The Express.
London, England, 1864-05-19 00:00:00

Two years and two mouths ago there appeared
tea morning journal • letter from • paws whit had made
some experiments in cotton growing in Jamaica to the
effect that Sea Wood cotton oaald not bs grows ia that
soostry—that it had been tried and failed, and that he had
lost • great deal of mosey in the attempt. He particalarly
mentioned • loss of 1004 he had incurred at a place called
Greenwall, in St. David's. The publication of this letter,
and the attempts of other persons to daemonge
all such experinienta, had the effect of thanking
the movement, and rendering pest caotiee wow
nary on the part of the parents who were, aswip
theism, determined to put the matter to the test
of • hair eaperiment. The public will, probably,
be interested in healing how far it lain succeeded. At Gnaw
wall, on the very estate Wand to by Mr. Weguelie,
5,000 lbs. of clean cotton have already been greys ea 46
acres of land, and 3,000 lbc more is expected this mop. The
valise of this cotton averages at least 2t. Bd. a pouad, and it Is
of a quality that before the Aniericae war wouM have fetched
Is. Co. On as mime it Clarendon owned by Mr. Thomas
Barnet M.P. for Bolton, 18,000 lbs. of cotton is the seed
has been already picked, or about 5,000 lba of chars wag.
Souse of this oottonibas beets sold at Liverpool at 3s. Bd. •
po nod. At Kingston, Hawser, Darliegford, tad other platen,
cotton is now being cultivated with maws, ad cotton tress
are found all over the country planted many years ago in full
bearing. One tree has bees seen by the spacial agent
of the Jamaica Cotton Company, which the tosser stated
had produced 3400 boils at nee time, which at J as.
of seed cotton for each boll would give at least 14112 a, of
clean cotton au a singe tree. It is admitted that this is
quite an exception to the ordinary crop, bat there is the
fact that it has been dons, and what has been dose may
be does again. The Jamaica Codas Company have already
picked this year 00,000 I be. of seed cotton, and they expect
to goon picking for the next two moods.. Nine bags Wive
ally as yet beeo sold, mid these fetched 2a. 11d. and 3s.
a lb. They expect 4,00() lbs. more by the stet
Liverpool steamer, which is said to be of saw
Ain quality to the last, and large quantities
by succeeding stearoers. Of conies the
of sending out agents, machleery, bosh seed of all
and instrtcting the eneocipated peamatry, render the saw
rimeots more omt.ly than they are likely to be in future
yea's, but the result of what lass bees sloes leaves no doubt
that if the matter had been taken in hand seven yam ago
when first proposed. sod generally supported by the oottoa
trade, as it has bees by the Mn.essr It'Cososl, Ogden, Ea-
monßriggs. Bonhomie, Oliver, Swindells, Barley, J. B.
Smith, hinder. cod others, a very large supply of long
stapled and go rates might by this time have bees at.
Mimed from 3 ammo. Through the kind attendees of Earl
Russell and 11r. Murray, of the Forago-aliss, the
company have been able to obtain the tree intros and
vine cotton seed, which is now growing meet 1 utarisatly,
although Dow has as yet borne cotton. 1. fact, *eery kind
of seed has been obtained from every country, and pat to the
met of eXpnrinient. A boll of Peruvian cotton bas bees met
home from the oceepaoy's estates, and valued bymllr=
Swindells, the flee apiaries., of Bothnia's, new
at 4s. a lb.

TILE NATIONAL. BANIL—Mean. Laurence and
Soo have accepted the contract for the ereatioo of the saw
branch house of the National Beak, at 9 sad 10, Char*.
cross. The bow is to be built from the designs el Mr.
