will give them sufficient practice. They are also, for the most part, smooth and graceful, as well as very lively; and the two parts are blended with much skill. The melody is judiciously divided between the flauto primo and the flauto secondo, each of which becomes alternately the principal, and consequently shares the delicacy and difficulty of the execution.

A Concertante Duett for Two Flutes, composed by John Parry. 3s.

This concertante, in which is introduced the favourite Scotch Air of Auld Lang Syne, is the production of a master whose merits, in certain styles of composition, are too well known not to bespeak a favourable anticipation of the pretensions of whatever is announced from the same hand. The present production abounds in pleasingly-conceived passages; and the general effect is calculated to gratify every cultivated ear, and to maintain the reputation Mr. Parry has so justly acquired. La Retour au Chateau; a favourite divertimento for the Piano Forte, by J.C. Nightingale. 2s. 6d.

This publication cousists of an "in troduction," in two crotchets in a bar, a march in common time of four crotchets, a trio in the same time, the air of "Ye streams that round my prison creep," and a Rondo Polonaise, in three crotchets. The whole occupies seven pages, and presents the juvenile prac titioner on the instrument for which it is intended, with an exercise as inviting as agreeable, The beauty and diversity of the passages and movements are calculated to excite and repay attention; and to practice them will be to improve the finger and refine the taste. The Venetian Gondoliers, an Air, with Variations for the Piano Forte or Harp,

by M. Holst.

Mr. Holst, in this piece, has introduced his main subject with a pleasing and animated movement. The varia tions are happily conceived, and ably executed; and the intended effect is fully produced. The Finale, without deserting the theme, possesses a spirit and boldness that close the piece with peculiar eclat. The publication is evidently designed for young practitioners, and to such it will prove as profitable as gratifying.

Overture du Jeune Henry, par Mehul, arrangée pour Deux Flutes par G. F.

Fuchs. 3s.

This overture is arranged with a deMONTHLY MAG. No. 359.

gree of skill which evinces Mr. F.'s qualification for undertakings of this description. Aware, as we are, of the difficulty of producing with two instruments only, any desirable effect in an orchestral composition, it would be injustice in the present instance to withhold our praise. All that could be achieved with such slender means, has been effected; and such success in so narrow a space, will, we hope, encourage this master to exercise his talents on more extended plans.

DRAMA.

DRURY LANE and HAYMARKET THEATRES. These theatres, during the past month, have been running a brilliant career. The one, by the continued representation of the Coronation, aided by A Cheque on my Banker, The Spectre Bridegroom, Monsieur Tonson, and Geraldi Duval; and the other, by the repeated performance of Venice Preserved, (which introduced a new and excellent young actress) Rise and Fall, Match Making and Match Breaking, (pieces of high and peculiar merit) has season of the year, and the opposition continued, in spite of the unpropitious of the Lyceum and the other minor theatres, to attract full and fashionable audiences, and to render the recess at Covent Garden the less felt. This latter house, with renovated splendour and a good appointment, re-opened on Monday, the 24th of September, and did not a little contribute to enliven the somewhat flat period of a London life. The new painting and gilding of the interior put the audience in good humour, and rendered them willing to be pleased the bill of fare. But however the comwith the representations promised in pany might be delighted with the new and lustrous aspect of every part of the edifice, they were more attracted by the performance of Mr. Young, after a three years' absence from London. His personation of Hamlet was received with those warm manifestations of public favour, to which his chaste, classical and animated acting is so well entitled. The other characters were respectably sustained; and the melo-dramatic romance of Undine, closed the entertainments of the evening with eclat. The audience was full and fashionable, and gave to the managers the most cheering promise of a successful and brilliant

ILIOUS affections have lately been prevalent even beyond the ordinary proportion of the season, and in some cases have proved of so malignant a nature, and so severe in degree as to require more than common vigilance on the part of the practitioner to preserve the vital principle from sudden extinction.

The physician finds (in the treatment of disease generally) four species of debility to contend with, all demanding different management, and therefore calling for much care in respect of their recognition.

The first kind of weakness is purely nerrous; it is a weakness of the will-that is, there exists actual power, but from a morbid condition of the voluntary faculty, the patient is reduced to the same state of impotence as if the positive want of power was the complaint to be combated. It scarcely needs be said, that much discernment is often demanded thoroughly to appreciate, and properly to manage this, in fact, mental malady, though presenting a bodily shape-but if the physician find the proper clue to the requisites of the case, and judiciously make use of his knowledge, he will sometimes successfully command his apparently feeble, fainting, and torpid patient, to become strong, courageous, and active.

