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HOUSE OF COMMONS. [Cvntitine l t fit;:ii our Srcoaq F'agr.] CAtifi I.IYMENTS. Tho Cnewer.eort of the EXCIZEOIIER moved the. Order of the Day upon his motinn for_ en abling the Bank to commence Cash Payments au earlier period than they were eel:third by law at present to make those payments-.-e-The House having resolved itself into a Committee, • The Cffeaceeeor; of the ExcilEp,olia' stated, that in calling the attention of the House to the subject of the Carrency, -it was not his intention to enter intn any question of political economy, or discuss the nature or expediency of .the measures formerly adopted by the House. He should take it for granted that the conduct of Paella !trent upon this great question had been wise . and indicieus bringing about a gradual restoration of. Cash Ply:mut:a In February, 1820, the first sten .1 - :ad berh taken, by pay4lents in bullion, and by the words of the Act, oti the Ist of May, 13, the Bank was no longer. to pay in ingots, but in specie. The Baek had a power, at their own discretion. to make a parti a l issu e o f cash art the Ist of May, 1822. His object at present waR to enable the,tiank-to do, on the .Ist of Ma'y, iS2I,. hat b the Act of Parlia men t-th e y were ice. obliged to n do till the Ist of May, 1823. But the. Bank, by the Act, was alloswed to issue specie for their notes only ; his object was, to enable. the. Bank to ittsue specie for any purpose whatever. From the. cominencernent of the /le..' striction Act.; the Bank hada power to make a par tial issue,but that power had been restrained by the Committee of IslB. The question as to the circulation of 11. notes would be left to-the dis cretion of the Bank. He was happy to be able to state, that the- Bank. had' accumulated a-much greater - sum in -bullion than had been in the con templation:of - the Committee. The accumula tion• for another year would be attended with much incOnvenierr:o to the Bank ; and part of the hellion could he re4lsported, 'should it be ren dered necessary by the state of the exchanges. The Bank-had made a reduction of their notes to the ameent of three millions, agreeably - to the recom mendation of the Committee; and the circulation cf . -country paper might have been diminished more,; than that ofthe. Rank. The object of Ftarliameut in 1-619 had been fully realized, and what had been - contemplated - for 1823, would tate place in IS-21. If notes were in circulation -Oat were difficult to -be cellitterfeited, there would be: no need of any alteration on the pl an chalked out by th e committee. But he hoped a note might be invented, that would either defy imitation, or that. at least could not be counter feited without much difficulty. The Bank would now have the power of substitating gold for - paper at the same tirne•that those who preferred paper world have . tlekr free option. He-hoped that notes more d:tlicult of imitation, both with respect to the 11. an& the 51. notes, would be invented. No alteration relative to country tircula , ion was made by the 'present Bill. He was happy to be able to state r . that of the 10 millions due by Go vernment to-the Bank, the greater part had been paid ,by in:stain-tents, and the whole debt would le eitinguished on the sth of : April. It had once been intended -to .have increased the amount of the sum to whiasilver - might be made a legal tender ; but.thatidea had, upon mature delibe ration, been-subsequently abandoned. The - same steps taken with respect to the Bank of England, were proposed to be adopted in. the case of the Bank of Ireland: The Right lion. Gentleman concluded by moving for lealie to bring in a Bill - Le accelerate -Cash. Payments on the part of the eAnk, of England.. 'Me BARING saki, that if a proper course had been taken previously, he fully concurred in the views.of threßigha Hone Gentleman as to the ac celeration of Cash Payments ;. but he did not-put anuclefaith in. the graduated scale-of Cash Pay niente, to. which. some' Gentlemen attached.so much. importance- He apprehended that the plan of the Right Bon. Gentleman would net •lesseer. the forgery of- small notes. All were agreed .that no greater evil could •befal a country tient a.varying_ circulation.; bet the subject was one of such importance-, that it might be proper to.reeconsider it. At one time he entertained much mere -alarm on the subject of the resumption of Cash Payments than the result had warranted. 