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bulk of corn as in wheat; though corn is only five months upon the ground, while the wheat occupies the ground the whole year, and in some parts of the country is actually standing upon the ground more than a whole year. I have frequently seen one piece of land with the wheat three inches high, while wheat was standing uncut in the adjoining piece.

But, besides the bulk of crop, there is the weight of the crop; and in this respect the corn exceeds the wheat, bushel for bushel. Next, the corn exceeds the wheat weight for weight in produce of flour, which will appear, and indeed be incontestably proved, by the following statements, which I have from Mr. SAPSFORD, and which relate to the American corn as compared with the Cobbett-corn, as well as to the Cobbettcorn as compared with the wheat. These statements come from a man who has been in the flour-trade and the baking-trade all his life-time; a man of great minuteness in his calculations and observations ; a man who understands the whole of the matter, from the transactions at Mark-lane to those of the baker's shop, and his statements are as follows. Until this year, there was no Cobbett-corn that had been, except by myself, turned into flour; and I, as well as Mr. SAPSFORD, had no idea that the corn growed here would be quite equal, bushel for bushel, to the American corn, in produce of flour. The statements will show how completely and aggreeably we were disappointed in this respect; to these statements I now request the reader's particular attention.

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But let me not wrong the Yankees. The American corn, of which this is the account, was bought at Mark-lanė; and as it was the finest that Mr. SAPSFORD could find there, it would not be doing Jonathan wrong if I were to let this pass as his best corn; but, in order to show him my determination to meet him fairly, I will give him an instance of his very best. In 1829, a merchant of the city ordered from New York, for Mr. SAPSFORD, fifty quarters of the finest American corn that could be got. In order that it might come without any possible injury, it was put into oak casks that cost eleven shillings each in America I saw it after its arrival, and it was the finest sample of corn that I had ever seen in my life. There was not a single defective grain to be seen amongst it; yet, you will see that it fell, in point of flour, thirty pounds short (in a sack of four bushels of the Cobbett-corn), though it was ground by the same miller (Mr. Death), and dressed in the same manner. The statement is this :—

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The difference in the gross weight of the sack is only 12 lbs. ; but here, you see, are thirty-seven pounds of offal, instead of twenty-one, and ten pounds of waste instead of eight. Besides which, Mr. SAPSFORD says that the American corn will not make so much bread, pound for pound, as the Cobbett-corn; that the former is, in fact, a courser thing than the latter; and that it is like what is called steely wheat, compared with fine plump rich wheat.

We now come to a comparison of a more important nature still; namely, a comparison between the produce of a

sack of Cobbett-corn and the produce of obliging correspondents upon the suba sack of English wheat. Mr. SAPSFORD, ject of the corn, tells me, that a neighwishing to be very accurate as to this bour of his questions the accuracy of matter, applied to Mr. Symonds of the comparative statement lately pubReading, for an account of the produce lished in the Register, and that he inof some grindings of wheat, Mr. Sy- tends to furnish me with his observamonds being a very celebrated dealer intions upon the subject. He will now flour. He got from him, a week or two have ample means of doing this, and ago, the following statements of two I shall be very happy to receive his grindings; one of the very best white communication. Mr. Kipping tells me wheat and one of red wheat. The that even his turkeys, fowls, and pigs, wheat was not ground until the month call, by their conduct, with regard to the of July last, so that it was old and dry; corn, THE LIAR by his proper name. and, as will be seen, the sack weighed When the pigs were thus sensibly actprecisely as much as my sack of Cob-ing, perhaps Mr. Kipping might have bett-corn. The statements are as follows:

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been reminded of his kind offer to give me a boar of that breed. When he can do it, and a white one if convenient, I shall be very much obliged to him. Every-thing is now settled, except the value of the corn flour compared with 36 that of wheat, pound for pound; and I know well that the corn flour is, in any 244 family of considerable size and of mode

