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luck, and the merchant anothers sod the corn is .ewe taro-
ed withisitt Me presence of as Darer f,ont the Coitoins.
Are the Soaks the are;-ibis, they arc de trereet locks.
Su that. wither party an bees emits to the grawary with-
out the knowledge of. the elite,. ?—Ceitainly.
Is that the genera) law ?--Yint, it is the radios with till
Roods kept under the severity of the revenue.
• Is any Custom-house °Seer is attendance at those ware-
houses
Can you Slate the boars of his attendance really do
not recollect exactly; 1, ibiuk it is front nine its the ntortinig
tillereisiagi whilst oho labouring sen wink. •
. Supposing it to be from nisi le the Silo Wag to she•th the
evening from the period of hot traviee the +artisan*, it is
Men open ter the nterchaat, sr the person whose property it
is ?:-Art u6sse Is always with the persou, if he has.. war.-
house Hied with coin; he esionot get (root ore room to an-
other to catrialwe he corn without the officer, who Is always
Owe with Wolk/ye, )jhst a goatee...
Has ant the sane locker the ere/tinily of • certain member
of stareltossesl—A termite aandorr of Wile/.
ilia there bees Imp seaspiaint slut there is not a auSitient
liltof lockers sot plan of that.. •
is the salary • she Seeker
bot.he is wegeratly an hairwrpesaan.
Don any parson
men, as to its

