The Express.
London, England, 1850-01-21 00:00:00

itt TATIOX OF POOTICTIOXIST
.AIIII2TIONS DT THIS

" scoxoxin."

The Economist fully and satisfactorily disproves
what was so exultingly brought forward in Black-
Maga:ine, and repeated by Lord J. Manner,.
'De assertion was, that for several years, and notably
daring 1443, whilst the price tf wheat was 47,. •
router, and the duty 20•, foreigners imported
1,m01,000 quitters of their wheat, which, course-
qurc:ly. they must have parted with, and gained
up: n, at the selling price to them of 2:s. If foreigners
c)ald do this in 1815, bow can English agriculturists
compete with them in 1830?
Such is the argument. To this the Economist re-
plies, that although upwards of a million quarters
were impor'cd in 1843, there were but 316,000 en-
tered for onsumption. Of these two-thirds were
Catadian, paying but one shilling duty, and but one-
fourth foreign, paying seventeen shillings average
duty, and that moreover, the price, instead of being
4Ts., ranged fro. that price in June to 675. in De-
cember.

During the fuer years stated, the average duty on
foreign wheat was 11s. 4d., and Its price consequently
th.t of 4,817,036 quarters of wheat (says the Economist),
on which du/ was paid, the rate of 20s. was only levied on
It' !40 quarters; while on about owe-halt of the wheat and
four Shits of the flour • duty of Ss. only woo levied, when
he oserage prim, the duty being paid, was 61e. to 655.,
lesvire • net prism to the importer of 665. to 575. the
Tinter. Mere than half of tie remaining quantities psid
c .•: s varying from 9.. to 14c, indicating • price to the im-
, iritr et from 41.15. to 631.
The price of wheat in Prussia during 1845, which
was a most abundant year, was 335. 91. the quarter.
The best wheat, such as alone is exporttd, was dearer.
To this let the cost of transport to the ports, and then
tht =!1;p ping and freight be aided, and it could not
be brought to England under from 445. to 45r. a
(Inner.

FIR( IN THE TILIRPI.I CHURCH. Yesterday
aore.m, about b o'clock, a flee broke out in the furnace
nom of the Temple Church, which, at the commencement,
thrsstesed mime *jury to the edifice. A man named
/imp, 'lam duty is to warm the church, after lighting the
foam', which is la the basement story, went into the cho.
mon' MIN immediately overhead, and was suddenly
a:armed at hearing en explosion, which appsrently pro-
neelml from the room he had just left. On returning he
kind the femme room filled with flame and smoke. He
threw some pails of water on the fire, but was speedily
overpowered by the smoke, and fell insensible upon the
Hoer. Fortunately some persons connected with the Temple
succeeded in draping the man out. The fire, by that period,
had forced itself complete:y through the roof of the fumes
room, and had penetrated the Markle of the chorister.'
robin' room. )(meager' were sent to the brigade and
West of Eagland 'tattoos, and the firemen apes arriving
icustd the smoke 'muting forth in such volumes that they
wen unable to eater. The engines having bens set to
work from Fleebstrint, the bon were earnest round the
church, and the firemen were enabled to scatter the water
in the riiht direction, but some time eloped ere the flumes
could be extinguished, and not sail a great part of the
flooring in the ehoristm' rebing.rocm was destroyed and a
valuable pianoforte much burned. The church did not
receive any material injury. The beautiful organ,
which stood immediately behind the wall on which the
filmes destroyed the outer plaster, also escaped Wary.
Immediately after the performance of Divine service in the
morning Sir George Rose, Sir B. Cumming, sad the other
4enth, n, visited the place for the purpose of learning the
muse of the outbreak; and it appeared that for some
time past the man in charge of the ferasce-room had been in
she hthit of piling bundles of wood over the boiler of the
!cruet to dry. On Saturday lest a great quantity was
peed there, and yesterday moenleg shortly alter the fires
were lighted the heat of the boiler must have set the whole
of the wood in flumes; and the explosion heard by the *an
Cm no doubt caused by the bursting of the slats roof from
the action of the are. Is ceder to prevent the possibility of
wither outbreak, two firemen were left in charge of the
wards dense the whole of lest night.
FIRE IN ST. JaMVs'es.—Yesbentay afternoon. short'?
Am 1 o'clock, a firs broke out in the premises of Mr. T.
Gnat, a furniture dealer, No. 36, Princarstreet, St. Jamie's.
I be Fuses were clothed to the destruction of the lower part
of the building. The origin of the fire could not be seer.
Weed.

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brran la TIM MlLLaaxx Paisoar.—On Saturday
kqwist was talus by Mr. Bodford at the Millbank
oe the body of Thomas Hartley, aged 91, a convict la that
vel l'Nes the lestiameay of warders, it wowed that
etcessed wee reealred la the prim ham Lewes, la the
31.reb of Out year, by the 'shrewish, Mr. Hall, who von
ally merfued by the mai Pamela He wee employed
La U.S titan, aad had the awned what he waled.
re the 3rd of this south hi d Meshy of
• rtethaig, sad was at eats takes to the lalssamy, aad
t•-•,a4.14 by Dr. Daly, thevtayliolos, who !and he was
11'6urilist ander at leg seas M esasamp•
tr.a, lad he died ea the lath. Oa yeah. the bib_ a•
'eater of ulcers were Mail la Vie 11 width to as-
v.uLted hat the death. He was ea leatly-etteduated
aad lad every attention paid to him. The Jury
its ~ned, a verdict of" Natural Death."