THE NEW AND THE OLD SCALE.
Ix the Gloucester Chronicle we find an ingenious diagram exhibiting to the eye the comparison of the slide and jump in the new and old corn-duty scales. If we had seen it early enough in the week, we might have had it engraved ; but it is not perhaps less distinct in the subjoined imitation by merely typographical means, and it is more exact in the proportions. The precipitous tumbles of the old scale as the price rises tell more to the sight than in the mere numbers. Present co
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to 74 Those abrupt rises at the right hand of the old scale certainly seem to forbid the entrance of corn, where the gentle slope of the new scale invites ingress. Per contra, it must be remembered, that in the old scale only the lowest duties were usually levied ; and therefore the remote untrodden heights are there rather for pic- turesque grandeur than for use. All the shadowy range that towers above the new scale towards the middle and left is out of the regular account : the practical comparison will lie between the working of the lowest duties, the first jumps in the old scale, and so much of the PEEL scale as experience shall prove to be really operative.
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