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out • I know it was
Gon Its be dive.,,
It is Seem geletpd la
valid be • very effectual way,
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Are there matey More es Odell peeress may Mae atoms
to the samisuseh Without the privity of the Custom-house
eater ?—.Neeer ; sod I do aot.beneve that oupeoes has***
snuggled old in that wey; the silly evades of thespian of
the Act wan* their Lae hem has boa - liveried's of
headed corn tactile of
De you, helm of try ports haviag. bent *road st he.y,
VI fortingSp the is in the mall machete of Ceratig-
messhlre apd Angleees?-1 d. sot he.. the fad; 1 balm
beard it serativred.
You spoke of a diitiehhed motion aide. at Liver-
pool; leas the ...her of ships victimitleld there the lam year.
the same as in former leers !—I have a alecomeot which will
jibe+ the abeinat of Aria duties paid la LiVerpool s sod, Cy
which it appears that she teenage I. last year, 111129, was
1100.033 toes • I. 1119 it lap 657,3111 lima; esti is lilies
754,690: sad that, with the eveptioa of 1619, which 6 the
hovel year, 11125 la still am lacrosse Ma compared with mei
Pree,liell year.
Yoe Stele that She *Price of meat wai ahead the lime mew,
as it had heel Ii Liverpool here Seer told that it is
to rise apts.
Is it sot metelielly affected by the occasional index of
'tittle Volt Iretsied?—Thit would oat affect the aherage
price of the year.
Were you rightly alederotood, that there is oily ale pertain
taho rouses under the deoubribethro of Cocker, sad that be is
a old man ?—.016! so; locker is a deocriptitos of officer of
which there are a,grest number.
They are chiefly of that description or Men—~ee.
Advertiog to your mode of estimates the mop. duet miler
survey take place se immediately Wore harvest that it cam.
sot be eabeequently affected by mildew ?-1 think it might
be effected byereather, bat sot by mildew; if, Aar lumen'',
It lake our survey the week before the harvest cemmeores,
nod had weather should come afterwards, the crop world be
steeled; bet the crop has usually ervived at otaterity, aid
the mildew would sot affect it.
Are yes swore that, In sassy parts of tacked, they belts
to cut their Mt. bag before it is ripe?—Not earlier thee,
aciesedlag Weer ides, what we should term ripe.
• Not while the stesw is green?—Not that I am aware at.
Are you aware that a variety of soils may be very shim
shoes is the spun of a termini squaw rude I
should thiak so.
Do you suppose that the same cptentity of Soar ran be
produced from • quarter of Irish wheat as out from Fattish
wheat, sopposiag both to be equal im respect of weight, and
equal in calomel-1 hardly harm how to aornier that gees-
Wes; 1 should think not free the beet English wheat cer-
tainly, from English wheat generally.
If the opinion be true, that Scotch wheat is less predate,
tire them Enlists wheat, co.eeq of the ieferiurity of
the ennead*, may set the same eternising be applied to parts
or &wined as well as Scotland ?—Certainly it is so, I believe.
Are you aware that • seek of Scotch flour, weighing two
huedred sad • half, will produce three quarters lesves less
than a sack of English doer of the same weight was set
aware of that ; but I think it very likely.
Will barley of the north of *.*land er Scotland produce
the same quaatity of spirits, as barley of the south of Ear.
lead of the same weight will !—Tbat is a subject to which I
have set paid attention; I do set know.
You have stated that is peer clinics, the same quantity
of Irish corn would produce less door than English corn;
are you milleriettly well acquainted to give that se a factl.-
I can give as a fact, that the same weight of Irish wheat
would sot bring the price as the same weight of English
wheat, bushel for bushel.
Has out the average quality of Irish wheat imported with-
in the last two years,exereded the quality of much wheat of
lesgllsh growth brought to the same markets?—No; the
average rituality of Irish wheat in the last two yearn hat beets
decidedly below the average quality of English wheat ; it has
been lees below the ge quality of English the last tee
years than is preceding years.
Applying to oats. is the outer husk of the potato aid the
Poland oat, as thick as the Tamara oat ?—I do not know ; we
have to du chiefly with Irish oats in our market.
Are yes to be understood that your observant's. apply
exclusively to wheat?—Entirely so.
Aid toughed to particular pasts of England In that re.
sped ?—Nu ; so far as tier examinations go, we conceive they
give yea full ge of England.
Are you aware that the rehires which yea have givers of
the crops, gives au average upon the six year, of 31 hashela
per sere; aed that the rommou reputed average is sapptieed
to be under 20 per acre?—Tbe 32 is the gross produce, not
the tea; sot haveng allowirl soy thing fur waste.
Allowing every thing fur owe, admitting of large deduct.
litres on the scale of waste, your average irniild be about 26
brutish per serf ? -Tlvereaboets.
Are you aware that the estimated supposed average has
been hitherto laid under twenty ?—I was 1101 aware of that ;
I had understood, without paying much attention to the sub-
jets, that it wan about three quarters each • bulf.
If your estimate bee ws, correct, bow could you account t
so large a consumption of the home growth, within the pe-
riod to which yew have alluded, in which also rood Ito adie4ll,
the large inspoillatious of foreign growth ?-11111 stash ne a,
very good crop; end 1814 was a good crap; 1813 was an
extraordinary good crop ; now, as the result of these three'
crops, I thiiik it wile 'war, that at the bettering of 1816
the prices fell as low as they are now, and we had an export
of coin. I have the average price noted in January, 1816,
and, as I think, • cosisequence of three crops, down to
535. 7J.; thee same the very bad crop of 1816; which was
very much below' what, at least, the ansaber of bushels per
sere fur that year honestly ;so we considered it; as the wheat
was besides very much injured by the weather hi that year;
then in 1817, as the conaequeore of the crop of Idl6, came
se excess of Import, orabout 800,000 quarters ; the crop SO
J/17 mewls at 32, which is very near the figure of the ave.
rage; but Aunt the greeter quastity of cattle in the years
111117 and 1818, es will be seen by the slaughter of shoe.'
year., and which castle must have been fed doting that mew
it must have been upon a very slintieisbed scale in point of
extent; and I think • deduction should be made from the
mediate; that would piece it considerably under what the
figure represents.
Are your ohervallose wills respect to the slaughter of est:
lie extruded to the kiiigiluni greet ally, or to Liverpool only !

