The Alexandrian: A Commercial, Agricultural And Literary Journal

Letters from Ireland of a very recent date, represent the state of that country in a most melancholy point of view. Most of the farmers are ruined in consequence of their land being held at the war rents, which, from the extreme low price of provisions, they are wholly unable to pay.

The following are the prices in the country market. Beef and mutton, prime pieces, 3d per pound; pork 25s per cwt; butter, 3l 10s to 4l per cwt; potatoes 1d per stone; fowls 1s per couple,--turkeys 3s 4d per couple; geese, 2s 6d per do; wheat 24s the barrel; barley, 9s 6d; oats, 10s, hay, from 20s to 21s per ton.

To this must be added, that several of the small farmers are bound by their leases to furnish to their landlords, when required, a certain number of what are styled "duty horses and men" that is to say, to work gratis, and also a stipulated number of duty fowls, turkeys, or geese, or in lieu thereof an adequate compensation of money.