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LONDON, SATURDAY, FEB. 20.
Ix the House of Lords yesterday the Earl of
ELLENBOROUGH asked whether her Majesty's Minis-
ters would produce copies of a correspondence which
Chad taken place between the government of India,
and the promoters of railways in that portion of her
Majesty's dominions, on the subject of advances by
way of loan, for carrying out such projects. The
noble earl also complained that the people of India
had to pay five per cent for money, when it could be
raised in England for the purposes of government at
three-and-a-half. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said
there would be no objection to produce the corre-
po d nee when complete. Conditions had been slag-
] meted by the government, on which certain advances
might be male on account of railways to be
constructed in India, but up to the present
time they had not been accepted. Lord
ASHBURTON renewed his motion for various returns
relative to the capital embarked in railways, and of
the investments by the Bank of England in bonds,
debentures, or other securities of railway companies.
The Earl of CLARENDON objected to the latter return,
on the ground that it would establish a precedent, by
which the Bank might be hereafter compelled to dis-
close to the public the names of those parties to whom
they had given credit. Lord Asmweros was willing
to substitute for the return objected to by the noble
earl one to the effect of an account of public se-
entities held by the Bank, his only object
being to enable parliament to see what had
been the cause of the movement in the
money market, and the extent to which the
agency of the Bank had been used in reference to
railway securities. He begged it to be clearly under.
stood that he cast no reflection upon the Bank
directors, believing, as he did, that no body of men
could be more honourable in their transactions. On
the order of the day for going into committee on the
Sugar in Breweries and Distilleries Bills, a dismal
of some length ensued, Lord STANLEY propoeing, es
amendment, that the Distilleries Bill be referred to a
select committee up stairs : upon which motion a di-
vision took place, when there appeared, for the ori-
ginal motion, contents, 35 ; non-contents, 27 : majo-
rity, B,—and the bills then went through committee
without farther opposition.
In the House of Commons the City of London
Small Debts Bill was reads, second time. Mr. HAWES
informed the house that the Howe of Assembly in
, Nova Scotia had contributed the sum of 1,0001 to-
wards the relief of distress in Ireland and Scotland.
Mr. LABOUCHERE, in answer to Mr. FORSTER, said
the government had sanctioned the importation of
600 bushels of superior flax seed into Ireland, but it
was not intended to make any farther importation
whatever of that article upon their own recounts.
Mr. B. HAwES, in answer to Mr. BARELY, said a
vessel was preparing under the authority of the go-
vernment, for the purpose of establishing a
steam communication between the coast of Africa
and the West Indies, for the purpose of facilitating
the emigration of free: labourers. In reply to Mr.
BRIGHT, Lord JOHN RUSSELL was understood trisay
that he would, on Monday next, lay on the table a
copy of the memorial of a large body of miLlowners,
in Lancashire, which had been presented to him, on
the subject of the Factories Bill. The noble lord also
intimated, in answer to Mr. W. CoLverr, that the
earthworks of Irish railways would in all cases be
considered as relief works, and if the companies oh-
jected to that rule, or desired its enlargement, they
mast do so by way
.of memorial. The noble lord
stated, for the convenience of Irish members, that, ea
Monday, either the Chancellor of the Exchequer or
himself would make the financial statement of which
he had given notice, and proceed with the Railway Com-
missioners Bill , and as the estimates must be moved in the
next andfollowing week, it would be Monday f
before the house could proceed with the bills be Rie
improvement of Irish estates, and that for the read'
of the poor. Mr. HUME announced that when any
vote was proposed to be taken on account of the
British Museum, he should bring under the considera-
tion of the house what he considered to be defects
existing in the constitution of the governing body of
that establishment The question of going into com-
mittee on the Labouring Poor (Ireland) Bill, origi-
nated a discussion on all the debateable points refer-
ring to the present state and condition of that country.
after which the house went into, and the bill passed
through, committee.

