The Sun.
London, England, 1821-09-06 00:00:00

[BRITISH PRESS.

The state of the corn market' at, the present
moment throughout England and Ireland seems
to be very uncertain and precarious. The prices
of corn have for the most part increased consi-
derably during the last fortnight, in consequence,
as we are told, of the unpropitious state of the
weather; and we further understand that the
heavy rains of the last' week or ten days have
done incalculable mischief.' If, however, we
may attach credit to the representations made in
several provincial papers, the corn harvest pro-
mises to be exceedingly abundant, fOr the
ground, they say, is well covered, and the grain
in the earls large, plentiful, and- heavy. These
representations respecting the probable results of
the harvest will keep the corn market in suspense

for some time, but the corn dealers must take
care how they suffer their speculations to bring
into action the taw which provides for the impoi-
tation of foreign corn, when the average prices
shall have arisen to certain specified amounts,
It was at the commencement of this year that
Lord Liverpool, in the House of Lords, ascribed

the miseries which the industrious or labouring
classes of the State had for some years endured,
to the excess of our national productions. The
principle, no doubt, appeared to many to be au
extraordinary paradox, that abundance necessarily
led to wretchedness, and that mankind was
doomed by the inevitable law of nature to starve
in the midst of plenty. Entertaining these opi-

lions, however, Lord Liverpool must, during
the course *of the summer, have frequently
congratulated himself and the country upoa
the unpropitious appearance of the wea-
ther, for, during the last four months,
we have enjoyed but a very trifling pro-
portion of swishine, in comparison with the im-
mense quantities of rain that have fallen upon our
fields. What the hopes of the husbandmen may
have been we cannot pretend; in the present age of
paradoxes, even to imagine—whether they, like
husbandmen in former ages, desired to witness
plentiful crops, even though the abundance of the
article might cause a decrease in the market
prices, or whether their wishes concurred with
the opinions expressed by Lord Liverpool, and
they might fancy that their individual prosperity
was to be obtained by scanty produce. , The
state of the harvest, however, we now underitand
far exceeds in quantity and quality what we, in
common we believe with many others, had ap-
prehended ; and *Lord Liverpool will, in the
abundant supply of corn, have either to complain
of another year of agricultural distress, or to dis-
cover some ingenious paradox to excuse his for-
mer notions, or to illustrate his opinions respect-
ing the future condition of the country.

The severe frost which commenced on. Sunday
week (the 26th ult.) and which has continued
.every night since, though in a slighter degree,
has, we regret' to say, severely injured the po-
tatoe crop ;"and the oats, yet. untilleCon the
higher grounds,have sustained great damage; tu.o;_ll
of it indeed, which was yet in a milky statos.lveing
whitened andtlestroyed. • The state of forward-
ness of that grain in the low 'country has placed
it out of danger. • Barley harvest has becttne,-ge-
neral,' and the wheat harvest, in our..neigh.t)our-
hood, has-commenced. InStrathspew, arrd,otlier
high places„the.frost was so intenseoktatlit,;pe,
netrated upwards-of an- inch: into, the ground.—
(Ivterness Aunial.) • • - •