AVERY'S ROTATORY STEAM ENGINE, AS USED FOR AGRICULTURAL PURPOSES. The wonderful simplicity of this engine led us to feel an interest in it from the first; and those made upon this plan with various improvements, by Mr. Ruthven of this city, have been noticed more than once in our columns. Our last notice was about a year ago. Mr. Ruthven had one then working (and has it still) in his workshop, turning several lathes, moving a tilt-hammer and plaining machine, driving a grindstone, &c. Like many others we were extremely incredulous as to the power of the machine when its structure was first explained to us. Our incredulity was removed in part when we saw it in operation in his shop. We were then satisfied that it was capable of doing a certain amount of work but the task it was put to was not of that precise and definite kind to convince us that it could be profitable in any circumstances. On Saturday week, we had the pleasure of seeing it at work in this neighbourhood, on the farm of Mr. Allan at Pilton, and in a manner fairly calculated to test its powers. The engine is one of six horse power, according to the usual method of computation. The radius of the revolving arm is two feet; the length of the two arms, of course, four feet; and they make fully 3000 revolutions in a minute. The cast iron box in which they revolve is five feet in diameter, and about six inches wide externally; and this box, with the two revolving arms within it, actually constitutes the whole machine, except the boiler, and the pump which supplies the boiler with water. The engine has neither beam, piston, parallel-motion apparatus, crank, nor valve. It could be put with ease into a parlour bookcase! The boiler is a cylinder two feet in diameter, and ten feet long. There are two small cylinders of twelve inches diameter connected with it, filled with water, but no steam is formed in them. Their use is to economize fuel. They may be considered as enlarged proportions of the pipe which conveys water to the boiler, passed through the lower and horizontal part of the flue, that the waste heat of the fire may be profitably employed in warming the water before it gets into the boiler. A polished iron cylinder, nine inches long and five in diameter, is attached to the axis of the revolving arms, and a broad leather belt passing from it to a wheel, four feet in diameter, conveys the motion to the thrashing-mill. The motion of the arms, which constitutes the moving power, is produced by the re-action of steam, rushing from two apertures about a quarter of an inch wide, in the opposite sides of the arms, and at their outer extremities. The engine is worked with a pressure of four or five atmospheres. Its price including boiler and pump, with the belt and wheel for communication motion to the thrashing-mill, is about 1201. We are thus particular, because many will have forgot and some will not have seen the details we formerly gave. We saw the fire lighted, the motion commence, and the operation of thrashing and winnowing proceed for a considerable time. The engine has been two months in Mr. Allan's possession. He has been using it every week, and has already thrashed upwards of 200 bolls of grain with it. It has given him complete satisfaction; and the following is his account of its performance : "Mr. Ruthven's engine thrashes from eight to ten bolls (four to five qrs.) of grain per hour, with a consumption of less than a hundred weight of coals. It is besides easily kept and managed, and there is a great saving of grease. In addition to the thrashing-mill, it drives two sets of extra fanners, a humbling machine, and two sets of elevators." Mr. Allan informed us that it required five horses to work the same thrashing-machine before he procured Mr. Ruthven's engine; and neither the extra fanners, elevators, nor humblingmachine were then attached to it. With this ad dition, he reckons that the engine (of six computed horse power) does the work of seven or cight horses. With the apparatus in its present state, he is able, not only to thrash, but to winnow, clean and send off to market, fifty bolls of grain in six hours, with a great saving in manual labour. We may add, for the information of persons at a distance, that Mr. Allan is one of the most extensive and intelligent farmers in the county. Professor Low, with Mr. Finnie of Swanston, an agriculturist of known ability, tested the performance of the engine some weeks ago, in the most careful manner. They brought an experieneed person with them to feed the thrashing machine, witnessed all the parts of the operation, and had the coals weighed at the beginning, and the grain measured at the termination of an hour's work. It would be improper in us to anticipate their observations, which will doubt be published in due time, but we believe we may safely say, that they will confirm, in all respects, the account of the engine's performance we have given on Mr. Allan's authority. no Books on the steam-engine of the common construction tell us how many pounds it will lift one foot high, with a certain quantity of coals. But results in this form are incapable of being brought into comparison with those which we have given. We must therefore leave it to farmers who use Watt's engines to say whether 4 quarters of grain, thrashed and cleaned in one hour by an engine costing 1201. with a consumption of 100 pounds of coals, is, or is not, good work. The performance, we humbly think, is at all events sufficient to prove, that the principle on which the