The Sun.
London, England, 1870-11-15 00:00:00

THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS

The temperature during the past week has very de-
cidedly lowered, while black fogs in London, some smart
frosts, and a fall of snow in Yorkshire, have given warn-
ings of the rapid approach of winter. It has, however,
been a fine time for tilling and seeding the ground,
and farmers have done much in the hope of remunerat-
ing crops. The early-sown plants are healthy and
strong, though the averages as yet shew but a small im-
provement on last year's prices ; still, having nothing in
plenty beyond wheat and barley, they have been freely
selling to meet Chrismas rents ; aud, indeed, with a foreign
demand still reducing the native produce, some begin
to think a very perceptible reduction will soon
be made in the stack-yards and barns. Experience
has habituated British growers to so many dis-
appointments that they are content to move on,
even in unthrifty times ; and, in lart, the long pressure,
in many cases, has decreased their power to wait for
better opportunities. But little difference in prices has to
be noted during the week ; but here and there a provincial
market has given way where holders have been needy. The
well-stored granaries of London are certainly great hind-
rances to anyimportant upward movement for the present.
As, however, it is now evident that winter will come before
the Balti?. ports are free, and that the canals of
North America will soon be closed by frost, together with
the Azoff and Black Sea, the stores of Loudon may be
greatly reduced before the opening spring, and even
before then the waste of the war in France may make an
extraordinary drain upon the United Kingdom. If a
nation of thirty-five millions become a claimant at the
point of destitution, Europe and the world may have a
difficulty presented such as was never before seen, and
the consideration of price would be lost in the urgency for
supplies.

THE WINTER CIRCUITS OF THE JUDGES.
The days for holding the forthcoming Winter Assizes
for the following places were fixed by the learned Judges
yesterday as follows :
Before Mr. Justice Mellor and Mr. Justice Brett—
Manchester, Thursday, December 1; Liverpool, Satur-
day, December 10.
Before Mr. Baron Cleasby—Stafford, Saturday, Decem-
ber 3 ; Durham, Saturday, December 10.

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLEGENCE.
Mr. Childers, accompanied by Admiral Sir S. Dacres
and Captain Stanhope, left Portsmouth on Friday night
in the Enchantress, Admiralty yacht, Staff-Commander
G. L. Carr, for Cherbourg.
On Saturday all the troops were assembled on the
general parade-ground, Chatham, for the purpose of
hearing promulgated the finding and sentence of the
district court-martial which recently assembled at the
garrison for the trial of Sergeant S. Boyd, 18th Regi.
merit. on the charge of desertion. The prisoner was
found guilty, and sentenced to be imprisoned for eighty-
four days, and -to be reduced to the rank and pay of a
private.

We are authorised to state that Sir Colman
O'Loghlen has resigned the office of Judge-Advocate•
General.

The death is announced of the Hon. and Rev.
Leland Noel, vicar of Exton, Rutlandshire, and honorary
canon of Peterborough Cathedral in 1850. Mr. Leland
Noel, who was in 74th year, was brother of the Hon. and
Rev. Baptist Noel, and uncle of the Earl of Gain.sborough
and the Hon. Gerard Noel, M.P.

.._ ,
THE RESIGNATION OF ROCHEFORT. Some
details have been mentioned with respect to the
resignation of M. Rcchefort. He is said to have been
greatly annoyed at two things : in the first place he was
indignant with his colleagues for having withdrawn the
decree respecting the elections for the Communes, and
secondly, the mention of the word armistice offended
him, as he had always advocated war to the death, and
the most uncompromisingresistance. The ultra-Democrats
say that there was a third canse for dissatisfaction in the
affair of the combat and the scheme of Bazaine. The scenes
which took place on the 31st of October at the Hotel de
Ville completed M. Rcchefort's discomfiture at the
general state of things. His old constituents treated him
with inattention, and his former friends deserted him
until he exclaimed in a paroxysm of rage, "It is quite
true after all, and you are nothing but canaille." In con-
sequence of these events M. Rochefort retired at the same
time from the Provisional Government and the society of
his old friends at Belleville.
A PEACE CONFERENCE.—It is well-known that
the United States proposed in 1866 their mediation to
Spain and the allied Republics of Chili, Peru, Ecuador,
and Bolivia, then at war with Spain, and that the offer
was accepted by the belligerents, but for various reasons
the Peace Conference to meet at Washington has not been
hitherto called ; but affairs have of late assumed a more
favourable form. A new Minister not long ago arrived
from Chili, and also one from Bolivia, and the Peruvian
and other Ministers have received full powers to represent
their respective Governments at the proposed Conference.
As, on the other hand, there is no difficulty on the part of
Spain, which long ago, accepted the American mediation,
the time for action has come. It is understood the Secre-
tary of State has requested these Ministers to attend a
preliminary meeting for the purpose of organising the
Conference.—Ncto York Times.