unaltered, that ihe price of wheat, in the main, will ever be 

 the standard of worth of all the necessaries, comforts, and 

 luxuries of life : that no class of the people will ever get 

 (excepting for some short time) more or less of them from 

 the high or low price of wheat; for the wages of the 

 labouring classes must be brought to correspond with such 

 high or low price, t feel convinced that the present corn 

 laws will keep the prices of wheat as steady as any that can 

 be devised ; but no laws can prevent the price being, at 

 some particular times, too high for the consumers, and at 

 others, too low for the growers. Without any laws, the 

 price would generally be lower than it could possibly be 

 produced for in this country : but at times there can be no 

 doubt but that it would be enormously high. A high price 

 of meat may tend to raise the price of wheat, for when 

 meat is high, and corn low, much of it is turned into 

 meat. This was the case last February, wheat being 

 then so low priced, and found to so well answer in 

 stall feeding, a considerable quantity was so consumed : 

 the markets were therefore less abundantly supplied, 

 and consequently the price rose. My plan is not cal- 

 culated for grazing farms : there needs not such fre- 

 quent variable rents on these. If the grazier's fat cattle 

 sell for a low price, he will be able to buy lean catile at a 

 low price. The grazier's losses can never be so ruinous as 

 the farmers may be. Every landlord must know the price 

 of meat, and therefore can form a pretty correct idea whether 

 the rent of his grazing land ought to be reduced or increased. 



LEASES. Those who become tenants of poor land, out 

 of condition, consequently needing capital being expended 

 on it, would be unwise if they did not require a lease : for 

 although they might have full confidence in their landlord, 

 yet as life is uncertain, tenants ought, under any change of 

 the ownership of the land, to be secured reaping the benefit 

 arising from their expenditure of capital. But of farms of 

 good land, in good condition, and therefore only wanting 

 the common expenses of cultivation, tenants cannot reason- 

 ably expect to have leases. Those entered into a great 

 many years ago, proved very advantageous to the tenants ; 

 those entered into about twenty years ago, mostly proved 



