Corn Trade.
It appears from commutnications we have received fiom scctstble correspontlents o thQ subject, that a struggle is owv carrying oni in the corn trade,-on one side to prevent, and on the other to procure, the openihg of the ports for the .a,ortation of barley. The great aim of each is, by sales anc purchases, real or fictitious, to alter the state of the averages, as they will appear in the returns for the six :eeks ending on the 12th instant, by which the inportation 4governed. 'Of the extent to which the fictitious sales have been carried, some itea may be forme(d froma the annexed tuble; from which itwill beseeni, that fromn the 27th of Sep-. tember to the 6th of November, there arrived in the port of London *25,SD7 quarters of barley, hviiile the quantity of the same grainl returned by the corm-factors to the Inspector of Corn Returns, as hlaving been sold and deliveredl during the same period, armounts to 46,51 quarters. It is thuls (le- mnonstrated, that 20,92., quartels of barley hove been re- turned in fictitieus sales, with the view of opening the ports for the imiportation of foreign barley. It is sait that some rersons have gouc so far as to forge the names of respiectable ~orn_factors as parties to the sales in questioni. The In- Iector of Corn Returns has mna(le a report on these trans- kictions to the Board of Trade, and the affair is at present ander iarvestigat~oiol As the parties are nlow known who l,pave been guilty of these d;isgraceful acts, it is to be hoped i;hey will be publicly exposed, in justice to the respectable factors on the C:orn-exchanoe. CORV TRA DE.