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PRICES of English and Scotch WOOL.

ENGLISH, per 16 lb.-Merino, Washed, 21/@ 24/; in Grease, 14/@ 18/-South Down, 14/@ 24/; Leicester, 16/ @20/; Ewe and Hog, 15/ @16/.-Locks, 9/ @10/6.-Moor, Ewe and Hog, 8/ @8/6.

SCOTCH, рer 16 fb.-Leicester, 16/ @ 18/6; Ewe and Hog, 15/@ 18/.-Ewe, 14/ @ 15/Cheviot, 12/ @15/; Ewe and Hog, 9/@ 11/.-Moor, Ewe and Hog, 6/ @7/-Cheviot laid, 8/@11/.-Moor laid, 4/3 @ 6/.

THE REVENUE.

ABSTRACT of the Net Produce of the Revenue of Great Britain, in the Quarters and Years ended on the 5th of April 1831, and 5th of April 1832, showing the Increase and Decrease on each head thereof.

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FIAR PRICES of the different COUNTIES of SCOTLAND, for Crop and Year 1831, both by the Imperial and Local Measures, the Old Measure varying in different Counties.

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Barley, First,

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Oats, First,

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Pease and Beans,

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Oatmeal, per Boll, 140 tb,

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We may inform our English readers, that the Fiar Prices are the average prices of grain, as ascertained every year by the verdicts of Juries in every county of Scotland. These Juries are summoned in spring, and ascertain, from the evidence produced to them, the average prices of the preceding crop. By these prices, rents payable in grain, and similar contracts, are generally determined; but the main object is to convert into money the stipends, (for the most part fixed at a certain quantity of grain) of the Scottish clergy. For we must inform our English readers, too, that the wariness of our Scottish forefathers has freed their descendants for ever from the odious burden of tithes. Had the tithesystem, now existing in England and Ireland, been suffered to exist in Scotland, we have no hesitation in saying, that not only would the progress of improvement in that country have been vastly retarded, but that a great part of it, now cultivated and fertile, must have remained to this hour a waste.

THE

QUARTERLY

JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE.

NOTES MADE DURING A VISIT TO THE UNITED STATES AND

CANADA IN 1831. By Mr FERGUSSON of Woodhill.

HAVING, with sincere regret, for the present bid adieu to Canada, I am now to offer a few cursory remarks upon my homeward route through the United States, which, however insignificant, may yet prove acceptable, as the result of candid and unprejudiced observation.

There is perhaps nothing more difficult to an American traveller, than to assign their due and proper status to the places which he may visit on the Western Continent, where a mill and a few paltry stores or shops start, as it were by magic, into importance, and where he will hear of the busy transactions of men, carried on in villages or towns, which he may yet look for in vain upon his map. Buffaloe was becoming a place of some importance in 1814, when it was burnt by the British in a hostile incursion, and would, in our old jog-trot part of the world, have been most probably thereby utterly extinguished, or thrown back for a long and indefinite period. Not so, however, here.

A spirit of enterprize, which, without doubt, characterizes the citizens of America, forbade the local advantages of such a place to remain dormant. The town is now rapidly advancing in wealth and trade, full of bustling merchants, and stores

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amply provided with the products of every quarter of the globe. The navigation of the great inland seas, and of the Grand Canal, here uniting, must confirm the prosperity of Buffaloe, and the influx of emigrants flowing through it, to secure the rich and virgin treasures of the western lands, is almost without example. At this time the numbers were such, that it required compulsory measures to clear the decks of the daily steamers upon Lake Erie. The population of Buffaloe (I believe) at this time, is about 7000.

Besides the concourse of strangers common to the season, the town was particularly crowded, during my visit, from the interest excited by the incorporation of a new bank, of which the shares were to be at this time apportioned, and being considered an extremely good investment, a downright scramble ensued for the stock. The capital had been fixed by the State Legislature at 200,000 dollars, but in a few minutes a million and a half were subscribed, and the greatest disappointment expressed by those who had failed to obtain shares, and many of whom had come a great distance for that purpose. The dividend was expected at once to reach 10 per cent.

Banking has been one of the effective agents by which America has advanced in her wonderful career, and has there, as elsewhere, exhibited many of those distressing fluctuations which must ever attend an unsubstantial degree of credit, and an unlimited paper circulation. The free and independent character of the government and people, joined to a degree of jealousy which exists between the different states, fostered the undue growth of banking establishments, while many were started for merely local and selfish purposes, with little more than a fictitious or fraudulent foundation.

This evil has, however, been in a great measure corrected at length in the State of New York. In 1829, an act was passed, of which the principle is to secure the public against loss from the failure of individual banks, by requiring an annual deposit from each of one-half of one per cent. on its capital stock paid in. There are various checks and provisions bearing upon the same point, the whole is placed under a board of commissioners, and the loss which may at any time occur by failure of a bank to meet its engagements, is thus made good to creditors

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