┌─────────────────┬──────────────────┬──────────────────┐ │ │ 1849. │ 1850. │ ├─────────────────┼──────────────────┼──────────────────┤ │ │ Per quarter. │ Per quarter. │ │ │_s. d._ _s. d._│_s. d._ _s. d._│ │From Stettin, │4 0 to 2 9 │3 0 │ │ „ Dantzig, │4 0 │3 0 │ │ „ Rostock, │4 0 │ │ │ „ Hamburg, │3 0 │1 9 │ │ „ Rotterdam, │2 0 to 1 9 │1 9 │ │ „ Antwerp, │2 6 to 1 6 │1 3 to 1 0!│ │ „ Bremen, │ │1 6 │ │ „ Bruges, │1 6 │1 6 │ │ „ Ghent, │1 6 │1 6 │ │ „ New York, │ │3 0 │ │ (last │ │ │ │ rates,) │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │_From Coasts of │ │ │ │ England to │ │ │ │ Liverpool._ │ │ │ │ Colchester, │ │1 6 │ │ Woodbridge, │1 9 │1 6 │ │ Salcombe, │ │2 0 │ │ Kingsbridge,│2 0 │ │ │ Lynn, │ │ │ │ Ipswich, │1 9 to 1 6 │1 6 │ │ Yarmouth, │1 10 │ │ └─────────────────┴──────────────────┴──────────────────┘ Yet the freight on wheat was to be a sufficient protection for the farmer! I must here, sir, leave the subject to your own powerful pen. I have given you the facts as I have collated them from the most authentic sources, and the observations which I have made personally; and they have more than confirmed the impressions with which I entered upon this inquiry.— have the honour to be, &c. ALISON’S POLITICAL ESSAYS.[5]