The Express.
London, England, 1853-09-09 00:00:00

THE SUPPLY OF CORN.

The Prussian Board of Agriculture has published
a circular, wherein it is stated that there is no found►tion
whatever for apprehensions (encouraged by speculators)
of a dearth of corn. The official reports state that the rye
harvest in the province of Prussia, with the exception of
the Lithuanian district, la Poen, Brandenburg, and the
Rhine, is good, and in some districts abundant; that in
Saxony (province), Silesia, and Nether Pomerania, it is
middling; and that it is only in Westphalia, Upper Pome-
rania, and Lithuania, where short quantities are appre-
hended. The reports of the wheat harvest are nearly similar
—but with this difference, that in Westphalia it is more,
and in the Rhine province lees abundant than rye. Barley
recants are only complained of in Saxony, Upper Pome-
rania, and Lithuania ; but, on the other hand, oats are
everywhere pronounced as giving their full amount. The
board declares that the average is such as to remove all ap-
prehensions of scarcity, and adds that existing high prices
merely result from fears of a failure in the potato crops,
which fears It regards as unfounded, although in many dis-
tricts the haulm has died off earlier than usual, and the
disease has also committed ranges in some districts, prin-
cipally in the province of Prussia.
In France the excitement in the provincial districts re-
garding the price of bread is very great. Ia one of the
country towns in the department of the Ardennes a riot
has taken place between the peasantry and the working
people of the plan, the latter having attempted to pillage
a waggon loaded with eon, which was entering the place.
The disturbances that took place at Genoa and else-
where in Italy, in consequence of the rise in the price of
cern, ere entirely at an end.
The official reports of the crops of grain in Greece prove
a deficiency of at least one-third, as emptied with those
of last year. In order to make up for this deficiency, it Is
calculated that an importation of 600,000 kilos. will be
required.

The Lloyd. of Vienna contains a letter from Brody
(Galicia) of the 30th alt., which says:—" Letters from
Odessa state that certain firm. of that place have realised,
in a single day, in the corn trade, npwards of 100,000
silver roubles each. Immense quantities of wheat re-
maimed in store."

A letter from Leon (Lime) of the 6th MM., states that
the price of bread in that town is regulated by the corn
markets of Sol sons and of La Fero. The peal of dour
declined considerably in those towns oa Saturday.

A latter from Nantes, of the 4tk last., states that this
price of wheat in that town was quoted at the beginning of
last week at 28f. the 78 kilogrammes, with little demand
and with a prospect of a fall.

IMPROVEMENTS AT GREENWICH HOSPITAL are
being carried out, and in the grounds attached to the insti-
tution, which will effect a very great improvement in the
locality, and which are being ordered by the Commissioners
of the Hospital. The hall and Tans near the dome cur.
, rounding the Painted Gallery have been regilt, and the
eame in the dome over the chapel is being regilt. At the
west end a large space of ground which has been cleared
away by the sale of a number of houses is being covered
over with soda ef grass, and en extensive gravel walk is
being laid down on either side of the space intended for the
grass plot. This is intended for the visitors and the pen-
sioners, who it is stated will have a shed erected for them
where they will be allowed to smoke. The under-ground
will he well drained, for which parpme earthen pipes are
being laid down. An elegant iron railing will be erected
in front of the hospital facing the Thames. At the further
end to the west a lofty public house, to be stied the Ship
Torbay, le being built. Other large houses will to eon- I
strutted between those premises and the market...