DAILY PRICES OF STOCKS, FROM MARCH 26, 1815, ΤΟ APRIL 25, 1816, BOTH INCLUSIVE. 3 per Ct. 3 per Ct. 4 per Cvs per Ct. Consols. Cons. Navy. 601 1634121 Omnium. 15 pm, 164 pr. 164 pr. 16 pr. 154 pr. 4 60 1 89 90 154 164 pm. 64 2 dis. 1 pm.2 60 90 9242 159 60 174 3 1908915% 90 8915 4 pm. par. 01 15 23 16 pm. 4 5 pr. par. 3 dis. 61 4 pm.13 pm. 1 dis. 61 60 46 17 16153 pm. 59 3 pm. 1 dis. par 3 pm.61 2 4 15 3 164 pm. 180 177 60 par. 3 12 Holiday. 3 pm. 1 dis. 612 4 8 All Exchequer Bills, dated prior to the month of January, 1815, have been advertised to be paid off, and the Interest thereon has ceased. N. B. The above Table contains the highest and lowest prices, taken from the Course of the Exchange, &c. originally published by John Castaign, in the year 1712, and now published, every Tuesday and Friday, under the authority of the Committee of the Stock Exchange, by JAMES WETENHALL, Stock-Broker, No. 7, Capel court, Bartholonew-lane, London, On application to whom, the original documents for near a century past may be read. 1816.] [333] AGRICULTURAL REPORT. THE heavy rains that fell in the midland counties about the middle of last month, have very much impeded the seasonable pursuits in agriculture. Great breadths of arable land have been inundated by the floods, and cannot be sown this spring. Most of the lands intended for barley, with clay subsoils, have been so much saturated with the redundant water, as to make them very late before they can bein a state to receive the seed, which they do at last not kindly. The young wheats have much recovered in the last month; and great breadths, that had the appearance of land under fallow, promise a tolerable crop. The rains have greatly impeded the barley-sowing, except upon the very light soils; but the early-sown has sprung up a full and regular plant. Beans and peas, and all the early planted leguminous tribe, come up strong, and promise a full crop. The soiling species are very backward, but a regular crop. The late cold weather has not only kept back this kind, but the whole of the vegetable tribe in this climate, Amongst the destruction of the brassica, the Swedish turnip rears its hardy head, and impresses the farmer with the importance of its extended cultivation. The rains of last month have shewn most clearly the great and important advantages of under-draining arable land; and as the dry weather approaches, it will appear what part of the field should be drained first. CORN EXCHANGE, APRIL 22. - Wheat, foreign, 53s, to 81s.-Do. English, 55s. to 84s. Rye, 23s. to 31s.-Barley, 23s. to 32s.-Malt, 53s. to 65s.-Oats, 18s. to 30s.-Fine Flour, cos. to 65s.; Seconds, 55s. to 60s. SMITHFIELD MARKET, APRIL 22.-Beef, 3s. 8d. to 4s. 10d.-Mutton, 4s. od. to ss. od. -Lamb, 6s, to 7s. 6d.-Veal, 4s. 8d. to 6s. od.-Pork, 43. od. to 5s. od. per stone of 8 lbs. Hay, 31. to sl. 5s. Straw, 11. 8s. to 11. 18s.-Clover, 41. to 61. 10s. Hops, New Pockets. Kent, 61. os. to gl. gs. Sussex, sl. 15s. to 71. 18s.-Essex, 71. to gl.-Farnham, 101. 10s. to 161. Average Prices of Corn, By the Quarter of Eight Winchester Bushels, from the Returns received in the Week ended 121 6 : METEOROLOGICAL REGISTER. Kept by C. BLUNT, Philosophical Instrument-maker, 38, Tavistock-st. Covent-Garden. Barometrical Pressure. Temperature. Moon. Day. Wind. Max. | Min. Mean. Max Min. Mean. 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TRIP TO PARIS IN AUGUST AND SEP- mud and water, without any pavement we TEMBER, 1815. (Continued from p. 293.) IN the inorning, between five and six o'clock, high placed against passed through St. Denis, where English and Prussian soldiers mounted guard together; and now on my right hand appeared Montmartre, through a clearer atmosphere than I had been used to in England; and Paris lay before me-Paris! the object of my journey-Paris, the arena of so many sanguinary frays among its own inhabitants, the scene of imperial ovations over conquered nations, the twice subdued capital of the Gauls-lay before me hushed and still, like the giant Polyphemus, stretched out in sleep, glutted with blood, and intoxicated with glory, or stupefied with disgrace. The mind under such peculiar circumstances scems, like a bird with expanded wings, poised over a scene of countless objects, passively receiving a thousand impressions from the past, the present, and the future, without taking the pains for the moment to arrange or correct the motley chaos. Thus having yielded my mind to the confused impressions and recollections that crowded upon it, we entered Paris; when I was soon recalled from my reveries by the stench from a gutter in the middle of a street through which we passed. Arrived, about six o'clock in the morning, at the house where my companion Mr. Commissary usually stopped, I was set down there, and invited in by the master, who conducted me into the front room on the first floor. The mistress of the house was still in bed in an alcove (recess), the folding doors being open, and her husband talking to her whilst he was in the room with me. Supposing that the lady would wish to rise, I continued for some minutes standing at the window with my back towards the recess. I was right, for when I turned round, there was Madame, en negligé, who made me an apology, with a curtsy of course. Paris immediately presents to the visitor from England, in a striking manper, the characteristics of narrow streets with a gutter in the middle filled with NEW MONTHLY MAG.