The Sun.
London, England, 1856-07-24 00:00:00

THE MO DEMENTS IN BREAD STUFFS.

In April last, when the preliminaries of peace in Ea-
rope had been established, and the reopening of the
State canals was at hand, operators in breadstuffs began
to lose confidence in the stability cf prices. It was
known that there were laige supplies in the interior to
come forward, and it was thought by really persons that
supplies would be obtained, to a greater or less extent,
from the ports of the Black Sea. It was also reported
that there was a glut of receipts at Marseilles, in France.
Withal, too, the spring weather opened well in France
and England, and was considered highly favourable for
the coming crops. Under those circumstances, prices
by the first of May reached a low point, and were de-
stined to reach a lower range before the Ist of June, and
he was a bold operator who shipped flour and grain
abroad under the appearance of such odds. Yet there
were some who continued to export. It soon became evi-
dent that the supplies in England and France were less
than was supposed,that they would be compelled to aug-
ment their stocks before the, advent of harvest, let the
weather be as it might. It was also discovered that the
expected supplies from the Black Sea were not to be had,
and that the United States contained the only granaries
from which they could freely obtain them. These cir-
cumstances strengthened !prices a,troad early in June,
and produced a corresponding effect here. The recent
arriva!s from Europe have added to these general unfa-
vourable prospects for low prices. The news of heavy
injury to crops in France from the late inundations, and
of unfavourable weather in England, has produced con-
siderable excitement in breadstuffs in this market and an
enhancement of prices. Fortunately for us wo have
ample supplies with which to meet this increased demand.
The receipts of flour for only the past week, from the
interior, ending Saturday, July 5, amounted to 81,000
barrels of flour, about 470,000 bushels of wheat, and
400,000 bushels of corn. The total receipts since Sept.
1, 1855, have been 2,364,378 barrels of flour, 5,311,775
bushels of wheat, and 4,126,066 of corn. To these re-
ceipts should be added large supplies from the Southern
' States, including from East Tenneesee alone over 500,000
bushels of wheat. For some time past the exports of
wheat to Great Britain have greatly exceeded those of
flour, the English preferring to do their own milting.
Notwithstanding this, the exports of flour have also been
large. The exports f wheat within two or three weeks
' past have probably reached over a million bushels.
Within the past week alone the shipments of wheat
have exceeded 500,000 bushels, about 100,000 of which
were taken on Saturday, and about 100,000 more were
engaged on Monday, the 7th inst. It is difficult to say
how much remains in the country to come forward, bat
it is probable that it may be nearly equal to the demand
until the new crop conies in, which is said to promise
a large yield and of good quality. Should the crops
in England and France fall much below an average,
we may expect prices to continue remunerative for
our incoming crops. The recent large sales of bread-
stuffs for Europe are auspicious for the country.
Usually at this period of the year, when breadstuffs are
low and dull, and cotton shipments are measurably over,
we have little for export beyond specie, which, on the
advance of sterling exchange, is freely drawn. Now,
everything seems to work favourably. A. large crop of
cotton has been sold at high prices, and in what are ge-
nerally the dull summer months we find a large demand
for breadstuffs and provisions at advancing prices. All
this must have its effect upon the general prosperity of
the country. The heavy exports of grain and flour going
on must supply considerable amounts of sterling ex-
change, and tend to check the shipments of specie. It
will be perceived that the chief rise in prices has been
realised on the common and medium grades, which have
formed the. bulk of the supplies. The stock of extra
brands, from the scarcity of prime and choice wheat, has
been limited throughout the season, and mostly taken
for home consumption. Hence, for this description of
flour prices have not varied so much, and were even
higher on the 31st of May, in some cases, than they are
now. Our exports of wheat and corn would both be
much larger could cargoes of good qualities have reached
us to a greater extent and in good shipping order. An un-
usual proportion of Western corn has conic to market this
season wet or heated, and had to be sold at low figures for
either distilling or short voyages to Eastern States' ports.
Prime to choice white Southern, most saleable in Liver-
pool, has, in a measure, been exhausted, and ceases
almost to appear in market. Yellow also is scarce. The
Upper Lake and Western mixed and red grades of wheat
from that part of the country have been in excess of
supply, compared with the stock of prime white and red
Southern and Canadian, and prices have varied accord-
ingly. No supplies of the now growth have reached
market sufficiently dry or in sufficient quantities yet to
justify shipment ; but it must soon reach us in large
amount and enter freely into domestic use. On the 3d
inst. 2,000 bushels of new Georgia grown wheat was at
Augusta, en route for the seaboard and a market.—
New York Herald.

THE CAMP AT ALDERSHOT.

