The accounts of the harvest vary from week to week,
and it may be said from day to day. The question now asked is not as to an abundant, but whether there will be an average crop of wheat. Hain and sunshine are intermingled as in April, but rain predomi- nates. One effect of the unsettled weather is seen in the prices at Mark Lane. • The average is 718.4d. a quarter ; and the duty on foreign corn is consequently reduced to 6s. 8d. This time last year, the average was 71s. I Id., and fis. 8d. the duty. There was greater fear of scarcity in September 1838, than now ; but the prices indicate'confidence in holders that the supply will fiat below the demand. It is certain that consumption will be restricted by the high price, and that one of the worst effects of fettering the trade in corn will be seen in the distress of an ill-fed labouring Population during the ensuing autumn and winter. In the summer months the privation is not so much felt.
