The Sun.
London, England, 1847-07-22 00:00:00

REVIEW OF THE BRITISH CORN

TRADE:
Since Friday night a change has taken place in the
weather, but the intense heat previously experienced
forced the growing grain crops rapidly forward, and in
some very early localities the sickle has already been
brought into operation. Last night we had thunder-
showers in this neighbourhood, and to-day (Saturday),
the weather has a decidedly unsettled appearance; should
rain set in, which is not improbable after so long a
period of dry weather, harvest operations would be
delayed: and even if this should not be the case, reaping
can scarcely be general in the southern
,arts of the
kingdom till the end of the month. In proportion as the
Wheat crop has progressed towards maturity the reports
of the probable yield have become less favourable ; and,
instead of the extraordinary abundance a short time ago
calculated on, strong doubts are beginning to be enter-
tained whether the produce will prove an usual average.
The cause of the expected deficiency is the reported
prevalt-nee of blight cad red gum; and if those disorders
are really so general as represented. it would afford suf-
ficient grounds for a less favourable estimate of the
probable result of the Wheat harvest than that pre-
viously entertained being taken. We are, however, dis-
posed to think that it is yet too early to form anything
like a definite opinion on this important subject ; but
that injury may have been done to the Wheat plant by
the cold nights experienced in June is by no means un-
welland we have heard no complaints respecting Peas k but
likely. Barley and Oats are generally spoken of;
the Bean crop is sail to have been so extensively
attacked 4 the black fly as to render it doubtful whether
it will yield more than three-fourths of a crop. In
regard to Potatoes we are sorry to say that the accounts
have again become unfavourable;
so little appears. how-
ever, to be really known of the character of the disease
of the last two seasons. that rumours ofits re-appear-
ance should be received with extreme caution.
The trade in Wheat litietbroughout the week main-
tained a decidedly firm tone; not the slightest inclination
has, however, been shown to enter into speculative
investments—indeed all parties have exercised extreme
caution in their operations, only buying sufficient to
carry on their usual trade for a limited period. The
insignificance of the deliveries from the growers has,
therefore, in our opinion, had more to do with the ad-
vance which has taken place in prices than the reported
injury sustained by the wheat crop. That the stocks of
home-grown wheat are all but exhausted, is tolerably
evident from the fact that buyers from districts usually
furnishing supplies for London, Liverpool, and the
other large consuming towns, have visited the ports
where they could obtain foreign ; and shipments on an
extensive scale are now in progress at this port, both for
the east and west coast ; besides which, large quantities
are being transported into the interior by railway.
The arrivals of home grown Wheat into London con-
tinue to fall off week after week, and the quantity re-
ported up to this (Saturday). evening amounts to only
1,280 qrs. Meanwhile very little has been brought for-
ward at Mark-lane by land carriage samples from the
neighbouring counties, and the millers have experienced
some difficulty in securing a sufficient quantity of fresh
English Wheat for mixing with the foreign. On Wed-
nesday the Essex, Kent, and Suffolk stands were
nearly bare ; and so little business was consequently
done as scarcely to warrant alteration in quotations,
; the operations were
but that needy buyers had to pay a trifle over Monday's
currency is certain. On Friday there was absolutely no
tlhVehreeafot
reo f n hoeec ems
sa
rily growth on
and, in the absence
of business, quotations remained nominally as in the
beginning of the week. Foreign Wheat continues to
and much of it in
(pine pretty freely to hand, 30,847 quarters having ar-
rived during the week. A large proportion of this
suchsu pp
indifferent di si
ffaegraein condition
again
of
of
inferior
as
quality,
to
be unfit for immediate
use. Really good qualities have been in fair request,
principally for transit into the interior ; and, though
our own millers have acted on the reserve, rather a con-
siderable amount of business has been done. The sales
made on Wednesday were at about previous prices, but
later in the week Dantr.c, and the finer descriptions of
red Wheat, brought a trifle more than on Monday.
Egyptian and other inferior sorts have been compara-
tively neglected, though offered relatively cheap.
In quotations of town-made Flour no change has
occurred, nor has the demand been by any means
lively. American Flour has met with a moderate share of
attention, but former rates have not been exceeded, 375.
to 38s. per brl. being still extreme rates for the best
brands on Friday. The arrivals of flour from the United
States have been rather liberal, which has tended to keep
prices steady.
Indian corn does not appear to increase in favour
with the inhabitants of the metropolis, and the sale
in this market is very restricted. So little has been
done in the article since the last that we can scarcely
give its precise value,-but 465. per quarter would pro-
bably be an extreme price for the best.—Mark lane
Express.

