ought not to deprive its subject of the credit which his well-meant exertions have obtained from his countrymen in their reflecting moments. From Ireland there is little except the usual intelligence-the transportation of a few of the superabundant population for being out of their houses after sunset, and the acquittal of a few orange anniversary men, who were suspected of having made more than usually free with the lives of his Majesty's subjects on the twelfth of last July. AGRICULTURE. March 24, 1824. THE mildness of the former part of the winter was favourable for ploughing, although, from the absence of frost, the land did not promise to work well. The early part of this month, however, produced a sudden change in the appearance of the country. The snow and sleet which fell prevented the continuance of ploughing entirely upon the heavy lands, and very much retarded it upon light soils. The remaining part of the turnip crop has suffered from the effects of this weather, and the farmers are rapidly feeding them off in some districts. In Oxfordshire considerable fears have been entertained for the crop of beans. On the cold wet soils, where the seed was damp, it was apprehended that great injury would accrue from the bursting of the seed. The wheats generally present a very healthy and strong appearance; in Scotland they are equally good, and the pastures are as green as is usual at this time. The season is still young for barley, and the few dry days which we have had, have been very beneficial to the early sowers. The lambing season has been very favourable, and generally speaking but few lambs have been lost. Hay is rather on the advance in consequence of the rapid decay of the turnips, whose tops had made great progress during the open weather. In spite of the previous indications of a rise there has been a hesitation about the corn market of late, accompanied by a depression which demonstrates the uncertainty of opinion, or rather the belief that the home growth will be found equal to the consumption. Yet the supply of the last month has been below the average in Mark-lane. But the buyers are chary; flour is a drug, and has fallen 5s. per sack, and in many of the country markets the decline is even greater than in that of London. If the harvest be not late we are within five months of the appearance of new corn for sale. These are ominous symptoms, and we incline to the belief that prices will fall: to what degree it is difficult to foresee. Nothing but the impression that the home growth is adequate to the consumption can have caused the depression, and if this prevails after a year like the present, what must be the effect should the next harvest prove abundant? Farmers who may be will do well to look at these facts, and to inclined, and who may be able to hold stock, consider them, lest they find themselves duped at last by their own cupidity—a result by no means unlikely. And there are other considerations which, operating upon the factor and the holder of British corn, assist in precluding the probability of a further rise. It forms a provision of the last Corn Bill, that both foreign and colonial corn warehoused previous to the 15th of May, 1822, may be taken out when wheat is at 70s. and oats at 25s. per quarter. There are, perhaps, 270,000 quarters of the former, and 70,000 of the last-named grain in this predicament. Now, many of the great holders of British wheat purchased soon after or just before the last harvest, and should the price rise to 70s. and be an end of the profit of their speculation. release the warehoused grain, there would Wheat has risen to 65s. Ed. They will, therefore, probably check a further advance by selling out. chase barley, and the quantity required The distillers are very unwilling to purfor malting being limited, the trade in that article is extremely dull. The oat market continues to fall. The average arrivals during the month have been, of Wheat 6355 qrs. Flour 21094 qrs. 9435 sacks. 1354 qrs. And the average prices of Wheat, 66s. Peas, 40s. 6d.; Flour, 55s. to 60s. per sack. 7d.; Barley, 37s. 2d.; Oats, 25s. 2d.; The Meat Market in Smithfield is much lower; and, notwithstanding the quality of the beasts is fully equal to the late Markets, they still go off very heavily. The finest Oxen scarcely fetch 4s. 2d. per stone. The graziers being anxious to clear their pens, the Mutton trade was full two shillings a head lower. Fine Sheep sold at 48. 6d, per stone, while there was nothing doing in old Mutton. COMMERCE. March 23, 1824. Great attention has naturally been excited by the further measures of the Government towards the gradual introduction of that more liberal system of foreign commerce which is the avowed object of ministers. The remission of the duties on raw silk, the intended removal of the prohibition of foreign silk goods, and their admission on payment of a high duty, have chiefly attracted attention on account of the conflicting interests concerned; but on the whole, the plan first proposed, having been modified, appears to be approved by the great majority. Sugar.