Wheat flour, cwts.,
Oatmeal,
Indian meal,
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These tables demonstrate how rapidly, under the operation of Free Trade and rising prices, our supply of grain is coming to be derived from foreign countries; and soon we may arrive at the period when, to avert famine prices, we must, at any hazard, and under any humiliating circumstances, continue to depend for a half of the subsistence of our people on other and, it may be, rival states.
Meal, butter, cheese, and all the minor productions of agriculture, are rapidly rising in price; and as cattle and sheep were all thirty per cent dearer at the late markets in the north than they were a year ago, it may with confidence be predicted that, before the end of summer, meat will have risen fifty per cent in price. But wheat has only advanced from 39s. to 44s.; the immense importation from the Continent forcibly keeps down the rise of that easily_transported and readily sold article. Everything, therefore, announces that the production of wheat in this country will in all probability decline, even more rapidly than it has hitherto done; and that, ere long, a half of the food of the people will be derived from foreign states. Long before that is the case, our independence as a nation must, of course, have disappeared, and we must be reduced, like the Venetians in the latter period of their existence, to drag on a precarious and dishonoured existence, by avoiding, at any price, a rupture with our neighbours.
At present the great stay of our manufacturers is the colonial markets and those of America. The colonial exports last year were about £20,000,000; those to America, above £14,000,000. A full moiety of all our exports were to our colonies, and states of British descent. Free Trade itself, which so long decried the colonies, and sought
-Times, May 10, 1853. in the markets of foreign states for the principal vents for our produce, is now driven to those very colonies to find a compensation for the declining markets of the former. Our exports to all the countries of Europe from whom we import grain are stationary or declining. But as Free Trade is now a fixed and essential part of our colonial system, it is evident that the rapid advance in the price of labour in the British Islands, in consequence of the influx of gold and efflux of men, will ere long deprive us even of this last advantage; so that nothing may remain to the Anglo-Saxon but to follow, as heretofore, the Celt, and desert the land of Free Trade and High Prices in Europe, for the land of protected labour on the other side of the Atlantic.
In a word, as Sir R. Peel's system was, with a just appreciation of the real state and necessities of our people, based entirely upon the combination of LOW PRICES in this country with Free Trade, so it behoves all our people, and especially the authors and supporters of the Free-Trade movement, to consider well how it is to work, and how calamity is to be averted under its action, with prices of necessity higher here than elsewhere in the Old World. The days of daily profit and increasing wealth to the capitalist are past: they were of human creation, and they have met with the usual fate of earthly things. Let the authors of the new system consider whether the time is not approaching when labour in return is to obtain the ascendant, and when the profits of stock are to melt away under the influx of gold and efflux of labour, which CHAINS PRODUCTION TO WAR PRICES, AND FREE TRADE WHICH CHAINS SALES TO PEACE PRICES IN THIS COUNTRY.
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Alin-Morani, the, a Manilla snake, 494.
America, sketches, &c. of slavery in, 1.
- American spirit-rappings, the, 629.
Ancient gardens, notices of, 137.
Animal life, circulation of matter through,
551 et seq.
Antiar tree, the, and its poison, 308.
Anti-Libanus, sketches of, 734.
Aquatic plants, increased culture of, 134.
Arac, a Malay chief, 716.
ARENSBERG, COUNT, OR THE DAYS OF
LUTHER, review of, 537.
Art, present state, &c. of, 755.
Asia, ancient importance of, 732.
Assaad Shidiak, a Maronite reformer, 736.
Assembly, hostility of the, to Louis
Napoleon, 726.
Austria, denunciations of, in "The Com-
ing Struggle," 509.
Baleté of the Philippine Islands, the, 502.
Balls, change in the character of, 268.
Band of Hope procession, picture of a,
406.
Banquet Social, the, a French newspaper,
721.
Baptism, administration of, to negroes in
the Brazils, 572.