In the second case, there is an actual deprivation of power-a positive exhaustion of the principle of strength; and here physical tonics are loudly called for, and abundantly applicable; much action is compatible with this state of the animal fibre; but then it is irregular and inordinate, not due and well proportioned; you may here often instantaneously still the excited commotion, by measures which, in

a different state of things, would irritate and disturb, rather than calm and compose. Witness the astonishing quantities of opium that may be beneficially administered in instances of Tetanic spasm.

We have, thirdly, smothered strength assuming the semblance of essential weakness, without actually partaking of its nature. In these affections we have to unwind, as it were, for a considerable length, in order to replace the cord of strength around the bodies of our patients, in a well-adjusted and unentangled manner. We are here to do evil that good may come," and to look to the point of the lancet (as a predecessor* of the reporter has happily expressed himself,) for the "conveyance of a cordial;" many fevers present illustrations of this sort of feeble

Dess.

Lastly, the practitioner will but too often meet with examples of much general weakness, so intimately united with topical and internal derangement, that unadvisedly to attempt the institution of a strengthening process, is to strengthen-not the subject of the disease, but the disease itself; and even to accelerate the fatal termination. The writer has just commanded a visit to the coast in the case of a functional malady--he has just condemned the same in the case of a structural disorder-the one was an instance of pure unmixed debility, the other was an example of weakness complicated with, and even caused by, an inflammatory irritation of an important organ.

D. UWINS, M.D. Bedford Row, Sept. 20, 1821.

* Dr. Sayer Walker.

N unkindly and variable season has

A concluded in one of the most expen

sive and distressing harvests, to the majority of our farmers, to which an uncertain climate subjects us. We have, however, experienced far worse seasons, in which cold, wet, and blighting weather has been more constant, the present having been relieved almost throughout by warm and genial alternations. The Continent has not been more fortunate. With respect to the harvest in particular, Ireland has perhaps suffered more heavily than this country, in which the Western parts have been most unfortunate. In Scotland, and in the North

generally, the wheats are said to have been harvested with most success. Lincolnshire is named as one of the most fortunate districts. The plant of all the white corn was sufficiently strong and thick upon the land, unless oats be the exception; but the atmospheric diseases took place early, and the rains which clouded the harvest have completed the misfortune of the crop, of which a fine sample will be a rarity. There will be a vast quantity of black and sprouted wheat, and of discoloured barley. The bulk, indeed, will be considerable; and as to peas and beans, the crop was perhaps never greater, but the harvest of the

latter

latter will be greatly protracted. If any thing could cure the general error of sowing grasses with corn, a harvest like the present would be the remedy, for the clover, which takes such a length of time to dry, has ruined immense breadth of barley. Some of the north-western districts have been doubly unfortunate, from barrenness occasioned by drought in summer, and from ruin of the crops by the rains in harvest. Much corn has been necessarily housed in a wet and bad state. Hop picking began in the second week of this month, and the crop will be large. Red clover, rape, and linseed have advanced in price, from the bad state of the weather. Perhaps the country never saw a finer turnip crop, or more luxuriant after-grass, from the influence of which, store stock has experienced some rise of price. In wool, little alteration. All kinds of grain, particularly wheat, had a rapid rise, in consequence of the wet weather, and it has been reported that a sample of wheat was sold in Mark

Currants

lane at 100s. per quarter. There is no doubt but that fine samples reached 95s. The price has since considerably declined, nor is it a sound speculation, that wheat can rise, or be lifted up to the import price, even in the spring; so considerable is the overplus stock of last year, and so extensive the number of acres of the present crop, more so, it is said, than any preceding one in this country. The stocks of bread corn on the opposite Continent, and in America, are equally abundant.

Smithfield.-Beef 2s. 6d. to 4s. 6d.

Mutton 2s. 9d. to 3s. 10d.-Lamb 3s.6d. to 4s. 6d. Veal 3s. 6b. to 5s.-Pork 2s. 4d. to 5s.-Bacon 2s. 8d. to 3s. 4d.-Raw Fat 2s. 9d.Wheat 44s. to 85s.Barley 30s. to 44s.-Oats 18s. to 32s.-The quartern loaf in London 124d.-Hay 63s. to 84s. 6d. Clover do. 50s. to 105s.- Straw 26s. to 42s. Od.-Coals in the Pool 34s. 6d. to 44s. 6d.

