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London, England, 1847-06-04 00:00:00

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LONDON, FRIDAY, JUNE 4.
IN the Rouse of Lords, yesterday, the Clergy
Offences Bill was, on the motion of the Bishop of
LONDON, referred to the consideration of a select
committee.—On the motion of Lord Camrsara. five
bills, relative to the holding of landed property in
Scotland, were read a second time ; as was also the
Poor Law Removal (England and Scotland) Bill.
1 The Poor Relief Supervision (Ireland) Bill also, after

some discussion, was read a second time ; and th
Commons Amendments upon the Lords Amendments
to the Poor Relief (Ireland), and the Landed Property
(Ireland) Bills, after an explanatory speech from
Lord MONTEAGLE, were agreed to.—On the motion of
the Marquis of Lsarsnowst, a select committee
was appointed to consider whether it is expedient
that any measures should be adopted for suspending
further proceedings in all or any of the railroad bills
in the present session, and for enabling the parties,
under certain conditions, to proceed with the same in
a future session of parliament ; and also, whether it
is advisable that any further provisions should bi
made in the standing orders of the house relative to
bills for the construction of railroads.

In the House of Commons, on the question that the
report on the Thames Conservancy Bill be further
considered, Mr. Ht'ME moved its recommittal, with
the view of considering the propriety of altering the
constitution of the proposed Board of Conservancy,
viz.: that Instead of nineteen members, consisting of
aldermen and common councilmen, it should be cow.
posed of twelve members only, thus selected—three
aldermen, five members of the Common Coun-
cil, and four gentlemen immediately connected
with the shipping and commercial interests. Alter
a debate, the motion for the recommittal of
the bill was carried on a division by a majority
of 6, the numbers being 71 to 65.—gir G. GRES,
in an elaborate speech illustrative of the evils conse-
quent upon the past system of transportation, and the
good results arising from the reformatory principle
more recently, adopted, moved the committal of the
Prisons and Custody of Offenders Bills. The other
speakers were Lord MAnoN, Sir W. MOLESWORTR,
and Mr. BANKES, after which the debate, on the
motion of Mr. Ewsav, stood adjourned until this day.

