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‘‘bad.”’—which last.could not produce, the charge of cultivation, unless that 
produce sold at a restriction price. If I let the whole five hundred acres 
of“ best.” at 50s,,, which gives £1,250, and two hundred of, the. “bad” 
at, 5s,,, which gives. £90, my amount of rent. received from my. estate is 
£1,300; and my.average rent is * 37s.an acre. But, now for the delusion, 
If I let the remaining three hundred acres of “ bad’? land, at,5s.—which 
ought,.not tobe Jet at all—then the whole rent of my estate,.,is increased 
£75 a yearfrom, £1,300 to £1,375; while, upon, my; conundrum 
of average; my average, rent, presents a reduction—for it, is, not 37s, an 
acre, but) 27s.,6d.! aT faa Kaine 
A great deal, more-however, of what Mr. Calvert says on this occasion, 
is any thing rather than practical policy— or even practical sense. . When 
‘he, talks of “¢a half-penny abatement in the quartern-loaf,” being. all 
that.a reduction of one-third of the landlord’s, rent would. afford, he 
seems) to.forget that such a reduction of the rent of land will not affect 
othe “quartern, loaf”. only, but the joint:of meat—the bushel. of po- 
tatoes—and, in fact, every article of consumption which arises out of the 
tillage of the, land. Besides, a “ halfpenny” in one commodity—and 
a ‘*halfpenny ” in another — though never perceived by a man like Mr. 
Calvert, nor. yet. by men far poorer than he is—becomes a matter of 
very, important consideration to the labourer—and there are millions in 
a Worse situation—who cannot estimate his means to support;his family 
» at, more, than sixpence per day for each individual. The short. question 
upon the Corn laws, for their repeal or against it, is this:.Shall the 
bad, land of the country, as Mr. Calvert terms it, be cultivated at an 
,enormous ,loss,.merely that the landowner may get 5s. an acre for it? 
| Shall the people.of, England be compelled—for it is the people who pay 
\all_to,lay,out, the same sum of labour and money upon an acre of land 
Anja bed situation, to. obtain a produce of twelve bushels of wheat, as, 
~ laid, outjupon.an,acre of land in a good situation, would produce from 
» thirty, to, forty.?., Ought we'to raise corn from Jand which is ill-suited to 
, the, xaising jof corn, when we can buy that corn abroad ;, any more than 
- We'raise vines from our soil which is ill suited to raising vines, in pre- 
|, ference to, buying our wine from France or Portugal ? If it be reasonable 
that, we should, produce at twice the price that we can buy, then it is 
_ reasonable that other, nations should do the same; and, in that case, 
where is the reliance of our foreign commerce—where, the value of our 
_ boasted, superior knowledge and machinery ? What becomes of the 
doctrine of our security—the principle that it is better for the powers of 
» the Continent to buy their cotton of us, at one shilling per yard, than to 
_ make it themselves—say that they had all the equal skill—when, wanting 
the same facilities, they could not make it for less than two ? 
\.) & March” of Impertinence.—The duty of a woman (on this earth) is 
oto stitch, and serve God. And I just mention so much, because I see 
», this. morning, by an advertisement—that the ‘‘ Gymnastic professors ”— 
»»those pleasant persons who get money paid to them for teaching boys to 
_ (turn, headover heels—turning spits will be erected intoa science 
»)| presently, !—have contrived to set up eighteen or twenty establishments in 
» ) different parts of the town. . To all of which I have no objection, except 
, to alittle piece of fulsome foolery, which I find revealed in the following 
notice of “hours,” ‘terms,’ &c. in the prospectus of one of these 
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of to borhan * Divide the whole rent by the whole number of acres. 
