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from tie leak of I 4s. sd., time %MA ell their legal oblige-'
Hone weer grounded, to p to 4P. 9d., which is now all thst
the farmers receive: if the funtl-neners had reduced their
own PrOperty ie the saute degree, iii the same time ; and if
they bad also reduced by law, the monied rents, tithes, and
taxes, which the farmers pay, in the same.deirree, at the same
time, could in this case have been no suspicious motives
attarbed to their conduct. But when we see that they have
neglected, or rather Ntudiousiv avoided, every measure of this
kind, endlhat they have absofutely quadrupled their own pro-
per,). if measured in cheat, and doubled it if measured in
all otln4 things, at the expense of the useful and active classes
of the compliably, we may, under these eircionstaneesi per-
haps, heinstilied in suspecting, that, in their anxietypi take
care Of thensselsea, they may possibly have forgotten to think
of others.
The fund-owner advanced 6tl. in the money of the war,
which to a certainty was not worth more than 281. to,. of the
money which existed before the war, and he is now receiving
back oil. in the money which existed before the war, for
every ed. Ins. of that moue) which be thus advanced. The
sum of Sal. its, of our prosentsnoney, for every tool. consuls,
is all that the fund-owner is justly entitled to ; and unless ho
pockets his plunder pretty qeickiv, it iv, In all 'probability, as
much as he will ultimately be sutered to receive. lie has
now Ant little sympathy for others • it is probable that in •
little time ethers will have bat 'little sympathy for him.
With Jewish rigour, with Jewish hypocrisy, with Jewish
cruelty, leis now meting out a Jewish justice to his coun-
try*, Let the very SAME justice be measured back to himself,
Arid he will be permitted to receive only eel. tos. ger.
liag of our present monee„tabere he now receives eel.
sterlingter bur present MM..: `au/ out °C rites wel. see.
N. ertlf be compelled to discharge In full, without any
diminution, all the family engagements, all' the debts,
and ail the various and multitudinous ernatraels and obit.
Rations, which a highly artificial state of society involves.
This is the hard lot which he is now imposing upon the un-,
happy tenantry and land-owners of England ; • lot fer more
difficult, and infinitely more cruel than any that was ever
imposed upon the Jewish nation by their Egyptian tyrants
of old. Those tyrants refused, indeed, the "straw to make
Yoe bricks ;" but they gave the mod of the Nile. But neither
the straw, nor the mud of the Nile, neither the restoration of
the moons, nor the reduetioe of the burdens, is aliowil to the
wretched creatures who were fiirmerly the affluent landowners
and the substantial tenantry of England.
These remarks may possibly appear rather hard upon the
fund-owners. It is, perhaps, but right to acknowledge that,
speaking of them as • body, the measure in question was in
no respect of their doing or contriving. It was entirely the
measure of the great landed interest of both parties, who
adopted it uftheir own free will, without being at all solicited
thereto by the country, or by any part olthe eountry. The
great land-owners have long had the government of things in
their own hands ; but this, their last favnurite measure, if
persevered in, will terminate shertly, not merely in taking
the government of things out of their bands, but also in strip-
ping them of the last shilling of their own properly. It will
in tact strip them as naked as it is now stripping their tenants.
I have staled that, in giiing the fend-owner eel. los. of our
present money, where he now receives sal. of our present
moue,. be would receive the very seasejestiee as be is now
measuring out to the tenantry and land-owners of the coun-
try. But the real truth is, thit if equal justice is to be done
to all parties, the payment of tel. lea. for every tool. consols,
is more then be is entitled to;receive; for it would still leave
him in a better situation than the farmers and land-owners.
The fund-owners, as a body, may be considered as compare-
lively free from monied debts and obligations, because the
funds are themselves, as it were. a species of money, and It
is not often that men owe money upon money. The fund-
owners would therefore, in general, get the whole of the !Pi.
toe. into their own pockets; and since this lilies. would con •
tail the same value, and command the same quantity of the
necessaries and comforts of life, as their sit, commanded due-
' ing the war, their situation would in reality be exactly the
same; or at least it would be so as sone as ever their servants
mei tradespeopplle were brought dome to the metallic level.
But very different from this is the situation of the land•
°wawa and farmers, who, it is well known, aro generally and
necessarily encumbered with monied obligations of a hundred
kinds. These obligations remaining to be discharged in full,
without any diminution at all, cannot r.ii, in most cases, to
take away 'the whole of the tel. los. from the farmers and
landowners, and, certainly, in nine cases out of ten, they will
ultimately take away at least one-half of the 281. tea., and
leave to the farmers cad the landowners only about 141. Sa.
upon an average fur every ail. which they possessed during
the war; mad this is probably as great a proportion of their
property as these classes of men can, even mow, in general,
be maid to possess. la recasts& therefor*, ill,tea. of war
foffsedAminef for "arse lostliggedee fie feedelearr would
still have a very great &demise/ewer the farmers and tend-
owners ; an advantage which would aggrandise his relative
situation above its proper level, and secure to him a great pre-
dominance of political power. And, after all, be would not
be robbed of his industry as wellies of his capital. He would
not be compelled to labour for year after year, and to see the
fruits of his labour continually passing from his hands. "The
hope of reward," it is said, " sweetens labour." But what
hope can now console the laboers of the farmer who has been
lured and deluded from year to year, until his capital and
credit are well nigh exhausted ; and now threatened by hie
creditors on the one hand, and by his landlord on the other,
is urged on by inevitable ruin behind to inevitable ruin before.
Hew many thousands of industrious and intelligent farms:eel
are now tobe found in England, who would cheerfully give op
the fruits of seven years industry and care, and would gladly
be permitted to retire Irons approaching ruin, with tel. tin. in
their pockets for every 571. which they possessed seven years
ago!
• This sarcasm on the Jewish nation might have been
spared. What has it to do with the able author's argument,
Besides, he must know very well, that rigour, hypocrisy, and
injustice, are confined neither to Jews nor Ibndholders. It is
degrading to the see and the individual, that national dis•
tiuctions like these should still be kept tip.