'let-Much distress prevailed all over the country, and - the : transition-from war to peace could not produce such•effecteat-the close of six years. No bast:lnge - had - formerly occurred of a progressive vlue having taken place in the case of money. In a lung and expensive, war the country had been expending, not -the income, but its capital. Shoeld. it, take place - in a small taw), that the landed. proprietors expended their_ capital, it would , produce aegreat temporary affluence, to he followed by corresponding distress. Thetoun tay,ilid not reached. the- top cf thebill,nor was itas a matter of coureeahoutto return- toits former state. It appeared to him that the .depreciation of money le::1 been 'under-rated, nor , had : the variation in t:;t!..cury( , ;n7y .1:n attended to. The difference oi-yalue lapel not - taken place , in lire a racks. the r e_ sel yes,- but in the measuate of value that had , beet te , applied to. theta.:,-(Hear, heart)---To esti mate, the, full , extent of the- -depreciation was irrippssible; • ,The greater plenty of • the precious metals had-led to the depreciation of therm That bad been still . Yurther increased by a paper cue reney,,e.vete When coaveetible into- gild and, silver,- and meth lnor-e when that paper was , not•sa con yertible,-,7lhe facility, too,- of obtaining credit, added tnahatdeprecation, ,as when a man •conl.! 1 , obteia credit. at a-country hank for 2001. or -3001.,•: it had.the ..-.arne effect as if it bad ,heen in.-his pos session. Fee the -Ist: year after the suspension of , Caul Payments, the difference it; value- bet wixt pa per and gold-had been little felt, as gold wasethen abutadant. The difference began to be perceptible irl 1806 e and continuadetoiucreas.e progressively. the of all , comtneditiea- had: xisen,, tleat -was a proof of the depreciation.: From 1785' to-,1 70, the ,price of wheat had heen 555. or 56. q:; and- in thefellosaing yeare to 1820, the, average lead been:B,se. orecks.. The• old price' bad , re , ‘ tuned; .buta what 411.1785 -had , -been a remuner ating price, :WaS one that "now , the ;farmer -cOuld• liVelipo7l, - from the increased expence of all articleconnected v.ith the man agemen t of the farm, caused by the overwhelming magnitude of the National Debt. The Hon. Gentleman here referred to the authority of Dr. Coplestone, au thor of the Letter to the Right Hon. IL Peel:— In the return to a metallic currency, care was to be taken not to go :beyond . the strict limits. that good faith absolutely required. Had there been no Public Debt, he should have sanctioned a depreciation; which, 'under the present cir- Curnstances,be could.flot cousent . to do with good faith to the Public Creditor.. The annuitant was then rEceiving a larger interest than the debtor could afford to pay ; and than the country could afford from the exertions ' of her industry.— The . House had been told that the expence of living depended on .the value of '' (Told and silver; but habits had b een i n t ro d uce d that it was . ex,' trernely hard to overcome. If he was to give a post-boy half-a-crown, where he formerly had given 3s. and should attempt to explain to him that half-a-crown was now equal to 3s. formerly, he would probably be told he was a shabby fel low. The same habits would still for a long time continue under a different state of things. If no othergood•should result from this dii_cussion, it would at least show• posterity that we were now floundering, not from any natural necessity, but from out own misdeeds. He was of opinion that the subject shOuld be sent up stairs .to a Com mittee, to experience a mature re-consideration. —At the timP ofengagements betwixt indiViduats the resumption of Cash Payments had never come into. the•account.