The Sun.
London, England, 1866-10-18 00:00:00

SALISBURY.-TUESDAY.

To-day the attendance of farmers, millers, and dealers
was pretty good, but wheat came to hand in impaired CO'
dition, with but comparatively little of first quality ;
steady trade was done at an advance of is per qr. For
barley sales were easily effected at full current rates. FI:T.
oats, beans, and peas quotations did not undergo 110,7
change.

The following are the quotations :—Wheat realised iron,
48s to 60s ; barley, 35s to 46s ; oats, 24s to 32s ; beans, 48.. i
to 54s ; and peas, 42s to 50s per qr. Tares, from 6s to JO
6d per bushel ; Best bread, 13d ; household ditto, 12d*
per 81b loaf. Flour, 39s to 45s per sack.

HULL.—TUESDAY.
English white wheat, 56s to 60s; red, 52s to 565; Dant-
sic and Konigsberg, 458 to 608 ; Baltic red, 48s to 520;
Danish and Hamburg, 46s to 50s ; Russian, 488 to SO'
Barley, English, —s to —8 ; grinding, Mediterraneavo
31s to 318 6d. Oats, new English, 27s to 28s; Russ'
26s to 275. Beans, old English, 50s to 51s; foreign, OS
to 475. Peas, English blue, 40s to 41s Od ; foreign white',
38s to 40s; grinding, 36s to 378 Od per qr.

MELTON MOWBRAY.—TUESDAY.
With rather more inquiry, wheat may be quoted is Pe!
qr higher. Barley came freely to hand, but very fine sort'
were scarce.

White wheat, 54s to 61s ; red, 50s to 56s per 36 stone'
Barley for malting, 40s to 46s per qr; feed, 83s to 368 '
30 stone. Oats, old, 30s to 338; new, 22s to 30s per 2401
Beans, old, 48s to 525; new, 458 to 48s per qr.

COAL" MARKET.
Price per ton at the close of the market.
s. d. s. 9
Holywell Main l7 6 Wailsend Haswell 2l g
Cassop
Pensher Primrose
Caradoc 2l 0 Walls End Hetton ... 21
Pittington lB 3 Tees
Hartlepool
liTyla,m -
Framwellgate l9 3 James
Kelloe
9
Cowndon

Ships at market, 58—sold, 42.

Foreign. nail l'aciiet List.

MAILS DUE.

Australia and New Zealand. via Southampton Oct. 20.
Ditto, via Alarseilles Nov. iB'
Brazil and ()ape Verde. by British packet. ..... Nov. 5.
Ditto. by French packet Oct. 23.
Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Oct. 28.
China. Penang, and Sing-spore, via Soudianipton—Oct 20.
Ditto, via Marseilles Oct. ;'8•
Falkland Islands

Gibraltar, via Southampton Oct 20•
India, (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton... Oat. 20
Ditto, via Max.eilles
India (Bombay), via Southampton. Oat. 29
Ditto, via ilarseilles
Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Oct. 20.
Ditto, via Marseilles Oct. 23•
Ilauritius, via Southampton
Ditto, via Ma/Tell:el. Nov. 13
Newfoundland • ".. Oct. 21.
Portugal 5
Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon...
United States and British North America, by Bri-
tish packet . . ...Oct. 21.
Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp-
ton.........

Ditto, via Cork
Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry Oct. IS.
West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe 11
West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas and
Honduras) Oct. 29
Cuba and Mexico Oct. 29
Bermuda, via Halifax
Bahamas, via New Y ork. Nov. 16•

THE AMERICAN COTTON CROP.—The New 1104
commercial Advertiser of Oct. 2 publishes ' a letter?
signed "Caution," respecting the cotton crop. The writer
starts with a reference to the following passage in Dr'
Forbes's report :—" The ordinary estimate in Georgia vre°t
that an acre of land would yield two bales of cotton ;
Forbes believed that this year the average yield would not
be half a bale to the acre ;" and continues, If this is an
accurate representation of the doctor's statement, it is tile
most ludicrous blunder of the day. Our Georgia frienda
must have taken most unwarrantable liberties with the
doctor's credulity. Any child in the South knows that ip
patriarchal times the allotment of land to each working
hand was about 12 to 14 acres of cotton and 10 to 12 sae.
of corn, and that the average crop was about six bales t°
the hand. With rich land and less corn they made rote
cotton and vice versa. This year it is understood that there
was much more cotton and less corn than usual plants' te
the hand. Indeed, the planting season being most fav°°/..,,'
able almost every day from Dec. 24 to April 20 more land i'ra•
planted this year than could possibly be cultivated sa°'
cessfully. When the rains came on (no new thing under
the sun) much rich bottom land in Mississippi had to
abandoned, and every acre so given to up to grass caused°
howl of despair, which was heard all over the cotton-
trading world. Private information received by the writer
satisfies him the damage done by recent rains is cop'
fined to certain localities, and is by no means genera'd.
Very extensive cotton districts promise a large yield, sa„
even those injured most may recover it all this month,
favoured with dry weather. In 30 years' experience I have
never known a single instance in which a speculative
,
movement, originating in a cry of short crop in September
did not sooner or later lead to disappointment and a raw:
sion in price. The great abundance of money may out"
speculators to hold back the crop from Europe until Liver:
pool is forced up for want of stock, but this will only defer
the catastrophe, as it did last year, until the winter of
spring. In the meantime, I advise the cotton speculative
not to count their chickens before they are hatched,' or
estimate the cotton crop until they know, with some de-
gree of certainty, that it has stopped growing."