Some farmers calculate their loss on wet soils at one.third,
and others in drier situations at one-sixth of their entire crop. These cal- culations, however, we should fain hope, cannot have a general appli- cation. In the mean time, the price of this article has risen to an ex- tent which seriously affects the poor man's income, and more so as the price of the quartern loaf is also a third higher than it was a few months ego.— Scdtsinan Scotland is draining England of its grain, while Ireland is unable to furnish England with the accustomed supply of grain. The price of bread is everywhere rising. This is no time to trifle with partial re- Undies; this is no time to leave it in the power of another country to forestall us in the purchase of foreign grain already landed on our 'bores. Let the ports be opened.— Glasgow Argus. It is announced that, at a meeting of the master power-loom weavers at Glasgow, in consequence of the demand made upon them by the operatives for a rise of wages, it was resolved to stop their works alto- gether. In consequence of this, fourteen hundred looms will be put aside.
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