MARKETS OF YESTERDAY.

Corot EXCIle77Olt.-Very large supplies of Grain I
were offered yesterday, and Wheat is very heavy sale
at our last quotations, and but little business has been
done. There is a good supply of Barley in the Mar- 1
ket, which is in good request at Is. per quarter ad-
vance. A very considerable quantity of Oats is in the
Market, and this Grain is but little in demand at a
reduction of Is. per quarter. In Beans and Peas no-
thing is doing, and the prices are nominally the same
as on Friday. Upon the whole, the Market is dull
to-day, although the large supply has not affected the
expected reduction.
Wheat s. s. d. • s. s. d.
White (new) l6 to 46 o Pease. Maple
Do. Fine -to - o Do. White
Do. 014.......-..... .-- LO -. 0 Do. Boikrs . ....W to 3: o
Red
Do. flue.. -.......- to- o Do. OW -to - o
Do. Old ..... ........ - to - a L Do. Tick
Rye - to - n i Do. Fine - to - o
ale ti to 27 0 Oats Feed
Do. Fine IS to 33 0 Fine - to - o
malt - a Do. Puked l9 to 23 0
Do. Fine -to - 0 Do. Potato
Pease Bog - o
Flour 351. 405.-Seconds -s4-d.
IMPORTATIONS LAST WEEK.
Moat Oats. Volt. Barley. Rye. Beans. Peas. Rove.
English i 12.57 1 29579 I 8097 • 11397 I-- I 1133 1 1330 1 14472
, Irish _ -- _ __ _._ _.... —.
Foreign

Average prices of CORN from the Returns received in the
Week ending Dee. 7.
Wisest IBarley I Oats I Rye I Beaas I Pease lOats.
s. d. s. it. s. J. s. J. s. d. sd. s. d.
•• 6 18 • 18 9 19 • le 10 ?I 3 0

The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado ISUGAR,
computed from the Returns made in the Week ending the
nth day of Dec. is 3011. OK per Cwt.

fietrartat.e.—Our Market is moderately supplied with Beasts
and Beef is in good demand at on advance of W. per stone.
The supply of Sheep is considerable, but Mutton may be quoted
brisk sale at 2d. per stone advaime. Veal is in demand at our
last prices; and Pork is readily sou at 2d. per stone above the
quotations of last market day.
Upon the whole, the Market is very brisk, and all meat
looks up.
Beef as 1041 to 3s 4J I Veal ....... 4s od to 34 od
Mutton 24 ed to 3s Id Pork .. ... 3s ud to 45 ud
Beasts, 3430—Sheep, 40,610 —Caves, 191—Pigs, sou.

COPPER ORES sold at Redruth on Thursday, total
1,284 tons ; standard 1071. 3s. For sale next week
2,010 tons.
A dividend of twenty sh llings in th'e pound is an-
nounced by the late Denbigh Bank of Messrs.
CLouous, MASON, and Co. A panicoccasioned the
stoppage of this wealthy house.