„: The value attached to the pound sterling was what it bore iu the com merce of cornmOn life. The average value for 10 precedieg years would-be a fair standard to determine the - future- value of. the circulating medium. One remedy hi, would propose, was, to make perpetual 17-apt - rents in bullion instead of coin, as had b e en recommended by an 11ou. Friend (Mr. Ricardo) Paper would then be the circulating medium, and the Bank would be pre vented from throwing .oat too much paper, from the liability to pay —in- bullion. Four or five, millions in the Bank would. be sufficient for the machinery - of the' system., Under that systeni, the Bank would never be exposed to a run of a great amount, to which it, was liable under the present system. As the country could not do without paper for daily use, a gteat run of paper could never be made upon the Bank. By that means, the expense of coinage, and the wear and tear of the Currency, would be saved to the country. That bad for centuries been the prac tice of the Bank of Hamburgh. .The only for, midable objection was, the ` forgery of Bank notes. But that question had not yet had fair play. The attempt had been made to discover a note that could not be imitated, instead of one that was ditlicultof imitation. Nothing- could be more clumsy' than the present Bank-nthe. At the Bank of France there had been only one for gery at the time of the occupation of Paris by the Allies, when the 'fine plates having been destroyed a provisional plate liad been substituted, and then a forgery -had. taken place. But in France the lowest Bank-note was of the value of .1201. For gery was also extremely rare in America. A gold token might also be introduced into circulation. We should act with perfect good faith by taking silver as a ,standard.. The former tender of silver was legal by tale, to the amount of i 54., and by weight, to any amount. Up to 1707 gold and silver were the, legal tender of the country ; and at the present-day the former state of the tender' might easily be restored. Silver appeared to him to be a pr e f era bl e , s t an d ar d t o go ld . U n d eri the system of bullion payments there was no in-1 convenience frourthe two standards, though there might in the'case'of coin. The two metals toge ther would forth a better standard than one of them singly, and preyent thee-variation that one of them singly would be' liable to: As a practi cal question, no difficulty would arise from the joint operation of the two standards. His reme dies were the introduction of the Ricardo sys tem, and the operation of the two standards. He should move a ftesolUtion, that it Was expedient to re-Consider the Act of the 59th of the late King, chap. 49, to alleviate the pressure that would result from the strict execution' of that law. . Mr. nrciketoo thought:that the power of re striction of Cash Payments was one of a very formidable nature. By regulating the' quantity, the Bank Directors had the power of determining the value of the circulating medium. His. Hon. Friend (Mr.. Baring) •hatl• gone upon theories, though he professed that he despised all theories; for, in the year. 1819, he said, before a Com.; mittee, that. we should have only one standard. When asked why he thouiztit SO ? he answered because he understood that machinery was going out to South America, which would increase the' production of silver ; and therefore the standard, in his: opinion, ought to be gold. His. lion. Friend, who affected to be no theorist, consi dered the distresses of the Agriculturists, &c. of this country, all arose from the alteration of the 'currency of the country-. 'But what was the fact ? The currency had Hot falleu more than 10 per cent.: and even his standard—,gold— had fallen in value• - since thepeace. In compar- . ing the money of France and other countries with that of England, as well as • th e corn an d other cdmmOdities, they would be foUnd all to have fallen in valUe as 'well as they had in this country,• lie doubted whether the - proposition of his lion. Friend was correct, namely that•we had expended a great part of. ,our capital during-the war ; on the contraet; believed that there were such savings- the co.u9try, as more than counterbalanced - the expenditure of ca pital durinohe war. His Honourable Friend had asked. why we should have . a purer standard than the rest of , the world*? He (Mr.i R.), would answer 'that question by asking another, —viz. • Why. should. we not have a purer standard than other. coun tries ? It mattered 'mach to us to have