The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1846-11-09

selves. Austria is bidding against IN the marfs of the
Mediterranean Odessa is trsit nigh drained .4nd .ame.
ea!-haf land oJabuious rednddnee ansvers TO The
quremenfs 81 an ordinary commerce. but NOT TO The de-
mands Of an extraordinary need has su6eency for
Cur srsrsss not for present wants She has sent
barrels OF -four than last year; she Is about
to send US wheat and Indian corn yet even with this
prospect the price OF bread has risen at Glasgow has
risen in London, and Indian corn is becoming dearer
every day to the Irish peasant And this in the
quarter Of our provision year, What riH the state of
things De when the .amerieon canals frozen chen the
liners have ceased to run, ande passage alike blocked
up sm the far the eastern ports and from those
Rork = Ereiand' Yet in the face of such crisis
~ maintaining rate of duty which. though it may
nsver become rigidy prohihirory must embarrass the
speculaons Of the corn trade and complicate great
catastrophe with the evils ofdelay uncertainty and r
the odium which it must excitef
A few words more. When the many starve. the food
the wealthy lew must be trenched on matters not
opponents ofprmary requsitesfood and clothing The
MORE therefore, the producing and trading classes have
to bestew those want II is therefore the interest
Of the State furnish these classes with the best
Of getting food by selling that which is exchaHgeable
for food.
From the London Times, Oct IL
The failure Of crop which is the sole food Of four
millions and the chief subsidiary at the table of all
other millions in this empire, is event likely enough
to occupy first place in the public attention It
apprehended and felt II is already written in letters Of
blood There Is another fact, however, which Is still
in its proper colors and most important bearings The
stock OF cereal food in this country rather in the
world it is the common cause Of natons-is after
ALL the chief economical question ofthe day Bread the
staff Of life When the potato and all the other treacher
Gus makeshis of poverty fail the nation must fall back
keeper and purser to calculate the probable supply
that last resource and to practice we'll to ns the
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infinite, and that, come what WILL there will always be
somebody or something to 60 TO- There cannot be a
there for the to TO but the food Of cattle the
roots OF the field wild berries the bark of trees
Ta s. and There are several great and
cereal store, all leading to inevitable and very serious
conclusion To begin WITH the British crop is not great
the demand by about two million quarters of wheat be-
sides other gran that being the of imports alb
sorbed into use before the completion of this years har
vest. wihou, permanently affecting the demand Hence
II follows that the circumstances of the two years
were the same, We should have to deal with deficiency
on the year to the amount Of two million quarters Of
wheat, besides other grain. The circumstances of the
two years. however SO far from being the same very
decidedly against the present conjuncture The failure
OF the potato much greater this than last that
taking England, Ireland and Scotland into account il
seems no eragseraton to say that there is destruction
or short coming Of food this head equipaient 10 the
supply Of at least Mree millions. Compute the lesser
calansly Of last year at the food of million, and it
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The failure OF the potato already telling most power
fully on the price Of corn already, mark, before
corn from all parts of these islands to those great
kes which feed manufacturing population rapidly
sng on 1rslsnd without waiting for the advice given
keeping its corn at home OF course, If send over
our millions Of money to feed and employ the smshed
there at once we see the bulk Of the Irish exports, on
which the corn laws have taught this island to depend
do without il imperous famine lays an embargo on the
loaded vessels Ravsnous muttudes plumber the shops
and stores and gaunt sentnes remain to watch that is
commands are fulfilled In lesser but yet very serious
Degrees the arrivals from all other parts of the empire
are diminished Large districts of Scotland in the
same evil case and Scotland is equally slow to conri
butte to the wants of the southern But there
are other Circumstances of riAng weight to the pre-
JUDGE Of our present compared with last years
population of these islands increases more than thou
sand day, and that there is third Of million
mouths to be fed this than last STILL il the truth be
stale, is nevertheless very important What is food
itself but stale device for the support of life There
not much reason to believe that Just production
keeps pace with our numerical increase, whatever has
been whatever may hereafter be, the case. matter
still more important-much more imporent, remains
There is no dssbt that we are becoming more bread
consuming pesple.t There il more employment than
there ever was before, and consequently food
sumea Besides other great works. it Is said that there
ways now making Two hundred thousand men imply
several times that number of mouths, all consuming
more iood and that Of better description, than they
would consume but for their employment Perhaps not
much less than mciety Of them are Irshmen, who
would otherwise be starving at home Those however,
only portion of the consumers which railways
bringing the market The expenditure to which the
nation pledged by the railways passed the last session.
cleared ofe the mystery of amagaons loans, and new
stock, now ascertaned to be than EGO 0O0
Add to this the yet unspen ESQ 900 remaining from
the session of 845 and have 900 to be spent
than million a-week Whether this goes to the naviga.
tor the miner, the collier the engineer the brckmaker
the mason or even to the landowner still contributes
to increase the demand for food. If add tho
annual deficiency denoted by the present years
imports to the above very moderate estimate Of
the ood as millions nsss from have
increasing, improving. busy and extravagant nation.
We really should be relieved to be told of any crisis
within the compass Of authentic history when the agr
cultural year commenced with such prospect and end
ed without fulfilling the gravest anticpations Here
demand anda deficiency, equally without precedent
And what hope have We Of q repetition of those two
much maligned much dreaded millions Of quarters
which came in after ALL SO very seasonaby last August
Just none at all Free trade has but poised its hures
spear and the bubble of abundance has burst
The nakedness OF the land is every where disclosed
found that the negotiable surplus Of the me agrcu
aggregate produce and the produce is by in
that ratio with the area Of auvial soil which Eng
w. States with all its rivers canals and Valleys does
but hear our wants. and -four rises within few days
against 900 barrels of last year At Montreal
they will hardly part with their wheat any terms. The
giants Of the Baltic have already dwndlcd into wndms
unless absolute dcarth of corn gives particular
fitness to the alluson Last years wheat is selling at
Dantzc for 4ss 3D. at Rostock for b3s 5ls At sten
there has been an important transaction. thousand
quarters of wheat the annual consumption of one vii
lsge OF one factory has been sold for 53s At Hamburg
trade is paralysed by the instinct of holding. Mean
while Indian corn rises in still greater proportion, in
asmuch necessity is prevailing luxury, the
mach over the palate, the element Of value Lastly
Lane Express informs us some Of the sbppina ports
the east coast have been visited by buyers from France
and Holland which has no doubt assisted to give mpe
tus to prices and in Lincolnshire sc
similar qualities of wheat to those sold months ago