The only way to end those things is to laugh at them. It is certainly amazing how the Irish priesthood can have the audacity to publish these solemn blasphemies in the 19th century. It behoves, however, those who seriously desire the political amelioration of their sect publicly to shake off all participation in such babooneries if they do not, if they silently acquiesce in this priestcraft juggle, they may depend upon it, they will feel the effects of it next session. People will ask, and naturally, if even the relaxation afforded by Lord Wellesley has induced these monstrous results, what would not complete emancipation lead to. An acquiescence in such absurdities proves one of two things,-either an hypocrisy inconsistent with religion, or a brutishness unfit for freedom.

AGRICULTURE.

Perhaps there never was a season, upon the whole, more favourable to the various operations in which the farmer is at this period of the year engaged than the present. The extreme openness of the weather has enabled even the most dilatory to get in their wheats well, while the mildness, not to say warmth, accompanied by so much dry weather, has been of considerable importance to his future crop. The seed has vegetated with great freedom, and the young plants have a strong and healthy appearance, while his out-door work has proceeded very beneficially, and with little or no interruption. Such is the tenor of all the reports from the different districts of the kingdom. Some of the counties, indeed, have been visited, in the early part of December, with an immense quantity of rain; but the damage sustained from it has principally been felt in the loss of cattle and the wetting of the present year's corn-ricks. The warmth of the weather has pushed the growth of grass on

good lands to a state of vegetation very unprecedented, and has enabled the farmer to keep his cattle upon them much longer than usual. The hopes of thousands, whose long mows and hay-stacks were very inadequate to the keep attending a long and severe winter have been thus revived, and the early use of hay and other fodder, which, in the case of an unfavourable winter, would have risen to a most exorbitant price, has thus been prevented.

The corn markets, since our last report, have fluctuated. The large quantities of wheat which have poured into the market at one period of the month, arising from the preparations of the agriculturists to pay their approaching rents, created a considerable dulness in the sale. The millers, however, who have been using strong exertions to raise the price of flour, and thus give a temporary stimulus to the trade, have at last effected their purpose. Flour has risen five shillings a sack, and wheat, notwithstanding the immense arrival of flour (eighteen thousand six hundred and eighty-two sacks, and upwards of ten thouabout six shillings a quarter in the course sand quarters of corn) in one week, rose of a few days. It is much to be doubted, whether any considerable rise will take place, and if it does, whether it will be of any long continuance. It will be for the interest of the farmers that no rise approaching to the importation price should happen; for if once the ports open, such a deluge of corn will pour into the market as will effectually lower incalculably the price of English wheat for some years to

come.

It is said that Mr. Canning intends in the ensuing session of parliament to bring in his bill for enabling the holders of foreign corn to grind and export the flour. It is well known, that since the loss of that bill last session, the demand for flour for exportation has been so great, from the want of rain on the continent, that the price of American, under lock, has risen above the price of the best Norfolk, and even up to this very time has borne a much higher value than its fair proportion. As a proof that this demand existed, not only on the continent of Europe, but on the continent of America, and was extremely great, large shipments were making, even as late as the middle of November from Hamburg, for the Havannah, the Brazils, and South American markets generally. The price of wheat at this port, for the best marks on board, was only 24s. 8d. to 278. 1d. per quarter, although the late harvest was neither so abundant nor so excellent in quality as that of 1822. Whether this bill, in the event of its passing, will be attended with the beneficial effects that are anticipated, appears doubtful. The good to be derived from it must de

pend upon a variety of circumstances: upon the demand for flour in foreign countries, arising from the state of the continental harvest, and from a continuance of war or peace-upon the price of foreign wheat-upon the price of our own corn-upon the productiveness of our own harvest, and upon the many other circumstances to which these give rise.

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The average importations have been:Wheat... 6894 Peas........ 2367 Barley.. 5972 Flour... 7333 Oats 8934 Irish Oats... 5323 Wheat has advanced in the month 11s. per quarter; barley 2s.; peas and oats remain the same. Rye has risen from 6s. to 8s. per quarter, in consequence, it is said, of the demand for making the new breakfast powder.

Wool is looking upwards, and it is generally thought still higher prices will be obtained, when the spring orders come in. The hop market also, it is believed, has been and is still improving. As many dead hills have been found in redigging the ground, the demand for cuttings will be increased; and as these will not come into bearing until the third year, it is supposed the holders will still require higher prices.

COMMERCE.