pure. standard,_as far. as regarded Other countries ; but in our own it amounted to nothing how the money was depreciated. The . use of a proposed 'golden token he deprecated, because; by a gold token he understood a species, °Penh' with a smaller quantity of : gold 'in :it than the rest of the-coin_of the land. This, there-, fore, would be of no use in foreign countries. the Only species of gold tokens which he cbuld agree to must be those which were as nearly as possible of the standard value of the sovereigns. He 01ot/ea it would be difficult for' speculators and robbers to alter the value of money if it had two methods of paying in money,. lie saw ito facili ty offered for forgery in the plan of the Right lion. Gent. At tint same time he believed that the only security for preventing the' forgery of Bank-notes, was by adopting a system of metal lic currency, such as existed previous to 1797. All the issues of Bank paper. lately had been made to ensure - to the Bank a quantity of bullion. He should like now to seethe laws, as they re spected usury, to be repealed ; and in his opinion no time could be more favourable for it than the present. This he should like to see done on the "part - of the Bank. • Mr. PEAIiSE thought it extraordinary, that now they were about to return to Cash Payments, those who had so particularly advocated that sys tem should now be the first to object, or rather to start objections to it. There was no other pur chaser of gold than the Bank of England ; and was it fair, that the Bank, which was the sufferer by the issue_ of Paper Currency during the last few years, should not be allowed noW to pay in Cash ? . Mr. PEE -1, consitlered that it was evident that this was the Ogle foe a return to a metallic cur rency ; because, since the Blink was liable to be called on to pay in' gold, there had been a reduc tion in the'issne of Bank -notes; and a proof had been shewn'that•the gold currency might now be adopted without any - chance of the gold coin being taken out of the country. lle thought Mr, Rica rdo's plasi was the best, if a proper remedy ould be found for the prevention of the forgery or . Blinlt"- notes. Ile did not know what'the Committee on Bank' notes had lately done bait he' understood that. the' Bank . of Ireland had a method, by very simple machinery. to prcnent forgeries by accu . - rate, mathematical, globular figures. This plan; :if effectual, would be 10 times snore effiraCions than that Of the .-Bank of England. Ife'coutd not agree to the adOption of a double standard of currency ; even if it were protected.by the ideal. unity, on the abstract nation of a Bank note. It was very natural for n§, when in a state of dis tress, to throw out of sight the real causes of it. In 1814 the House came to a Resolution that in 1816 ,CaSh Payments should be resumed ; the same took place in 1818, and 1819 ;,anc! now, .(after all the distress under which. the country laboured), he did not regret - the conclusion to which the Cash Payment Committee came When that Committee , was-going through its la bours, they' found it impossittle,..to return to a gold currency,-which' was at that time very much depreciated in .value. They found, that the pro positiOn. of returning to a metallic _standard would have then deprived the Bank of the power of being.of service• to the Public. by loans of, its capital. But if foreign countries had begun to improve their metallic currencies, w.e.must have done the same, or else we must have gone still further down' the stream. thought that it would beimprudent to agree to the proposition of the Host. Gentleman (Mr, Baring). Mr. F. LKavas thought there' was no ground for delaying any further the restresumption of Cash Payments ; and lie hoped theylie would see the necessity of 'establishing 'a standard for the Cur, rency. He wished, however, that the present standard of the currency should not be altered, ' because no one could tell' what might be the consequence of it. 