Huntingdon journal. (Huntingdon, Pa.) 1843-1859, August 26, 1846, Image 1
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E. corner of Baltimore and Cal- vert streets. New York—Number 160 Nassau street Boston—Number 16 State street. STANTON'S EXTERNAL REMEDY CALLED HUNT'S LINIMENT. Is NOW UNIVERSALLY ACKNOWLEDGED TO RE The Infalliable Remedy. For Rheumatism, Spinal difections, Con tractions of the Muscles, Sore Throat and Quinsy, Issues, Old Ulcers, Pains in the Breast and Chest, Ague in the Breast and Face, Tooth iche - , sprains, Bruises, bet Rheum, Burns, Frosted Feet, and all Nervous diseases. THE following certificate of the resto ration to health and the perfect cure of a deformed and crippled child, who was thought to be beyond the reach of hope, shows that, no matter how appalling the case may be, there is a remedy in IIUN1"S LINIMENT, that will conquer the most desperate cases, and that, if the disease be curable,this cerebrated external remedy will do it. It has never failed in giving immediate releif if timely applied,as proved by the abundance of high and un impeachable testimony, the particulars of which are to be found in the pamphlets which are to be had of every agent. Ossinsing, June 10, 1845. GEORGE E. STANTON, Esq.--Sir--I feel , called upon by the tie of gratitude, to offer the following testimony in favor of Hunt's Liniment- My grandson, Clarke E. Evans, who is now ten years of age, has been for the last eight years a cripple, caus ed by falling from a chair when he was two years old, and wrenching his spine. From the time of the occurrence, we have tried every means to restore him to his natural shape, but all without avail. We took him to New York and placed him under the care of a physician of skill, and after re maining there some time, we brought him horde no better than when we took him there: For several (lays at times he was so helpless that he mild only walk by plac ing his hands upon his knees for support, giving him the appearance of a deformed hunchback. flewas also taken to Newburg and prescribed for without any better suc cess. At times he would be strong enough to go out doors, but atter playing an hour would come in perfectly exhausted, and for several days would be again perfectly help• less. We had lost all hope of ever again ( seeing him restored to his natural stre ngh or shape—but a kind Providence placed your external remedy in my hands. I have used four bottles, and 1 am rejoiced to say that the boy is now as straight and strong as any boy of his ago. Any of my neigh. bore will testefy to the truth of this state ment. 1 take sincere pleasure in stating these facts for the benefit of those who are Buffering under the like calamity. Yours, respectfully, RACHEAL SIIUTE. This is to certify, That lam person ally acquainted with the subscriber, Mrs. Shute, as well as the boy alluded to. and frankly bear witness to the deformity of which he was seriously afflicted, aparently fur lilc.—Dated Sing. Sing, June 9, 1845. HENRY HARRIS, Justice of the Peace. o:rFor particulars of cures, see the cer tificate accommpanying each bottle. 110ADLY, PHELPS 4 , CO., 142 Wa ter street, wholesale Agents. Orders ad dressed to them, or to the proprietor, Sing-Sing, will be attended to. GEORGE E. STANTON. Dated March 19, 1846. For sale by Thomas Read 4 , Son, Hun tingdon, and the principal Stores and Druggists throughout the country. July 15, 1846. DR. N. R. NEFF, SURGEON DENTIST, Huntingdon, Pa. JOHN SCOTT, 3R. .ITTOR.I El' 4T HUNTINGDON, PA., Will attend with promptness and fidelity to all business with which he may be entrusted in Hun tingdon or the adjoining counties. ... - Hie office is the one formerly occupied by James Steel, Esq., nearly opposite Jackson's Hotel. Huntingilon March 11, 1946. Uz)UtitlMLa_c or TII • HON. CHARLDS HUDSON, Of Massachusetts, on the WHEAT TRADE of the Country, delivered in the House of Repro sentatives of the United Slates, February 20, 1846. The House being in ComMalec or the Whole on the state of the Union, and having under con sideration the bill making appropriation for the im- Provement of harbors and rivers— Mr. HunsoN, of Massachusetts, obtained the floor, and, after a few preliminary remarks, said: The present, Mr. Chairman, is an important era in the history of our country. The President, at the opening of the session, recommended the aban donment of that policy which is coeval with our Government—a policy under which the nation has grown and prospered. We have also been told by the Secretary of the Treasury that we must aban don all protection of domestic industry, in order to procure the repeal of the English Corn laws. The British ministry approve of the policy recommend ed, endorse the doctrines of the American Secreta ry, and order his report to be published and laid upon the desks of the members of Parliament, as a valuable document to promote British interests. An effort has been made on both sides of the Atlantic to change fundamentally the policy of this country, by the introduction of a system which would check the prosperity of the people, paralyze every interest, and so greatly impair that very commerce which these improvements are calculated to promote.