WE find, in the Agricelteral Gazette of to-day, an
early copy of which has been kindly forwarded to so,
an important document to which public attention can-
not be too quickly directed. It is a statement of the esti-
mated amount, as compared with other years, of corn
and other food now remaining in the hands of far-
mers. Being an abstract of ninety-four separate re-
turns obtained from practical farmers, in thirty-ix
English, Scotch, and Welsh counties, it must be pre-
sumed to represent the truth as far as it can be repre-
sented by estimates.
The prospect is anything but gratifying. It
shows not only that farmers hold lees than
usual of any description of food, but that the
stock of some is well nigh exhausted, and that
the quantity of wheat in their hands is compa-
ratively small. The editor of the Agricultural
Gazette, by whom the whole return. in question were
abstracted, infers that the stock of wheat is pro-
bably one-fifth or one-sitrth4ess than usual, and that
appearances are against an early harvest; that there
is very little more barley in the country than will
suffice for seed ; that the stooks of oats, beans, and
peas are unusually short ; and that if there are enough
potatoes for seed, it is only because no one desires to
plant the usual quantity.
We have carefully gone through the 94 statements,
and we find that in WHEAT 22 persona only speak of
an average quantity on hand, four of an unusual
quantity, and 68 of a much diminished stock. Yet
it is of wheat that the most favourable account Is
given. If we turn to barley, oats, beans, and peas
the quantity may be 'dated in the following table:

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vet provided for the cases of tenants in Mil ?
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all Voly. ~... 'alr7.'"''"'"" .."--pap; mu.. was obliged to decline airing any present answer to the net tams. bee „be was a wow of that Moo. last had not been a feu division, because it had been taken mo I.offusiir fkof, or ofw sowah, gime. !", however,
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Nat 110,510 had Ibrwarded to the noble m bag bola seemeibed ier pdmee The editor of the Agrsi lateral Gazette attaches
liendge)intention to move that it be committed that day six r eery conriderable importance to the returns from •
Meer he Dales MeememUsisa ikthe Me Imiirr mown, an important memorial ib, Row= ora Yes k gem us teretaity to =oaths. (Hear, kesr.) witch these conclusions have been drawn. The,
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the prices of animal food must advance, and that
corn is far from its maximum, unless there is an
enormous quantity of it in the heads of the mer-
chants, or about to be received from abroad.
But we must not deceive ourselves as to the latter
puree of supply. With the exception of the United
States, no country appears capable of meeting the
unexpected demand upon the food market except at
a great advance of pnce. From this we cannot ex-
cept even the Black Sea ; for, although it is probable
that vast supplies still exist in Russia, yet the ems-
inculcations round Odessa are so bad as to render
the cost of land carriage to that port more and more
considerable every day. All the wheat that is shipped
there is brought in in the carts of the country, two-
wheeled machines of a very primitive description,
and no means at present exist of improving such
*ems of transport. The country round Odessa has
been emptied long since, and by degrees the length
and difficulties of land carriage must become such as
will close the port as effectually as an imperial ukase.

