The Express.
London, England, 1862-07-23 00:00:00

THE COTTON SUPPLY.

A despatch from her Majesty's Consul at Charles-
ton, South Carolina, United States, respecting the
prospects of the cotton crop in the Southern States
of America during the present year, was forwarded
to the Governor-General of India in Council by her
Majesty's Secretary of State for India, and ban been
officially published at Bombay fur general informa-
tion. The Bombay Goad& says :—" It has produced
a good effect in re-assuring our merchants and
dealers who seemed somewhat disheartened by the
recent news from America, apprehending a deluge
of American cotton in the English market.
Whether the longer lease of time, thus given to the
Manchester and Indian capitalists and speculators
in which to work for the good of India by the im-
provement and extension of her cotton cultivation,
will be taken advantage of for this purpose,
remains to be seen. We wish to tell
thole, in Manchester who are more especially
interested in the cotton cultivation of India that
nothing could be more grossly misrepresented
than the capabilities of India have bees by

(amines lIILIKIPAMIL )
FRANCE.

ILLNESS OF THE PRINCESS CLOTHILDE.
PARIS, JULY 23.

The Mani/ear of this morning says :
" Some inflammatory symptoms have neces-
sitated the application of leeches to the Princess
Clothilde. This measure had the good effect which
was expected.
" The Empress visited the Princess on Tuesday
evening."

ITALY.
TURIN, JULY 22, Eviatum.

. .
The rumours current to-day on the Bourse, of
the disappearance of Garibaldi, and his having set
out for an unknown destination, are unfounded. He
was at Palermo this morning ou his return from
Trapani. At Marsala ho was slightly indisposed.

MADRID, JULY 22.

,NING JULY 23, 1862.

FROM PARIS.