-- We see Sir Robert Peel and Sir Robert Walker in what the gentleman from South Carolina (Mr RHETT) calls a disastrous conjunction," to bring about this result—a result truly disastrous to our beloved country, but to Great Britain a 4. consume minion devoutly to be wished." As the subject of the Corn Laws has been pre sented for consideration by both Governments, I propose to call the attention of this committee to this subject, and to the effect which the repeal or modification of these laws would have upon the commerce of our country. And I regard this ques tion as strictly pertinent to the subject before The grain of the West must had its way to the Atlantic through the very channels which this bill is designed to improVe. The wheat trade is an Im portant item in our commerce, and everything which affects that trade will reader these improvements more or less necessary. The subject of the corn trade of United States has of late attracted the attention of our people; and, although it is one of importance, I am confident that its importance has been greatly over rated.-- From the language which is sometimes employed, wo might naturally infer that wheat and flour con stituted a great portion of the exports of the coun try. But a recurrence to official documents will show that, for a series of years, our export of wheat and flour does not exceed one-twentieth of our whole export. I propose, Mr. Chairman, to take a brief view of the wheat trade of the United States. And here I will state, once for all, that I shall use the term wheat to include j/our ; and, in all my estimates, I snake a barrel of flour equal to live bushels of wheat.— Tho Wheat crop of the United States, in 1840, according to the census returns, amounted to 84,- 823,000 bushels, and in 1814, according to the re port of the Commissioner of Patents, to 95,607,- 000 bushels. Of this, 96,000,000 bushels, which is about the average for the last five years, we have exported about one-thirteenth, or 7,400,000 bushels. Nearly one-tenth of the whole crop will be required for seed. In Great 13ritain the estimate has been about three bushels of seed to the acre, but with us two bushels to the acre would be a fair average for all parts of the country. Now, if we should take from the whole crop the amount required for seed, and the amount exported, it would leave for home consumption 79,000,000 of bushels. This amount divided among our population, say 19,000,000, would give 3 9-10ths Is every man, weasels, and iri the country. But it is manifest that the consumption of wheat is not equal in every section. The black population at the south consume but lit tle wheat, and the agriculturalists In the New tog land States make considerable use of Rye and In dian corn for bread ; though the consumption of wheelie becoming every year more general. Au far as I am acquainted, in all communities which purchase their breadstuff, wheat is the principle article of consumption ; and we may safely ostirnate this consumption at one barrel of flour or five bush els of wheat a year per head. This class will in clude the manufacturers and mechanics—those en gaged in mining, in commerce, in navigation, in all its forms; and if we add to those those engaged in the various professions and callings, other than agri culture, and all those residing in tho wheat growing sections of the country, it will constitute about three-fifths of our entire population ; and these will consume about 58,800,000 bushels of wheat, leaving for the other two-fifths 20,200,000 bushels, being about 2i bushels per head. This calculation, being general, will not hold good in every case. A sol dier's rations, for example, would amount to 9 bushels of wheat per year, and some of our pop ulation engaged in the fisheries would consume as much. Flour is also largely consumed in our man ufactories in the form of starch and sizing. The manufactories at Lowell alone consume between four and five thousand barrels of flour annually. I have been thus particular, Mr. Chairman, for the purpose of showing that the greater part of our LE:r27'LlliZlCEl=D E iDeb..i) atlurto.v.aas‘2l ang42.Cea wheat is consumed at home, and that the home mar- bet is the great source whence the wheat growers derive their support. The quantity of Wheat which we have sent abroad, for the lust 12 or fifteen years, will not exceed 6 or 7 per cont, of tho quantity produced, as will be seen by the following table made up from the commercial documents: [Here follows a table showing the Imports and Exports of Wheat and Flour, in bushels, together with the value of the .1110 from 1831 to 1844 in clusive. We have only room for the average, which is as follows : Exports, 5,505,152 bushels, Value sf, 233,633. Imports, 425,442, Value $437,- 897. Excess of exports cter imports 6,006,390 bushels.] Herd, sir, it will be seen the our average export of wheat to all foreign cduntries, for the last four teen years, amounts to only 5,505,162 bushels; or if we deduct the average imports, it will amount to silly about 5,000,000 bushels. It will also be seen that our exports do not keep pace with our populd , lion. In 1831, wo sent abroad, with a population of 13,000,000, 9,441,000 bushels, being 23 quarts per head upon our population ; but in 1844, with a population of 10,600,000, we sent abroad 1,751,- 000 bushels, being only 13 quarts per head.