REGULATING COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE

Eat gilt oats Every nation as regards its 0 Joseph Rodrigues of twin Daughters. We cannot afford room for more than one quotation and we cannot offer a better wish both for England and America than that the doctrine which itinculeates should be more generally embraced and applied to the regulation of the commercial intercourse between the two countries. But let us examine this subject a little closer Great Britian chooses to say we are determined in order to favour the interests of our landholders and farmers that our popula tion shall pay dear for their bread and to accomplish this object we will not allow the im ee of foreign grain un less in timesof scarcity. This to be sure must strike every sensible mind as an act of great folly if not of great wicked ness for the tendency of it isto make living dearer than it otherwise would be to raise the price of wages and thus to make her manufactures cost more than they otherwise would cost Itis however a matter with which foreign nations have no concern any more than they would have with an act of parliament not more absurd we think which for.