Note 6 — THE EXPERIMENT.

The Continental nations, however, have perfectly appreciated “the experiment,” and have earnestly set themselves to take advantage of our folly. Contrary to the ignorant expectations of our economic pundits, France has already shown what she can do in supplying us with flour; and from the private correspondence of the Standard, it appears that an unusual breadth of ground in the United States has, during the past season, been laid under cultivation, and with the especial view of meeting the demands of the British market.—(Standard, 1st Sept.) And while cultivation is rapidly advancing abroad, it is receding as rapidly at home. Upwards of a million of fertile acres in Ireland (the weak limb of the empire, where the effects of the experiment might naturally be expected first to appear) have gone out of cultivation under the desolating influence of our new commercial policy. The candle is thus burning at both ends!