— Here is a falling off in our surplus of nearly fifty per cent. But as ills unfair to reason from a single year, and 1831 being one of art unusually large crop, we will take an average of three years. Take the years 1831, '32, and '33, and we have an aver age exports of 6,220,000 bushels ; while the years 1841, '42, and '43, give an average 0f.6,967,000 bushels, being an increase of 11 per cent., while our population has increared about 33 per cent.— For the last ten years, our surplus for export has not increased in the ratio of our population ; and the same causes which have operated for the last ten years, will be likely to operate for years to come. We have had, and, if peace continues, shall be likely to have, a large flood of foreign emigration to the country. But as these emigrants generally set tle upon new lands they do not, for the first year or two, add to the wheat product of the country.— On the contrary, while clearing their lands, and building thelr cabins, they are consumers, and con stitute a considerable market for the grain of the West. And while the new wheat lands are being brought into the market, the old Wheat lands of the Atlantic States are becoming exhausted,. and so yield a less crop. it is died true, that as population increases in the Wust, and settlements become more dense, a larger per cent. of the people leave the pursuit of agricultitro t end engage in other calling.; and hence the demand will increase as rapidly ns the supply. We must also expect deficient crops from time to time. The past year is ah example Of this. In some parts of the country, the drought of the past season haft greatly reduced the wheat crop ; and the disease of the potato will increase the demand for wheat at home as well as abroad. I have no disposition to undervalue the wheat trade of the country. It furnishes an important item in our exports. But, at the same time, I must be permitted to say, that its importance is frequently exaggerated. From language which is frequently employed, I should be led to conclude that wheat, next to cotton, was the great export from the coun try ; and that these, with perhaps tobacco, consti tuted nearly our whole export. But, by reference to the commercial document, from year to year, it will be seen that, for fifteen years, our wheat and flour have not amounted to more titan about one twentieth of our export. That tho commits, may see tho relative importance of the wheat trade, I have prepared a table from the commercial docu ments, which I will read : [Mr. H. here read his statement, which is printed in the pamphlet speech, and then argued as follows:] This summary view of certain article of export, shows that the value of wheat and flour sent to all foreign countries, for the last fourteen years, will average $6,233,000 a year. During the same pert ml, beef and pork, including all the avails and product of cattle and swine, have amounted to $2,- 990,000, and the product of the fisheries to $2,050,- 000; each of these articles being nearly half as touch as our enti , c export of wheat. And even cot ton piece good, the product of our despised manu factures which are represented as being injurious to commereo, have amounted on an average, to $2,- 674,000, nearly half as much as the wheat sent from the country. But if wo add to cotton piece goods all Other manufactures exported, we have a total of $7,987,000, annually, being more than the value of wheat exported. But, sir, this is not all. I haie follorred the clas sification of the commercial document; but every gentleman secittaiitteti with the subject knows that there aro articles, some of which aro strictly, and others substantially, manufactured articles, which are not, in that document, placed under the head of manufactures. In the commercial document of last year, I find the following articles, with their values placed under other heads: Spermaceti candles $190,402 Staves, shingles, boards, hewn tint bar, masts, spars, &c. 2,022,498 All manufactures of wood 919,100 Naval stores, tar, pitch, rosin and turpentine Ashes, pot and pearl Total Hero we have a total of more than five millions of manufactured articles, which, in the commercial do.. consents, are placed under the head of products, of the forest end of the fisheries. Add these to the articles set down as manufactures, and wo have an export of more than thirteen millions, the product of our infant manufactures. I have no disposition to disparage the wheat trade Of the country. It is on important trade, and one which should be cherished with the greatest cam. But devotion to any cause should never lead us to overlook an important fact. I rejoice that we aro able to export wheat at the average rate of $6,000,- 000 a year; and I rejoice, also, that our infant man factures are able to send forth to foreign countries fabrics to twice that amount. lat in favor Of the corn trade of the country; &, for that very reason, I wish to infant the wheat growers that the reposed change in the British corn laws will probably operate against them, and may prove highly detrimental to their interest. I am confident, Mr. Chairman, that there is a great wilspprelienslen on thin subject of trade.