London, Dec. 23. There has not been any thing so remarkable in the state of the market for the last month as to call for particular notice. The cotton market has lately been in a very

depressed state, and the sales very trifling; last Friday, however, the favourable accounts from Liverpool caused inquiries by speculators, who would willingly have taken large quantities at the late depressed prices, but the holders asked an advance of id. per lb. which was currently obtained on India. The sales amounted to about 2500 bales.

In Liverpool the sales, in the week ending December 20, amounted to 23,700 bags, 8000 of which were on speculation.

Coffee has been rather declining, except Berbice, which has risen; the business done has not been extensive. Last week there were only two public sales.

Sugar.-Towards the end of last month and beginning of this, considerable business was done at fair prices; but the market afterward became heavy, though with very little alteration in the prices.

Tallow, after falling so low as 33s. 3d. to 33s. 6d. rose again to 35s. 6d. but has since declined again, and the nearest price to-day is 35s.

Tea-At the late India House sale, Boheas went about 1d. lower than in September; common Congous d. higher. The better qualities 1d. cheaper. Since the sale Boheas have obtained an advance of ad.

Fruit. Very large quantities of all descriptions have been forced on the market by public sale, and the low price of the common descriptions has greatly increased the consumption, which is very consider able.

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BIRTHS.

Nov. 25-At Southsea Lodge, the lady of Capt.
Sir Alexander Gordon, KCB. a daughter.
28. At Constable Burton, the lady of W. Wyvill,
MP. a daughter.

Dec. 4.-At the lodgings of the Principal of Bra-
zenose College, Oxford, Mrs. Gilbert, a daughter,
-At Kenton House, Devonshire, the Hon. Mrs.
Lysaght, a son.

5. In New Norfolk-street, the lady of John Currie, jun. Esq. a daughter.

6. The lady of Henry Tennant, Esq. a daughter. -At Caerleon Priory, the lady of Wm. Phillips, jun. Esq. a son and heir.

7. At Bishop's Court, Isle of Man, Lady Sarah Murray, a daughter.

At Hicknoll, in the county of Dorset, the lady of Sir M. H. Nepean, Bart. twin daughters. 8. At Normanby, Lincolushire, Lady Sheffield, a

son.

13. At Beverley, the lady of Capt. Cure, of Blake Hall, Essex, a son.

16. In Russell-square, Mrs. Nicholl, a daughter. 17. In York-place, Portman-square, the lady of Joseph Van Zeller, Esq. a son.

18. Lady Caroline Pennant, a daughter.

Nov. 18.-At Scarborough, George Woodcock Dowker, Esq. of Salton Hall, in the county of York, to Miss Tindall, eldest daughter of the late Colonel Tindall, of Scarborough. 25. At St. Giles, by the Bishop of Landaff, William Nettleship, Esq. of Cheltenham, to Mary, daughter of the late John Best, Esq. and niece to the Hon. Mr. Justice Best.

26. At Kingston, Hauts, Capt. Thomas M. Mason, RN. to Miss Grav, eldest daughter of Commissioner the Hon. Sir George Grey, Bart. KCB. of the Dock-yard, Portsmouth,

30. At Walcot church, Bath, Frederick Henry Yates, Esq. of Upper Charlotte-street, to Miss Brunton, daughter of John Brunton, Esq.

Dec. 2-At St. George's Bloomsbury, John Johnston, Esq. eldest son of John Johuston, Esq. of Danson, Kent, to Helen, eldest daughter of Walter Learmouth, Esq. of Montagne-street, Russell-square.

3. At Chichester, by the Rev. Archdeacon Webber, the Hon. Capt. Berkeley, RN. to Lady Charlotte Lennox, sister to the Duke of Richmond. After the ceremony the new-married couple set off for Malcolm Castle, the seat of Lord George Lennox.

4. At Lanover, Monmouthshire, by the Rev. Dr. Hall, Chancellor of Llandaff, and grand-father to the bridegroom, Benjamin Hall, Esq of Hensal Castle, Glamorganshire, and of Abercarne, Monmouthshire, eldest son of the late Member for Glamorganshire, to Augusta, youngest daughter of Benjamin Waddington, Esq. of Lanover. -At Linsted, Kent, William Tayler, Esq. nephew to Lord Teynham, of Linsted Lodge, to Elizabeth Taylor, of New House, at the same place, niece to John Baring, Esq. of Nouds, ditto. 6. Charles Knight, Esq. of Hall Piace, Yately, Hants, to Teresa, only daughter of Thomas Taunton, Esq. of Axminster.