Barley, quantity of, raised in Great Bri-
tain at different times, and pressure of
the malt-tax on it, 381-peculiar cap-
abilities of Great Britain for raising
it, 383.
Basilan, sketches of the island of, 714.
Bay Lake, Manilla, 484.
Bechir, the Sheik, a Druse magician, 741.
Beechey, captain, account of the Pitcairn
Islanders, by, 657.
Beggars' Opera, curious amateur per-
formance of the, 98.
Bekar, El, district of, 734.
Belgrade, sketches of, 316, 317.
Bem, general, 319.
Beshir, the emir, 740.
Beyrout, rising importance, &c. of, 742.
Billot, M., denunciations of Great Britain
by, 369.
Bisberry, district of the, 736.
Bligh, captain, and the mutiny of the
Bounty, 649.
Boa-constrictor, size attained, &c. by the,
in the Philippine Islands, 493.
Bond of brotherhood, the, 375.
Boulogne, the attempt of Louis Napoleon
at, 725, 728.
Bounty, mutiny of the, and subsequent
fate of the mutineers, 649.
Bourbon, sketches in the island of, 575.
Brazils, sketches, &c. in the, 564.
Breschia, artificial irrigation round, 456.
BREST, FROM, TO THE ISLAND OF BOUR-
BON, 561.
Bribery, the exposures of, in Parliament,
746.
British Temperance Advocate, extracts
from the, 390, 391.
Budget, defeat of the Derby ministry on
the, and defence of it, 111.
Buffalo-hunting in the Philippines, 487
et seq.
Buonaparte family, the various members
of the, 718.
Burckhardt, account of Lebanon by, 734.
Burritt, Elihu, and the peace movement,
373.
BYZANTINE EMPIRE, FINLAY'S HISTORY
OF THE, 691.
Cactus tribe of plants, Schleiden's ac-
count of the, 303.
Café Florian, the, at Venice, 351.
Cambridge election, Moore's ballad for
the, 104.
Cambridge University, attendance at the,
220.
Campagna of Rome, origin of the deso-
lation of the, 449.
Canals of Lombardy, history, &c. of the,
447-sketches of some of those con-
structed in India, 458.
Canaries, sketches of the, 561, 563.
Canary bird, disappearance of the, from
the Canaries, 562.
Canino, the prince of, 719.
Caoutchouc, notices of various trees
which produce, 305-consumption of
it in Great Britain, ib. note.
Capital, examination of Dr Chalmers'
views on, 610.
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Caxton, Pisistratus, My Novel by, Part
XXVIIL, 21.
Caymans in the Philippine islands,
sketches of the, 459.
Cécile, vice admiral, 715.
Cells of plants, Schleiden on the, 301.
Centralisation, dangers of, 753.
Certificates, the modern system of, 747.
CHAIMERS AS POLITICAL ECONOMIST, 528.
Chalmers, Dr, the early studies of, 600
-character of his mind, 601-defect
of the argument in his astronomical
discourses, 602.
Charles Martel, the defeat of the Sara-
cens by, 693.
Children, habits, &c. of, 67.
China, mission from France to, 561.
Chinese, sketches of the, in Malacca, 704,
705, 709.
Chinese cemetery, the, in Malacca, 709.
Christian, Fletcher, the leader of the
mutiny of the Bounty, and his subse-
quent fate, 649.
Church Catechism, the, 409.
CHURCHILL'S MOUNT LEBANON, review
of, 732.
Cicero on gardening, 129.
CIRCULATION OF MATTER, THE, 550.
Clairvoyance, the pretensions of, and
their falsity, 632 et seq.
Climate, influence of, with regard to sla-
very in the United States, 2-its influ-
ence on the garden, 139.
CLUBS AND CLUBBISTS, 265.
Clubs of France, the, 271, 272-the
French, before their suppression by
Louis Napoleon, 723.
Cobden, views of, regarding peace, 364.
Cochineal insect, the, 305.
Cockfighting, prevalence of, in the Ma-
nillas, 482.
Colo-Syria, district of, 734.
