We both regret to see tha...
We both regret to see that the agrictiltural -ntnrest is still suSfering in Holland, and that the Government resorts to lhe mischievous expedient of supporting- it by a prohi- bitory duty upon importation, or by a measure equal to a prohibitol-y (duty. Not only are the existing duties to be paidl by the importers, but a bond is to be taken of them for the payment of suchl further duty as may hereafter be ienposed by the Logislature. Sach a measitre, wc assert, is both impolitic and unjust. Thle.low price of grain is a public blessing, andl any people -who enjoys it will soon so multiply in numzbers, as to increase the dernand, and re- lieve, in the only secure and dlurable way) the grower from the ailiculties conse quent upon a low price. But a Government whieh has recourse to artificial means of raising the price of the first necesary of life to its own sub- jects, sacrifices the many to the few ; and adopts the most effectual mcethod of preventing the native population from ever rising up to the consumption of the lhome-grovn pro- duce. WVe ara sorry to see Hlollanid thus retrograding, while other States arc advancing. We in this country begin to look for a measure of a dlirectly conitrary nature to that adopted by Holland. Not only the nation at large, but latterly even the agriculturists tihemselves, have felt the advantages resulting from the oncee low price of grain. The tleman(d has now mounted up to an equality with the produce ; and the poor-rates arc diminished, or at LIast pauperism lhasniot been increased by the highi price of broadl. '1'he manufactures have cm- ployed the poor. Butchers' meat, also, is sufficicntly dear, an(d the specie in circulatioln is inereasedl. It is but right, therefore, and more especially under the new and more liberal system of commercial laws, that the ports be thrown open. The manufacturers will first feel the advantage, and the agriculturists afterwvards. The latter, inideed, can have no assurance of a permanently remunerating price, so long as they lean for partial support upoi artificial means.