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

THE FARMERS' MAGAZINE.

A very sensible course is taken by 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
mwhareltatet
ha'ebeenwaiting in bond to be produced in the
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,
therefore, farmers of England! but nine hundred thou-
nevertheless, of little importance to
for the supplies of home grain have
scanty during June ; and the Farmers' Maga-
zine comes to this conclusion, " that there is less
sobauenerdntovrenryT.
growers,his
wheat of home growth remaining in the country than
many supposed. The fears of the agriculturists will in
time wholly evaporate.

11TONTHLY PRIZE ESSAYS.
Though the first number of an entirely new descrip-
tion of periodical, the present bears a rather substantial
appearance. Whether it can take a permanent stand,
where so many
Promising publications have failed,
is a
question
which time alone can testify, and
which
ich it is
s also in the
_power of the editor
,6 Bensons for a New Edition of Shak-
spere," is the most ealborate article in the collection,
assure. t o
and will somewhat astonish Mr.
Payne Collier. It is
remarkable enough that no edition has yet appeared in
any degree worthy of the Napoleon of Poets. If we
could have an accurately collated text, printed in full
lines (not those detestable " double columns to a
page"), interspersed with the dainty devices of
Kenny Meadows ; embellished with the choicest
notes culled from Knight, Johnson, Malone,
Collier, Ayscough, and the rest ; prefaced with
that masterly preface of the lexicographer, an entirely
new memoir of the dramatist and an antiquarian disser-
tationdresses and appurtenances of the
this were subjoined an appendix of
atzolit t, Charles Lamb, and the like, tegc-
vfraargiemuesnuptpslaofyrnosm;ibutef
ther with certain chapters from Schlegel's " History of
Dramatic Literature," and others from Mrs. Jamieson's
" Female Characters of Shakspere," we almost think
we should be contented. The attempt may possibly
be made in time/ slid we really believe would