The Belmont chronicle, and farmers, mechanics and manufacturers advocate. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1848-1855, 1853-10-14

and TO WHOM we have frequently been indebt- '
ed for useful statistical information, /; is sta.
ted that. during the month ending 26th Aug,
127 vessels, wheat laden, cleared out for df-
ferent ports, Of which only were destined
for England; while Of the shipments made in
the corresponding period Of last year--about
the same in extent-three-fourth ofthe total
number of ships were OF British ports. This
proves that the quantity of wheat on passage
from thence cannot be large. The obstruc-
tion to the navigation at the mouth of the
Danube will prevent arrivals from Galutz;
and, looking at the imminent peril of war
breaking out between Russia and Turkey, it
would certainly not be safe to calculate on
anything like the supplies we usually receive
from the East. 1t appears, therefore, that
we shall have to depend mainly for our sup
/ ply of brcadstuiis on the United States and
Canada.
previous experience has proved that Amer
lea cannot, as general rule, export largely,
unless prices in Europe are sufficiently high
to cover the expenses of conveying the grain
from a great distance in the interior to the
sea-board. Whether present rates will suf-
flee for this may be questioned; but allowing
that this be the case, we are inclined to think
that all that country can spare will prove in
adequate to stop the upward movement in the
) British and French markets. The position
Of this country is, therefore, in truth, such as
TO warrant the remark we have made in the
foregoing part of the present article, viz
that it is difficult to fix limit to the advance
which may take place in the value Of wheat
:, Fine weather for securing the remainder oil
the outstanding crops, and an amicable ar
,, rangement of the Eastern question, might
give somewhat better complexion to affairs
, but looking at matters as they now stand
there is reason to apprehent that large por
ton Of the population will, during the ensu
ing winter, have to suffer from scarcity, AM
! consequent high prices for food"
The cholera is likewise spreading, and
seems that Europe will be decmated thi
year by famine, pestilence, war and revou
: tion.
% The Russian Embassador, Count Burnow
y was not long ugoin a watering-place on tn
>. sea- He saw there one Of the reporters of q
u influential London paper, pale and excite,
who had come to the place for the restoratio
~ of his health. The Count met him on tn
y beach, began to speak with him, and remarl
~ ed that he should take exercise on horsebncl
~ Surely" was the reply, "sucb an exercis
=, would be most healthy for me, but it is abo,
! my means" The next day the reporter g
&c polite letter from the ambassador, with u
J enclosed nose of f25, that the poor inval
y" might have the means of hiring horse. Th
II is the way that foreign ambassadors get inil,
D ence over the papers: it is not the bribe, bl
! the politeness which takes them in. ~
q Morning Advertiser has by its championsbi
;. OF Turkey suddenly got access to a more ele
, = vated class of readers; it is now seen not on
u ly in public houses but likewise in drawing
: rooms, and its teIegraphc dispatches hav
several times been more correct than those @
The Times. The Advertiser has now at ono
Il become the champion of Lord Palmerston, a
every rising paper invariably becomes. I.or
. Palmerston is even more clever in dealn
y with the public press than Count Brunpw.
y A. p. G..