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rate living, a great deal the more 228 valuable of the two. Of itself, it will not conveniently make bread; because it is not adhesive to the degree that 8 wheat flour is; but mixed, one third with wheat or one-third with rye flour, and it makes better bread than wheat flour or rye flour will make of itself. Mr. Sapsford makes and sells the bread, one-fourth corn flour and the rest wheaten. He sells it at the same price as the wheaten bread, I believe; and, the only thing he has to complain of is, that he cannot get corn flour enough. I buy the bread, in preference to the wheaten bread; and every one finds, after eating the Cobbett-bread for some time, that the return to the wheaten bread is unpleasant. In puddings it is better than the wheaten flour; it is as good without eggs as the wheaten flour

So that you see the Cobbett-corn exceeds even this finest white English wheat, 131bs. upon the sack in produce of flour; and the red wheat exceeds it by 39lbs. upon the sack in produce of flour; and, observe this, that the offal of the corn is worth 3s. 6d. the bushel. Mr. Death, who is a farmer as well as a miller, takes it at that from Mr. SAPSFORD, and I should be very glad to have it; for having seen a sample of it, which, bythe-by, I carried with me to Winchester when I went to meet Jephthah Marsh and the Barings, to show to the far- is with, and then it admits of all the mers, I would give more for it than variety of uses mentioned in my treafor any barley-meal that I ever saw, tise, and to which I beg to refer the bushel for bushel. I forgot to state reader. that Mr. Symonds's grindings of wheat I have made this addition to my book were in great parcels, and that, there- much longer than I intended; but I could fore, they had the advantage over the not well make it shorter. It remains single sack of Cobbett-corn, particularly for me still to say something to those in the article of waste. Mr. Kipping, gentlemen who intend to plant corn, rewhom I have mentioned amongst my lative to the procuring of the seed. The

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best way is to get it in the ear from those which the planter has seen grow it. Then you cannot be deceived. Not to purchase of a seedsman on any account; for, without any impeachment of his integrity, there is his ignorance of the matter. There are fifty sorts of corn, and more too; and it is impossible that he should know one from the other. Yet if you get a wrong sort of corn you have no crop; and this has been the case in hundreds of instances. I have saved a great part of my this year's crop, -to sell for seed; and I have it hung up in the rooms at Bolt-court, being a sight worth riding a thousand miles to see, and which may be seen by any gentleman for nothing. I have had it tied up in bunches of ears four in a bunch; and I sell it according to the following table

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out persons enough of whom it may be bought. It ought to be kept in the ear, until you are ready for planting. This is not absolutely necessary, but it is best: the corn comes up quicker and stronger, and so it would be with wheat and all other grain.

I now quit the subject with no intention of ever writing upon it again, with a view to urge people to cultivate the corn: I look upon the thing as done; I anticipate the general cultivation of it, and the abolition of corn bills for ever and ever. I look upon England as the best country in the world even for this corn. Arthur Young, in his Travels in France, says, that the growth of corn is the characteristic of good living and well-being in that country. He says that the cultivation of it is a sure mark that the people are well off, as far as nature is concerned and he deeply la

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25 Bunches will plant more than 160 rods, or an acre Mr. Diddams tells me that he has six hundred and sixty-five sound ears, besides fifty soft ones, upon his rod and a little more of ground; so that here are one hundred and forty-one bunches, which, at my price, would bring Mr. Diddams seven pounds one shilling! A pretty money-making concern, the greedy loanmongers will exclaim: and what must mine be, then, who have thousands of bunches! Faith, I must take care, or the Barings will begin to think me their rivals. The truth is, however, that I do not care a straw whether I sell it or do not, except that the sale of it would be a proof that a good many persons are going to plant it. After all, even at my most extravagant price, it is cheaper seed-corn than wheat, acre for acre; after this next year, it will be to be gotten in every part of the kingdom; and I have now, indeed, pointed

but still he recommends it to be planted for the purposes of fodder. Poor Arthur Young turned Methodist before he died; and most likely repented of having suggested the means of sustaining the body, deeming that detrimental to the sustenance of the soul; a principle upon which the pious teachers of that sect always proceed; and they, finding their followers difficult to be restrained from indulging their fleshly appetites, and failing in assistance from any other source, to make short and sure of it, they get into their houses and eat up the victuals themselves. My last words upon this corn subject I address to the labourers, and they are these:-God has sent you this corn for you to eat, as the reward of your labour in raising it: give it to the devil, rather than to a canting thief, who would make you believe that it is God's pleasure that you should be half starved, while that lazy thief is as fat and as sleek as a buck in July. WM. COBBETT.

