The Sun.
London, England, 1861-09-24 00:00:00

TRADE OF FRANCE,

Now that the Ist of October is approaching, the
term at which the Treaty of Commerce with Eng-
land is to be carried into full execution, the shop-
keepers in Paris who deal in cotton goods are re-
ducing their prices to a figure quite unprecedented.
They fear it is said, that the French market will be
overstocked with British manufactures. Every
Englishman they perceive in any public place they
imagine to be a manufacturer come to compete with
and undersell them.
A Rouen paper states that the hotels in that town
are filled with English merchants and manufac-
turers come to make sales of their produce for the
Ist of October, the period when a variety of British
merchandise will be admitted into France on the
payment of a duty of 15 per cent. ad valorem. That
paper adds that the prices demanded by the Eng-
lish dealers are so moderate that they would create
surprise, were it not known that English merchants
make immense sacrifices in order to become masters
of the market.
Accounts from Mulhausen state that the great
rise in the price of cotton at Havre has produced a
corresponding effect in that market. The price of
thread has risen from 2-k to 5 per cent., and calicoes
from ato 1 per cent. Even at these rates manufac-
turers refuse to sell, expecting better prices.
A letter from St. Dizier states that there is
nothing doing in pig iron. Holders of stock, how-
ever, will not sell at less than 130 f. for the present.
A revolution is being made in the manufacture of
iron in France by the ironmasters in Franche-
Comte, who are using coke in place of charcoal.
A letter from Bischwiller, in the Bas-Rhin,
says :

The ordinary animation of a manufacturing town is
at this moment increased at Bischwiller by hundreds of
male and female hop-pickers coming to gather the hops
grown on 577,526 perches of ground in the suburbs, which
promise this year a good half-crop, or about 1,395 metrical
quintals, The wages paid for picking a metrical
quintal' of hops is generally from 36f. to 40f.
Thus, the hop-growers of Bischwiller will in the course of
September have paid 55,800 f. to poor families from the
neighbouring communes, but chiefly from German Lor-
raine. The hops, which were attacked in the month of July
by insects, again put forth fresh leaves in August, so that
three-fourths of the crop will be of the best quality; the
remainder was rusted by spiders towards the end of last
month. Some sales have been made at such moderate
prices that it is probable the entire crop will be shortly dis-
posed of."
The official list gives the following prices for oil
in the Paris market :-Rape oil, in cask, 110 f. 50c.;
clarified, 120 f. ; linseed oil, 97f. The price of flour
was well maintained in the Paris market last week
at from 89f. to 95f: the sack of 157 kilogrammes.
Offers, however, were more numerous, first from
holdets of Spanish flour, and again from northern
dealers, whose flour is not in much favour with
bakers, who suspect it of being mixed with English
or American flour, Flour of the six marks was not
in much demand. It was quoted on Monday at
from 92f. to 92f. 50c. It varied during the week
from 93f. to 94f. It closed on Saturday at 93f,
The factors declared on Saturday 1,832 sacks of
flour, of which 36 only were of first quality, sold
for delivery within 30 days, at from 90f. to 94f. the
sack. The price of wheat was still more firm in the
Paris market last week than the preceding week.
New wheat is quoted at from 75c. tolf. the hecto-
litre higher. Choice samples were sold at from
50f. to 51f. 50c., and other descriptions at from
48f. 50c. to 50f the sack of 120 kilogrammes.
Farmers are slow in offering their corn for sale.
What home-grown wheat appears in the Paris
market comes from the departments of the centre,
Burgundy and the Rhone. Wheat.from the latter
department, which is highly prized, was sold at
52f. New wheat from the other departments
varied from 47f. to 49f. American wheat is be-
coming scarcer in the Paris market. It is
quoted at from 43f. to 44f. 50c. the sack of 120
kilogrammes. Spanish white wheat, which is more
esteemed by French millers, is quoted at 51f. 50c. ;
old wheat from Dantzic, at 47f. 50c. The fluctua-
tions in the price of wheat and flour in Paris have
produced no effect at Havre. There were 81,197
metrical quintals of wheat sold in that market last
week, of which 9,298 were for immediate delivery.
American wheat was sold free at from 32f. s')c.
to .37f. the 100 kilogrammes ; American white
wheat, 40f. ; Danish, from 35f. 50e. to 36f. 50c.
American flour was sold at from 41f. 50c. to 44f.
the barrel of 88 kilogrammes; 400 quintals of Ger-
men flour were sold at 54f. the 100 kilogrammes.
The wheat imported into Havre last week consisted
of 133,958 quintals, of which 70,361 came from
America, 33,347 from England, 23,993 from the
Baltic, and the remainder from Iputhern Russia.
The corn imparted in to Marseilles last week con-
sisted of 86,000 hectolitres of wheat, 4,500 of maize,
and 1,500 of oats. The sales amounted to 343,000
hectolitres. Wheat has again risen at Bordeaux.
The millers, whose stock of flour is completely ei-
hausted, are constant visitors at the corn market ;
321. 50c. was offered for choice samples ; farmers
refused to sell at less than 33f. The price of corn
is maintained firmly in the northern markets, not-
withstanding the large imports into Dunkirk.
The Paris corn merchants complain with some
reason that the Government has ceased for some
time to publish the monthly returns of the quantity
of wheat and flour imported into and exported from
France. It is at this moment, as they truly ob-
serve, that merchants, and the public likewise,
have need of such information. Some alarm is
felt among the labouring classes at the high price
of bread, and nothing can tend more to dispel that
uneasiness than the assurance that the corn im-
ported is sufficient for all demands. The telegraph
has brought the price of the provincial corn mar-
kets held yesterday
Amit ns.-An ordinary market. No change in the prices
of wheat since last week. Barley has risen 50 centimes
the 100 kilogrammes ; oats, If. the quintal.
Arras.-Wheat has risen 50c. the hectolitre since Satur•
day last. Price, from 21f. 50c. to 33(. 75c. the hectolitre ;
seed wheat, 35f. to 40f. the hectolitre.
Chartres.-A larger market than the last; but still in-
sufficiently supplied. Sales difficult at a reduction of lf. the
sack on wheat. Oats in demand at a rise of 25c. the sack.
Dijon.-An ordinary market ; prices well maintained.
Flour mills idle for want of water. Wheat, 35f. to 41f. the
100 kilogrammes ; oats, 20f. the metrical quintal ; flour,
68f. the 125 kilogrammes.
Marseilles.-Irka wheat for delivery, 37f. the measure of
160 litres ; Marianopoli, 32f. 50c.
Melun.-Market tolerably well supplied ; a rise on wheat
of lf. sc. the hectolitre; average price, 31f. 20c. A rise on
oats of 11c.
Metz.-1,673 hectolitres of wheat sold to-dayat an average
of 37f. 2c. the 100 kilogrammes, being a further fall of 50c.
Montereau.-Market less well supplied ; sales difficult,
with a fall on wheat of 75f. the sack.
Orleans.-Market quiet, with a tendency to a fall in
wheat.

