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London, England, 1825-12-27 00:00:00

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We have stated on a former occasion, that there is
little probability of any legislative measure on the
subject of the Corn Trade being introduced during the
ensuing Session. The question, on its nivn merits, is one
of the very highest importance; and although there is
no difficulty in foreseeing the decision in which it must
ultimately terminate, the course of which is superin-
duced by the march of inexor.ble necessity, and infi-
nitely independent of human councils ; yet, there are
qualifying circumstances to be attended to ; inevitable
sacrifices are justly to be mitigated, and, perhaps,
compensated ; individual hardships are not to be
lightly considered, but alleviated by measures of
gradual and prudent improvement. The wirtle
frame of social institutions in this country has,
from numberless causes, been lifted up from its natural
foundation, and floats, or hangs suspended, in an arti
ficial elevation. It mast be lowered to the solid ground
gently, and by slow degrees. else it may be dashed in
plectra by any sudden shock. But this steady and pro,
gressive improvement in our domestic and commercial
pokey. which is the sole aim and object of the en-
lightened persons who now administer the Government,
must not be checked by the mere insolence of power—
by the frowns of those whose temporary individual in•
terests stand in the way Cdperrnanent benefit. even al-
though they reaybave a very potential voice in the Legi-
slature t for.if so, they and we may be assured, that a great
change would speedily follow. and power would pro-
bably change hands for the worse; nothing being more
certain. in the pretest state of human intellect, than
this solemn truth, that the acts of the Legislature,
unless founded on manifest justice, and unless, as they
generally have been, evidently directed to the ameliora-
tion of the circumstances of the great majority of the.
Nation, have a tendency as pet fect and accelerated as
the laws of gravitation to destroy the legislating pdwer.

For those reasons we condemn, unequivocally, the
new Agricultural combinations, which avowedly have'
(Sr their object to stifle enquiry and fair discussion ;
and Most of all do we deprecate the unseasonable
period which they have selected for the agitation of
this all-important subject.

Threescore Country Banks have stopt payment
within these twenty days. The farmer, deprived of the

means on which he had reliance for defraying his rent

and other outlays, until the course of the seasons should
have preented him with a favourable market for his

produce, is under the painful necessity of preparing fur
forced Baler. The d. cline in pries is a necessary conse-
quence 1 Why, then, harass his mind, at such a period of
distress, with visions of imported corn and the total de-
struction of his capital; the c nsequence of which can
- only be to drive him to throw up his lease in despair?--
The answer, we fear. will be found in the cunning calcu-
lation of those 'who speculate that the present season of
calamity, on the eve of a General Election, is a happy
opportunity for procuring the return of Members'

pledged to support, through thick and thin, reasonable
or unreasonable, the "ilia claim," *as' they are now
denominated, of the Landed Interest, in their utmost
latitude. But can any, reflecting mind revolve, without
fear and trembling, the.kind of opposition to which
' such pretensions, mainiaised ht sock a spirit, and
supported by such machinery, may ultimately
lead ?—We would once more, thee, implore the ancient
Gentry of Eniland, the genuine children of the soil,
to pause before they coofedoratein combinations against
the poor—to consider that such means are derogatory
frost their dignity, and unworthy of: a good cause.
The people of England are always accessible to reason,
and eminently so, when their conviction is sought for by
those. in the higher ranks I and lithe pretensiossof.tbe
agriedtural classes are really fotaded In reason, they
asstiredly prevail.
The argainents hitherto adduced, however, by the

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