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refit to the Colony from the importation of these choice
fruits and ver,etables, and have no doubt that the Lam-
den and Cai • onian Horticultural Societies, as will
ai
many of their corresporaitii Members in foreign part.
(who have been written to), will send us some very
valuable presents.
The subscribers to oor Stock Fund have, as long
ago as by the Shipley, remitted the sum of 1,0001. to their
Agents in London, to be expended one-half thereof in
lieep, chiefly ewes, 3001. theteol in Inn ses, and
the remaining 2001. in horned cattle. Furthermore, on
account of the General Fund of the Society, 1001. has
been remitted by the hands of our associate, Capt. King,
H.N. of the Bathurst, to be laid out in grass and corn
,eed,, and agricultural books.
"fo thi. head of premiums may he referred a letter
which the Society have written to the Secretary of the
Society of At Es, Manufactures, and Commerce, upon the
%Ant of their proposed premiums for 1822-23, to the
nelson who shall, in the years 1821:, 5, and 6, m.tnu•
facture aed impiet the finest speciaien of oil, not less
than tea gallons, the pro•ince of olives grown in New
Son:h ; and to the person who shall imps: t, in
182 or 1523, the finest w i rw, not less than twenty
made from the i,roduce of vineyards in New South Wales.
Our Society have not failed to express their due sense
of the benefits which our Colony will derive limn the
lim,oarable premiums proposed by the Society of Art,,
both in the former, year and in the peseta, for both
quantity and quality of fine wool exported ; but we have
ventured to suggest, that there having been till the past
year only one olive-tree in the Colony, there can be no
competition for the oil premium so soon as the year
1826; and that the Society's medals would be more be-
neficially offered for propagating the olive-tree, or for
the greatest plantation of young trees; so of the twenty
gallons of wine, it would not be vet y difficult to make
that quantity from the table grapes in one's garden: the
premium should rather be, either for a much larger
quantity, for a real exportable cargo, or else for the
greatest number of acres planted as a bearing vineyard,
or for the greatest number of bunches of grapes ripened.
" While I am upon the subject of the olive—
protein tarde crescendi olivx,
the slow product of Minerva's tree,
I am to report that young plants have been introduced
into the Colony during the past year by Mr. H. M'Ar-
thur, one of our Vice-Presidents, and by Dr. Carlyle, an
intended settler, so that the olive is now in the hands of
several more than one individual, and will certainly be
to our posterity an article of export.
" Tobacco may be considered to be now fairly demes-
ticated as a denizen of Australia. The Government
Agricultural Establishment a; Eutu Plains has greatly
contributed to this desirable object ; and I understand
from our Vice-Patron, that New Zealand flax is to be
made the next experiment of public cultivation and ma-
nuficttue. Our Patron has succeeded in raising this
plan: from seed; and although chemistry has not yet been
able so completely to free this yarn from glutinous mat-
ter as to prevent the thread into which it is spun from
being knotty, yet rope made of this flax was found by
the Master of the Dromedary store-ship to be nearly one-
third stronger than Engli.h tope; and even it this ar-
ticle should not, as long as we ate at peace with the
Northern Powers, he able to compete with the cheap-
ness and quickness of transportation of Baltic hemp, yet
a small quantity of it will, as I atri informed by the
must respectable mercantile authority, easily supersede
the Italian hemp, which is required for the strength of
shoemakers thread."

14,VENING STAIt.

I,ON DON.

FRIDAY. JANUARY 30.
KING CHARLES'S :11ARTY RVIONI.-11oliday at the Bank.

TIIE FUNDS.

STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE. O'CLOCK.

,Consols opened this morning at 91 to h, and 90i d for Money,
with little doing, as the Batik remains shut, and nu money transfers
can be made.

FOREIGN FUNDS.

The mot doing this morning is in the Mexican Lnan, which is
chiefly supported by certain Brokers, sent into the Market to buy
it up, and keep it from falling. In Spanish Bonds there is but little
doing, which opened at 24i,
Current Prices :—New Spanish 161, Old '242 to y, Colombian
6.51 to 66, New Austrian Si, Chilian 771, Russian 691 New
Prussian 891 to 4, Old 911, French Scrap 7to Mesican
Poyais 33 3.

This morning we received Brussels Papers to the 28th
instant, by which it appears that the commercial intet-
course between Russia and the Pow: is as limited as
ever—and that the vessels of other nation, on the best
terms with the Porte, are no better treated by the Talks,
when it is known that their destination k 14 a Russian
port. The Government of the Nethe:lands Las followed
the example of the British I.egi,lature, and declared
that it cannot point out any cettain means c.f alle-
viating that te:rible bugbear with which almo,t every
Se,sion h.e been pestered—Agricultural Distress. The
following ate extt acts :