The Sun.
London, England, 1846-07-06 00:00:00

THE FARMERS' MAGAZINE.

A very sensible course-Isinkenby the conductors ofthis
publication, as regards the great question of the past five
months. Seeing that so many of their countrymen have
declared themselves opposed to the so-called protection
to native industry (which was about as much protection
as a Chinese shoe—cramping and crippling the national
resources instead of placing them upon a sound and
healthy footing) ; finding moreover that the
vast majority of Legislators in both Houses of
Parliament have declared themselves in favour
of the free trade measures ; and knowing, in fine,
that complaint is now altogether useless, since the
Corn and Customs Bill has become the law of the
land, the Farmers' Magazine determines henceforth
to drop all, political considerations upon the subject, and
" not to wage a war against what they have
no power to avert." From the " Review of
the Corn Trade during June," it would appear
that the prospects of a wheat harvest throughout the
country are rather favourable than otherwise, though
the spring-sown corn has suffered materially from
drought. The erroneous statement of the Protectionists
we perceive is still persisted in in the pages of this maga-
zine, namely, that nearly a million and a half quarters of
wheat have been waiting in bond to be produced in the
market immediately after the Ministerial measures
were passed. The Earl of Dalhousie stated in the
House of Peers that there were merely 900,000 quarters
of wheat in bond ; not a million and a half,
e grain havet:
wheat of home growth remaining
therefore, farmers of England! but nine hundred thou-
sand! Th's is,
nevertheless, of little importance to
our corn growers, for tho supplies of h
been very scanty during June ; and the Farmers' illaga •
tine comes to this conclusion, " that there is lee a
in to m
country the
many supposed." The fears of the agriculturists will i .12
time wholly evaporate.

ESSAYS.
MONTHLY PRIZE
Though the first number of an entirely new descrii )-
tion of periodical, the present bears a rather substanth
appearance. Whether .it can take a permanent stall( I,
where so many promising publications have Nile( 1,
is a question which time alone can testify, an d
which it is also in the power of the elite r
to assure. " Reasons for a New Edition of Shak
spere," is the most calborate article in the collectica
and will somewhat astonish Mr. Payne Collier. It i 5
remarkable enough that no edition has yet appeare( L i n
any degree worthy of the Napoleon of Poets. If w e
could have an accurately collated text, printed in full
lines (not those detestable " double columns tc a
page"), interspersed with the dainty devices of
Kenny Meadows ; embdiish.ed with the elm! nest
notes culled from Knight, Johnson, Mal one,
Collier, Ayscough, and the rest ; prefaced with
that masterly preface of the ,exicographer, an enti rely
new niemoir of the dramatist and an antiquarian dit ser-
tation upon the dresses and appurtenances of the
various plays ;
if to
.this were subjoined an appendix of
fragments from liazly,t, Charles L‘amh, and the like, to: Te-
ther with certain chapters from `,..,chlegel's " History of
Dramatic Literature," and others from Mrs. Jamieso is
" Female Characters of Shakspere," we almost thin de
we should be contented. The attempt may possibl
be made is time, And We really believe wq.4)