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METEOROLOGICAL TABLE,

Kept at Edinburgh, in the Observatory, Caltonhill.

N.B.-The Observations are made twice every day, namely, at nine o'clock in the morning, and eight o'clock in the evening. The morning observations in the first column are made on the Register Thermometer.

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SINCE the date of our last, the weather has continued extremely dry, a few passing showers have only raised the water in the rain gage one-fifth part of an inch, and even this supply was partial. The nights have been cold; the thermometer often falling to 400, and once to 340: some potatoe foliage on mossy soils has, in consequence, been blasted. The growing corns every where have a languid appearance, and notwithstanding the extreme drought, vegetation is ten days later than at this period last season. Wheat has come in the ear on a stem which has a yellow, and almost ripe colour. On some soils in high order, and of a retentive nature, the appearance is more favourable, but in general this species of grain will not reach a common average. Oats on light soils are extremely short, and shew a light ear. Barley on tenacious soils has come up very partially, and begins to run to seed on a feeble stem. Culmiferous crops of every description will have little bulk in straw, and hay is not half an average crop. Beans and pease hold out better on carse lands; on black land they are much in want of rain. Potatoes are later than usual, and the stems make very slow progress. Turnips were all sown in June, but in a majority of instances no braird has been obtained; on very fine lands that gave a partial braird, the plants make better progress. Pasture is parched up, and cattle are falling off in flesh, and have declined in price from 30 to 40 per cent. Hay has advanced in price to double the sum at which it was sold last summer, in consequence of the deficient weight, and anticipation of a scarcity of fodder.

Grain has sold rather brisker of late, and prices have advanced a trifle. Horses sell at low prices, and sheep meet with a dull sale, at prices very much reduced. Farm servants have been engaged for next season on nearly the same terms as last; in some instances there has been a little rise; labourers are now more in request than last month, in consequence of the hay harvest. Cleaning potatoe ground, &c. men receive from 1s. 6d. to 1s. 8d. women and boys about 8d. per day. The weather has been favourable for working fallow ground, at which farmers are now employed.

Perthshire, 12th July 1821.

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Wheat, 240 lbs.

1821.

s.s.

Oats, 264 lbs. Dantzic. For.red.) British. Irish. British. s. s. d. s.

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Barley, 320 lbs. Bns.&Pse.JOatmeal Flour. English. Scots. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d.s. d. s. s. 33 0156 17 6 15 6 20 6 22 0 23 6190 21 617 33 015317615 6 30 622023 6190 21 617 33 0153176 15 6 20 622 0 23 619 021 617 33 0160 18 616 0 21 6 22 0 23 619 021 618 33 0170196 16 0 21 622 0 23 623 6 24 018

Stir. Mea. 140 lbs. 280 lbs.

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Rye. Barley. Fd & Pol Potat. Pigeon. Tick. Boiling. Grey. Fine.

2d. Loaf.

Pease.

Flour, 280lb. Quar.

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Average Prices of Corn in Scotland for the Four Weeks preceding June 15. Wheat, 52s. 4d.-Rye, 35s. 4d.-Barley, 24s. 5d.-Oats, 20s. 7d.-Beans, 31s. 3d.-Pease, 316, 7d. Oatmeal, per boll, 166. 1d.-Bear or Big, 22s. 4d.

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Course of Exchange, London, July 13.-Amsterdam, 12: 18. Ditto, at sight, 12: 15. Rotterdam, 12: 19. Antwerp, 12: 11. Hamburgh, 38: 10. Altona, 38: 11. Paris, 3 days sight, 25: 85. Bourdeaux, 26: 20. Frankfort on the Maine, 159. Madrid, 36. Cadiz, 35. Gibraltar, 304. Leghorn, 47. Genoa, 43. Lisbon, 50. Oporto, 50. Rio Janeiro, 49. Dublin, 9 per cent. Cork, 9 per cent.

Prices of Bullion per oz.-Foreign gold in bars, 13: 17: 104. Silver in bars, L. 0 4 10. New dollars, L. 0 : 4 : 94.

Premiums of Insurance at Lloyd's.-Guernsey or Jersey, 12s. 6d.-Cork or Dublin, 12s. 6d. Belfast, 12s. 6d.-Hamburgh, 10s. 6d. Madeira, 15s. 9d.-Jamaica, 30s. Greenland out and home, 4 gs. to 6 gs.

Weekly Prices of the Public Funds, from June 13 to July 11, 1821.
June 13. June 20. June 27. July 4. | July 11.

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ALPHABETICAL LIST of ENGLISH BANKRUPTS, announced between the 20th

May and 20th June 1821; extracted from the London Gazette.

Airey, J. Liverpool, soap-boiler

Archer, J. Ware Park Mill, Hertford, miller
Atkinson, J. Burton in Kendal, manufacturer
Atkinson, T. and Spark, J. Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
linendrapers

Baghott, Sir P. Kt. Lypiatt Park, Gloucestershire,
banker

Baker, G. A. Blackman-street, cheesemonger

Bass, J. Holbeach, Lincoln, brewer

Battier, J. J. Mincing-lane, broker

Bean, B. Hickling, Norfolk, dealer

Billingham, J. Uttoxeter, nail-manufacturer

Blain, H. and Co. Adam's-court, Broad-street,
merchants

Bliss, N. Water-lane, Fleet-street, bookseller, &c.
Board, W. Bristol, postmaster

Bolden, C. J. Duke-street, West Smithfield, paint

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Dawson, T. Upton, Norfolk, merchant
Day, T. Blackman-street, stockbroker

