The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-09-22 00:00:00

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HARVEST.--111ARAETS.
The variable state of the .weather rill keeps alive
sense apprehension respecting the reiult of the harvest.
It does not apiTr, however, that there is at present
any ground for alarm. The crops in Ireland are
understood to beiskls more promising condition tbao
elicit be expected froth recent accounts. Some local
:,nd circumscribed instances of injury, or failure in
the crops, pot forth in the Irish papers, have excited
an 'undue degree of alarm. 'The crops in Scotland
are very good. The wheat is excellent, and the wea-
ther there has been comparatively favourable. The
latest English provincial papers also give more cheer-
ier reports, and from enquiries this morning at the
Mail-coach offices we learn that the harvest is nearly
all concluded within fifty miles of the metropolis.—
Even should a rise of price take place, it is not expect-
ed to be such as to cause the opening of the ports in
November.—A tolerable harvest will be sufficient to
keep the ports closed.
• The Corn Market yesterday was in a complete state
of stagnation. No sales whatever could be effected ;
end such has been the eagerness of the farmers to take
advantage of the late advance, that the arrivals are
unprecedently large. Since Monday, nearly 20,000 qrs.
of Wheat have reached London.
The following are the particulars of the Scotch and
Irish crops and markets, recently received :
The sudden changes in the weather, daring the pre-
sent harvest, have produced the most extraordinary
fluctuations in the price of grain. Many farmers, with-
in our-knowledge. have been raised from the lowest',
depths of despondency to the most unexpected heights
of good fortune by these variations. One person who
bad purchased some months since, a large quantity of
fine old wheat at 141. per load, is likely to realize up-
wards of 10001. by his bargain :—and numerous te-
nants, who bad yielded up every hope of being able to
pay their rents, will, by the good prices they are now
obtaining for their wheat, be enabled to discharge
their landlords' full claims, and have a fair remunera-
tion left for their labour. On the other hand, it must
be confessed, that from the partial failure, which has
Certainly taken place, in many parts, (though the
South Down farmers are not included in this dis-
aster) much loss will be inflicted, particularly in the
Weald. But though the general crop of the present
year will, we are assured from high agricultural au-
thority, fall short of an average one, still there is
a superabundance of cern, from the immense quanti-
ties remaining in hand of the last three years' pro-
duce.—The process of threshing is most actively going
on in vat ions parts of this county both day and night,
and the markets, we have every reason to believe, will,
in a few days, be absolutely glutted. Prices of course,
must, soon, very considerably come down. The let-
ters of our different correspondents in Sussex all con-
cur la stating that the harvest is nearly completed.—
(Brighton Ikrald, Sept. 22.)
The prices of grain at Lewes corn marl:et, on
Tuesday, were—White Wheat 31. 16s. to 31. ISs. ;
Red ditto, 3/. 4s. to 3/. 12s.
At Arundel corn market, the prices were—Wheat,
181. Os. to M. Os. :.er load ; Barley, 275. to 2sa.
per quarter; Oats, 21r. to 245. per quarter; Flour,
lgd. per gallon. In the alive town, the quartern
loaf sells for 11d.
Our limits at this season are necessarily very much
confined. We cannot, however, omit to notice the
fluctuations which the corn market has exhibited
during the last fortnight—on account of the suppo-
sitions and the real effects of the weather upon the
harvest. That the wheat has sustained some injury there
can be no doubt. The barley has suffered still more,
and much of both in the Northern Counties is still
abroad. But the great evil complained of is, that the
former has been got up while soft, and that such corn is
unfit for grinding, except when mixed with larger
proportions than ordinary of old or of good-conditioned.
—Now if this be all, the kiln affords a competent
remedy, and although few farmers are possessed of
the means of drying by artigcial heat, most millers
and merchants can have instant recourse to such a
remedy. The difference therefore to the
.public ought
only to be in the expense incurred by this process.—
And when it is considered th at an unusually large
stock of the former harvests remains on band—that
the quantity of the present rather exceeds an average
crop—and, above all, that the stock of foreign grain
in warehouse, both at home and abroad, will instantly
rush into the market, should the averages rise to the
importation rate, we think there is little reason to ex-
pect any considerable or prolonged elevation of price.
Indeed the knowledge we have of the two first facts
from such a variety of quarters, will not suffer us to
doubt that the home supply is now fully equal to the
demand. However therefore prices may fluctuate,
(and they will fluctuate so long as opinion varies) ul-
timately, we look upon it as an absolute certainty,
they will descend at least to the level of last year.
Should there be found any real cause fur a rise to the
importation price, only for three months, as the law
now stands, woe be to the landed interest for years to
come —(Norreich Merearg, Sept. 2•
YARIMOUTH, &CPT. 20 —Our ITIM it on Saturday
was well supplied with wheat ( old and new)
which met ready sales, at from 3s. tb' ss. per quarter
dearer from last week's prices. Barleys are in great
request and full 6s. per quarter dearer.—Beans, Peas,
and Oats, 2s. to 3s. per quarter in advance.
LYNN, Sam 20.—We had a good supply of Wheat
at market on Tuesday, both new and old, but very
little inclination on the part of the merchants to pur-
chase, and the market closed heavily at a reduction of
four and Ere shillings per quarter from the prices of
last week. Barley was also plentiful, but the quality
very indifferent, being stained and many grown ker-
nels therein. In other articles no material alteration.
EDlNsuacia, Suer. 18.—A great number of shearers
was at the West Port yesterday morning ; but, as
nearly all the fields in the neighbourhood are cut
down, few were hired. The wages were 15d. and 16d.
a day.
Tun Caors.—Wheat seems to be of fine quality.
sod fully an average crop. Several parcels of early
barley have been found to weigh 18 to 191 stones, of
1711bs. to the stone; but the greater part will require
eight or ten days to' bring itlo the sickle, and, from
its present spotted appearaace, will be of very an-
evil:quality, and nearly one-third short of an aver-
age crop. Beam and peas will tap out to be of ex-
cellent quality,aad considerablivipsexceed an average
crop. Oats mai thin in the ground, and short
of straw, bat are found to tarn weft oat is the bang
floor ; and, from several parcels of the Flemish kind,
18 to ln picks of meal have Men returned from the