THERE is something highly respectable in the con-
sistency of Lord Ittnene's political economy. Two
maths ago the amusing letter to his steward, in
which he denounced the practice of increasing wages
iortion to the wants of labourers, was con-
tystrz
by some portion of the press with his treat-
ment of a marvellous lot of prize pigs which lay
panting in Baker-street, with paws like those of
kangaroos and snouts as of hedgehogs, projecting
from enormous cowls of fat. We have too much
fellow-feeling with our contemporaries to grudge
them an oprrtunity for a joke ; but, in fact, the dis-
position to raise produce to a maximum is by no
means inconsistent with the wish to keep expenses at
a minimum. The man who sells bacon in the dearest
market is the very person to buy labour in the
cheapest. A down years ago, when political economy
NW in fashion, Lord Itsnsoe would have been
praised for echoing the universal cry. We are not
certain that it may not be as useful to repeat it, in
this age of philanthropy, when the laws of produc-
tion and exchange are forgotten in the general en-
thusiare for universal theoretic benevolence.
We certainly do not agree in the arguments of
Lord RADNOR'S protest against the Irish Relief Bill.
When he states that the government has no store of
food wherewith to supply the people, or funds for pro-
viding the same, he forgets the undoubted fact that
government has the money and may buy the corn.
His meaning probably is expressed in the succeeding
proposition, that " the supply of food leads to injustice
and disastrous consequences, because such funds can
be obtained only by taxation ; and if the taxes are
levied (as they ought and profess to be) equally on all,
the whole will be taxed to supply the wants of a
pert; the consequence of which must be, that some
persons on the verge of destitution will be thus reduced
to the same state as those whom they are taxed to re-
lieve, and that those who by prudence and industry
have raised themselves out of the reach of want, will be
taxed for the relief of the improvident and idle." The
assumptions of the fatal universality of taxation, of
the prudence and industry of the rich, and of the im-
providence of the poor, are highly characteristic of
the class of reasoner' to which Lord RADNOR belongs.
Impregnable to favour or affection, popularity or
odium, the true believer in political economy elimi-
nates every fact as well as every disturb:ng influence
widish interferes with the symmetry of his rules. If
taxation has got so pervading a hold, that the slight-
est increase of expenditure submerges some who were
jest on the brink of poverty, if innocent poverty and
unmerited comfort still exist in the land, why so
much the worse for the country : the principle re-
Mains the same : as, in the theory of mechanics, fric-
tion mast be put out of the question. In applied
mechanics, it unfortunately too often brings
the machine to a stand-still. No doubt the
general assumption of the supremacy of self-
interest, which is at the basis of political economy,
must also be the foundation of all sound economic
policy. Lord RADNOR'S theory is right, but the
statesman is distinguished from the theorist by the
capacity to see exceptions and to modify the applies-
ties of rules.
It cannot be denied that, in the words of the pro-
test, it is dangerous for a government to lead the
people to rely upon it for support—that the Irish
are of a temperament peculiarly likely to be so
misled. It is true that experience in England (Lard
RADNOR strangely says " in England and Ireland")
under the old administration of the poor-law proves
that the attempt to provide gratuitously for the
needy is in its restate dangerous to property and to the
independence and well-being of the people. There are,
indeed, dangers in abundance to be foreseen as the
result of the present measures for averting starvation ,
in Ireland. There is the risk not only of breaking
through the rules of political economy, but of forget-
ting the principles on which they are founded, of
providing for the pouring out of wealth without re-
garding the sources which supply it. But on the
other side is the starvation of a whole country, to be
averted not only by a sacrifice of accumulated wealth,
but by weakening the rules which have made its ac-
cumulation possible. Political economy is but the
consistent inference from the rights of property; and
those very rights must now for a time be subordinate
to still higher considerations. He is the devil,"
said the followers of DR BRACT, as they shrank from
the encounter with Ceuta DE LION. " And if be
were the devil," said their leader, as he pressed for-
ward from the burning castle—" if he were the devil,
would you fly from him into the month of hell ?"
In the concluding sentence of his protest Lord
RADNOR distinguishes between the charity which
may be a proper motive for individuals and the jus-
tice which must guide a government ; but, in fact, all
his arguments would apply to voluntary benevolence,
as well as to relief from the fends of the state. As
he told his steward, that labourers in Berkshire must
abide by the sacred laws of supply and demand, so
he virtually tells the House of Lords and the country
that the Irish poor must take the consequences of not
having provided against distress. Aide-tei, and per-
haps, le clef evidera. If not, Heaven must answer
for it. Private charity, even if it could possi-
bly be comprehensive enough to meet the
occasion, would tend as much as parliamentary
grants to diminish the self-reliance of the
Irish, and to teach them to depend on external
aid. Seven millions raised, if it were possible, by
private subscription, would be to the Irish indistin-
guishable from a public grant, while the pressure on
the donors would be incomparably more oppressive,
unequal, and ruinous, than a corresponding amount
of taxation. If the constituted organs and autho-
rities of the state are ever to overrule individual
dissentients, it is just that they should do so in
raising funds for objects of general concern. We
cannot understand why Lord ItAneort's ideal system
of taxation should be so constructed as to press
hardly on the poorest class above pauperism. The
result which he indicates would seem rather to show
that the legislator would, even for the interests of
the revenue, be disposed to spare them : but we are
certain that no scheme of taxation which ever pre-
vailed in England would be so vexatious as a
voluntary contribution of immense amount, which
would leave the selfish, the stingy, and the consistent
economists, to enjoy an entire immunity. There is no
true distinction in political economy between public
mid private munificence, except from the greater dis-
crimination with which individual charity may be
expected to be dispensed. In an emergency like that
of the Irish famine, it is evident that public and re-
le functionaries have far greater facilities for
dicingfishing real distress and detecting imposition
than can be possessed by, any private person. The
mosey to be given is a sacrifice, the habits engendered
and the miles violated are a great sacrifice; but the
,violation of principle would be the same in the case of
'private charity, and the voluntary taxation which it
must involve would be at the same time oppressive

