was then due east. The silvery colour behind the red portion of the parhelion to the north of the sun, was so brilliant as scarcely to be viewed with the naked eye; the parhelion to the south of the sun was formed last, and both entirely disappeared when the clouds had passed off. These mock suns were followed by a faint solar halo, and frequent showers in the day. Vivid lightning and distant thunder prevailed throughout the night. 7. A moderate gale from SW. and showers at intervals, except in the afternoon, which was fine. 8. A fair day and night after 9 AM. when the veil of cloud moved off by a NW. wind. 9. An overcast sky and light showers, with a brisk SW. gale. At a quarter past 8 PM. a coloured meteor, with a short train, descended almost perpendicularly from behind a large cloud, and appeared to fall in the western point of the horizon. A very stormy night followed. 10. A showery day, and cloudy and fine by night. At half past 7 AM. a bright parhelion appeared to the north of, and 22° 40′ radius from, the sun; and at 8 o'clock a perfect rainbow appeared, also two others and a solar halo in the course of the day. Between 7 and 8 PM. two faint paraselene appeared, one on each side of the moon, at the exterior edge of a large solar halo, on the top of which a small inverted are tended to create another paraselene each of them was 22° 45′ distant from the moon. 11. A sunny day, with much Cirrus and Cumulostratus: passing beds of Cirrostratus after sunset, in which three coloured paraselenæ appeared between 8 and 9 o'clock, one on each side of the moon, the other at the top of a large halo that surrounded her: after these rare phenomena had disappeared, the moon was apparently encompassed by a close yellow corona, and a green circle 14° in diameter, followed in the night by heavy showers, and a gale from SW. this change was previously indicated by the sinking of the barometer in the afternoon. 12. A fair day, and a continuation of the gale from the same quarter: a large lunar halo, and a yellow corona encircled by two rings, followed by a light shower of rain. 13. A fair morning: PM. steady rain, with light shifting winds. 14. Drizzling rain and light variable winds most of the day: a large lunar halo and much dew in the night. 15. A Stratus early, followed by a fair day, with Cumuli, &c., and two winds: an overcast sky by night. 3 16. AM. overcast and drizzling rain at intervals: PM. cloudy and fine. In the evening a yellow discus halo appeared in an attenuated Cirrostratus, surrounded by a dull red colour. A brilliant meteor passed between the moon and Jupiter at 10 PM. and at 11 o'clock, a paraselene was observed to the north of the moon. 17. Fine, except dark passing clouds. 18. AM. an attenuated veil of cloud, yet warm and pleasant: PM. fine. At 10 minutes past 8 PM. a meteor with a sparkling train appeared between the stars Alamak in Andromeda and Algol in Medusa's head: and between that time and 10 o'clock, several other meteors were seen without trains, towards the east. 19. A fine sunny day, with a gale from NW.: passing beds of Cirrostratus by night. At 20 minutes past 8 PM. a brilliant meteor, with a train extending through a space of about 15° and of a light red colour, passed towards the south, between the Dolphin and Pegasus. In a quarter of an hour afterwards, a similar meteor appeared in a northerly direction, and between this time and 10 o'clock, three others without trains. 20. Light rain and wind, with little intermission. The swallows, previous to their departure, have been congregating for some days past in this neighbourhood. 21. Steady rain and calm nearly all day and night. After sunset the clouds near the western horizon, presented a variety of colours; pale lightning soon afterwards followed, and continued to discharge itself from the clouds at slow intervals from 7 o'clock till near midnight. 22. A Stratus early, followed by a fine day, but a moist air; six small meteors appeared in the evening: a clear sky and a heavy dew by night. 23. AM. overcast and calm: PM. fine, and six small meteors in the evening. 24. Drizzling rain nearly all day: a clear dewy night. 25. Overcast and showery; and a perfect rainbow at mid-day. 26. Overcast nearly all day: light rain and an equinoctial gale from the SW. by night. 27. Light showers at intervals, and a continuation of the gale from the same quarter. 28. Mostly overcast in the day: a stiff gale from the west, with rain in the night. 29. Nimbi and frequent showers in the day, with a strong gale from NW. and a rising barometer: a clear star-light night, four small meteors, and much dew. 30. AM. fair: PM. overcast, and rain in the night. Kept at the Observatory of the Naval Academy, Gosport. Rain, A SUMMARY OF THE WEATHER. A clear sky, 2; fine, with various modifications of clouds, 11; an overcast sky, without rain, 8; rain, 9.-Total, 30 days. CLOUDS. 