The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-14 00:00:00

---,„ Thursday, Oct. 22, or any subsequent Thursday, at the REVIE W OF THE BRITISH CORN
ffice of Mr. Turner, Liverpool. Tat WE DURING THE PAST WEEK
A vast quantity of rain has fallen during the week,
J. Stephenson, tobacconist, Mancbester—secondb div. otf
3s. 4W in the pound, on Thursday, Oct. 22, or any su sequ en
land has been too wet to admit of its being advanta-
and prese. nt appearances indicate a further fall. The
Thursday, at the office of Mr. Turner, Liverpool.
/ rorked, and out-door operations must there.
H. Hughes, farmer, Llysffsen, Carnarvonshire— div. of
714 d. in the pound, on Thursday, Oct. 22., or any subsequent geously_
Thursday, at the office of Mr. Turner, Liverpool. fore for the present be suspended. The lifting of
W. Perry, ironfounder, Wolverhampton—first div. of 4s. the pclte tto crop is likely also to be interrupted ;
in the pound, on any Tusday. at the office of Mr. Whitmore,. and it is more than probable that those in the ground
Birmingham. not destroyed by the murrain will be injured by the
T. Wenman, merchant, Birmingham—third div. of ss. wet. The accounts respecting the yield of the main crop
in the pound, on any Thursday, at the office of Mr. Valpy, of p Dte.toes. where digging has been finished, repre-
Birmingham. sent the failure to be quite as serious as had been pre-
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DIVIDENDS.
At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street.

viousl'Lv apprehended; and, from all we have been enabled
to lean I on the subject, we are inclined to think that
the pri )duce will fall short of half the usual quantity.
How s( ) great a deficiency of food is to be met
under a xisting circumstances is a startling question.
Presuming that we have a full average of wheat—
a deduct,;on which many are disposed to dispute—
how are we situated in respect to other grain ?
Barley, Oato, and Rye are admitted, on all hands,
to have fallen materially short in consequence of
the extreme heat and drought experienced during the
summer months, whilst beans and peas have given a
still worse return. Nor had we any stocks of im-
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gathered. It is, therefore, self-evident that a very large
importation will be required ; and from whence are we
to draw the requisite supply ? Much has been said
about the immense resources of America, and state-
ments have been published to show that the last
harvest has been unprecedentedly great in the United
States. We much fear that these statistical tables
are not to be received with implicit faith; indeed com-
mon sense must point out that what is found difficult of
attainment here, viz., to procure anything like a cor-
rect estimate of the result of the crops, must be al-
most impossible in such a country as America.
Here, on a comparatively limited surface, with every
country and parish accurately mapped down, we are
unable to show how many quarters of grain have been
grown; whilst in the United States, with no defined
limits—at least to the west—with immense tracts of
land thinly populated, and the means of communication
far more difficult than at home, it is pretended to
give the produce of each particular crop to a bushel
before the corn is off the ground. Such returns must
necessarily be loose and unsatisfactory ; and we cannot,
therefore, take them as a basis on which to ground a
calculation as to what quantity of grain the Americans
may be in a position to furnish us with. A far more safe
criterion will, in our opinion, be afforded by referring back
to the tables of exports in previous seasons. On examin-
ing these we find that the average shipment from the
United States for 13 consecutive years has been 997,771
brls. of flour. of which four-fifths have invariably gone
to the British, West Indian, Cuba, Newfoundland, and the
South American markets. Admitting that in conse-
quence of the superior yield of the last year's crop, and
the impetus given to trade by the alteration in our
corn-laws, the States may be enabled somewhat to
exceed that quantity, still it is clear that, with a deficient
harvest in many countries in Europe besides Great Bri-
tain, the supplies from the other side of the Atlantic
can scarcely be expected to satisfy our wants. This
is a reasonable conclusion, and we cannot agree with
those who can see no danger in our position. It is far
from our wish to create needless alarm, but we must
confess that we view the prospects for the approaching
winter with some apprehension, more particularly as re-
gards Ireland. The wealth and resources of Great
Britain will, we doubt not, enable her to secure a suffi-
ciency of food for the consumption of the inhabitants ;
but to succeed in this it will be necessary to pay high
prices : and, important as has been the rise in the value
of wheat within the last two months, we question
whether the highest point has yet been touched. The