and _ _
Neverthelese, we are quite serious in saying that
we rived Lord RADNOR'S CORtidefley--Rdillail•
enending the reaction of popular oratory and litera-
ture, the rules of political economy are neither a
adssion ner a dream. Public wealth is still made up
of the wealth of individuals, and is promoted by the
..consistent pursuit by each of his own private interest. 1
lb* poorest clues of the oommunity gain more by i
the selfishness of thejilrhattrobours than they mg pl
Wet hope from their, py• Whom t6ein 18
area wealth them be some fir all, where stein I
"be yreesnts of sixteen millions, the poorest will
Rest. The laws of wealth, which were once on
silty trope, seem now to need a prophet, and Lord
ittheica is. ,•-ining to undertake the office. lie
month believe that the arguments which, per-
kin, convinced him in youth, and which in his
lousier years commanded universal assent, have
been smitten in these days by some incurable

blight which makes them no longer capable
of supplying nourishment to a state. In his isolation
he may serve u a warning to those who echo popular
opinions, how rapidly philanthropy itself may be-
come obsolete ; but his perseverance and consistency
show that he belongs to a higher order. He is right
in believing that the frame of modern society rests on
the law of enlightened self-interest. His error con-
sists in his failing to recognise the existence of con-
siderations paramount even to that order of society.
Perhaps Lord RADNOR may not be aware that the
most thoroughgoing revolutionists who have yet ap-
peared in the world, the Communists now exist-
ui in Germany, have welcomed the thorough-
going conclusions of political economy as
the consistent redtsctiu ad absurdum of the
principle of property. They would rejoice to see
Lord RADNOR successful in opposing the rules of his
science to the wants of Ireland. Here, they would
say, is a theory logically followed out, which leads to
the starvation of millions. Given the existence of
property, the chain of reasoning is complete. Now,
therefore, let us, tke anarchists, try whether oar an-
nihilation of property, and of the system founded on
property, could lead to a worse result To say that
property is more sacred than life, is to grant us all
the admission we desire. The only answer that can
be given is that which the country is practically
offering. Without retracting any economical prin-
ciple, believing that the accumulation of wealth is
one of the chief interests of a nation, and that private
self-interest is the most efficient instrument for the
purpose, we yet admit that there may be higher
objects still, and that at the certain loss of much
material advantage, with the probable risk of great
contingent evil, it is above all things necessary to
meet, and, if possible, avert a famine.

MurrsaiNns of discontent are beginning to be
heard in France on account of the more active part
aken by the national marine in helping the Eng-
lish to hunt down the slave-traders. The Jour-
nal du Horns of Tuesday. last, complains that
England " has succeeded in compelling France
to associate herself with operations, the effect
of which is to render her liable for abetting attempts
on the independence of other flags.' The cause of
this complaint is the refusal of the Brazilian govern-
ment to comply with a wish lately expressed on the
part of the French. Some years ago the go-
vernment of Brazil allowed a survey of part of
the Amazons to be executed by the commander of
a French man-of-war, although the Treaty of
Utrecht would have warranted a refusal to admit
the ship into the waters of that river. An attempt
made lately by the French Minister at Rio to open
a negotiation for leave to complete the survey was so
unfavourably received, that 3L GE SAINT-UEORGES
speedily desisted. This, the newspaper we have
named attributes to the displeasure excited in the
Brazilian authorities on account of the capture of
their vessels suspected of being engaged in the slave-
trade by the French steamers on the west coast of
Africa.
The Journal du Havre intimates that Sardinia,
and some others of the second-rate powers, are
equally indignant at the conduct of France. The
journal more than half hints that England's main
object in inducing France to enter into the convention
for the suppression of the slave trade was
to compromise it with other maritime pow-
ers. The suspicion is groundless ; but it is
nevertheless true, as the journal remarks, that
less invidious measures for the suppression of the
slave trade might have been resorted to. Nay, we
will go further : the experience of many years has
established that the over-sea slave trade cannot be sup-
pressed
by our attempts to establish a coast blockade of
Africa. We have expended much money in this crusade, I
thrown away many valuable lives, and yet the numbers
of slaves annually carried across the Atlantic have been
little, if at all, diminished ; while the sufferings of the I
poor creatures themselves have been incalculably in-
creased. So long as there are communities willing and
able to purchase African slaves, e 0 long will there be
adventurers ready to brave all dangers and supply
the commodity. It is only by putting an end to
slavery that we can put an end to the slave-trade. And
we can only put an end to the slavery of Africans in
tropical countries, by showing experimentally in the
British sugar colonies, that the free labour of Africans
may be made more economical and productive than
their compulsory labour as slaves. This, however,
cannot be done ;so long as vexatious and unnecessary
impedimenta are thrown in the way of the emigra-
tion of free labourers from Africa into oar West
Indian colonies. The information which Mr. BARELY
elicited last night from Mr. HAWES, relative to the
, experiment about to be instituted by our government,
to ascertain the possibility of establishing a con-
tinuous plan of sending free labouring immigrants
from Africa to the West Indies, shows that ministers
entertain this conviction.