ArrEn a period of scarcity far beyond anything of
the sort which has occurred in Europe since 1816-7,
and a severe and lengthened winter, which has gone
far to realise the rigour of more northern climes, we
have the most genial weather and a prospect of more
than ordinary abundance. Never was vegetation
more vigorous in the south of England, at all events,
than at this moment. And the prospect of abundance
seems to be universal. It is not now as it is in some
years, that the good promise of one kind of crop in
some measure consoles the husbandman, ay, and
the consumer,—for the sickliness and doubt which
hang over other crops. All crops arc alike full
of promise and hope. Grass, pulse, roots, lent-cora
and wheat, all have flourished during the last thirty
days with a luxuriance almost unexampled in this
country ; and so far as we can ascertain, certainly so
far as we have been able to observe, there is every
reason to believe that the potato-crop shows no
signs of the blight by which for the last two
years it has been devastated; and this view is fully
confirmed by the state of the corn market, where
prices have been regularly and somewhat rapidly de-
clining since the fine weather has become confirmed.
And this decline in prices we hope and believe will
go on, and not the lees so, because the journals most
connected with the corn trade cry out there must soon
be a reaction. Thus the Mark Lane Express, always
the prophet of higher prices, says., "at first the bene-
ficial change which took place in the weather pro-
duced little or no effect, but the wonderful improve-
ment which was gradually being worked in the grow-
ing crops, soon began to operate, and in districts
where scarcely any corn was before supposed to be
left the aapplies increased, at the game time arrivals
from the Baltic began to drop in ; whilst buyers con-
tracted their operations in proportion as sellers mani-
fested anxiety to realise, until business has come to a
complete stand ;" and if by "business" he understood
speculation for higher prices, we believe the corm
trade reviewer to be perfectly correct ; but does con-
sumption stand still? For weeks and, weeks the
same authority has told us that millers and dealers
were baying only from hand to mouth, that their
stocks had been completely exhausted, and that they
bought no more from day to day than was absolutely
necessary to supply the daily demand of their cus-
tomers, the consumers. It is plain, then, that the late
fall in the price of grain is the legitimate consequence
of prospective abundance, which has mitigated alarm
for the future, and is drawing forth the hoarded
docks of those persons who, in striving to kold on
till they get the very top price, usually fall oil the
other aide, and get marsh less than their more provi-
dent fellows, who are content with a good price,
Ihstark it may not prove to have been the very
The corn-trade reviewer afterwards says :—" The
chief, if not the only, alteration in oar favour
appears to us to be, that the harvest, which threatened
to- be a late one, may now be reasonably calculated to
commence as early as in average years ; whilst there is
nothing about the aspect of the crops to pire rise to
any fear as to the probable yield." This is misstating
the case ; and, as we shall presently see, for a reason.
Not merely is there no fear for the yield of the
growing crops, but we say, upon the authority of
farmers whose experience goes back to a much
earlier date than our own, that there was
never greater promise of exuberant abundgnco
than now. Of course, it is possible that
the weather may change, and the present promise
may not be entirely fulfilled; but the most critical
period for the crops of this country has bees passed,
and well paned. Heat and moisture have combined
Ito cover the ground with luxuriant leaf and flag, by
which the land has become shaded, and the requisite
moisture secured for carrying on the growth of the plants.
Perhaps the worst change in the weather we could
experience would be toe much rain, which might pos-
sibly make the grain crops run too much to straw. Of
that, however, there appears, from the general cha-
racter of the season, to be but little danger,
and therefore we do not hesitate to say that the present
prospect of our crepe justifies the fall in prices
which has already occurred in the grain market,
and leads to the fair expectation of a yet
further and speedy fall. We do not share in
the apprehension expressed by the corn trade re-
viewer in the following passage : " There is some
danger that the fall may continue too long. We say
danger, for in that case the demand from foreign
countries would probably revive ; and if prices here
were to recede below the level of the continental
countries. where. scarcity prevails, a portion of the
supply originally intended for Great Britain would
be sure to be diverted from us to those states; which
might prove a serious inconvenience in case anything
untoward should Guar to reader the harvest less
favourable than is aow expected." Now it is difficult
to avoid the notion that some little sympathetic
feeling for the speculators on high prices,
the large holders of high-priced grain, may
have suggested the contingency apprehended by
the reviewer. As yet, however, continental
prices have not needed with the same rapidity
tie oar own • but then it must be remembered
est • bar; lately risen here in a mach greater pro-
titan abroad. The corn circulars state that
11111611.7 last, at Mark-lane, "to succeed is effect-
ill ales of wheat), it was necessary to submit to a
declined 12's. per quarter on the currency of this
day wok, making the entire fall from the highest
point about 20e. per quarter." We may thus antici-
pate the return of moderate prices as soon as the pre-
sent growing crops have been secured, and with mo-
derate prices the revival of our trade, domestic and
foreign.
But there are two questions, which with the
return of moderate prices will require the watch-
ful attention of the public. The first will be
the corn-laws. A strenuous' effort is likely
to be made by the protectionist landocracy
to perpetuate the four shilling duty established by
Sir ROBERT PEEL'S corn-law, as a minimum, until
February, 1849. They. say little upon the subject at
mmt, for, with famine staring the nation ui the
line, even the ignorant hardihood of a Lord GEORGE
BENTINCS would scarcely venture on such a proposi-
tion. Bat we have reason to believe, that though the
monster istmopol sleeps, it is not dead, at all events,
in the of the landed politicians who
would again snidest the nation to an artificial scarcity
for their own mash ends. On this point the people,
especially the eissliesr should be on their guard. In
truth it would be at devisable that the present
total suspeadola at the ills as Imparted COM should
be made the abesiale esOlaslisa of such duties. Fir
the grilda hailds eountry that course would
be • y beasesial, se they would then be free
at once and for ever hem all the mystifications, delu-
sions, and erroneous calculations, which have grown
out of the corn-laws. The second question to which
we refer is that which has been designated " free-
trade in land;" meaning the use of land commercially,
and the freeing it from the feudal trammels by which
it is now encumbered. This involves all such ques-
tions as tenant right, leases, restriction of the law of