AGRICULTURAL REPORT.

The weather since last report, has been dry and remarkably warm, which has brought on the harvest much earlier than there was reason to expect from the backwardness of the spring, and the late seed time. The crops in general appear to be light, the oats and barley in particular will not come near the average of former years, and even the wheat which has been considered the best of all the corn crops, will be less productive than was at first expected It has been remarked by several practical farmers, that grain of every kind is smaller this season than usual, and it may be accounted for by supposing that the weather being much hotter, than is usual at this time of the year brought on a premature ripeness, the grain whitening before it came to its full size.

Although the late planted potato crops have improved much in their appearance, yet there is some reason to apprehend that the roots will be injured in their growth by the want of moisture. The ground was perhaps never known to be in so dry a state at this time of the year as it was before the late rains. And in all the stiff clay land, the potatoes are becoming yellow in the leaf, which indicates a cessation of growth in the root. The flax crops are not in a general way equal to what was at one time of the season expected; they have proved both thin and short, and the produce will of course be eficient; there never was perhaps a more favourable season for saving of seed, and

yet there does not appear to have been much done in that way in such parts of the country, as the writer of this report has had an opportunity of seeing.

The turnip crops in many places are suffering by the late great drought, and the grass grounds which in the beginning of the season yielded a plentiful supply, are now scarcely sufficient to feed the cattle that are on them.

A correspondent in Carlow, informs that opinions respecting the produce of this harvest are various, some think it will nearly average the last; others say it will fall much short. Our correspondent inclines to the former opinion, especially as the season has been so remarkably fine, for saving grain, of all kinds, which are now mostly reaped and in fine order. The potato crops are generally believed to be very deficient on account of the late setting, and the uncommon hot and dry weather through this month. The deficiency of the potato crop may be felt severely next summer, and cause a considerable rise on oats.

Present prices in Carlow. Wheat 38s. per barrel, of 20 stone-Barley 21. per barrel of 16 stone,-Oats 13s. to 14s. per ditto, of 14 ditto-Potatoes 5d. per stone-Beef 5d. per lb.-Mutton 6d. per lb.-Butter 116s. per cwt

COMMERCIAL REPORT.

On the subject of trade, little new can be said, or any material difference marked from former accounts. The importing merchant finds it difficult to sell at a profit, and on many articles he loses, owing to the slack demand. Exports do little better, and it is very difficult to find out a good market that is not entirely over-stocked. When any opening presents, the market is at the first rush overstocked, from the eagerness felt by all to find a sale for their over-loaded stocks. The market of Lisbon was soon overdone. Gibraltar was also crowded with merchandize, which meets with little sale, and from Heligoland the stocks which had been accumulating till they were rotting on the 'quays for want of room in warehouses, have been latterly withdrawn, since they find the open to the continent of Europe is so completely closed against the introduction of articles from the dominions of Britain. The South American market has not succeeded well for those who tried it. It too was soon overdone.

Domestic manufactures in general languish, although there is some little stir at present among the woollen-manufacturers in Yorkshire. The cloathing for the army aids the manufacture of the coarser pecies of woollens, and the fall on fine wool, raised so exorbitantly for a time by'a most pernicious speculation, gives a temporary briskness to the looms employed in the finer branches. But the state of affairs in England may be discovered from the circumstance that within the last two months, shares in insurance companies, canals, and other public institutions are said to have fallen 20 per cent.

In the Island of Trinidad they have fallen on a scheme to retain the dollars they possess, and to prevent their coming to Europe, as happened in Jamaica, by cutting a piece out of them, which passes for a shilling, and by rating the re mainder of the dollars thus cut at 9s. They try to accomplish the same ends to retain the silver, by different means in these countries. In England they coin the dollar into pieces valued at 3s. and 1s. 6d. being about equal to half and quarter dollars; and in Ireland we have a coinage of silver very greatly alloyed below the standard in our respective pieces, passing at 5d. 10d. and 2s. 6d. Frequent seizures of Guineas, intended for the continent, continue to be made, but these measures, nor those of legislative interference, are sufficient to stop the depreciation. The late inefficient act is eluded by Guineas being bought for the notes of private bankers, as the attempt to force notes to be ta ken at the sum marked on them, extends only to notes of the Bank of England. In Ireland, the market is left open, and Guineas are sent for sale to this country, even from Great Britain. The Isle of Man has latterly supplied the exchange of Belfast with a pretty large quantity, but that supply must soon be exhausted. Another proof of the point of view in which landlords in England, practically consider the actual depreciation of Guineas, may be evinced by the fact, that land has lately been set there by the year only, subject to a certain rent, if paid in Guineas, and to a stipulated advance, if paid in Bank-notes,

