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METEOROLOGICAL TABLE,

Kept at Edinburgh, in the Observatory, Caltonhill.

N.B. The Observations are made twice every day, at nine o'clock forenoon and four o'clock afternoon. The second Observation, in the afternoon, in the first column, is taken by the Register Thermometer.

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FROM the middle of May, till the 8th of the present month, the rain that fell did not, in many places, reach an inch in depth. Throughout the greater part of June the temperature was unusually high, the thermometer often rising to 80 in the shade. The mean temperature for the two last weeks in May was 570; for the whole of June 61.750; and for the first week in the present month 56o. Under such temperature, and with so little moisture in the soil, it was impossible that vegetables could attain to any thing like luxuriance. Many sorts of plants were forced into a flowering and ripening state two or three weeks earlier than usual, and many dẹcayed for lack of moisture.

On light dry soils, wheat came in the ear under unfavourable circumstances. The culm is short, and the ear corresponding. Oats on thin soils shew ears very moderately stocked with grain, and the stems, in numerous instances, are short, and will render reaping a tedious operation. Barley on shibban-land came up irregularly, and ran to seed on single stems; consequently a half-crop in such cases will not be obtained. Beans have not podded so freely as was expected. Pease, in general, look tolerably well. Hay has been a light crop, but has been all secured by the usual time of cutting. Potatoes came up well, but made little progress, and shew a disposition to flower on short stems. Turnips were sown, for the most part, by the third week in June, but except on fine soils, a very partial braird has been obtained. What were sown early in the month gave a more regular braird, but have hitherto made little progress. The above remarks must be understood as applying to dry or light loams, on open gravelly or rocky bottoms. On retentive soils, or on land incumbent on cold sub-soils, the appearance of the crops are much better. Wheat, oats, barley, and pease, are luxuriant, and the hay crop will reach an average weight, but in few or no instances will a heavy second cutting be obtained; but this, as well as that part of the growing crop which has not advanced too far towards ripening, may yet improve by the late favourable rain. On the 9th and 10th, the fall of rain amounts to one inch, and nearly one-fourth, something more than fell in the eight weeks immediately preceding. Cattle continue to sell at extremely low prices, and in grain there has been little improvement.

Perthshire, 10th July.

CORN MARKETS.

Edinburgh.

1892.

Wheat. Bls. Prices. Av.pr. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. June 19 619 226 290 26 617 6 20 0 15 6 18 012 6 16 0 26 483 22 0 290 26 0 170 190 15 6 180126 16 0 July 3 540 240 28 6 26 11 176 190 160 190130 160

10 68421 6 28 0 26 816 6 18 6 16 0 19 013 0 15 6

Barley. Oats. Pease.

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Course of Exchange, London, July 9.-Amsterdam, 12: 9. 12:6. Rotterdam, 12: 10. Antwerp, 12: 6. Hamburgh, 38: 1. Altona, 38: 2. Paris, 3 days sight, 25: 70. Bourdeaux, 26. Frankfort-on-the-Maine, 1574. Madrid, 36. Cadiz, 354. Gibraltar, 304. Leghorn, 474. Genoa, 434. Lisbon, 51). Oporto, 51. Rio Janeiro, 46. Dublin, 92 cent. Cork, 9 Prices of Bullion, oz.-Foreign gold in bars, £.3" 17" 6d. £.3139d. New Dollars, 4s. 9d. Silver in bars, standard, 4s. 11d. Premiums of Insurance Guernsey or Jersey, 10s. 6d. Cork or Dublin, 10s. 6d. -Belfast, 10s. 6d.-Hambro', 7s. 6d. to 10s. Od.-Madeira, 15s. 9d. to 20s. Od.Jamaica, 30s.-Greenland, out and home, 5 gs. to 8 gs.

New Doubloons.

Weekly Prices of the Public Funds, from 19th June, to 10th July 1822.

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ALPHABETICAL LIST of ENGLISH BANKRUPTS, announced between the 20th May and the 20th June 1822; extracted from the London Gazette.

Abbot, S. Cumming-place, Pentonville, merchant. Baillie, J. Aylesbury-street, Clerkenwell, ironfounder.

Beateran, A. Bristol, victualler.

Beaumont, T. S. and J. Leicester, bakers.
Betheil, T. Poole, painter.

Bell, J. Suffolk-lane, wine-merchant.

Bishop, R. Aston-road, Birmingham, brass-founder.
Billington, J. Manchester, shopkeeper.
Blyth, J. Wellington, Shropshire, draper.
Bolton, W. Banbury, and T. Bolton, Grimsbury,
Northamptonshire, coal-merchants.
Boyd, S. C. Oxford, wine-merchant.
Bradbury, R. Stone, dealer.

Bradshaw, J. Eccleshall, Staffordshire, butcher.
Brammall, G. Sheffield, merchant.

Breedon, W. and H. Ruttingdon, Nottinghamshire, dealers in cattle.

Brook, R. Waleot, Somersetshire, brewer.
Cardwell, E. Thornhill, Yorkshire, iron-founder.
Celson, W. Plymouth, grocer.

