20 OCTOBER 1877, Page 3

Mr. J. B. Lewes, writing to the Times, estimates that

the wheat crop of 1877 produced in this country will not exceed 10,000,000 quarters, leaving as much as 13,000,000 quarters to be imported, unless the high price of wheat should somewhat re- duce the average demand,—an alternative which he thinks rather the more probable of the two. In any case, however, very con- siderably more than half our bread must this year come to ua from abroad.