College, the plantation of, 572.
Coming Struggle, the, review of, 507.
Commercial morality, low tone of, pre-
valent in the country, 504.
Confessional, evils of the, 102.
Constantine Copronymus, sketches of,
697.
Convents, number, &c. of, among the
Maronites, 737.
Convocation, the University, and its func-
tions, 217.
Cotton, influence of the production of,
on slavery in the United States, 10.
COUNT ARENSBERG, review of, 537.
Cow-trees, various kinds of, their uses,
&c., 306.
Cowley on gardening, 130.
Craft, political, prevalence of, 755.
Crafts in danger, a temperance song,
391.
Credit system, evils of the, 752.
Curling and curling clubs, 277.
Currency system, effect of the changes
in the, 760.
Dajon-palay, the, a Manilla snake, 494.
Dancing, change in the character of,
Lanube, passage of the, at Semlin, 315.
Daybreak in London. picture of, 354.
DEFEAT OF THE MINISTRY, 111.
DERBY MINISTRY, DEFEAT OF THE, 111.
Dicecious plants, peculiarities of, 302.
Direct taxation, growing necessity for.
246.
Disraeli, Mr, the budget of, 111-attacks
of the litterateurs of the day on, 751.
Dixon, colonel, improvements effected in
Mairwara under, 208.
Dogbanes, uses of, &c. of the, 305.
Donadieu, M., sketch of, 712.
Dornshausen, the village of, 359.
Drinking and drunkenness, improve-
ment in the country as regards, 394.
Druses, sketches of the, 737, 739.
Dutch, conquest of Malacca by the, 703.
Dutch style of gardening, on the, 140.
Earthy portion of plants and animals, on
the, 556.
East India Company, illustrations of the
effects of the rule of the, 712.
Education, deficiency of, in the slave
states of America, 4-influence of sla-
very on it in the United States, 13.
Edwards, captain, capture of the mu-
tineers of the Bounty by, 653.
ELEUSINIAN MYSTERIES, A GLIMPSE INTO
THE, 185.
Elevation, influence of, on vegetation,
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Fish dinner at Venice, a, 351.
Fitzarthur, Frederick Plantagenet, a
swindler, 745.
Fitzroy, Mr, his bill regarding assaults
on women, 516.
FIVE YEARS' PROGRESS OF
POWER, review of, 1.
Flowers, the love of, 129, 131-increase
and improvement in, 132, 133.
Fontanili, irrigation by, in Lombardy,
Fortune-hunter, the, 758.
Foxes, the, the originators of the Ameri-
can spirit-rappings, 630.
FRANCE, A FEW WORDS ON, 718.
France, scarcity of modern works of tra-
vel in, 347-possibilities of a war with,
368-feeling toward Great Britain pre-
valent in, 369-embassy from, to
China, 561- tranquillity of, under
Louis Napoleon, 718-the unfitness
of, for liberty, 719-state of the press
in, 720-the clubs, 725.
Frauds, prevalence of, in trade, and ne-
cessity for legislation against them, 504.
Free coloured population, state of the, in
the United States, 16.
FREE TRADE AND HIGH PRICES, 760.
Free trade, impossibility of fully carrying
out, 379.
Free-traders, inconsistency of the, in op-
posing the repeal of the malt-tax, 118
-disappointment of the expectations
of, from Free trade, 760.
Freedom of the press, extinction of the,
in France, 720.
FRENCH COMEDY, A MODERN, 430.
FRENCH STAGE, A TALE FROM THE, 617.
FRENCH TOURISTS, A TRIO OF, 347.
Fruits, improvement in, 133.
Gaeta, the cardinal of, and Luther 541,
543.
Galoppe, introduction of the, 269.
Gambling, prevalence of, in the Manillas,
Ganges canal, the, 458.
GARDEN, THE, 129.
Garden, moral aspects of the, 136.
Gautier's Italy, review of, 346, 347.
Gautrin, escape of, during the massacre
at Manilla, 479.