Chasey, T. East Pennard, Somersetshire, butcher.
Chetharn, J. Stockport, money-scrivener.
Cobb, H. Graveny, Kent, farmer.
Coburn, T. Witney, woolstapler.

Colbus, J. and R. Capell, Northampton, carriers.
Collins, J. Vincent-place, City-road, broker.
Coppard, J. sen. Mitchain, drug-grinder.
Courthope, F. W. Langbourn Chambers, timber.
merchant.

Cox, J. Pensford, Somersetshire, mealman. Crozon, W. B. Burton, Latimer, Northamptonshire, miller.

Dodd, J. and W. Kirkoswald, Cumberland, grocers. Ellis, T. Crooked-lane, drysalter.

Fothergill, W. Cannon-street road, ship-owner. Fowler, J. S. and A. E. Liverpool, merchants. Fulton, E. Earl-street, Blackfriars, coal-merchant. Furlong, W. and J. Bristol, haberdashers.

Gabon, W. and F. Tomm, Trinity-square, cornfactors.

Goodeve, W. D. Wimborne Minster, Dorsetshire, brewer.

Gould, W. and F. Greasly, Maiden-lane, Woodstreet, hosiers.

Goulden, J. Goulden-place, Hackney-road, carpenter.

Grafton, J. Lapworth, Warwickshire, tanner.
Hames, J. Lubenham, Leicestershire, baker.

Hales, W. N. Bilston, Staffordshire, mercer.
Harman, J. Lower Thames-street, merchant.
Harris, N. Southampton, coach-master.

Henderson, R. Lowthian, Gill, Cumberland, comdealer.

Heyes, J. Stockport, draper.

Hirst, J. Almondbury, Yorkshire, merchant,
Holden, J. Manchester, calico-dealer.

Holden, O. Clitheroe, calico-manufacturer.
Hoardman, R. Liverpool, merchant.

Humphreys, W. Billesdon, Leicestershire, draper.
Huntingdon, J. Snow-hil!, jeweller.

Hughes, T. Grosvenor-row, Chelsea, linen-draper.
Husband, R. Plymouth, mercer.

Illingworth, H. A. Fowey, merchant.
Jackson, S. G. S. South Lynn, jobber.

Jerymn, J. Yarmouth, merchant.

Jenkins, T. Llanwithin, Glamorganshire.

Johnson, W. Gainsburgh, maltster.

Johnson, S. Skinner-street, Bishopsgate-street, cabinet-maker.

Joplin, J. Sutherland, linen-draper.
Jones, J. Corely, Shropshire, lime-burner.

Kelson, T. Comb Down, Somersetshire, farmer.
Kent, T. Kirkton Holme, Lincolnshire, butcher.
Large, J. Wootton Basset, Wilts, banker.
Latter, J. Windsor, oilman.

Leigh, G. Wincham, Cheshire, dealer-in-coals.
Lewis, R. King-street, Soho, chair-maker.
Long, D. Andover, gun-maker.

Lowry, J. Bunker's-hill, Cumberland, lead-oreminer.

Lyall, G. North Shields, merchant.
Maddock, C. F. Plymouth, linen-draper.

Mathews, E. College-hill, Upper Thames-strect,

merchant.

Merryweather, S. Longham, Hants, maltster.
Murrow, T. Liverpool, money-scrivener.
Naish, F. Tiverton, Somersetshire, clothier.
Newton, T. Holbeach, Lincolnshire, and W. New-
ton, Norfolk, jobbers and wool-buyers.

Olley, T. Clare, Suffolk, maltster.
Paradise, J. Newcastle-street, Strand, jeweller.
Pelerin, H. F. Lloyd's Coffee-house, insurance-
broker.

Piell, W. Broomyard, Herefordshire, builder.
Penvold, W. Clutton, Somersetshire, builder.
Pickman, W. East Isley, Berks, grocer.
Port, F. J. Rugeley, Staffordshire, druggist.

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Register-Bankrupts-Births-Marriages.

Potts, W. Sheerness, linen-draper.
Probyn, J. M. Long-lane, Bermondsey, surgeon.
Quilter, H. Leicester, victualler.

Raine, J. Great Coram-street, merchant.
Ralfs, J. Freshwater, Isle of Wight, corn-dealer.
Rashbrook, W. Lavenham, Suffolk, farmer.
Ridely, T., J. Brown, and W. Sawport, South
Blyth, Northumberland, brewers.
Robertson, J. Old Broad-street, merchant.
Saunders, J. Holland-street, Bankside, factor.
Shipway, T. Tidworth, Warren Farm, Hampshire,
sheep-dealer.

Sporr, M. North Shields, upholsterer.

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[July 1892.

Staham, J. Collyhurst, Lancashire, dyer..
Stonall, G. Box, Wiltshire, tailor.
Trigg, H. & J. Ratcliffe, Hertford, timber-merch.
Twycross, J. Westbourn, Sussex, fell-monger.
Tyler, W. Kimbolton, Huntingdonshire, currier.
Watson, W. Chelsea, brewer.