The forgeries of Bank-notes have latterly in this country been carried on to an alarming extent. It is the duty of every one to be vigilant in detecting them. The loss is more likely to fall on the ignorant, and consequently the less protected classes of society.

It would be well in every instance when forged notes are offered, to trace them as far back as is practicable: by such a system, regularly persevered in, the fraudulent passer might generally be found out, and a stop put to such practices by the vigilance of the community.

The plan of an extensive fishery on the western coast of Ireland, has been lately submitted to public notice, and meetings held in Dublin and Belfast, to sanction the measure. At those meetings, flattering prospects for amending the linen trade of Ireland, have been suggested, and great benefits promised from the plan of draining bogs, On those points we exercise a cautious scepticism. Public works have not generally suc ceeded in Ireland, but have commonly descended into private jobs. In matters of trade, we are cautious of trusting to plans of ardent theorists, in opposition to the duller ploddings of practice.

Exchange on London is now about 9 per cent., and discount on Bank-notes 14 to 5per cent.

NATURALISTS' REPORT.

From Angust 20, till September 20.

Aug. 22...Reaping of Oats commenced.

23...Variegated Meadow Saffron (Colchicum variegatum) flowering. Sept. 1... Red Chelone (Chelone Obliqua) flowering,

3...Wood Lark (Alauda Arborea) singing, and Quail (Tetrao Coturnix) yet calling. 4...Common Swallows (Hirundo Rustica) assembling in flocks.

7...Clouded Orange Butterfly (Papilio Ædusa) flying about.

9...A White Throat (Motacilla cincrea) seen this day.

15...Brown Butterfly, with white spots (Papilio Egeria), Brown Butterfly, with yellow orange spots (Papilio Magera), Cabbage Butterfly (Papilio Brassica), and small Heath Butterfly (P Phicas), with common swallows (Hirundo Rustica), and whiterumped Martins (Hirundo Urbica), seen this day.

16...A Tern, or sea-swallow, (Sterna Hirundo) seen on the shore of Belfast Lough

11, 19,.............Very Fine,

20,.................Cloudy, but dry.

The only misty weather we have had this season, was on the mornings and the evenings of the 13th and 14th.

The Barometer was on the 27th of August in the fore part of the day at 29-3. The rest of this period it varied little from 30-the four first days of September it stood as high as 30-3.

The Thermometer has been more than usually high for the season. Several mornings it ranged above 60-on the 22d of August it was at 62, on the 11th of Septemqer it was 63, and the lowest was on the 2d of Sept. when it stood at 52.

The height at 2 P.M. was on the 22d of Aug. 70-Sept. 3rd, 70°-11th, 71-13th and 14th, 70°.

The Wind has been observed 9 times S.W.-6 N.W.-14 S.E.-4 N.E.-3 E.

CELESTIAL PHENOMENA.

FOR OCTOBER, 1811.

(Extracted from Frend's Evening Amusements.)

The state of the tides was mentioned last month, as deserving our attention. On the 3rd of this month a considerable one may be expected.