— Some gentlemen mom to take it for granted that Great Britain is the principal, and almost the only market for our broadstur. But nothing can be more false. I host data, dtown front the official documents of the Government, which confute any such hypothesis. [Hero follows a table of exports of wheat and flour for fourteen consecutive years, which we con dense as follows: Average export per year to Great Britain 944.536 bushels; to British North American Colonies 1,166,048; to Cuba 386,155; to Brazil 896,711; to all foreign countries 5,505,162.] Here we have the authority of the commercial document, mode up at the Treasury Department, showing the direction of the trade in question.— And what does it prove? Why, sir, that the total average of the export of wheat, for the last fourteen years, is 5,505,000 bushels, and that the average of export to Great Britain is only 914,000, being about one sixth of the whole. Our trade with Great Britain in this article is greatly overrated . For the last fourteen years, we have sent to England only 8 per cent. more than to Brazil; and, fur the lust three years, Brazil has taken fl per cent. more than England. Our trade with Canada, for a number Of years past, has been greater than with England itself. For the lasts seven years, we have sent into the British North American colonies 12,556,909 bushels; and to England at the some time, 7,764,- 600 bushels; showing a greater demand in Canichi than in England by 69 per cent. 1 ant a*dre that It will be said that Most of the whect sent into Can. ada finds its wry ititO Greet Britain. I admit it; and shall endeavor to skew hereafter, that, in this indirect trade, We tcliY enjoy a sort of Monopoly, by the tVeretion df thb pi esent corn laws of Greet Britain, but of Whieh wo should be deprived by a repeal of those laws. This is, in fact, the point to which I Wish to call your attention—the great ques tion for the committee and the country to consider. But let us now inquire into the capacity of the English market. What amount of wheat; of for eign growth, does ehe consume annually ? I have cornpiled the thltotving table from the parliamentary reports of Great Britain : Amount of wheat and wheat flour, imported into Great Britain, for home consumption from 1929 to 1943, inclusive, distinguishing foreign from colonial. Foreign. Colonial. Total. Year. Bushels. Bushels. Bushels. 1829 11,504,768 68,840 11,572,608 1830 13,338,304 484,472 13,832,776 1831 10,952,352 1,101,568 18:2 1,510,160 1,551,880 g,062,040 1833 10,560 001,648 672,208 IE3I 2,320 517,172 519,792 1075 960 227,140 228;100 1836 8,360 232,196 210,850 1837 1,686,176 293,000 1,979,176 1838 14,550,621 237,176 14,787,800 1839 21,502,8.12 101,936 21,653,3515 1810 18,291,000 910,302 19,201,188 1841 19,105,264 2,070,808 21,192,072 191222,202,512 1,711,618 23,017.160 1843 7,586,472 1,053,012 9,540,384 Average, 9,489,518 703,911 10,904,050 j There, It will ho seen, that, for the last fifteen years, the °vertigo import into Great Britain is 10,- 961,896 bushels. It will also be seen,by An inspection of the table, that her demand has been exceedingly variable, ranging from 228,400 to 23,917,100 bush els. Nor is this all. Lt 1835 and 1830, she actu ally exported a largo amount to this and other fountains. In price, too, there has been a great fluctuation. In 1930, the average price of wheat in Great Britain was $1 07, and itt 1839, $1 92 per bushel. But not to rely upon single years. In 1829, '3O, and '3l, she imported on an aVerage, 12,492,700 bushels; in 1834,'35; and '36, an ave rage of only 329,900; and in 1840, '4l, ehtl '42, an average of 21,434,000. From this view of the subject, it will be seen that but little &Pontine° can be placed Upon that market. At one time she requires a considerable supply of foreign grain ; at another she raises more than she consumes. In 1830, '37, and '3B, she supplied us with an average of 445,403 bushels a year direct; and we obtained nearly half as much more from her Canadian pos sessions. The demand of the English market is not only fluctuating, but, as a general It uth, wo may say that her supply at home is gaining upon her demand, rather than otherWiso. In 1829, '3O, and '3l, with a population of about 23,000,000, she con sumed, as we have already seen, en average of 12,- 482,700 bushels; and in 1843, with a population of about 27.000,000, she consumed 9,540,300 bushels of foreign wheat. Tooke, an experienced English writer, it:forms us that, from 1832 to 1838, the crops in Great Bri tain and Ireland were so abundant, that wheat was fed out to cattle; sheep, and swine, and CVO] used for