-The West India merchants, who hoped that some measure favourable to their interest would be adopted, have been disappointed. The reports on the subject were that distillation from sugar would be allowed when the prices of grain were high. This being unfounded, the market is in a very languid state; the purchases inconsiderable; the holders seeming more and more disposed to effect sales. The refined market is very heavy to-day. Foreign sugars very dull. Coffee. The prices of Coffee last week fell generally 2s. to 3s. per cwt.; the fine and clean descriptions, which have lately supported the currency so excessively well, participated in the general decline: large parcels of St. Domingo, nearly good ordinary pale, sold 64s. to 65s. 6d. ; the damaged sold 62s. to 65s.; middling St. Lucia sold 85s. to 87s.; good middling Berbice 103s.; fine middling 108s. to 108s. 6d. There were four extensive public sales this forenoon, completely establishing a market currency. The ordinary descriptions of Jamaica are again 1s. to 2s. lower; all qualities of Demerara and Berbice 38. to 48. lower; St. Domingo, good ordinary coloury 64s.; damaged 62s. The following are the sale rates Jamaica, good ordinary 59s. to 62s.; fine ordinary 67s. to 73s.; fine fine ordinary 78s. 6d. to 82s.; Demerara, fine ordinary 75s. to 76s.; fine fine ordinary 78s. to 798.; middling 91s. to 92s.; good middling 96s. to 96s. 6d. ; St. Domingo, good ordinary coloury sold 648.; damaged 60s. 6d. to 62s. The extensive parcel of Havannah all withdrawn, no offers. Cotton. The market has been on the whole in a pretty satisfactory state. The demand considerably improved last week, and about 3000 bales were sold, viz. 800Bengals, 5d. ordinary; 5d. middling; 5d. to 53d. fair; to 6d. good fair; 1850 Surats 5d. very ordinary; 5d., and 64d. ordinary; 61d. to 63d. fair; 6d. to 63d. good fair; 7d. good; 7d. very good; 170 Madras, 5d. middling; 6fd. fair; 360 Boweds, 7d. ordinary; 84d. to 8d. good fair; 20 Orleans, 84d. fair; 370 Pernams, 104d. middling; to 114d. good-all in bond. The Surats have been taken chiefly for home consumption; the rest partly for export, and partly by specu lators. At Liverpool, the arrivals in four weeks, to the 20th March, were 54,443 bags, the sales 50,798 bags. Rum, Brandy, and Hollands. - The rum market is completely stagnant since a government contract for 100,000 gallons was taken last week so low as 1s. 4gd. Brandy is exceedingly heavy, and but few purchases reported. Parcels, to arrive, free on board, 2s. 10d. to 2s. 11d. Tea. The news from China, of the 9th December, stating that the trade with the Chinese was uninterrupted, together with the arrivals, has caused the market to become heavy. Indigo.—The holders confidently expect higher prices; the premium on the last sale is still about 1s. 6d. per lb. SKETCH OF FOREIGN LITERATURE. FRANCE. Poetry. M. Buisson has published a volume under the title of a Collection of French Poets, who died in the Prime of Life. Among them are the best productions of Malfilâtre, Gilbert, André Chenier, Bertin, &c. The editor has prefixed a biographical sketch to the works of each author. He is, however, blamed by some critics for having reprinted poems or fragments which had been deservedly forgotten, and with having omitted others of great merit. M. Gilbert de Merliac has given to the public the first French translation of the celebrated Spanish poem of the Araucana, by Ercilla. History, Memoirs, Biography.-Reminiscences of 1814 and 1815, by M. M***, contain a great number of interest ing anecdotes, some of which may even be considered as valuable materials for history. Such is the narrative of the captivity of Pius VII. and the means employed to effect his removal to France. A Frenchman, formerly belonging to the household of the Viceroy of Italy, has published Memoirs of the Court of Prince Eugene, 1 vol. 8vo. The noted M. de Pradt has brought forward a new work, Europe and America in 1822 and 1823, which we have not seen, and cannot venture to characterize on the credit of an Ultra-Royalist journal of Paris, which accuses it of liberalism and Anglomania.-Memoirs of his Highness Louis Antoine Philippe d'Orleans, Duke of Montpensier. The young prince was ore of the sons of the Duke of Orleans, who, though he had fought in the Republican armies at Valmy and Jemappes, was ar rested according to the decree, in which the whole family of the Bourbons were included. His captivity, which lasted forty-three months, is the chief object of these memoirs written by himself, and terminating with his being embarked with his brother, the Duke of Beaujolais, on board an American vessel, Nov. 5, 1796, with which the memoirs conclude. This prince died at Twickenham in 1807, and was buried in West minster Abbey, where his brother, the Duke of Orleans, erected a handsome monument to his memory. The style, says a French journal, is always easy and unaffected, and it is clear that the writer was a sensible young prince. We have mentioned on a former occasion, the intended publication of the Memoirs of Duplessis-Mornay, from 1571 to 1623. Two volumes have now appeared. Mr. A. Beugnot has published, The Jews of the West, or Inquiries into the Civil Condition, the Literature, and the Commerce of the Jews in France, Spain, and Italy, during the Middle Ages. Fine Arts.-M. Gau, of Cologne, has now published the 10th Number of his splendid and classical work on the Antiquities of Nubia. It contains five sheets of letter-press and 10 plates. A work in two volumes folio, is advertised by the title of a Civil and Military Gallery of illustrious Contemporaries. It is to be in numbers, each of which will contain one life, with the bust of the natural size, and two lithographic prints, representing remarkable incidents in the history of the individual who is the subject of the memoir. Travels and Geography.