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a hungry belly, cannot be found conjoined ? They look upon due subsistence for their 

 labour, as a right equal to that which the proudest of their superiors can claim to his 

 estate. Deprived of this right, they quit, the pale of society, and their breasts inflamed 

 with revenge, become marauders, thieves, incendiaries, gratifying their malice towards 

 proprietors, by maiming and torturing their animals ; indeed, making a rapid progress 

 in those horrible and usual modes by which Irish oppression has been so long punished. 

 As to poaching, how are we to blame men in a starving state, for adopting a mode of 

 relief, in which they meet with the highest encouragement from that extensive class, the 

 buyers of game ? Poachers and others have imbibed their full portion of the governing 

 principle of their superiors, that the end sanctifies the means. 



With our horse-stealers, our ken-crackers in the metropolis, where, and in the 

 environs, twelve burglaries were committed in a few days, and our direct sanction of 

 the noble trades of thieving and receiving, by the custom of compounding felony ; what 

 a state of society in the richest, most powerful, and prosperous countiy that has hitherto 

 existed ! In the mean time, where subsists the defect, and whence must proceed the 

 remedy ? The remedy must come, if ever it do come, from the people themselves, 

 whenever they shall fiind leisure to attend to their most vital and important concerns. 

 But this is a trouble at which they shrink, or of which they do not really perceive the 

 necessity. They content themselves with praying to Hercules for a deliverance, and 

 have an implicit confidence in the engagements of each new set of politicians and under- 

 takers, who, at best, can do nothing more than tinker and plaister up the old system 1 , 

 thereby ensuring its continuance. Had Hercules Canning survived, and stood his ground 

 a very questionable supposition he could have done no more. A facetious editor 

 of one of our Sunday papers, lately wished to call up such men as " the Russells, the 

 Hasselrigs, the Pyms, and the Hampdens," to do the business ; but what could such men 

 do, aided even by the whole of their compatriots, without a public to back and support 

 them ? The vice inheres in the system itself. 



Smithfald Beef and Mutton, 4s. 4d. to 5s -Veal, 6s. 4d. to 7s. Pork, 5s. 4d. ta 

 6s. 8d Rough fat, 2s. 8d. 



Corn Exchange Wheat, 40s. to 65s Barley, 25s. to 36s Oats, 18s. to 34s. 



Bread, 9d. the fine 4 Ib. loaf. Hay, 70s. to 105s Clover ditto, 90s. to 120s. 



Straw, 28s. to 39s. 



Coals in the Pool, 32s. to 42s. per chaldron. 

 Middlesex^ January 25, 1828. 



MONTHLY COMMERCIAL REPORT. 



Sugar The request for Muscovadoes has been brisk and extensive all the week ; and 

 as the holders have met the demand freely, the sales average 1,000 hogsheads each day. 

 The strong sugars have sold a shade higher ; but we cannot state any general improvement, 

 as the West India planters have evinced every inclination to sell at the present currency, 

 At a late hour the sales are again 1,000 hogsheads, making 4,000 hogsheads during the 

 week : the prices are one per cent, higher. The refined market is advanced this week about 

 one shilling, particularly the Lumps, which have met a good demand the lowest at 81s., 

 and small, 83s. to 84s. 



Coffee The Coffee market remains heavy, but without any farther reduction in the 



prices. Good quality, St. Domingo, 37s. to 38s. 



Hemp, Flax, and Tallow The purchases of Tallow are considerable, particularly for 

 Ireland ; and some parcels are reported for France they are chiefly good parcels. The 

 price is 38s. to 38s. 6d. In Hemp or Flax, there is little or no alteration. 



Rum, Brandy, and Hollands. The late inconsiderable sales of strong Jamaica Rum 

 are at rather lower prices. The purchases of Leeward Island Rum for the Mediterranean 

 and for New South Wales are considerable prices 2s. 3d. to 2s. 4d. per gallon. Brandy 

 is more firm. In Geneva there is no alteration in price. 



Tobacco.- In Tobacco there ar^ no purchases of any extent. 



Cotton The accounts from the manufacturing districts and from Liverpool continue 

 favourable, which occasions a great firmness. 



Course of Foreign Exchange Amsterdam, 12. 3 Rotterdam, 12. 3 Antwerp, 



12. 3 Hamburg, M. B. 13. 10 Altona, 13. 11 Frankfort on the Maine, 150 Paris, 



25. 60 Petersburgh rble. 10 Vienna, 10. 3 Trieste, 10. 3 Barcelona. 34 Cadiz, 



35^, Madrid, 35 Bilboa, 35 Seville, 35^ Lisbon, 46 Oporto, 46 Rio Ja- 

 neiro, 32 Bahia, 37 Buenos Ayres, 37 Palermo, 116. Malta, 46.^Dublin (2 



days' sight), 1 Cork, 1. 



