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LONDON, TUESDAY EVEING, AUGUST 14, 1838:

DUCATION.—GERMANY.—At a it;gliiy
RESPECTABLE ESTABLISHMENT. at. BONN, 0-ri
the Rhine, TWELVE YOUNG GENTLEMEN are Boarded
and Educated on very Moderate Terms. The Principal, married
and of many years experience, can assure Parents that his Establish-
ment will be found, on inquiry, to have given real satisfaction for
some years, and to be particularly adapted for the speedy acquire-
ment of the German language.
Prospectuses, with the most respectable references, to be had at
Mr. Hookham's Library, Old Bond-street, London.

SPARKLING CHAMPAGNE,
WILLIAM WALKER, highly estimating
the
patronage which the public has long given to his
manu-
facture of Champagne (entirely from French grapes), begs tnost
respectfully:to announce that he has at the present time a very large
STOCK of that excellent WINE, the quality and condition of
which make it difficult, if not impossible, to distinguish it from the
first class of Champagne made in France; it may be had, with
other wines of excellent quality (especially Ginger, which is uni-
versally recommended by the faculty as an excellent stomachic), at
his warehouse, 5, Farringdon-street, London ; and at most of the
respectable dealers in British wines in town and country.

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LONDON MARKETS.

PRICE 01
the highest price of Bread M the
lood Bread may be had at 9d,

BREAD
Metropolis is 10Id. for the 41b. Loaf.

STIFIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS

The state of the crops, and of the 610 trade, excites, at
this moment, the deepest interest throughout the kingdom.
According- to same accounts, a season of severe scarcity is
at hand. According to ethers, the harvest may be ex-
pected to exhibit fair average results. These discrepancies
of statement and of opinion, of course, provoke specula-
tion ;--sand speculation, in turn, makes itself felt in increas-
ing the difficulty of arriving at the true probabilities, of
which the case admits! A Special Court of Common
Council met yesterday, for the purpose "of tnking into
consideration the present alarming rise in the price of the
prime article of human food." At that meeting Mr. De-
puty Peacock proposed that the Court of Common Council
" should petition both Houses of Paillatnett, to allow the
corn pow in bond to come into the market, free of duty,"
After some discussion the proposition was negatived. The
professed object of Mr. Deputy Peacock's motion, was
"to ensure that the poor should be supplied with
bread, at a reasonable price." The real object was, we
venturrr'io think, something very different ;—the effect,
at all events, of that proposition, had it been successful,
would have been to put, without risk, an immense sum
of money into the pockets of speculators in foreign corn.
Wheat is selling now at 745. per quarter. Tile corn iti
bond may have cost the importers, on the average, 40s. To
admit bonded corn at the present moment, duty free,
would be to make a present to these importers, of some-
thing like 345. per quarter. This liberality towards specu-
lators in foreign corn would have been displayed (had Mr,
Deputy Peacock succeeded in his motion) exclusively, at
the expense of the English farmer. The farmer would
have been cotnpellel to forego the advantages-insufficient,
to his own protection, as, in the circumstances of the' ease,
that advantage may eventually prove—of a high price of
wheat ;—whilst the speculator in foreign grain would not
have been required to forego----even for the benefit of the
Poor—.any portion of the enormous gain of 345. per Oar•
ter, which Mr. Deputy Peacock proposed to secure to
him ! It is, undoubtedly, one of the first duties of an
honest Governinent to protect the poor 1----but why should
an attempt be made to throw the cost. of that protection,
exclusively, on the farmer? Hit shall Aura out that the
harvest is, in truth, deficient to a considerable ex-
tent, the English farmer hiniself will, let it be 're-
membered, be a heavy loser, despite the rise •of price
in wheat. if there shall be a deficiency to the extent of
one-third in the crop, 10s. a bushel, or even a higher
price will afford no efficient compensation to the farmer.
But to force down prices by fraudulently tampering during
aseasonolscareity with the laws, on the faith of which
the farmer has embarked his capital in the cultivation of the
English soil, would be an act of atrocity, on which no Le-
gislature, unless bent on bringing about a revolution, dares
to venture. Are then the poor, it may be asked, to be
left to suffer, under the pressure of a scarcity of bread ?
God forbidi Let every effort be made to relieve the
distress of the poor—but let every effort, in the circum-
stances, be honest ! In other words, let all classes above
the level of the poor, contribute in fair proportion, accord-
ing to their means, to save the popr from the effects of
scarcity ; but let no attempt be sanctioned, to alleviate the
prospective sufferings of the peer, by the adoption of
measures ruinous to the English farmer ! If the
English farmer, in a seasou'Of scarcity,' is to he de-
prived of the chance, which high prices give him, of
avoiding heavy loss, let full compensation- be given to
the farmer, by those classes, of the affluent, who affect
deep sympathy for the poor, but who, like Mr. De-
puty Peacock, would seek to alleviate the impending
misery of the poor—not by contributing out of their
own abundance—but by the more easy process, of robbing
the farmer of that protection which is guaranteed to him
by law ! It might, by possibility, be expodient, in certain
circumstances, to admit bonded corn into the market, duty
free! Good ! But let Mr. Deputy Peacoat, and the
affluent classes, who, like Mr. Deputy Peacock, .do not
groW corn, be ready to join in supplying compensation to
the English farmer, for the violation of his charter! Nay,
we are willing to imagine that it might, perhaps, be expe-
dient, in certain possible circumstances, to bring wheat
from abroad, and to distribute that wheat gratuitously,
amongst the poor in this country! By all means ! But
let every class, able to endure the impost, be taxed, as well
as the English farmer, in order to supply the means of pur-
chasing the wheat in question ! The state of the corn
market- has, as a matter of course, been seized on, by all
the free-traders, and the journals in their interests, as a
fitting occasion for abusing the corn laws ! The vehe-
mence with which these clamourers urge, at the pre-
sent moment, their opinions on the .publiq, .has :not, how-
ever, added, 'in the slightest degree, to the • cogency Of
the arguments on which those opinions profess to rest!
If the corn laws of this country were repealed to-
morrow, how, let us ask, would the condition of the labour-
ing poor be improved, in so far as a state of things like that
nnow before Us, is concerned ? The high price of wheat-s-
ad the anticipated hardship on the poor—are the results
of a hitherto unfavourable season..--• But-even if the wishes
of Joseph Hume himself were realized—even if England
did not grow one ear of wheat—Still unfavonrable seasons
would be experienced from time to time. Such seasons are
not confined to England. Even in America, there was,
last year, a deficient crop of wheat. Europe supplied that
deficiency. In Poland, sometimes, the crops are very
scanty ! Now, let us suppose England absolutely depen-
dent on foreign countries for the larger portion of her sup-
plies of daily food—atid let us, also, suppose the advent of
a season of scarcity ! What, then, would be the condition
of England? Miserable, beyond description—and her
misery would admit of no alleviation ! A scarcity of
wheat abroad would, then, be absolute famine in this
country. At present, a deficient crop may injure the
poor by abruptly raising prices ; but sill England is se-
cure of relief, even if at the very strife time the crops
of tbe Continent should happen to be deficient! While
our Corn Laws continue, the higher wages of the labouring
poor in -England make them, in a season of Continental
scarcity,
better customers to the Continental cora grower,
than the labourers of the Continent could be ;—and, there-
fore, Continental corn would, in the circumstances sup-
posed,
naturally be placed at the disposal of the English
artisan.
But let the Corn Laws of this country be re-
pealed, and English wages would speedily sink to the Con-
tinental level ! The English artisan would, therefore, no
longer be a better customer to the Continental corn grower,
than the artisans of the Continent—and whilst the English
artisan's power of purchase would be fearfully lessened, his
dependance on the foreign corn grower would be no less
fearfully increased ! Let then the Continent of Europe,
in such circumstances, be visited with an unpropitious sea-
son, and the great body of English labourers might be left,
absolutely without the means of supporting existence! The
English Corn Laws afford the last and greatest protection
which the English labourer enjoys. The English Corn
Laws afford the only guarantee for a home market to the
English manufacturer. The English Corn Laws afford the
only security to the capital of the cultivators of our soil,
and the only security against absolute famine, which the
other nine-tenths of the community possess I— Arming
Herald.

