Star.
London, England, 1826-06-23 00:00:00

CORN, ke.

By certain Papers which were of dared by the House
of Lords to be printed, we see the great fluctuations to
which the price of corn hat, at various times, been suk-
ject. Accounts of the average prices of wheit, per
statute quarter, in each year, from 1670 to the-present
time, have been furnished, partly by Mr. Irving, the
Inspector General of Customs, and partly by Mr.. Jacob,
the Receiver of Corn Returns and the former Gentle-
man has also given an account of the quantity of every
sort of grain, flour, and meal, exported and' imported in
each year, from 1697 to 1825.
The average price of wheat, for thelast roar months,
has been 58s. 6d. per quarter. 8a long ago as 1674,
the price was 61s. op. The lowest price given is that
of 1743 and 1744, in both which years it was 225.
and the highest is that of 1812, which was 1225: Sd.
The very low price was preceded, only three years be-
fore, by a price considerably more than double ; and
the very high price was followed, three years after, by
a price little more than half.
Taking into the account all sorts of Grain, Meal, and
Flour, Great Britain was, during the first quarter of
the last century, an exportiog country, and during the
'first quarter of the present century, an importing coun-
try, but, nevertheless, the market for the home grown
corn has been larger in the latter than it was in the for-
mer period ; for our population having much more than
doubled, the home demand has far exceeded the Wisest.
The cautious measure proposed by Ministers, while
it sufficiently guards the poor against the evil of scar-
city, cannot injure the agriculturist. Taking the whole
together, it brings into the •market, certainly 330,000
quarters, and possibly 500,000 more, but the latter
quantity is not to be introduced unless in case of emer-
gency. Now, supposing such an emergency to arise,
it would only add 830,000 quarters to the home sup-
ply ; and we perceive that this is but about 80,000
quarters more than last year'l imerri. Looking at the
price of the last four months, viz. 58s. 6d. we cannot
think there is any great probability that Government
will eventually find it necessary to let the whole 880,070
quarters out of bond ; and, therefore, we think the-
ago iculturists have little to fear. On the other hand,
whatever quantity is brought into the market, there is
every reason to believe that it will be sufficient to meet
the demand without any considerable rise in price ; so
that the poorer classes may rest satisfied that their in.
terest has been adequately consulted. After all, if a
sudden and unforeseen calamity should fall upon us—
if the harvest should disappoint all out hopes and expec-
tations, an i food should (contrary to all probability)
he raised to a famine pace, Ministers can but resort,
at the worst, to that measure which some of their op-
ponents advised them to adopt, in the first instance.—
They may open their ports on their own responsibility,
and come to Parliament for an indemnity. This decisive,
step they would, no doubt, take, rather than see the',
people pet ish ; but there is little need to speculate on a
state qf things, the occurrence of which we have uo rea-
son whatever to apprehend.

A Gentleman in Buckinghamshire has this season
planted two sets of a single p .tatoe, called the early
kidney, of which the produce has been no less than 144
potatoes from the two plants.
The skeleton of the human body consists of 254 se•
parate pieces of bone or osseous substances, most of
which contain a quantity of matter calk.' marrow, and
are surrounded with a ustrubrane called the periosteum.
The height of the. sk .leton of a person five feet eight
inches high when alive, will generally be found to be
five feet seveu inches.

INQUEST ON ALDERMAN COX.
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Yesterday afternoon,* four O'clock, ass Inquest was
held at the Crown Tavern. in N'inseum-street, Blooms-
bury, before Mr. Unwin, one of the coroners for the
county of Middlesex, and a respectable Jury, on the
I body of R:tbert Alhiln Cox. Esq. Alderman, who died
suddenly at his house in Hart street, Blootnsbury, on
Tuesday last. The Jury having been sworn, they,
together with the Coroner, proceeded to the house of
the deceased Gentleman in Hatt-street, close to St.
George's church,' where they took a view of the body.
Having returned to Cie jury-room, the following evi-
dence was submitted to the consideration of the Jury :
Anne Jane %%rafts deposed, that she had for some
time lived in the service of the deceased, as did also her
sister. On Tuesday last, about three o'clock in the
afternoon, her m lister returned hame from Westminster,
where he had gone in the morning upon business. He
complained of being rather unwell, and said he would.{
go upstairs and lie down a little, but said that he did
not feel seriously ill: and on being asked if he felt any
palpitation, said he did not. In the course of a little
time after he went up stairs, the witness's sister went
up to.see how he was. Witness was then in an adjoining
room, and soon after she heard her sister scream, and on
going to the apartment of the deceased, she found him
in an insensible state, and apparently dying. Site then
sent immediately for a surgeon, who attended in a few
minutes. The sister of the last witness gave almost
similar evidence.

Mr. Charles George Ireland deposed that he was a
surgeon, residing at No. 38, Hart-street, Bloomsbury.
On Tuesday afternoon last, about five o'clock, he was
called in to visit Alderman Cox, who was then labour-
ing under a sudden attack of apoplexy; he found him
quite insensible, and in a dying state. Witness opened
a vein in the deceased, and with difficulty got a few
ounces of blood, which however afforded no i eilef : the
deceased was then beyond the reach of all human aid,
and died in about five minutes after he was bled.—
Witness did not open the head of the deceased since
death, or make any other dissection of the body, because
he deemed it quite unnecessary to do so, the immediate
cause of the Gentleman's death being clearly apparent
from the external symptoms, and there could be no
doubt but he.died a natural death by apoplexy. Wit-
ness was satisfied that the death of the deceased was

not Caused by any thing taken internally. Witness was
not in the practice of attending Alderman Cox profes-
aionally before, and indeed he understood that the de-
ceased seldom had recourse to any medical advice, or
to the use of medicines he supposed the deceased to.
have been about 60 years of age. The Coroner said,
that there could be no doubt but the deceased Gentle-'
man had died a " natural death r and the Jury imme-
diately concurring in the same opinion, returned a
verdict accordingly.