trade has, nevertheless, been much less animated
this than the preceding week, and it is not impro-
bable that a temporary check may be given to the up-
ward tendency. The millers have latterly bought pretty
freely, and they are likely to conduct their operations
cautiously until a portion of that which they have now
on hand shalt have passed into consumption. Mean-
while the farmers continue to bring forward good sup-
plies ; and as the condition of the new must ere long be
effected by the change in the weather, a slight re-action
in prices may perhaps take place.
The arrival of wheat coastwise into London has
amounted to 8,242 quarters up to this (Saturday) even-
ing. The greater part of the supply is from Lin-
colnshire and Cambridgeshire ; and most of the
cargoes from the east coast have gone direct to the
millers without appearing at Mark-lane for sale.
Their immediate wants having been thus provided for,
they have had the less occasion to purchase on the spot;
and the business done has, consequently, been rather
circumscribed. The few runs of wheat exhibited on
Wednesday on the Essex and Bent stands moved off
somewhat tardily, at the prices of Monday last ; and,
moderate as was the quantity on sale, a portion remained
undisposed of. Later in the week the inquiry rather
improved, but factors found it impossible on Friday to
establish any advance on previous prices. Holders of free
foreign wheat have manifested no anxiety to realise, and
so far from any disposition having been evinced to
accept less money, the contrary bas been the case ; and
fine qualities, such as high-mixed Dantzic and the
best descriptions of Lower Baltic red, were actually
held at rather higher terms at the close than at the be-
ginning of the week. This may in some measure ac-
count for the very cautious manner in which the millers
have conducted their operations ; and as the market has
not been attended by many country buyers since Mon-
day, the transactions have been on a restricted
scale. Wheat in bond has met with some atten-
tion ; but the article having been held at prices
scarcely 48. per quarter below those at which free
might have been bought, there has been no induce-
ment to speculate. Some further orders have come to
hand from France ; the limits have, however, been too
low to admit of their execution, and we have heard of
no bargains being closed. During the week 3,705 quar-
ters of wheat have been received from abroad, the greater
part from America. The duty fell (as was expected) to
7s. per quarter on Thursday, and will continue to recede
step by step to the minimum point. The last return for
the kingdom (545.) shows an advance, as compared with
that for the preceding week, of Ild. per quarter ; and
the London average published on Friday (61s. 4d.) was
Is. 2d. per quarter higher.
The metropolitan bakers have bought flour more
cautiously, and have shown a determination to work up
their stocks closely before they consent to pay the ad-
vanced rates demanded by millers. The top price of
town-made flour is now 60s. per sack, and good Norfolk
households have been held at 50s. in the river • whilst
for fair brands of American 355. to 365. per barrel, daty
paid, has been demanded.
The arrival of barley has not been large, and the en-
hancement of Monday last has been well maintained. Su-
perior malting qualities have been !placed without diffi-
culty at 445. per qr., but to succeed in the disposal of the
secondary sorts (of which the bulk of the supply has
consisted) it has been necessary to accept comparatively
low terms. Grinding parcels have, on the other hand,
been in fair request ; and for good sweet qualities of the
latter very full prices have been obtained.
Choice samples of malt have met a ready sale at the
late advance ; and though the inquiry for the inferior
kinds has not been lively, Monday's quotations have
been firmly supported.
Besides 3,073 qrs. of oats from our own coast, 740 qrs.
have been received from Scotland, 4,171 qrs. from Ire-
land, and 7,058 qrs. from abroad, making together a fair
supply. The factors being, however, fully aware that
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the stocks in the hands of the dealers are inconsiderable,
and feeling convinced that the Irish arrivals will be much
smaller than usual, have declined making any concession.
Ufonrd:orodthceosernaeecircumstances the trade has been far from
animated, still needy buyers have had to pay full terms
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Peas have met with very little attention since our
last ; and though the quantity brought forward has been
trifling in the extreme, the value of white boilers has
rather tended downwards, and even hog peas have
moved off slowly at former terms.
Indian corn, in granary, has sold in retail at high
rates ; and cargoes on passage have been sought after
by buyers from Ireland. The free-on-board sales have
been rather considerable, and in some cases prices have
been paid nut previously obtainable.