distillation. This induced the farmer to sow less: and for several succeeding years, the winters were unfavorable for the crops, and the season of liarveot woo unpropitious, so as to increase the de- 818,602 1,140,884 $5,081,666 wand ftir foreign grain. Every man acquainted with English agriculture knows that great improve- Ments are constantly taking place in tier mode of cultivation. Bogs and swamps arc being reclaimed, barren hill sides aro being converted into fruitful fields, and her waste places ore b-:.ng made to blos som like the rose. She has also adopted an impro ved mode of seeding. Until quite recently, the wheat growers wero in the habit of sowing about three bushels of grain to the acre. Butlll r. Drum mond, a late English write•, says that, by the intro duction of a no* machine for sowing wheat, which distributes the grain equally over the whole surface of the ground, they have found that a less quantity of seed will answer equally well; and that this im provement alone will save to the United Kingdom five or six millions of bushels, and thus supply at least one-third of het deficiency. Under these cir cumstances, it is not probable that her demand for foreign grain will materially increase. Her own supply will increase with her demand. The means of the mass of her people aro limited; and we cannot expect that, under any circumstances, she will take a quantity of foreign gran much, if any, larger than she does at present. But suppose that her demand increases, where will rho obtain her supply? Where has she ob tained it in years past? In 1841,'42, and '43, when she made her largest importations, averaging 18,300,000 bushels, or about 04,000,000 for the three years, her supply was obtained from the fol lowing nations, in the following proportion : ›cl . . 4 F=: , sP=sVg F g ;fE c • E E AU. • P EI,iIEMnE F pAiarntO *(!) 5 F nE I WIEERE.P „" .; ' - :,c2m • F f E g T E F * § ErArMEE - E § EMIEMF2E i Here, sir, we have a vie% of the demand and sup ply of the English market fur three successive years. And does it appear that that market is to be regar ded as ours? And is the United Stites the enly country on which Great Britain is to depend fur her breadstuff? A glance at this table will show dt once that our supply, when compared wills that of the continent, dwindles almost to insignificance.— Russia supplies nearly an tech as the United States ; Denmark a trifle more; Prussia almost six times as much; Germany and Holland nearly the ce limes as much ; Prance and Italy each nearly twice as much ; and the British North AM nieret colonies more than twice as muds as this boasted granary of the world. To show the relative importance of our trade to Great Britain, it is barely necessary to say that, of every hundred bushels sent to thu English market, we supply only live. We have seen that the importations of wheat into (treat Britain has been exceedingly fluctuating, ranging from 225 000 to 25 017 000 bushe!s. A fair estimate of the English demand, for a term of yvors to come, may, I think, be put down at 15,- 000 000 bushels annually. And where n•ill she obtain her supply! From the United States?— Why have they not supplied that market in years past I Will it be said that the corn laws have opc rated against us? Put those laws have been general Pr their operation. Why have not these restrictions operated against the natiohs on the continent? The thirty-three millions of bushels brought front the north, luring the three years, and the twelve mil lions from the South of Europe, have been subjected to the sante duty an the three millions front the Uni ted States. And if they can supply more than nine tenths of the wheat under the present law— they can do the steno Under a less restricted dispen sation; or a system of perfect free trade. I say, sir, for years to come we may fairly estimate the demand in Great Britain at 15,000,000 of bush els annually ; and, judging from the past, we may say that the United States will supply 1,000,000, and the continent the other 11,000,000. And there can be no doubt but that the continent can furnish that supply, and even more if it were required.— In 18.10 the British Government called upon their consuls, at some of the principal marts of the corn trade, to inform them what amount of grain could be sent to the English Market in case the English duty were reduced to a nominal sum. The sub stance of their replica will be seen in the following table, (submitted, with their report, to Parliament in 1841 Bushels. St. Petersburg. 