The Infant Don Enrique landed at Toulon on
the 14th.
La Pearls, an evening journal, announced on
Wednesday night that a report was current in well-
informed quarters that England, Austria, Prussia,
and Russia had combined in common a protest against
the sovereignty of the Rey of Tanis.
La Paine says that, to add to all the embarrass-
ments at present existing in the diplomatic relations
at Paris, Lord Normanby is to leave for Italy imme-
diately after the soiree on Friday. This statement,
however, appears to be without any confirmation.
The leading Paris journals, with the exception of
the aosseitattonisel, suspended their discussion on M.
Chivies diplomacy and the international etiquette of
Lord Palmerston. The National mentions a report that
M. Cunin-Gridaine, Minister of Commerce, intends to
resign office, on amount of ill-health. The same
journal says that M. Lucave-Laplagne, Minister of
Finance, has also determined to retire.
The committee on the bill relative to the augmenta-
ion of the army for the home service, has recom-
mended that the additional number should amount
to 47,000 men.

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PAM., Vas. I6.—]Tree per Ousts., 76 ad; rin par Mt►, 116 a 6:
Pour.snd ..Halt per Cents.,—. Pone per Cents., III; 8.*.. nye per
Cents OM, 1611 1141, 101"; Nsples /tauten. 101 TO ; neniil Leon.
1011 . 136•11 sham., =7o. Itsennagt a& Lennon, PO days, 33 XI, 00., pi
dam 29.
Fes. 112—Parts and Orleans. 1,263 73 ; Fria and aeon, 676,
Contra Vises.. Derdeasn. SU 73 Mints. 111 13.

We have received the Madrid mail of the
12th inst.
There was a report at Madrid that General Pezuela
had resigned his poet as Captain-General at Madrid,
and that he was to be succeeded by General Oraa.
The re was also a vague rumour of a ministerial
crisis, owing to dissensions among the ministers
relative to who was to be appointed Minister of
Marine. It was presumed that General Baldwin°
would be appointed Minister of Marine.
At two o'clock on the 12th the Queen received the
deputation of the Senate with the address in reply to
the royal . All the ministers were nt.
The Countspeec of h
Altamira gave a grand banquet on
the 11th on the occasion of the marriage of is son
with the Infanta, daughter of the infant Don Franciso
de Paul. Her Majesty honoured the banquet with
her presence.
A letter from Valencia states that the division of
700 men, which was to embark for the Equator, has
been dissolved. About 160 of them have entered
other regiments. The second in command at Valencia
has left to take command of the troops oaths Portu-
guese frontier.
A letter from Bergs, in Catalonia, of the 7tb inst.,
says that a Cerliat band, commanded by Ito. de
Crolls, entered the village of Olvaz ; they were going
to La Hum. A body-et-troops marched against
them, and a few shots were interchanged without
result. They then left in the direction of Boado.
On the following day they made their appearance at
San Jean de Maudam. Their number was computed
at ninety.
Tv. 11.—Ttope.serCeats, lkor.sar-00010.. SOS .
.:11...6143:3.,74. SS; 00.0....296. 100 k id Teedia•ad. 230.

FRANCE AND RUSSIA.—Coax EXPORTATION.
—lt has bees stated that the rumour of a Russian imps.
rial ukase against all exportation of corn woes fon a
letter Vivo_ the Preach consul at Odeon to 11. Rothe- ,
Otiose
child- This letter reported
the effect that M. a remark frees a cr...
fonetietsary at , to M
&lid should " take away o much cern is pos-
sible, se the Russian poets would soon be eloesd."
Rothschild, on receivieg the eenonanication, housed to
K. Ouirot to gain precis information. K. Gullet re-
plied that be knew not of such a measure i but, after
thaaking Rothschild r the communicanott, said he
.110.11 d hasten to take all steps necessary to prevent the pro-
mulgation of a Russian tdemeno-disastroos tor France. It
is asserted that soon afterwards a courier was sent with de-
splashes for the dee.srgd d'affliires at Petersburg, requesting
hLa to employ his Influence in favour of keeptag open the
Russian porta. If suoh an ukase has paned, we are at a
loss to comprehend the motives of the Russian Emperor for