Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1846-09-19

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THE RISE IN BREADSTUFFS.
/ The following statements, copied from the Jour
nal Of Commerce Of the 9th instant, are going the
rounds Of the IIocofoco press:
"FREE TRADE Asp THE FAnMERs.-Facts multiply upon
demonstrating the entire aehood Of the theories of the
proteconists They assured the farmers that protection and
home market were the only guarantees of high prices for
farmers products and that after the passage of the ad vao
tariff Of l84B universal ruin would spread the
try But since the passage of that tariff flour has risen half
dollar BARREL wheat in the proportion, corn cents
and rye two cents. On Monday the 7th) the Eng
h market lifted flour to 81 So For that market 5000 bar
res of Genesee Ohio and Michigan -four taken that
price. The English market and nothing else has done
this benefit Here the facts the records Of trade Ar
gumen theory prophecy, all frustrated denied, demol
ished Breadsuls in fact going from to of
those very markets from which said England would be
supplied 10 our utter exclusion"
! Now, what are the facts of the case Admit
that flour has recently risen so cents per barrel, had
it not previously fallen that much, or to larger
amount? Is not the rise caused by the report of
an apprehended scarcity in England, las was the
case at this time last year,, and is not the price of
flour at the present time lower than il last year
at this date! Again, what and where are the
g markets to which our breadstufs are now being
sent, from which it was said England would be
supplied to our utter exclusion Z" We shall be
glad if the Journal Of Commerce will furnish US
with summary Of the shipments of breadstuffs TO
such markets. We have searched in vain for any
such items in the exports from New York. Some
rye may have been shipped for port ports in
Holland. But if any such shipment has been
made, it was, we suppose, shipped for the purposes
of distilling; and, besides, Holland is not one OF
those markets from which it has ever been said that
England was to draw any of her supplies. We
are really DESTROYS of information on this point.
WONDERFUL EFFECTS OF THE NEW TARIFF!
The revenue tariff of the last Congress was
passed on the 29th of July, and is to go into opera
ton on the first day of December next. Yet the
!" Union" of yesterday enumerates among the eff
fecs of this tariff, and as the beginning of the
operation OF our new democratic commercial poll
cy,' certain shipments of rye to Holland, Which
acre made IN January, February, March, .4prH,
May. J,nae, and Juiy, ALL BEFORE THE ALTERATION
IN THE TARIFF TOOK PLACE, and before the new
democratic commercial policy" had any existence
This is anticipation with vengeance We notice
this anachronsm of the official organ, because, il
attention were not called to it, might seem to con-
ict with our statement in the preceding paragraph in
relation to the rise in the price of breadsufs. This
increase we have already ascribed to its true cause
an apprehended deficiency in the crops of Great
Britain, and the reported failure Of the potato crop
and the Union knows Ito use the language of the
Richmond Wing on the same subject 9 that there
I would have been the same increase in price had
the tariff been untouched 1t knows thatlast year,
just about this time, there was similar spur in
the flour trade, growing out of the same cause.
!. The rise in the price then might with as much
propriey have been ascribed to the tariff of 1912
as the rise now is TO the tariff of 1896"