--No. 20. for pedestrians, who for shelter from carriages and horses must fly between the projecting stones about two feet the fronts of the houses; though in consideration of the foot-passengers being obliged to walk in the middle of the street, there seems to be a proportionate degree of circumspection in the drivers of carriages. The narrowness of the streets is increased in appearance by the loftiness of the houses. These are built of stone, four, five, and more stories high. Between the ground floor and the first floor there is frequently a low story called entresol, but the first floor is very lofty, with what are called in England Adam's windows. These, and the cornices carved in front of the houses between the stories, the ornaments about the windows, the iron balustrades, and Venetian blinds, give an air of grandeur to these buildings, compared to which the low brick houses in London have a mean appearance. The latter, however, must be allowed the preference as to cleanliness and comfort within, the houses in Paris being for the major part inhabited by more than one family, which, considering the want of common sewers, might well habituate so crowded a population to dirt and stench. The staircases, used in common by more than one family, cannot be supposed to be kept very clean; a carpet on any staircase would be almost ridiculous, where in the rooms they are a rarity. The narrowness of the streets of course admits not of much light in the house, so that the staircases in many of them are buried in darkness all day long. This description applies particularly to that part of Paris which lies on the same side of the Seine as the Tuileries; not but that there are here also some tolerably wide streets, such as the Rue St. Honoré, St. Denis, and St. Martin, and particularly the Rue St. Antoine. The quarter on the opposite side of the Seine, called the Faubourg St. Germain, contains the palaces and residences of the first classes of the nation. The streets here have few shops, are cleaner, though not very wide between the walls that inclose VOL. V. 3 D 386 A Trip to Paris in August and September 1815. the courts before these grand inansions, Next to this scene in interest and beauty must be reckoned the Boulevards. These divide the original town of Paris from the Faubourgs (suburbs). They are a road of great breadth, paved in the middle, several miles in length, like the New and City Roads of London. The houses on each side of this road are of stone, and for the most part of elegant or grand architecture, like private gentlemen's houses, yet interspersed with numerous shops, coffee-houses, restaurateurs, public gardens, and other places of resort. Between these houses and the road there is a very wide space, with one or more rows of trees on each side, besides a sufficient interval between the trees and the houses for stalls with fruit, flowers, prints, books; small booths for reading newspapers, awnings before the coffee-houses for the same purpose; both the road and the footways exhibiting all day long the most busy and entertaining soone imaginable. During the mild [June 1, season, towards the evening, you may here see passing waggon-loads of chairs, brought hither to be placed chiefly on the space between the houses and the footways. These are soon occupied by a crowd of loungers, chiefly well dressed females, whose only amusement is to sit there quietly to gaze and to be gazed at; whilst from the restaurateurs and confectioners the customers issue in great numbers to increase the throng on the footpaths under the trees. Beyond one of these Boulevards is a new quarter of the town called the Chaussée d'Antin, consisting chiefly of houses inhabited by what are called genteel people, and which were built it is said with assignats when they were obliged to be taken at par. Paris has no squares to be compared with those of London for size and number, unless the Place Louis XV. be reckoned among them. This is a truly grand place: one side of it being formed by the gardens of the Tuileries, the opposite side by the Champs Elysées, a third side by a bridge over the Seine, and the Palais Bourbon, of most elegant architecture, and the fourth by the Gardemeuble, two beautiful buildings on each side of the fine Rue royale, through which you will also have a view of a fine palace, begun on the opposite side of the Rue faubourg St. Honoré, when it shall be finished. The Place Vendôme is a square about the size of Soho Square, the houses of stone, and good architecture. In the centre of this place stands the famous column erected by Buonaparte in commemoration of the war which began with the breaking up of the French army from Boulogne, and terminated with the battle of Austerlitz, the principal events of which are recorded by basso-relievos on brass plates made of the cannon taken, and placed on a spiral line round this column from the bottom to the top. The Place des Victoires is a square perhaps of about the same size, but not so handsome, as that just mentioned. The Carousel may also be considered as a public place, situated in front of the Palace of the Tuileries, which will be greatly increased in grandeur if the improvements begun in that neighbourhood by Buonaparte should be finished. The gardens of the Tuileries, only part of which is laid out in the stiff French taste, the Champs Elysées, and the gardens of the Luxembourg, the Palais Royal, and Jardins des Plantes, as places of public resort, with their conveniences of chairs, newspapers, refreshments, &e. |