Kensington, 25th November, 1831.

LYONS.

As if for the express purpose of showing the stupidity of Brodie's malignant stuff, on which I have commented in the preceding pages, and the inutility of his swaggering corps of unstrapping attorneys and tax-eaters, as applicable in the case of a population like that of Manchester, comes this affair of LYONS! I shall give an account of this affair in the words of the Paris papers; and when I have inserted these accounts, I shall have to add some remarks. This is a very important affair. It may, before it be over, upset the government and dynasty of LOUIS PHILIPPE. It is hardly in nature that that government should last long; but this grand affair may lead to something that will settle it at once. The last intelligence is, that the working people, whom the insolent wretches in this country, who live upon the fruit of their toil, call the "lower orders," the "peasantry,' and the "mob," were masters of the city, and had demanded a million of francs; or fifty thousand pounds sterling, as a ransom! Oh, the Devil, that Brodie's battalion was not there! There were six thousand regulars, it appears, and God knows how many regiments of national guards; the "lower orders" beat all these; but what would they have done against Brodie's Salisbury-corps? However, let us now hear the details.

[From the Moniteur of Friday, Nov. 25.]
OFFICIAL PART.

"Ordinances of the King Louis Philip, King of the French.

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"To all present and to come greeting. "We have ordained and ordain as follows: "Art. I. Our beloved son, the Duke of Orleans, and the Marshal Duke of Dalmatia, our Minister of War, shall immediately repair to Lyons. The Marshal Duke of Dalmatia is authorised to give all the orders that circumstances shall require.

"During the absence of our said Minister, the functions of Minister of War shall be performed ad interim by Lieutenant-General Count Sebastiani, our Minister for Foreign

Affairs.

"II. Our President of the Council, Minister of the Interior, and our Minister of War,

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from a telegraphic dispatch from Lyons, dated the 22d in the morning, that serious troubles had taken place on the 21st in that city. The Government has to-day received two reports by an ordinary courier, both dated the 21st in the evening-one from the Prefect of the Rhone, the other from Lieutenant-General Count Rouquet, commauding that division. The following are the facts that result from these reports:-"On Monday, the 21st, at seven o'clock in the morning, the silkweavers, who inhabit the commune of the Croix Rousse, rose in a rebellious manner, and barricaded the quarters which they occupied. they disarmed some National Guards, and They first assaulted several manufacturers; prepared to march against Lyons. This move ment was announced only by loud menaces against persons and property. The authorities, and sent troops against the rioters. All eubeing warned, immediately took measures, deavours to disperse them by persuasion having failed, it was necessary to have recourse to force. The troops of the line and the National Guards prepared to repel these crimispot; the workmen then desired to parley. nal aggressions; the Prefect repaired to the

PARIS, NOV. 24.-We announced yesterday,

"The Prefect and General Ordonneau, desiring to stop the effusion of blood, in fact advanced towards them, but they had scarcely approached these madmen, when they were seized and made prioners.

"At the same time General Roquet, who being sick had caused himself to be conveyed to the Town-hall, directed troops to attack and surround the Croix Rousse: and, in fact, all the rioters were driven back into that commune. The armed force remained masters at all points, and occupied all the advances.

Fresh overtures having been made by the rebels, General Roquet declared that the Prefect and General Ordonneau must be immediately set at liberty. The Prefect, in fact, immediately returned to Lyons, but the General was detained. Affairs were in this situation on the 21st. In the evening, troops, which had been sent for from Bourgoin and Trevoux, were expected in the night of the 21st. Amidst these serious troubles there are several misfortunes to be deplored. National Guards, officers, and soldiers of the line, and several manufacturers have fallen victims to their courage. Among the latter M. Schirmer is

mentioned.

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cation, the Government having received only that which was published yesterday in the Moniteur. The director of the telegraphs writes to-day to the President of the Council, The telegraphic correspondence with Lyons is stopped by the state of the atmosphere at the post of Semur. The fogs are very tenacious at this season of the year, especially when there is no wind. The fog exists at this mo. ment at the post of Saffres, which is six leagues beyond Semur.'"