25 22 23 28 5 20 A SCALE OF THE PREVAILING WINDS. S SW W NW Days. 30 COMMERCIAL REPORT. THE state of the corn-market (undoubt edly the subject of most general interest) since the date of our last report, has fully justified the opinions we there expressed. In fact, had there been any real grounds to apprehend such a deficiency in our own crops, as to call for the opening of the ports to foreign grain, the truth must by this time have been ascertained. The decline in the prices, therefore, allows us to presume, that the public in general now see that their fears were ill founded. From the present state of the averages, all probability of the opening of the ports after the 15th of November, seems done away. With respect to the importation from Canada, barley and oats are at present the only articles which are at prices that would admit them from our North American pos sessions. The state of our foreign trade has not yet essentially varied. But a great change seems on the eve of taking place in our commercial relations with Portugal. The legislature of that kingdom seems disposed to adopt a rigorous prohibitory system, similar to that which, contrary to general expectation, was introduced into Spain by the Cortes; and which has had the effect of deluging that kingdom with contraband goods, and of causing a system of smuggling to be experienced which sets the laws at defiance, and is equally ruinous to the national manufacture, to the honest merchant, and to the public revenue. The Portuguese Cortes have already resolved to raise the duty on British woollen manufactures to 30 per cent. instead of 15, which they state to be according to the true sense of the existing treatics between the two nations. does not appear likely to obtain the object proposed. It is acknowledged on all hands, that it would be highly desirable to remove the impediments to internal commerce, by abolishing the entries on goods passing from one of the Confederated States to another, and to establish custom-houses on the frontier of the Confederation, to levy duties on goods exported to, or imported from, states not members of it; but this regulation would cause a deficiency in the revenue of each member, which it would be difficult to supply. The fair at Leipsic is stated to be very unfavourable on the whole; and the English cottons and printed calicos are said to have been neglected, notwithstanding their low prices, and, the dearer French, Swiss, and Saxon preferred to them on account of their superiority both in quality and in the beauty of the patterns. This statement has been so often repeated nearly verbatim et literatim, that we hardly know what credit is to be attached to it. We should imagine, however, that the English manufacturer must soon learn how to suit the taste of his customers, and we cannot doubt his ability. We are happy to find that the accounts from Yorkshire for the last quarter are highly favourable to the manufactures of that great county. Cotton. The sale of cotton at the India House which we mentioned in our preceding, naturally tended to depress the prices, the quantity declared being above 19,000 bags, of which 12,000 were Bengals, and 6,000 Surats. The following are the particulars of this sale at the India House, 12th instant, including about 3,000 bags taken afterwards at the sale prices : The Commercial Confederation of the States of the South of Germany, which we have had frequent occasion to mention, 12,000 Bengal, of which 9,206 sold, viz. 1,570 good and very good.. 6,650 fair and good fair. 1,051 very ordinary 6,000 Surat. .5&d. a 64d. .5fd. a 5fd. .54d. a 5fd. remainder bought in from 5d. a 7d. 500 good to very superior Toomel 7 d. a 8d. .3,000 sold................. 845 good fair to very good......64d, a 74d. 1,650 very ordi. leafy to middling 6d. a 64d. remainder bought in from 54d. a 7‡d. .6 d. a 74d. remainder bought in from 74d. a 7‡d. 230 Bourbon..........130 sold......very ordinary stringy to good... 9 d. a123d. remainder bought in at 11 d. 54d. a 6fd. 576 Madras..........510 sold......fair to good fair.. 116 Packing........ .116 sold......fair to good.................. 18,922 12,962 It is estimated that of the quantity sold 9,000 bales were taken for home-consump-. tion, 2,000 for export, and the remainder on speculation: the Bengals sold at a reduction of d. a ., Surats at the decline of d. a d. per lb. For this week past the sales have been considerable, particularly of East India descriptions; the demand, which was steady, appears, however, to have rather subsided yesterday and this forenoon; the purchases exceed 2,300 packages, chiefly for home consumption; the Brazil and New Orleans for the French market, the remainder on speculation, the particulars are 966 Bengals, very ordinary 54d. a 5fd.; fair 5d.; and good fair 61d.: 767 Surats, common ordinary 6d. a 61d.; good fair 7d. a 74d.; good 7d.; and a few very good at 8d.; 25 Pernambuco, good 124d.; 50 Paraiba, fair 12d.; 15 Para, 93d., fair: 580 New Orleans 