The Sun.
London, England, 1840-07-16 00:00:00

CORN CROPS AND TRADE.

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This market is now inactive. rfnere is only a small de-
mand from the eastward, which is easily supplied from the
immense stock in hand. Prices of Gennessee, range front
$5 50 to $4 62, but the large quantity of bread stuff in the
country must soon reduce them to $4.
The demand throughout the country is quite small.
Immense shipments abroad have been made, and from Ame-
rican Ports, on the Lakes into Canada. To Eur:.pe they
have nearly cea,ed, in consequence of the favourable ap-
pearance of the crops there, and the demand therefrom
being supplied for the present. To the Canadas, how-
ever, and to New Brunswick, flour is still going. It is -s-
-timated that upwards of five hundred thousandbarrels will
be our shipments this y car to British North America.
Some go higher, even to one million, but the former esti-
mate is within bounds. Port of this is in ready made flour,
and part in grain. From Cleveland alone, about sixty
thousand barrels of flour, and six hundred thousand bushels
of wheat, equal to one hundred and ten thousand barrels
of flour, will go into Canada. A portion of this great
supply will find its way to England, at a less duty than if
it went hence direct. Another portion will go to the West
Indies, and the balance be consumed by the Canadians and
the fifteen thousand English troops now stationed north
of us.
In this State the crops promise well. No complaints
have been made at any section. The crops are two weeks
earlier than they were last year, and many farmers have
already commenced cutting their closer.
The crops of wheat, rye, and oats, in New Jersey, look
fine, and potatoes are doing well. The growth this year
will be large.
From Delaware we hear that the crops do not promise
abundantly.
In Pennsylvania the crops of wheat, rye, and oats will
be large.
The state of this country generally is at this moment
very singular. In all sections of the country there is a
perfect stagnation of buainess, while the producing sec-
tions are groaning beneath enormous crops. The South
has delivered a crop of cotton 20 per cent, greater than ever
before. The Western country is filled with grain to over-
flowing, so prodigally has the earth yielded, that to Eu-
ropeans it must seem incredible. In many parts of Ohio
the eye of the traveller will perceive last year's crop of
corn remaining stacked upon the fields where it grew,
while wheat has been sown around it, and promises a most
abundant yield. It is the intention of many of the farmers
so situated, to reap the wheat and turn the hogs and e,ittle
in upon the corn, there being no prospect for any market
for it. Flour has fallen so low, and the markets so dull,
united with the imposibility of procuring money, that the
flour mills have ceased to work. We mention this to give
some idea of the state of things at the West. In the N.
England States, which are chiefly manufacturing, the
wollen and cotton mills are nearly idle. More than one
half of the woollen mills are idle ; both the woollen and
cotton trades are so depressed that manufacturers buy very
sparingly of the raw materials, and at low prices. While
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V Jura 27, 1840. E
iv AUBURN, N. —scai•E OF LETT,
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THE INCENDIARY, WHO ATTEMPTED TO BLOW UP TILE
GREAT BRITAIN.The notorious Lett, who has gained
himself an infamous notoriety—first, by the cold-blooded
assassination of Captain Fisher ; next, by the wanton