The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-03-19 00:00:00

year 1848

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taken directly into consumption
s that the shilling duty is paid, and it
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rters only, as the
mile stated ; and 273,973 quarters went
o consumption. By-the-bye, he forgets to remind us
that the last return gives us 209_973 cwt. of meal and flour
as the imports of the month. -The quantities remaining
in warehouse on March 5 are, train 35,148 quarters, and
meal and flour 10,119 cwt. These quantities, however,
are only those in bonded warehouses; and in a similar
case would be the 1,354,000 quarters at the close of the
year 1848, of, rain waiting for the Ist of February, 1849,
when it could be entered at Is. duty. The marquis would
not have been able to trace a tithe of the quantity but for
its being so bonded. Besides, the limited quantity of
grain which has come to us during the past month is, in
part, accounted for by the rivers of the north of Europe
being blocked up by ice. Last winter was a mild one.
This has been the reverse: and there are plenty of offers
of grain at greatly reduced prices to come forward as soon
as the navigation is open.
From wha country, the marquis asks, is grain now to
be supplied. France," he says, "cannot do it, for
France is not able to supply herself with corn." Yet of
that very country he. says, in another part of his speech,
that "the agriculturists are as sick with their repletion
as are the agriculturists of this country !" We can assure
him that, whether France is an exporting country or not,
she will always send us grain from her northern frontiers
so long as the freight from the channel ports to England
is less than the cost of transport by land to the interior
marts of consumption. '
We have done with Lord Lansdowne
on the same subject with Earl Grey
marked that—

; and now a word
The noble lord re-

" It was admitted by every one acquainted with agriculture
that in the south of England, at all events, the harvest in 1549
was the largest on record. (" No, no.") Such were certainly
the reports in all the farming journals ; and he should call as
his witness the noble lord who spoke last, and who, in answer
to his noble friend (the Marquis of Lansdowne), said that the
stock of corn was not low in the farmers' yards. He (Earl
Grey) believed there was a large stock of corn. They all knew
that since last harvest there had been 1,000,000 more quarters
of corn sold than in the preceding quarter of last year. That
fact appeared in the Gazette. If, then, the stocks were not
low, and that 1,000,000 more quarters of British wheat—and
the Gazette referred to British wheat only—had been sold than
during last year, it was pretty clear that the last harvest was a
good one. (Hear, hear.)"
If, then, the British farmers have reserved their wheat
instead of pressing it on the market, how can it have been
panic on their part which has pressed down Prices ? For
weeks past we have heard of flatness and decline in our