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ACRICVLTUAAL REPORT for SEPTEMBER.

The report of agricultural proceedings. at this sea-
son must naturally be a very limited one. The Wheat
harvest, we are concerned to state, proves every day
more defective. In the counties of Surrey, Kent, Es-
ser, and Suffolk, the blight has been so extensive as
to make the produce fall short of the expected crop,
and to render even the grain of that materially defec•
tive.—Oats and Barley are foiind a full average crop,
but Beans and Peas have generally failed, ar,d in mail
parts were found scarcely worth harvesting.—Clover,
for seed, has headed kindly this year, and is expected
to yield well.—The Turnips have suffered much by
the continued drought, particularly those late sown.
Hay continues to coThmand high prices, on account
of the shortness of feed, arising from the same cause.
Hops are estimated at nearly half a crop ; in the Fare-
ham and best Kentish plantations the quail.), proves
fine.—Smithfield Market has experienced a start for
' prime Beef and Mutton ; but Pig Pork has declined
in value, from the heat of the weather.—Lean stock
is rather lower, except for store sheep, which fetch
more money.-1 he Wool Market is better. Owing
to the great diminution of imported Spanish wool,
short fleeces begin to be in brisk demand ; Merino
and prime South Down selling freely, the former at
Gs. the latter at 2s. Gd. per pound.

Two French prisoners were on Wednesday brnnght ,
from one of the prison ships in Hantuaze, and lodged
in the prison at Plymouth,. on a charge of forging
Bank-notes to a considerable extent.
Thursday night, five rren, including the centinel
and Quartermaster, T. 4.1 away with the gig of the
Goldfinch brig, lying in Stonehouse Poql, near Ply-
mouth, and have not since been heard of.

The Police of Pest, in Hungary, lately discovered,
a company, of thieves of distinguished character, con.,
sisting principally of persons who generally belong to',
the class of the robbed instead of robbers. Withont
having excited the least suspicion, they had made se-
veral considerable booties Assortments of watches,
snuff-boxes, rings, and other jewellry, were found in
the apartments of each of them,besides sums of money,
false passports, and false seals. A pipe, mounted in
silver, afforded the clue for the detection of this dats•
gerous corporation. The order with which it was ma-
naged Must excite surprise. They had a book-keeper,
a cashier, and several Jew factors. Property to the
value of 160,000 florins has already been restored to
the proprietors. Most of these illustrious thieves have
acknowledged that they were seduced into this oppro-
brious occupation by a fatal passion for gaming,
which unfortunately reigns at Pest with a furor that
seems to increase in proportion with the melancholy
consequences it produces.
The Austrian Govetnment has issued a temporary
order, forbidding the managers of theatrical spectaclesl
to enter into engagements with foreign actors, singers,
or dancers, as they tended to corrupt the moral: of the
/mope, and drain the country of it: specie!
Meetings have lately been held in the provinces in
Sweden, and resolutions entered into by the inhabi-
tants to abstain from the use of wine, coffee, and other
expensive foreign luxuries.
A letter, by the Anhol: Mail, dated Freyburg, Au-
gust 27, says—" IA the night between the 21st and
2sd of August, arrived an extraordinary courier from
the Landamman of Su itzerland, in consequence of
which an Extraordinary Sitting of the Lesser Council
was held. In the afternoon two of the Members of
that Council went to the Val Sainte, where the Monks
of La Trappe have resided for some years, and placed
every thing under seal ; at the same time the Chief
of the Corps of Chasseurs received orders to arrest
the Abbot, and carry him to Freyburg. The effects of
the Monks of La Trappe, which were in a private
house in the town of Freyburg, were also placed un-
der seal. According to later accounts the Abbot
had made his escape."
EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM NORWICH.—SaTaiI
Green, a sober hard working woman, in the 30th
year of her age, had been ill about four months in a
very declining state ; she was first attacked with a
female weakness, and pains in the back, a doctor ad-
ministered remedies for it without effect, she got gra-
dually worse, her legs swelled, and she sweated the I
whole of the night to so great a degree, that it was
evident her dissolution was fast approaching ; a Phy-
sician of great repute was consulted, who attended I
hex three weeks, and then declared nothing more
could be done for her, and suspended his visits ;
nothing more in the medical way was done until bu-
siness brought me to London in August last, when
from the character I had so frequently heard of Gore's
Renovating Tincture, I took down two bottles in or-
der to give her one chance more ; she took it with the
most punctual regularity, and on the third night the
sweating entirely left her and never returned, on the
fifth day iinced veal, the first imal
food - week,