10 d., ordinary a 11 d., good: all in bond. The sales during the last four weeks (exclusive of the India sale) have been about 5,300 bags. At Liverpool the market has not been interesting, and the prices have rather declined this week. The sales for five weeks from 15th September to 20th October were 37,600 bags; the arrivals 35,000 bags. Of the sales 14,000 bags were in the week ending 22d September; the favourable commencement of which we noticed in our report. The importations of Bengal, Surat, Madras, Bourbon, and Manilla, which amounted to 44,900 bales in the first nine months of 1820, have been only 15,500 up to 1st October this year. The stock on the 1st October, 1820, was 213,850 bales, and 1st October, 1821, 162,850 bales. Sugar.-There have been no remarkable fluctuations during the preceding four weeks; the demand for good Muscovades has been steady and considerable, and the prices have not much varied, but low browns have been heavy for some time past. Coloury sugars have been in great request and scarce. At a public sale on the 13th instant, of 91 hogsheads 9 tierces Barbadoes, of which a large proportion were coloury. These descriptions sold 2s. a 3s. higher than at any previous sale; 70s, a 76s. 6d. for middling to good white; other sugars 65s, a 678. The request for refined goods for homeconsumption has been very considerable during the course of this month; but the purchases for exportation have been on a very limited scale. The only demand for shipping to any extent has been for the Mediterranean. East India sugars are extremely low; it seems singular, that though the importation of East India sugar has been considerably less the first nine months of this year, than during the same period, 1820, and though the consumption has increased, the prices have continued to decline at each succeeding sale. The following is the report of the sugar market for the last week. There was a steady and considerable demand for good sugars last week; the brown continued neglected: no alteration whatever in the prices by private contract could be stated. The public sale of St. Lucia sugars on Friday consisted of about 350 casks; the proportion sold went a shade higher than the previous rates, low brown 50s. 6d. a 52s. 6d., remainder 53s. a 58s. 6d. There was very little business done in Muscovades this forenoon, the buyers waiting the event of the public sale, there was no alteration in the prices by private contract. By public sale to-day, 257 hhds. 44 trs. Jamaica sugars were brought forward, the whole went off heavily, and generally 6d. a ls. per cwt, under the previous market prices; low dry brown 51s. 6d. a 52s. 6d., the good brown 54s. a 56s., a few lots sold 58s., 59s., a 62s. 6d. The Barbadoes sale this forenoon, consisting of coloury sugars, went off at very full prices, one lot at 75s. 6d., the remainder 61s. a 70s.; the previous rates were fully sup ported; the sale consisted of 137 casks Barbadoes. The grocers continue to be the chief purchasers of refined goods, and such has lately been the demand for fine parcels, that the prices must be stated a shade higher; the inferior goods are without alteration. There is some request for single loaves for crushing.-Molasses are heavy. By public sale on Friday, 320 chests Havannah sugars were brought forward, chiefly yellow descriptions, for which the request some weeks ago was considerable; good brown sold 25s. 6d. ; all the yellow good and fine quality was taken in at one price, 298.; fine strong white at 45s. Accounts of a most distressing nature have been received from Jamaica, where a drought of above a year's duration, threatens not only destruction to the sugar crops, but even universal famine, the soil being burnt almost to a cinder, and affording no vegetation to supply food either for man or animals. Should these statements be fully confirmed, their influence on the market cannot well be doubted. Average prices of Raw Sugar by Ga Coffee.During the week succeeding our last report, the coffee market was in a very unusual state; St. Domingo being 6s. to 8s. per cwt. higher in proportion than Jamaica; and Demarara to Berbice from 10s. to 12s. higher than the usual proportion. The first public sales this inonth accordingly excited some interest; and the circumstance being rather peculiar, we shall give the particulars of the sales rather more fully than usual. There were five sales amounting to 561 casks, 662 bags, at which the prices began to return to the usual proportions of value. Ordinary, good, and fine ordinary Jamaica, fully supported the prices of the preceding week, and in several instances went a shade higher : all other descriptions falling into the usual proportion of the market; Foreign Coffee, St. Domingo and Havannah, 48. a 5s. lower, extensive parcels of good ordinary Havannah selling at 92s. 92s. 6d. and 93s.; St. Domingo very ordinary at 97s. ordinary in casks 100s. Dominica coffee again 25. lower. Middling, good, and fine middling coffee at an irregular reduction of 3s. a 6s. several parcels of good middling Jamaica selling at 120s. a 123s. 6d. fine middling 125s. a 128s. 6d.; for 200 bags very good St. Domingo 102s. was offered: the whole were taken in 102s. 6d.; 130 bags Porto Rico also withdrawn at 100s. 6d. The very great reduction in the prices was expected to attract the attention both of speculators and shippers; and we accordingly find, in the succeeding week, a general improvement. 