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London, England, 1821-09-06 00:00:00

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thief. tf,, Stowe e*, we May attach credit to the
represeatiktions made ia.psveral peewit/41 papers,
the corn harvest promises to he exceedingly abtin-
dstat, for the ground, they my, is well covered, and
the grain in the ear is large, plentiful, and bossy.
These representations respecting the probable re.
sults of the harvest will. keep the corn market in
suspense for some time, but the corn dealers must
take care how they suffer their speculations to
bring into action the law which provides for the im.
portstion of foreign corn, when the average prices
shall have arisen to certain specified amounts.
It was at the commencement of this year that

Lord LIVIIRPOOL, in the House of Lords, ascribed
the miseries which the industrious or labouring
'classes of the State had for some years endured to
the excess of our national productions. The prin-
ciple, no doubt, appeared to many to be an extra-
ordinary paradox, that abundance necessarily led to
wretcheduess, and that mankind was doomed by the
inevitable law of nature to starve in the midst of
plenty. Entertaining these opinion', however,
Lord LIVERPOOL must, during the course of the
summer, have frequently congratulated himself
and the country upon the unpropitious appear-
ance of the weather, for during the last four
months we have enjoyed but a very trifling pro-
portion of sunshine, in comparison with the im-
mense quantities of rain that have fallen upon our
fields. What the hopes of the husbaudmen may
have been we cannot pretend, in the present age of
paradoxes, even to imagiue—whether they, like
buthaudinen in former ages, debited to witness
plentiful crops, even though the abundance of the
article might cause a decrease in the market
prices, or whether their wishes concurred with
the opinions expressed by Lord LIVERPOOL, and
they might fancy that their individual prosperity
was to be obtained by scanty produce. The state
of the harvest, however, we now understand far ex-
ceeds in quantity and quality what we, in common
we believe with many others, had apprehended ;
and Lord LIVERPOOL will, in the abundant supply
of corn, have either to complain of another year of
ogrictiltural distress, or to discuter some ingenious
paradox to excuse his former uotions, or to illustrate
his opinions respecting the future condition of the
country:
There is, however, we are happy to think, very
little reason to doubt that, notwithstanding the evil
of art abundant harvest, the condition of the la-
bouring classes throughout the country has recently
mid very considerably improved. This must prove
a serious blow to Lord LIVERPOOL'S theory : but
as the disappointed physician in Zadig consoled
himself, and endeavoured to support his profes-
sional reputation, by proving most satisfactorily
that a patient who recovered from the effect►
of is severe accident in the eye ought to have
lost the sight of the orb, so we doubt not mill
the Noble Lord skew most incontestably that pros-
perity ought never to revisit this land, so long as
the industry of its inhabitants, or the bounteous
liberality of an indulgent Providence shrill cause
its produce, physical or artificial, to exceed the wants
of the consumers. To our own minds nothing can
offer at more satisfactory reason for the incipient
amelioration in the condition of the industrious
parts of the community than the low prices of pro-
visions, operating at the same time with the happy
restoration of our metallic currency. Labour has,
by the reduced prices of provisions and the im-
proved worth of the circulating medium, increased
amazingly in value, and those who depend for their
subsistence and comforts upon their Industry alone
have had their condition proportionally improved.
The prices of labour will now support a labouring
man and his family even at the present rate of
wages, and of this the lauded interests are
the first to feel the advantage, for not only is
the price of labour much less than it was
during the war, but the poor's rates have been
recently very considerably diminished. There ad-
vantages are equivalent to a direct reduction of an
Nun! amount of parliamentary taxation, but they
are indirectly atterided with effects far more favour-
able to the general welfare of the community, for
every man elevated from the debasement of re-
ceiving parochial support, not only ceases to be a
burden, but becomes at the instant an active con-
tributor towards promoting the general stock of
social prosperity.

Dispatches hove been received •t the East India
House by the George IV.. arrived in the Downs
from Bengal, from which place she 'piled on the
18th March. The Geotge Ir. touched at the
Cape and St. Helena. The Company's ship Von-
siitort wus to proceed on her voynge to Bombay
horn St. Helena on the 48th June.

The arrival in the Sionmer p.icket of Baron
STURMLEII, the Austrian Ambassador; Chevalier de
lisascs, the Russian Ambassador; and Baron de
WALTER, the Prussian Ambassador, the two former
accompanied by their Ladies, has given rise to se-
veral rumours. It is affirmed that they left Lisbon
consequence of the tumultuous disposition ma-
nifested by the Portuguese army : according to
smother report, the three Ambassadors had sailed
for this country in consequence of an insult having
been offered to the Austrian Amlsicassulor. Both
these accounts are, we believe, unfounded; for we
team, on inquiry, that the persons shove named are
those who represented their several Courts in the
Brazils, but who were ordered to tense Rio Janeiro
with the KING, and come over with him in the
royal squadron to Portngal. Three ambassadors,
from Austria, Russia, and Prmens, who have been
at Lisbon fur some time past, renionied there when
the paeiet cetne awsy.—(E rening Paper.)