Willing, S. Plymouth, corn-merchant.
Wilson, T. S. Methley, Yorkshire, maltster.
Wood, W. Brumby, Lincolnshire, jobber.
Worthington, E. Stangate-street, Lambeth, brewer.
Young, W. North Bank, near Regent's Park, and
J. Green, Camden Town, excavators.
Young, D. Leeds, merchant.

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ALPHABETICAL LIST of SCOTCH BANKRUPTCIES and DIVIDENDS, announced
June 1822, extracted from the Edinburgh Gazette.

Auchtermuchty, the Burgh of.

SEQUESTRATIONS.

Gemmel, Robert, wright in Cambuslang.
Inches, James, junior, wood-merchant at Stenton.
M'Douall & M Chlevy, merchants and ship-owners
in Drumore.

Macnicol, Ronald, merchant in Glasgow.

Rae, Samuel, baker, and tea and spirit-dealer, in
Kirkcudbright.

Wilson, James, grain-merchant in Renfrew.
DIVIDENDS.

Brodie, John, ship-owner in Dysart; by Alexander
Spence, merchant in Leith.

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, DEATHS.

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1821. Nov. At Hobart Town, Van Dieman's Land, Lieut. Thomson, belonging to the Staff of his Excellency the Governor in Chief, General Sir Thomas Brisbane, to Eliza, second daughter of the late Thomas Reibey, Esq., merchant, Sydney, New South Wales.

1822. May 9. At Florence, in the house of his Majesty's Minister to the Court of Tuscany, Wm. Burn, Esq. of Coldoch, Perthshire, to Jaquette, fourth daughter of William Thomas Hull, Esq. of Marpool Hall, in the county of Devon.

-At Greenwich, William Scott Preston, Esq. to Margaret Grace Gordon, youngest daughter of the late Peter Lawrie, Esq. of Blackheath, and Ernespie.

25. At Turvey, in the county of Bedford, the Rev. James Marshall, minister of the Outer High Church in Glasgow, to Mary Catherine, eldest daughter of the Rev. Leigh Richmond, Rector of Turvey.

-At London, Robert Mudie, Esq. to Frances Wallace, second daughter of Capt. John Urquhart, late of the East India House.

1821. Aug. 26. At Dharwa, Thomas Marshall, Esq. a surgeon of the Bombay establishment, and statistical reporter-a situation for which he was selected by the present Governor of Bombay, solely in consideration of his rare talents, qualifications, and acquirements.

Sept. 28. At Mhaw, in the East Indies, Allan
Cameron, Esq. of the Bengal horse artillery, eldest
son of Mr Alex. Cameron, of Calecraigie, Ross-shire.
Oct. 29. At Lucknow, Capt. Lewis Grant, of the
7th Bengal native infantry.

Nov. 28. At Madras, in the 55th year of his age,
Donald M'Andrew, Esq. surgeon, 11th regiment,
N. I. in consequence of a severe attack of fever.

Dec. 5. At Bombay, the Hon. Sir W. D. Ewans,
Recorder of that Presidency.

-At Canton, in China, Mr Patrick Robertson,
second officer of the country ship Aurora, and se-
cond son of the late Robert Robertson, Esq. of
Auchleeks, Perthshire.

7. At Seringapatam, Mary, daughter of Lieut.-
Colonel Thos. Paterson, and wife of James Cassa-
mayor, Esq. in the civil service of the Hon. East
India Company.

1822. Jan. 2. At Leakesville, America, Colonel
James Campbell, agent for the State Bank, North
Carolina, son of the late Robert Campbell, Esq. of
Middletoncarse, Clackmannanshire.

March 23. In George Town, Demerara, Catha-
rine Campbell, aged 25, relict of the late Evan
M'Pherson, Esq. and eldest daughter of Mr M Gre
gor, St Andrew's Square.

April 21. Lost off the coast of Ireland, on board
the Confiance, on his way to join the Brazen, Mr
William Marjoribanks, midshipman, third son of
Alexander Marjoribanks, Esq. of Marjoribanks.

-Lost off the coast of Ireland, in a dreadful
gale of wind, on board of his Majesty's ship Con-
fiance, with all the officers and crew, consisting of
College,) second son of William Shairp, Esq. late
120 souls, Mr John Whallry Shairp, Midshipman,
aged 21 (passed for a Lieutenant at Royal Naval
of Kirkton, Collector of Customs, Bo'ness.

23. At Murraythwaite, Lieut.-Col. John Murray of Tundergarth.

24. At the Green of Castletown, Isle of Man,
Capt. R. Peddie, formerly of the 21st Royal Scots
fusileers, and late of the 6th royal veteran batta-
lion, in the 65th year of his age.

25. At her mother's house in Hill Street, Lon-
don, the Hon. Miss Catherine Cust,
daughter of the late Lord Brownlow.
youngest
26. At Edinburgh, Mrs Ferrier, wife of Louis
Henry Ferrier, Esq. of Belleside.

27. At Kirkcudbright, Capt. Charles Munden,
of the Galloway militia.

-At Polwarth manse, Berwickshire, Mrs Home, wife of the Rev. Robert Home.

28. At Dundee, Mr John Wilson, of Queen Street, Cheapside, London.

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