- The first two Numbers of Mr. Caillaud's Journey to Merne, the White River, &c. in the year 1819-1822. These plates are in folio; the French journalists speak in high terms of the importance of the results of Mr. Caillaud's enterprize; we have, however, seen a letter from a German at Paris, who says, that these first two Numbers contain nothing of importance. A Geographical, Historical, and Military Description of Spain, by M. Chevalier Durozoir, appears, from the extracts we have seen of it, to be extremely well written, and to contain much valuable matter, expressed with conciseness and perspicuity. Another work, though of the highest importance, will demand but a short notice here; it is the Continuation of Mr.Charles Dupin's Voyages dans la Grande Bretagne. It is the third part, called Force Commerciale, in 2 vols. 4to. with large plates. The preceding volumes of this great work have been so largely quoted and so generally eulogized in the English reviews and journals, that it is hardly necessary to call the attention of the public to these two volumes. Every part of them is worthy the attention of the English reader, who, though necessarily acquainted with a great part of their contents, cannot find any work in his own language where the whole subject is so collected in one view: even where he may detect errors, he will be surprised that a foreigner should have committed so few; and those, as far as we have been able to discover of such small importance. Count Orloff has pub lished a Tour through Part of France, in a Series of Letters to the Countess of Strogonoff, 3 vols. 8vo. Jurisprudence.-M. Coffinières, Doctor of Laws, and Advocate in the Royal Tri bunal of Paris, has published De la Bourse et des Speculations sur les Effets publics. In which what are called time-bargains are considered after the laws, jurisprudence, morality, and public credit. This work is the fruit of immense research and profound study, and merits the serious attention of all persons interested in transactions in the public funds. Philosophy-A Course of General Philosophy, by M. Azais, professes to afford a simple and gradual explanation of all facts; 1st, of the Physical Order; 2d, of the Physiological Order; 3d, of the Intellectual, Moral, and Political Order. It is to consist of eight vols. of which only two have yet appeared. The author is persuaded, that the reader will find in his work only clear and simple ideas closely connected, from the universal principle, which is the basis of the edifice, to the lowest facts of the third order. The Study of Man in the Manifestation of his Faculties, by J. A. Goulianoff, Aulic Counsellor in the Service of Russia, and Member of the Russian Academy: Part I, an Essay on the Formation of Language, considered in its Physiological principles. The Prospectus gives an analysis of the whole of M. Goulianoff's work. The author promises to demonstrate the original identity of the alphabetical characters of all languages; to show the number, value, and primitive forms of these characters, to unveil the abuses of the old doctrine which persists in considering alphabetic writing as proceeding from corrupted hieroglyphics." The remote antiquity of the primitive alphabet,” says he, "will be at length acknowledged." M. Goulianoff means to publish, as a corollary to his work, a Universal Alphabet, founded on the organic System of the Elements of Speech. Medicine.-An octavo volume, the author of which has not given his name, has appeared under the title of Conversations on Animal Magnetism, and on the Magnetic Sleep, called Somnabulism. It is very well spoken of by the French journals, but we have not seen even an extract on which to found an opinion. Novels. The Novel of M. Picard, L'Exalté, or the History of Gabriel Desou dry, continues to be read with great interest: it has already reached the 3d or 4th edition. Most of our readers will recollect the dreadful sufferings of the crew of the French frigate the Medusa, shipwrecked on the Coast of Africa a few years ago. Mademoiselle Charlotte Adelaide Picard, now Madame Dard, one of the persons on board that unfortunate vessel, has published a small tale, called The African Cottage, or History of a French Family cast on the West Coast of Africa, in consequence of the Shipwreck of the Medusa. GERMANY. Historical Works. It is, we think, without sufficient reason that complaints have been made of the frivolous trash of the German public, in literary subjects. If any thing really possessing solid excellence is offered, there is no want of read ers. Does not every body eagerly take up Professor Pölitz's work, "Staatswissen schaften im Licht unserer Zeit dargestellt," of which three parts are now published? Are not the first two volumes of Raumer's History of the Princes of the House of Hohenstanfen to be found, not only in the study of the learned, but on the work tables of the most accomplished ladies, where they are not placed merely for parade? Other instances might be quoted, but these will suffice. With respect to Mr. Raumer's work it may be safely affirmed that the first two volumes have fully justified the expectations entertained of it. Another work of equal interest, relative to