The Sun.
London, England, 1842-02-07 00:00:00

THE TRADE IN CORN.

The following are the papers relative to the trade
in corn, moved for in the House of Commons on
Thursday evening, by Mr. Gladstone :
Address for statements of the titles and dates of
the several Acts which have been passed for regu-
lating the importation and exportation of corn in the
United Kingdom, with summaries of the duties or
prohibitions, &c., imposed by them since the year 1660.
Of the annual average price of wheat per imperial
quarter, at Eton and Oxford, from 1646 to 1770.

Of the annual average price of each kind of grain
in England and Wales, from 1771 to 1841.

Of the decennial fluctuations in the price of wheat,
as shown in the two preceding accounts, from 1646
to 1815 ; from 1816 to 1828; and from 1829 to
1841 ; exhibiting the highest and lowest annual ave-
rage in each decennial period, and the per tentage
amount of difference.

Of the weekly average price, the duty average, and
the rate of duty, with respect to each kind of grain ;
also the quantities of each kind.paid duty, and the
amount of duty received therefrom, distinguishing fo-
reign from colonial in each week, from July, 1828, to
December, 1841.
Of the quanties of each kind of grain, distinguish-
ing foreign from colonial, imported, paid ditty, and re-
maining in warehouse, in each month, together with
the average monthly- price of wheat in England and
Wales, from July, 182$, to December, 1841.
Of the septennial prices of each kind of grain as
prepared for the purposes of the Tithe Commission,
in each year, from 1835 to 1841.
Of the Fair prices of wheat in each county of Scot-
land from 1828 to 1841.

Of the annual average prices of wheat in Dublin, in
each year, from 1828 to 1841.
Of the annual average prices of wheat in Guern-
sey and Jersey, with the quantities imported and ex-
ported, in each year, from 1820 to 1841.
Of the quantities of wheat returned as sold in Eng-
land and Wales by the corn inspectors, in each week
and each year, from July, 1828, to December, 1841.
Of the total quantities of wheat and wheat flour
imported into, and exported from, Great Britain, in
each year, from 1697 to 1841.
Of the quantities of the several kinds of grain and
meal imported from each country, and likewise of the
quantities re-exported from the warehouse to each
country, in each year, from 1828 to 1841.
Of the total amount and average rate of duty ye-
ceived on each kind of grain, distinguishing foreign
and colonial, in each year, from July, 1828 to 1841.
Of the quantities of each kind of grain which paid
the several rates of duty during the whole' period,
from July, 1828, to December, 1841.
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Of the total quantities of each kind of grain, foreign
and colonial, with the total amount of 'duty paid upon
each kind, and the average rate thereof, during the
whole period, from July, 1828, to December, 1841.
Of the quantities of each kind of grain and of malt,
imported into Great Britain from Ireland, in each
year, from 1800 to 1841.
Of the quantities of grain of each kind, distinguish-
ing British, Scottish, Irish, and Foreign, imported into
London, in each year, from 1820 to 1841.

POACHER SHOT.—A verdict of manslaughter
has been returned by a coroner's jury against William
Jones, gamekeeper to Herbert Evans, Esq., of Llanllwny,
Carmarthenshire, respecting the death of a poacher,
named John Evans. It seems that the deceased and his
brother, who were the sons of a farmer of the neighbour-
hood, were out poaching, when the gamekeeper, with the
view of disabling one of them in order to secure him, fired
at his legs as he ran away. The shot took effect, but the
wounds were not at first considered serious. However,
locked jaw subset:Pio:WY camp on, and the poor young
' fellow died...Shrewsbury Chroniqc

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tive Premier doubtless feels, andgou ht to feel, that he may
speak in a decided tone, and deal franklyg
with those whose
views do not meet his concurrence. But no Minister can be
strong enough to doiscalsdothne
greater part of the community. Barren and confidence
of of the
for the prevalence of distress, and acknowledgments of the for-
titude with which it has been borne, can do no good, unless
some prospect of measures which may tend in an intelligible
way to ameliorate the condition of the working classes is held
out ; and though it is both right and necessary to discourag .
chimerical expectations, and to insist upon the existence of
limits beyond which legislative relief cannot be effectual, still
it is over bold to thrust coldly, and almost contemptuously,
aside, every plan of relief en which the poor have built their -
hopes of good from the accession to power of a Conservative
Government.
The
Corn-laws, Speechn-1 awfs and
commerce—at the best only an endeavour to find new employ-
ment for British industry, by facilitating, to a limited extent,
the increase of our foreign trade. This was in principle the
remedy of the Whigs, however objectionably they may have
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adjusted its details. We hail it with satisfaction, as a benefit,
so f.r as it' oes. But no one who has attended to the com-
mercial history of England during the last thirty years can
suppose that such a measure will check the inroads ms-de by the
modern manufacturing system upon the physical well-bang-
and the moral and domestic happiness of the operative dart!
No one can see in it even a tendency to prevent the recurrence,.
of periodical distresses as severe as the present, or to mitigate.
the pressure of that distress, whenever or wherever felt, either -
upon the manufacturing or upon the agricultural poor.
The question then arises, are there not other measures be=
hind, or does Sir Robert Peel give up the case as hopeless?
Every one knows that there are measures, with 'respect to
which great expectations were formed of a Conservative Go-
vernment before its accession to power—measures, in the ad-
vocacy of which a more than common amount of deep feeling
and high-toned principle is now engaged, and the adoption of
which by Governnient would command the enthusiastic support
of large and powerful classes of the people.'
Lord John Russell, in a tone half of sarcasm and half of tri-
umph, adverted to these measures.
After reading his Lordship's speech, we turned to the speech
of Sir Robert Peel, with the expectation of finding something
very different from what we found there. It was an op-
portunity which seemed at least to call for some limits.
lion of Lord John Russell's assertions—some denial that
an utter contrariety of feeling existed between Ministers
and the very large bodies among their supporters who
are interested in the measures thrown overboard in
this wholesale manner. But nothing could we find in the
speech of the Right Honourable Baronet which coo-
iradicted, or even qualified, a single syllabic- uttered by- the
Noble I.ord. On the all-important subject of the Poor-law--
" I think." he said, the apprehensions excited in the mind
of the Noble Lord by the declarations made in the newspapers
might have been dispelled by the memory of the course taken
by the Government during the last Session, and by the rem!•
lection of that which had so recently occurred in the House."
This statement indeed is but an ir.distinct and general an-
nouncement, yet we cannot but feel the strongest anxiety in
consequence of the policy which it seems to indicate. We
wish earnestly we could think ours. lees mistaken in the mean-
ing we ascribe to Sir Robert Peel—still more earnestly do we
wish that others may not ascribe to him a coldness of feeling—
of which we indeed acquit him, but which may but too easily
be sugges:ed by his very guarded expressions.—Times.