A _white frost_ this morning. The hills round about beautiful at sun-rise, the rooks making that noise which they always make in winter mornings. The Starlings are come in large flocks; and, which is deemed a sign of a hard winter, the Fieldfares are come at an early season. The haws are very abundant; which, they say, is another sign of a hard winter. The wheat is high enough here, in some fields, "to hide a hare," which is, indeed, not saying much for it, as a hare knows how to hide herself upon the bare ground. But it is, in some fields, four inches high, and is green and gay, the colour being finer than that of any grass.--The fuel here is wood. Little coal is brought from Andover. A load of fagots does not cost above 10_s._ So that, in this respect, the labourers are pretty well off. The wages here and in Berkshire, about 8_s._ a week; but the farmers talk of lowering them.--The poor-rates heavy, and heavy they must be, till taxes and rents come down greatly.--Saturday, and to-day Appleshaw sheep-fair. The sheep, which had taken a rise at Weyhill fair, have fallen again even below the Norfolk and Sussex mark. Some Southdown Lambs were sold at Appleshaw so low as 8_s._ and some even lower. Some Dorsetshire Ewes brought no more than a pound; and, perhaps, the average did not exceed 28_s._ I have seen a farmer here who can get (or could a few days ago) 28_s._ round for a lot of fat Southdown Wethers, which cost him just that money, when they were lambs, _two years ago_! It is impossible that they can have cost him less than 24_s._ each during the two years, having to be fed on turnips or hay in winter, and to be fatted on good grass. Here (upon one hundred sheep) is a loss of 120_l._ and 14_l._ in addition at five per cent. interest on the sum expended in the purchase; even suppose not a sheep has been lost by death or otherwise.--I mentioned before, I believe, that fat hogs are sold at Salisbury at from 5_s._ to 4_s._ 6_d._ the _score_ pounds, dead weight.--Cheese has come down in the same proportion. A correspondent informs me that one hundred and fifty Welsh Sheep were, on the 18th of October, offered for 4_s._ 6_d_, a head, and that they went away unsold! The skin was worth a shilling of the money! The following I take from the _Tyne Mercury_ of the 30th of October. "Last week, at Northawton fair, Mr. Thomas Cooper, of Bow, purchased three milch cows and forty sheep, for 18_l._ 16_s._ 6_d._!" The skins, four years ago, would have sold for more than the money. The _Hampshire Journal_ says that, on 1 November (Thursday) at Newbury Market, wheat sold from 88_s._ to 24_s._ the Quarter. This would make an average of 56_s._ But very little indeed was sold at 88_s._, only the prime of the old wheat. The best of the new for about 48_s._, and then, if we take into view the great proportion that cannot go to market at all, we shall not find the average, even in this rather dear part of England, to exceed 32_s._, or 4_s._ a bushel.