The MONTHLY RETURNS, published in terms of 9th Geo. IV. c. 60, showing the Quantities of Corn, Grain, Meal, and Flour imported into the United Kingdom in each Month; the Quantities upon which duties have been paid for home-consumption, during the same Month; and the Quantities remaining in Warehouse at the close thereof: from 1st September to 1st December 1830. From British Possessions. PRICES of English and Scotch WOOL. ENGLISH, per 16 tb.-Merino, Washed, 21/ @26/; in Grease, 14/6 @ 18/6.—South Down, 15/ @20/6; Leicester Hog, 14/ @18/; Ewe and Hog, 13/6 @ 16/.-Moor, Ewe and Hog, 8/ @ 9/6. SCOTCH, per 16 b.-Leicester, Hog, 17/ @ 20/; Ewe and Hog, 14/@ 16/6.-Cheviot, Hog, 13, @14/.-Ewe, 11/ @14/.-Moor, Ewe and Hog, 7/6 @ 10/6.-Cheviot laid per 24 lb 12'6 @ 16/ -Moor, 7/ @9/6. THE REVENUE. ABSTRACT of the Net Produce of the Revenue of Great Britain, in the Years and Quarters ended on the 5th January 1830 and 1831, showing the Increase and Decrease on each head thereof. THE unfortunate result of last harvest, added to the acknowledged deficiency of stock of old corn in this country, has caused great speculation in all the Continental markets, and very extensive orders have been transmitted during winter to almost all the shipping ports in the Baltic. Many of these orders indeed were without limit, so impressed are the speculators with the idea, that much foreign corn will be required to meet the wants of this country, before we can reap another harvest. Such orders as have gone out with a limit, have generally not been executed, while those unlimited have been fulfilled at very high prices, say 10/, and in some instances 15/P quarter beyond the rate at which it was expected wheat would have been obtainable. How far the generally favourable feeling as to the future course of prices may be realized, is yet to be ascertained; but circumstances, we think, rather favour such an advance as to enable the importer to relieve the bonded wheat at the nominal point in the course of spring, which will probably tend to keep prices in check, and so prevent them from reaching a much higher point than they have already attained. We have already given an impartial, and we believe a tolerably correct, state of the yield of last harvest in many parts of the Continent; and we must regret that every further infor mation we receive on the subject leads us to believe that we have rather over-estimated the crops than otherwise. We give the following extracts from advices which we have received from time to time during the last three months. HAMBURGH. Every pains having been taken to procure the most comprehensive and particular information of the crops in the surrounding country, we think we are fully warranted in taking the following view of the subject. Wheat, in point of quantity, is certainly below an average crop, as many grains were beaten out in the fields by the constant and heavy rains. In Magdeburgh and the Saale, the wheat is much sprouted, and generally in poor condition, though probably about one-third part has been got in fine, reaching 58 lb. 59 lb. and 60 lb. per bushel imperial. Although in Mecklenburgh it is said some good wheat has been saved, yet not a single bushel of good grain has appeared from this district, which usually supplies us with the first new wheat. Holstein has suffered severely, though a few good samples have appeared from thence, which gives hope that some good wheat may be selected with care; the quantity, however, can only be trivial. From Silesia we have reason to expect the best wheat, the harvest having been nearly completed during the interval of fine weather in July. The stocks of old corn are quite reduced, and prices of the new may be noted as follows :— COPENHAGEN. KIEL. DANISH ISLANDS. In Holstein, Schleswig, and the Danish Islands, all the farmers are agreed, that they never experienced a more unfavourable harvest, or one that required greater exertion to save their grain from a total loss. There was one thing, however, greatly in their favour, the coolness of the atmosphere; and to this is to be attributed the comparatively little damage which the crops suffered from the heavy and continued rains to which they were so long exposed. The intervals of fine weather were so few, and of such short duration, that the number of labourers was totally inadequate to the work, and in many instances the grain was carried home during the night; hence it arises, that the corn has suffered less on the small farms than on the large estates, where population is comparatively smaller. In low and sheltered situations there has been much sprouting, but the more open and exposed grounds have escaped this evil. It is indeed matter of astonishment to the farmers themselves, that the general quality |