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London, England, 1864-06-02 00:00:00

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Cotton Supply Association.

At the usual weekly meeting of the Executive
Committee, held on Tuesday, May 31st, a letter was
read accompanying samples of cotton forwarded by-
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exported to New York and Havana. A letter was
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the cultivation of cotton there is extending, and
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ciltlnbtmenretcAoeijtvgheeedrai.as:Aosetaileitttetiscemrthwfa,oatrsinaelaced:
advising the consignment
part of which hitaiiisruabptceiioevnni
egrown eelxtteefonrdmedattoiriayt.
increased facilities for cleaning the crop are required,
and requests information and assistance in procuring
AlBsl letter from
cottonfro me
cultivation
the necessary supply of gins. A sample of East
Indian cotton was received from Kurracttee which
has been cleaned by the Macarthy gin, and was
valued at 22d. per lb. The sender is engaged in the
management of cotton mills and in cleaning and pre.
paring the raw material in India. A letter was read
from the Colonial Office acknowledging the receipt
of the:memorial forwarded by the association on the
interruption to the transport of cotton and other mer-
chandise from Abbeokuta to Lagos, in consequence
of the wars now raging in those parts, and stating
that her Majesty's Government are fully alive to
the importance of the subject brought under notice.
Consular despatches, forwarded by the Foreign-
office, were received from her Majesty's Consul•
General at Constantinople, enclosing a report from
Mr. Vice-Consul Blunt, dated Adrianople, April 18,
on the cultivation of cotton in the districts of Eski
Zagra and Sophie in Bulgaria. In the former the
planting last year was too late, and the severe
drought rendered: the crop to a great extent a
failure. Double the quantity of seed has been sown
this year under more favourable circumstances. The
district appears suitable to the growth of cotton.
The experiments in Sophia have proved b 0 success-
ful that confident hopes are entertained that cotton
will be grown there to advantage. The Governor
is energetic, has made good turnpike roads, and
labours earnestly for the benefit of the people. The
Governor-General of the province of Adrianople
states that the reports which he has received from
various districts afford decisive evidence that the
experiments with American seed have given very
good results, and that a largely extended area will
be placed under cultivation this year. Mr. Blunt's
French colleague, M. Guys, has taken great interest
in the cotton culture, and a copy of the report
addresed to his Government has been forwarded.
A further despatch from Mr. Blunt, dated Adria'.
nople, May 6th, states that his agent at Phillip.
popolis informs him that this year the farmers and
peasantry of that province have been most eager to
obtain seed for sowing; that about 30,000 okes
have been sown, and that much more would have
been disposed of had it been attainable. The re•
suits last year, though there was a comparative
failure, were such as to induce the peasantry to cone
tinue their efforts this year on a much larger scale.
A report, enclosed from Mr. Vice-Consul Rossi
Enas, states that experiments in cotton cultivation
in his district are zealously prosecuted, and that
good results are anticipated. A despatch from
H.M.'s Consul at Jaffa, dated April 15th, reports
the sowing season as just terminated most favour•
ably, and that the seasonable showers, called " the
latter rain" in Scripture, have done great good. The
plants look most promising, and the excitement and
eagerness to grow cotton still continue to prevail.
Theßedonins, near Gaza, have begun to sow cotton.
If this year's yield should prove like the last, the
increased production will be immense, and the ex..
port from Jaffa will be largely augmented. Pre-
sent prices, or 20 per cent. reduction, will greatly
enrich the growers. A letter was read from the
president of the associations now in Italy.

