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CORN IMPORTATION.
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PETITIONS
PREs9IITII9 TO TIIR IfOU•R OP COMMONS AC: AINST
THE CORN IMPORTATION BILL.
STOCKTON-UPON-TEE.; —(No. 814.)
A Petition of the Merchants and British Coro Dealer* en.
pryer I in the Trade of the Port of Stockton. pon Tees, was
presented and read, setting forth, That the Petitioners beg
leave most humbly and respectfully to sddreaa the House,
and to represent to them the injustice they, ad dealers in
British pare, must sustain if the Wine', in progress throu2h
the House should pass into a law, as it will deprive the Pe.
Wieners of t►e advantage they otherwise should gain by the
protection they erojoy under the present corn lows,whlch du not
allow of foreign grain now ender luck from being sold till the
average prier of British corn shall on se are rage debt weeks
trieetheramount to 80s. per quarter; but, were it for the pit.
vantage of the British agriculturists that this change in the
roes laws should be made, tie Petitioners would most cheer-
fully waive all eimaideratioas et their owe interest for the
getter■' good of the nation at large, but being folly con-
vinced, from their knowledge of the Citfil trade, that the pro.
posed Bill will put the British aviculturists into a tee-
fuld worms situation than they ever can be under the pre-
sent curs laws, and they humbly conceive if the House
taw the subject in the ram.• point of view which their
experience has taught tbrm, they would not adopt measure*
to render the present distress tenfold greater than it is to
the agrieoltui i.e., and they therefore beg leave to mike the
following comnieniestion, that the House may see the
avoidable injury that will Caine ; the Petitioners are con-
vinced from information that foreign grain, of eqnal quality
to British grain, ran be imported soil put in warehousrs
here fur less then half whet it eas be grown fur In Britain,
owing to the price of labour being here so much higher, and
the lahomers enjoying so many more ciiinfoits than on the
Continent of Bloom., and as the maolefaetoriug labourers
ultimo one-lb:eel more wages, on an average, that, what the
agricultural do in this country, agricultural labour cannot be
had for less than it now is, and the unavuid able consequence
must be, that lands now ender cultivation will be laid to
grass, while the pressure of the agricultural labourers
on the mieufaeluring class will tend to in the
diet of all classes; whereas, would the House put a
sufficient protecting duty on the foreign productions (ne.
its of life) imported here, the country would sums
recover from the present ■/paralleled distress, mod all classes
of society would feel the beuellt thereof, but those who look
for their gains from the importation of foreign articles; and
the Petitioners beg lease to state to the House, that they
are fully cunvineed, from their experience la the eons
trade, that a less protecting duty than thirty-two shillings
per quarter on foreign wheat, payable on importation,
will Nut be adequate thereto, and other grain to a like
proportion to wheat ; if die House require further proof
thereof; the Petitioners beg their attention to the curiae. '
queners that ensued foots allowing butter and cheese to be
imported at low ditties, and whirl, articles mast still coml.
sue to get lower in value, till sufficient protecting duties are
laid uo ; as there are no duties payable on grain at present,
if the amount that such duties would come to, on an average
of years to come, were taken off the ditties on the necessaries
of life, 'smell as salt, soap, and rmodlis, it o ould make no differ-
enee whatever to the consumers of grain, whilst it would agate
restore theagricultnral community to their former state iu ao•
eiely, awl all others dependant on them; the Petitioners by no
mesas wish this protection°. wheat, at a duly of32s. per quar-
ter, to be continued, should the price 'overstrain exceed 80s. per
quarter for six weeks together, and were there a provision
made by law to empower the Executive Government to di-
miuish or take off altogether the protecting duty, whenever
the averages, as taken at present, exceed SO.. per quarter,
the agriculturists would be in no better situatiun than they
are by our present Jews, while foreign grain would ahem be
admissible at all timer, with the duty as proposed, but having
the duty to pay it would only come when it was needed, tend
would neither engross the rapital one depress the market by
lying in laud, as at present; the Petitioners beg leave fur-
ther to st•te; that it was the conviction they felt, that the
country was capable of priodueing a nitwit greater proportion
of grain and other necessaries of life than it ever has dune,
■rid that it was never likely again to rise to 80,. per quartet,
and other grain An proportion, •if the averages were only
fairly taken, so Ili to open poets for foreign grain• that in-
duced the Petitioners to conduce dealers in home grain,
ur otherwise they had the issue temptation held sit to thews
obit those bad who engaged in it, having had foreign grain
offered to them warehoused in England at less than half what
it was then worth, if nut nailer luck, at differeut times since
the harvest of 1819, sod that it rose to more thou half
the logic. of British grain (its quality considered) saving in
unsettled weather iu the harvests of 1820 atiol 1821 ; the
best qualities of forest-pi grain would even now sell at an
advance of 325. per quieter were they not unary lock ; the
Petilisuers by no means sigh to put the los'ilers of fie eign
grain ins worse situation that, they arc at present, and have
no ohj. (-tient that the Legislature should exited to them
a greater pi mection (+both as additional duty of ha.
per quarter would be, on grain hereafter to be im-
ported), but should the measures now in progress
111/0111/11 the House pats hue a law, they think it their
duty to state, that it will uo longer be fur their ioteresi
coutiuue dealers iu home grain, but he come dealers in to.
reign grain, which sill be then much mare to their ad-
vantage, unless grain of British growth fall much below the
present prices, and which they are will convinced already
are at less than one-fourth of what it can be growl' fur in
England, and that the posers of grain in that quarter
will be left without buyers for exportation to Loudon,
whither the greater bulk of that grown there his even
hitherto been sent either in grail, or flour, fur they can
buy grain on the Continent and have it sent to London fur
very little more than it costs them sending from that port,
and the same observations Jo extend to moat other exporting
districts ; as these facts are so very dill-richt from what they
have been represented to the House, the Pelllll,lolo mitt, tit
the House to pause and not to alter the present corn lass
till they see the propriety of gnarling 'efficient protecting
duties. finch as they have pointed out, and of the truth of
which they are very certain from their experience in the trade,
and have therefore thought it their duly to represent to the
House, before measures are adopted which will involve this
country in utter ruin, to benefit a few holders and dealers in
foreigu graiu to the 1040 of every ether class iu the commu-
nity.
SCA "(SRA LE—(No. 615 )
Two Petition., of the several Owners and Occupiers of
Lead on the North side of the Hundred of Searmlale, It. the
Comity of Derby, whose Mimes are thereunto subscribed;
and of the severs! Owners sod Occupier. of Laud on the South
side of the Hundred of Scarsdale, iu the County of Cerby„
whose names ale thereunto subscribed, were presented, and
read; setting forth, That, however small 'tic hopes of the
Petit loiters may be, that any thing .1,1(11 they can offer to
the House oill have any weight wi h his Majesty's Govern.
meot ite preventing the Bill time is, progress through
Pas hatuent fur altering lbe present system of cairn lime from
passing iuto a laws yet, in order to prevent the Petitioners
hieing hereafter charged with being or considered by their
earners as twin approvers of the said 1;111 as • pitied remedy ,
to their distresses, the Petitioners beg humbly to protest and
record their °pommel to the House against the said Bill, as a
measure fraught with destruction to the &Ohl' farmer, and
which will leave the Petitioners, an,ll lie farming body In gene.
rat, in a very much worse eniadttion than they now arc evru au.
der the present had system of ecru laws; that the said Bitl, ie
the prat :iced judgment of thePrtiliutiers, go far from being of
the least benefit to them, will be most 'Moons, inasmuch as the
protecting duties therein named will be found to be protect.
tug duties only in sound, anti out in substance; and under the
proposed regulations of the said Bill it will beguile 1100031.
bible that woe farthing of surplus pittance (over and above the
cost of production) can or will ever accrue from the laud as
relit to landlords, ur profit tv tenants, for the Petitioners pear.
tically know, that (with the present direct and indirect taxa.
tutu hanging over their heads) wheat cannot (upon an average
of the kingdom) be growl. on English soil at less than 60s.
per quarter for the mete rent of production sluice, without
paying any reel at all to the landlord, or giving the feriae r
any interest for his capital ur profit fur his labour, and which
trot, interest, and prutit, the Petitioner.; cannot estimate at
much (if soy) less they 20s, p r quarter it addition to the
said cost of production of 60s, poi gamier, making together
Near 80.. per quarter; whereas the Petition is ate melt ia-

