The Sun.
London, England, 1841-10-02 00:00:00

PRICES OF FOOD AT HOME AND

ABROAD,
The highest quotation of white wheat at Paris on
Saturday last was 35f. for the 1 hectolitre, which.
equals 535. sd. per quarter. The highest quotation at
Mark-lane on Monday was 80s. per quarter : wheath
therefore, is 49 2-3ds per cent. dearer in London than
in Paris; or a man can buy in London only one bushel
of wheat for ten shillings, while in Paris he can buy a
bushel and a half for the same money,
The highest quotation at Hamburgh, on the
instant, for the best Polish wheat, was 158 rix-dollars
.the last, which corresponds. with. 48s. Gd. the quarter.;
wheat, therefore, ib 64 per cent. dearer in London than
in Hamburgh, and a man in London can buy for 1/.
only two bushels of wheat, whereas, in llamburgh, he
can buy about 5 1-3 d bushels for the same money.
Cured India beef of the first quality may be bought
at Hamburgh for 5/ Iss. the tierce of 3361b5; for the
same quality 81. is charged in London. The best cured
beef is, therefore, 39 per cent. dearer in London than in
Ilamburgh, and a merchant victualling a ship in Earn-
burgh may buy 5,a4.31b5. of the finest cured beef for 100/
whereas in London he can only buy 4,2001b5. for the
Same money. Mess beef, a secondary quality, but much
more generally used for victualling ships, costs 4L 7s. 6 Y~
the tierce in Hamburgh, and 61. 7s. Gd. in Lonthe.
India pork costs 5!. Gs. the tierce in Hamburgh, lAA
7/. 17s. 6d. in London. Mess pork costs 21. Bs.. the
barrel in Hamburgh, and 4/. ss. in London. The fixed
importation duty en cured meat is 12s. per cwt.
The best fresh beef is retailed in llamburgh st 411
per pound, in London at 9d. The best fresh mutton is
retailed in liambnrgh at 4d., and in London at Bd., but
it must not be forgotten that the mutton is or an in-
ferior quality iniltimburgh, which is not the case with
beef. The best fresh pork is retailed in liiimburgh ut
4id. a pound, andin London at 9d. The importation
of fresh meat into England is totally prohibited.
In New York the prices of fresh men* though in go.
acrid somewhat higher than in Hamburgh. are consider-
j ably lower than in London. The best beef at New York
costs 12 cents. or 6d. r pound, and the best mutton 5d..
Perk is retailed in New York at 6 cents. or 3d. per
pound, which is less than is charged for it either in Lon-
don or in Hamburgh.
An ox in London, fit for making ,into India beef, and
weighing about ZOOlbs. without the offal; will cost about
251.; the same -description of ox, fattened in Holetein,
would cost in Hamburgh about 12/. in autumn, and
about 151. in spripz. • The people of England, however,
can derive no advantage from the comparative cheapness of
cattle in Hamburg!' ; for let the price in England be.
ever so high, the importation of live stock is, at all times
and under all circumstances, positively prohibited.
Salt meat from Buenos Ayres aright be imported iu
millions of pounds, and sold at lid. per pound, a price
that would afford 100 per cent. on capital invested ilk
.such trade.

FRENCH PYNASTIES AND SIN)
GULAR COINCIDENCE.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SlR—There are sometimes strange connexions be
tween the political . revolutions and the reeults of a ma
thcmatical operation ; so strange, indeed, that because
twice has the result given something like a sanctidn
to them, one dreads again these awful times which
convulse and desolate mankind. Ido not at all believe
that our Constitution, or our Government, are subject to
any mathematical influence, but when I see the ince6=
sant revolutionary troubles in France adduce a third in"
stance of their connexion, when a powerful fatality
seems to proclaim as a truth the nothingness of a chi-
mera, I beg to Communicate to you the prophetic cal-
culations of a friend of mine, who, in 1829, foresaw the
fall of the late Charles the Tenth.
The point de depart is in 1794—fa1l of Robespierre..
1794 put the figures of this utu,
4
ber 1794 vertically
horizon.
the figure 4 of the
the
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result is 1815—f t"
poleon under

1815
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If I proceed in the same
manner with the figurer,
iu
1815, the next result is
1830—fall of Charles the
'Tenth•

1830
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8
1

Once more, the last, prop
bality is 1812.

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and dark clouds cover its political sky
I am, Sir, your most obedient servant,
... A LITERARY MAN.

THE LATE FATAL UCCUIMENIIII IN ST.
PANCRAS THROUGH THE HIGH WIND OF WID/OBSDAT.
—Yesterday, at tWelve o'clock, a long investigation Ye itB
entered into before Mr. Wakley, M.P., and a most re-
spectable Jury, at the Wheatsbeaf, Old St. Pancras-road,
on view of the body of Wm. Elmes, a remarkably tine
child, aged seven years, who was killed by the tailing
of a high stack of chimneys through the roof of the
house in whickho resided with his parents, during the
hurricane with which the metropolis and its suburbs were
visited during .the night of Tuesday and morning of
Wednesday last. A 'uror having observed that the
chimney was built of half bricks only, the Jury, after
some discussion; returned a verdict of--" Accidental
Death."