41 



Brand)^wiiie, fetched 4 dollars 73 cents, per pair. Sales 

 for city use 4 dollars 25 cents, to 4 dollars 37^ cents. Good 

 extra brands 4 dollars 50 cents, to 5 dollars. Early in the 

 tveek 4000 bushels of Pennsylvania red, <;oo(l and prime, 

 fetched 92 to i)2| cents. Since then there have been sales 

 of 11,000 bns!iels at 87 to 90 cents, from fair to prime red, 

 and 80 to 85 cents, from fair to inferior lii^ht. 



JSw/a/o, (United States) 23rd November. The exports 

 via the canal this month already exceed any monthly 

 shipment this fall. Duriiia^ the week 47,000 'barrels of 

 Flour, and 88,000 bushels of Wheat have gone forward. 

 The whole . .lount cleared since October, is 108,000 

 barrels of Flour, and 315,800 bushels of Wheat, mostly 

 for the European markets. 



New York, (United S-tates) 30th November. Baltimore 

 Wheat 95 to 102 cents. North Carolina 98 cents. Delaware 

 10! to 102. 



New York, 14th December. Western Flour — Genessee 

 4 dollars 75 cents. Michigan and Ohio 4 dollars GSj cents. 

 Southern 5 dollars to 5 dollars 50 cents, 



CONCLUSION. 



The Canada Corn Law question is surrounded with 

 difficulties, but the measure certainly is injurious to the 

 British Farmer. In grantinj^ the boon claimed by the 

 Canadians of havino^ their own A^sricultural produce admitted 

 into the United Kin^ulom nearly duty free, the British 

 Government permits the introduction thioi'^,di Canada of 

 United States' Wheat jr-rourid into Flour at a duty of only 

 4s. per quarter, Is. only of which goes to the British Revenue. 



From precediuir returns (pages 27 and 28) it appears that 

 the total importation of Wheat and Wheat F\om from all the 

 British Colonial possessions 111 theyear precedingthe passing 

 of the existing Act wa > only equal to the consumption of 

 England and Wales for I day and It) hours, and that the 

 importation/zow Canada alone has, in the 12 months since 

 the Act came into operation been equal to the consumption 

 of England and Wales for 5 days 19 hours. 



The impoitation from all parts in the 11 months ending 

 5th December, 1844, was equal to the consumption of 

 Fngland and Wales for 22 days. 



If, in the first season, there has been so large an increase 

 we may reasonably anticipate that the stimulus given by the 

 Act. will still further augment the importation troni Canada 

 in succeeding years. 



Under the Act of 1842, Canadian Wheat and Flour 

 €Oidd only come into the United Kingdom under the seal© 



