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cles, which do not conceal the deep solicitude that pervades the 
manufacturing and commerciaPcircles of that kingdom, in view of 
what seems to be unavoidable war, which the British people, or 
government, would gladly avert. 
From a recent number of the Scotsma?}.) (December 2d, 1876), 
published in Edinburgh, a mass of information on this topic is 
gleaned, that should be brought to the knowledge of all American 
farmers, mechanics and merchants; and as it will bear condensation, 
and comparison with our recent authentic trade reports by group¬ 
ing the items in our vernacular, instead of adopting British terms 
of weights, measures and money, we will state them as concisely 
as possi..le in connection with our own data, derived from the com. 
mercial operations of the year 1876, at the various centres of our 
commerce. The importations of breadstuffs into Great Britain 
have steadily and rapidly increased from about fifty millions of 
bushels of wheat (including flour 'reduced to wheat) in 1853, to 
about one hundred and twelve millions of bushels in 1875. By 
comparing this last aggregate of British wheat importations with 
the reports of the American boards of trade for 1876, we learn that 
the total receipts of wheat, corn and flour, at New York, by water 
and rail, from the interior, in 1876, which amounted to about sev¬ 
enty-one and a quarter millions of bushels, (and about one and a 
half millions of bushels less than the total receipts of Boston, Phila¬ 
delphia and Baltimore), would not fill two thirds of the British de¬ 
mand, which, during the past twenty or twenty .five years has, du¬ 
ring peace in Europe, been measurably satisfied by receiving from 
Russia about one.fifth or one-sixth of the imported supply. In 1875 
Great Britain received from the United States about fifty-two mil¬ 
lions bushels of wheat, and from British North America about nine 
millions, so that from the United States and Canada over one-half 
of the British wheat importations were received. 
While Chicago, Buffalo and New York complain of a reduced 
volume in wheat and flour receipts for 1875 and 1876, as compared 
with 1874, or some previous years, Milwaukee and other interior 
cities, and Baltimore, with other seaports, show an increase in those 
items of commerce. The greatest mystery is that with even cheap¬ 
er lake and rail freights in 1876 than the very low rates in 1875, 
we find, according to the Chicago trade reports, published January 
1st, 1877, that the average prices of wheat and grain at that great 
