The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-01-19

other people 10 do theirs, ana never lpFfiereA VIII
other people, except to advise hem 70 GO 'he same
IL is quite true that he has told Sir Robert Peel II 4
not his bpsiness or the Dukes 10 repeal the corn
laws! but Lord John Russels and Mr. Cobden's; ant
! Whale gsr Nil may be pleased 10 think, th,
Duke means to CO. on giving SIR Robert Peel th'
same advice. "-Sun. . .a ..
! .., from the Farnerf Magazine.
1 AeptcuLruftL aYtoRr FoR NoyEaBEn.---Hay
4 ing had frequent opportunities OF comparing The
4 yield of this seasons wheats, grown an pstuculal
LOCALITIES with those pSoduoedih other quarters, we
ere led - tho ynSlusion-though We are quite con-
WINGED the crop i bsnssth al assIagf ons-hai the
deficiency is not so great as ~GI1s 'urifrs haYe a.
hrmed. On referring, however, 10 qualify, W. ne
prepared TO allow the reports thereon 70 DC eorresi
Indeed nothing can more nrcibly llustrate these re-
marks han the averages themselves, which not W.
I fgequently form the most accurate rssult both Of
caantIly and Quality. Under these circumstances
may be sSked our opinion ~ " the taluIe Ptos.
poets Of the wheat trads. Thus we Inesl @iltsnsly
give In the fret place, then, Notwithstanding tbe
deficiencies 10 which we have Just alluded, Qor W.
must not lose sight Of the important fact that at this
very moment we have what may be termed rather a
large quantity of old wheat IN the country we can
not lead ourselves TO believe that wheat Will be sell
ing al famine pricss, but that they will continue
steadily 10 advance for some time, is, we hIDk,
placed be yond doobt. Ouf reason for such con-
sluson TO- that consumption i going OF Il Iate al
most without pfeGedenl. ard WHICH "a chiefly Pro
duced by the laborng classes being IN Tie snJoytn,
OF adequate employment. One circumstance which
would prevent famine prices is the almost certainty
that at no distant day sweeping change will be ef-
! fec,ed In the laws affecting the import of foreign
corn; and another, the immense supplies Of -four
which almost daily entering our ports from our
North American possessions, and which are brought
into immediate consumption, Again, sueh high
prices would have the natural effect Of lowering ne
duties on foreign produce to nominal sum.
Hence the whole Of the bonded stock would
become available for our markets. Having re-
ceived per the last packet a letter this very
point from Messrs. Wylie & Egana, Of New
! Orleans, We arc enabled to write IN positive
terms ca Ne subiset These gentlemen inform US
'Nai the total produce Of gain N he United States
hi. v,ar ,,, -ceeded 800 900 bushels or a.
average of II bushels 70 sv.,y hu'a" being OF the
entire population. If, therefore, nc s9r .Ss'-
els ysar for each Of the entire population, young
aud old, amounting new to about 20 O00,00 We
, shsIl Fad a surplus of no less than 600. 000, 900
bushsls. Stpposgg that one half Of that Immense
quantity be allowed fot the feeding OF cattle, etc',
! Il IS impossible not TO come to the coGcuSi6u thst
the Americans in the event Of low duties hers, viii
be able to supply 10 with quite much corn as We
can conveniently take from them. We now come
TO the consideration Of the potato disease, as Il y
technically called This, too, has suffered from over
dawn statements. Not that we are about TO deny
il II widely spread, thft the will, in
the Ion run, &c eothPeled 10 pay very high retes
fox hemi sIl we maintain tina. large Quantities,
grown on light soils have been raised and plttka h
good oSSe. IN this particular, therefore, we see
cause for becoming seriously slarued VI our future
prospects. Our adyices from Scotland and !rslend
are to the effect that slight falling off is observable
in the supply and quality Of the present years wheat
crops, but those OF other grain are represented
as ioerably good The shipments Of mort grain
| 10 the London market have been more extensive
than was pretty generally expected, considering the
alarming rumpts sdoat respecting the failure in the
potato crop. In tie eoUtss Of tho month the in,
! ports Of live stock from abroad into Iordon and
| Hull have been again extensve-76l oxen and
cows, $3.50 sheep, calves, and 40 pigs having ar.
rived in The former, and $40 beasts and $50 sheep in
the latter port. With tho exception of about loo
oxen from Hamburgh the whole of the above i'm.
ports have taken plsce from Rotterdam, In, for the
MOST part, good conditi8h.
! Y.IAws--The Times has startled its readetf
by announcing that j had received fntimatioh OF
the RAUL OF the recent cabinet councils, and that
tina, result nothing less than that ministers rad
made up their minds to call Parliament together
early in January, with view of proposing the re-
peal Of the corn-laws. 1t added that this might
be regarded as the almost unanimous decision OF
the cabinet, the exceptions being insignificant; by
which all the world understood that the Duke having
given way, no one but Lord Stanley, and perhaps
tne or two Others were opposed TO the genera
sense Of their colleagues We cannot wonder thai
the intelligence thus, conveyed was received with
some incredibly Npn1 Innocent people still be-
leve that it is impossible for the present ministry &c
completely TO throw over the monopollsts, who
placed them in power Many, even, who, on thu
contrary, regard that result as certain, had never
conceived that it could be brought about so soon
Rumor has, for some time, pointed rather to an op.
posite termination of the discussions Of the cabinet
Even SO late as The day before yesterday, il. wa:
very seiieraly AID confidently asserted that lord
Etesdteh had resigned, which, as he is understood
to have been the most active partisan of free trade
in these discussions, was naturally regarded as ndl
eating that his colleagues had determined on making
fight to maintain the corn-laws fot another year
Everybody wss, therefore, more Or less startled al
suddenly being informed, not merely that things
were taking turn In the cabinet towards free trade
but that decision in favor of "total and immedi
ate" repeal had actually been adopted, was TO be act
ed upon in January, and was to be enforced IN one
house by Sir r. Peel and in the other by the Duke
of Wellington And some, too, were a little sur
prised and perplexed at the circumstance o
this important change of policy on the par
of ministers being communicated to the worlf
through the medium Of the paper most per
sonaly and bitterly hostile to the greater number Of
them. On the other hand, it seemed uncomfortable
that fthe Times had not very good authority fol
It'd assertion, 1t should Venture trfe with its read
ers on Question of such importance, and especially
on one about which ahy misinfottnaton must SC
materially affect commercial transactions. 1t was
case, too, on which it seemed hardly possible for
paper to trust to any but the best authority. Com
pairing the probabilities of the case, it seemed TO b'
the general impression that the story told by thu
Times was true in the main; that The details giver
might not have been yet determined on; but that i
was pretty well settled by the majority Of the cabi
net that the cornaws were to be materially modi
fed, if not, as was deemed more probable, repealed
at once, and efectually. We must say that th
contradiction in last nights Standard has the effec
of very strong confederation Of the Times Th
article in the Times, if not true, should have beer
contradicted on authority. Five words--"We ar
authorized to contradict would have disposed o
the whole fasehood- If fasehood it were. II min
isters could with truth have contradlcted the Times
they would have deemed it advisable to relieve tn
agricultural mnd;" il the contrary, the law will b
allowed to take its course from the terrible agitation
IN which II will be tossed about for the next month
and spare themselves the obloquy TO which the!
will be subject on account of the intentions ascribe
to them. And depend upon il that, had they de
sired to set the public right, they would have foul
some means Of doing so without violating any oath
( and would not have lost a single post in doing SC