Geneva, sketch of, by Gautier, 348.
Geological character, influence of, on
slavery in America, 2.
George IV., the early Whiggism of, and
his change, 105-various squibs by
Moore against him, ib. et seq., 109.
Georgia, the physical features of, 2.
Germany, books of travels published in,
347.
Gibbon on the Greek Fire, 693.
GIRARDIN, MADAME DE, LADY TARTUFFE
BY, 430.
GIRONIÈRE, VINGT ANNÉES AUX PHILIP-
PINES BY, review of, 478.
Gluten, the constitution, &c. of, 553.
Goethe, reminiscences of, at Weimar,
361.
Gold, effect of the increased produce of,
on prices, 761.
Graham, Sir James, on the proposed ex-
tension of the income tax, 113-oppo-
sition of, to the repeal of the malt-
tax, 381, 382.
Grain, increased importations of, 769.
Great Britain and the United States, re-
Greek church, struggle between the
ciprocal influence of, 1.
Iconoclasts and the Image-worshippers
in the, 692 et seq.
Guanches, the, the aborigines of the
Greek Fire, the, 693.
Canaries, 563.
Guérin, captain, adventures, &c. of, 714.
Gutta-percha, the preparation and con-
Hakem, the founder of the Druses, 739.
sumption of, 306 note.
Hall, colonel, government of Mairwara
by, and improvements effected by him,
208.
Hastie, Mr, on the national-defence ques-
tion, 372.
Hebdomadal board, the, and its func-
tions, 217.
Heider, the Emir, 740.
Hendia, a Maronite abbess, atrocities of,
738.
Heywood, Peter, trial, &c. of, 653.
Holo, sketches in the archipelago of, 714
HINTS FOR LEGISLATION, 503.
-the sultan of, 715.
Horticultural buildings, increased taste
for, 134, 135.
Horticulture, the passion for, 129.
Hotels, Continental and London, 270.
House of Congregation, the, at Oxford,
and its functions, 217.
House-tax, the proposed extension of
the, 112.
Hubbard, Mr, views of, on the income-
tax, 261.
Humber, the warpings on the, 448.
Hungarian war, sketches of the, 311 et seq.
Hungarians and Servians, mutual hatred
between the, 313-examples of their
atrocities, 326.
Hungary, present state of, and frequency
of robbery in, 323.
Hypocrisies of private life, the, 758.
Iconoclasts and Image-worshippers, strug-
gle between the, in the Greek church,
692 et seq.
Incomes, on the classification of, for taxa-
Iguana, hunting the, 495.
tion, 257.
Income-tax, the adjustment of the, pro-
posed by Mr Disraeli's budget, 112-
true principles on which it should be
levied, 247-injustice of the exemp-
tions from it, 248-injustice of Ireland
being exempted from it, 250-facilities
for the evasion of it, 252-its inequali-
ties, 257.
INCOME-TAX REFORM, 246.
Independence, the American declaration
of, its inconsistency with slavery, 5.
India, the canals for irrigation in, 458.
Indians of Manilla, sketches among the,
485.
Industry, influence of slavery on, in the
United States, 14.
Insurrection of the Papers, the, 105.
Ireland, identification of Moore the poet
with, 97-injustice of the exemption
of, from the income-tax, 250-emigra-
tion from, 764.
Irene, the empress, 699.
Irrigation, artificial, means for, in Mair-
wara, and carrying out of it, 208 et seq.
-the system of, in Lombardy and
Piedmont, 447 et seq.
Italy, sketches of, by Gautier, 349.
Jala-Jala, sketches of a residence at, 485
Java, the upas tree of, 307-the valley
of death in, 308, 309.
Jealousy, prevalence of, 750.
Jefferson, the declaration of independence
drawn up by, 6.
Jeffrey, letters between, and Moore, 109.
Jewish disabilities bill, on the, 513.
