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 11 hectolitre, which.
equals 535. sd. per quarter. The highest quotation at
Mark-lane on Monday was 80s. per quarter : wheat,
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 23d
instant, for the best Polish wheat, was 158 rix-dollars
the last, which corresponds with 48s. 6d. the quarter;
wheat, therefore, is 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 Hamburgh, he
can buy about 3 1-3 d bushels for the same money.
Cured India beef of the first quality may be bought
at Hamburgh for 5.1. 15s. the tierce of 3361b5; for the-
same quality 8/. is charged in London. The best cured
beef is, therefore, 39 per cent. dearer in London than in
Hamburgh, and a merchant victualling a ship in Ham-
burgh may buy 5,8431b5. of the finest cured beef for 1061.
whereas in London he can only buy 4,2001b5. for the
same money. Mess beef, a secondary quality, hnt much
more generally used for victualling ships, costs 41. 7s. 6d.
the tierce in Hamburgh, and 61. 7s. 6d. in London.
India pork costs 51. Gs. the tierce in Hamburgh, and
71. 17s. 6d. in London. Mess pork costs 21. Bs. the
barrel in Hamburgh, and 41. ss. in London. The fixed
importation duty on cured meat is 12s. per cwt.
The best fresh beef is retailed in Hamburgh at 41d.
per pound. in London at 9d. The best fresh mutton is
retailed in Hamburgh at 4d., and in London at Bd., but
it must not be forgotten that the mutton is of an in-
ferior quality in Hamburgh, which is not the case with
beef. The best fresh pork is retailed in Hamburgh at
41d. a pound, and in London at 9d. The importation
of fresh meat into England is totally prohibited.
In New York the prices of fresh meat, though in ge-
neral somewhat higher than in Hamburgh. are consider-
ably lower than in London. The best beef at New York
costs 12 cents. or 6d. per pound, and the best mutton sd.
Perk is retailel 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 7001bs. without the offal:
will cost about
251.; the same description of ox, fatteil.,d in Holstein,
and
about 14 in spring. The people of England,
would cost in Hamburgh about 121. in :::ltu.mn'
I.2wever,
can derive no advantage from the comparative cheapness _nf
cattle in Hamburgh ; 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.
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Salt meat from ruenos Ayres might be imported in
millions
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such trade.

FRENCH DYNASTIES AND SIN-
GULAIt COINCIDENCE.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sin—There are sometimes strange connexions be-
tween the political revolutions and the results of a ma-
thematical operation ; so strange, indeed, that because
twice has the result given something like a sanction
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 inces-
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 1791—fall of Robespierre. I
1794 put the figures of this num-
-4 ber 1794 vertically under
9 the figure 4 of the horizon-
-7 tal number. I make the ad-
-1 dition and the obtained
result is 1815—fall of Na-
poleon

1815

If I proceed in the same
8 manner with the figures in
1 1815, the next result is
1830—fall of Charles the
1830 Tenth.
0'

Once more, the last pro-
bality is 1842.

1842

1842 ! and France is in a convulsive state of disturb-
ance ! a murderer fired at the son of the King; towns
and villages protest against the Census with a mighty
energy ; groups of people sing under the bayonets their
revolutionary hymn of 1723 and 1829. 1842 and
France is in the desperate agony of a dying man ' • large
and dark clouds cover its political sky ; a shocking
storm is to take place.
May it please God to preserve France, Ad prova that
the calculations of my friend are erroneous.

I am, Sir, your most obedient servant,
A LITERARY MAN.

COURSE OF EXCHAI
Amsterdam CF. 12 7i
Ditto, at sight
Rotterdam .........`2 U l2 71
Antwerp l2 6i
Hamburgh M.B. 13 13i
Altona
Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 50
Ditto, 3 months 25 75
Marseilles
Bourdeaux 25 85
Frankfort on Maine... 149 i
Petersburgh, 3Us ... 37i
Berlin--

IiESTERDAY;)

Vienna, effec. fl. 3 M 952
Trieste, ditto 9 35
Madrid
Cadiz .. .. -36*
Bilboa 4._ 36
Barcelona
Seville

Gibraltar .
Leghorn .... 30 30
Genoa 25 65
Milan
Venice
Naples
Palermo, per os 1181
Lisbon
Oporto 521
Rio Janeiro 27
Bahia
Buenos Ayres
New York, 21days sight 461
'Philadelphia 46
PRICE& OF BULLION, PER oz.
Portugal Gold Coin £3 17 5
Foreign Gold, bars... 3 17 9
New _Doubloons 0 0 0
New Dollars... 0 0 0
Silver in Bars 0 5 oh

AN INDIFFERENT HOUSE.—On the evening
of Saturday last, three females from the Old Wynd were taken
into custody and brought to the Glasgow Police-office, on the
charge of stealing 31. or thereby, from a weaver, belonging to
Green-street, Calton. The man was so squalid anal wretched
in appearance, that it could not be believed he had so much
money to lose. On inquiring into the circumstances, however,
it was found that the weaver had received the gum of 31. from a
Funeral Society in Calton to inter his deceased wife ; but in-
stead of appropriating the fund to its proper purpose, the mis-
gui(:ed man had gone to an indifferent house, where ha had lost
it all.— Glasgow Herald.
THE IVIANCIIESTER MEMORIAL TO THE
QUEEN.—We understand that the memorial to the
Queen, adopted at the late public meeting of the inha-
bitants of this borough, was, in compliance with the re-
solution of the meeting, forwarded by the Mayor to
Mark Philips, Esq., for present atien to her Mnjesty; and
that it was placed by Mr. Philips in the hand--; of Sir
James Graham, her Majesty's Secretary of State for the
Home Department The following communications to Mr.
Mark Philips have been transmitted by him to the
Mayor :

" Whitehall, Sept. 24, 1841.
" Sir James Griham prt sents his compliments to Mr. Phi-
lips and Mr. Gibson, and has the honour to enc!we the official
answer to the address from Manchester, which they placed in
his hands for presentation.
" Mark Philips, Esq., M.P.
66 T. M. Gibson, Esq., M.P.
" 6 Whitehall, Sept. 24, 1841.

' am directed by Secretary Sir James Graham to
inform you that he has not failed to lay before the Queen the
address from Manchester, signed by you as Mayor and Chair-
man of a public meeting of the inhabitants.
" I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
(Signed) "S. M. PHILLIPPS.
' The Mayor of Manchester.'"