The accounts of' the crops are chiefly derived from the
mete of last week, when the weather was fine ; consequently they wen more favourable than would now be received, for the weather during the present week has been unsettled, and a good deal of rain he
fallen. We see nothing to alter the opinion that in the Southern counties the crop will not exceed an average one, and that in the North it will be considerably below the average.
At Plymouth, last week, wheat was taken out of bond at a duty of 13s. Sd., because there was absolutely none to be had in the marketof that place.
The returns which have appeared in the London Gazette, the last two weeks, as the average prices of wheat throughout the kingdom, have represented the prices at somewhat tinder seventy shillings psi quarter ; while at the Preston market, on the 4th instant, the average of the corn actually sold (which we believe comprised all that an offered for sale) was somewhat above eighty shillings ; and last Satur. day, the llth instant, the average was fully eighty-five shillings. is a rather important fact, and exhibits great discrepancy, when core. pared with the " official average." It must not be forgotten that the Preston corn-market ranks among the largest and most importantol the North of England.—Preston Chronicle.
In consequence of the high price of bread, a Union of the labourers has been formed at Spetisbury, near Blandford ; and their numben are spoken of as augmenting daily.— Wilts Herald. [What can the poor fellows do to lower the price of bread ? Their " Union," how. ever, is a symptom not to be disregarded.] We understand, that in consequence of the great increase in tie price of bread, it,is the intention of the Poor-law Commissioners tore. store to the Magistracy the power of fixing, or recommending, a rate of wages for the agricultural labourers commensurate with the priced necessaries.—Salisbury Herald. [This, surely, must be incorrect] Great improvements are likely to take place in certain parts of the Bedford Level. We understand several hundred acres of or:henna lands have been purchased near Stoke Ferry, and at Manea, upon which cottages are to be erected, lands allotted, and the principles and system of the eccentric but well.meaning Mr. Owen of Lanark, the philanthropist, are to be carried into effect. Mr. Hill of Wisbech, and 11Ir. Ilodgson of Upwell, are the sanguine promoters of the Self-ad. vancement Society, (in support of which a meeting has been recent held at Peterborough,) and extremely sanguine as to the result main the Bedford Level.—Huntingdon Independent Press.
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