Marsh Nelson, of Nekton and Inset, 6, WhitehalL
A Few Wogus ON 111 AND 19.4Sern.—The
cawing rook is the smallest of the crow tribe. He is • tem
insect destroyer. The corals. or real crow, will kil /az
lambs and pigs by peciiim out their eyes. A buw
destroy 6,000 mice moually. Ooe owl is worth • dew
cam is Geld. bars, or granary. blackbirds, thrashes, mime,
starlings. and larke are warm eating birds. 'lle goldfmak
eats thistle seeds. A swallow will devour 900 Wets
in • day. The miner bird, a worm ter, bees
been introduced from India into Australia. tbe bud celled
the laughing jickass is the best native mouser hod snake
killer in Australia. How food the Englishman is of the
robio, which is his social wiater easamairso. Oda be
feeds with crumbs of bread, and which the barbarism Bui-
-1 fon recommended as a bowl,. butida when eaten with bread
crumbs. The cockroach deposits 100 eggs it ows time, sad
the wheat fly 130 me, and the aphis is still awn
New Zirraid paper.
CHERBoUiRt —A letter front Cherbourg of the
16th says :—" The roadstead bore during the last few days
Ma presented a scene of greet &Mimeos ; memo fonts
Mips of war-6 Austrian, 1 Swedish, and IBC Z.U‘D
anchored there. The Austrian ships, which compose Rase.
Adtairal Willerstorf's division, were the strun•ship Kaiser,
92 /nos ; the iroo.csited frigate Dos Jame, 31 guns ; anew
frigate Arduluke Frederick, T.? guns; the peddle corvette
Empress Elizibeth, 10 guns. carrying the leg of the rear-
admiral ; and the gunboat Wall, 4 goes. This divisor' was
on its way from the Adriatic to the North 8.... lu cocas-
(memoe of the suspesslon of hostilities between Denmark
asd the Austro.Prusenny the fleet was thought likely to
remain at Cherbourg for two ur three weeks, but yester-
day erealog Admiral Willerstorf gave orders to weigh, and
at a quarter to 9 the division bad pot to sea."
ANYE,T OP hates ZEALAND Scrtreae. —The diffi-
collies the New Zeeland hush presents to the web of tempo
cannot be overrated. The cooper, round about the Queen's
Redoubt may be taken as a specimen. Seen from Rhodes,
clearing the highest mimeoe in the neighbourhood, them
asems to be at tract of country upon one level, over whir*
ranges of steep bills, varying in height from 400 to 800 feet,
rue in al! directions, the gorges and custom thickly timbered
and covered with a dense undergrowth. Forcing a pump
through one of these solitudes, daylight NOW to be lost
eight of. The son's rays cannot pierce through the
network of leaves and branches above, and the matted
jangle which meets overhead sod below. Instead, there
ragas a twilight, and tbe silence is unbroken save by
the cry el the wild duck from the adjacent morns. A walk
is a work of care and trouble, for the creeper known se
nipple jack—a stem the thickness of a walk-Iog.IMM, sad as
elastic as iodia.robber —interlaces trees and shrubs into as
inseparable connection. The unwary traveller looking asly
to his path will Sod himself caught by the Ghia ; sod
should be devote himself to guarding his bide, he will
inevitably be tripped up by the feet. However dis-
agreeable this country may be to troops, it pro-
mote evourecumeg scenes of wild beauty for the
artist. The gigautia fern, the native fuclisik with its pink
bark and lofty foliage ; the elegant karat' ; the veto, with
its depending foliage end onuses of clustering red bkiesoess;
and the lictoewoodtme, its lofty stem bearing a large bank
of spiky leaves at its top. are all of strikingly handbags.
aggeavoce, and maid, in rooky gime and 'showered
'insp., to form pictures the lowliness' of which lasses ea
asdesiahie immussom. Thanks to the coesiant rasa,
verdure is molly to be seise in New Zesisad. Eves the
evergreens ate grim is fact ea well ea Mew Wier, tea,
is abundant. The Greeks add to the dillienltge of the
situation, while their animist ameades and rapids iatalliall its
beauties.—Nei /Wand Corrrspoidast of the Mettoisree
Aryos.