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 * Assumed price of wheat in Sydney||26s.||per quarter.
 * Freight||10s.
 * Other charges|| 5s.
 * Duty|| 5s.
 * |||46s.
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 * Duty|| 5s.
 * |||46s.
 * }
 * }

The average price of wheat in England has been for some time about 56s. and it is very unlikely to fall much below this standard: if wheat therefore could be purchased in the Australian ports for 26s. per quarter, it might be exported with great advantage to the United Kingdom; especially as the Australian wheat has been now proved, (according to Mr. Hutt's statements in parliament), to suffer no deterioration from the voyage, an advantage not possessed by the wheat of America.

Maize has never been imported by Great Britain in any quantity worth noticing, so that I am quite unable to say what price it would realize. As an occasional cheap and nutritive article of food for the working classes in England, maize meal would be found very much superior to oatmeal and barley-meal. In some parts of Southern Europe, and