A wet day usually yields from 3 to 7-10ths of an inch in the ten or twelve hours it generally lasts. In summer, most rain falls when the sun is above the horizon; in winter, the greatest falls are after sunset. A winter's wet day yields the least. A short and heavy thunder storm, on a summer's day, gives 30 or more, while a whole day in winter frequently produces less than this. Warm summers are mostly dry, but warm years are often those of most rain. The mean fall of rain in the different seasons is as follows:

The average number of fine days in each of the months, are-January, 21; February, 19; March, 21; April, 20; May, 23; June, 21; July, 24; August, 24; September, 20; October, 23; November, 21; December, 20.

Winds. The westerly winds are the most predominant in this county. The result of an examination of the direction of the wind for 1800 days, shows, that on the average, winds from w.N.W. and s.w. blow 197 days in the year. Winds from E., N.E., and S.E. blow 116 days. The northerly winds average 16 days, the extremes being 18 and 12. The southerly winds average 24 days, the extremes being 33 and 14. The easterly winds average 36 days, the extremes being 42 and 29. The westerly winds average 49 days, the extremes being 69 and 36. The variable winds average only 6 days, the extremes being 9 and 4. During the season the prevalent winds are Winter, s.w. and N.W.; Spring, N.E. and N.; Summer, s.W., S.E. and E.; Autumn, S E. and N.W. Between New Year's Day and Midsummer, there are, on an average, 42 days of wind from the easterly direction. If much come in January there will be less in April and May, and vice versa. During the hot days, a sea breeze from s.E. or E. is usual.

during every month of the year, but not in any o year. It is most seldom in January, February, Nove ber, and December, and most severe in July a August, especially about July 7th. All the great stor come on at the s. or s.w., while a s.E. wind blo below preceding, and at the rise of the storms. T summer storms do not usually occur at the highe temperature, and are less violent than are experienc in other counties. They are also very seldom attend with hail storms.

These facts are sufficient to enable any person judge of the atmospherical condition of Suffolk. T conclusion is very favorable to the salubrity of t locality, and is doubtless the cause of the sea ports our coast being so attractive in the autumn seaso The greatest difference in the mean annual temperatu is shown to be 4.32°. At Dover, between 1826 and 182 inclusive, the difference of temperature showed a ran of 5:01. The mean temperature of the months August, September, and October, tempered as they a along the coast by the sea breeze, indicates a gre degree of equability. As this is a point of considerab importance to those in delicate health, who may wa to judge of the fitness of the county as a residence summer and autumn for invalids, we state that t difference between summer and autumn is 10.87°, Suffolk, while at Clifton we find it 12.38°, and Newport 10.54°. On the average we have 69 fine da in summer, and 64 in autumn.

A few notes on the Climate as indicated by t FLOWERING of PLANTS, the LEAFING of TREES, an the HABITS of BIRDS, in this county, may not uninteresting in connection with the previous remarks

The Daisy opens in February; Lesser Celandine in March; Water Crowfoot in April; Meadow Crowfoot in May; Speedwell about May 7.

TREES-LEAFING AND DENUDATION.

For the chief portion of the facts given above, and in the preceding article on Climate, we are indebted to the Suffolk Meteorologist, Orlando Whistlecraft, whose industry and care, exercised for many years, have stored up valuable information, for which he has not received, either from medical or agricultural gentlemen, the reward that is due to his meritorious labours.

CHAPTER II.

CIVIL AND POLITICAL GOVERNMENT.

SUFFOLK is included in the Norfolk Circuit. The Assizes are held, in the spring, at Bury St. Edmund's; and, in the summer, at Ipswich. There are four Sessional Divisions in the county, named after their chief towns, Beccles, Woodbridge, Ipswich, and Bury; and Quarter Sessions are held at each of these places for its respective division. The Beccles Division contains the hundreds of Blything, Mutford and Lothingland, and Wangford, including 10,223 inhabited houses, and 50,269 persons. The Bury Division contains the hundreds of Babergh, Blackbourn, Cosford, Lackford, Risbridge, Thedwestry, and Thingoe, including 21,165 inhabited houses, and 103,949 persons. The Ipswich Division contains the borough of Ipswich, and the hundreds of Bosmere and Claydon, Hartismere, Hoxne, Samford, and Stow, including 20,985 inhabited houses, and 94,148 persons. And the Woodbridge Division contains the hundreds of Colneis and Carlford, Loes, Plomesgate, Thredling, and Wilford, and embraces 10,113 inhabited houses, and 48,467 persons, each having High Constables and Petty Sessions; but three of its boroughs, Ipswich, Bury St. Edmund's, and Sudbury, are district jurisdictions, and have separate Commissions of the Peace and Courts of Quarter Sessions. There are County Gaols at Bury St. Edmund's and Ipswich. A county

House of Correction at Beccles, and Borough Prisons at Ipswich and Sudbury. The county is divided into 21 Hundreds, besides the Liberty of the Borough of Ipswich; but Colneis and Carlford Hundreds are generally spoken of as one.

The county is also subdivided into the geldable portion, in which the issues and forfeitures are paid to the Queen, and the Franchises or Liberties of St. Etheldred, St. Edmund, and Duke of Norfolk, in which the Lords have the issues and forfeitures. The Liberty of St. Etheldred comprehends the hundreds of Carlford, Colneis, Loes, Plomesgate, Thredling, and Wilford, that of St. Edmund's includes the hundreds of Babergh, Blackbourn, Cosford, Lackford, the half-hundreds of Exming, Risbridge, Thedwestry, and Thingoe. The Liberty of the Duke of Norfolk embraces the scattered manors and parishes of Bungay, Kelsale, Carlton, Peasenhall, the three Stonhams, Dennington, Brundish, the four Ilketshalls, and Cratfield. The geldable portion includes the hundreds of Bosmere and Claydon, Blything, Hartismere, Hoxne, the two half hundreds of Lothingland and Mutford, Samford, Stow, and Wangford. The Liberty of St. Edmund's formerly returned a grand jury at the Assizes, distinct from that returned for the rest of the county. That privilege was abolished in 1839 on the removal of the Assizes once a year to Ipswich.

Prior to the passing of the Reform Bill, Suffolk returned 16 Members to Parliament; but Orford, Aldborough, and Dunwich, were disfranchised by that Act, and Eye reduced to one member. Sudbury has since been deprived of its privilege on the ground of corruption. The county is divided for electoral purposes, and now returns nine members; two members for the Eastern and two for the Western Division, two each for the Boroughs of Ipswich and Bury, and one for Eye. Exclusive of the represented