engine is constructed is not a fallacy, as some of our men of science have rashly asserted. After Mr. Allan had agreed to set aside his horse-power machinery, and take this engine, he was assured from so many quarters that it would prove a failure, and bring ridicule upon him, that his resolution was shaken, and he was almost driven to countermand his order. He now congratulates himself on having persevered in his purpose, and not only made an advantageous change, but contributed something to remove prejudicies which were calculated to deprive the public of the use of a meritorious invention. We have a feeling akin to Mr. Allan's. We are proud of having been, perhaps, the very first to surrender our scepticism to the evidence of facts, and avow and publish a favourable opinion of this engine. For some purposes it will, no doubt, be inferior to the piston engine, but for others, there is no improbability in supposing that it may be found decidedly superior. We think, for instance, that if applied to locomotives or steam-boats, its direct method of producing a rotatory motion promises to economize power to some extent, and to produce a great diminution in the chances of breakage, to say nothing of the saving in first cost, which would probably be two-thirds. The thing is at least worthy of a trial.-Scotsman. THE EXCHANGES. "The exchanges are against us," and "bullion is being exported," are terms at this moment in constant use, with the meaning of which some persons are quite conversant, whilst on the other hand there are very many who do not understand the practical operation connected with the export of Bullion, which occasions the fluctuation of the exchanges. It is not our intention to enter into an enquiry of the causes which have operated to render the exchanges unfavorable to this country, but merely to describe in clear and familiar terms the practical working of the operation. As the interchange of the precious metals is most extensive between Paris and London, and as the value of the sovereign on the Continent is usually regulated by its worth in France, we will put the following case, in order to exemplify the operation. Suppose a merchant has to remit 5,000l. to Paris, for which he takes a bill at three months' date. at the exchange of 25f. 45c. per pound sterling 127,250f. Oc. The bill on its arrival in Paris is discounted at 4 per cent. per annum, being 1 per cent. for three months Yielding in cash in Paris...... And from which is to be deducted the expence of transit, which may be estimated at 72 per cent. Yielding in cash in Paris.. 1,272 50 125,978 50 126,050 0 1,260 50 127,310 50 FOOT ROT IN SHEEP. The ulceration of the foot-rot will not long exist without the additional annoyance of the fly. Maggots will multiply on every part of the surface and burrow in all directions. To this, as may readily be supposed, will be added a great deal of constitutional disturbance. A degree of inflam matory fever is produced. The animal for awhile shifts about upon its knees, but at length the powers of nature fail, and it dies from pain, irritation, and want. This is a dreadful account, and yet after all the disease is more managcable than could well be imagined, if it is attacked in its earliest stage and treated with proper decision. It will seldom be necessary, or indeed, proper, to adopt any means for the purpose of abating inflammation before the radical mode of cure is adopted. Poultices and emollients will only weaken the parts, and cause the fungous granulations to increase with ten-fold rapidity. The foot must be carefully examined and every portion of loose and detached horn pared off, even though the greater part, or almost the whole of the hoof may be taken away. The horn once separated from the parts beneath will never again unite with them, but becoine a foreign body, and a source of pain, inflammation, and fungons sproutings. This, then, is the first and fundamental thingevery portion of horn that is in the slightest degree 636 50 separated from the parts beneath must be cut away. A small, sharp, curved-pointed knife, or a small drawing knife, will be the best instrument to effect this. 126,674 0 Thus leaving him a gainer of about 700f., or of nearly 287., by having sent over sovereigns instead of a bill of exchange. The larger the amount operated upon, the less would be the ratio of the expense of transport, and on a sum of 40,000l. to 50,000l. it would not exceed one-third per cent. instead of one-half. Hence it is manifest that so long as the price of gold on the continent affords a premium or profit for exportation, the export will continue; on the other hand, if by the adoption of any measures, or by the course of trade, the price of gold should be so reduced as to leave no profit for export, the demand here will cause it to return, and the exchanges will be righted. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIN- SIR,-Knowing the extensive circulation your valuable paper has in the grazing districts, and the interest I feel for my brother breeders, I hope I shall not be taking a liberty in noticing, with your kind permission, the rams bred by Mr. Dawson of Ingthorpe, near your If there are any fungous granulations (proud flesh) they must be cut down with the knife, or a pair of sharp, curved scissors, unless they are exceedingly minute, and in that case the caustic about to be mentioned will destroy them. The whole foot must be thoroughly cleaned, although it may occupy no little time, and inflict considerable pain on the animal. The after expenditure of time, and the suffering of the patient, will be materially diminished by this decisive measure. The foot should then be washed with a solution of chloride of lime, in the proportion of one pound of powder to a gallon of water. This will remove the offensive smell and tendency to rotting of the flesh, and mortification, which are the too frequent attendants on foot-rot. The muriate or butyr of antimony must then be resorted to, and by means of a small stick, with a little tow tied round one of its extremities, applied to every raw place-lightly where the surface has a healthy appearance, and more severely where fungous granulations have been cut off, or where small granulations are springing up. There is no application equal to this; it is effectual as a superficial caustic, and it so readily combines with the fluids belonging to the part to which it is applied, that it quickly becomes diluted, comparatively powerless, and is incapable of producing any deep or corroding mis chief. So far as these foot cases are concerned it supersedes every other application. The change of colour in the part will accurately show to what portions it has been applied, and what effect has been produced. If the foot has been in a manner stripped of its horn, and especially if a considerable portion of the sole has been removed, it may be advisable to wrap a little clean tow round the foot, and to bind it tightly down with tape, the sheep being removed to a straw yard, or to some enclosed place, or to a drier pasture. This last provision is absolutely necessary when the sheep is again turned out, for if the foot is exposed to the original cause of disease, the evil will return under an aggravated form. The foot should be dressed every day, each new separation of horn removed, and every portion of fungus submitted to the action of the caustic, with a degree of severity proportioned to the necessity of the case. The new horn should be likewise examined. If it appears to be healthy and tolerably firm, nothing should be done to it, but if it is soft and spongy the caustic must be lightly applied. The sooner the bandage can be removed, and the sheep turned into some upland or thoroughly dry pasture, the better will it be for the foot and the health of the animal generally. The worst cases of foot-rot will readily yield to this mode of treatment, provided the bone has not been exposed, and there are no hollows running either into the joints or deep-seated parts of the foot, or of the pasterns above. All superficial mischief will be readily repaired, and more speedily than could have been thought possible; but there is always a considerable degree of uncertainty when, the horn being removed, the ulcerations are found to be deep, and certain sinuses or openings betray the existence of greater mischief within the foot. The case will, at all events, occupy a considerable time, and give no little degree of trouble, and it will be for the owner to consider whether he had not better destroy the sheep, if he is in tolerable condition, than to run the risk of its pining away, and ultimately sinking under longcontinued and increasing suffering. Though the cure of this disease is not difficult, yet it is attended with a great deal of trouble; and in proportion to the number of sheep affected and the magnitude of the flock, so is the owner's anxiety increased. We would therefore repeat that "prevention is better than cure," and that when sheep are placed upon low, soft, or damp ground, they should often be examined so as to ascertain whether the hoof is unnaturally lengthening, or any parts of the horn of the hoof folding in upon the sole, in which case the toe should be pared to its proper shape, and the folds carefully cut away. If these first and easy precautions are not attended to, the owner has no one but himself to blame for his subsequent trouble and loss. We shall again take the subject into consideration, and satisfactorily prove that the foot-rot is infectious, in which case every person who values his flock will see the great necessity of preventing the disease, rather than in curing it after his land has become poisoned with the matter exuding from a diseased foot. R. B. AGRICULTURAL DURHAM. The weather has been exceedingly variable since the date of our last report; the first week in May was everything the farmer could possibly wish for, but it was succeeded by as cold, dry, and ungenial weather as ever fell to our lot to experience; the 13th of May we had a very intense frost, and the following day a very heavy fall of snow and which continued and lay upon the ground the greatest part of the day; since then and up to the 13th instant, the weather has been very dry and with a piercing, cold, easterly wind, which has had the effect of keeping vegetation extremely backward, and pastures afforded a very scanty allowance for all kinds of stock. Clover has thinned off very much upon all strong soils, and seeds will now turn out a very light crop. But on the 14th we had a copious rain which has produced a most agreeable change on vegetation, and it is with gratification we observe that we have not seen the wheat crop so promising since 1834, indeed, in many instances, from its dark and gross colour, indicate too much abundance, consequently there is always a disposition to disease, and is liable to be lodged at too early a period of its growth; but in the higher and later districts, and where bad, frosted seed has been used a very different and