The Sun.
London, England, 1847-06-23 00:00:00

)17-E1 LAND MAIL
FROM CALC UT FA,

Nelson

FOR.
Earl of Ellenborough
Marquis of Exeter
Lord Saltoun
Viscount Canterbury
Earl Egmont
Earl Delawarr
Earl of Orford
Lord Bradford
Viscount Beresford
Earl Brownlow
Lord Brougham
Earl of Wilton
Earl of Eglintoun
Viscount Sydney
Bishop of Gloucester

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TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.-75----9;i10%--'
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Sin,—ln reading your account of Mark-lane Corn- -..;--;.-.-4*--Irt '..-4
market of yesterday, I was struck with perfect disgust • _ ?-2...",„
by the reasons assigned for keeping up the,pliee 9f .---
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grain, but more especially that of wheat. .4.-Pir_ic,
We are told, " the arrivals of all articles of home pra-, •-iiii3lol
duce up to our market, last week, were on a very li-
mited scale, especially those of corn ; but from Ireland
nearly 5,000 quarters of wheat and a fair quantity of
corn came to hand, while the receipts of those articles 7 1 T
from Scotland were tolerably good. The imports of
foreign wheat exceeded 20,000 quarters, and of flour
1 33,000 barrels, which latter may be considered a fair
supply. Fresh up, the receipts of wheat of home pro-
duce were but moderate, and the show of samples was
by no means extensive. Several unfavourable accounts
respecting the potato crop having come to hand this
morning from various parts of the country, and the ,
weather during the past week having been showery, the '
factors and holders in the early part of the day were ' e ' ,t.,z
very firm in their demands, and in some instances they -
succeeded in obtaining 2s. to 3s. per quarter more '. -'
money, for selected parcels of both red and white. 1 , )
" We had an extensive quantity of foreign wheat on
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offer, certainly over 30,000 quarters."
With respectful submission to you, and regard for '
the tone of your consistency and reasonable sentiments, .
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generally, I would beg leave to submit a few words to ' ' -
your impartial columns, which, as a considerable agri-
culturalist and grower of c -)rn, many years ago, I claim
to have an opinion in regard to the present and long-
continued famine prices.
The murrain, or potato disease, may have affected
that useful vegetable in some degree in England, and
perhaps more so in Ireland ; but the deficiency, with
good and careful management, might have been easily
made up with a great variety of other cheap and whole-
some food, especially when we find such an immensity
of foreign imports of provisions ; and I am positive that
there has not been any just, reasonable, or honest
ground for running up the price of the common
staff of life in the manner that it has. There
may have been, under the circumstances, some
slight reason for a little advance, in the wheat
wheat market, of Bs. or 10s. the quarter over the price
of last Michaelmas time, and, I would say, not more—
perhaps not that. When had we a more abundant har-
vest, throughout the United Kingdom, than last year, or
more favourable weather to secure it ? But the pota-
toes—the potatoes in Ireland was a failure ; famine
sprang up in the land in consequence, and, like light-
ning, spread and flew throughout her Majesty's domi-
nions. Oh, there is and shall be a famine ! A new
light instantly springs up—a wicked system of combina-
tion and speculation, in regrating, forestalling, keeping
back, and perverting the free and regular course of the
markets naturally produces the selfish effect which every
dealer soon becomes alive to I And the starving poor,
and the community throughout the land, have found, to
their sorrow, that the potato disease extended to every
production f the soil, and principal necessaries of life.
It appears to me, now, that such is the organised sys-
tem of the corn trade, that factors, dealers, and holders,
can, by the help of railroads, to travel, and electric tele-
graph, to discern the signs, raise or fall, or do what they
please at pleasure. The question is—how are the people
to help themselves out of such a wicked pressure, and
avoid the dismals of accursed combination ? Who will
read the report of the Corn Exchange (which I hare
quoted) and say, and feel, that the system is not so ?
Who contrives, at home, to send a moderate supply ?
Who takes care to place accounts in the markets unfa-
I vourable to the growing crop of potatoes ? From my
daily perusal of newspapers the accounts rendered, from
all quarters, of the potato crop, is favourable ; and I
imagine that few, if any, really do not know whether
there is any disease at all—and from every county there
never before was heard such unanimous expression in
favour of the health, vigour, and abundance of every
kind of growing grain. Yet, all statements are of no
use. Large imports are of no use. Ireland sends her
corn and provisions in abundance. All is of no use—the
'people must be pinched and starved, at will, in the midst
of plenty ! Surely our Government has had a pretty
picture to look at, but who can say, or tell, how they can
legislate to make man konest.—l am, Sir, your obliged
and obedient servant, one who has been
Leamington, June 22, 1847. A FARMER. .
Y.S.—ln my time, I well remember, that wheat stacks,
at this season of the year, were usually very scarce, and
seldom seen or found at all, except in the stack-yards of
broad-backed or wealthy farmers ; and, so far as op-
portunity has served me, I have noticed an
i equal pro-
vision in store at the present time ; and f a Parlia-
mentary return were made this week of all the stacks
and store in the farmers' hands in every parish throughout
the empire, I doubt not but plenty would be found, if not
entirely an equal quantity of any year, rich in abun-
dance, and the usual way.

THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sin,—l know you will be glad to hear good news
relating to the prospect of the potato crop. A party in
this neighbourhood, last week, on examining his, found
them to all appearance diseased, but since which time,
as if by magic, they have entirely recovered, and cannot
possibly look better than they do now. The crops of all
kinds with us look wonderfully well, and promise abun-
dance. May Providence bless us with a good harvest.
I remain, Sir, yours respectfully,
A CONSTANT READER.

Bristol, June 22, 1847.
P.S. The corn marker to day here has been very dull
Lndeed, nothing doing.

We have now had a stretch of excellent summer wea-
ther—the last fourteen days having been particularly
favourable to vegetation, which, under the fine solar
heat and refreshing rains, has proceeded with tropical
celerity—all garden plants growing as it were by inches.
The fruit trees, which generally showed a very abun-
dant blossom, have had fine weather for setting, so that
there is every chance of the crop being a much superior
one to that of last year. The wheat and oat crop, and
also beans and potatoes, are looking healthy and lux-
uriant. We would particularise some fine potatoes at
Craigneil and Almont, in Colmonell parish, and at Ard-
well and Girvan, which are very well forward. There
seems to have been more potatoes ventured than was
I expected; and in almost every case they have brairded
successfully. We are sorry to hear that the worm has
been ravaging the oat crop on some farms on the water
of Girvan; and also, that the braird of winter wheat was
so poor that it was ploughed down and re-sown with
bere. From the hills the news are of a chequered de-
scription. The backward, cold, barren, unkindly spring
led to many deaths of lambs, and the frosty mornings
induced braxy in the old sheep. But now that there is
fine warm weather and plenty to eat, the stock is im-
proving rapidly, and several farmers have already their
" cutting " well past. For this critical operation warm
moist weather is the best, and it must also be entirely
free frost which sometimes, even in June, will appear in
the wet and high-lying hill country, and prove often
highly injurious to the cut lambs. Sheep seldom or
never fetched higher prices.—Ayr Observer.
KILM ARN OM —Mr. Lang, nurseryman here, has sent
to our office samples of diseased early potatoes grown in
his own garden. The same gentleman also informs us
that he saw them diseased iu Ayr on Tuesday last.—
Kama,' nock Herald.
GREENOCK.—We would strongly recommend all who
are growing potatoes at once to examine their crops.
There is not a doubt that the disease extensively pre-
vails in this neighbourhood. Plants of every variety
and from seed from all countries are equally affected.
The leaves generally appear green and healthful, but
the part of the stem under the grouad, and generally
nearest the set, presents the appearance of bruises on
ig, the surface.—Greenock Advertiser.

THE POLITICAL HISTORY OF BUCYINGHAMSIIIRE.
—ln addressing the electors of Buckinghamshire, at a
meeting held yesterday at Amersham, Mr. Disraeli, in
his usual emphatic manner, recalled to the recollection
of his future constituents, the important part which the
county of Buckinghamshire has played in the political
historyx of the country. " The county of Buckingham-
shire, observed the Hon. Candidate, "has always taken
a lead in the political fortunes of this country. The Par-
liamentary constitution of England was born in the bo-
som of the Chiltern Hills; as to this day our Parliamen-
tary career is terminated among its hundreds.—(Cheers
and laughter.) The Parliamentary constitution of Eng-
land was established when Mr. Hampden rode up to
Westminster surrounded by his neighbours. Bucking-
hamshire did that for England. It has done more. It
gave us the British constitution in the seventeenth cen-
tury, and it created the British empire in the eighteenth.
All the great statesmen of that century were born, or
bred, or lived in this county. Throw your eye over the
list—it is a glorious one—from Shelburne to Grenville.
Travel from Wycombe to Buckingham, from the first
Lord Lansdowne, the most accomplished Minister this
country ever produced, to the last of our classic states-
men. Even the sovereign genius of Chatham was nursed
in the groves of Stowe, and amid the templa quam diltActa
of Cobham; and it was beneath his oaks at Beaconfield
that Mr. Burke poured forth those divine effusions that
vindicated the social system, and reconciled the autho-
rity of law with the liberty of man."
THE EARL OF DUNDONALD.—We understand that
at the approaching general election there is every pro-
bability that the Earl of Dundonald will be proposed as
one of the sixteen representative peers of Scotland.
Apart from all political considerations, we should ear-
nestly hope that the brilliant, though, alas! chequered
history of this hero, combined with the recent and em-
phatic tribute to his merit received at the hands of his
Sovereign, will influence our Scottish peerage to follow
it up by placing his honoured name on their illustrious
roll to the Imperial Parliament. Sure we are that etwh
an act will be duly appreciated by the nation, and m ore
especially by the fellow-countrymen of the renowned
Coehrane.—Caledonian Mercury.
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