The Sun.
London, England, 1829-03-12 00:00:00

An inspection of this statement
:urns from other places are, at least,
_ .

11 show that the re-
tually deficient with

those from Liverpool. A conFiderable addition may be
made to the imports for the wheat brought into the market
by canal and otherwise, and this will serve to exhibit the
striking difference between the quantities received, being
72,180 quarters, and the quantities returned as sold, being
7,290 quarters i❑ Liverpool, and 17,800 quarters in all
Lancashire.

If the writer in the Times, (London, sth instant), who
signs Expositor, and dates from Mark-lane, London,which
is the most extensive corn market in England, and who has
chosen to exhibit and animadvert upon the returns from
Liverpool, will take the same pains to exhibit the returns
from that great mart, it will probably appear that the
metropolitan returns are more deficient than the pro-
vincial returns.

The importance of this business to the country, and to
the numerous and highly respectable persons interested in
corn, induces me to think, that, however valuable the
space in your columns may be at this interesting crisis, you
will devote a portion of it to the insertion of extracts •
from the Act, for their information and government.
I will now endeavour to show that the deficiency is
owing to the Act requiring the returns to be made by pur-
chasers only, and not by sellers.
It will be seen, that the Act requires that every person
therein named, who shall carry on their business and deal
in corn within any town for which an inspector of returns
is appointed, shall make and sign a return to the inspec-
tor, of the amount of corn by them respectively bought
during each and every week, with the price thereof.
The country dealers, millers, Ice. who attend the corn
markets every market-day, make large purchases ; but,
inasmuch as they are not dealers, carrying on their business
within the towns in which such corn markets are held,
they are not required to make, nor do they make, any
return, yet their aggregate purchases are of considerable
amount, which is never accounted for.
Transactions of still greater magnitude may occur be-
tween large towns, and, as an instance, 1 will take Leeds,
Wakefield, Manchester, and Warrington, with Liverpool.
Liverpool receives a large portion of the corn from Ireland,
and other quantities coastwise, and by canal from other
parts of the kingdom. Millers, bakers, distillers, and
other consumers, or dealers, in Leeds, Wakefield, Mans
ehester, and Warrington, may personally, or by agents or
letters, make large purchases of corn in Liverpool, which
may be sent off and consumed in those towns and their
vicinity. As this corn is not bought within those towns,
it is not returnable to the inspectors there, and thus large
quantities are never returned.
It therefore appears, that merchants or agents in any
port or town may receive large consignments of corn from
Ireland, or coastwise, or by canal, or otherwise, and may
sell such corn to persons not residing within such port or
town ; but, as such merchants or agents do not purchase
such corn within such port or town, and probably never
purchase any cern, they are not required to make any re-
turn. But, if sellers were required to make returns, such
consignments would be brought into account.
An attentive consideration will show, that to require
returns to be made by sellers will be much more effica-
cious than from purchasers, because the seller is the party
who either has, or is presumed to have, the corn in ware.
houses under his controul, or in vessels in the port or canal.
The Act by which the assize of bread is set (53 Geo. 111.,
chap. 116, sec. 3) requires both buyers and sellers to make
returns, by which the one is a check upon the other.
I have thus endeavoured to show, that an amendment of
the act, so as to require returns to be made by sellers, will,
if the inspectors do their duty fearlessly and impartially,
remedy the great evil arising from deficient returns.
This subject will, no doubt, be brought under the notice
of his Majesty's Government, it being of the highest im-
portance to the agricultural interest that the returns should
be fully and honestly made. If they are neglected, it may
follow that the low-price corn may be omitted, and, the
average being taken upon the higher-priced corn, the tin-
port of foreign corn will take place, to the great injury of
the English and Irish corn growers.—l am, Sir, &c.
AN OLD BROKER.

P.S.—The returns from London are as follows :
Dec. 26, 2,753 ; Jan. 2, 2,319 ; Jan. 9, 2,149 ; Jan.
16, 2,089 ; Jan. 23, 1,481 ; Jan. 30, 1,395 ; Feb. 6,
1,443; Feb. 13, 2,183; and Feb. 20, 2,354; total only

, . . . . .
18,166 quarters, as the sales for the metropolis and sur-
rounding neighbourhood for nine weeks, which fully ex-
hibits a very extraordinary deficiency in the metropolitan
returns.

" We have complied with our correspondent's request
and have inserted the extracts in page 78 of this paper.—
EDITOR.

EXTRACTS FROM THE CORN BILL.

(From the Liverpool Albion of Monday.)

We publish, at the request of a correspondent, whose
letter, under the signature of " An Old Broker," appears
in another page, the following extracts from the last corn
bill, in order that the persons connected with the corn
trade may be aware of the penalties to which they are
liable, for neglecting to make returns of the grain which
they may buy in the market :
EXTRACTS FROM 9 GEO. IV. CHAP. GO (15thJULY, 1528.)
Sec. 25. That every person who shall deal in British
corn, at or within any such city or town as aforesaid, or
who shall at or within any such city or town, engage in
or carry on the trade or business of a corn-factor, miller,
maltster, brewer, or distiller, or who shall be the owner or
proprietor, or part owner or proprietor, of any stage-
coaches, waggons, carts, or other carriages carrying goods
or passengers for hire to or from any such city or town,
and each and every person who, as a merchant, clerk,
agent, or otherwise, shall purchase at any such city or town
any British corn for sale, or for the sale of meal, flour,
malt, or bread made or to be made thereof, shall, before he
or she shall so deal in British corn at any such city or
town, or shall engage in or carry on any such trade or busi-
ness as aforesaid, or shall purchase any British corn for any
such purpose as aforesaid, at or within any such city or
town, make and deliver, in manner hereinafter mentioned,
a declaration in the following words ; that is to say,
" I, A B, do declare, that the returns to be by me
made, conformably to the act passed in the ninth year of
the reign of King George Fourth, intituled (here set forth
the title of this act), of the quantities and prices of British
corn which henceforward shall by or for me be bought,
shall, to the best of my knowledge and belief, contain the
whole quantity, and no more, of the British corn 1107761 fide
bought for or by me within the periods to which such re-
turns respectively shall refer, with the prices of such corn,
and the names of the sellers respectively ; and to the best
of 'any judgment the said returns shall in all respects be
conformable to the provisions of the said acts." Which
declaration shall be in writing, and shall be subscribed by
the hand of the person so making the same, and shall by
him or her, or by his or her agent, be delivered to the
mayor or chief magistrate, or to some justice of the peace
for such city or town, or for the county, riding, or division
in which the same is situate, who are hereby required to
deliver a certificate thereof to the inspector of corn returns
for any such city or town as aforesaid.
Sec. 26. That it shall and may be lawful for any in-
spector of corn returns, in any town, to serve upon and de-
liver to any person buying or selling corn in any such town,
and who is not within the terms and meaning of this pre-
sent act specially required to snake any such declaration as
j aforesaid, a notice in writing under the hand of such in-