'He' had IM doubt but a note could be framed to pievent'forgery its all notes' of 51. and upwards ; llut not so with respect to 11. notes, considering the frequency of their cir culation, and among the lower orders. No one 119,4 yet'suggested a system .by which forgery might be detected by , the working Classes. Ile sincerely wished that a period should' tome for the resumption of Cash Payments ; and that therefore the issue of 11. notes should be with-I drawn. Mr. Cntnrs did not believe that'any evil had arisen -from the. Bank issues. , If there had been an evil, it arose from apprehensiOn more- than from reality. The Bank had been as cautious its in issues, in proportion to its extent (and much more so) as Country . Banks. The Bank_ could not otherwise have benefited the Public or indi viduals by discounting good - bills. He,however, agreed' that now was the time to make a stand in favour of Cash Payments. If this was not the -time, he agreed .that he did not know - when - it would come. The Honourable Member observ ed,. be saw nothing. to apprehend _in resuming Cash Payments„ The reduction of the circu lating Medium would have no ill effect, if the price of commodities fell in proportion. If wheat was 201. a load, a man ru-t have 201. to pay for it ; hut if the' load of wheat was only lal., then 10/. -would go as far as 201. 'in the other case. Under all the circumstances, he was ill favour of resuming Cash•Paynents. Mr.' EilLicr. had doubts that adopting the pro., 'position for paying in 'two - metallic currencies mould be• attended with very considerable 'diffi culties. Ile considered the present system as an evil, but he thought the country were bound t 6 abide by this evil rather than fly to ills which they knew not of. • JHe was of opinion, if ever there could be a time fitted. for resum ing Cash - Payments in full, it must be a time like the present, when we 'were: at peace with: all the world. The estimate was. that 25,000,0001. metallic currency . Would • be sufficient - for all purposes. The Bank were already in possession of half 'that sum, and provi shin might be made for the other part. He trust ed, under all the circumstances, the amendment of his Hon. Friend would be . ' withdrawn, and theiChancellOr of the EXchequer's motion agreed to without a division. Lord FOLIaStONE opposed the Bill going into a Committee,. and defended " the proposition of Mr. Baring, for an alteration in the standard. Mr. IrtisKrssoN considered altering the stand ard under anrcirairnstances would be unjust to the public creditor and impolitic to the State. Mr. BARING replied, and do fended his propo sition; a 'double standard was , not new, it was what had existed ''-from the reign of Elizabeth down to 17(.37. After a few words from the CILiNCELLOR of the Exentoutn, the original question 4-11 S agreed to without a division. A similar Resolution wa3 agreed to with re spect to Ireland. -- , The House . reStitned, the lie, port was received, and Bills were ordered accord ingly. The County Courts Bill went through a Com mittee-. Report on Monday se'nnight.' GII.ANIPoUND DISFILINCHISENIENT BILL. Mr. VironTLty moved the third reading of the Grampound Disfranchisement Bill. Mr. SYK ES opposed the Bill as not providing sufficient popular Election. The town of Leeds contained about 80,000 persons, but by this Bill not more than 1,000 out of 80,000 would have a right to vote., He considered it would be better to leave the right of election to the Borough of '.Grampound, than to send it to Lt - >eds under such circumstances. He wished this Bill to be ivith rtlrawn, and a new Bill brought in, giving the right to the County of York to send four Mem bers instead of two, as it did at present. He concluded by moving, that the Bill be r ea d a third time this day si x m on th s . Lord J. RUSSELL defended himself against the charge to which he had been stinjectecl, of having abandoned thell3ill, Ile first proposed to make Leeds a scot-and-lot Borough ; but this being opposed, he then prOposed to limit the right. of voting to persons pa)ing rents of 51. a year. He afterwards proposed to raise the sum to 101. ; but an Hon. Gentleman proposed, as an amendment,' 20/. This took away, in his mind, the popular character of the Bill, .and destroYed the object of it ; aud under these circumstances, he had given up the conduct of the Bill. Ile still, how ever, cousidered.it so valuable a measure, , that, should the Hon. Member persist iu dividing the House, he would vote for the Bill. C. CALVERT supported the