The Sun.
London, England, 1861-10-01 00:00:00

2HE HARVEST IN TRANCE.

The long-continued dry weather of which farmers
and millers haye been complaining was varied last
week by some heavy rain, which has enabled the
farmers to commence the sowing of their winter
crops and the millers to resume their operations.
The fortunate circumstance has powerfully aided
the reaction which took place in the Paris corn.
and flour markets last week. Bakers have sus-
pended their purchases, although millers have re-
duced their prices lf. 50c. the sack of 157 kilo-
grammes. Choice samples were offered on Saturday
at 92f. the sack, the first marks at from 90f. to.
91f., and inferior quality from 871. to 89f. Samples
of Spanish wheat have been offered for delivery in
October. Flour of the six marks has fallen 4f. the
sack. It was quoted eight days since at 93f. ; it
has declined gradually to 89f. Even at this price it
is not easy to find purchasers. The factors declared
on Saturday 1,592 sacks of flour, of which 85 sacks
only of first quality sold for delivery within 30 days
at from 85f. to 94f. the sack. There was not much
farmers' wheat offered for sale in the Paris market
on Wednesday. The holders of samples demanded
the prices of the preceding week, but in order to
effect sales they found it necessary to concede if.
on the sack of 120 kilogrammes. Choice samples
were }sought for 50f. the sack ; first quality,
48f. 50c. to 49f. ; and inferior, 47f. 50c. to 48f.
Some samples of wheat in the hands of merchants
from Bray, Montereau, and Sens, for which 49f.
and 50f. were asked, were sold afterwards at from
47f. 50c. to 48f. the sack of 120 kilogrammes.
Some sacks from the Allier, for which 48f. was de-
manded, could not find buyers. American wheat
was not very plentiful in the Paris market.
Buyers were equally scarce, and they offered only
41f. 50e. and 43f. where the factors demanded 43f.
and 45f. Hungarian wheat was offered at 44f. 50e.
the 120 kilogrammes, delivered at the Paris termi-
nus, but there were no bargains concluded. In
general, sales were difficult even at reduced prices.
The Havre market has likewise been quiet, with a
fall of lf. the quintal on American wheat. The sales
of American wheat during the last eight days do
not exceed 50,500 quintals. The price of sound
wheat varied from 33f. 25c. to 34f. 75c. the 100 kilo-
grammes. 9,519 barrels of flour were sold, of which
2,904 realised from 39f. 75e. to 40f. 75c. the cask of
88 kilogrammes, and 6,715 from 37f. 50c. to 40f.
There were 337,168 hectolitres of wheat, and 28,500
of maize, barley, and oats, imported into Marseilles
last week. Under the influence of these large im-
portations and the accounts from Paris, prices de-
clined slightly. The sales during the week
amounted to 44,540 hectolitres of wheat for imme-
diate delivery, and 128,320 hectolitres for delivery
at a latter period.
The telegraph has brought the prices of the pro-
vincial markets held on Saturday :-
Aniiens.-Some wheat for grinding was offered, but the
quality was so bad that it remained unsold. Rye has de-
dined if.; barloy firm; a rise on oats of 50e. the 100 kilo-
grammes.

Arras.—A fall of lf. 500. the hectolitre on wheat. Seed
wheat in abundance at from 36f. to 43f. the hectolitre.
Chartres.—The sale of wheat difficult, oven at a reduc-
tion of 2f. the sack.
Melon.--Market well supplied. Wheat, 29f. 29c. the
hectolitre, being a fall of 2f.
Metz.-914 hectolitres of wheat sold on an average at
36f. 9e. the quintal.
Orleans.-4 large market; sales difficult, at a reduction
of If. the hectolitre.

lII] FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE NORTH KENT
RAILWAY Yesterday Mr. C. J. Carttar held an inquest
on the young
man who wag so frightfully mutilated near
the Arsenal Station on the previous Thursday night. His
name was George Punslow. A verdict of accidental death
was returned.

THE WESTERN FISHERIES.—At St..lves (Corn-
wall) a quantity of pilchards have been taken. On one
day a few boats that shot for pilchards on the drift took
from 3,000 down to 1,000 each, which sold at from 2s, 4d.
per 100. On the following day the drift boats brought in
from 3,000 to 5,000 pilchards. At Mount's Bay the boats
took from 700 to 2;000 of remarkably fine fish per boat.
One of the boats was. capsized by a gust of wind, and two
men, named John Richards and Deeble Tonkin, were
drowned. On Wednesday the seines at Mullion shot and
took up 14 hogsheads of fish. On the Devonshire coast
also a quantity of pilchards and other fish have been taken
d,uipg the week,