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This target was fired at 12 times, with about one-third the
splates
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weight of iron thrust against the Chalmers, the heaviest
projectile being a 2001 b. cast-iron, and not steel, shot, and
the heaviest charge being 35 instead of 501bs.
With the view of dealing a last blow to the Chalmers, it
was ordered to be taken down ; but of late the Iron-plate
Committee had it set up again for the purpose of trying it,
under conditions of equality with regard to the 300-pounder,
when fired with only 351bs. of powder, as was done on the
Bellerophon day. The result of the special experiments was
briefly alluded to in our notice of the Shoeburyness compe-
titive trials. The shot was spherical cast iron ; the charges
351bs. of powder; the distance 200 yards. The deepest in-
dent was five inches ; the structure remained firm, although
it had already received 30 shots ; and the bolts had been
put on again without their thick india-rubber washers.
Such is, in a few words, the history of armour in general,
and of the Chalmers target in particular.—Telegraph.

Naval and Military Intelligence.

The following circular memorandum, addressed
to the army at home and recruiting districts, has
been promulgated:—
" With a view to meet the possible loss to the
service of a certain number of men who are about to
complete their first period of limited enlistment, sad
in order generally to encourage the recruiting of the
army, his Royal Highness the Field Marshal Com-
manding-in-Chief desires the special attention of
the field officers of recruiting districts to the orders
and memoranda which have from time to time been
issued, and calls on them, and all under their super.
intendence, for increased exertion to maintain the
establishment. It will be their duty to give their
constant attention to the numbers raised weekly by
each party under their orders, and when the result in
any case may be inadequate, to propose such changes
in their distribution as may increase their chances of
success; and in any instance in which after each
change the party may still fail to send in recruits, it
should be returned to its regiment and replaced by
another. If after all exertion has been made the sta-
tion continue unproductive, it should be altogether
abandoned, and the party sent to a different locality.
Officers of subdivisions should see that the parties
are active and energetic, not remaining shut up in
their billets, but constantly on the alert, attending
all markets, fairs, and wakes in the pieces where
they are quartered. Superintending officers are
permitted by the last paragraph of the general
order of December 1, 1847, to give special authority
for detaching parties for the above purposes to ad-
joining towns and villages within moderate dis-
tances, and should it in any case be deemed desir-
able to send men for similar reasons to such dis-
tances as would entail the necessity of issuing
marching money to them, his Royal Highness, on
the application of inspecting field-officers, made in
sufficient time beforehand, would be prepared to
recommend the sums to the War-office. Inspecting
field-officers should obtain and furnish to recruiting
parties lists of the days on which markets and fairs,
especially statute fairs for the hiring of farm ser-
vants, are held within their districts; and subdivi-
sion officers should take care that parties are
constantly on the look-out in the neighbourhood of
railway stations, works of local improvement, or
manufactories, where they are likely to meet with
persons:in search of employment; or when stationed
near the camps of instruction or in garrison towns,
recruiting parties should be present at all reviews
of the regular troops, and elsewhere should attend
all assemblages of Volunteers for inspection, or for
competition at the various county rifle associations,
which are sure to draw together numerous idlers

from among whom good recruits are often to be
obtained. It is impossible in a memorandum of this
sort to allude to all the detailei duties of a recruiter
—they must -be well known to those who have
charge of districts; but the above are some of the
most important; and it is incumbent upon officers of