Middlesex, Sept. 24, 1821.

Cotton, W. I. common

Demerara

Figs, Turkey

Flax, Riga

Hemp, Riga Rhine

Hops, new, Pockets

Iron, British, Bars

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Aspinal, W. Liverpool.

Aspinal, I. and J. Liverpool.

Bartram, J. Canterbury.

Barman, W. H. and C. Liver pool.

Bates, J. Bishop Stortford.

Bealey, R. Cockly Moor.
Billinge, J. Bristol.

Blogg, G. Aldersgate-street.

Boyd, W. Benfield, P. Drummond, L. London

Bray, G. Leeds.
Brooks, J. Liverpool.
Broomfield, C. Liverpool.
Bull, J. Banks, W. and Bryson,
J. Cheapside.

Burnett, A. Lisle-street.
Button, W. Marlborough.
Cater, S. and Horne, J. Watling-
street

Champness, S. Fulham.
Clarke, W. and H. Lydcombe,

and Widcomb, Somerset.
Clarke, J. Worcester.
Clarke, W. South Shields.
Clarkson, T. Kingsbury.
Clayton, J. jun. Leeds.
Dawson, J. Meltham, Yorkshire.
Day, R. Crooked-lane.
Dorrington, J. Manchester.
Davison, T. R. Old Broad-street.
Ellis, C. Birmingham.
Garton, J. Kingston-upon-Hull.
Gilbert, J. Plymouth Dock.
Harkness, J. Liverpool.
Harman, J. Norwich.
Harris, T. Worcester.

Roscoe, L.

(Taylor and

DIVIDENDS.

Haugh, J. Carlisle.
Haynes, W. Stourbridge.
Haynes, W. Lowestoff.
Heginbottom, J. Ashton-under-
Line.

Hobbs, B. Redbridge.
Holmes, W. North Shields.
Houlbrooke, T. Holborn.
Howett, J. St. Martin's-lane.
Hughes J. and Chatten, J. Storm-
mington.

Hutchins, T. Gloucester.
Jackson, T. Wath-upon Dearne,
Yorkshire.

Imbrie, Bucklersbury.

Innis, J. and Watkins, R. Bristol.

Jones, T. and Powell, E. Wrexham.

Johnson, T.sen. and Johnson, T.

jun, Lowestoff. Kenworthy, J. Saddleworth. Kirk, W. and Broughton, Leeds. Le Chevalier, T. Wootton-underedge.

Lithgoe, J. Liverpool.
Little, T. Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
Lockwood, E. Whitby, York-

shire.
Lott, L. Llandilo.

Marsh, J. Rotherham.
Marshall, W. H. Holme on
Spalding Moor.
Mason, G. Chard.
Masseau, W. Ryhall.
Matthews, J. Penzance.

M Master, J. Norfolk-street.

Miles, W. Oxford-street.
Milligen, J. Houndsditch.
Meliss, G. Fenchurch-street.
Morris, J. Liverpool.
Nailer, J. St. Mary Axe.
Payant, W. Manchester.
Pearce, W. Oat-lane.
Pewters, R. Bristol.
Pitt, J. Cirencester.

Pritchard, J. H. Caerlon.

Ralph, R. and King, W. Ipswich.

Reynolds, J. Omskirk.

Sanderson, J. and Masters, T.

Sutton, Bedfordshire. Smith, S. Stayley, Cheshire. Spencer, E. Billiter-lane. Stalker, D. and Welch, A. D. Leadenhall-street.

Stammers, T Button, W. S. and Odkin, T. Sudbury.

Swain, G. J. Mansel-street, Goodman's Fields.

Taylor, J. and J. T. Upper
Thames-street.
Thompson, C. Halifax.
Thompson, J. Newcastle-upon-
Tyne.

Triphook, T. St. James's-street.
Twigg, W. Sheffield.
Turner, T. London.
Waddington, S. Halifax.
Watt, H. V. Birmingham.
Wells, T. Hadleigh.

Whitney. T. and H. Maccles-
field.
Woodhall, J. Egremont.

Aug 25, to Sept|25, 1821.