1036 casks and, 1825 bags, by public sale, going off very freely. The good or fine ordinary Jamaica at an advance of 28. to 4s. and all other qualities rather higher. During the second week of this month the prices continued firm, rather improving than otherwise; but at these public sales on the 16th of 452 casks and 1340 bags, the whole went off very heavily, the ordinary Jamaica 1s. to 2s. lower; good middling 2s. to 4s. lower. St. Domingo, and other foreign descriptions, were also 1s. lower, and the market heavy at the decline. The quantity of coffee brought forward by public sale, last week, after (Tuesday), was 1637 casks and 2077 bags; a great proportion was taken in, the demand being languid: no reduction in the prices was however submitted to, till towards the close of the week, when middling and good middling Jamaica and Dutch coffee gave way 2s. a 3s. per cwt. There were three public sales of coffee brought forward this forenoon, consisting of 374 casks and 743 bags; the whole went off with great heaviness, but no reduction in the prices can be stated.-56 casks 705 bags very ordinary St. Domingo were taken in at 100s. 6d., with the exception of one lot sold at 101s.; the middling and good middling Jamaica sold again at very low prices, at nearly the reduction we have stated; good middling 121s. and 121s. 6d.; middling 115s. 6d. fine ordinary coloury foxy 105s, and 106s. 6d. Generally the market may be stated heavy, and the biddings at public sale languid, yet no reduction in the prices can be quoted, except the middling and good middling qualities, which are fully 2s. a 3s. lower than on Tuesday last. Indigo. At the East India sale, which commenced on the 2d instant, every description of indigo sold much higher than at the preceding sale; fine 9d. per lb. good 1s., middling 1s. to 1s. 3d. commencing fully 18. 3d. higher. About 300 chests of shipping, and 250 chests of ordinary were bought in by the proprietors. The importation which was 14,847 chests, &c. in the first nine months of 1820, has been only 9,734 chests, &c. during the same period this year. The prices have not changed since the sale. Spices. The market is heavy, and prices but little varied. The Company's laxed price of mace is reduced to 5s.; nutmegs to 3s. An amount of 20,000 lb. of cloves is reported from Holland, and advertised for sale the same day as the Company's sale of spices. Silk. The prices of East India silk are nominal, on account of the commencement of the India House sale: the prices hitherto are considerably higher than last sale; Bengals at the advance of 8 to 10 per cent. Cocoa. The reduction of the duty, and the low prices seem to have a favourable effect on the consumption of cocoa. Grocers have lately purchased Grenada, 90s. to 95s. Berbice, 54s. to 55s. Tea.-The Company's sale is fixed for 4th December, viz. Including private trade 7,100,000 15. Rum, Brandy, and Hollands.-At the beginning of the month there was a brisk demand for brandy, which, however, soon subsided. Cogniac of a favourite mark realized 4s. 6d. and superior quality, 4s. 4d. At a public sale on the 12th instant, 86 puncheons of Jamaica, and 84 of Leeward Islands, sold freely at prices rather higher than the previous sales by private contract, viz. Jamaica..9 to 12..OP..1s. 6d. 12 to 16...... 1s. 7d. 18 to 21 22 to 24 1s. 8d. to 1s. 9d. 1s. 10s. to 18. Ild. Leeward Islands, UP. 1s. 4d. Last week there were few purchasers of rum by private contract; the prices were maintained, except at a public sale of 104 puncheons Jamaica, which went 1d. per gallon lower.-A sale of 88 puncheons of Leeward Islands, and 123 of Jamaica this morning was at about the same reduction of Id. Brandies are nearly nominal. In Geneva there is no alteration. Hemp, Flax, and Tallow.-The demand for tallow continues languid; a further depression of 6d. a 1s. per cwt. must again be stated: the market is heavy at the reduction.-Hemp is in good request, and the late advance in the prices is fully maintained: there is little alteration in flax. Letters were yesterday received, dated St. Petersburgh, 28th ultimo; the Exchange remained nearly the same, 9jd. Oils &c.-The oil market continues without briskness; there are several rather extensive buyers of Greenland at 214 but we believe they cannot find any parcels at at that rate. Seal and linseed oils are a shade lower. Corn-Referring our readers to the tables, by which they will see the reduction |