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forinett that an In overate of yeast, &reign wheat fin moat
ma) be imported at bOs. per quarter (iacluding. or after poi:
in` the very highest scale of duly proposed by the said Bill);
whyrefortsit will be morally impossible fur 'be Petition's, to
to on with the cultivation of the soil (with rent to their
landlords or profit to themselves). under tech a disadvan-
tageous and intoleiable state as the corn lass will become
undo, the plopimed Bull; hut 'bat soon (*ad that very man
too) farmers Mast under each Iris be oust sad reduced from
the r preseut elite of settee di-tress into actual pauperism;
the Petitioner, therefore most humbly pray the House, that
the seal Bill may out pa.. into a la w.withosit fatly adequate
(41111110 of totally inefficient) protecting duties to be therein
contained.

111 ARK

CORN EXCHANGE, MONDAY, Jinn 10.

We had A large supply of Wboat last week, the major part
of which felltailled over W► this moraines market, whew we
had ati additional quantity &ebb in from Esse:, Kent, and
&Milk, and having but few buyers, the sales were este mely
dull, even of the fittest qualities, at • reduction of full 31. per
quarter, and not the least dimmed for the inferior simples,
which were offered at • greeter abatement. Owing to the
eouliautd heat of the weather, end the unfavourable appear-
ance of all the crops of spring corn, a considerable advance
has taken place in the price of Berle!, which is 4s. per
quarter &neer. Pram and Beaus ere tie higher, and Oslo
were ready sale at an ad of 2e. per quarter, although
the arrivals of the latter article hare been very large since this
day se'unight.
CURRENT PRICP. OF GRAIN.

Wheal, Kent it. Essex 304 Ms Grey Pew 22s 26s
----- lAutrolk ..... 30. 50a Bosall Beau ..... 2Bs 32.
-Norfolk .... 38s 44s Tick ditto ... 2l. 28s
lye ....... .... .. 24a 26s Oaus, Potato
Ba.ley lB. 22s I Pohlad Oats
Malt
White Posse
Boilers