It Will be seen by reference to another column that a
Special Court of the Common Council was summoned
yesterday, to take into eonsiderafon the propriety of peti-
ttomog Parliament on the subject of the increase of the
price of bread. The reader will also find in another column
the latest particulars collected from the provincial Press re-
sp?ctitg the state and prospects of the harvest. The daily
augmentation of the price of bread renders the subject of
the Corn Laws, to which •we lately drew attention at the
time of Lord Pitzwilliam's patriotic motion on the subject,
a nYit ter of deeper interest and of more urgent importance.
It was made the most conspicuous subject at the late great
fleeting 'of the Birmingham Union, where the unanimous
demand of the mighty multitude assembled—(consisting of
200,000 persons)—that the bread tax should be abolished,
was accompanied with the admonitory indication of banners
with-three loaves of bread (Russian, French, and English, of
proportionate sizes) quartered on their escutcheons. Is
not this a hint to remind the selfish, supine, and unprophetic
landed aristocracy of this country, of the fate which a simi-
lar obstinate refusal of justice to the wants of the people
brought upon 'France at the first outbreak of the revolution
of 1.78,9 ? The pubic will he startled to learn the real
fact, that at this very time the 'inhabitants of London are
Paying dearer fir their bread from 72 to 75 -per cent. than
the inhabitants of . Paris! Look for one moment at the
pernicious. effect which this difference must produce on the
"yid manufactures and on the commercial prose rity of the
nlti°6s- The Englishman only gets one loaf where tho
Frenchman gets a loaf and a halt' or two lORVC.3, and the
Egs'ian two loaves or two. loaves and .a half. Of course
the Englishnian--produeing • commodities proportion ably
dearer—loses the foreign market. Freedom of buying and
fandamental Finciple of all social economy--
is violated by th:s nefarious reguhdou. The inauspicous
rfsults of the late prolonged w:nter upon the harvest, and the
i'l."fiened pro,p 'et of a daily increase of the price of bread,
impart -to sAbint a character of griming and press-
* ing importance, if not of formidable exeitemebt. It is
utithlstocil that the stock of British corn remaining en