freely, at more money than it brought last year, which is one of the best proofs lambs in our northern markets have been sold much below the rates of last year. Wool has 12th August. | 3d,......28s. Od. | or 4 Winchester bushels; that of barley and oats nearly 6 Winchester bushels. Note.-The boll of wheat, beans, and pease, is about 4 per cent. more than half a quarter, 1st,.....33s. Od. 2d,......30s. Od. Beans. INLAND COUNTIES. Middlesex Wheat. Rye. Barley. Oats. Beans. Pease. Oatm. AVERAGE PRICES OF CORN, FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE. By the Quarter of Eight Winchester Bushels, and of Oatmeal per Boll of 140 lbs Avoirdupois, from the Official Returns received in the Week ending July 26, 1817. MARITIME COUNTIES CONTINUED. Wheat. Rye. Barley. Oats. Beans. Pease. Oatm. S. d. s. d. S. Suffolk... 96 5 0 0 35 732 439 847 0 0 646 900 20 30 0 0 0 Cambridge 87 9 0 84 548 0 40 230 038 3 0 0 0 0 83 158 436 232 948 7 0 0/32 1 6 0 0 0 0 Durham.. 78 9 G 060 044 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 Rutland.. 81 9 0 0 39 633 046 0 0 0 45 3 Northumb. 70 4:54 046 643 056 065 4 0 0 Leicester. 90 8 0 045 441 455 056 0:36 11 Cumberland 68 972 059 244 50 0 0 37 6 Nottingham 94 674 048 038 055 10 0 91 40 047 037 4:50 056 Westmorlnd 79 1,68 051 243 80 0 0 029 2 Lancaster. 86 0 0 0 0 042 861 00 033 4 Stafford 100 2 0 Salop.... 97 0 43 2:52 234 845 10 41 363 8 0 00 0 Chester... 76 10 0 0 0 035 20 0 0 033 8 5 0 0 0 062 0 Flint 85 30 057 Hereford..101 464 056 136 152 150 850 11 Denbeigh 87 8 0 058 10 33 70 35 10 Worcester. 93 20 047 1034 144 90 0 0 0 Anglesea Warwick 106 0 0 049 039 861 453 043 3 Carnarvon 101 0 0 062 0 0 Wilts 83 8 0 040 635 864 8 0 0 0 0 Merioneth 105 10 0 058 641 8 0 46 1 Berks... 91 1 0 035 031 446 450 6 0 0 Cardigan..112 9 0 056 024 0 Oxford Essex .... Bucks... 60 043 033 656 061 0 0 0 Pembroke. 91 70 055 728 0 0 0 0 0 Carmarthen 110 8 0 060 0:53 1 Glamorgan 113 8 0 061 438 0 0 0 934 11 0 0 0 044 Gloucester.11 4 0 0 46 336 056 0 0 436 11 0 ol o ol o 0136 0 0 0 Cornwall 97 80054 434 5 0 051 0 0 0 Dorset. 106 104 2 0 0 0 036 050 of 0 o Hants.... 91 0 0 047 534 80 039 030 056 5 49 80 All England and Wales: Wheat, 94s. 4d.-Rye, 59s. 4d.-Barley, 47s. 1d.-Oats, 35s. 3d.-Beans, 48s. 8d.-Pease, 49s. 11d. Oatmeal, 42s. 10d.-Beer or Big, Os. Od. Average Prices of Corn, per quarter, of the Twelve Maritime Districts, for the Week Wheat, 99s. 2d.-Rye, 61s. 1d.-Barley, 50s. 2d.-Oats, 37s. 3d.-Beans, 49s. Od.-Pease, 49s. 6d. Wheat, 76s. 9d.-Rye, 69s. 9d.-Barley, 50s. 3d.-Oats, 45s. 5d.-Beans, 64s. 10d.-Pease, 64s. 9d.-Oatmeal, 56s. 5d. THE remarks made in our last number on the month of June, are in many respects applicable to the month of July. In point of temperature, as well as moisture, there is a striking similarity between July 1816 and July 1817. The mean height of the Thermometer, during the former, was 55.6, and during the latter 56 nearly-the quantity of rain in the first, 3.8 inches, in the last, 3.2. But the most striking fact in the Meteorological history of the two seasons, and what may perhaps surprise some of our readers, is the comparative quantities of rain that fell during the three months of May, June, and July, taken collectively. The quantity in 1816 amounted to 7.7 inches, but in 1817 it is 10.6. It is at the same time an obvious fact, that vegetation has made much more rapid progress this season than it did last; but it is a fact for which it would perhaps be difficult to account, unless it be supposed that the unusually high temperature of the spring months raised the temperature of the ground so much as to influence the vegetation of the succeeding months. This appears to us a very important point, and one which we apprehend might easily be determined by keeping a regular register of a Thermometer, sunk two or three feet below the surface of the ground. METEOROLOGICAL TABLE, Extracted from the Register kept on the Banks of the Tay, four miles east from Perth, Latitude 56° 25′, Elevation 185 feet. Evaporation in ditto, 2.235 Highest, 10 P. M. 24th, 25.000 1st, 2.000 Fair days 13; rainy days 18. Wind West of meridian, including North, 18; East of meridian, including South, 13. |
