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great and increasing population, to plant on 
land capable of growing corn or grass is 
perhaps neither politic, nor probable to be 
attended with a profit equal to that of for- 
mer times; since the fact is ascertained 
that, we can import timber from northern 
Europe and America, at a much lower price 
and of far superior quality, than we can 
grow it at home. To speak definitively of 
the season, which is now drawing to a close, 
but without the pretence of scientific me- 
teorology, it is too late to hope for those 
benefits to the soil, conferred by the bind- 
ing of frost or the covering of snow: the 
only substitute is a course of N. E. winds, 
of the continuance of at least of five or six. 
weeks. And most desirable it is, that such 
fortunate event happen early, the sooner 
the more profitable, since it will so be 
doubly beneficial—in the first instance, by 
drying and pulverizing the soil; and se- 
condly, in taking their proper turn of cold 
winds, which necessarily must have their 
turn in the proper season of such—deferred 
to the spring and summer, they will in- 
finitely injure the produces of both. The 
remains of the farming committee are far 
too busy, consistently with their true inter- 
ests, in depreciating all amendment of the 
corn laws, unless such as they are disposed 
to prescribe, which would enforce to the 
very marimum, that monopoly, against the 
endurance of which, the people of this com- 
mercial country appear determined. It 
is reported, on the best authority, that the 
ruling party in parliament have at length 
resolved on a repeal of the corn laws (held 
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more favourably to-speculators and mer- 
chants, than to farmers) to be followed by 
anew and permanent system, which surely, 
such mature and ample investigation as 
has passed, must have rendered attainable. 
Many, it seems, are inclined to unrestricted 
commerce in corn, but circumstances have 
rendered the imposition of an import duty, 
which, they who pretend to be in the 
secret, state at 8s. the quarter of wheat. 
In the mean time, the stock of corn on the 
continent, is heavy, and the growers full of 
complaint, that they have cultivated thei: 
lands chiefly with a view to the British 
market, where, being unable to dispose of 
their produce, they can no longer purchase, 
to the usual amount, our manufactures. 
Their grievance, however, is beyond redress 
from us, since our stock of bread corn, 
whether in the stacks of the farmer, or the 
warehouses of the speculator, is large, and 
the breadth on the ground most extensive. 
Should we proceed prosperously at this 
rate, an export trade (if to be found) rather 
‘than an import, will become our national 
object. 
Smithfield :—Beef, 4s. 2d. to 5s. 2d.— 
Mutton, 4s. 8d. to 5s. 4d.—Veal, 6s. Od. 
to 7s. 2d. — Pork, 5s.0d. to 6s. 4d.—Bath 
Bacon, 5s. 2¢d.— Best Irish, 4d. 10d.—Raw 
Fat, 2s. 8d. 
Corn Exchange :—Wheat, 48s. to 82s.— 
Barley, 32s. to 50s.—-Oats, 21s. to 34s,— 
Bread, (London), 113d. the loaf of 41b.— 
Hay, 60s. Od. to 104s.—Clover do. 80s. to 
120s. —Straw 36s. to 46s. 
Coals in the Pool, 30s. Od. to 41s. 9d.— 
Middlesex, Jan. 24. 
MEDICAL REPORT. 
Report of Diseases and Casuattizs occurring in the public or private Practice of 
the Physician who has the care of the Western District of the City Dispensary. 
URING the last twenty-two hours 
previously to the writing of the pre- 
‘sent paper, it has happened to the writer of 
it to attend upon several cases of cerebral 
disorder; and it is a remarkable fact, that 
each and every of those cases has consi- 
derably varied, both in its essential charac- 
ter and remedial demands. So farfromrec- 
titude are those principles which generalize 
all morbid affection into one locality, and 
into simple essence. 
One of the occurrences to which the re- 
porter alludes, was that of a sudden epi- 
leptic seizure, manifestly produced by too 
much indulgence in wine and spirits, and 
evidently accompanied with vascular. ful- 
ness. In another epileptic attack, the in- 
sluction of the disordered state was more 
gradual; and menaces of nervous derange- 
ment and cerebral affection had shewn them- 
selves for many months prior to the full 
Jormation of the disorder’s paroxysm. A 
third case among the number referred to, is 
that of positive and violent madness sud- 
denly taking captive the mental powers of 
the patient, as if by storm, and exhibit- 
ing great sentient excitation, with dimi- 
nished circulating energy.. Nervous irri- 
tation, mounting up almost to the grade of 
actual insanity, constitute the features of 
the fourth case. The fifth is formed by a 
species of erysipelous inflammation oceu- 
pying the brain’s investments, and appearing 
even outwardly on the face ; and the last in 
the list is a formidabe instance of what is 
called delirium tremens, the result of re- 
peated intoxication ; and in which such a 
quantity of opium has been administered, 
with the most beneficial effect : which, had 
it been divided among the preceding five in 
equal proportions, would have irritated and 
injured rather than soothed and benefited. 
The advantageous influence of opiates, 
when administered in that condition of the 
brain 