Deane, J. Accrington, Lancaster, cotton-spinner
Downes, W. Cheadle, Cheshire, calico-printer
Eastwood, J. Liverpool, haberdasher
Eddington, J. Lower Thames-street, stationer
Edwards, E. L. Cardigan, linen-draper
Etches, J. Bury, Suffolk, haberdasher

Fairchild, J. L. late of Thurlby, Lincoln, farmer
Fletcher, J. P. and B. Eccles, cotton-spinners
Ford, G. S. Great Bush-lane, Cannon-street, wine-
merchant

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Peters, J. and Weston, F. Bristol, maltsters
Pilling, J. Huddersfield, currier

Pollock, J. Adam's-court, Broad-street, merchants
Preston, J. Torquay, Devon, merchant
Ramsay, T. Mark-lane, wine-merchant

Ravis, N. Gracechurch-street, tin plate-worker Reiley, R. Southampton-row, Bloomsbury, manmilliner

Renaud, F. Birmingham, whipmaker
Rex, G. Great Driffield, grocer

Robinson, S. Huddersfield, hosier

Rowe, H. Amen-corner, bookseller and printer Rudkin, T. H. Charlotte-street, Islington, malt

ster

Savile, J. Limehouse, timber-merchant

Sawyer, T. Ramsgate, chemist

Shaw, J. late of Stratford, Essex, dealer in flour, and late of Battersea, dealer in oil

Shoobridge, G. Cheapside, tailor

Simpson, R. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, perfumer
Skinnerley, G. Gorleston, Suffolk, grocer

Smith, J. Frome, Somerset, clothier
Stabb, T. Torquay, Devon, merchant
Storr, J. Batley, York, clothier
Tarleton, J. Liverpool, merchant

Tidy, M. Southgate, dealer in corn and coals
Tinson, T. Elbow-lane, London, merchant
Tothill, C. Mecklenburgh-square, merchant
Trollop, H. Reading, linen-draper

Turton, J. Roll's Buildings, Fetter-lane
Waddington, J. Reading, bootmaker

Ward, J. of Beech, in the parish of Stone, Stafford, farmer

Warneford, J. York, grocer

Welburn, S. late of Sculcoates, York, grocer Weston, M. London Wall, livery-stable keeper Wharton, R. E. and Brooks, M. Bridge Road, Vauxhall, plumbers

Wheatley, H. Coventry, silk-dyer

White, H. Gracechurch-street, merchant

Wight, S. and Co. Leadenhall-street, hat-manufacturers

Williams, J. P. Lambeth Road, slater

Woffender, T. and Elliott, W. New Malton, cornfactors

Wood, P. Kingston, Surrey, gardener

Woodhead, M. late of Liversedge, York, mer chant

Woolrich, G. and J. Spital-square, silk-manufac

turers

Wroots, R. late of Sleaford, linen-draper Youden, S. Dover, carpenter

Young, W. Brading, Isle of Wight, farmer

ALPHABETICAL LIST of SCOTCH BANKRUPTCIES and DIVIDENDS, announced June 1821, extracted from the Edinburgh Gazette.

SEQUESTRATIONS.

Honeyman, Thos. Dairsie Mills, mill-master, &c.
Macfarlane, R. & Co. Glasgow, merchants
Tod, Robeit, jun. Glasgow, ship-broker
Walker, James, Lochwinnoch, grocer, &c.
Weatherley, J. B. Jedburgh, merchant

DIVIDENDS.

Brown, William, Longbedholm, cattle-dealer; by William Milligan, Cleughheads

Forrester, Anderson, and Jarvie, Glasgow, hardware merchants; by D. Cuthbertson, accountant there

Graham, Alexander, & Co. Glasgow, merchants; by D. Smith, merchant, Greenock Lamb, Kerr, & Co, and Kerr, Lamb, & Co. Glas

gow and Gibraltar, merchants; by James Black, merchant, Glasgow

Lang & Cochran, Glasgow, haberdashers; by James Aitken, merchant there

Macfarlane, T. & A. Bridgton, Glasgow, cottonspinners; by H. Paul, accountant, Glasgow Richardson, James, Auchtermuchty, cattle-dealer; by the trustee, there

Ritchie, William, Edinburgh, merchant; at 25, Duke Street, there

Taylor, H. Irvine, merchant; by P. M'Taggart, merchant, Ayr

Thom, James, Glasgow, marble-cutter; by James Boaz, accountant there

Watt, James, Kelso, merchant; by John Rutherford, merchant there

THE LATE DR STUART OF LUSS.

DR JOHN STUART, minister of Luss, who died at the manse of that parish, on the 24th May, will be long held in remembrance for his distinguished attainments in literature and science, as well as for unfeigned piety, and for the most active exertions in promoting the knowledge of the scriptures among his countrymen. Having early enjoyed the advantages of a liberal education, he applied, with assiduity, to the study of classical learning, and the useful sciences, in which he made such progress, that, notwithstanding his invincible diffidence and extreme modesty, he became generally known to men of cultivated minds, while he was highly esteemed by all ranks of society. By persons of elegant taste, his friendship was cultivated on account of his acquirements in botanical researches, and the other departments of the liberal sciences. But above all other

pursuits, he delighted in a profound investigation into the true import of the Hebrew scriptures, to diffuse the knowledge of which among the inhabitants of the Highlands of Scotland was his highest ambition. Brought up under the eye of a learned and pious father, who made the first attempt to spread the knowledge of the Divine Word among those who spoke only the Gaelic tongue, by translating the New Testament into that ancient language, young Stuart, who, from his early years, studied the grammar of Caledonia systematically, and soon became eminent for his acquaintance with it, improved upon the plan of his worthy father, by extending his studies to the original of the Old Testament writings, and forming the grand design of rendering them into the Gaelic language. In this arduous undertaking, his scrupulous fidelity subjected him to the

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