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bushel. From Dantzic to England, the freight, etc, not 

 including the duty, is eight pence equal to about fifteen 

 cents per bushel ; making in all about forty-six cents per 

 bushel. From Illinois to Liverpool, the whole freight 

 would be 14s per quarter, or Is. 9d. equal to thirty eight 

 cents per bushel ; being about eight cents in favor of II- 

 linois. There are costs and charges also, in both cases, 

 which would, probably, be in favor of our export. 



In this connection, it may be interesting to compare a 

 detailed estimate of the export of wheat from lllin:is to 

 England, both by New-Orleans and Canada. 



ILLINOIS WHEAT, VIA NEW-ORLEANS TO LIVERPOOL. 



Wheat, four and three-quarter bushels at 50 cents is $2 37 



Grinding and barreling, (with offal,) 5C 



Freight to New-Orleans 62 



Freight to Liverpool 66 



$4 15 



whicb is little less than ninety cents. Charges would be 

 alike in both cases. 



View the matter in another point of light. Suppose we 

 carry our grain or flour through Canada, and pay, after 

 the 5th of July, 3s. on an imperial quarter, viz: eight 

 bushels, which is about eight one-third cents per bushel ! 

 Foreign wheat would have lo pay, at the present sliding 

 rule, sixty cents per bushel. Could they compete with 

 us? 



We therefore could succeed with the greatest competi- 

 tor; but that competitor cannot supply one and a half 

 million of bushels, less than the surplus of some of the 

 smaller States of this Union produce ; and, indeed, all 

 Europe could not supply England with more than eight- 

 een millions bushels, under the most favorable circum- 

 stances about three-fourths as much as the State of Ohio 

 now furnishes. 