motion. Mr. Mikartx opposed it.; and contended that the majority of the Electors of Grampound were innocent. . The Noble Lord who brought forward this Bill considered. them as innocent, and pro ,posed to. give them au equivalent somewhere. .That equivalent had not been given, to them, and therefore the Noble Lord was bound to give the Bill a negative, and place ,Grampound in the. situation in which it originally was, especially as no complaint had recently been preferred against that Borough. Mr. S. WoturcEY defended tine Bill. lie' acknowledged that at present .there were only 1690 houses on the. Rate-bcok above twenty pounds, a year r but no new . Rate book had been made for the last 30 years. When . a fair Rate-hook' should be made, which would be done immediately after.. passing this Bill, he was convinced the number of. voters' would. not be less than soop; to which. would be added persons who, not holding houses worth 201. held land making up . that sum ; and altogether they Would 'C onstitute a popular Election. ± Mr. SYKES explained. M_S r.Ny ANN said, that nt of 57 voters c 7 only had been convicted of bribery. No instance had, occurred before of the majority being punished for the conduct of the. minority. Gratnpound had. been laid hold of because it was protected by..no aristocratical_ was, from principle, against the Bill ;:t.m.t, preferred the qualification of 201. to 10f. Sir M. W.RIDLEY was in favour of the Bill.— The Bill.was then re ad a third time. Mr. TESYSON moved to leave out the words in the preamble, " the number of Burgesses serving in that part of the United Kifigdona called Eng land would thereby be incomplete.:' Mr. Twiss opposed this . mhtion. 'Lord" 'J. Russcr:r. supported it. Mr. F. l'Ar.lisn had great doubts as to the efficacy of the Bill. Mr: S. WonIA:EY had no objection to omit the words. The words were then ordered to be struck out, and the Bill passed. The other Orders were then disposed of, and at Two o'.!Locx the House Adjourned. Extract of a Letter dated Naples, March 2. Our latest intelligence from the armies state the advanced body of the Austrians to have halted at Monterosi (about 20 miles n( rth of Itoine,) and the Cause is said to 'he that they find themselves nbt,sufEcientfy strong for their undertaking. The whole of their force does not exceed 45,000 men,. which is certainly not adequate to'the con; quest of a country almost unanimously deter mined to make any - Sacrifice rather than sulLmit to the Au' Arians. The letter of the King from Laybach, which the Allies thought would have worked strongly in their favour, has produced the contrary effect of uniting all- parties ; and some of the King's particular and pers)nal friends are - amongst the volunteers to the frontiers. The army now collected together to defend the passes into the kinglorn, including regulars and Militia, exceed 130,000, men ; and -this number is daily increasing by volunteers flocking to. the borders.: In the approaching contest, the greatest 'difficulty this gollernment has to encounter is a want of money ; and this .they already feel very severely. The forced loan of 3 1 000,000 ducats, is collected very slowly; for persons, particular ly those connected with trad'e, have not really the ability to contribute their proportion. The conduct of England while this contest is pending is most extraordinary. After keeping large squadron here during the last four months, under the pretext of protecting British property and persons', when neither were in the slightest danger, now that the. Austrians are coming down,. and when peril. is . really to be feared, the whole , are ordered home, with the exception of- the Rochefort and Iphigenia. The Vengenr and Liffey have already sailed, and the Active sails to-Morrow. We have accounts from Palermo to the 27th' ult. When every thing was perfectly tranquil in that city.—(Times.) Two or three tremendous claps of thunder burst over the neighbourhood of Wisbech on Sunday. afternoon,.the 4th instant, preceded by ivid flashes of lightning. A beech tree, 70 or 80 feet high, growing on the premisesof Mr. liloyfts, of Walsoken, was struck by the electric fluid and destroyed, being not merely, riven, as usually happens,, but literally shivered to atoms. I'ItICE OF RAY: e.. 11, pet . Simile of tls waled ty the Tall. itelter.s. 