1,510,000 Dichau 210,000 Warsaw 2,400,000 Odessa 1,200,000 Stockholm 8,000 Dantzic 2,520,000 Konigsburg 520,000 Stett,io 2.000,000 .Q7;zsonaz›act. tmc. e)ebazj Memel Ilamburg Elsinore Palermo From these twelve poi is it appears that a supply of 17,779,700 bushels of wheat could be obtatned annually ; and it further appears that 7,298,000 bushels of rye, 0,820,500 bUshels of barley, end 6,445,700 bushels of oats, could be supplied. In this list is not included Riga, Rotterdarn, Antwerp, and several other important ports for the corn trade. In anawer to the inquiry, whether the quantity could be increased if there were a steady demand in Great Britain, the consul at St. Petersburg says : There are extensive tracts of land in the provin ces that now supply St. Petersburg, which would 720 doubt be brought into cultivation were a steady and certain market for wheat opened in this place. In years of abundance the quantity which could bo exported would be three tittles as great as is stated is the table." From Riga the consul writer When the foreign demand is very urgent the dis tant provinces of Smolensk, Kaluga, and Orel, send supplies to Riga. The principal wheat districts aro too remote from the ports to enable the fainters to get their crepe to the market sufficiently early fur exportation the same year; and, therefore, they cannot profit so decidedly by the occurrence of a bad harvest in England as those in the neighborhood of some other of the Baltic ports." Front Memel, the reply is: In knit or five yearn about a fourth more of grain will be cultivated.' From Warsaw, the answer is—'that the quantity of wheat grown in Poland has increased considerably for the lest Six years—and the production Might no doubt be further gradually increased if there were a steady demand for fcreigh corn in Vnglantl."l'lle consul from Elsinore repoita as follows : case of a eteadi aiid regular demand in England for foreign corn, the quantity produced in Denmark would, without difficulty, and in a chart space of time, ho materially in&eased.' Thus it appears thr t the nations upon the Baltic 1 1 can, in addition to the 17 or 18 millions of bushels of wheat set down in the table, contribute a still fur; thee supply. Csie of the great difficulties under which the north of Europe has labored, is the want of communication with the Baltic. The consuls, in their statements, frequently allude to the fact that large sections of wheat lands in the interior are neglected, for the want of cheap and ready com munication with the seaports. But this difficulty is lost being removed. The numerous plans for railroads, which hem been adopted in Russia, Ger many, and all the northern and interior States, will bring large quantities of wheat lands into cultivation and so enable them to supply a still larger amount cif grain, should the English Market require it. It also appears, by returns made to Parliament, that the English East India possessions supply a portion of her breadstuff. In 1842 they sent to E,tgland 170,000 bushels of ehtert, and, as the bus airless interecitirse increasers, the supplies will in; crease. From this glance at the subject—it appears that the whole demand of the English market could be supplied, and more than supplied, from the eastern continent. If the United Stites should withhold evbry bushel, there would, in ordinary cases, be no lack of grain for the English market. But we aro told that the repeal of the English corn laws would increase the consumption, and hence a larger quasi• tity would be required in that market. As a general rule a reduction of price will increase the consump tion of an article, and this principle will apply to the subject before us, as well as to any other. But still there are causes which will, in my estimation, mud to counteract this effect. If the price of wheat is reduced in Great Britain, as her dependence is mainly upon her own crops, it will tend to reduce the pace of labor, and hence diminish rho ability of the laboring classes to purchase. This may operate to the full amount of the reduction, and so prevent any increased consumption. Any thing which promotes general prosperity will increase the ability of the people to purchase, and whatever par; alyzes business necessarily produces a diminished consumption. The price of wheat depends upon many causes other than the operation of enactments: In 1842 Sir Robert l'eel adopted an important change in the corn laws of the Kingdom, a change by which the duties were reduced at once about ono half. This law took effect in April, 1842, and yet, in the first entire year after this change had taken place, viz: in 1843, the import of wheat fell MT more than one-half, the import of 1843 being only 9,540,000 bushels, while the average importation for the three years preceding this change of the law was 20,692,000 bushels. Ido not suppose that this falling off in 1843 was produced by the reducz tion of duties, but this example clearly Stows that the quantity of foreign grain consumed in Great Britain is controlled by laws more efficient than the corn laws. Judging from this mtperiment, we have no reason to belieoe that the opening of her ports would Isaac any considerable effect upon the demand for foreign grain. [Cdtrczysidtv NEST WEEK.] TAKES Two Tti MAKE A SLANDEII.--" My dear friend, that man has been talking about you so again ! Ile has boon telling some of the awfullest lies you over heard. Why he railed about you for an hout!" “And you !lewd it alt, did you I" " Yes." " after this just bear its mind that it takes two to make a slander--one to tell it—aud ono f.) liOcit 4 , it.' 47,712 4,304,000 1,400,060 1,000,000 17,779,712