The military inquiry into the causes which led to the
dangerous quarrel between the 2d German Jagers and
the men of the 41st and 93d Regiments terminated on
Tuesday at Aldershot. The decision at which the court
arrived is, therefore, still unknown. We are glad, how-
ever, to hear that the German officers, taking into
consideration that such another outbreak could not
occur again, and that it was the wish to conciliate
the English troops as much as possible, refrained
from brirging any charges against the regiments
from which the men of their own corps bad sus-
tamed such serious injuries. The good sense and good
feeling of this course must be obvious to our readers, and
we are iuformed by many English officers who witnessed
the affray that, bad the Germans pressed the charges,
the military board must have severely censured the con-
duct of several of the English corps concerned in it.
This conciliatory plan has also produced a very good
effect in camp, and without at all acknowledging on
whose side lay the fault of beisinning the disturbance,
the English are quite willing to admit their regret that
when it bad begun they pushed their victory over the
Germans t )o far and committed many acts of unjustifiable
violence and even cruelty. When one side thus forgave
an injury and the other regretted it, the best thing that
can be done is to let the whole matter rest as it is, and
the witnesses before the military board appeared quite of
this opinion. The wounded Germans "declined" to
recognise any of the English soldiers under arrest for
assaulting them, while the Enlist', on the ct ier
hand, "could not say" who was in the wrong. or
at most that both parties were equally so. The
inquiry therefore soon ended, but as we have said its de4
cision will not be made known till early next week. If
its tenour should be pacificatory and likely to soothe
down whatever little ill feeling may still exist between
the German and English troops, we shall lay it before
our readers.
The investigation of the board of inquiry elicited
beyond all doubt that the affray was begun between a
German and a wan of the 933, set together by the ears
by one of the abandoned women who now infest the
country round Aldershot. There was nothing to surprise
in the affray having such an origin ; on the contrary, it
was, just what might have been expected from a crowd of
drunken soldiers, English and German, mixed up with
many of the lowest and most degraded of prostitutes.
We merely mention the circumstance in order that our
readers may know the kind of discipline which is tole-
rated among the troops at Aldershot. All round the
camp the worst and vilest of a bad class of women
abound. Everywhere are they to be met either
" squatting" like gipsies in the fir woods round about
Aldershot, staggering drunk along the roads with the
soldiers, or, worse than all, crowding the regimental
canteens.
The Rifles occupy the tents under which the Ist Jagera
lived until sent to Colchester. We confess to being
among the number of those who look to the condition
of a regimental camp as affording an infallible index to
the discipline of the regiment. Judging by this standard,
we have little hesitation in saying that the let Jagers
must have been a most orderly and well-conducted
corps. The condition in which they have left their
tamp is quite an example to the other troops. Though
hey had not been under canvas more than three weeks,
each tent was surrounded with a little garden, in which
transplanted woodbine, foxglove, purple and yellow
heath, flowered abundantly. The paths between the
tents were named Cambridge-street, Princess Royal.
street, Prince of Walecestreet, and so on through the
Royal family, while all the paths were bordered with a
kind of Mosaic work of flints set in the gravel in innu-
merable designs. The English Rifles have always, both
at Chobham and in the 'East, enjoyed a high reputa-
tion for the cleanliness and good order of their canton-
ments. It will require all their neatness to improve
upon the designs which the Jagers, during their short
tenure of the camp, carried into effect.
The 93d highlanders left camp yesterday, en route
to Shorneliffe. The 4th Regiment, if all the accounts
which reach us are true, seem to want the care of a
smart disciplinarian.
The camp abounds with rumours as to the intention
of the Queen to inspect the newly-arrived Crimean
troops this week. As yet there is no foundation for the
rumour, and we believe that at the earliest her Majesty
will not visit the camp before next Tuesday.
The two German battalions of light infantry, which
yesterday arrived from Scutari, will not move to Alder-
shot. At present they will encamp on Browndown,
near Portsmouth, and from thence we believe proceed
to Colchester.—Morning paper.

The Tartaro, steam advice boat, arrivid at Cagliari on
the 19th from Algiers, being placed at the ordeii
of the English engineers who are to lay down the subma-
rine telejaph between Sardinia and the coast of Africa.
THE COLLISION IN THE MERSEY BETWEEN THE MAIL
AND EICELSIOR.—LIVERPOOL, Wednesday.—The in-
veitigation into the causes of the unfortunate collision in
the river between the screw steam-ships Mail and Excel-
sior was resumed this morning, in the Nisi Prins Court,
St. George's Hall, before H. Stratham, Esq., deputy
coroner, Mr. P. F. Curry, the coroner, being still too
ill to conduct it. The witnesses examined were the
look-out man, the lamplighter, and the eneineer of the
Mail. The evidence threw very little additional light
upon the cause of the collision, and was of little com-
parative importance. The look•outman stated that be
reported the Excelsior coming down the Mersey half an
hour before the collision, and added that she never ap-
peared to change her course during that period. The
lamplighter of the Mail, in answer to some questions re-
garcting the position of the lamps of the Mail and of the
stanchions, stated, as his opinion, that the former could
not be obscured by the latter ; that the light could be
seen, he believed, a mile off, notwithstanding that the
stanchions were immediately before them ; but would
not say they could be plainly discerned half-a-mile off.
The inquest was adjourned at 3.30 p.m. until to-morrow
morning, at ten o'clock, when the evidence on behalf of
the Excelsior will be gone into.