Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1826-01-17
COMMERCE.
Prices of Produce in Alexandria yesterday:
CORN TRADE.

London, November 29.-Since the opening OF
the ports for Barley, that article has risen from
Is to Is. cd. in the Edinburg market.
The following circular from leading house
in the Corn Trade at Dantzic, ought to satisfy
our landholders, proving as it does, that in
case of famine in this country, we cannot
expect relief from any quarter, the cessation ct
the commerce in grain having given new d.
rection to the operations Of agricullurists.
"Dantz,c, NoU. l0-Since our circular OF the
5th Of Aug. we have not thought Unnecessary 70
trouble our friends with the continued advices
of the state Of our grain market The reports
of the result ofour last crop being rather con-
Trajectory, we felt it incumbent upon us to wait
the arrival Of some supplies, so as 10 be able to
furnish more accurate statement
awe consider, generally speaking, the last
crop as the worst in this country, since 1916,
and are sorry to say, the good opinion relative
to the quantity of the new wh9ats, expressed In
the circular alluded to, has by no means been
confirmed. With the exception Of few samples
perhaps not the twentieth part of the whole, The
remainder of the produce is ali sprouted, damp,
and utterly unfit for shipping. In Poland, the
wheat crop has also suffered by the heavy rains
during the last two weeks of August, but the
--:t .i.,~,i-- spread 50 Co., I'D
we have seen several samples free Of sprout
and tolerably dry.-Still the price in the coun-
try has risen about | S per cent since the crop
was got in, and is now considerably dearer
than last year at the same period, it being ap-
pretended that the quantity reaped from the
fields is scarcely one third Of what was an aver
age crop from the years 1870 70 1906. This
however, must be referred more particularly TO
the continued custom oflhrowing land out OF
cultivation originating in its turn, partly from
new agricultural system, and partly from the
distress naturally increasing in country deS-
litute of pecuniary resources and eminently in
capable Of national industry.
'sThe rye, barley, oats and peas crops in
Prussia are So deficient, both in quantity and
quality, as to leave literally nothing for expor-
tation. The farmers in this neighbourhood
driven to the highest pitch of misery, are now
buying these articles from the granares Of this
place, instead of supplying the market Rye
has consequently risen from GOT. 10 1901. and
l6of, and is likely to come TO 2o0t. during the
winter. Old barley is scarce at l55f Oats al
loof,-Whiie peas, which were bought at 9of:
before the last crop, are now worth 2lofto 22of
No shipments can be made from this port,
of either barley, oats orpeas, notwithstanding
the expectation of those articles being admit
ted in your country after the 18th November,
our stocks being exhausted. Three small car
goes of old barley have been collected with
great trouble, but another could not now be
completed. In old wheats we have had nothing
doing for the last two or three months, and pri-
ces remain nominally at go francs, 800 francs
for the best high Mixed or about 27s. to 2ss
Der quarter, on board 200 francs TO 24o francs,
about Dos. to 24s. per quarter for the middling
descriptions. Fine old wheat is kept firm by
the holders, but red and red mixed may be had
at our quotations. The last English mails
have brought some speculative orders from
vour side, which have not yet been executed,
the limits being, no doubt, below our curren-