DRAMA.

DRURY LANE. The success at this theatre of the petty pieces of Monsieur Tonson and Geraldi Duval, together with the long continued repetitions of the Coronation, leave us little more to say respecting its late career, than that its representations during the past month have attracted respectable audiences; and that the state of its treasury is consequently improved much beyond any expectations that certain periods of the two last seasons would have justified.

COVENT GARDEN. Here, again, unfortunately for those who visit the theatres for rational amusement and food for meditation, the raree-show of a co

ronation has been deemed an eligible succedaneum for the sensible vivacity and solid riches of the comic or tragic muse, and has been made the apology for reviving, under the title of The Exile, a piece little interesting in its plot and incidents, and by no means entitled to boast of the brilliancy or elegance of its dialogue. The additional music thrown into this almost forgotten opera, and the new scenery and decorations, which for the representations of a royal solemnity could not be too glittering and gaudy, have, however, given a new gilding to this dull drama, and furnished it with a passport to public'encouragement which till now it never enjoyed.

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HOLERA still continues prevalent, and in some cases, the collapse which attends this disease in its state of urgent spasm, is succeeded by an inflammatory irritation, especially of the peritoneal investment of one or other of the viscera which modifies the malady to the extent almost of changing its character. It is seldom in these cases that large and general detractions of blood are admissable, since the inflammatory affection still partakes of the spasmodic essence by which it has been engendered, and copious blood-letting rather serves to lessen power than diminish impetus.

Rheumatism, also, is another disease that still continues prevalent, notwithstanding that we are so far removed from the vernal period. The reporter has now tried pretty extensively the effects of colchicum seeds in this intractable disease; and occasionally with signal success. According to his own observations on this valuable addition to the articles of the materia medica, he would state that its efficacy is either so remarkable as to call forth expressions of gratitude from the recipient, or that it is administered with almost no effect -and he has been surprised at this wide difference in result from its exhibition under apparently similar circumstances, both of a lady and patient. One decided advantage that the seeds possess over other parts of the plant, is that to which Dr. Williams so particularly alludes, viz. its innoxious nature upon the constitution, even when it removes the complaint.

A gentleman is at this moment sitting by the writer, who has experienced decided benefit in a violent face ache, (most probably originating from a carious tooth) by putting a drop or two of the Prussic acid inte the hollow of the tooth affected, and taking two drops of the same internally upon retiring to rest. This is not the first nor the second case in which the potent medicine referred to has effected relief from tooth-ache, and its success has been so great as to induce this notice and recommendation of its virtues.

Among his dispensary patients, the reporter has one who is at the same time affected with the leprosy, and the itch-the Lepra vulgaris and scabies of authors. Are these, in the present instance, children of one family, or are they the results of two specific contagions? To the former opinion the writer inclines, and with all his respect for the talents and industry of those individuals who have attempted to draw the demarking lines between dermoid affections, he cannot help thinking that their geographical charts are occasionally mapped out with an ideal minuteness.

Let the reader who wishes to be instructed Ca the subject of nosological assumption, and is moreover desirous of obtaining correct views respecting the nature of pestilential distempers, consult au admirable work on these points, just published by Dr. Hancock- a work which is rich in research, and satisfactory in reasoning. D. UWINS, M.D. Bedford Row, Oct. 24, 1821.

THE barn floor having been in exten

use the crops may

be spoken of, both in respect to quality and bulk, with considerably greater certainty.

Few samples indeed, of the new wheats have proved fit for the miller's use, being generally, the best of them, cold in hand and soft, and wanting many months sweat

