The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-16 00:00:00

REVIE ve, OF THE BRITISH CORN
i'hAl E DMZ' G TEI PAS,'' WEEK.

i The very wet, unfavourable weather experienced durirg
the week has done so much injury to that portion of the
crops still abroad in the m,rthern counties, as to render it
next to imposslble for the grain to be secured in any other
than toe worst condition, however auspicious the weather
may hereafter become. When rain occurs early in •the
season, its eflice may, frequently,- be almost e holly re-
medied ; but the year is now too far advanced to adroit us
to hope that the mischief done in the present case can be
repaired : the shortness of the days, the diminished power
of the sue, and the heavy night dews, all tend to prevent
that which has been thoroughly saturated with wet being
easily th ied, except by artificial means ; the corn which
Iran been exposed in the fields to the frequent heavy
showers of the past figtnight (and the quantity is, we are
sorry to learn, considerable) must therefige inevitably be
carted in a damp state. In sonic localities, where there
have been heavy floods, a portion will be entirely lost, and
that part saved can seareely be expected to be in fit order
for thrashwg for months to come. So fur, therearre, from
any improvement havine. taken place in our prospects,
there is reason to fear that the result of the liar
vest—taking the kingdom collectively—will prove
even more unfavourable than was before apprehended ;
and there can no longer be any doubt that fine old wheat
will become more valuable in proportion as it is found to be
required for mixing with the damp. inferior qualities of new.
That the quantity left over of last year's crop is trifling, is
generally admitted ; whilst it is an undoubted fact that of
free foreign very little remains in the country. It is true
that we have about half a million of quarters of wheat in
bond in the kingdom, and it is possible that somewhat about
100,000 quarters may arrive before winter puts a stop to
shipments from the Baltic ; but even were the whole of this -
quantity immediately released, we doubt whether it would
have any material influence on prices. In the present posi-
tion of affairs it is not likely, however, that importers
will enter for home consumption, as by leaving their
property under lock, they will be in a position to take
advantage of the fall which must, later in the year, occur in

the duty.
The trade in Wheat has, since our last, been active ; and
not only has the previously established advance been main-
tained/ out a further rise in prices has taken place at many
of the principal markets. Notwithstanding the inducement
held out by the present remunerating rates, farmers have
manifested vary little anxiety to part with their wheat, and
the deliveri,s have rather fallen off than increased ; buyers
have, on the other hand, &emed it prudent to make further
addition to their stocks, and, at present, we can discover no
symptoms of a re-action.
At Liverpool, on Tuesday, the best dry qualities of new
Wheat were readily placed at terms fully 3d. per 701bs. above
those of that day sennight ; and old rose to about the same
extent. Bonded parcels were sought after; but, in conse-
quence of the very high rates demanded, the actual transac-
tions were not extensive. On Friday the inclination to make
investments was more general than m the early- part of the
week; and for a parcel of ordinary red Baltic, in bond, is.
per 701bs. was paid.
The i'cp,rts from Leeds and Hull, of Tuesday, though of a
decidedly firm character, are less animated than might have
been anticipated, considering th,t quantity of rain which has
recently fallen in Yorkshire. At neither of the places last
named wore the millers willing to pay enhanced rates, and
sellers declining to accept former prices, the ope-ations were
comparatively unimportant; the case wile, however, different
at Wakefield on Friday, the continued wet having created
much tineftSina,,S for the outstanding portion of the crops. On
the whole a fair amount of business was transacted there, and
Wheat realised from Is. to 2s. per quarter more than on that
day se'nnight.
The advices from the western and north-western markets
report a material rise in quotations. At Bristol, on Thursday,
all kinds i f Wheat advanced Is. to 2s per quarter; and at

