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CURN AVERAGES.

Gi!;ERAI, AVERAGE PRICES OF Burriso CORN,
the
.Week eniiM April 22, !S:;6, in.ille up Irmo the Returns of 111
Inspectors in the diftt:rcut Cities and Towns in Entail.: and %Va 10,,, p.
I 7111,e: jut

. 1 'cl I Oats
Itar!ey
IMPiin.I.AL AGGREGATE AVERAGES OF THE SIX WEEKS

PRECEDING.

Wheat........ 465. 9,1. 1 Oats
Barley 2,1 Rye

DOTI'S ON FOREIGN CORN

Wheat
Barley .. ... :B I
15s. 4a. I Rye
s. 3d. Pease... ...... 15s. (id

THE MARKETS-(THIS DAY).

HAY MAPSETs.—(At per Load of 3G Trusses.)
CUMBERLAND.
.:ears - heavy Lowland Meadow Ilay .f. 3 10 to ..C3 15
Now Jleadow• Hay 0 0 0 0
'Y.4,0110141 Iritto
:itle thrtand Meadow and nye.grass Hay
'Diver Hay
oat Straw. .... ...... r.l 14 to f 1 10 1 Wheat Straw 1 13 2 0
SMITHFIELD.
Caar e heavy Lowland Meadow flay 1 3 5 to £3 10
. w Nloacii,w Clay
riser, I Old 01110 3 15 4 0
c'dur Upland M,aclow and Rye grass Hay
t: over Hay extra fine r 5 5 . Generally
Oat Straw .. r: I It r,r 1 1 Id Wheat Straw 1 IS 2 0
II U N GERF0111).

C n - - rse Meatimw Hay
.X 3 10 0) .C:' 15
dew Alettlow Hay
U:eittl t)lti Hitt. - 4
vine uplao,lMks3.l,,w and Rye grass Hay
C'ov:r Hay 4 5 5 5
:Id :ittaw j'l i 1! t 0 .t. I it Wheat Straw

Per Ton

riEr— April :27 •
Per Ton *, d
Walls End Killingworth
Walls End Newmareh l9 Ci
Walls End Hetton 2l 7
Walls End Lainbtuti
Watts End Pemberton
\\'alls End IttisselPs Lyon's 2O 3
Walls End Stewart 's ..... 3
Wa'ls End Gordon 2O 9
‘Valis End South Durham ‘29 6
Walls End Tees
Walls End West Helton
Blythe l6 6
Hartley ...... ......
Howard's Netherton Main l4 6
Hauges ineeh
Neville's II:welly
ast tuarket-day. 90.

COAL MAIII,
s. !.
Atlair's l6 6
;:urclett
'-lie;ter Al.tin l6 6
I.r.t re': Illain
6M R 1
's eining!) in 6
Biui,-iii WlllliSol
Russell's ifig!t Main
'9 llartley lB 0

l'ao field
Townley
lest Hartley
li,;l's Primrose ,
%Valls End Brown's,
Walls End tieaton

V.'“lls Eri Hilda...
Calls Hotpur,

COUNTRY Ci

IS 0
z 0 6
16 it
17 3
2,1 9

20 0I
.20 3
lip; ive4 inlet! L

:011N MARKETS DURING

WEEK.

Bed

1' a c,

8. t I S.

PRICE 7D.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS

The landed interest, like the Church, Reniti doomed
to suffer for the follies of those who pretend to be ex-
clusively its friends, and make themselves of conse-
quence in agricultural districts,by professing unbounded
devotion to the cause. These quacks have persuaded
their dupes that certain nostrums would remove every
complaint ; and corn laws anti restrictions have been
most liberally administered. Measures of this descrip-
tion are the false gods before which the farmers have
bowed. Because, during war, seeming urospetity went
hand-in-hand with high prices, therefore they con-
cluded that high price must of necessity produce uni-
versal prosperity, forgetting that even the good so
fondly remembered was but a dream, from which the
nation awoke to learn—