The Moon is on the meridian, on the 1st at 46 min. past 11. On the 2d is full Moon at 16 min. past 7 in the morning. She rises under the four stars in square, and at 9 is 80° 33 min. from the first of the Eagle. On the 5th she rises under the Pleiades, and is soon followed by the Hyades and Aldebaran, and in her passage through the Hyades, one of them suffers an occultation; this takes place in the morning of the 6th at 124 min. past one, when the eastern rim of the Moon touches the third of the Bull, the Star being one minute south of the centre; and it emerges at 26 min. and a quarter past two, the Star being 3 min. and a quarter south of the centre. At 56 min. past 3 she pases by the first fourth, and at 23 min. past 4 the second fourth. The rising Sun interrupts our view of her progress by Aldebaran. In the evening she rises between Aldebaran and Jupiter, but nearer to the Star, and her progress from one towards the other, over Orion, will form a pleasing view.

On the 12th she rises with the fourteenth of the Lion, which before rising, is covered by her, for the occultation takes place at half an hour before one, the Star being 4 min. south of the centre; and it emerges at 20 min. past one; the star being 8 min. south of the centre. On the 17th is new Moon at 9 min. after noon. On the 20th the Moon appears again in the south-west, over the second of the Scorpion, and to the east of her, Scorpion and Antares, the latter star being near to the horizon; to the east of her, Saturn and Mars will excite our attention.

On the 27th the Moon is on the meridian at 42 min. past eight, the four small stars in triangle of the Water-pot being above her to the west, and the two western of the four stars in square high above her to the east of the meridian: below her, at a considerable distance, is Fomalhaut. She has lately passed the eleventh of the Water-bearer, the small star at the western border of the stream from the Waterpot, which will suffer this evening an ocultation. The eastern rim of the Moon touched her at 22 min. past five, the star being 7 min. and a quarter south of the Moon's center, and it emerges at 22 min. and three quarters past six, the star being 7 mi. south of the centre. At nine she is 54° 46 min. from the first of the Ram.

On the 31st is full Moon, at 19 min. past five in the evening; she rises under the three first stars af the Ram, at a considerable distance from them; and, as she ascends the heavens, is perceived to be nearest to Menkar, passing above the small stars in the head of the Whale. At nine she is 279 27 min. from Aldebaran.

Mercury is a morning star, during the whole of this month, being stationary on the 9th and at his greatest elongation on the 16th; at first he is too near the sun to be visible, for they set nearly at the same time, but on the 16th his duration above the horizon, before sun-rise, is an hour and 40 min. He will appear then to many, for some days before and after that time, as the bright harbinger of day. First, his motion is of course retrograde; but on the 10th it is direct with a northern latitude of 40 min. The Moon passes him on the 15th.

Venus is in her superior conjunction on the 12th, and travelling the same road, and nearly at the same rate with the sun, she will not be visible during the whole of the month.

Mars is on the meridian at three quarters past five, in the evening of the firs and at 34 min. past five on the 19th His motion is direct through 22°. The mot passes him on the 24th.

Jupiter is on the meridian at 57 min. past 5 in the morning of the first, and 55 min. past 4 on the 19th. On the 28th he is stationary, and to that time his me tion is direct about a degree. We see him, therefore at first, gradually receding from the 12th of the Twins, and then making very slow approaches towards it The Moon passes him on the 8th.

Saturn is on the meridian at 54 min past 4 in the afternoon of the first, and at 53 min. past three on the 19th. The opportunity of observing him, therefore, nightily diminishes. His motion is direct, through two degrees, 25 min. towards the middle space, between the two branches of the milky way, between the Scorpion and the Archer. The Moon passes him on the 22nd.

Herchell is only nine degress above the horizon at sun-set near to the second thirteenth of the Balance. He will therefore not be an object of much attention. The Moon passes him on the 19th.

The sun's apparent diameter on the 1st is 32 min. two seconds, and on the 19th 32 min. 12 seconds. The Moon's apparent diameter on the 1st is 33 min. 26 seconds. decreasing to the 14th, when it is 29 min. 32, seconds: it then increases to the twenty-ninth.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

We should be willing to gratify G. with the insertion of the character of Cromwel extracted from Fox's Historical Work, if we did not hope that this excellent work wa as it ought to be, generally known to our readers. To extract from a well known pul lication, would be to fill our pages, without adding to the information of our readers. Some poetical favours came too late for insertion in this number. That departme had been closed before they came to hand.

ERRATUM.

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