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words, tliat tlie convention should hold the bowl in which to catch our life- 

 blood, whilst this eloquent representative, wilh the utmost good will, drew a 

 razor across our throats ? 



St. Alhans [Canada) export of buffer and cheese info tlie United States. 



The following table, published by the St. Albans Messenger, shows the amount 

 of butter and cheese sliijj[)ed from St. Albans sta;ion (Vermont and Canada 

 railroad) from 1851 to 1865. It is a specimen of the greatly increased supplies 

 sent from Canada into the United States under the reciprocity treaty, which 

 went into operation in 1856, and exhibits the wrong inflicted by it upon Amer- 

 ican farmers. 



Butter. Cheese. 



Tear 1851 1,109.964 pounds. 550,258 pounds. 



1N52 1,149,235 " 601,969 



1853 1.9;i9.3o4 " 1,122,703 " 



1854 1,712,404 " 1,035,376 " 



1855 1,715.127 " 966,289 



1856 2.293,568 '« 1,228.128 " 



1857 2.364.745 " 825.162 " 



1858 2.713 309 " 1.294,393 " 



1859 2,4:^4.909 " 1.247.288 



I860 2.506,700 " 1,984,000 « 



1861 2.732.209 " 1,4^1,716 " 



1862 2,420.370 " 1,281.602 



1863 2,863.576 " 911,842 



1864 2,472,854 " 923:^10 " 



1865 3.035,257 " 1,174,261 " 



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Total 33,603,644 " 16,628,197 



ENGLISH MARKET.S-AMERICA^^ BJPORTS. 



The Mark Lane Express of January 15 has the following notice of the con- 

 dition of the London market : 



"As might have been expected in January, generally the sharpe.^t month of 

 the year, the past week has brought us a taste of winter, with a heavy tall of 

 snow ; but this being occasionally commingled wi Ji rain, there is but litiie pros- 

 pect of its covering the ground sufHciently to do good. There has, however, 

 been so much unseasonable damp lately that farmers had much better have kept 

 their wheat in stack than threshed it, for the complaint has increased ot the in- 

 jured condition of samples, and, as a natural consequence, of lower piices. Still 

 the reduc d deliveries show that some are wise enough not to throw their chances 

 away ; and if dry wheat is to be the standard of value, we doubt whether there 

 has real y been one shilling (24 cents) per eight bushels decline since Christ- 

 mas. Indeed, many of last week's markets show a fair demand on former terms. 

 In the mean time the cattle murrain advances with such rapid strides that 1,000 

 head per day are being sacrificed, which, at the rate of 9 pence (18 cents) per 

 pound, takes away daily the animal food of half a million of people; not, per- 

 haps, at present, but certainly in prospect. Fear and good prices will necessa- 

 rily keep markets well supp.ied as long as possible; but the result is plain 

 enough to thinking people, and the utmost .skill, with a favoring Providence, 