lirmiugliam, on the same day, the enhancement amounted
from 2s. to s per quarter. Letters from the last-named town
inform us that a good deal of Wheat, a proportion of the Peas
md Tares, and nearly the whole of the Beans, are still abroad
in that neighbourhood.
As already remarked, only moderate supplies have this
week been brought forward by the growers; and at the ship-
iing ports on the east coast—from whence the growth of
Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire, and Norfolk is dispatched to
the chief consuming markets—the supplies have fallen some-
what short of the demand. At Spalding and Lynn, on
Tuesday, the turn was decidedly in favour of the sealer; and
at Boston. on Wednesday, the advance amounted to fully 2s.
per quarter.
- Our advices from Scotland speak very despondingly of the
weather, and the progress made with harvest operations in
that country. Even in the neighbourhrod of Edinburgh
much of the corn, we are infirmed, is still in the fields; and
in the backward localities, immense injury has, it is feared,
been done by the heavy and constant rain ; as, however,
the prospects in respect to quantity were previously very
good, it was still hoped that—though the quality would be
inferior—about an average produce would be secured. These
remarks apply more particularly to Oats, the staple crop of
the country ; Wheat appears there, as with us, to have
,uffered from the want of warmth and excess of moisture
during the summer months, and is therefore expected to be
short in yield. There was considerable excitement in the
grain trade at Edinburgh on Wednesday. Wheat was
quoted 2s. per quarter, Bailey Is. to is. 6d., and Oats Is. to
2s. per quarter higher, with an adive demand for each. At
Glasgow business was also lied), on the day named, and the
rise in price was quite as great at the last as at the first men-

tioned town. -
Ireland appears to have been visited with similar weatherto
that experienced on this side of the Channel; and a good deal
of injury is said to have been done in the later districts, not
only to the corn remaining abroad, but also to the Potatoes.
These reports, and the rise in the English markets, bad caused
holders of grain to demand higher terms; and at the prin-
cipal markets, the value of Wheat and Oats had tended
upwards,
The arrivals Of Wheat coastwise into London have slightly
increased; 6,785 Tinders having been reported up to this
quarters the preceding
(wSeaettliti
colnshire, the greater part of which has gone to the millers
)co:gviedlitifinagtilleagparoinpsotrti6or o6f the supply is from Lin
direct, From the home counties the show of samples at
qbuilYtafififetltilri
Mark-lane has been very small; indeed so trifling, that the
d some difficulty. in securing the
have experience
Th f l -lfb. d
Kellf; Atiti Suffolk stands, on Wednesday, were
the Essex, . for present use. eew ots ex 1
Wednesday,
we
t reviously obtainable; whilst on
easily placed at tottlei on the rates current in
Friday a rise of ls. to 't. 'ler 4 •-• ,
.nsisted on. and very gene-
thd bEginnintf of the: week Was-....'
prices itn_ p
--Nether old 'or new.
rally realised fof fealty good qualities, ~- - Wheat has
The danip condition iii which fifuet tlf Eh® ne.. - ..,
eces-
come to hatid-1,a6 tendefed an ektensive thiSitnrsofolu.—
sary, and the linef klodg of ftee foreign have been, therefore,
a good deal sought after; hol4eroi df the latter have conse-
quently raised their pretensions; and the males made at the
close df the week -were at prices IP. per quarter above -those
at whidi ptit6haitel Jilight have Lieen effected 0;'. Monday
A lively littpliry tdr bontlad ii'lteiff hal prevailed thro:,;(1-
out the weAr, and had importers been disposed to have
accepted former terms, extensive transactions would ph:413044
have been entered into. the very high rates asked have, to
a certain degree, ehadlied business; still some rather large
sales were concluded on Friday f,r good to Atte high mixed
Dantzie Wheat at 565. to 365.-perqiiartef, and for a lot of old
' red KonigSberg 525, 6d.
_per finattet was OA Tbefe wad
very little Lower Baltic lied Wheat offering as low as Mi.,
and for fine heavy Rostock sellers declined accepting less than
525.,. making the rise from Monday fully 2s. per quarter.
As yet the dlity tannins at, 18S. pet quarter; but the ave-
rages are now coinitig high evefi ttam the ritritqltrital OiS=
tricts, and a fall must take place before the end of the mofith ;
whilst, from.the.present position of affairs, we are inclined to
think that Wheat will; bie the. termination of the year, be
admissible at 10s. or 125.; it not 143iqf, .
'The millers have shown some iniwillingheSs tel enter. into
forward contracts tb, deliver Mute expecting afttrther rise iti
the value of the arilEle. hip Flllui WO deide4ly dedfet en
Friday, as was also Canadian and United States.
The arrivals of Barley have yet but slightly increased,
and, as the time is now, drawing near when .the maltsteis
uswill!;,' cettnnrilliCe threshllig, Wars tir the little Mlk.% hftve
manifested a disp,,sitiou to insist on
,otihatieed vices. Fide
qualities were certitinly,the turn higher at the tilt', eof the
week, arid, eveli old t•rel,4tm ir..4mPllia -ii-ete lield for mbi'd
money. Barley is at present relatively cheaper than most
other kinds of grain, and it is therefore reasonable to calculate
on sonic advanee, in its 'tibia..
The-scarcity of line old Malt hes caused the bettet • *bills
to be soughtafreri, and a.futt her, small ittipiBvenient on Mon:
day's quet4tioni liiiii,.iit fiartial initaficea; tin eßtaliliqiiell.
The total supply of Oats has amounted to only 7,243 qrs.
during the week; of which, ;306 tyS., hitiVe heed received
1.,
from our own coast; 670 kiiii: rto,sbooia: ahil 51167 tire:
from Iteli,tild. rfoni.abiod there irate been nil atiiitig.
Though that porti6n of the Odt eroji wiiihit who Seented
early yielded well to Ike tiers; and proteS of dorid quality,
large a prtportNn or the Harvest is yet abroad in Ireland
and Scotland that it big b 6.014 ttonbtfill 411e,i* the total
quantity Will Come up tp tliaeilimittas fdrirled of Ott ibid
earlier in thLs veal'. Tlii3, and the iliSei§e liy whihh the po.:
tatoes have everywhere ,ben attiOed:::4 elferitriSitincti
which 'that catise it igreittlV ineterrAed coliatuniitkin of oat,
merri—may ace unt for the firm tone which holders of oats
have this week assumed.. Qii Wednesdn few faetors were
willingto sell at former pric'ek anti oh Frldity aii itil*anee of
6d. tb It' pet' qr. was e§tabli-hed without difficulty riot only
on home gr., wn, but likewiSe on free foreign Oats;
In the early part of the week the price of Beans had rather
a downwind tendency; liiit.the atintiittred Wet Weather, and
the probability of the outstanding crop being much injured
thereby. gave rise to a more lively demand on Friday, when
the slight depression was completely recovered.
Peas ware alsd mirth snore sought after at the close than in
the cointhentattletit Of the week, and neither white blue, nor
maples, could be secured on so easy terms on Friday as on
Monday.—Narh-lane Express.