At Bordeaux, two evenings back, there was a
sort of riot in the Place des Capucines. It appears
that a statement was made among the poorer popu-
lation of that district that the price of bread was
about to be raised several centimes per kilogramme,
and a great number of persons accordingly collected
before a baker's shop to purchase a supply of bread
before the increase took place. The baker declared
that he had sold off all his day's stock, but the
people would not go away. At length, however,
the police came up and di&persed the assemblage.
A letter from Copenhagen says :
" The corn harvest, which is always late in the north of
Europe, may be now considered as terminated. In general,
tho results exceed the expectations of the growers, and may
be regarded as those of a good year. Denmark may, there-
fore, have a considerable quantity to export, particularly of
barley and oats, which is abundantly cultivated both on the
mainland and in the Danish islands.
The vintage has commenced in the neighbourhood
of Lyons. The quality of the wine is excellent, and
the grape ferments readily. The celebrated white
wine onjondrieu of this year is already offered for
sale in the wineshops of Lyons. It is calcUlated
that the rain which fell last week will increase the
wine crop by full 25 per cent.
Accounts from the Drome state that the vintage,
Which has commenced in that department, surpasses
the hopes of the wine-growers. Thanks to the
late abundant rain, the grapes have increased in size,
and have arrived at maturity under the influence of
a bright sun. The wine crop is abundant, and of
',try superior quality.
The Ittontteur Vint:cote announces that the yin-
thatit • H
la going on very actively in the erault, and
hooaorwpl commence next week in the neighbour-
The price e
°f spirit ci,'Ertilled from beetroot is firm,