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    up . To the American grower , therefore , there has been a premium upon continually increasing production , and there is every sk p that he has been influenced by that premirani One proof is the immediate effect of representationsfrom Europe , and from the corn-growing districts of America , on the market of New York , where already , before corn has come , wheat and flower are moving off for sale . There is , therefore , an enormous supply to be expected from America , who did not

    expect to meet Russia in the market of Europe this year . But while the Russian peasants have been fighting in the Crimea , their brethren aud their wives have been tending the crops in Eussia , and the season has been splendid . Something like the old crop is to be available for the markets of Europe this year . It is of course impossible exactly to measure the supply , so likely to be modified by the absence of the husbandman , and on the other

    hand so largely benefited by the fine season . But there is every reason to believe that it will be just what we have said , — " something like the old supply from Russia . " A Russian supply of the old scale will arrive in the market of "Western Europe simultaneously with an American supply ou the new scale ; while the crops of France and England are both likely to be large . Such things imply an abundance unknown to this country since 1834 .

    Xet there are reasons for the present dearness . The consumption of corn has been much increased , like that of meat , by the comfortable condition of the wealthy classes ; whose retainers and cattle have had to be kept in good condition at any price . Again , although the season has been fine , and the crops are in an excellent condition , the season is late—several weeks behind the usual time . There is therefore good reason for economizing the stores that we have on hand , and the holders of stocks have a right to an increased rent and an increased profit .

    But they are going too far ; they are asking too much . We prove it from the circumstances and from t he false pretexts which they allege in their justification . They confess that they cannot j ustify the price , except by alleging dearth in France , the inundations , and so forth—pleas the falsehood of which proves the falsehood of their position . They will burn their fingers ; and will be punished by the injury inflicted upon the public in the meanwhile . Bat what is practical effect of

    their conduct P Why , that they will keep their corn until the new supplies begin to come ; in other words , they keep the bread which we want for this present season of dearth , to increase the supplies when we have abundance . They stint us while we are starving , to cram us when wo are full . They will be punished , no doubt , for that offence against humanity as well as against their own interests ; but ia it true that the ruin of a few corn-dealers is commensurate with the pinching of multitudes ?

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    TO THE KING OF OUDE . A OABD .

    Wajib Ali Shah , quondam King of Oude , is coming to England , with 200 , 000 / . in hand , and 120 , 0002 . a year to spend amongst us . He has but ono professed object in comingto recover his throne , of which he has been deprived by that base creature , the East India Company ; and if he should fail in obtaining from the august Queen of the British Empire a reversal of the dethroning decreeif , as soon as ho has kissed her hand , she does not say to him , " Rise , King of Oude ' , and return to your dominions "—he contemplates , ojp others contemplate for him , a grand

    outlay of cash , in order that what cannot be got in the one Oriental mode of begging , may be got by the other Oriental mode of buying ; for the third mode , bowstringing , is not applicable to the case . These facts have been announced to the public , and they have created a great sensation , especially among those who see their way to a fulfilment of the King ' s desires .

    Our own " strictly private correspondence is unusually large this week in consequence . We hesitate , of course , to lay any of these letters before the public ; still more to publish the c onversations which we have been compelled to hold with excited visitors ; both delicacy and space forbid our giving any idea of the projects which have been born of the announcement . The landlords of hotels who have laid out their capital with a special view to royal customers , are far more than

    could be supposed . One distinguished gentleman of this class testifies the magnificence of his apartments by the " little bill" which he sent in some time since to a distinguished visitor who stopped a few hours ; and the grand total certainly shows that the intelligent and enterprising landlord does understand these things—it is 3000 ? . But in our day these masters of expenditure find many competitors , and we have only too many evidences that the Shah will find no difficulty in melting his gold , wherever he may seek his ease at his inn .

    But although he will have to spend several tens of thousands in board and lodging , something will , of course , remain for the purpose of his visit , and the most interesting part of our correspondence touches this portion of the subject . One gentleman sends us a very neat card , with only his name and residence ; and follows his card in a manner which implies that we ought to know him ; so much that we were ashamed to confess that we did not . Our confusion became the greater when he informed us that it was he who

    carried the Reform Bill ; he carried Sir Robert Peel ' s Free Trade ; in fact , he carried most of the admirable measures of the last quarter of a century . He would have carried the Freetrade measures for Lord John , or the Appropriation Clause , or the Parliamentary Representation Bill ; but such is the insane ingratitude of man , that Lord John had not thought fit to call in the very father of the Reform Bill . This experienced gentleman sympathized with the feelings of the King of Oude on being ousted " through the shameless corruption of the East India Company and the servility of the Government , who had permitted themselves to bo bullied by that back-stairs brute Outium . " Of all these corrupt proceedings Mr . has " proofs "—" for he ia not a man to speak eviuonuc jjuukiiy