A Cuatostm—An ordinary earthenware dish, pur •
chased at the Cambrian potteryt in this town, about 16 months
ago,by Williams, a tailor, residing in Goat-street, has excited
a considerable portion of curiosity in the minds of some of our
townspeople during the past week. It appears that a short
time since a great number of small crystalized substances,
having the appearance of flowers, or miniature mushrooms,
were observed to grow out of the dish, breaking through the
hard glazed surface. One or two of these grew to the extent
of an inch, but were accidentally broken, Others are now
budding forth, covering nearly the whole surface of the dish.
The taste is very similar to that of common salt. The oldest
and most experienced individuals engaged in the manufac-
tures of earthenware in this town do not remember witnessing
such appearances on any previous occasion. A potter, who
also keeps the Compass public-house in High-street, pur-
chased the article from the original owner for I/. 55., and has
issued bills announcing it fur exhibition. The general im-
' pression in the upper region of our town is, that it is a "be-
witched dish ;" but we opine that 'chemists, r_ en analrsation,
would be able to account for these curious appearances, by
the accidental presence of §oine chemical ingredient not usu-
ally found in the materials from which such articles are rnanu-
f actured.— Cambrian.

Cnuacll 1101.3BERY.—Yesterday information was
given at the London police stations that on Saturday night
the parish church of Great WymondV, Hertfordshire, was
.broken into and robbed of the communion service, consisting
of a plain silver plated cup and a plate.
A few days ago, George Hudson, Esq., M P.,
Chairman of the 'York and North Midland Rail way Company,
gave a substAntial dinner to the servants of that establishment,
amounting in number to 200-. including the mechanics in the
locomotive and carriage shops, engine- drivers-stokers, switch-
n, porters, They sat down to dinner, at half-past six
o'clock, in one of the large workshops appurtenant to the
York station, which is 150 feet long, and 00 feet wide. The
manner in which the health of Mr. Hudson was received
evinced the esteem in which he is held by this numerous
body of artizans. The most deafening cheers, renewed for
several minutes, followed the toast. The other toasts we e
also warmly applauded, and the evening's" entertainment
pass d off in a meat agreeable manner. The party broke. up
al,o t Owen o'clock, and repaired in good order to their re-
qe !five' homes, no little gr-atified-with the entertainment.—
u.ickriand Times.
Mr. Higham, Secretary and Comptroller-General to the
Comodi4ioners tor the Reduction of the National Debt, had
an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yester-
' day, at his official residence in Downing-street.
L Jocclyn transacted business at the Foreign-office on
Monday.