Onions Os. Od.-Os. Od. per bush. St. James's.-Hay.... 66s. to 105s.

By the QUARTER, excepting where otherwise named; from Wednesday to

Saturday last, inclusive.

The Scotch Markets are the Returns of the Week before.

* Dalkeith and Haddington are given by the boll.-The Scotch boll for Wheat, Rye, Pease, and Beans, is three per cent. more than 4 bushels. The boll of Barley and Oats, is about 6 bushels Winchester, or as 6 to 8 compared with th English quarter.

Liverpool, Jan. 17.-The wind since Tuesday last, accompanied with severe frost, prevented such supplies of Grain into this port as were otherwise anticipated, and as the canals are closed, few sales were effected here during the week, for the immediate wants of the Town Millers and Dealers only, at an advance of about 2d. per 70lbs on Wheat, and on Flour 1s. per sack. At this day's market but few samples of any kind of Grain were exhibited, and the advance previously noted on Wheat and Flour was with difficulty obtained.

Imported into Liverpool from the 10th to 16th Jan., 1826, inclusive :Wheat 2,711; Barley 2,767; Oats 5,699; Malt 819; and Pease 52 qrs. Flour, S57 sacks, per 280lbs. Oatmeal, 984 packs, per 240lbs.

Norwich, Jan. 21.-The supply of all sorts of Grain to-day was very large, and the prices of Wheat were 2s. per quarter lower than last week. -Red sold from 56s. to 62s.; White, to 62s.; Barley, 30s. to 40s.; Oats, 22s. to 28s.; Beans, 37s. to 40s.; Pease, 38s. to 42s. per quarter; and Flour, from 47s. to 48s. per sack.

Bristol, Jan. 21.-The supplies of Corn, &c. still continue moderate. Prices are steady at about the following rates:-Wheat, from 5s. 6d. to 8s. 6d.; Barley, Ss. 3d. to 5s. 8d; Oats, 2s. 3d. to 3s. 3d.; Beans, 3s. 6d. to 6s. 9d.; and Malt, 5s. 6d. to 8s. Od. per bushel. Flour, Seconds, 32s. to 52s. per bag.

Ipswich, Jan. 21.-Our supply to-day was large, and prices of last week fully maintained for all Grain, as follow --Wheat 56s. to 64s.; Barley,

30s. to 40s.; Beans, 38s. to 40s.; and Pease, 40s. per quarter.

Wisbech, Jan. 21.-A fair quantity of Wheat offering here to-day, fine dry a trifle dearer. Oats, Beans, and Grinding Barley, make about 1s. per stone.-Red Wheat, 52s. to 58s.; White ditto, 60s. to 625.; Oats, 20s. to 24s.; and Beans, 34ss to 38s. per quarter.

Wakefield, Jan. 20.-There is to-day very little business doing in any article of Grain, the canals being still closed. In some instances fine Wheat has fetched rather more money, but prices generally, of all sorts, may be called nominally as last week.

Manchester, Jan. 21.-We have to note a very great dullness throughout the week, and to-day little or no business has been done at last week's prices. Our navigations are again open, but the supplies are not extensive, although quite equal to the demand. Wheat, English, 10s. 3d. to 10s. 6d. per bushel of 70lbs.; Irish, 9s. to 9s 6d.; Oats, 3s. 6d. to 3s. 9d. per bushel of 45lbs.; Barley, 5s. to 5s. 3d. per bushel of 60lbs.; Beans, 50s. to 54s.; ditto Foreign, 44s. to 48s. per quarter; and Malt, 44s. to 54s. per six bushels.

Newcastle-on-Tyne, Jan. 21.-We had a large supply of Wheat from the farmers this morning, but very little from any other source. The millers are very bare of stock, but they were enabled to supply themselves at a decline of full 1s. per quarter from prices of last week. Malting Barley, both English and foreign, is dull sale, and 1s. per quarter cheaper, but grinding Barley is more in demand at last week's prices.-Wheat, new, 54s. to 64s.; foreign, 50s. to 568.; Rye, 40s. to 42s.; foreign, 32s. to 56s.; Barley, 34s. to 37s.; foreign, 28s. to 34s.; Malt, 62s. to 66s.; Oats, 22s. to 28s.; foreign, 19s. to 21s.; Beans, 42s. to 46s.; Pease, white, 54s. to 60s. per quarter. Flour, 48s. per sack.

COUNTRY CATTLE AND MEAT MARKETS, &c.

Norwich Castle Meadow, Jan. 21.-The supply of fat Cattle to this day's market was good, and the sale very dull, the best quality obtained 8s. 3d. per stone of 14lbs.; the show of Store Stock was small, and far from good in quality, and a few only were sold. Scots from 45. to 4s. 6d. per stone

when fat. Short Horns 3s. to 3s. 6d.