opposite picture presents itself; it looks sickly and thin upon the ground, and certainly is quite the reverse of cheering to the farmer who has the misfortune to occupy those situations, and it affords us great pleasure in having to congratulate the country upon the favourable appear. REPORTS. Pota ance of the wheat crop in general. Barley has met with a decided check from the dry, wintry-like weather, and as far as we have had an opportunity of judging, it will prove a light crop ; a smaller breadth of barley has been sown from a supposition that wheat would prove a more remunerative crop. The oats are short but healthy, and should we have genial and showery weather at the time of shooting it will be attended with beneficial results. Beans, peas, and tares are promising, and have withstood the severe drought better than could be anticipated; this may be fairly attributed to the highly satisfactory and pulverized state of the land when sown. toes have come up well and look healthy, and we hear of no failures whatever. Where good turnip husbandry is practised, the Swedish variety look as well as could be wished for and are quite fit for hoeing. The welcome and long wished for rain has put the land in the best possible condition for the reception of the White Globe and the later varieties. The long and most severe drought has been exceedingly favourable for the cleansing and preparing turnip land and fallows; agricultural operations are in a forward state; many commenced sheep shearing too soon, it was cruel to deprive the poor animals of their winter coats in such weather, besides is is produc tive of a considerable loss in weight of wool and also of mutton. The wool trade is rather flat at present. Our markets have been scantily supplied with beef and mutton, beef 8s. per stone, mutton, clipped, 7d., rough, 8d. to 8 d. per lb. Notwithstanding the extreme shortness of keep lean stock have maintained their high price, we are apprehensive the grazier will not be remunerated this summer. The wheat markets have rather a tendeucy to recede in price, the stock of wheat in the farmers' hands was never less at this season, but we are well supplied with foreign. Oats are upon the advance, with a short supply, from so many and large works that are going on in this county cause very great consumption in this article. Labouring men from 3s. to 3s. 6d. per day, masons and joiners from 28s. to 30s. per week. June 18th. LEICESTERSHIRE. The extremely cold and unseasonable weather through the whole of May retarded vegetation in its usual course, and that month wore rather the aspect of March than its own mild and genial character. When we consider that the wind blew keenly for sixteen days out of the thirty-one from the east or north-east, and only eight from the south, south-west, or west, and the remainder north, or north-west, and nearly without rain excepting very cold showers on the night of the 9th, and morning of the 10th, after this drought combined with storms of sleet, hail, and snow, it is not surprising that the whole face of the vegetable world presented a stunted appearance at the close of the month. Notwithstanding this unusual severe state of the weather, the wheat crops in this county improved much during May. The plant was much destroyed by the ravages of slug, wireworm, and grub, in some situations in the early part of the year; they have recovered during the last month in an extraordinary manner, and where in March scarcely any plant appeared to be left, now look well, though thin, but the colour very good. Those sown after tares, or on a summer fallow, have suffered less from the above cause than the clover ley or bean stubble wheats. From the present appearance we may anticipate an average crop in this county. The fine and bountiful rain which fell on the 14th inst. had an instantaneous effect upon the crops both of grain and grass. The wheat was beginning to feel the effects of the long drought on light soils, but barley and all spring crops would have suffered materially had the rain been deferred for a short time longer. Some barleys on light thin soils have been checked from this cause, still they promise a fair crop, and others on good soils will undoubtedly be heavy. The same remark applies to oats. Beans are at present short, but look healthy, and are now growing rapidly, with appearance of a good bloom. Tares are generally an average crop, though not ready to cut so early by fourteen days as in genial seasons. Wheat has receded 6s. a quarter in price, it being now sold at 74s., barley, 40s., oats, 28s., beans, 44s. The graziers have complained of their best feeding pastures being very short of grass, and the breeder of cattle and sheep has almost despaired, from the continued drought and low temperature, that his poor lands would not yield herbage sufficient to support his young stock. This is not to be wondered at when we consider the ungenial weather we had for nearly the whole of May, and up to the fifth of the present month. On the first four days the wind was harsh and cold from east or north east, from the 4th to the 13th it was much milder, and wind south or south-west, yet the grass grew but slowly from the lack of moisture, still it did not go back. On the 13th the wind went suddenly into the north-east, and continued in that quarter till the 18th; but on the 14th we had that glorious rain which truly replenished the earth, and a wonderful change took place in its appearance in the space of twelve hours, in fact it appeared to have