7. At St. George's Hanover square, Philip Longmore, Esq. of Hertford, to Sabina, second daughter of Jacob Elton, Esq. and niece to the late Admiral Sir William Young.

9. At Lambeth, Henry Kelsall, Esq. of Chester, to Elizabeth, daughter of William Reece, Esq. of South Lambeth.

11. At Bathford, Capt. Oliver, 32d regt. to Mary, daughter of Rear-admiral Dacres.

-At King's Norton, the Rev. George William Bowyer Adderley, of Fillongley Hall, Warwickshire, to Caroline, youngest daughter of the late John Taylor, Esq. of Moseley Hall, Worcestershire.

15. At Bury, William Thompson, Esq. of Batavia, to Miss Grace Grant, niece to Wm. Grant, Esq. of Spring Mill, in the county of Lancaster. -At Clapham, Surrey, the Rev. W. F. Cobb, AM. of Nettlestead, Kent, second son of Francis Cobb, Esq. of Margate, to Mary, second daughter of Peter Blackburn, Esq. of Clapham. 16. At West Wratting, Cambridgeshire, the Rev. Wm. Acton, Rector of Ayott St. Laurence, Herts, to Henrietta, fourth daughter of Sir C. Watson, Bart. of Wratting Park.

-J.S. Henslow, AM. of St. John's College, and Professor of Mineralogy in that University, to Harriot, second daughter of the Rev. George Jenyns, of Bottisham Hall, in the county of Cambridge.

-At Huyton, Edward Penrhyn, son of the Rev. Oswald Lycester, of Stoke, in the county of Salop, to the Hon. Charlotte Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Lord Stanley, of Knowsley, in the county of Lancaster.

18. At Streatham, the Rev. G. D. White, Domestic Chaplain to Lord Monson, to Inger Maria, daughter of Geo. Wolff, Esq. of Balham, Surrey. By Special License, at St. George's, Hanoversquare, by the Rev. George Champagne, Canon of Windsor, William Duncombe, Esq. MP. to Lady Louisa Stuart, youngest daughter of the Earl of Galloway.

19. At St. Pancras, Robert Mitford. Esq. of the Ordnance Office, Pall-Mall, to Miss Stanger, daughter of James Stanger, Esq. of Doughty

street.

Harden Burnley, Esq. father-in-law of Joseph
Hume, Esq, MP.

28. At his seat, Picton Castle, after a long illness, in his 85th year, the Right Hon. Richard Phillips, Lord Milford, Lord Lieutenant for Pembrokeshire, and late member for that county. His lordship was a lineal descendant from Sir John Picton, the second baronet of the family, who garrisoned the castle of Picton for Charles I. in 1647; he was raised to the Irish Peerage in 1776, by the title of Baron Milford, which is now extinct, his Lordship having died without issue.

30. At Chiswick, at Lieut.-Col. Cavendish's, Villiers Frederick Francis, youngest son of the Hon. Henry Howard, aged 8 years.

-At his house in Spring Gardens, Christopher Allott, Esq. Army Agent.

Dec. 2.-In consequence of a wound received the preceding day, while shooting in his plantations, by his gun going off as he was getting through a hedge, and lodging its contents in his right side, Robert Viner, Esq. of Eathorp.

3. In his 9th year, the Hon John Russell Keppel, youngest son of the Earl of Albemarle,

4. Aged 32, Eliza, relict of Gen. Keith Macalister, late of Wimpole-street, Carindish-square, and of Toresdale Castle, Argyleshire.

7. At his house in Queen-square, Robert Raynsford, Esq. Chief Magistrate of the Police Office, Queen-square.

8. In Gower-street, Bedford-square, Geo. Jourdan, Esq.

Aged 70, the Hon. Thomas Steele. -At Monkwearmouth, Ann Sophia, eldest and only surviving daughter of the late Rev. Cooper Abbs, AM. and sister to Bryan Abbs, Esq. of Cleadon House, in the county of Durham. -At Windsor, Anne, relict of the Rev. William Douglas, Prebendary of Westminster and Chancellor of the Diocese of Salisbury.

10. Sophia, eldest daughter of Joseph Gwilt, Esq. of Abingdon-street, Westminster. -In Brook-street, aged 63, Sir Eyre Coote, Bart. of West Park, in the county of Hants.

- In Upper Grosvenor-street, Lady Wake, relict of Sir Wm. Wake, Bart. of Courtean Hall, Northamptonshire.

11. At Exeter, Sibilla, relict of the late Robert Lambert, Esq. of Dorchester, in the county of Dorset,