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mercal operations, and compels exchange of
specie for the agricultural products required The trade
which takes place between GrsatBritan and the sgrcu
tura bordering the Baltic draws upon Eng
land for bullion, nothing else is taken in exchange
and expectation Of specie must take place. An
importation of -four into Great Britain from This coun
try would draw bullion from the Bank of England the
balance in trade with England areadyn our favor
and our importation of their manufactures as large as
the demand for consumption requires. very extensive
importation Of corn into England from any country,
would require large expectation of bullion, but not to
large per if imported from this country as from
Russia Prussia and Poland.


1t is impossible to the approach OF an uniavor
able season. The harvets uncertain, and no human
effort control the elements prevent falling crop or
divest bad harvest of all harm, but an Improvement
in the corn laws liberal construction OF the tariff
upon corn imported into the Kingdom would do great
deal towards preventing the evils and distress short
harvest invariably produces The increase of population
all quarters of the world and the slight inducements
agricultural nations have for producing grain than
they consume, rapidly reducing the supplies IL
is not to be supposed that grain will be raised in
country to supplythe precarous markets another The
countries of the continent of Europe will not cultivate
large surplus of grain upon the probability that de-
mand may exist in Great Britain for it. Were the trade
grain between all countries free and regular





yidence to have provided that failure of the
crops should be general that scarcity in one coun
try should be compensated by abundance in another the
chances in famine would be gradually diminished by the
free interchange accommodates and better knowledge
of each others wants.


The position of the people of Great Britain in relation
to asuppy Of breadstufs is becoming every year
precarous The increase of population in this country
and in Europe increasing the consumption Of corn ra
pdy and much faster than the increase fproducton
that the supplies to meet any demand from Great Br
tam becoming less and less every year. This, with
the increasing population in Great Britain places
serious complexion upon the subject than it has
fore possessed II is obvious that the rapid
population adds to the distress and danger to be appre
hended from insufficient supply of food and that any
marked failure in that supply would be likely to be at
tended with far serious consequences than resulted
from the ten or fifteen years ago Every
ceeding aybrings thousand additional human beings
to be fed and unless something done and Immediately
too the result of short harvest will be terrible The
increase in the aborng classes of Great Britain good
evidence of present prosperity The railways about be-
ing built in Great Britain will draw thousands of labor
from the cultivation of the soil and increase the
ber of consumers shile the number of producers de-
crease in corresponding rato this increase of
will require corresponding increase in the supply
OF and should short harvest be experienced
during the progress of these railways, while the
Der of aborers upon them large, the effect will be
distressing than before. An advance in the
price Of food and the restrictions upon the currency
Importation ofcorn invariably produces checks the ope
rations of the manufacturing establishments the
try reduces the price of the material throws many
out of employment deprving them Of the power of pur
chasing at any price, and reduces the Of all
classes when the increased price of food makes
sary that they should be increased


We annex statement showing the amount Of bullion
in the bank the quantity of cotton consumed, and tn
price at the close Of each year.


BULLION THE BANK ENGLASo--AyERAGE PRICE Ann


QUANTITY OF CoTToN


Bu[LQn In Bank Cnttofl