Wheat was sold in the vicinity of Birmingham, last week,
at from 33. 4d. to 38. 8d. a bushel. —Birmingham Paper. We have made a point of inquiring into the prices of grain, and the prospects of the farmer, which are really all .engrossing, for they appear to us of the most lamentable nature. As to the average of rents being sustained under existing circumstances, the impossibility is as evident as the distressed state of agricul- turists is general. —Bucks Gazette.
Let the supporters of the existing Corn-laws read this, and then turn to the Mark Lane Prices-Current ; where they will find the duty on foreign wheat put down at 408. Sd. per quarter—a duty of about 140 per cent, ad valorem on the price of wheat in War- wickshire. Yet all this availeth nothing : nay, were the duty twice as high, the farmer and the landowner would not in the least degree be benefited by it. Surely the more intelligent of the farmers must see that the operation of the Corn-laws does not raise the price of wheat in such seasons as the present, while their suspension or abolition is certain in the first season of scarcity, 'when the farmer might expect to look for an augmented price as a recompense for a short crop. We agree with the Bucks Gazette, that rents must fall ; and in consequence perhaps, as much as in spite, of tlm Corn-laws.
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