    witnouu uociimeniB | > y . , he has created sevlHu of the members of the present House of Commons , and be has several more whom ho is going to introduce to Parliamentary life at the next election . Several peers are under the deepest obligations to him ; and he has on hand a lew East India proprietors . Should there bo any necessity , he can command any supply of petiti ' ftno fi . « m oil linrl-a r » P i . lifi I'OlllltrV . Tllft ¦ . ¦ —

    \ J l . \ J JJtJ JL JL \ J t X JL * A Jkft > ^ * A . »• - * ^ - * ¦ - — w — — — ^ J feelings of this gentleman are very estimable ; ho positively offers to undertake the whole aiTiiir , "for nothing !"—solely out of public spirit and tho love of justice . But others will require to be paid . Tho mombertt , especially , aro tho most expensive ; " because , of courso , it is necessary to respect their independence , and they can never bo paid their billa in a vulgar way . " " But what should we have done with some of our rail way a , Sir , if wo had not known how to get over that . dilliculty ? Now I look upon the King of Oudm , Sir , as a fighting line . "

    Another gentleman asks us to recommend him to the King as a lawyer ; but the King , we told him , is already provided , and there is no doubt that a man with money to spend finds his lawyer faster than any one can recommend the thing to him . Several ladies and gentlemen have sent in their cards , understanding that the King of Oude is to be accompanied by a numerous wife . These ladies offer to supply their Majesty , in the best style , yet in most

    cases on the lowest terms , with shawls , bonnets , dresses in the first style of Paris" Ici on parle Francois" — boots a la Parisienne , riding-habits , soap , gloves , calisthenics , perfumery , Bibles at only one guinea , baths in the Eastern style , carriages of every description at per month , week , or day ; dinners in every style on the shortest notice , suppers , &c . ; furniture , marqueterie , mirrors in gilt frames ; wines , dentistry , excursion vans for Richmond , Hampton Court , Epping

    Forest , or any other of those delightful , &c . ; engravings of every description ; circulating library , latest works , stationery , patent ramoneur , all kinds of baby linen , bottled ale and stout , " funerals performed . " In short , there is everything that the human heart can desire ; and as the Shah is to import fourteen human hearts besides his own , to say nothing of secretary , assistantsecretary , servants , &c , it is evident that several of our respectable applicants will be of the greatest use to the King . of his

    When they learned the object coming , they all said that in dealing with them , he would promote that object ; not directly , they confessed . But in their fashionable shops he would have opportunities of meeting with influential customers ; at the concerts he would he introduced to the beau monde ; at the Star and Garter he would be in the favourite residence of the Legislature ; at Cremorne he would find the Legislature , and royalty itself , in those hours of delassement , when more real business is done than in months of debate .

    A gentleman in our own office , however , appears to us to take the most practical view of the subject . He says , that if the King will hand him over his income , he will undertake , even at that limited amount , to show him all that is really worth seeing in London , including the Crystal Palace , Madame Tussatjd , Evans ' s , the Royal Exchange , and the Department of Practical Art with the estate at Kensington Gore ; aud to obtain all that tho King can obtain during his residence in England , including motions in the House of

    Commons , public dinners , aud private parties . He makes a distinct tender of that contract ; and if at the end of the term his Majesty should be dissatisfied , our subordinate will be willing to return the King the remains of his fortune—if any—with scrupulous exactitude , and will even pay tho passage home for the King and all his baggage on terms similar to those authorized by her Majesty ' s Emigration Commissioners . Wo recommend this proposal to tho King , confident that he will find it in tho eud by far tho most economical .

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    HOW TO KILL YOU KG GIRLS . Mit . John Lii / waj , t ,, Secretary of the Early Closing Association , has published a fragment of personal history , wbich we commend to the attention of those wlio can bear to be told that tho English social system is not altogether lovely and pure . It is the history of a young dressmaker . She was bom in London . Her mother waa English , her father French—ft goldsmith and jeweller . She was apprenticed to a Madame who did not caro to grow inch by tho profitable practice of cruelty , aud novor required

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    Jtox 6 , 1856 . 1 THE LEADER . 637

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  • Leader (1850-1860), July 5, 1856, page 637, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2148/page/13/