the same period of history, but of a different class, is General Von Funk's Pictures of the Time of the Crusades, 3 vols. The last volume, "The Crusaders and Saladin," relates to three principal characters, viz. Conrad of Montserrat, the Emperor Frederick I. and Richard I. King of England. The author seems to have studied with particular care the character of Richard; but the result of his researches has proved by no means favourable to that monarch. As it was evidently a chief object of the author to open new views of the origin and diffusion of the spirit of chivalry by the crusades, and to place it in the most favourable light, how much must it have cost him so often to cast a shade over the true model of this chivalry, the lion-hearted adversary of Saladin? The third and fourth volumes of Raumer's history, which are promised by Easter, are impatiently expected. The public is equally pleased with the assurance of the author of the "Pictures," that the fourth and last part, treating almost exclusively of St. Louis, is ready for the press. The publication of a complete collection of the historical works of Professor Heeren is proceeding without interruption. The F. W. Kluge, containing an investigation into the political constitution of Carthage, is spoken of with great praise.-Dr. Men zel of Breslau has now given to the public the seventh volume (coming down to 1453) of his History of the Germans, an excellent work, which however has not been so well received as it deserves; notwithstanding the esteem which the author enjoys among his countrymen. He has however just now completed another work, which was much wanted. The Universal History, by Becker and Woltmann, in ten volumes (of which 40,000 copies have been sold), comes down only to 1789. The publishers have engaged Professor Menzel to add two volumes, containing the history of our times since the death of Frederick II. The first of these supplementary volumes is published, and the second nearly ready. The author has performed his difficult task in a manner which has gained the unqualified approbation of the most competent judges. Having gone rather at length into the account of the historical labours of the Germans, we reserve for another occasion the notice of some other publications, re specting which we hope to be able to give more accurate information than we at present possess. RUSSIA. The Imperial Academy of Sciences has just published a work of considerable importance, viz. the accounts given by Ibn. Fosslan, and other Arabic writers, of the Russians in ancient times. The text is edited by the learned Professor Fraehn, who has added a German translation, notes, and supplement. Russian literature has at present 20 literary journals, four political journals, and two almanacks, all published either at St. Petersburg or Moscow. DENMARK. A Captain Sivertsleven, a native of the Danish island of Foehr, who was in the Dutch service, made two voyages in 1820 and 1821; he died in Foehr soon after his return from the East Indies, and has left a great number of maps, drawings, and descriptions of that country, which is still so imperfectly known, and which the Bailiff of Foehr has undertaken to publish. LITERARY INTELLIGENCE. The following works are in the press :A Series of Engravings of Landscape Scenery, executed by F. C. Lewis, from the finest Pictures of the Italian, Flemish, Dutch, and English Masters, with occasional Fac-similes of the Original Drawings of Claude, Rembrandt, the Poussins, Rubens, Ruysdael, Cuyp, &c. in which the peculiar style of each master will be faithfully exhibited in 12 Numbers, each containing 4 Plates. A System of General Anatomy. By W. Wallace, MRIA. In 8vo. Observations on Fire and Life Insurance, being a Guide to Persons effecting Insurances, and a caution to intended Shareholders, with a comparative View of the Plans and Merits of the different Offices. By James Mitchell, LLD. FASE. The Whole Works of Bishop Reynolds. In 6 vols. 8vo. with a Life, by Alexander Chalmers, Esq. FRS. A New Translation of Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered. By J. H. Wiffen. Gesta Romanorum, or Entertaining Moral Stories, invented by the Monks as a Fireside Recreation, Translated from the Latin. By the Rev. Chas. Swan. A New and improved Edition of Sir William Chambers's Work on the Decorative part of Civil Architecture, with the Original Plates in imperial folio and the Text entire in quarto. The Highlanders, a Novel. By the Author of The Hermit in London, Hermit Abroad, &c. Critical and descriptive Accounts of the most celebrated Picture Galleries in England; with an Essay on the Elgin Marbles. The Miscellaneous Writings of John Evelyn, in 4to. printed uniformly with his Memoirs. A Second Edition of Toller's Sermons, with a Memoir of the Author. By Robt. Hall. Travels among the Arab Tribes inhabiting the Countries East of Syria and Palestine. By James Buckingham, Esq. Author of Travels in Palestine, &c. In 4to. with Illustrations. The Cross and the Crescent, an Heroic Metrical Romance, By the Rev. James Beresford, MA. Rector of Kibworth, Leicestershire. Sixty of the most Picturesque Views on the Rhine and Maine, in Belgium and in Holland. By Capt. Batty, of the Grenadier Guards, to be published uniformly with his French and German Scenery. Queen Hynde; an Epic Poem. By James Hogg, Author of the Queen's Wake, &c. In 1 vol. 8vo. |