1816.1 Prices of Canal and Dock Property, &c. Ewens J. jun, South Bersted, victualler, April 16 Fleckno J. Daventry, shopkeeper, April 27 Forster R. Old Broad street, merchant, April 16 Galpin T. Honiton, grocer, April 23 Gardner M. Southwark, fiuen draper, April 16 Gomm J. Buckland Common, Bucks, timber mer. chant, April 27 Greenwood H. Walker mill, Lancaster, corn miller, Hagreen J. Bary St. Edmunds, grocer, April 16 Herbert J. & H. Tokenhouse yard, brokers, April 20 Hill J. Bristol, grocer, May 7 Hughes D. Kingsbridge, watch maker, April 16 Huntriss H. Liverpool, merchant, May 7 Jacob B Bartholomew Close, merchant, April 27 Manning J. Loddiswell, butcher, April 27 381 Norman J. Wellington, serge maker, April 23, Pierce W. Holborn, wax chandler, Abril 20 Sharpley C. Cambridge, perfumer, April 23′ Smith J. J. Cannon street, wine merchant, May 11 Sutcliffe T. Lad lane, and J. Broadbent, Halifax, Tyndall J. Birmingham, plater, May 7 May 4 Wilson G. Myton, York, miller, April 20 Prices of Canal Shares, &c. in the Month of April, 1816, at the Office of Mr. Clarke, 39, Throgmorton, Street. 1816.] [ 383 ] AGRICULTURAL REPORT. THE heavy rains that fell in the midland counties about the middle of last month, have very much impeded the seasonable pursuits in agriculture. Great breadths of arable land have been inundated by the floods, and cannot be sown this spring. Most of the lands intended for barley, with clay subsoils, have been so much saturated with the redundant water, as to make them very late before they can be in a state to receive the seed, which they do at last not kindly. The young wheats have much recovered in the last month; and great breadths, that had the appearance of land under fallow, promise a tolerable crop. The rains have greatly impeded the barley-sowing, except upon the very light soils; but - the early-sown has sprung up a full and regular plant. Beans and peas, and all the early planted leguminous tribe, come up strong, and promise a full crop. The soiling species are very backward, but a regular crop. The late cold weather has not only kept back this kind, but the whole of the vegetable tribe in this climate, Amongst the destruction of the brassica, the Swedish turnip rears its hardy head, and impresses the farmer with the importance of its extended cultivation. The rains of last month have shewn most clearly the great and important advantages of under-draining arable land; and as the dry weather approaches, it will appear what part of the field should be drained first. CORN EXCHANGE, April 22.—Wheat, foreign, 53s. to 81s.-Do. English, 55s. to 845, Rye, 23s, to 31s.-Barley, 23s. to 32s-Malt, 538. to 65s.-Oats, 18s. to 30s.-Fine Flour, 60s. to 65s.; Seconds, 55s. to 60s. SMITHFIELD MARKET, APRIL 22.-Beef, 35. 8d. to 4s. 10d.-Mutton, 4s. od. to 5s. od. -Lamb, 6s. to 7s. 6d.-Veal, 4s. 8d. to 6s. od.-Pork, 4s, od. to 35. od. per stone of 8 lbs. Hay, 31, to 51. 5s.-Straw, 11. 8s. to 11. 18s.-Clover, 41, to 61. 10s. Hops, New Pockets.-Kent, 61. os. to gl. 9s.-Sussex, 51, 15s, to 71. 185.-Essex, 71, to gl.-Farnham, 101. 10s. to 161. Average Prices of Corn, By the Quarter of Eight Winchester Bushels, from the Returns received in the Week ended April 20, 1816. [ 384 ] METEOROLOGICAL REGISTER. Kept by C. BLUNT, Philosophical Instrument-maker, 38, Tavistock-st. Covent-Garden. 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(Continued from p. 293.) IN the morning, between five and six o'clock, we passed through St. Denis, where English and Prussian soldiers mounted guard together; and now on my right hand appeared Montmartre, through a clearer atmosphere than I had been used to in England; and Paris lay before me-Paris! the object of my journey-Paris, the arena of so many sanguinary frays among its own inhabitants, the scene of imperial ovations over conquered nations, the twice subdued capital of the Gauls-lay before me hushed and still, like the giant Polyphemus, stretched out in sleep, glutted with blood, and intoxicated with glory, or stupefied with disgrace. The mind under such peculiar circumstances seems, like a bird with expanded wings, poised over a scene of countless objects, passively receiving a thousand impressions from the past, the present, and the future, without taking the pains for the moment to arrange or .correct the motley chaos. Thus having yielded my mind to the confused impressions and recollections that crowded upon it, we entered Paris; when I was soon recalled from my reveries by the stench from a gutter in the middle of a street through which we passed. Arrived, about six o'clock in the morning, at the house where my companion Mr. Commissary usually stopped, I was set down there, and invited in by the master, who conducted me into the front room on the first floor. The mistress of the house was still in bed in an alcove (recess), the folding doors being open, and her husband talking to her whilst he was in the room with me. Supposing that the lady would wish to rise, I continued for some minutes standing at the window with my back towards the recess. I was right, for when I turned round, there was Madame, en negligé, who made me an apology, with a curtsy of course. Paris inmediately presents to the visitor from England, in a striking manner, the characteristics of narrow streets with a gutter in the middle filled with NEW MONTHLY MAG.-No. 29. for pedestrians, who for shelter from carriages and horses must fly between the projecting stones about two feet high placed against the fronts of the houses; though in consideration of the foot-passengers being obliged to walk in the middle of the street, there seems to be a proportionate degree of circumspection in the drivers of carriages. The narrowness of the streets is increased in appearance by the loftiness of the houses. These are built of stone, four, five, and more stories high. Between the ground floor and the first floor there is frequently a low story called entresol, but the first floor is very lofty, with what are called in England Adam's windows. These, and the cornices carved in front of the houses between the stories, the ornaments about the windows, the iron balustrades, and Venetian blinds, give an air of grandeur to these buildings, compared to which the low brick houses in London have a mean appearance. The latter, however, must be allowed the preference as to cleanliness and comfort within, the houses in Paris being for the major part inhabited by more than one family, which, considering the want of common sewers, might well habituate so crowded a population to dirt and stench, The staircases, used in common by more than one family, cannot be supposed to be kept very clean; a carpet on any staircase would be almost ridiculous, where in the rooms they are a rarity. The narrowness of the streets of course admits not of much light in the house, so that the staircases in many of them are buried in darkness all day long. This description applies particularly to that part of Paris which lies on the same side of the Seine as the Tuileries; not but that there are here also some tolerably wide streets, such as the Rue St. Honore, St. Denis, and St. Martin, and particu larly the Rue St. Antoine. The quarter on the opposite side of the Seine, called the Faubourg St. Germain, contains the palaces and residences of the first classes of the nation. The streets here have few shops, are cleaner, though not very wide between the walls that inclose VOL. V. 3 D |