—To Liverpool, Itlauclreates, Birmingham, Blied d, and
Leeds.
keens whit period do you date the increase in the con-
enesption of corn, and the decree', 'in the roost:l%6oos of
-'=eat?-1 should elate it from the period when the prices Ire-
tame decidedly in favoulof the one, and again 4 the ether;
1 Avoid, [Whit it would commence sometime ■boat the coo-
chides of 1819.
Yon hare elated yourself to he a holder of foreleg) corn,
tad that you' have euridgemeids also from fueteeners; are
those from different parts of Europe, ur Guns America ?
tChießy from Daulsic; we bold considerable quautlttes of
Boer from America *W.I.

•Dir pre opt suppose thin list expose of cultivatiost is
suck greater in some parts of &trope than its others, and
that there is a differeoce its thevexceniie of civilisation be-
totes &trope and Anseries/-1 should think there was;
laborer, for •iortaoce, is sods. higher. is America &boo its
Europe; hot Lesion this, there is but little laud rent is
America genera:ie.
. •
• If there is a difference mini respect to the expense of
night mot the Cost of freight sod warehouses'/in
his ruinous is into isistirisce, and consparetivolg
wheat goo be
soothes, sone,

ea r►ies
&Fee/ is

subject.
dr.' specrlatirm ?--Certniely
Is not the cure market of. Eagland am object of reasteet
irate* with alt the,European Powers, and alto is America?
should think it was.
As the harvests of 1918 sad Isl 9 *era supplied to has
hemp ieflearkably ahriodiet ia the male of Europe, inclid-
Cseestiony, the Netharraieds, Mid the worth of Femme, de
yos.halieve that there is as present say great amonsulaiion
of gad* those countries?-1 believe there is • large.lock
of wheat at Destile; I am amble to state with regard to
the other plates; in the Mediterranean there is a dalcieney.
Hera is it with reseal to the north .f Europe, sera the
Low COmstries generally ?—I shook, thick there was • pod
stock of grain.
Then their power of supply, in the event of the ports
opeoing, meat depend is a great degree ipcin the accusuile-
tion ?—No Mehl Of it.
Are yea' aware of what was the highest rate of weekly
easier at Manchester. in the cotton trade. &toilet; the
war?—No, I am nut; 1 have forgotten it, if l ever beard it.
Has the price of cotton, at Manchester, lately bees aimehly
en the rise, or has it deetieed withia the Ilia raged) ?—These
has Imo a ries in the last few weeks ii Mum, sod it is ra-
ther leweriet spin.
Do you suppose that the greead diet of the winufse.
term, at Manchester, is •01, heat, or worse than it was
dude( the war?-1 cannot 'retort to answer that question,
sot being fell infierosed epos it.
Do you think the price of labour depends epos the prier
of vital ?—1 shooed thick it would ultimstely be affected
by it; but I think the prices of labour do not vary se leich.y
as of rainy other things.
Dues it not depend on various other things?—Upon the
whole facility of Befog; if there be a greater facility of lie.
Mg the number of labium,* will Merrier, and this price will
*Bea the archer in the course of some time.
Dees it sot depend epee the price of ether commodities,
which see equally necessary to the labourer?—Yea, it will
depend epee the whole mom of heist.
Mee the duty of the locker require his wisdom to any
thing berme the mere *pestle( and Meatier/ of the ware.
he se?—Nn; he realities with the proem employed by the
eserchamt drain the time the awn is tweed, aid he has MP
other duty.
He reisaras inside the warehouse?—Tea.
Whet detieeiptim of Welts are reed fifameneetat
have padlocks • the merebarit has a Axed leek, the same as
used epee doses generally.
What interval passes between the visits of a kicker to a
warehouse, or is it possible that it my tempts that be may
he absent from any particular methane fur a cuosiderable
time ?—Bonded wheat, of course, requires teneme, perhaps
mar • ferteight ; I do not know Mather he whets I. the
me.. time or era.
Does bonded wheat require turning if it has been kiln
dried ?—Yes, it does.
la the Intervals bootee the famine, you do not know
whether the locker visits the warehouses or sot ?—I de mt.
Are the warehouses where care is sraweleemed, is mist of
Let, as mantas these where tobacco and other articles pay.
tag dusty are warehoused.?—They are deemed ao by Gomm-
meat.
Would the gauging corn from time to time be as expen-
sive sod ',Welcome* operative ?-1 do mot thick it would.
Might II not be dose with the mese facility as the malt-
eler's trade is?-.Yes, I should think it might ; theatorchaat
ought not to be compelled to have it kept at soy particular
height, but such height as may best suit his pu. pose, other-
wisi It might be an immense mollies of rent, to be compel.
led to have it at any regulation height. Idu out think; as
regards Liverpool, that there is may ground for the tenet sp.
prrheaaioe as to smuggling it; I do nut believe that any has
ever bees taken oat of bond improperly.
Have you sot what is called a sample drawn of all core
minim coastwise?—We have samples of ell corm we sell.
Forage as well as English ?-0i all.
Is there say allowasce mode for screening the corn ?—lt to
not usual to bereft corn, it generally remains in the state in
which it is received; it may occasionally be dere, but it is
not the common practice.
Are yea of ophsioe that if British wheat was kilo dried in
the rams manner as the foreign, it might be kept in wage-
house from two to three year* without comiderable istjary ?
—Yes; 1 should think without kiln drying.
Is not the foreign wheat generally kiln dried ?—No,
111160rOsink It is Dot, generally; sometimes it is.
-Illatroar opinion, does the price of cern en the Continent
pallplly rise when there is a considerable demand frost
000 Lila* ?-1 should thisk always.
Have you my further documents with respect to the OA
of wheat lead Boer, or other papers which you liiii4flll
tt .
material to furnish to the Committee ?—I have. ••
[The witness delivered in the accounts.]
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[FROM A NSW YORK PAPSR.] "itf /4)
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We never doubted the existence of a marintej
animal, somewhat resembling the description wit*
has been so often given of the sea serpent, seen ills
our eastern waters. After witnessing •the bones of
the mammoth, and having the existence of those
extraordinary animals the Ontithecephshts of Ger-
many, and the Mestrodua of our own country de-
monstrated, by the most unexceptionable evidence,
it would be carrying credulity too fir to doubt
that the sea, which is more capacious than the limit,
to capable of exhibiting runnel productions equally
ettroordinory. • It is mere evaitou to my, that be.
cause every one has not area a sea serpent, no
such animal rusts. Flow many thousands, my
millions, are there who Inver saw an elephant or a
"bale, and yet entertain no doubt of the existence
of these wonderful creatures; ; and what is there in

