378; On. the Price of Barley,'&c.[June;

grain 18 less than usual, is hot correct. I wish not to be mis understood: I am not denving the position, that the coy- Sumption is actually less, 1 only contend, that SUPPOSINg IE to be S0, and even taking into conszideration a less produce last year, still, the price was upon an average as high, or bigber, than both these causes,(which by the bye in Some WmgaSure, counteract each other) might justly haye been es Pected to, create. And if to this| add what 1 conceive will have vast weight in the argument, the recollection, that an un- usnally large Stock of old barley of the preceding year, which was productive in an extraordinary degree, must have been let: in hand, it will not only cease to be a wonder that it bore no higher proportion to the price. of other. grain, but tho zurprize will be, how it ranked 59 high as it did.

1 fully agree with the Scotch fanmner, that, if a due at- tention is paid to the interests of agriculture, and therein to the interests of the common-wealth, every sSubestitute for malt Should be abolished, and that too much resource has been bad tolhem p»rticeularly of late But what can the brewer do 2 He Purcbases malt at an excessively high rate, and finds the publie 80 determinedly opposing any advance on ale or porter, aud himself therefore compelled to dispose of his articles at the old price, after an ineffectual Struggle to add. but one half- penny or penny to the price of each pot; The faet is indis- putable. What then was his resource? Why--as your cot-' respondent has rightly observed, he made uze of Sugar, mo. Jasses, Jiquorice, and even Jaudanum, tobacco and other de Jeterious Substitutes to adulterate, colour, abd add an artifici- al Strength to his wort. It is the duty of Parliament to mter- fere immediately, and to put a Stop to. tbese practizes, which€ fear are common: but Jelony, avd hanging iw chars, Surely 18 t0G, Severe a Sentence tor the poor brewers.

1 cannot presume to dispute the accuracy of the statement n2xt mentioped by your correspondeut, Since IL appears cal eulated wholly for he meridian of Edinburgh, but, LI thiak, that in South Britain, it is posSible to gain 50mething more than a poor Solitary S7apence for his labour of cultivating au acre of ground,(1 mean a statuie acre) lor two years; und 1 müst Still contend, that 38. 6d. per quarter is not ouly a zum- Qus price to tarmers, but that it is, even in these times of high taxation very ddvantageous, if he bas an average CLOP, as Way apfear trom the following 5ketch of expences and px0- duce, diawn after the Scotch farmer's own podel, SuppoSipg barley at 35, Gd, per quarter,