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Alphabetical List of Scotch Bankruptcies, announced between 1st and 31st
May 1817, extracted from the Edinburgh Gazette.
Ballantyne, Jas & Rob. Leith, hardware-merchants
Clark, James, Dunbar, rope and sail maker, and ship-builder
Hunter, James, Glasgow, grocer Leviston, John, Greenoek, ship-owner and trader
M'Eachan, John, Irin, Inverness-shire, merchant, grocer, and cattle-dealer
Neilson & Young, Glaigow, plumbers
Rutherford, John, Edinburgh, grocer
Stuart, W. D. & Co. Glasgow, and Munn, Stuart, & Co. Newfoundland, merchants
Taylor, Thomas, Melrose, merchant
Walker, James, late of Cupar-Fife, now at Stenton, merchant
Webster, Alex. Bisset, St Andrews, merchant
Whyte, Thomas, Leslie, merchant
Wood, James, Lundie-mill, Fife, merchant
DIVIDENDS.
Burn, Arch. Edinburgh, stoneware-merchant; by the trustee, 12 Cowgatehead, 1st June
Colquhoun & Ritchie, Glasgow, merchants; by James Ewing, merchant there, 17th June
Cross, Hugh, & Co. Glasgow, merchants and manufacturers; by Wm Carrick, accountant there, 16th June.
Dunbar, Wm, Montrose, merchant; by Alex. Paterson, merchant there, 1st June
Douglas, Thomas, Glasgow, merchant; by Donald Cuthbertson, accountant, Stirling Street, there. 28th June
Gunn, John, Pitcaithly, vintner; by James Brodie, merchant, Perth, 23d May
Irving, John, Aniun, merchant and linen-draper; by John Rutherford, accountant there, 1st June
Lawson, George, Edinburgh, tanner; by John Learmouth, merchant there, 23d June
M'George, John, Dumfries, grocer; by Robert Thomson, jun. merchant there, 31st May
Morrison, Lewis, Milling, tenant, horse and cattle dealer; by Archibald Lyle of Dunburgh, Easter Auchyle, 22d June
Miller, Wm, Paulstend, bacon-dealer; by Mr Calvert, Penncrsaughs. at Ecclefechan, 28th June
Morton, John, Darvell, carrier, &c.; by Jas Murdoch, writer, Newmilns, 6th June
Mathewson, the late Thomas, Dundee, painter; by John Stephen, jun. wright there, 15th June
Peat, Robert. Dundee, manufacturer; by Edward Baxter, Cowgate theie, 19th June
Stewart. John, Whitefield, cattle-dealer; by James Cameron, merchant, Dunkeld. 3d June
Swan, John, Edinburgh, tanner, by John Leapmouth there, the trustee, 5th June.
AGRICULTURAL REPORT.
The weather for the last fortnight of May, and down to the middle of the present month, has been cold and rather wet. On the 10th a thunder storm, with very frequent and loud reports, passed over this city and its vicinity, but without occasioning, so far as we have heard, any considerable damage to the buildings,—or to the crops, which are not yet sufficiently advanced to be lodged by the heavy falls of hail and rain with which it was accompanied.—The season is yet too early to allow of any approach to certainty in forming an estimate of the growing crops; but their appearance in Scotland, with the exception of dry and warm soils seeded with wheat crop 1815, is by no means very promising, either in regard to the abundance of the produce, or the period of its maturation. The oat-crops, in particular, if we might venture to hazard an opinion, must be both scanty and late.—All kinds of corn have risen since our last, and are still likely to rise, unless the season become more genial than it has been hitherto, at least until the earlier harvests of the Continent of Europe can come into the market A considerable quantity of wheat, of inferior quality it is said, has been exported to France, and large shipments have been made from this country to Ireland for the last six months, so that the glut and depression, noticed in our last Number, have now passed away.—Butchers' meat here, and at Morpeth, may bring about 7s. per stone avoirdupois,—very good beef at Morpeth somewhat more. The lateness of the pastures, which have improved much within the last fortnight, has prevented any briskness in the demand for lean stock.—In the Edinburgh market, oatmeal, the chief article of food among the poor in Scotland, sells at 4s. 8d. per stone of 17½ lb. avoirdupois, the quartern loaf at 16d., and potatoes (old) at 16d. per peck of 28 lb.
16th June.
EDINBURGH—June 11.
Wheat.
1st, 59s. 0d.
2d, 46s. 0d.
3d, 42s. 0d.
Barley.
1st, —s. 0d.
2d, —s. 0d.
3d, —s. 0d.
Oats.
1st, 44s. 0d.
2d, 38s. 0d.
3d, 33s. 0d.
Pease & Beans.
1st 38s. 0d.
2d, 35s. 0d.
3d, 33s. 0d.
Average of wheat, £2:6:2: 6-12ths, per boll.
HADDINGTON—June 13.
Wheat
1st, 58s. 0d.
2d, 45s. 0d.
3d, 32s. 0d.
Barley.
1st, 48s. 0d.
2d, 42s. 0d.
3d, 36s. 0d.
Oats.
1st, 48s. 0d.
2d, 40s. 0d.
3d, 32s. 0d.
Pease.
1st, 37s. 0d.
2d, 33s. 0d.
3d, 29s. 0d.
Beans.
1st, 40s. 0d.
2d, 35s. 0d.
3d 30s. 0d.
Average of wheat, £2 : 2 : 10 : 1-12th.
Note—The boll of wheat, beans, and pease, is about 4 per cent. more than half a quarter, or 4 Winchester bushels; that of barley and oats nearly 6 Winchester bushels.