mime ►hat renders the existence of a see serpent
wore impitibeble? Who will preteud that they are

wee irrr easepilaistl lig•ai 'lure is lot a suglicitet liPalitte. -night sot the oust et freight sod osrehottetag in
Iwo 1-1 ors so *An a thaL , . ' , , Sottleesl be mittens in oat imitative, and estniostsbeely of
s salary of the locker ?—That Ido wet koorr, little istritortasee is another ?—lf a sapply of wheat PO be
tiny so old iiieurprawas. eut-lkose OW place alr,• With 15... price than soothe% west,
Jerome seder lay Cleign. agipp,‘ worm a the ef 'course, would peat keen he dear plane; .upoo ilia price
inanity ?.....1 swims.* os, sumways pp coming 1111 .Eibilsad, the pries would, in s groat atearitre, tiers...Nl to
lime Oaths fives tibia* tholwooortatiw• world take place. 1
. •iriaNd. '-kiisii..
of-A aer *fa. s. *maw 1.----.l6_ra• Misk illl_Oph gi, rem if f•dPia'k W.* 4
it was the subject of diereseeer lately, that it Pike °1 Moor N-II Imo"' dram meth see mewl iragllibllr'
flse.,. r , portant lb price of ewe., . . , . .
w,,,,0 is, the panbp,;6o„;,..h 6 opt; Hog hmu rho isrooriatierie 4 foielga Cora always the subject
ry effectual way. ,!. Ut•resliaatted speculating) ?--Cenalsi, owl. .