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"Tue contents of this Volume will be found multifa- ious,‘but still in strict conformity with the original Plan of our Work. No extraneous or unimportant matter has, in any one instance, been admitted. Commercial com- munications, however, it must be confessed, have, as it were, for this last half year kept pace only with Com- merce itself, which has, of late, advanced with wary, timid, and slow progression. Under this head, the pro- ductions of the Island of Mauritius, our commerce with the American States, particularly in Furs and Hemp, the trade of France from Constantinople before the war, and the various magnificent accommodations constructed and now forming in the port of London, constitute the princi- pal commercial features of this Volume.

In the agricultural department, this Volume can boast of materials as novel, interesting, and instructive, as they are seasonable, various, and numerous. Every branch of husbandry, almost, that is in season here, during the months in which the numbers herein contained, make their appearance, is set forth in succession, and in its most- improved state; but many of the communications which we receive still, take their complexion from the pressure of the tmmes; and the long prevailing scarcity of animal food has induced every one to make public whatever means he might suppose would tend to the increase of this article. Accordingly we have received from different parts of the kingdom the particulars of a variety of cheap modes that have been adopted in the tattening of ani- mals, and likewise several papers on improvements in the breeding and management of stock, particularly of. sheep. That fundamental article in husbandry, the draining; of