The Express.
London, England, 1855-11-09 00:00:00

ha Us, States, hat from the
that is 1861,1862, sad II

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hornthe cultivation of the sell to Wiling snips, cos-
stractin railroads—dm 20,000 miles of which our
correspondent now ands so beasficial--and engaging
in trade to the Pacilia He does not say, but it is
boom to may student of American history, that the
town populados of the States is anchor, Mein-
aati, Pittsville, St. Louis, Milwaakie, as well as in New
York, Bootee, sad, Philadelphia is increasing Tory

rapidly. The Jammed the town population within
the het few years, and the 'were of the population
engaged in mining, making rails, and in all kinds of
manufactures and trade, while sa egad Jocasta* did
not take place in the agricultural population, was at
the bottom of the great comparative deficiency of food
mistimed by oar correspondent. Since prises have
risen to an almost famine level in thaw's the *Men-
tion of the people has been directed mare to agrisal-
tare, and the brie crop of 1885, if partly due to a
propitious season, is also partly due to the laarateed
cultivation which the seareity and high prises have
called forth. What has taken place in the United States
has also taken place throughout Europa. A great
stimulus has everywhere been given to trade and
manufactures, and the non-agricultural population
has rapidly increased in numbers and wealth. Then
are mare of them—they have everywhere
made railways, built ships, meted manufao-
cries, and have coated more wealth to give
for the food they require. The Jaereaeod
demand for food which has thus arisen could
only be known to the agricultural population by an
inereses of prim and the Jameson has sot yet bean
so great or continued so long as to have produced
in Europe--expoesd as agriculture is to numerous
restrictions, and generally behind the rest of society
as is the agricultural population—the asewmary
increase of food.

History has regarded the 'great effect of the dis-
covery of Anodes, and the increase ol the precious
metals which cussed, epos prices in Europe, not
manly, as is too often hastily supposed, from incase-
lag the quantity of currency and lowering the value
d sell sad silver, but from stimulating, like
Lhe seders discoveries of gold, the progress of
trade and manofectors, increasing, cousquently,
the pipsktien at misused in producing food, thus
sigssialks the amend for food, so multiplying
the Wage to be gives la exchange for it, so raising
to an estracedinary degree the pries of food, and so
coming the price of all other things to rims. What
occurred on the discovery of America has occurred is
our times, but, from our more rapid counnunkatica,
the offsets have been more speedily developed. A
great and rapid Increase has taken place in ship-
ping, trade, and manufeetares ; a great increase
has followed in the population to be fed
from the produce of the land ; they have
mach to give the aviculturists for food, but
till their demand was manifested by a high price
there was no motive to isms largely the supply,'
and after it has beams manifest the supply cannot
be immediately increased. It takes time to =teed
cultivation, particularly in old countries, and hones
food is sane throughout Europe, and the pries in
Ragland—where theme offsets are fist and most
strongly felt—is higher than it hes been for 36 year.
It was quite ispoodble for agriculture to prepare
beforehand for such an ineressed demand, and very
difficult, or almost impossible, for it now, everywhere
subjected as it is ia the old world to numerous arti-
ficial restrictions, at owe to feed the increased and
blousing number of people.
This food question therefore cannot be solved by
looking only to Hyde-park or a parish is Lincoln-
shire, nor even by collecting statistics of the produce
of England or looking at the price in Mark-lane,
though this is the swot indication of our present
undid= and our future preepseta It is a world-
wide question. Commove now unites all the people
of the earth in the pursuit of wealth, however widely
they may be: politically separated ; and we have all
a mums interest in the good cultivadis d the sell
in every country. The dearness we 101111N1 car
anon ebisdy in the gold discoveries, which ban
spread an almost mad delight through all meekly sad
have everywhere kindled energy and enterprise.