ing in the stack. The ordinary mildewed, smutted,and grown samples are unsaleable, as unfit for the speculator's purpose, and there seems scarcely any other to which they can be applied, but pig-feeding. Barley is not, in every district, a large crop, and where it is so, it is almost all stained by moisture, or shrivelled and discoloured by blight. Oats, a middling crop, have perhaps escaped best. Beans and pease are great crops, but partially blacked and even rotted. Turnips cover the land completely, but perhaps generally run too much to foliage, to be heavy and productive in the bulb. Grass is in vast plenty, and good in the uplands; but must necessarily be very washy and weak, in flooded lowlands, and by no means safe for sheep; indeed should the autumn prove rainy throughout, a rot in the sheep may be dreaded. Tares, though not a great crop, have had a great fall in price. Samples of hops having colour, sell readily, as being scarce. The Spanish (Talavera) wheat, the native of a more favourable clime, as might well be expected, from not being yet naturalized to our fickle seasons, has in the present, succeeded worst of all; our white wheats, as most delicate, the next. It is well worth the farmer's while, to calculate this year, how much he has lost by growing clover with his corn, perhaps a disadvantageous practice in any season.

The vast

plenty of food for cattle, sheep and pigs, both of vegetables and damaged corn, have produced some spirit in the fairs and markets; and the accounts from the great fair of Weyhill, are said to be exhilarating; there is, however, great want of the means of purchase among the farmers generally. Provisions may yet decline considerably further in value, though the bad state of the wheat crop may keep the price of bread somewhat steady. Pigs are said to be more plentiful and cheap than for many years; probably our breeders are beginning to set their faces againts the Irish supply.

It seems to be generally agreed, that the past has been one of the worst seasons, and the late harvest the very worst within memory. Yet, as has ever been the laudable custom of certain news writers, most flourishing and soothing accounts are constantly given to the public, of abundant and beautiful crops. A few fortunate growers, indeed, in some of the earliest districts, have harvested their wheat early, and in condition and quantity nearly equal to the famous crop of last year: and fortunate Scotland, for the most part, has done so, and even seeded their fallows at the earliest period. The hopes of the farmers of obtaining any relief through the medium of the Agricultural Associations, grow daily more faint, and with great reason. The first proposal was indeed obviously delusive, the last absolutely absurd. The situation of the farmers, it cannot be denied, is most deplorable, and both for their sakes and of the public at large, a real and effective remedy for this national disease, should be put in force with all possible speed. In the mean time, it behoves the farmer to probe, that they may discover, the original cause of their miseries. They will find that all this desolation has been brought upon them by the grand error of their fathers or themselves; and that the first step to their relief is, the conviction of that truth; the next will consist in the adoption of truly patriotic principles in their proceedings.

Smithfield.-Beef 3s. Od. to 3s. 10d.Mutton 2s. Od. to 3s. 4d.-Lamb 3s. Od. to 4s. 6d. Veal 4s. Od. to 5s.-Pork 2s. 8d. to 5s.-Bacon Os. Od. to Os. Od.-Raw Fat 2s. 9d.- -Wheat 38s. to 78s.Barley 24s. to 34s-Oats 18s. to 32s.-The quartern loaf in London 12d.-Hay 50s. to 86s. Od.-Clover do. 70s. to 105s.- Straw 26s. to 36s. Od.-Coals in the Pool 36s. 6d. to 47s. 6d.

Middlesex, Oct. 24, 1821.

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Adams, T. Lancaster.

Akers, W. Uttoxeter.

Anderson, J. jun. Whitby.
Anthony, I. Cley next the Sea,
Norfolk.

Armstrong, R. Worcester-street,
Southwark.

Askey, W. Oxford-street.
Atkinson and Co, London.
Atmore, R. Foulsham.
Austin, T. and Co. Bath.
Barclay, J. Old Broad-street.
Barker and Co. Billeter-square.
Barnwel, J. Leo minster Priors.
Bateman and Co. West Smith-
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Bates, J. Bishop Stortford,Herts.
Bevans, J. Tabernacle Walk.
Bingley, W. and T. Tavistock-
street, Covent Garden.
Blackett, J. Newcastle-upon
· Tyne.

Boyes,. F. Anlaby, near Hull.
Boys, J. jun. Wansford, York.
Brander, A. Budge Row.
Brierley, J. Manchester.
Bromley, J. Circus-street, New-
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Brown. W. A. College Hill.
Brown. T. Longdon.
Bruggenkate, G. A.T. Little East
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Brumby, H. and C. Gainsboro'.
Bulpin, R. Bridgewater.
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