This news has been affirmed to-day on 'Change, by a bulletin which the Government caused to be posted up. Letters of the 22d in the evening were spoken of. Nobody could have received any, for no extraordinary courier had arrived. The Government itself only received by the ordinary courier this news of

the 21st.

Mr. Prunelle, Mayor of Lyons, has set out to-day for that city.

Paris, Nov. 25, four o'clock in the morning. P. S. The President of the Council has received, at midnight, an estafette, which a person high in office at Lyons has succeeded in dispatching to the Government. His letter, written on the 23d, at one o'clock in the morning, announces that the revolt of the workmen has recommenced-that they have made themselves masters of the bridges, and intercepted the communications. The troops were defending the town-hall, the arsenal, and the powder magazine. General Ordonneau had been given up by the rebels.

The writer opened his letter again at five o'clock in the morning of the same day, to say that the Town Hall had been evacuated, after an obstinate resistance, and that it seemed that the authorities and the troops, as well to avoid a further effusion of blood as to combine their union with forces which they expected from several points, had retired by the Fauxbourg of St. Clair.

Such are the only accounts that have reached the Government up to this hour. There is every reason to hope that the reports of the Prefect and the General will arrive to-day.

The National Guards and the troops of the line have done their duty with equal courage and devotedness. This revolt, accompanied by threats of burning and pillage, is directed only against property and industry. In such a case the issue cannot be doubtful, for it is a matter which concerns all citizens as well as the Government. The Government has immediately taken further measures. The Council met this morning at three o'clock, at the hotel of the President.

Orders have been dispatched to send troops to the department of the Rhone. The Prefects who were at Paris on leave of absence have been ordered to return immediately to their posts. His Royal Highness the Duke of Orleans sets out for Lyons this morning, accompanied by the Marshal, Minister of War,

(From the Messager des Chambres, dated Saturday, Nov. 26.)

not arrived at eleven o'clock this morning; we PARIS, NOV. 25-The post from Lyons had have, therefore, not received either the journals or our private correspondence from Lyons, Grenoble, Nismes, Montpellier, Marseilles, and the whole line.

(From the Gazette de France, dated Saturday.)

PARIS, NOV. 25.-After quoting letters from Lyons, in the Quotidienne and the Constitutionnel, the Gazette adds:

"All the letters from the banking houses at Lyons agree in the following details;

"For these three days we have been in a state of siege, the whole quarter of the Terreau, the Capucins, and the environs, are closed.

"Five P.M.-The cannon have been firing for these three hours on the people; and the people return the fire with advantage, because they are masters of the heights. M. Schirmer, partner in the house of Dessouilly, was one of the first killed; also several artillerymen. M. Armand is dangerously wounded.

"The weather has been very gloomy, and it has rained almost the whole day, so that the telegraph will hardly have been able to work. If the same weather continues to-morrow, these particulars will reach very opportunely. "Seven P.M.-Forty of our National Guards are killed; above 150 wounded. Despondency has filled every heart. When will this frightful carnage cease? The insurgents cry, Long live Napoleon, Chief of the Republic !' "The General and the Prefect have been eight hours prisoners in the hands of the insurgents. They were not released till three cannon belonging to the National Guards were employed.

"Two of these cannon have fallen into the hands of the insurgents.

"At the departure of the post they were masters of all the heights that surround Lyons."

(From the Constitutionnel.)

PARIS, Nov. 25.-Private letters arrived today from Lyons, dated the 21st, are not so consolatory as the two official publications. Most of them agree with the dispatches received by the Government, in saying, that the insurrection of the workmen has no political object. We read, however, in one of these letters, that the cries of "Vive Napoleon II." were heard; and in another, that the working classes are excited and directed by a faction of the Congregation, which is very powerful in the city. The presence of a person in the city who rendered himself notorious in the sanguinary re-actions of 1815 has been looked upon as an inauspicious sign. It is said that the Magistrates had previously received information of attempts to bribe the working classes, and this information was imprudently neglected. The narration of the events on

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