He shares the farmer's hope and fear, his joys and his griefs; and he cannot help saying that which is uppermost. His heart, as a farmer, is full to overflowing, and the overflowing is- that wheat will soon ■be -low. again, and bread cnee more plenty Tind cheap. - There is no mockery in the choice we x>ffer the alarmed agriculturist. This is net the old tragic alternative of the dagger or the poisoned bowl — the one to pierce the breast, the other to chill the veins. ► We will grant that there are not many farmers who can afford to grow wheat at a loss in order that people in general may 3iave enough and to spare. Lord Hard- I wicke in his private capacity in the county of Cambridge might be one of ilia very I =few to: see "with equanimity bis loads of wheat going to market with half the old l^cash returns. Bui besides being an nma- farmer, and besides being a Lord - and besides being a noticeable personage st an agricultural meeting, and a very good sort of man, Lord Hardwicke -lias also a very average share of the reason ing faculty, and it is that to which we venture to address ourselves. Wheat, he •observes — ay, with misgiving and positive «!arm— hasbeen rising four years; nnd, interpreting Pharaoh's dream to the best *q{ bis ability, but the othet wsr, he pre dicts that four fat kines are about to de- Trour four lean ones, the farmer's share in the change being in the inverse order of things. The figures he presents-us with -are striking enough. Here they are: — March, 1860, wheat, £1 18s lid a quarter ; 1860, £2- 4s lid; 1867, £3 Us ; 1868, •£3l2slod. The last figure sta'jrgers. Ir as too good, or too bad, to last. We nearly :gotitia year ago", and we have been rather steady somewhere about it the whole twelvemonth. But what has been ,the state : of the country meanwhile? What •hasl)een the condition of trade, of enter prise, of railways, of banks, of packet •companies, of ironworks, and a good many other concerns dependent on general pros perity ? Repeatedly as we are told to our comfort that the ordinary trade of the country. 