The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1851-09-20

fErcm the London News, August "
The accounts of the harvest which have reached
us from the continent and from America hardly
warrant us, perhaps, in venturng to form very posi-
tive ideas as to the commercial position in which
our neighbors either side of the Atlantic are
likely relatively to stand during the next winter
and spring towards each other ard ourselves. But
enough is already ascei tanned to lead the least
thoughtful to the snticpat on Of consequences
which, Though they may be materially modified by
many contingencies, scarcely fail to stamp their
form and pressure on the c)ming year.
In the south Of France the wheat crop is said to
have proved abundant. But in extensive districts Of
the north and east the yield is reported to be def
cient in quantity. Ard though for week or two
prices more likely to fall than to advance, well
founded anticipation prevails that during he winter,
the cost Of bread in many departments OF the repub-
lie will be considerably greater than IL has been
durirg the last twelve months. In Paris this may
not be perceptible It's supplies are drawn from
q wider range than any county town; and Infinite
pains will 10 doubt be taken to cqnaze beimcs
the supply with the demand But even though the
market no .es should indicate no luctuation what
ever, IL docs not therefore follow that Paris may
not sympathize indirectly in the Pressure which the
circumiscent communities feel. To the capital, as
10 the heart, the industrial circulation OF an over
centralized country naturally returns, when by any
cause rerclled from the extre mites. IL was the
congestion Of artiJan labor in the end Of 1917 and
beginning of ISIS, that facilitated the irruption Of
February Absorbents on great scale for patti
cular kinds of labor have, indeed been provided by
recent measures Of splendid Improvement, TO be
ful metropolis on both sides OF the Seine. But
whether the influx Of hands sure to be attracted BY
| the announcer emit Of these magnificent undertake
ings, together with the many contributive streams
which an advance in the cost Of living is sure to cause
silently and gradually TO flow towards the great
7 centre, whether these in the aggregate may not
| more than counterbslance the extra cmploym INT
we have sdverted to, remains to be seen:
Ii IL fortunate for France, looking a. her nation.
al reckonings as whole, that che Is just nov called
/ upon TO execute mere than an usually large
| amount Of orders for manufactured goods for Anne
RIGA, whence she will probably look for the supply
Of her own unusual wants in the shape of corn The
manufactures seldom have had upoh their books q
larger number of unexecuted orders FOR the United
states. Money Ia abundant on the western side Of
| the Atlantic, and Jonathan is emphatcally entout
by nature. When he has plenty, he Is ready te
spend like prince. lie happens to have more o.
'the yellow magnet in his pockets at present thar
he ever remembers TO have had in the whole cours,
I of bis uncommonly prosperous existence. And as
in addition thereto, he has more breadstuifs th
fall than be can by any possibility oonsum,
himself he is determined that wives and daugh crs
sisters and nieccs, shal each and every single or
Of them have, by Christmas day, ore or NOR O
those machless silks and velvets which all maxim
have seen and coveted in The Great Exhibition, bu