Corn Trade - wheat, barley and oats

CORN TRADE. The name of corn is sometimes given to grain only, while at other times it is made to include meal or flour as well as grain. The American merchants, and some in our own country, give the name of breadstuff; to grain and meal collectively. We shall give a few entries illustrative of the con sumption of foreign corn in this country.

The wheat and wheat flour imported into Great Britain between the years 1825 and 1849, varied from 66,905 qrs. in 1835, to 4,835,280 qrs. in 1849. Of the quantity in this last mentioned year, which exceeded that of any previous year, the imports from the chief sources of supply were in round num bers :— France 750,000 qrs.

United States 600,000 „ Russia 000,000 „ Prussia 600,000 „ The average importation of wheat and wheat flour, from 1828 to 1849, was 1,771,067 qrs. annually ; of which Prussia supplied 435,791, United States 242,094, Germany 232,034, and Russia 209,237.

The quantities of all kinds of grain and meal imported in 1849, were as follow : Wheat and wheat-meal 4,835,280 Barley and barley-meal 1,389,858 Oats and oat-meal 1,307,904 Rye and rye-meal 246,843 Peas and pea-meal 236,525 Beans and bean-meal 458,051 Indian corn and meal 2,277,224 Buckwheat and meal 627 Beer or Bigg 843 10,753 755 The average prices paid for six of these va rieties of foreign corn and pulse in that year were—wheat 44s. 3d., barley 27s. 9d., oats

17s. 6d., rye 25s. 8d., peas 31s. 2d., beans 30s. 2d. per quarter.

The wheat, barley, and oats, sold in the towns from which the averages given by the corn inspectors are obtained, in three conse cutive years, amounted to the following quan tities : Wheat. Barley. Oats.

1847.. 4,637,610 .. 2,041,129 .. 960,334 1818..5,399,833..2,401,736..1,022,875 1849 .. 4,453,982 .. 2,099,820 .. 851,079 In the year 1850, the following enormous quantities of 'bread-stuff' were brought into the port of London, from the agricultural', counties and from abroad :— Wheat 874,410 quarters.

Barley 455,475 „ Oats 1,141,398 „ Beans 122,226 „ Peas 76,255 „ Flour 1 399,123 sacks and 66,463 barrels.

More than three-fourths of this entire quantity was brought from foreign countries. In 1849 the quantities of wheat, barley, and oats, ex ceeded those of 1850.