The Express.
London, England, 1853-08-11 00:00:00

THE CORN TRADE AND TILE (TOPS.

The subjoined remarks are extracted from the
circular of Mr. George Dornbusch, dated London, Wed-
nesdav evening:
" The Russo-Turkish question is reported to be settled.
The effect on the corn trade of the settlement of this vexed
question will be to impart to prices a downward tendency,
especially if the present propitious harvest weather should
assume a permanent character, and favour the in-gather-
ings of the crops in good order.
" Summer has at last seemed, after a long, dreary,
cold, and wet spring. Since the commencement of this
month, tke weather has been all that the husbandman
could desire for maturing the cereal crops. and beginning
harvest work. Reaping has comas, aced in the early dis-
WOO, and will Bann this time extend for the neat six
weeks all over the kingdom. This year, the harvest is a
fortnight later than usual. Not a drop of rain has fallen for
the last tea days; the wind seems for the present settled in
the east ; a continuance of fine dry and warm weather will
somewhat mitigate the injury to the grain crops dons by the
long continued wet since last autumn, and much improve
the quality, but it cannot add a stogie grain to what hasten
grown. Out of 730 harvest reports from all parts of the
United Kingdom, 260 of which refer to the wheat crop, only
25 reports represent this crop as flue and abundant. 30 as
an average, and about 210, that is tho largest portion, de-
scribe it as bad, interior, and dcficfent, and this analysis
agrees with the opinion of most competent judges, who say
that this year's wheat crop will (from having been little
sown, and grown under very unfavourathe circumstances)
be one of the worst raised in the United Kingdom within
the recollection of man, of poor quality, and snort is quan-
tity. A same of new Talavera wheat was, on Monday,
exhibited at Mark-lan' ; the grains were still rather soft,
and some shrivelled, but, on thu whole, the wheat appeared
of average quality. The deficient wheat crop is
likely to be to some tenet compensated by
this year's abundant praduce of barley, which
last spring was sown moth more extensively then usual,
and also in districts where formerly this grain was not
seeded; it promises to be a heavy crop, and where the
plant has not been laid by the June diode, of good quality.
Oats also are likely to yield abundantly, having been
largely planted; besides, oats and barley generally thrive
best in moist weather, sneh as we had this spring. Beans :
An extra het adth of land was put under netivrition of this
p ilse, and a fair crop is capecteel. Peas have suffered
thruagh inserts, and the produce is short, but of fair via-
bly. Rye, which is little cultivated in this wintry, was
this year sown in larger qua:Aity than usual; the tenable
produce is estimated to be small, but the quality fair.
Potatoes in England are stated to be extensively attacked
by the blight, soil a large part of the produce, it is feared,
will be lost; tine dry weather may tend to check the further
extension of the disease.
" The weather in Scotland had been till the last week
cold and boisterous, but since has become fine ; and if it
continues favourable, harreeting on the early soils will be
general in a fortnight hence. Some wheat has been eat
and found superior in quality to last year's produce. The
yield of wheat in Scotland is expected to turn out below an
average. Barley and oats promise fair crops. The pota-
toes are partially diseased. In Ireland, the cereal crops are
reported as progressing very favourably, and promising •
good produce. W heat was sawn leas than in former years,
and therefore the crop cannot be large ; but barley and oats
are said to proznise abundance. Potatoes have been very
extensively planted, and are expected to 'reduce the hea-
viest crop since 1846. The disease is nut yet reported of in
the north, but in the county of Cork the blight is said to
be spreading. The markets are how abundantly supplied
with new potatoes, meat of excellent quality ; and the con-
sumption of Indian corn has for the present'almost en-
tirely ceased, eacept for feeding purposes.
" The corn trade last week ruled dull all over the United
Kingdom, and prices of wheat have declined in most
akeekets is. to 2.., and it is probable that, with a centime-
ance of fine harvest weather, the cessation of the Russian
war panic, and liberal supplies from our farmers, ear
markets may continue dull tor soma weeks to come, till the
effect alba falling off of the 51. diterranean arrivals will
begin to be felt. La tat week sreulaton have invested large
amounts in grain, now on the way, chiefly Indian torn, of
which, on the strength that the molar crepe in Italy have
failed, about GO cargoes were bought up at a rue
of Is. to *l.s. over termer rates. Wheat also be-
gins to attract attention, and it is a curious feat
that several importing boosts have appeared on the market
as buyers, induced by the high prices of corn abroad, the
eicessive freights, the small supplies in prospect, and the
short wheat crops in the west of Europe.
"The arrivals of grain off the coast from the south of
Europe, owing to the change of wind and the few shipments
made since May, have nearly ceased. Within the :as;
tight days only 17 cargoes have arrived (13 wheat, I barley,
1 rye, and 2 mane). making a tutal since the 15th June of
740 cargoes, the whole of wluch,wiih the exception of a few,
hate been disposed of. The number of vewiels passed the
Sound, bound to the United Kineploai, from the 18th July
to the 31st July, are 117 cargoes, of which 101 are wheat,
11 oat', and '2 barley (of which del cargoes of wheat to
London.)"

SHOCKING ACCIDENT.—GIIAiIISEND, Au:. 9.
Lost ev Mop, when the Dr's' sic aurnaekee, which plies
between Gravesend and London, t inched at tl.e Rasher-
vilie-pier, it see found in casting the mooring rope on to
the pier barge, that a toil of tho rose had got round a
your woman's leg above the ankle, and berme any effort
could he made to entriestc h.q., or to 1-liclien the rope, her
lee was broken, and the foot nearly erred from it. The
sufferer was immediately lair! Al, and carried to Dr. Ridge's
surgery, Gravesend, when it wee frond necessary to proceed I
without delay to amputation of the shattered limb. It
woulti appear that, in order to get out of the way of the
man who was about casting the ripe feom the steamer to the
pine, she iustivertently nut one W it into the coil rf rope on
the deck. The patient, although some unfavoursble
symptoms at first exhibited themselves, is now doing well.
DEP %kV' Iln or VIE PArtile. LiVhal.GOL,
WEDNI4DAY —ishout 1 o'clock this afternoon the I:nited
States Mail Steamship Pacific, Captain Ezra Nye, sailed
from the Mersey for New York, with the usual instils for
United States and Posses-ims in N ,rth America,
170 passengers, and a large sod valasble cargo of merchan-
dise on freight.