The Sun.
London, England, 1867-01-02 00:00:00

LEEDS-TUESDAY.

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There being only a moderate show of wheat at this
day's market we have to report a firm trade in that article
at last Tuesday's prices. Fine bailey quite as well sold,
while inferior descriptions are bad to quit. No material
change in oats and beans.

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Average prices: Wheat, 58s 4fcl; barley, 37s 11. id ; oats,
25s aid.

MELTON MOWBRAY.—TUESDAY.
Not so much wheat as usual. Finest qualities wore is
per qr. higher ; other sorts steady at late rates. Superior
samples of malting barley wore rather dearer ' • other sorts
unaltered. Oats a fair trade, and unchanged in value.
Beans a heavy trade at easier rates.
White wheat, 62s to 72s ; red, 52s to 67s per 36 stone
Barley for malting, 40s to 528, per qr; feed, 32s to 38s per
30 stone. Oats. old, 30s to 355; new, 228 to 29s per 24st.
Beans, old, 52s to 545.; new, 46s to 50s per qr.

Foreign Mail Packet List.

MAILS DUE.
Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton Jan. 19.
Ditto, via Marseilles Jan. 13.
Brazil and Capc V:erds. by British packet. ......,,,Jun. t
Ditto, by French packet Jan. 2:
Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St.
China, Penang-, and Singapore, via Soulhampton Jan 3.
Ditto, via Marseilles
Falkland Islands
Gibraltar, via Southampton Jan. 3
India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Jan 3
Ditto, via Marseilles
India ( ilumbay), via Southampton. Jan 13
Ditto, via Alarseilles .. Jan. 7
Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Jan. 3.
Ditto, via Marseilles Jao. 7.
liattritins, via Southampton Jan. 19.
Ditto, via Marseille
ewtoundland
t'crrtu.ga)
..... 4
Ditto, by •private ship to Lisbon.
nalted states and British North America, by Bri-
tish packet
Ditto, by United States packqt, via Southamp-
ton

Ditto, via Cork
Ditto, oy Canadian packet, via Londond,rry Jan. 4
iVect Coat of Africa, Iladeira, and rcueriffe Jau. 3
West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas and
Honduras)
Bahanr...l. via New York
Cuba a 'td Alexia°
Bermuda. via Halifax—.,

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Jan 1
Jan.
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Jan. IG.

The cattle plague continues to itself, al-
though ou so infinitesimal a scale that the "'weekly
return of reported cases," issued " by authority of
the Lords of the Privy Council," does not appear
to be of much use. From this document, received
last night, it appears that there were six cases in
the week ending Saturday, December 22, being the
same number as in the previous week. There is,
however, this difference, that whereas last week
they were all from South Holderness, in the East
Riding, only three came from that district, and the
others, one each, from Stowmarket, in Suffolk,
Pirehill, in Staffordshire, and Warrington, in
Lancashire.

The report of the East Indian Railway Company,
to be presented on the 31st inst., is the most im-
portant document of the kind yet issued with regard
to Indian lines, since it announces for the first time
the payment of a dividend in excess of the 5 per cent.
interest guarauteed by the Government. The sur-
plus is £108,073, half of which belongs to the India
Government, and the remaining half will enable
the dividend to be increased from the rate of 5 per
cent. per annum to 5I per cent., leaving £l,OOO to
be carried forward, after appropriating £9,166 to a
reserve fund to meet a probable loss from the failure
of a concern called the Commercial Transport Asso-
ciation at Calcutta. The working expenses for the
half-year to the 30th of June last were 41.34 per
cent., against 42.30 per cent. in the corresponding
half of the previous year ; the number of passengers
was 2,099,737, against 2,183,319, and the tonnage
of goods was 401,305 tons, against 391,951 tons, and
the net earnings were £626,218, against £474,083.
The vacancy in the Board caused by the death of
the late Capt. Nairne is to be filled by the nomina-
tion of Mr. D. I. Noad, the secretary, to be managing
director. The interest paid by Government on the
East Indian line from its commencement has
amounted to over £4,000,000. When this shall
have been paid off by the division of all earnings
above 5 per cent., the whole of the net revenue will
go to the shareholders.

A. letter from Florence, in the Debats, has the
following :--" When two months ago I wrote to
you that after the departure of the French froth
Rome in all probability nothing particular would
happen, I must confess I did not expect to be so
thoroughly correct. The fact is, that nothing iS
doing, absolutely nothing, and the calm is such that
it seems as if it might be prolonged to all eternity.
however, this must only be trusted to a certain elc-
tent. M. Tonello and his mission are hardly space
of. People say that by the side of his negotiation a
secret semi-official one is progressing which will pre'
pare the real solution. What is clear, in any case'
is that the country is tranquil and that the passions'
if they exist, are singularly kept down. The
Official Gazette has published a letter from the
bishops residing at Rome to the President of
the Council, and the reply of Baron Ricasoli•
This answer deserves to be noticed. It is a clear
and lucid exposition of the motives which animate
the Government. I may add that it appears a sin'
cere one ; the Baron has evidently either written or
dedicated this epistle, and put into into it his real
thought, for it does not consist of mere Ministerial
phraseology. His idea is to solve by the most conk'
plete liberty the long-standing difficulties between
Church and State. This attempt, made in Italy
herself, there where the Church had fixed her centre
of empire, there where the Roman right was created
which has furnished the best arms to the State, i 5
a daring effort, so bold, that one hesitates to pre"
diet its success, although, down to the present time,
everything seems to indicate its possibility."