The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-09-14
FOREIGN COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE, &C.,
RECEIVED BY THR EUROPA.

the Crops aud Corn Trade OF Europe.
From the London Mercantile Gazette, aug 81 r MI
More picious weather than We have lately expo
ri-nr.d could scarcely be desired apd harvest work
has been carried without thu slightest ntsrru ptioa
during the last fortnight three weeks The coye-
quebce of this affairs has been highly favora-
BE 10 farmers. Not only have they been enabled
to the greater proportion of their in excel.
lent order but the expenses have been iess than In
ordinary seasons Occasional interruptions OF few
days even hours must necessarily cause loss mas
much % the hands engaged cannot be useruly EN-
plo,.d during wet ar showery wea her; but such
dissdvsptage has ls'tly been experienced; tho work
has gone steadily and prosperously from Mou-
cay morning til saturday night, without tue
los OF single hons iu all the southern
psfts cf the Xii gdom the fields are nearly cleared,
ard in the north the has been rapidly
brought TO psturity our most sanguine expectations
In .gsrd he hsIv-st are therefore likely
litsd. Till now, have not estimated the probable
yield OF more than good average; owing. however to
the capital order IN which nearly the whole OF that
Of the remainder berg we'll got in. disposed
to think that the resut will prove esti mate t.
have been too low particularly IN regard to wheat and
oats and cops Of all other articles unques
foh0biy tood the aggregate produce of food for
ana beast rs hhIv 10 be greater Than has been the
IN any raer,0ns season Jor many yeays past Urder
these circumstances, We shsuld probably have had
Low range IF prices, even II the Laws had not
been abb lisheo but low prices la consequence Of in
ternaI plenty newer UT did harm. The Gaze Is how
very different when the .dpctioD IL caused by
an excess a foreign competition and confess
that feel considerable uneasiness respecting the
In us likely to bs produced on the agricultural In
terest BY the admission OF grain from abroad free Of
he fu effects OF the tree trade policy have not
hthsrts been felt Last year harvest defective
as render 1t necessary TO import all that could be
procured and this would have been done under what
tvsrs,st,m Of corn Laws might have bscn In exs.
teDce. but in u totelly different position.
We have grown sufficient or nearly sufficient food
for wants; sti there Ia to be restriction.
duty foreign supplies and tho benefit which
favorable would confer upon farmers Il to
20 he taken from them by "frce-trader legislature.
The value OF wheat has undergone further decline Of
sLoct % per ar at most OF the markets held during
the week and there no appearance OF the dosnwad
fsl bss been greater. On Monday there was q good
show OF samples by land carriage from the homo
copDti,s, principally ~ this years. growth The
quality CONDITION OF the greater part brag no. the
mers n'sLifrst,d come disposition To purchase but
they bsd on until factors consented to accept prices Is
To 5r per or below these currtrt on that day week.
when fair clearance maze Since then the trans.
actions have been comparatively unimportant the
town mll.rs spp,nr to have secured much new
wheat they require for i'm diAe aud shov
Inclination to go into stock On "Wednesday scarcely
a sale was made, spd this morning. the operations
retail scsle. though factors willing
submit TO - NE further statemement The arrivals u
VIII, at FROM abroad have not been large; but good up
plies are believed to be close at h.ad One or tso
vessels have come forward from the Baltic, whish
sailed after the raising Of the Dsosh blockade Realty
hLs foreign wheat has been taken In small quantities
for mixing a. prices ls Ia "a quarter beio~ those
previously current but have sold largely IL would
have been to have submitted to greater do
clire cargo from straisund Of good quality but not
In first condition offered Ala per or
he top price of town made nour has remained noui-
pslly unaif,red. English barley has for ~Hrd
tpariba and has not been sid cheaper the value Of
reign has been nearly supported but the sale the
latter has been exceedingly difficult rhe arrivals Of
oats ccsstwse have been snsh aud the receipts from
abroad moderate parcel or two II NV Lipcousb
have appeared 81 Krsst wsgbt-tay ~ lbs to ~ lbs
per bUsb. The bert whether VI home foreisa
growth. bss not been offered cheaper but secondary
s.Ifs have Teced.d about Cd per quarter This fall
took place Monday and has not snce been
covered Beans have moved OF sio~ly at previous
pace With the nd aud the turn hn. been agnust
the buyer Indian corn hss been completely negsstod