210 



We also annex a monthly table of tlie fluctuations in gold for the previous 

 four years, commencing with Januaiy, 1862, the date of the suspension of 

 specie payments : 



Date. 



1862. 



Lowest. 



Highest, 



1863. 



Lowest. 



Highest. 



1864. 



Lowest. 



Highest. 



1865. 



Lowest. 



Highest. 



January . . 

 February . 



March 



April 



May 



June 



July 



August . . 

 September 

 October . . 

 November 

 December 



Par to 



102i 



lOH 



lOli 



102i 



103i 



109 



112i^ 



116i 



122 



129 



130 



105 



104f 



102i 



102i 



104i 



109 J 



1201 



116i 



124 



137 



133i 



134 



134 



1.53 



139 



146 



14.'^ 



UOi 



123ir 



122i 



127 



1401 



143 



147 



I60f 



172i 



171f 



159 



155 



1481 



145 



129f 



143i 



156f 



154 



152f 



151i 



157i 



159 



166J 



168 



189 



222 



23H 



185 



189 



209 



211 



160 

 161 



169i 



187 

 190 

 251 

 ^85 

 ^62 

 255 

 229 

 260 

 244 



ENGLISH CROPS AND PRICES. 



The Mark Lane Express of April 9 thus speaks of the growing wheat-crop 

 in England and Europe, and of English and European markets : 



"With a prevalence of rain during the past week the labor of the fields has 

 been much impeded, and sowing in the late districts still further delayed ; but 

 with a mild temperature, upon the early sowings there has been rapid vegeta- 

 tation, and the young wheat has been making satisfactory progress. No disasters 

 seem yet to have fallen upon the growing crops in Europe, but the same delays 

 have occui-red. With so much damp, it was impossible that much improvement 

 in the condition of English samples should appear, and we have consequently 

 had a continuance of dull markets, with some occasional decline on inferior 

 qualities ; but there has scarcely been any quotable change in what has been 

 really fine and dry. 



* * * The prices in most parts of Germany leave no margin 



for export, for the simple reason that the crops there have been bad. Some 

 districts in southern Russia have failed, and so kept Odessa firm. The Danu- 

 bian principalities have failed more signally ; and it is only France — generally 

 a consuming country — that has any surplus, and that from a former crop. We 

 have pointed to America till we are tired of crying "wolf," but the established 

 difference between fine flour and wheat and inferior sorts at New York shows 

 plainly what we may expect thence; and now that shipments of French Jlour 

 for the United States, via Liverpool, have commenced, it ceases to become in- 

 credible that both France and England may yet be exporting countries^ 



The wheat crops of France, alluded to in the above extract, were as follows : 

 Acres sown : 



1863 17,114,164 



1864 16, 917, 130 



Yield, bushels : 



1863 331, 660, 394 



1864 316, 018, 111 



Yield per acre, bushels : 



1863 19^ 



1864 181 



