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

MELTON MOWBRAY.--TUESDAY.

With rather more inquiry, wheat may be quoted is per
qr higher. Barley came freely to hand, but very fine sorts
were scarce.

White wheat, 54s to 61s ; red, 50s to 5Gs per 36 stone•
Barley for malting, 40s to 46s per qr ; feed, 33s to 36s per
30 stone. Oats, old, 30s to 335; new, 22s to 30s per 21st•
Beans, old, 48s to 525; new, 45s to 48s per qr.

COAL MARKET.
Price per ton at the close of the market.
s. d. s. cl,;
Holywell Main l7 6 Wallsend Haswell 2l
Oassop
',;
Pensher Primrose
Caradoc 2l 0 Walls End Helton ... 21 ,
Pit tington lB 3 Tees
Hartlepool
Wylam l7 6 Walls End Gosforth 19 0„
Framwellgate l9 3 James
Kelloe
Cowndon

Ships at market, 58—sold, 42.

Foreign Mail i'acliet List.

MAILS

Australia and New Zealand, via Southainpton Oct.
Ditto, via Marseilles Nov. IS•
ttrazil and Cape Verde. by lirttisn paoket. ..... Nov. 5
Ditto, by French packet
Cape of Good Hope, Atooenslon, and St. Heleua oot. 8.
Uhina, Penang, and Sing•ipore, via Southampton Oct 20.
Ditto, via Marseilles Oot,
Falkland Islands

i bra tar, via Southampton Oct. 20.
i (Celcutta), and Ceylon, vla 3,)uttianipton..., Oat, 20

Ditto, via Marseilles
India (Bombay), via Southampton Oct. 29
Ditto, via narsei:les Oct. 23
llalta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Oct. 20.
Ditto, via Marseilles Oct. 23.
tlauritius, via Southampton Oct. 20
Ditto, via Marseilles... Nov. 13
Newfoundland
Portugal
• Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon
United States and British North America, by Bri-
tish packet . 2'.
Ditto. by United States packet, via Southamp-
ton • •
Ditto, via Cork
Ditto, oy Canadian packet, via Londonderry „Oct. 18.
West Coast of Africa, hladetra. and Tenerlife ....Nov. t°'
Test Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas and
Honduras)
•••• Oct. 29
Cuba and Mexico
Bermuda, via Halifax Oct. 24
Bahamas, via New t ork. Nov Js'

THE AMERICAN COTTON CROP.—The New York
Commercial Advertiser of Oct. 2 publishes 'a letter,
signed "Caution," respecting the cotton crop. The write'.
starts with a reference to the following passage in pr.
Forbes's.report :—" The ordinary estimate in Georgia Wee,
that an acre of land would yield two bales of cotton ;
Forbes believed that this year the average yield would ne''
be half a bale to the acre ;" and continues, "If this is en
accurate representation of the doctor's statement, it, is the
most ludicrous blunder of the day. Our Georgia friend°
must have taken most unwarrantable liberties with the
doctor's credulity. Any child in the South knows that in
patriarchal times the allotment of land to each working
hand was about 12 to 14 acres of cotton and 10 to 12 Wee
of corn, and that the average crop was about six bales to
the hand. With rich land and less corn they made reef°
cotton and vice versa. This year it is understood that there
was much more cotton and less corn than usual planted to
the hand. Indeed, the planting season being most favour
able almost every day from Dec. 24 to April 20 more land vii°
planted this year than could possibly be cultivated seo'
cessfully. When the rains came on (no new thing under
the sun) much rich bottom land in Mississippi had to be
abandoned, and every acre so given to up to grass caused e
howl of despair, which was heard 'all over the cotter
trading world. Private information received by the writer
satisfies him the damage done by recent rains is COo"
fined to certain localities, and is by no means genera.
Very extensive cotton districts promise a large yield, 841
even those injured most may recover it all this month, if
favoured with dry weather. In 30 years' experience IWe
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 revul-
sion in price. The great abundance of money may enable
speculators to hold back the ere p 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 or
spring. In the meantime, I advise the cotton speculatore
not to count their chickens before they are hatched,' or t°
estimate the cotton crop until they know, with some de'
greo of certainty, that it has stopped growing."