Star.
London, England, 1814-09-13 00:00:00

NIGH PRICE OF CORN.

In the evidence printed in the Reports on the Corn
Laws, there are many calculations in the shape of
tables, but ill adapted for inst :lion in the columnsof
• a newspaper, and which we shail,therefore be obliged
to pass over. But the Public ought to have a specimen,
and they shall, that they may be made masters of the
chicanery which very ;generally pervades these calm-
Ltions. We take the first that appears in the Report
(in Mr. BAYLEY'S evidence,) printed by order of the
House of Commons of 26th July, page 13; and we
shall offer upon It a few observatiorv.
FOR NORTHUMBERLAND:
An Estimate of the Expense of Cultivatinr a Farah
of 60 Acres, in a four-course system, viz.
• "TALLOW, WHEAT, CLOVER. OATS.
ti Suppose the quality of the Land to be such as to
to worth er2 an Acre ; the greatest quantity of Wheat.
'which such soils can be estimated to produce (on an
IkVerage) will be, of Wheat 30 bushels per acre, and
of Oats 48 bushels :
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44 Therefore the amount of the produce *ill be;

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Wiest, 15 atres, at 50 busbels per acre-450
225 0 0
• • bushels, at 10s. per hishel, - -
bats, 15 acres, at 48 hti.llels per acre-720 128 0 0
bushels, at 3s. 6d. iver bustre4, - -
time; 15 acres, at £4 per acre, - - 60 0 0

Value of produce .6 .

411 0 0

The tithe of which will he one-tenth - - 41 10 0
u The Egpenset *ill be, - . L• s. d.
A draught of two hisses anti one man - - 300 0 0
Seed.-wheat, oats, and clover • - I. 40 0 0
Lime or manure . lO 0 0
Taxes (aot including property tax) - - !4 0 0
Harvesting,thrashing, marketing, mowikt, hedging,&& 40 0 el'
Wear mid tear. looses. &c. " • - - 10 0 01
Interest on capital employed • .- • 40 • 0
lithe ooe•tenth of the eatlue of do predate - Al it) q

Amount of erpettses and !late
Slat OF GO acme, at AtUn ant

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GOB 40 0
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Total of espenieseittl rest ded Id 4
iralue a produce, koimALIK doers , 411 0
se ef Mance l*estbsilellognmtiehr"l"l 14 10
1s tiara at Ma per boast, • .
1f wettest had been taken at its. per bushel. the n la:. 6
additional value of produce woutd be

• Levies 8 regale is fares" aids, natives', .of. . 80 0
" At what price would such Laid as that you have
taken at it per acre, have let in the year 1792 N—l
suppose at about half the price; all the leases have
• ;monad, and they have beendoubled within late years;
where there have been great improvements in our
country, they have been trebled.
« What vrnuld have been the expenses on that fagot ,
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„ tustim year, 1792 ?,--I think we had labourers at from
• etokahillsog to eighteen•pence a-day ; they were at a
..aping SO years ago, 1 recollect,
0 What do you think was the average weekly pries
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~ Jahonrers twenty-five years ago ?--I cannot weal.
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exactly; but our Labourers are paid in kind
.41anady ; all our farming servants are hired, and have
a eo* kept, and so many bushels of wheat, se matey
.of harley, an man/ of pease, and so many coals ; •
• there We vajfbw day labourers with us,.
44 What do you consider the value, taking it id
. Meaty ?—They would not exceed Bs. or 9s. per week.
si whit are they now?—They have something
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Allen of late ; they are irom 2s. 6d. to 3s. according
:40 the difference of the hand. .
• « Then you consider labour as having rather mete
then doubled ?—Yes, it has doubled ; and rather mote
,within these five and twenty years.
• If you paid a man in corn instead of mosey, you
would give him a bushel of corn now *baryon used
to do before?--=Exactly so, the same quantify of corn;
they are always bound to find a woman to work.—
Twenty years ago the women had 6(1. a.clay for thin-
sing .turnips, or bay-making ; they have now a shit.
Brig; masons and carpenters had Is. 6d. a.day twenty
, yeas ago, now they have Ss. ; . three or four years
ago they would not work under Ss. 63. and the far.l
men gave over improvements, because the wages of
Workmen were so high. It should be itated,that we
• ale not give our labourers any beer.
« You stated that you valued land at .40s. 'which
- larfbre the War you valued at only 205.; is that land,
r In i betteestate of improvement now than it, wasbefosie
-. thatiess,?-4-No: I do not think it is, in the wheat 110114
ter wheat has been cultivated there from time imme.
snorial; the principal improvements there have been
is the turnip soils. • I
« What do you consider the relative expenses upon',
a farm, which you say formerly let at se6o, and would
isow let at £l2O a.year ?--I consider them as just
about doubled; about twenty years since, the- price,
paid far making a new earthen quick fence was from,
Is. 2c1.--to ls. ed.. per rood of seven yards ;at pre-1
• • sent, and for some years back, it has been from
.2s. 'ld. to Ss. ; at'drat period the price of lime at the
hdats was from Ss. to 35..6.1.-per cart load of twenty-
four bushels ; k is now from 6:: to 75. per. cart load :
paring. was then dose in the county of Durham from
-10 s. uplifts-per mee—enow it is from 20s. to 225. per
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•-': Inoue analyses,of. the foregoing we meats to be'
lon,' biief. Our Raddri Mill tbeinselvet find.ample
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tooth to enlarge. 4c. "- • . . '
I. The first grand fallacy, that presents itself is, tak-
ing the return of produce and the expeescs, at the high
, prices produced by thi,opatations of the s;ar, with-11
out contrasting it wish-the inices suitable• to a period i
ref peace ; which ought to have been done, now that .1
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1108APART$ and his Mlle:hes' have been destroyed— i
. except in as far as it is attempted to entail the curse of
"Ahem upon Britain, by the sew projected Corn Regu-
lations. • .
' it is self.evident, that the price of labour depends
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• eathe price of sustenance. , Reduce the one and yon
reduce the other : and in the case before us, " the

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labourers are paid in kind moitly."-,The increased
espense in making 44 a quitk fence," in yernenring
lime, paring, tc.• is ()Piing to the increase in the prise
of sustenance, for all of these are the direct ptice
labour, or arise bons increased rants.
Let it be recollected, that ihe circumstances con-
- .coed with the war, enabled the Fanners to demand
sad to obtain unprecedented prices for their induce.