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On Fzaturdar last, at Car,halton, Nfr.,Tanwst Hart, of Flect•-., 4treet, to Um issa, e!t:est daughter of W. Chartingtvii, Esq• Cars,,alt on, S.,.itrcy. DIED. On Satorday nit last, very stiddenly, the Lady of S.,mbei NicholsOn, Esq. of Fla , ' Common, Surrey. •At Kidderminster, on. Wedtiesday last, Caroline, the , wife of Mr. ilicbard Watson, Pged 33 years. 'Yesterday, the infant daugf,ter - of Wilbraham Egerton, Esq. M.P. of St. James's-sqlla , r. to Pecrrnbrr, Ins!, at the, Cape of Oood Hope, Williank , ' Eil , vitril Kees, Esq. of the rienual Establishment, and Second • Judge of lhb Cwurts of Sucker llrwannee and Nizatuu t A:ia+v!ilt; ..aquae: PIS 4.1101•1411. R.l r /LON ;. ' )ON Printed by J. B. CARSTAIRS, of No. 29, Great Ormond -strict, Queen-square ; and published by W. A' SCRIPPS ; of No. 7, South Molton-street, at THE Su"( 0rr.P.:7".;:, 'No. 112, Strand; where ADVERTINEMENI' 4, 0D.:Dr..11:5 2 LETTT.:II.», &c. (post-raid) must be addressad. Ltil%ip 014 MARE. E,TS. PRICE . OF 1311.EA1) Tills WEER'. The highest price of the best Wheaten Bread ihrourbont , he Metropolis, is stated by the phocipal to be WO. 'he Quartern I,o.4.—Sonie Bakers sell the Qc-Arluro Lu Runt one penny to two pence lower. _ • Peek Lout tu weirlt .. 17 0 Quartets Loaf to weigh 451 .IJall ditto., 811 Halt Quart er, ditl .. Bti INIPORTATIONS OF 61i.A . 1 LAST WEEK,. Englistt. hish. Foreign. t,tso 14.3!A Wirral Barley Malt . Oars , Brans, . rt4s Tures I.lt Mustard Secds; 11.1 tr Liitsced. 2,1/39` 944 ~'~ (r7l 1,953 • PRICE OF 1101' . !'5, pet. Ciq.March-17, Hags. • Kent.... SI Os a4l 4 a. 51 Os i Kent ..21 Bs, all 15% a4t 10 Sussex.. 21 bs azl J6.a S.:l, sex 2i 2s alf iU. a 21 it; ESYC2I... 91 16S Si 15s a .41 nc I Es.srx -21- -.a•21 It;, a3l 10 Firon:Aw, fiat., 41 It), to 61 10s-1),. 21 Iq,to 41 9s Fortigtl Pudic; s, --s to , SEEI):,, Map c i, ,9 Wed C'loyer (Foreign) Ditto I , :oglish White ditto , •4)c 90., ~ .44, to 1,4h34 lire-Crass ...-Us 24% to ilk p 47 qr. Turnip, %VIA i'e .. White Mustard Seed llrou'n ditto —s 7s 01 to tOS 6d .Isett awd (:e - cc, Cawra way Seeds I;oria oder do. t.:s o,t to i 1, 0,1 Cinque Foiii 2Bs f)d to J: l ., 0,1 per qr. Trefoil Itil)gi ass ... -;%, :-, to 34s Canary.. ~,. per (p o‘t , .1 , 4 to —s oil per qr. Linsei..(l Oil Cake :rt. 1.,e. ABU, • i.ii 13s to —i Os pin - tlot— stud—Nev'v Rape ieei. 6:21- to 3-3 i ha per Last.—Ritue Calie. CI Os to hi Os per tit:, v4ati.l —Tarea, 4111 to 4.2 s —slorr qr. :.111 LI FIEI.1) iNIARKET.—:.q?octi 19. (To slut: tt:c OtEti—per Stone of Mi.) (left 4 oti VA 5i 0 . 1 1 Pork • •Is 9d to s 011 Nlolt.o, ...,- 4 0,1 LI 5s 0 , 11 Vent ss Od to Its ott Lamb.— .. . ... es o+l to OS Oel .. AIHE OF CAT . Q . 297 15 7C() 'LE Tali D..l'. I CaVvcs "C- t tie Oirc NE‘l GATE ANL) LE 1 / I :MIALL. AAA itNi.";:%. !leer. 3s to 4,9 d I Veal 3 , 4,1 to zs 11uttuii .......is Si! to 45 Oil Pori; as 4d to 8.! L:initt; 0:- 01 ST. .1.-IiIIEN'S lIA l' A1,11.,..i 2 ~,,,o • r Ebty 3 .1 Ss Od to 41 . 111 s 0.(1.-- , --Averag, 31 ICI: Od •tlitsv - AI Is 0,1 to 11 Iris: 011, --Aterage, II 106 0,1 S:i:ITHFIELI). . , 1-lity . 3l 101 0:1 to 41 S. - 0 , 1--Averag.e, 31 156 od. S!! , tw .... •11 45 6,1 to II I /14 011--Acrt4,,c, 11 Ss Ott Clusw . di- its Od to 51 56 0 , 1--.-I.v..rage, 41 76 c,,l' WIUTECALIPEL. Flay 3l 153 Oil t 9 4! 6s Od--Arerage, 41 34 Oil Old ditto 'straw Clover ,41 45 011 to 6! 5s 0:1--Avera:;c., 41 to, 0.1 HAW HIDES. _ .._ . _..._ .. .. :lest Heifers se stem, per St. Otdnoirr ....2s 0,1 to ts 4d 25 10d to os Od Market Calf .. each .. 9s e , d ‘liddlings 2.s 6d to 2s Sri Eug. horse Os 0d to Os 04 SHEEP SKI7:S. Downs Pol;ta '4s 9d to 6s 0:i i I,Btnlis ' Os Oil to Pi od . . PitICE OF LEAIIIER. Botts; 50 to 561bs cacti per lb' 17.1 to end 1)i1 to, hti to .61311,s emelt _...,--- 04 to 041 , Diesiing Hid e s , ..154 to 17d. line Coach I!'fles Crop ItiCes, 2ft to 4011/s for ctittnig I',;d to 16,44 Ditt0....,. 4:, to 5.01:is ..,,,_. 17,1 to• FR44 Calf 5,i0,..40 to 40Ilks Ditto 5O t‘i 70th; 9s4 . to 3.41 Ditto - 70 to t f -, 11,.; . 05,1 to ~ .)74 int'aii Seals firi...crl'aii,i) 1..,tr - t: ditto ratified Horstt'flides . 1741. to' :Sid Spanish Hor.e Hid,