,‘ With fruitless skill,
Its former health was but plethccie ill."
Time, that sturdy Reformer, has pretty well torn
away the veil which concealed from the agricultural
body the true state of the case. The delusion is dying
a natural death. Are the Corn-laws, such as they
have hitherto been, really good? Then, whence
that distress into. which Parliament is prayed
every year to inquire? What have the farmers
benefited by the interposition of the Hero of
Waterloo in their behalf ? If we are to believe them,
ruin, accumulated ruin, has continued to advance.
The ordinary course of human affairs was no more to
be controlled by him titan the waves of the (mecca were
by the voice of Canute, and the efforts made by the
Duke of Wellington to keep up the price of produce,
were as idle as if he had drawn his sword on " the
trenchant air." This is all very well known, but that
is no reason why the Marquis of Chandos should not
make his annual display on behalf of the landed in-
terest. He accordingly last night submitted a mo-
tion, the object of which was to secure the surplus
revenue announced over the annual expenditure in'
the forthcoming Budget, or part of it, for the relief
of agricultural distress. He claimed justice for the
farmers of England, and trusted that the appeal
would not he made in vain. On this .occasion Mr.
Hume seems to have determined on making his best
how to the Noble Lord and his constituents, and
he accordingly went into a series of statements and com-
parisons which no one was prepared to answer, which
time agriculturists will remember long after their ad-
miration of the speech of Lord Chamlos shall have
subsided, and we are much mistaken if even at
this day they would not forego all the gratification
they will derive from reading the latter, to escape the
biting truths contained in the former. True, the
more aristocratical members of their body will say that
it was itifi-a dig. to talk of the cheapness of "curry-
combs," " candlesticks," and " frying-pan:, ;" but
they will not easily prove that the farmers ate not be-
nefitted as much as other folks by getting these and
all manufactured articles at a low price instead of a
bitylm one. He 'demolished altogether their peculiar
claim to special relief, and contended that already,
unduly favoured, they had no riitt to the monopoly
they still enjoy. The Chancellor of the Exchequer
took notes of what was passing., but found it unne-
cessary to rise. Sir James Graham did not consider
the motion to be well-timed, as the distress had lately
very much abated. A few weeks more and it will
have passed am:yahoo-ether. But the most interesting
feature in the whole business was the manly and pru-
dent course taken by Sir Robert Peel. The Right
Honourable 'Baronet very justly remarked, that
till he should know with what surplus revenue
the Chancellor of the Exchequer had to deal,
bearing in mind the pledge already given to repeal
certain duties, he could not vote for a motion like that
• before the House, lest he should raise false hopes in
those connected with the landed interest, if it should
be found that to them the relief they claimed
%vas impossible. This was an awful blow for the
Noble Marquis. No doubt he bad seen the leader of
time Conservatives rise with exultation to espouse
his cause. The dismay which came over him on
learning the true purpose of Sir Robert, must have
equalled that of Bonaparte when he heard the thunder
of Bulcher's attack, where he expected Grouchy to
support his position. Heartily approving, as every
one must, the conduct of the Right Honotirabie
Gentleman on this occasion, we feel for the poor
Marquis. To have received such a lesson from such
a quarter was wormwood. It gave us the idea of a
steady veteran huntsman applying the lash to a yelping
fool of a hound that had lost the scent. Had the re-
buke been put in familiar language it would have
startled Parliamentary cars, as in effect it was this
What a shallow noodle you must be to bring
forward-such a motion at a moment like this ! Held
your tongue, my Lord, for the future, if you wish to
conceal your true quality, and pass for a !;entlemnan of
moderate discretion." The prices have lately risen, and
why ?—not because more stringent corn-laws have come
into operation, but because, in the case of meat, there
has been a scanty supply in the market, because time
unfavourable spring has led to apprehensions with rt,-
gard to the harvest, and because, we regret to says a
long-continued course of prosperity has led to extra-
vagant speculations of all sorts, which *have been I
abetted by the questionable conduct of Joint-Stock
Banks—an evil which must contet itself in time, but
which has neeessariliy an effect on prices. But we
have no intention as: 'present of entering on an inquiry
into time varins circumstances which affect the market.
All we 'mean to say is, that the landlords cannot raise
the prices of agricultural produce alone by Act of
Parliament.—Morning Chronicle.

Lord Fitzgerald and Vesci last night moved an in-
struction to the Committee of the L:A.ds similar to that
moved in the Commons by Lord Francis Egerton,
with however, a very difrerent result, for the numbers
were 203 in favour of the destructive instruction, and
119 against it, giving a majority of 84. The Lords,
no doubt, think they evince boldness in thus arraying
themselves against•the majority of the representatives
of the people of the three kingdoms. To act in such a
manner as to produce a rooted impression on the minds
of the people, that between them and the Peers there
can be no sympathy, is foolhardiness and not boldness.
To endeavour to prove that Ireland would be benefitted
by municipal corporations really responsible to the peo-
ple, would be a waste of words. But corporations
really responsible to the people would always be found
hostile to the Tories, and therefore the Tories are de-
termined there shall be none. A reason must, of
course, be found for everything. The Spaniard, in
Baretti, who hated the English, when pressed to say
why he hated them, answered, it was because
they used vinegar with their roast veal. The Tories
have also their reason for denying to the Irish what is
found beneficial in England and Scotland. The Irish
are Catholics, as the English and Scotch are Protest-
ants, and the Catholic majority would, by means of
Corporations, be enabled to oppress the Protestant
we do not find that in the Corporations
minority. Yet
of England and Scotland the Protestant majority per-
secutes the Catholic minority. The argument is
grossly insulting to the Catholics, who are entitled to
ask, why (lid you admit us to an equality of privileges
with yourselves in 1829, if you now deny us one of the
most important of those privileges—the management of
our own local affairs ? If because we are Roman Catho-
lics we are not to be trusted, why did you emancipate
us ?—why did you even repeal, one by one, all the
Penal Laws ? Municipal Corporations may be
schools for agitation, but it will be peaceful and
healthy agitation ; but the subjecting Ireland to a
despotism. to exclude the Catholics from Corpofa-
tions, will lead to an agitation that is arr.,•thing but
wholesome. In short, this consecration of injustice
as a principle of legislation, may be described as a re-
e(Api for making a ereat kingdom small. The Tory
Peers being freed from all responsibility, seem deter-
mined to prove to the people that no liberal measure
shall receive their assent. This, in other words, is