The Extraordinary Charge of Attempted
Poisoning at Clapham.
iiarnert fe,neetlie, wno stales cnargeu wrzu PILMILII/1/116
to poison her fellow servant, Louisa Caroline Gurr, by
mixing tincture of iodine with her dinner, underwent another
examination before Mr. Ingham, at the Wandsworth Police-
court yesterday. Mr. Wilson, as before, defended her.
It will ho recollected that the prosecutrix stated that she
received her dinner on the Sunday in question from the pri-
soner in the kitchen, after the joint had been removed from
the dining-room, and that she discovered the iodine mixed
with the meat and potatoes on sitting down in the nursery.
Mrs. Olivia Lowenthal], of No. 6, Thurlow-terrace, Lark-
hall-lane, now attended, and stated that the prisoner had
been in her service as cook for nearly three weeks, and the
prosecutrix for nine months as housemaid and to assist in
the nursery. She then said that ahe remembered the Sun-
day in question. The prosecutrix usually dined with the
prisoner in the kitchen, but on that occasion, in conse-
quence of her having complained that the cook had threat-
ened her, she was desired to bring her plate to the slab in
the hall, and to help herself with meat, which had been cut
off the joint and left on the dish by Mr. Lowenthall, Wit-
ness could not state whether the prosecutrix took the dinner
from the slab, as she remained in the dining-room. While
they were eating their pastry the governess came into the
room with the prosecutrix's plate, and said, " Look here at
Mary's dinner." The prosecutrix was called Mary in the
house. They looked at the dinner, and sent the governess
to the police-station.
In reply to questions, the witness said she missed her
watch on the Saturday before the prisoner was taken into
custody. She had lately been singularly unfortunate with
her servants. Since the prosecutrix had been with her she
had had three cooks and two charwomen. They did not
leave through any complaint of the prosecutrix. Witness
had missed property both before and since the prosecutrix
hadm brseeLnoiwnehnethr service.aiihn
acei to his worship a letter, which
was sealed and addressed to the prisoner, and said it was
put over into her garden by a boy last Tuesday.
Mr Ingham opened it, and upon reading the contents ap-
peared to think they were of some importance. He called
the prosecutrix into court, and desired her to write on a
piece of paper the following words :—" For God's sake let
Me know what yoi are doing."
After the prosecutrix had written those words, and several
others, Mr Ingham looked at the handwriting, and said it
was clear that she had not written the letter.
Mr Wilson said some accomplices of the prosecutrix.
e-
die-
charge might have written it. He hoped his worship would
charge the prisoner, as he believed the story was a concocted
one on the part of a designing woman.
Harriet Bunce, the governess, was examined with respect
to the prosecutrix taking her dinner into the nursery. She
said she did not see Mary spit any of her dinner out of her
month, as her back was turned, The prosecutrix
Wit-
x
time
that
in
r
"Oh, dear Miss Bunce, whatever is it in my plate." said,
ness looked at it and took it down to the dining room. The
prosecutrix did not complain a
had burnt her mouth.
Mr Ingham said that if the evidence was true, there wasrt of the
a very clear case. The weak P
which the prosecutrix was bound to tako her dinner from
the slab. If she did so, it was perfectly evident the cook
Part
the
case that
was her dine
did not put any of the poisonous mixture with it, If, on the
other hand, she did not, it would be very difficult indeed to
establish a case, for the mixture must have been done un-
der the eyes of the complainant herself. It was a very dif-
c, and he must take a little time to consider what
course he should take.
Mr Wilson hoped his client would be admitted to bail
Mr Ingham refused on this occasion on account of the
letter, which he placed in the hands of Sergeant Coltman,
with instructions not to show it to any erson but to in-
vestigate its contents. His worship
also P remarked' that he
would not send her for trial until every effort had been
made to find the shawl alleged to have been lost by the pro-
secutrix, for, as he said, if that could be found,
the whole
matter would then be cleared up.
The prisoner was then remanded for another week.

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those specially selecteu and withdrawn from regi-
mental duty in order t, be placed on the recruit-
ing service, and who should be made to under-
stand that their continuance in an employment
which ie always popular, and for which useful men
can always be found, will depend solely on their
own zeal and industry, as manifested in the num-
ber of good recruits whom they send in for exami-
nation. But it is not alone to the recruiting dis-
tricts that the Field-Marshal Commanding-in-Chief
looks for the means of maintaining the numerical
efficiency of the army ; he relies solely on the zeal,
the esprit de corps, and the active exertions of com-
manding officers of regiments in concerting mea-
sures for raising recruits at their own headquarters.
He is under the impression, however, that at the
present moment there may be a disposition in some
instances to reject men sft. sin. who offer to enlist
at the headquarters of regiments; but he trusts
that after this notice commanding officers will not
suffer a single recruit otherwise eligible to be turned
away merely because he does not come up to a
preconceived notion of what looks most imposing
in the ranks, thus sacrificing numbers to appear-
ance, when it is well known that it is not the
biggest man whose endurance of bodily fatigue
under the knapsack on the march or at work in the
trenches is the greatest.
"Recruits may frequently bo raised at the head-
quarters of a regiment by sending the band or

drums and fifes to parade the town on market days
and fair days. There is another mode of raising

recruits which in former days was attended with

much success, and which his Royal Highness would
like to see reverted to, and that is that officers on

