The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1821-08-24 00:00:00

Marne. 17 di. Aprilis. llnl.
Tiontei listsat.teest Geom. Seq. is the Chair.

Jews Cowllio Req. eddied gist staisistad. •
Yea ar► a anew anerebnat at Dobai, P-1 aim.
Are pot oriusieted 'Pith th. passim Nair of verlikilbsi
I lrelaird ....Yes, I tined 1 ans.
Can yen state the last ersevel prices or ears is IrdlssoP
vl tam.

Be so good as to do so .-11se torero," prire of wheat sisy
be considered is ireissoi. N 016111 lonwerio, as being from *4..
to tin. a blrrel, reels hare; I orighieg to stone; or bailie it
of t►e B h gnarte•, st is SO.. pre is +tier Irish osoisey, or
rather. from 375. so 404.

The barrel awaitsa fee boshel•!—lt weight Se seem ;
every &scraping of grain is bought and sold by en sglit with
us is Ireland.
Siete the difference between the English and Irish saes-
ourts ?—We have no turn .ensure is Ireland; we go en.
firely by weight; our bushel, ion weight. is 511Ibe. and eerie.,
when measured, seceedisg to the quality of she wheat ; the
heavier she wheat, she mere the bushel of it, ohms easseared,
will weigh ; the general tenet wheat, whit; we expert r ant
Ireland to Eaglasd, the weight is sheet MIN. per Winches-
ter bush. I; our barrelds 11 cwt.; the n Wive propartenn be-
tween the Irish and the Wiachreler bushel is Mite.; this is
the standard of the two cough**.
What then is the properties dist you think the Mei bee-
red bine' to this English mutter ?—I think, from Pt owe
and a half to 33 nose, is the usual weight that shit Irish
barrel bears in properties to Use English quarter; muse
ississers, the quarter se mach se 34 stone, acceoling to
the quality.
As the Irish barrel is tO close weight cos yes rupees
the real relation between the barrel le Irolead sad the Insehel
it Eaglet's! I—The general estimation of Ave Lesions is
coral to nor barrel.
The Committee saderstand that you d al very extensively?
—1 have dealt is cora fee a great asiober of yeses, as many
as 40; I have bees a practical dealer is cone, and every
species of grate, for me a this that period; I masks, largely
eoneersed in dour nills.
And you are also an extensive dealer Is malt ?—I am.
Have you imported a pest dell of eers lately from &is-
land ?—No.
Have you exported a pod deal to Wand ?—Yes.
Can you slate the msaistity of corn exported floe lertanJ
4n Esglised, compered with fanner years?-1 can only state
es far as this, that since the last batten, which we may call
se commesseisg we the let of Srptember, we have exports d
more corn, consisting of wheat and wta, withis that period,
than ever was exported litchis soy sae year previously.
Do you mess, exported to Great Britain only, or do you
Waled. the rest of the world?—We rural very little corn,
at prewar, to any other place but Great Britton.
What peopurnme do the exports aeons from Ireland dur-
ing the last year, hear Se the exports is the two or three
preredieg years I—Very cossiderahly greater.
Are the prices of cora in !reined, to your opinion, ade-
quate to remunerate the farmer for his expense and labour
in esltiveting the laud, wish refereace to his rent?—stint at
the present net he Pty., Ism sore they are true, parties..
tarty for spring core; the prices for spring arra are ruiaious
at the present moment; wheat is better lately thee it was.
Will you state to the Committee the pekes aspiring corn
in Ireland, at the purses. slaw!—Wheat Is 40s. Irish inoiwy,
per quartet B. MA, secordisi to the best of my isformstiosi;
barley, upon as smear, I should suppose, is somewhere
shoat 17s. she Britian quarter, sod oats short 135.; 1 think
these are ahead the average prices, taking Into my racial'-
. Ohio the twee ken of the interior and muttons sif the mom
try &hogs tber ; 1 .she my &citation upon a galena
average..

Wl;st is the ears** •f brioging • quarter .f wheat Goo
Ireland to Looduo?--The rappels, ix shout lc a opirter.
What is the esp. woof Warn It to Liverpool ?—Less t•
Liverpool and Ilautlawd.

