The Sun.
London, England, 1846-11-16 00:00:00

OF THE CUSTOMS.

Treasury Department, Oct. 23, 1846.
In consequence of intelligence received at the depart-
ment, it becomes expedient and proper to rescind the
privilege granted to the ports of Yucatan in my circular
instructions of the 11th of June, 1846, and to subject
said ports to the interdictions of commerce applicable
to the ports of Mexico generally, as enjoined by such
instructions.

You arc accordingly directed to refuse clearances to
all vessela and their cargoes departing from our ports,
and places in Yucatan.

R. J. WALKER,
Secretary of the Treasury.
The advicos by the Caledonia steamer, the latest we
have, to the 4th inst., produced a general rise of prices
here. Flour advanced 75 cents per bbl., and other pro-
_ _ _

_ucts in proportion. Since the first impulse some fluctu-
ations have occurred, and the price of flour receded
again—butfit may now be quoted for the best Genesee at
6 dol., which is about 50 cents a bbl. higher than before
the arrival of the Caledonia.

The supplies of this article which we continue to re-
ceive from the western States and the western part of
our own State—which is a grain• growing region—by
the Canal and Hudson River, are large; and if cold
weather should not come upon us prematurely, we may
calculate upon at least three weeks more of active navi-
gation. Some untimely breaks in the canal banks oc-
curred last week, which, for a day or two, interrupted
navigation and accumulated boats at the spot. ,These are
now repaired, and the utmost activity prevails on the
whole leugth`of the Canal.
A comparative statement of the quantities of wheat,
flour, and Indian corn, brought to tide-water by the
canals, up to 22d October, inclusive, of this year and the
last, shows this result:—
Wheat, bush. Flour, bbls. Indian Corn, bush.
In 1845... 776,648 1,642,186 28,996
1846 . 1 985 741
•• 2,178,190 1,393,900

The increase of each sort is enormous ; that of Indian
corn, of which last year the supply from this source was
almost null, is to be accounted for by the great demand
occasioned for this grain by the failure of the European
potato crop. The quantity brought is still but-a mere
trifle, in comparison with what can be poured out by the
region around the lakes, and thus find its way through
the Erie Canal to the seaboard—for Indian corn is the
great staple of the west. It is however rarely gathered
and shelled in time to be sent forward the same year
that it is produced, as after November the Lake Naviga-
tion is perilous and infrequent, and therefore the bulk of
the western crop of this year will remain over until
spring.
Of Flour the increase is more than half a million
barrels. The greatly increased quantity of wheat ex-
ceeding twice and a half the whole of last year's sup-
ply, is to be accounted for in part by the long continued
droughts of this year, and the consequent insufficiency
of the mill streams to grind as much as usual. Reduc-
ing the wheat to flour, at the usual rate, the whole in-
crease in flour this year over last is equal to 777,822
bbls. This excess alone of the
.present year's receipts
by the way of the Erie Canal, is equal within a small
fraction to the whole quantity of flour exported from the
United States to Liverpool for the year beginning 15th
Sept. 1845, and ending 15th Sept. 1846. The total of
this export, according to a Liverpool statement now
before us, was 778,059. '
Each day now adds to the accumulation of bread
stuffs in this port, and if the navigation shall continue
open as long as the average time, a great deal will yet
arrive, for there are large quantities afloat on the canal,
and in store at Buffalo, and more is still arriving.
Of the probable period of the closing of the canals by
frost, it would seem quite safe, judging from a table ex-
tending through twenty years, to assume that the canal
navigation will continue free all next month (Nov.)
On the departure of the last steamer, oar cotton
market had a little downward tendency. The news per
Caledonia, however, led to large sales, chiefly on specu-
lation, and prices advanced fully cent. per lb. The
purchases of last Saturday were 6 or 7,000 bales, some
large buyers being stimulated by the belief that an in-
jurious frost had occurred in Carolina and Georgia;
later accounts from the South. however, showing that
the damage done by the frost was not very material, our
market has been dull for the last three days, and the few
'holders who are disposed to realise, have done so at a
cent. below the mostelevatedpoint.
didEv oenoitnkthilel
anystrongest
boibolls
cases that we can hear of, the frost
which would have matured in less than three weeks, so
that if there should be a severe frost at a period ten days
later, it would do more, injury than that which has al-
ready occurred. Our market is also somewhat affected
by the larger estimates of the crop which are given out
from Carolina and% Georgia, and more particularly from
Savannah. One respectable house in that city, whose
circular we have just seen, gives an estimate of
2,175,000 bales, stating that the crop would have been
at least 2,600,060 but for the worms ; which, as they
say, have been injurious in Louisiana, Southern Miss.,
part of South Alabama, part of Florida and the Atlantic
sea-board.

WAKEFIELD CORN MA/MET, FRIDAY.—The arrivals
of wheat and beans are large, and there is a fair quantity
of barley. There is a steady demand for wheat at a
decline of ls. to 2s. per qr. , at this reduction there is no
disposition evinced to press sales; and the market closes
firm. The late great reduction in the value of barley
causes more demand, and last week's rates are main-
tained. Oats and shelling are both rather lower. Beans
remains last stated.