Notwithstanding the arrivals of wheat during the last week at
New- castle-upon-Tyne were considerable, and the delivery from the growers equally so, such was the competition for the parcels on sale, that the market went up 4s. to fis, per quarter. Some very fine old Suffolk White wheat wits sold at 72s. and red from the same quarter, at 68s. per quarter, 631b. per bushel.
On the 10th April last, flour in Birmingham market was 2s. Gd. a peek ; on the 10th November, it was 3s. 4d. On the 10th April, Exchequer Bills were 20s. premium ; on the 10th November, they were 7s. discount. On the 10th April, 120 blast furnaces were over- worked in Staffordshire; on the 10th November, one in every five of these was cold for want of work. On the 10th April, the Bank had eight millions of sovereigns in its treasury, and a favourable ex- change; oi the 10th November, it bad four millions of sovereigns, and an unfavourable exchange.—Birmingham Journal.
All the wheat grown by a farmer near Exeter has been taken at 7s. 6d. per bushel, to be delivered as required, between this time and July next year.—Keeler Paper.
We have had a week of most disastrous weather (in Westmoreland) for grain, sonic yet uncut, and some standing in the shock. The moutitain.tops were in the early part of the week thickly clad with snow ; but in the lower grounds we have not laid so much frost as in the preceding week, and, consequently, more favourable to the potatoes yet in the ground.— Wclmoreiwmd Gazette.
The price of corn in Huntingdon market, on Saturday, put the farmers in high spirits. Wheat at 7s. lid, or 8s. a bushel has long been their prayer.— Cambridge Chronicle.
'there have been incendiary fires in Berkshire, Suffolk, and Wilt- shire. 'lime ag
riculturists near Salisbury have determined to increase the
wages of their fertmlabourers to an extent commensurate with the ad_ vance which has taken place in the price of graim—Salisbury Herald,
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