IX.] CORN IS APPLICABLE. 



his shoulders against the rubbings of the sack, and 

 the back of his neck from the beatings of the 

 rain. They are about the same colour, too, by 

 the time they come off from the fire ; and, if a 

 coal carter were hard pinched for a poll-piece, I 

 should think, that a Lancashire oat-cake might 

 prove a welcome succedaneum. At any rate, and 

 to speak without the smallest exaggeration, they 

 are unleavened bread of the very coarsest and 

 poorest kind, while the meal of which they are 

 made actually costs twice the sum, at this^time, 

 that the meal of corn, so nutritious and so plea- 

 sant to eat, would cost the parties. 1 should 

 hope, therefore, that the merchants of Liver- 

 pool, especially as the thing would comport so 

 perfectly with their own interests, would not let 

 these poor people wait for the obtaining of corn- 

 meal from plants grown in England. Nothing 

 can be so easy as the introduction of the thing. 

 There is nothing to be done but to send a bag'Jof 

 corn meal to any manufacturing town, and to 

 send a dozen cakes ready made, along with it. 

 The!:e may be baked in the oven of any baker in 

 Liveiipool; and the thing might all be done, 

 and the suffering arising from the dearth of flour 

 and of oat-meal in a considerable part removed 

 by this winter's importation of corn. I have 

 mentioned the make-shift manner of obtaining 

 these cakes ; but; they may be obtained^ in any 