thrown open the prison doors of vegetation and set every herb and plant free. Through this seasonable bounty of providence every thing must now flourish which the sun and rain of heaven nourishes. The grazier has no longer to complain of his bare pastures, or the rearers of stock on the inferior grass lands have reason to despair. Though the pastures have been scanty of herbage still sheep have done well, excepting where too heavily stocked, and the young cattle have been generally healthy but low of flesh. Though the rain has been what every body could wish, still it has been so long delayed the grasses and produce of the meadows must fall light before the scythe, they cannot recover so as to yield an average crop. Fodder will in all probability be scarce and dear, and the farmer should exert himself to get every acre of land he can sown with turnips, either Swede or common, to eke out his hay in the ensuing winter. The long dry season has been particularly favourable to the preparing of land for the turnip crop, and where they are not well cleared it is the fault of the farmer; and there is no excuse for him if it is not in excellent order to receive the seed. The principal time for sowing in this county, is from the 12th to the 24th for Swedes, and some time later for the common varieties. Some have been sown earlier on strong lands and have failed, others on favourable spots have been successful, but very few were sown before the 14th in either situation. On the 17th they went in beautifully, especially where the manure had been spread and plowed in for fourteen or sixteen days, much better than where it had to be carted on the land after the rain on the 14th; but this applies to the lighter soils which are not ridged. Some Swedes, sown on the 13th, were coming up on the 19th, and there is every prospect of a crop of turnips generally if they escape their enemies, the fly, caterpillar, and wire-worm. But the second destructive is of minor consequence to the others, as a dozen ducks a fortnight old will secure from their ravages (if put among the turnips, and properly tended when the insect makes its first appearance) half as many acres. But can any of your numerous readers inform us what will prevent or destroy the other more for midable enemy? if he can he will be rendering an important service to the agriculturist, and the community in general. The mangel wurzel crop has been nearly a failure from the drought in May, excepting a few favourable situations and the best soils; but where the seed was not previously soaked and put on heavy land the plant has not yet appeared, and if it now comes will be too late to make a crop. Potatoes promise to be good on light and rich soils but they are backwards, and in some instances have been attacked with dry rot. Some people are now resetting. I trust this is the case in only partial and few situations, and I hope we may expect a fair average crop. Notwithstanding the cold and backward spring store beasts have been fetching high prices at our fairs and markets, and sheep have been dear. Lamb hogs from 40s. to 50s., some even 60s. Beef and mutton have made a fair price, say from 6d. to 61d. per lb. for good quality, but even this rate holds out no good prospect to the grazier considering the high price of his stores. Sheep-shearing is nearly concluded, except in cold situations, and the quality of the wool is good. Trade is rather flat in this article, and but little will be done before our great wool fair, which will be held on the 4th July, in the Agricultural' Society's yard, at the Bell Hotel, Leicester, when it is expected a large quantity will be pitched, and the prices calculated upon are from 35s. to 40s. per tod.- May 19. THE VICINITY OF BRISTOL. The middle of June presents at all times a very important period of the year in reference to the prospect of general fertility. The character of the first portion of vegetation is by that time decided, and many of the risks to which the crops of this country are exposed have then passed away, leaving either luxuriance uninjured or partially or totally destroyed. The characteristic of the last winter was wet and boisterous weather, with little frost; this was succeeded by a Spring, in which dry and cold preponderated, and at the latter portion of it some most ungenial frosts succeeded a week of brilliant weather, in which vegetation, for that period, advanced with very great rapidity. The commencement of the present month still exhibited the country in a comparatively backward state, with less than ordinary promise of crops of grass for hay, more especially for a district so generally early as this is in the operation of hay-making, in a few instances, where the grass was approaching premature ripeness, mowing commenced before the recent rain, but with very inadequate crops. The beneficial rain which has fallen in the present month (which is generally our driest) has caused a cessation of inowing, and given a prospect of greater abundance by a most important stimulus to vegetation. Wheat progressed very favourably through the dry weather in May, where the land was in good cultivation, and has done so generally since; the crops on the land now look particularly well, and although this is by no means decisive of ultimate productiveness, yet it is at present cheering, and the price is already moderated; good bread has now been purchased under contract for the next three months at 6d. the 4 lb. loaf. Early sown barley vegetated well, and progressed continuously