Leave of absence at their home should exert them-

selves to obtain recruits for their own regiments.
Should an officer by means of personal local inte-
rest succeed in raising a batch of recruits, his Royal
Highness would approve of their being posted to
his own company should he desire. The Field_
Marshal Commanding-in-Chief is fully sensible of
the zeal with which the recruiting department of
the army has always been actuated, and is satisfied
that as soon as the prestnt state of things shall
have become generally known, the vacancies now
existing in the ranks will speedily be filled. A
copy of this order is to be in possession of all super-
intending officers."

Major Reilly's battery of the B brigade Royal
Horse Artillery yesterday left head• quarters, Wool-
wich, and commenced their march for Aldershott,
passing the night at Richmond and resuming their
march this morning. They were to quarter for the
night at Chertsey, and arrive at their destination
to-morrow evening. The battery consists of Major
Reilly, 0.13. (recently Aide-de-Camp to General
Dacres), in command ; Capt. Newbolt, Lients. Mur-
dock and Gorges, and 175 non-commissioned officers
and privates, with their guns and equipment com-
plete, to remain at the camp for the season. Lieut.-
Col. Michell's battery of the same brigade will fol-
low, also for Aldershott, this morning by the same

route. The officers commanding the battery are
Lieut -Cot. Michell, Capt. Ravenhill, Lieuts. Le
Grice, Stirling, and Jackson; Assist.- Surg. Symons,
and a similar number of men. The head-quarters,
consisting of Col. Sir David Wood, Capt. Whiny-
ate9, Quartermaster HAndford, and Surg. Comhe,
M,D„ wilt leave Woolwich at the same time this
morning for Aldershott, and take up their station

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RACY IN T ELLIG EN C E.—Wo understand that
"Gladstone," winner of the St. James's Palace Stakes at
Ascot last year, and supposed to be now the property of Mr.
Bright, was drugged on his last appearance in public for
the £6 Borough Handicap
Sweepstakes. Some very un-
pleasant correspondence has since taken place regarding the
ownership of this celebrated but uncertain horse, nor has it
We may state, however, as positive, that he
t3;eatnbsfeeernredde.termined to which party he will ultimately be
is now engaged in " The South Lancashire Consolation
Stakes," and that he is to be struck out of all his Oxford
engagement. "—The Owl.
HUMBOLDT'S " COSMOS," it has been strikingly
remarked, resembles a man inspecting a splendid palace
without leaving his card for the master of it.
Persons in debt may obtain instant protection against
imprisonment or seizure of their goods, and an entire release
from all debts and liaLilities without publicity, by application
to Messrs. Marshall, solicitors of the Court of Bankruptcy,
Charges under £5 payable by easy instalments. Offices—
(established 1830), 12,Hatton-garden. City branch —G, Moor
gate-street, BaaI;.—ADYT.

there for the summer.
The Aurora, 35, screw steam frigate, 2,558 tons,
400 horse power, Capt. Sir F. L. M'Clintock, sailed
from Sheerness yesterday for Plymouth, Where she
will imbark a detachment of the 60!h Rifles for

Ireland.
The Locust, paddlewheel steam tender, Master in
command Reuben Harvey, was taken on the grid-
iron, Sheerness dockyard, yesterday, to repair the
copper on the bottom of the vessel, and to examine
the condition of Lumley's patent rudder. The rudder
is found to be in admirable working condition, equal
to what it was when fitted 18 months ago.
The Scout, 21, screw steam corvette, 1,462 tons,
400 horse power, is in the large basin, Sheerness
dockyard, undergoing a thorough repair of boilers,