There was a pretty large attendance at Mark Lane yesterday,
and a considerable amount of business done, in some instances on rather better terms than those of last week. The quantity of wheat taken for con- sumption weekly is said to have increased rather than fallen off lately; owing probably to the lowered temperature, which has a very sensible effect on the national appetite. The arrivals of foreign wheat and flour have been on a limited scale during the past week ; which tends also to make prices firmer. It is said that the demand for wheat on French ac- count has begun to slacken. Should the report prove correct, we may expect to obtain a larger proportion of foreign supplies during the next few months. Of the whole of the grain-laden vessels which cleared out from Odessa in August, September, and October, only forty-six were bound for Great Britain and Ireland, while more than ten times that number were reported as having sailed for French mid Italian ports. The misfortune is, that we are not likely to have very large arrivals of foreign wheat or flour now for several months. Last week's averages are nearly double those of the same period last year, and the prevailing im- pression yesterday was, that prices are not likely to give way to any great extent this winter.
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