The next session will hardly pass over without a furious
debate on the effect which has followed the abolition of the shilling duty on corn. Mark Lane, which is always running risks, seems this year to have been more wrong than usual about the result of the harvest :and the supply from abroad. Both have proved unex- pectedly large, prices have gone crashing down in leaps of 3s. and 4s. a week, until the trade is heavily weighted with corn "to arrive," which must be sold at a loss. One large firm, Messrs. Pin' and Co., of Dublin, Liverpool, and London, has gone for 1250,000, and the prospects of several others are believed not to be bright, while farmers are groaning audibly. If all that is not carried to Mr. Lowe's credit, the crypto-Protectionists have forgotten their art. Meanwhile, the people aft) getting their fill of cheap bread.
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