OBSEQUIES OF THE LIBERATOR

AT ROME.
LUMR..FRQA RILATITIYY
Rome, June 28, 1847, Two o'Clock, P.M.
BELOVED FRIEND,—Be net surprised if there be an
air of incoherency in what I write. Like one who has
just beheld a vision, my incapacity to give utterance
to the thoughts and emotions which agitate my breast
is exactly in proportion with their vividness, their
multitudinous variety, and, I may add, their gran
deur. 0 ! how intensely and how often during the
last four hours have I longed that you were here—
that the whole family which bears his world-
honoured name—that the entire Irish people were eye
and ear witnesses of what it has been our privilege
to see—the Catholic enthusiasm --the more than
earthly pump and ccclasiastical magnificence with which
Rome—wide-sceptered, eternal home—'has to-day per-
formed the Liberator's funeral. It was like a vision, I
calmly and solemnly assure you--a vision so august and
overpowering that no man could describe it, much less
when, fatigued and unnerved as I am now, not so much
by many hours' movement and the sultry heat, as by that
species of collapse which comes upon us after a moun-
tain of doubt and anxiety, after long resting there,
is lifted, and that not gently, from the heart. This
is the reason I wished as ardently-, as vainly, that
all Ireland were present at the solemnity of to•day,
for then, and only then, could they have formed a
notion of the immensity of the effect that their Libera-
tor's principles have had upon the world—of the
services inappreciable for which they
stand indebted
to his memory since he himself has ceased to live. "De-
functus adhuc loquitur." Often he said it, nd to the
letter we have seen it verified to-day. He is agitating
for their rights and privileges even in the grave. I
wished, too, that they were here, in order that they
might estimate correctly how great and sacred are their
obligations towards the Romans and the Supreme Pon-
tiff Pius LX., whom may Heaven, in its bounty to the
Church and to the world, long continue to defend and
prosper ! ...
Yes, I feel conscious that anything I can say must
fall so far short of the reality, that it were almost better
to be altogether silent ; and, on the other hand, I feel
how indispensable it is that the country should not be left
in ignorance of whatso vitally concerns it, and what I am
certain it considers and cherishes as its dearest interest.
I have, on this account, besought of others far more
competent for the task, to write such details of the fu-
neral as may help, at least. to convey to the Irish people
a shadowy idea of what it was. This will state parti-
culars, such as the inscription which adorned the mau-
soleum or emnotaph—a tomb like a temple, more than
sixty feet in height, erected beneath one of the proudest
copulas of Rome—that one which the celestial orb of
Domenichino has adorned. They will describe the effect
of the choir of one hundred voices—the elite of those
whose echoes are familiar to the lacquered roofs of the
Lateran of St. Peter's, and of the chief basilicas of
Rome. They will estimate the multitudes by which the
three hundred feet in length)—en the great
Temple was crowded in all its vastness (it is more than
in the fifteen or twenty
people, and by
personages, such as ambassadors.
who were as-
signed distinguished places. As for me, in the mood in
which I find myself—and
repeat, that the august
minutes yet remaining hefinoraegtnhieficpet closes—wlheittenhotohly,
Rome—at the expense Liberator's funeral has beensoluenmenraisleodc
chown•esttaon-tditalve.thine
St. Peter—is in-
seen it. It was grander
any one who has not
the
~ under many
describable, and cannot be comprehended adequately by
aspects, I am certain, thanThts,
t
express command of theosfutchceessßoromoafn
- you, may
sound like incoherency and extravagance; but here ' is the
proof that it is tirkiestc—R
Great, or Charlemagne. his, as I warned
IPTION—No. 1.
(Over the Outer Door.)
D. O. M.

of Ireland the Safeguard and Protection,
TO DANIELO'CONNELL,
u the Christian
Immortal for the greatest Deeds,
for his
ished Services to
Of
Athse
Commonweal,
The Nobles and the Roman People
The lasue Offices of the Dead.
Have Performed.
Whoever you be who approach, citizen or guest,
Peace and Repose to his incomparable Soul
Beseech with Pure Mind.
That was the inscription placed, surmounted by the
emblazoned escutcheon of the O'Connell, above the
portals of the basilica where the rites were to be cele-
brated for his eternal rest. It tells, in the dialect of
Rome, how this tribute of piety, and honour to his
memory, is concurred in by all orders of the Romans.
The more than Roman Emperor—he who wears
the triple crown, and rules a kingdom which knows
no limits but those of the world---it was he, Pius
the IX., who ordered the funeral. He exercised
the plentitude of the divine jurisdiction confided to him
to secure for the departed " Hero of Christianity,"
as the Pontiff himself entitled him, the greatest
advantages from the suffrages of the Church. He pro-
claimed his wish that the obsequies shoulti be in every
respect worthy of Rome, of the Papacy, of O'Connell
and he stopped not with the bare expression of his
wishes—even the very vestments worn at the altar in
the Requiem were sent, by his own special order, from
the Papal Chapel.
The Governor of Rome. surrounded by the civic
officers, was present. The grenadiers who kept guard
round the cenotaph were selected from the eine guards