The Sun.
London, England, 1861-06-25 00:00:00

THE CROPS ON THE CONTINENT.

The general state of trade in France has not im-
proved during the past week, nor does it appear to
be in a more unfavourable condition, beyond what
must inevitably result from continued stagnation.
The fine weather contributes to maintain prices, but
there is a growing uneasiness at the enormous
expenditure which is undertaken by the State and
private companies on works that cannot be remune-
rative for a long time to come.
The weather during the week has been unusually
favourable for the crops—heavy rains during the
night, and warm sunshine during the day. From all
quarters the reports are most encouraging. A dis-
tinguished agriculturist of the Charente Inferieure
has just made an excursion through the whole of
the centre, west, and south, and he states that on all
parts of France the vineyards, with some very few
exceptions, present the most favourable appearance.
This fact, however, does not prevent certain persons
in the Bordelais from spreading the mostsinister re-
ports for purposes of speculation. The Gironde and
the. two Cbarantes have here and there suffered
from the frosts, but the damage taken altogether
cannot be considerable. For the last 10 years the
French vineyards have not looked finer.
A letter from Nuit (Cotes d'Or) says the vine-
yards are most promising, as they had not suffered
from the frosts, and the weather is now most favour-
able for the flowering. There is every reason to
expect an abundant crop of the best wines.
The Belgian journals state that the appearance
of the crops is very satisfactory in all parts of the
kingdom. Wheat and rye in particular are in a
good condition, and potatoes promise an abundant
yield. There will, however, this year be but little
stone fruit, owing to the frosts and changes in tem-
perature in the spring.
The harvest will probably begin some weeks
earlier than usual. In the South they have already
commenced cutting the wheat. Flour fell from 75c.
to lf. the sack, and in the provincial markets a
reduction of price has been pretty general, as will
be perceived by the following telegrams :
Asnieres.—Market very feeble. Prices of corn and bar-
ley firm, oats at last week's prices.
Arras.—Market tolerable, sales heavy, and a fall in corn
of 50c, the hectolitre.
Chartres.—Supply equal to last week's, sales slow, with a
fall of 50c. the hectolitre and a half. Oats unchanged.
Dijon.—Abundant offers at a reduction of lf. the 100
kilogrammes, without finding buyers ; great lack of pur-
chasers.

Etampes.—Weak market, with tendency to fall.
Marseilles.—Business dull. Marioupol, 35f. 50c. ; to be
delivered, 35f. Danube, 27f. ; and African, 35f.
Melun.—Tolerably well supplied ; average fall in corn
lf. 27c. the hectolitre ; oats risen by 13c. the hectolitre.
Orleans.—Weak market; fall in corn of lf. the hec-
tolitre and and a half.

In the Paris corn-market the quotations were for
corn from 361. to 41f. 50c. the hectolitre and a half,
weighing 120 kilogrammes ; rye, 221. the 115 kilo-
grammes; barley, 20f. to 21f. 50c. the hectolitre
and a half ; oats, from 32f. 50c. to 38f. 50c. the
three hectolitres. The factors declared 459 sacks of
flour at an average price for first quality of 711.64 c.
the 157 kilogrammes.

THE KINGSWOOD MURDER.—The German ap-
prehended by Underwood, the city police-constable, on
Friday night has been ascertained to have been stopping at
a lodging-house in Wentworth-street under the name of
M'Donald. Some articles of clothing belonging to him tend
strongly to strengthen the suspicion against him. He will
be brought before the magistrates for examination in a day
or two, the city detectives being still engaged in inquiries
concerning him.

FATAL ACCIDENT BY LIGHTNING.—A fatal ac-
cident caused by lightning occurred at Belmont, near St.
Etienne (Loire), three days since. In that part of the
country, as wen as in many other places, there still exists a
belief that ringing the church bells will turn aside a thun-
derstorm, and on this occasion, as soon as the thunder was
heard, the churchwardens and ringers went to the church
and began to ring the bells with all their might. While
thus occupied the lightning struck she spindle of the wea-
ther-cock on the spire, and passing down to the belfry kill-
ed one of the ringers and stunned the other two, but with-
out doing them any serious injury. On the same evening
the lightning also struck the little bell-turret of the Hospice
du Soleil, near St. Etienne, broke the ironwork supporting
the bell, and then descending to the laundry, passed between
the women working there, but did not injure any of them.
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