The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-07-28 00:00:00

numerous other vast cotton rertions of the world had

,t•ot -
been raised. into 'air tonilletition with the close
monopoly now enjoyed by the tTnited States 5 At least
2d per lb. Calculate tlii;* 2d per lb. upon our tb.ousatici
million pounds annual consumption, and say whether

le difference of eight millions sterling per annum
is not alone a sufficient argument to induce coopera-
tion in the efforts which are being made to place the

cotton trade npo'n zi rt! ofe stable foundation. By sT

doing, they will, at the same time, assist' iri tte goltition
of the qtrstion how far it is possible to secure a suffi-
ciency of cotton *grown by the laktur of free men ?

When this is accomplished, England may, --with just

pride, congratulate herself that the worker in the cotton

field as well as in the mill eats the bread of freedom--

cotton is biad

This is the age of StatistiCS, and amongst the latest
returns we likVe seen is one of_the extent to-which flog-
ging is employed in the different gaols thidiighoiit the
kingdom. In the course of, the last three years corporal
punishment has been inflicted in E 52 instances:in the
prisons of England and Wales. Sometimes this punish-
ment is inflicted by order of courts of justice, at the
assizes and sessions, chiefly for stealing, but occasionally'
and riot inapprOpriately fOr other offences,—such as
emit with intent to commit a rape, arid repeated deser-
tion of wife and family, leaving them chargeable to.the
parish: fit other times the whipping is by order of the
visiting justices for prison offences, which, besides' instt-
boidimition and refusing to work; include such cases
as attempts at stiicide, Creaking up the cell furniture
and setting fire to it, assaulting an officer and threatening
to murder him. In some of the cases where the whip-

ping has been ordered by visiting justices, the offence is
but vaguely described in the return as "idleness," and in
one case "sleeping in the open air." In Tiverton gaol
all the whippings were before the mayor. The rod
seems to be most required in the Earth during the
three years the visiting justices have applied it to 84
prisoners in the New Bailey, Salford, and to 37 in the
city gaol, Manchester; the qnarter sessions to 58 in
Walton borough gaol, and the petty sessions to 96 in
the borough prison of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Alto-
gether 190 men and boys were flogged in Lancashire,
99 in Northumberland, 78 in Staffordshire, 48 in Che-
shire; in Yorkshire but 15 ; in Middlesex, Surrey, and
Kent, together, 131; in Berks, Derbyshire, Dorset'
Suffolk, Worcestershire,. only 5 each ; in Durham,
Gloucestershire, Essex, Notts, and Warwickshire, 4
each ; in Beds, Bucks, Hants, Westmoreland, 2 ; in
Herefordshire and Cambridgshire, 1; in Cumberland
and Monmouthshire, none; the differences are remark-
able.

One of the London papers makes merry with the pro-
spectus of a new office—a Volunteers' Friendly Assur-
ance Society—" to insure volunteers against accidents
from fire-arms." By paying a small yearly premium,
the injured volunteer will receive a sum proportioned
to the gravity of the accident, or his family in case of
his death will teceite MOO. The projector, "his eye
in a fine frenzy rolling," dralks lip a Whole list of pos-
sible misadventures. A volunteer blowing his Own arm
off receives so much ; and if his head is blown off by
'the bursting of his own rifle; his family receives a much
larger sum. All to other possible, or even impossible,
accidents which volunteer flesh is heir to are similarly
appraised, and blood money ts duly apportioned.
Unfortunately, the enthusiastic; projector has not many
facts on which to base his " urgent necessity " for this
as yet unborn society. One fatal accident in the country
(place net named), a. blank cartridge contusion at
Chiselhurst, a skin-deep bayonet wound at Liverpool,
are all the calamities recorded. The company may
languish, as Jones or Thompson may hesitate to write
himself clowfi art ass by insuring himself against blow-
ing his head off in the bad handling of his own Enfield
rifle.

The Electric and International Telegraph Company's
report for the half-year ending the 30th of June has
been published. The accounts which accompany the
report exhibits an increase of receipts to the extent of
£3,074 18s. 2d. over those of the corresponding half-year.
The directors are consequently enabled to recommend a
dividend of 3 per cent. for the half-year, against 31 in
the corresponding period, although the paid-up capi-
.tal is somewhat larger, and to carry a balance of
£5,168 2s 3d out of the clear earnings of the half-year
to the Renewal Fund, which, with interest, now amounts
to £23,416 196 6d. Much interest has recently been
excited by the proposal to connect America with this
cotntrv, via Denmark, Iceland, and Greenland, and the
directors are alive to the value which such a line would
preve to your undertaking. A very short continuance
ncrthward of the existing wires would bring the whole
of the company's stations, into dixect communication
wth this transatlantic route. .