G. Felthouse, plumber and glazier, Fulham, Nov. 7, at one
J. Wright, druggist, Oxford-street, Nov. 7, at two—C.
Pulman, hosier, Strand, Nov. 7, at ore-IV. Hart, hat manu-
facturer, Whitechapel High-street, Nov. 4, at one—J. Sporer
and J. Miley, tailors, St. James's-street, Piccadilly, Nov. 5,
at half-past eleven--J. Sporer, tailor, St. James's-street, Pie-
cadilly,Nov. 5, at half-past eleven.

In the Country.
J. Gibbs, button maker, Birmingham, Nov. 5, at twelve,
at the Birmingham District Court—J. and J. Thompson,
stockbrokers, Leeds, Nov. 6, at elever., at the Leeds District
Court—J. Birch, tailor, Hull, Nov. 4, at ten, at the Hull
District Court—J. Coulden, woollendraper, Cheltenham,
Nov. 6, at half-past eleven, at the Bristol District Court__
M. Chapman, painter, Devonport. Nov. 4, at eleven, at the
Exeter District Court—J. Carne, jun., g..ocer, Falmouth, Nov. 4,
at eleven, at the Exeter District Court—J. Davies, mercer,
Shrewsbury, Nov. 4, at eleven, at the Manchester District
Court—J. Aldcroft, licensed victualler, Longsight, Lanca-
shire. Nov. 6, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court—
W. W. and M. Spence, woollendrapers, Newcastle-upon-
Tyne, Nov. 5, at twelve, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District
Court—G. Watson, bookseller, Gateshead, Durham, Nov. 5,
at eleven, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court—E.
E. Robinson, grocer, Wolverhampton, Nov. 7, at twelve, at
the Birmingham District Court.
CERTIFICATES to be granted, unless cause be shown to
the contrary, on the day herein mentioned.
T. L. Evill, cloth manufacturer, Vigo-street, Nov. 4—T.
A. Cook, carver and gilder, Robin Hood-yard, Leather-lane,
Nov. 6—J. Pritchard, bate:, er, Seymour place, Camden town,
Nov. 5—J. J. Such, auctioneer, Bolingbroke-row, Walworth-
road, Nov. 5—J. Salmon, builder, Beaumont, Essex, Nov. 4
W. Hart, hat manufacturer, Whitechapel High-street, Nov. 4
—J. 'W oodbridge. saddler, Reading, Berkshire, Nov. 4—H.
Clark brush manufacturer, Stratford Abbotts, Essex, Nov. 4
—J. Ballard, innkeeper, Hastings, Nov. 4—G. A. Cavendish,
clerk, Church-end, Finchley, Nov. 5—J. W. Stratton,, tailor,
March, Cambridgeshire, Nov. :5—J. C. Moore, bookseller,
Strand, Nov. 6—W. H Mortimer, wood paviour, Lower Har-
ley street, Nov. 5—W. L. 011ard, auctioneer, Upwell, Cam-
bridgeshire, Nov. 5.—M. Goodale, builder, Rutland-terrace,
Hsrnsey New-road, Nov. 6—E. Cawdell, toy dealer, Hull,
Nov. 5—R. and W. C. Oxtoby, Wansford, Yorkshire, Nov. 4
—W. Howard, cloth merchant, Leeds, Nov. 6—G. S. Cox-
well and W. Croser, ship brokers, Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
Nov. 6—J. Prytherch, grocer, Wrexham, Denbighshire,
Nov. 4—J. Wilkinson' fruiterer, Liverpool, Nov. 3 —T.
Wilson, grocer, Sheffield, Nov. 6—G. Hattersley, stove manu-
facturer, Sheffield, Nov. 6—W. Kennett and J. H. Reynolds,
oilmen, Nov. 3—C. M‘Kinnell, wine merchant, Fenchurch-
street, City, Nov. 3—S. Vertue, merchant, Liverpool, Nov. 3
—S. Purser, draper, Cheltenham, Nov. 3—J. and D. Wood-
head, dyers, Netherthong, Yorkshire, Nov. 3—J. Andrews,
sharebroker, Hillhouse, Yorkshire, Nov. 3—W. Sudlow,
warehousekeeper, Liverpool, Nov. 3.

FOREIGN CORN TRADE.
We have had two or three arrivals from America
this week, the latest bringing New York advices to
the 19th of September, and accounts from other
parts of the United States of corresponding date'.
From New York we learn that the advance which
had been established in flour some f,-w days before,
in consequence of the news from England,
had been well maintained, and that some rather larg.:
purchases of the article had been made at prices vary-
ing 4d. 50e. to 4d. 75c. per brl. The stocks on the spot
were then quite inconsiderable, and it was not expected
that the arrivals from the interior would be very large
till the spring of the year ; it is probable, therefore,
that the next advices from the other side of the Atlantis
will inform us of a further important rise in quotations
Owing to the boisterous state of the weather during the
greater part of the week, our usual advices from the north
of Europe had not come to hand up to n late hour this after-
noon. The latest accounts, therefore, which we have from
I)antzic only reach to the 29th of September. The English
ad vices of the 22d and 23dult. hadcaused much excitement
there, and for the best qualities of high-mixed Wheat prices
had risen to 555. to 575. per qr. free on board; whilst for
secondary sorts from 50s. to 535. per qr. had been paid.
Within a day or two at least 5,000 qrs. had changed
hands. All other kinds of grain had been held at ma-
terially enhanced terms, say malting barley at 40s. to
445., and boiling peas at 40s. to 41s. per qr.; but there
had been very little doing in either of the last-named
articles.

From the Lower Baltic ports the accounts are of a
similar character ; and it is abundantly evident that to
secure supplies from the northern countries of Europe
we shall have to pay very high prices.
From Hamburg we have letters of the 2d inst. Spring
corn appears to have excited more attention at that port
than wheat, but for moderately good qualities of red
marks 51s. to 525. per quarter, free on board, had been
firmly insisted en. The inquiry for barley had been
active, but owing to the extravagant prices asked (say
335. per quarter for good Saale), few bargains had been
closed. Oats, to be shipped from Denmark, had sold
treaty at 21s. to 21s. 9d- per quarter free on board, weigh t
per bushel varying from 371 lbs. to 39 lbs.

In Holland wheat seems also to have further risen in
value ; and we learn from Rotterdam that, on the 6th
instant, good qualities of white were worth 585. to 61s.
per quarter. These rates, it will be remarked, do not
actual; of shipments being made from hence with a