CORN, &c.
RETURN (in part) to an Address of the Honourable The House of Commons,
dated 3 February 1842 ;—for, STATEMENTS of the Titles and Dates of the several Acts which have been passed for regulating the Importation and Exportation of Corn in the United Kingdom; with Sum-mariesof the Duties or Prohibitions, &c, imposed by them, since the Year 1660 :
Of the Annual Average Price of Wheat per Imperial Quarter, at Eton and Oxford, from 1646 to 1770: Of the Annual Average Price of each Kind of Grain, in England and Wales, from 1771 to 1841: Of the Decennial Fluctuations in the Price of Wheat, as shown in the two preceding Accounts, from 1646 to 1815; from 1816 to 1828; and from 1829 to 1841; exhibiting the highest and lowest Annual Average in each Decennial Period, and the Per-centage Amount of Difference : Of the Weekly Average Price, the Duty Average, and the Rate of Duty, with respect to each Kind of Grain; also the Quantities of each Kind paid Duty, and the .A
mount of Duty received there¬ upon, distinguishing Foreign from Colonial, in each Week, from July 1828 to December 1841 : Of the Quantities of each Kind of Grain, distinguishing Foreign from Colonial, Imported, paid Duty, and remaining in Warehouse, in each Month; together with the Average Monthly Price of Wheat in England and Wales, from July 1828 to December 1841: Of the Septennial Prices of each Kind of Grain as prepared for the Purposes of the Tithe Com¬ mission, in each Year, from 1835 to 1841 : Of the Fiar Prices of Wheat in each County of Scotland, from 1828 to 1841: Of the Annual Average Prices of Wheat in Dublin, in each Year, from 1828 to 1841: Of the Annual Average Prices of Wheat in Guernsey and Jersey, with the Quantities Imported and Exported, in each Year, from 1820 to 1841: Of the Quantities of Wheat returned as sold in England and Wales by the Corn Inspectors in each Week and each Year, from July 1828 to December 1841: Of the Total Quantities of Wheat and Wheat Flour Imported into and Exported from Great Britain, in each Year, from 1697 to 1841: Of the Quantities of the several Kinds of Grain and Meal Imported from each Country, and likewise of the Quantities Re-exported from the Warehouse to each Country, in each Year, from 1828 to 1840: Of the Total Amount and Average Rate of Duty received on each Kind of Grain, distin¬ guishing Foreign and Colonial, in each Year, from July 1828 to 1841 : Of the Quantities of each Kind of Grain which paid the several Rates of Duty during the whole Period, from July 1828 to December 1841: Of the Total Quantities of each Kind of Grain, Foreign and Colonial, with the Total Amount of Duty paid upon each Kind, and the Average Rate thereof, during the whole Period, from July 1S2S to December 1841: Of the Quantities of each Kind of Grain and of Malt Imported into Great Britain from Ireland, in each Year, from 1800 to 1841: Of the Quantities of Grain of each Kind, distinguishing BritisJi, Scottish, Irish and Foreign* Imported into London, in each Year, from 1820 to 1841.
(Mr.
Gladstone.)
Ordered, by The House of Commons, to be Printed,
i i February 1842.
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