The Sun.
London, England, 1865-08-19 00:00:00

LINCOLN.-FRIDAY.

To-day wheat was in moderato supply, and changed
hands at 2s. to 3s. per qr. in favour of the seller. Barley
was not plentiful, but sufficient for the demand, and prices
were not quotably altered. A fair trade in oats, at ad-
vancing prices. Beans had an upward tendency. Harvest
work is almost suspended by the frequent heavy showers
of rain, which are now becoming very serious. The crops
are very much laid in the fens, and mildew and rust are
complained of in wheat, which must now fall short of an
average yield.
New white wheat, 4Gs to 50s ; new red,:4ls to 47s per 36
stone. Barley for malting, —s to —s per qr ; grinding,
26s to 30s per 30 stone. 0at5,:252 to 295. Beans, 41s to
45s per qr.

COAL MARKET.
Price per ton at the close of tho market.

d.
s. d. s.
Wylam l6 0 Keno()
Ships at market, 15 ; sold, 15.

VASCHER'S PARLIAMENTARY COMPANION is more
than ever welcome in this the latest issue of it. The
monthly number but just now published (No. 190) is
the first compact and corrected list we have yet kad
of the Newly-Elected House of Commons. It is the
New Parliament, in fact, under date August, 1865.
It comprises within it, of course, the list of the
House of Lords, as well as that of the House
of Commons. But it gives the latter, page after
page, in parallel columns, as it was and as
it is—The Late Parliament and The New
Parliament. A glance, therefore, shows at once whether
there has been any change at oil, and, if there has, what
that change amounts to. The repetition of the same names,
coupled with the words "No contest," indicates where the
representation has been uninterfered with. Whereas, in
every instance in which there has been a contest the result
is shown to a nicety by the record of
_the numbers actually
polled for the opposing candidates. Among the mass of
miscellaneous information attached to the Companion, we
have been able to detect only ono omission in the way of
bringing the announcements well up to time—namely,
where Sir Henry Bulwer's name is still retained as that of
her Britannic Majesty's Ambassador in Turkey, instead of
there being substituted for it the name of Lord Lyons,
Sir Henry's successor.

A GUIDE-BooK TO DIEPPE, giving the route by
Newhaven, has within the last few days been pub-
lished simultaneously by Mr. Booth, of Regent-
street, and M. Marais, of the Grande Rue, Dieppe.
It could hardly have boen rendered more compact or more
complete than it has been, in these eighty-eight pages of
sound and reliable information, the letterpress, moreover,
being enlivened by a sprinkling of apropos illustrations.

THE ANTI-TEAPOT REVIEW is this quarter more
than ever a curiosity, the number just issued (No.
VI.) defining what is "An Anti-Teapot !" the whimsical
phrase signifying (not to put too fine a point upon it) a
root-and-branch opponent of Humbug and Puritanism.
IMPORTATION OF WINES INTO ENGLAND.—Mr.W.
Ray Smee, in the preface to his pamphlet upon the
wines of France at one penny per bottle customs' duties,
gives the value of these wines imported into England during
the last five years :-1860, £1,037,000 ; 1861, £953,000 ;
1862, £717,000; 1863, £698,000; 1864, about £BOO,OOO. The
official account for 1864, since published, differs but little
from the one given by the author, being £793,000. In
this total, which represents the entire value of the wines
of France, and which is comparatively of little importance,
the red wines, that is to say those generally consumed at
dinner, are about £340,000, whilst the importation of eggs
from Franco amounts to £714,000, and butter £859,000.
With these figures we ask how it happens that the red
wines of France, which are one of its principal productions,
and of which England has the greater need, because those
wines cannot be obtained from its own soil, nor from any
other country, only are consumed for a smaller sum than
more than half that of French eggs and butter, both of
which England produces as well as France ? Is there not
in this an anomaly deserving of the attention of the two
Governments ? The official returns show that Spanish
and Portuguese wines imported into England amount in
value to four times more than French wines. The follow-
ing account gives the value of wines imported into England
in 1863:—French wines, £698,000; Portuguese, £1,017,000;
Spanish, £2,457,000 ; Italian, £61,000 ; from Holland,
£155,000 ; Hamburg, £50,000 ; all other places, £59,000 ;
total, £4,497,000. And if the quality of the same wines is
considered, the inferiority of France is even more striking.
In 1864 there was imported into England—Spanish wines,
7,791,000 gallons; Portuguese wines, 3,345,000 do.; French
wines, 2,723,000 do. Nevertheless the wines of France are
a light ordinary drink, whilst those of Portugal and Spain
are rather the wines of liqueur. This unfortunate state of
things for the wines of France must necessarily continue
until the light wines which are drunk like beer in tumblers
are charged customs' duties much less than those taken in
wine-glasses—that is to say, until the duty for French wine
is reduced to one penny per kottle.—L'lntvnational.