s bait swished to prove Oda she could not
prolnee cotton it quality and quiddity adequate to
[ the vibe of am• shire. A pamphlet was recenti ft en ova OWN COUISPONDaa..,
published, Owing the results of an neperimentel
PARIS, TUESDAY EVIINDIO.
' cuitivaiksi of cotton in various palest Ondh, from. The comet day of General Forey's departure is
New Orleans and Egyptian seed. One experiment not yet fixed. He is personally superintending
after another is described as a total failure. At i the embarkation of a great part of his force ; 2,000
the end, however, we are informed that all the men, lately embarked from Algeria, are signalled
failures occurred at a time of the year when it was as having touched at Teneriffe on the 14th, on their
in the last degree unfavourable to the sowing of the way to Vera Cruz. These men, the Petrie under-
foreiga wed, and that no sooner had it been sown
than the country was flooded by the rains. Dr. takes to assert, will suffice for General de Lorencez's
Bonavia,of Lucknow,who superintended the expert- requirements until General Forey arrives. It is,
manta there, reports as follows : therefore, now admitted, contrary to what was
sedulously propagated a few days ago, that the
I sowed • portion of snob on trenched and immured
ground, and a portion on antrenched ground without ma-
aare. The I siderable re
farmer has decidedly a beneficial effect, the inforcements at Vera Cruz during the
plants on it of both kinds growing more rapidly and more very height of the unhealthy season. Bulfier's
luxuriantly than on the latter. Cotton plants do not bear Correspondence gives as a summary of the Em-
transplantation. They take a long time to recover from peror's instructions to General Forey that he was
the injury done to their roots by being transplanted, to " march quickly and strike hard."
and they remain stunted. The plants that re.
The government has suffered a very significant
tiamai4n,sdhaveunt4poachwnegiveryl°wethil. Nelwn twClrellialive weeksendfrolE4nytte electoral defeat in the department of the Deux
time of sowing both kiwis began to flower, and in two &nes. The name of Plassiart will never be for-
weeks later they were becoming laden with pods. On the gotten by students of modern French history. Dr.
trenched ground, the former being 41 feet high and 3 feet Plassiart was, by favour of the government, Mayor
&crow, and the latter sfeet high and 4 fest across, all the plan tit of Coulongea and member of the Council-General
Wen irrigated about two or three times at intervals before for some ten years. When at length that favour
the regular heavy rains fell. They have produced • very
was withdrawn from him, just about the time that
satisfactory number of pods. The New Orleans cotton pro-
duced large pods with four valves, and on the beat plants a more liberal principles were proclaimed by the
good proportion with five valves. The Egyptian have pro. Emperor, he Was prosecuted for a variety of frau-
duood much smaller pods, and almost all with three valve*. dulent abuses of his authority. It came out on the
But owing probably to the very unusual amount of rain that trial that he had been the terror of the district in
fell last year, • vast number of insect' of all kinds were
generated, and the pods, more especially those of the Egyp. which he reigned, and had governed the population
tian cotton, were to • very large extent destroyed by the much as a South American planter did his negroes.
ravages of a email red maggot which eats its way through But what has made his name famous is a letter to
the external covering of the pod, into the seeds, and more a constable, telling him that the chickens of one
or less destroys it. Bo that last year's experiment cannot A. 8., who had voted against bim, might fie-
be fairly taker. as • criterion of the capabilities of the quently be found trespassing in the market place,
Lncknow soil for growing cotton. One thing I am run in breach of local regulations, and that he would do
of having proved, and that is, provided the soil be light
well to lay an information against A. B. on the
and the ground well loosened to • good depth, the healthy
growth of
the foreign mews plans is eat is all mdsnored first opportunity, but that he must be very careful
by any amount of water that one may choose to give them, not to make any confusion between "fowls friendly
or the clouds pour upon them. Luling the last wet season to the government and those hostile." Duke de
in Oudh there was such a fall of rain as has not been known alorny, when he lauded the Napoleonic worship
for years, and all the plots of ground in which I sowed the
seed are frail 18 inch.. to 2 feet lower than the level of which, he says, goes on in the caverns of Auvergne,
failed to adduce any such striking instance of dr
the surrounding ground with no other outlet for the water,
votion as that of Dr. Plassiart. But Dr. Plaasiart,
that after each heavy fall of ram the plots were
swamped. Neverthelees, even on the ground which was who, after long enjoyment of arbitrary power, had
not trenched, I did not lose more than one plant, which begun to act upon the ego et rex meal principle, is
was one of thaw that had been transplanted. now in prison—a scapegoat of the new-born virtue
"Dr. Bonavia has gathered a second crop from the of which the state made profession in the autumn
same plants, which is said to be truly magnificent. of 1860. It happens, however, that Dr. Plassiart
The fact is that nothing but good cultivation is re- has a son who is very popular in the district, and
quired to produce any quantity of cotton equal to this son put himself forward as an independent
good New Orleans. Good cultivation, however, candidate for a vacant seat in the Council-GeneraL
will never be carried on except by English enter- The government candidate is Count du Hamel,
prise and capital." a member of the Corps Legislatif. The prefect
made a progress in Count de Hamer favour
through the arrondissement of Conlonge, scattering
threats and promises wherever he went, denouncing
the name of Plassiart (which for ten years reigned
supreme tinder the shadow of authority) as the
opprobrium of the department. But the inhabi-
tants have aroused themselves to a sense of their
electoral power,and the prefect's arguments against
the now tabooed name of Plaasiart have told
against himself. The electors' reasoning is this,
that if Dr. Plassiart was such a very bad func-
tionary as the prefect describes him to be, the
moral is that they should choose a man for them-
selves, and not blindly accept one, as they did in
the case of that unlucky doctor, on the government
recommendation. The unlooked-for consequence is,
that young Plassiart, speaking fair and being
personally liked, polled on Sunday last
1,556 votes against 1,343 given to Count du Hamel.
The majority not being sufficient to be conclusive
on the first scrutiny, there must be a new vote next
week, at which a bare majority will suffice, and no
doubt Plaasiart will be returned.
It is announced that M. Louis Veuillot, the
doughty ultramontanist champion, is about to
marry a great lady—the Marquise de Champaynd.
The Bourse has been dull, with a minimum of
business doing. Rente fell sc. for cash and 10c.
for account, closing at 68fr. 33c. and 68fr. 50c.
Mobilier was without change, and there is scarcely
an alteration of a franc in railway shares.

AMERICA.

LIVERPOOL. WirDNZIOALT.

The Canadian 'screw steamer Anglo-Saxon, Cap-
tain Graham, which sailed from Quebec on the 12th
and called off Cape Race on the 15th inst., arrived
here shortly after one o'clock this morning.
The Anglo-Saxon called at Londonderry yester-
day, and a 6nmmary of her news was telegraphed
frqm thence.

The British steamer Modern Greece, whilst at-
tempting to run the blockade at Wilmington,
was ruu aground by the blockading fleet, who
hauled off on the opening of the fort on
them. She had 100 tons of powder on
board, but the fort suoceeded in sinking
her so as to wet the powder, and thus pre-
vent her explosiw. by the Federal shells. Her
passengers and crew were saved. It was believed
that a large portion of her cargo would be saved.

WEATHIA REPORT.-(THIS DAT.)

WII3IIIIDAY, nit 112. $ A.M.