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Have you any objection So stale the quantity of cora that
your house has seat out is the way of export'-1 ant sot
myself, st pecan's, an report. r of cora to any enasiderabla
mamas ; I have gives up that department to • hoes, in
which soy son is a pariarr ; their exports to this country,
within the last year, 1 take to Lava been shunt 70,000 bar.
relsonostly vises the middle of August last, bccauve the
crops ease in early, tad the harvest begaa early.
To shot ports were those 'spurts sent ?—Principally to
the *unlacing patio of Hocked, to Liverpool, sod thence
they fumed their way to Manchester is that dinettes, to His
Clyde, London, sad to the Eaglish Chammel,
Did these exports mason of oats or wheat ?-ILith "heat
and oats and lout.
The Committee understand that your lour-mills are very
extensive; what queasily Idiom are they capable of waking
is the course of • year ?—About 10,000 barrens of wheat
into lour ; the receipts at myosins, since the ht of Septem-
ber last, of the difereat kiwis of eon, were between 10,000
and 70,000 barrels, besides my sue 's mils and concerns, i•
which he has received betwens 15,000 sad 16,000 barrels
Owe.

Do you thigh that the apiculture of Ireland is is its rise
or stationary, or is a state of retrogradation !—I Atilt it is
Increasing prodigiously ; I thumb there never was more coin
in the grooms!, at this period of she year, that" there is 111401..
Do you thisik that if the priers do sot stead, that the agti-
colter, of Ireland ear go on is a progressive slate of
proventest ?—lt is inspustible that is ego go ea slues there
is issue anseudanest is lite prices, ur a reduction in the real
sod charge, of laud; particularly with raeressce to the
pekes of spring coin.
Do you thick the present eons laws are suelcient to hold
out protection so the forgoes ?—I Never had two opinbiss ou
the 'abject of the corm law limes it was reacted. I think it
was the best law I ever kora provided us such a subject.
What rum law de yea allude to ?-1 was the late tern
law ; it was the best ever seacted, provided is gave the pro.
tection it pottered to give ; bet I ibauk it does nut give that
protection; I am satislicd it does sob
Du you mesa by she late, the moral corn law ?—I seat,
the lasi corn law which raised the protecting price of wheat
to 80s. sod mu on, rateable prices us other descriptiore of
cores.
Thee since that law has failed to give the protectioa which
it prufrome, to hold out, what protection do you thick to be
necessary is your judgeseut ?—1 think that the prutectloe
with the present corn law professes to give, would be quite
sulficie•gyprovided it were really gives.
sat as you say it shots aut give that protection, what
would you suggest as a rented: !—li is impossible for se to
suggest a bete. r remedy, provided it was scatty mid fairly
owned irk effect.
Do you thiuk a protecting duty would auswer the per.
pose !—I have au doubt that a protecting duty would answer
the perpoge. I eau:claimed soy doubt of it.
Meld Nut a protecting duty be more simple in its process,
sad more sure of aissivetimg its object?—l think it would,
particularly frets the *wriest" we have had of the dein-
ashy in essfarcing the present cent Law, sad preveuting the
frauds slat have occurred.
Do you think the farmer studs is seeder an aosarseice
of primaeval protection ?—1 ant satisfied he does, sod that
there is within, which mild (wafer pester Meek apse It e-
laid them that cue thus& as it would he the mesas of pee.
petuatire plenty mud preventing caressive prices.
Yen wientiuord your mills just Nue, sad you also moo_
Boned the fart of your having exported /one to gecko/
do you think that the nark of the cora laws its !relied is,
that is foreign Lour eau be imported ?—Yes; it is the ope-
ration of those laws that bas produced the establishers' of
our sills; and they have also produced a presary system is
the treasury.
Do not she sine epeeists se granaries T—No doubt of it ;
the bust of graoaries; fee every moo will eadesvesr to take
awe of his own property.
As/ granaries are famished only with has. cora ?—lieseir
awe std nothiag else.
Thea yes thick the peteetios of the silks, is esseetial