If Lord GLENELC has any doubt of the advantage to
the Maltese which must result from the abolition of the grain monopoly in Malta, at advise him to look at an article in the Times of Wednesday, wherein The mortification of a baffled jobber is wianiksted by a tissue of abuse And absurdity. The article is dated " Malta, January 15th ;" and is evidently the production of some walecontent, whose day of profitable plunder is drawing to a close. " Town bullies," " slanderous venom," " seditious and anti-English party,' are some of his phrases. The grievances of the Maltese are " fabricated," we are told—with more stuff of the same kind. The cause of all this railing is, that the Maltese will in future be allowed to buy wheat at a reamonable price ; as the merchants may now import it in quantities suitable to the demand, without the fear of being overwhelmed by a discharge from the Government warehouses. But then, there will be an end to the jobbing of Government storekeepers; and hence the howl from Malta.
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