through the dry weather in May-the advantage of early sowing was this year strikingly manifested. Oats and beans are not much grown in this vicinity. Potatoes, which had sprouted early, were cut off by frost-but this took place in common with the early shoots of many of the forest trees, and although this cutting off is to a certain extent injurious, yet the benefit of early planting with this crop also has a tendency to render even the evil only a comparative one. The supply of beef in the market is now becoming more limited. Mutton and lamb are plentiful, large supplies of store sheep arrived here from Ireland to aid in filling our spacious and commodious market-place, and to be spread over the adjacent counties. The demand for labour still continues good in almost every department, and the proceedings of the neighbourhood are generally active and prosperous. June 14. LYNN. We have much pleasure in stating that the wheat crops in this vicinity have now assumed a most promising appearance. Throughout the greater part of the spring, notwithstanding the ungenial state of the weather, and the consequent backwardness of vegetation in general, still the wheat, for the most part, looked well, and, if not forward, looked sound and healthy. The chief deficiency was here and there a thinness of plant, which probably was occasioned partly by the frost and partly by the wire-worm aud other insects. However, this disadvantage is now for the most part overcome, and we think we may say upon the whole that the present wheat crop promises to be more than an average one. It is now, in many places, rapidly shooting the ear, and in another week or two this process will become general. Though it is impossible to predict with certainty, at this period of the year, what will be the ultimate result of the wheat crop, as blights, mildew, or an unfavourable harvest may singly or collectively intervene, yet from present appearances we think there is every reason to augur favourably of the growing crop in this neighbourhood, and should it be equally pro mising in other parts, and should the present prospects be realised by a prolific maturity, it is probable that for the year succeeding the ensuing barvest, England will not be drained of its cash to enrich foreigners by the purchase of their corn.―June 20. OXFORDSHIRE. Our report having been delayed until this late period, we are enabled to state the vast improvement the crops of corn and grass have made since we have been favoured with such a change in the weather to what we experienced during the preceding months, and even down to the beginning of the present month of June; for although we had two or three warm days in the early part of May, during which vegetation (and in an especial manner the wheats) correspondingly elated, yet such are the vicissitudes made an astonishing progress, and our hopes were we are subject to in this very variable climate, that our fond expectations were soon dashed by the wind suddenly coming round to the east and northeast (from whence it had blown for so many months), and these accompanied by sharp frosts almost every night proved a sad check to vegetation. We have to record the ground being covered with snow on the 14th of May, but not so deep as in some counties. The prospect at this period was gloomy, and light crops of corn and grass anticipated. The sharp frosty nights being followed by sunny days and brisk east winds, was more than vegetation could bear, consequently it was in a languishing state-the red clover about noon having the appearance of that which had been mown a day or two. Happily a wonderful improvement has taken place; and where the plant is not defective, from loss of plant by repetition, or otherwise, the crop falls heavy, and much better in quality than last season, when it proved to sheep to do well upon it. Some few seeds have been be too big in the stem, consequently too coarse for carted, but in general mowing is just commencing, and the weather inclined to be showery, but highly favourable to the Swedes, which appear likely to stand; a large breadth was this season planted earlier than usual. Our wheat is just coming into ear, being some days earlier than we expected, and in common with Berks and elsewhere, is found much the best plant, where put in on the back of clover or seeds, that after fallow or vetches having almost universally lost plant to a great degree. It is too soon to speak of the fly, although we have heard of their having been observed in some places. Barley and oats now bid fair to produce a good crop. Beans were much checked by the cold winds and frost, and began blossoming near the ground, but they are how going on well. Peas are a luxuriant crop. Shearing is now pretty well over, and both growers and factors appear "to be resting on their oar," for we have heard of no sales of late, therefore are unable to quote present prices. We, however, are of opinion that of the last year's crop very little remains in the farmers' hands. Our corn markets for the last week or two have been stationary, and appear likely to continue so, except we should have ungenial weather for the next fortnight, during the critical period of the blooming. Store stock have commanded high prices, and beef and mutton have sold at fair prices; but lambs have not fattened equal to former years, be the feed ever so good, which we attribute to the excessive cold nights we have so long experienced. Labourers are well employed, and the Chartists among us still and quiet.-June 23. |