Horncastle, Jan. 21.-Beef, 7s. to 8s. per stone of 14lbs.; Mutton, 6d. to 7d.; Pork, 6d. to 7d.; and Veal, 8d. to 9d. per lb.

Bristol, Jan. 19.-Beef, from 6d. to 64d.; Mutton, 6d. to 7d.; and Pork, 5 d. to 6d. per lb. sinking offal.

Manchester, Jan 18.-This day's market was but indifferently supplied with Cattle and Sheep, and the demand very slack; business was done heavily at last week's prices.-Beef, 5d. to 7d.; Mutton, 6d. to 8d.; Veal, 7d. to 84d.; and Pork, 5d. to 7d. per lb. sinking offal.

At Morpeth market, on Wednesday, there was a great supply of Cattle and Sheep; there being little demand, they met with dull sale: prices much the same.-Beef, from 6s. 6d. to 7s. 6d.; and Mutton, 6s. 3d, to 7s. 9d. per stone, sinking offal.

AVERAGE PRICE OF CORN, sold in the Maritime Counties of England and Wales, for the Week ended January 14, 1826.

South Wales

.68 6....45

..64 0....37 5....24 2

..64 4....36 11. 25 7

.61 6....38 3..

.26 9

.57 10....36 1

....

24 O

..67 0....39

8....21

1

...63 8....34 2....18 3

The London Average is always that of the Week preceding.

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"There never was a period in the history of this country, when "all the great interests of the nation were, at the same time, in so "thriving a condition." KING'S SPEECH, 3d FEB. 1825. "Any panic or any thing that would make a run upon the 1 Country Banks, would blow their (the Ministers) prosperity' "into the air and themselves to God knows whither. Nay, "without any panic at all, the system naturally tends to its own "destruction. It takes some time for commercial transactions to "operate upon the system, so far as to produce an absolute shock:

but it will come, even without war, and without any thing sud"denly alarming. The present high prices of food cannot long "co-exist with gold payments, even at the Bank of England. These prices must, at no distant day, send the gold out of the Country." MR. COBBETT, (Reg.) 12th FEB. 1825. "There ARE PERSONS, who imagine, that our PROSPERITY "IS NOT PERMANENT; but the House will, I am sure, concur "with me in opinion, that it rests ou the MOST SOLID FOUNDA"TION." MR. ROBINSON, MARCH, 1825.

LECTURES TO MECHANICS.

LECTURE III.

On the Opening of the "Collective Wisdom," otherwise called,
(by all stupid Jack-Asses) the "Imperial Parliament,"
which has recently ordained, for our Sins,
Weights and Measures."

Kensington, 5 o'clock of the morning,
3d February 1826.

GENTLEMEN,

52. In my two last Lectures, I addressed you on matters that belong to all nations and to all

4

Imperial

times. My femarks applied to
the general principles relating to
money, and the effect of money
upon prices. This present Lecture
will belong (happily for the rest of
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mankind) to this now miserable | In one short twelvemonth, how and "Imperial" nation only. You the tone of this Government is

have, as well as others, been witnesses of what has now been going on, for about three months,

changed! It was then drunk with prosperity; it is now drooping, hanging its head, and would be

in what is called, the "Commer- hiding its face if it could, in ad

versity. Not only was the King advised to put forth the bragging speech of which my motto contains an extract, but Mr. ROBINsoN, after I had, in my commen

cial World"; but which is, in fact, a mass of gamblers as barefaced, as wicked, as mischievous, and as disgraceful as ever existed in the world. The affair has, in short, for many years past, been tary upon that speech, proved one great and universal bubble, that the pretended prosperity was arising out of the necessities of false; even after this, Mr. Rothe Government, which neces- BINSON, one of the Ministers, sities have arisen out of its efforts to prevent justice being done to the great body of the people, by giving them their fair portion in

the great power of making laws. This is the root of all the evil;

but, at present, I must confine my observations to the poison, the destruction, dropped from the branches of this dreadful tree.

whom you have to work to help pay his yery ample salary; this man, in the face of this "Collective Wisdom," had the folly or the impudence (call it which you will) to assert, that this prosperity rested upon the most solid foundation. It is only eleven months since he made that assertion. Now, then, let us hear what these same Ministers have advised the King to say in February, 1826.

53. I beg you to look at the mottos which I have placed at the head of this Lecture. There I shall insert this speech at full: you see the braggings of the Go- length, numbering the paragraphs, vernment just a twelvemonth ago. for the sake of reference, and to