JOHN BULL, SUPPLEMENTARY CHAPTERS
TO THE HISTORY OF, chap. i., How the
Juggler proposed to lower the ten-
barred gate; and how he got rid of
Protocol, 166-chap. ii., How Proto-
col got rid of the Juggler, and how
Manley was made Steward, 171-chap.
iii., How the new servants were chosen,
and how Manley resigned the steward-
ship; also touching Glossin and the
Juggler, 176 chap. iv., How Ague-
cheek disposed of the Juggler, and how
Glossin and he laid their heads to-
gether, 181.
JOHN RINTOUL, OR THE FRAGMENT OF
THE WRECK, Part I., chap. i., 329-
chap. ii, 331-chap. iii., 333-chap.
iv., 335-chap. v., 337-chap. vi., 341
-chap. vii., 344-Part II., chap. viii.,
410-chap. ix., 412-chap. x., 414-
chap. xi., 416-chap. xii., 418-chap.
xiii., 420-chap. xiv., 424-chap. xv.,
426-chap. xvi., 428.
Joint-stock companies, swindling charac-
ter of, 753.
Johnson, definition of a club by, 265.
Jones, Mr, on the Malt-tax, 384.
Journal des Cotillons, the, a French
newspaper, 721.
Jumna canal, the, 458.
Kashaya, Maronite convent of, 736.
Kentucky, statistics of slavery, &c. in,
4-comparison as to population, pro-
duce, &c. between it and Ohio, 13.
Knaveries of trade, necessity for legisla-
tion against the, 304.
Knicanin, general, 318.
Knowledge, influence of slavery in the
United States on, 13.
Kossuth, the proclamation of, issued by
Mazzini, 367-remarks on his reception
in this country, 507.
Kotzebue, the murder of, by Sand, 360.
Kurneille, the castle of, 740.
Labour, increased price of, 768.
LADY LEE'S WIDOWHOOD, Part I., chap.
i., 77-chap. ii, 83-chap. iii., 87-
chap. iv., 92-Part II., chap. v., 145-
chap. vi., 148-chap. vii., 151-chap.
viii., 155-chap. ix., 161-Part III.,
chap. x., 278-chap. xi., 287-chap. xii.,
296-Part IV., chap. xiii., 460-chap.
xiv., 463-chap. xv., 468-chap. xvi.,
473-Part V., chap. xvii., 517-chap.
xviii., 519-chap. xix., 522-chap. xx.,
526-chap. xxi., 529-chap. xxii., 533
-Part VI., chap. xxiii., 670-chap.
xxiv., 674-chap. xxv., 677-chap.
xxvi., 678-chap. xxvii., 682- chap.
xxviii., 685-chap. xxix., 688.
LADY TARTUFFE, review of, 430.
Lakes of Northern Italy, the, 450.
Lagrené, M., plenipotentiary from France
to China, 561.
Laguna, sketches of, 561.
Lampion Republicain, the, a French news-
paper, 722.
Larpent's Private Diary, review of, 580.
Law, facilities for the study of, at Ox-
ford, 220.
Lebanon, sketches of, its population, &c.,
734.
LEGISLATION, HINTS FOR, 503.
Legitimists, hatred of the, to Louis Na-
poleon, 726.
Leo III., the Iconoclast emperor, sketches
of, 692.
Leo X., sketches of, in connection with
Luther, 543, 544.
Libanus, sketches of, 734.
Lido, legend of the, 352.
Lindley's Vegetable Kingdom, review
of, 300.
Literary men, jealousies of, 751.
Literature, neglect of, by government,
LOMBARDY AND ITS IRRIGATION, 447.
Lombardy, amount of irrigation in, 457
-its population, &c., ib.
London, a summer-night in, 353-pic-
ture of it by daybreak, 354-the annual
growth of, &c., 752.
London private hotel, a, 271.
Los Banos, sketch of, 496.
Louis Napoleon, the attack of the Eng-
lish press on, 368-present position of,
sketch of his character, probability of
his maintaining himself, &c., 718 et
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