The Sun.
London, England, 1864-10-06 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 6, 1864.

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nounced without any proof whatever. If you cross a flock
of Southdowns with a Cotswold ram the effect upon the
meat is not of an appreciable character, but what is the
effect upon the fleece? Why, suppose you get 5s more for
each fleece that you produce, and that your flock amounts
to 300, then, in these days of agricultural desolation, de-
scribed by my friend, you will find that at the end of the
year a profit of 5s on 300 fleeces forms an item not to be de-
spised. Nobody supposes that you are going to cross like
as many cousins intermarrying. (A. laugh.) You must
cross with discretion, and you will find that a ewe with
a black nose will never propagate coarse meat. (Hear.)
I have now gone over the Salthill indictment. I ap-
peal to you with confidence whether I have not replied
to those cha-ges which have been brought forward.
(Cheers.) I feel confident that, in a very short time,
you will be all of my opinion, that it has been a good
harvest. lkly test of a good harvest is this—why
is there not a great importation of corn ? (" There
is 1") If there were a great importation of corn at the pre-
sent moment, it is impossible to describe the injurious effects
that it would have upon the public credit and generally upon
the public property of the country. It ought to be some con-
solation to the farmers of this country that by their skill,
under Divine Providence, they have produced such abun.
dant cereal crops that at the moment when the credit of the
country was in a most delicate state, and when it was strained
to its utmost, they have saved us from a commercial collapse,
the effects of which would have been of a most deleterious
and dangerous character. (A. Voice— What thanks cro they
get for it?) Our farmers may be proud of their position, and
ought to feel a great satisfaction that the crops which have
been produced under their skill has preserved the country
from one of the most severe and serious panics that probably
ever could have occurred in England. I will now, before I
sit down, refer to the circumstances under which we meet.
Ibis society has had very great success, and at no time has
it been more prosperous than now. These local societies
have spread all over England, which is au undoubted proof
of their popularity and success. The principle upon which
local associations of this kind are founded is of an inesti-
mable character. The local sentiment in man is the strongest
passion in his nature. At this moment there are English-
men in Australia, in India, in China, and in America, toil-
ing with all that enterprise of which Englishmen are alone
capable, learning languages that were never heard of, and
entering into speculations of the most hazardous and difficult
character. Why are they making all these exertions? Why,
that they may spend their last years in the home where
they were born. This local feeling is the parent of most of
our virtues. It is the best security for our liberty, because
it is the greatest opponent of undue central authority.

is without doubt the purest source of our domes-

tic affections, which are the most salutary basis of all
good government. But although I entirely appreciate these
local sentiments, and although societies like this should not
only be maintained, but multiplied, still, like all other good
things, they have some attendant disadvantages. Local
sentiment if too much indulged tends to contracted views of
many circumstances and subjects. While therefore I wish
these societies to pursue their course in this important
county, I would increase the area of competition on all the
subjects that interest our agricultural world. The right hon.
gentleman then suggested, with the object of carrying out
this view, that the Royal Buckinghamshire Agricultural
Association, instead of always meeting atAyleebury, should
meet at various parts of the county, and resumed his seat
amid loud cheers. _

Mr HERVEY, M.P., also briefly acknowledged the toast.
A number of other toasts were given, and the meeting
separated.

Cotton Supply Association.

At the usual weekly meeting of the executive com-
mittee, held on Tuesday, Oct. 4, a letter was read
from Salonica, reporting that the last advices from

he interior were somewhat unfavourable, the con-

inuance of drought and the stormy northwest wind

which had prevailed for some days having damaged
the cotton plant, but the opinion formed by the writer
_ .

from personal observation is that there will be double
the quantity of last crop. The taxes and tithes are
said to be gathered most arbitrarily, no doubt against
the express orders of the Porte. Cultivators have
been known to sell their green crops at ruinous rates
to meet the exactions of the tax collectors. The
opinion is expressed that nothing could be more
advantageous to the Ottoman Empire than to allow
every one, without distinction of nationality, to buy
I aided property in his own name. By that means an
immense quantity of neglected land would be richly
cultivated, and its value increased tenfold, while the
revenue would be enriched in proportion. Some time
ago the several ambassadors at Constantinople re-
presented to the Sublime Porte the advantages that
would accrue from all Owing foreigners to possess
landed property in Turkey ; and, after a full discus-
sion, it was decided in the affirmative, but nothing
more has been heard of the matter. The late Go-
vernor of Macedonia Usni Pasha, has been appointed
Governor-General of Monastir. His impartiality
in the administration of justice, and his severe treat-
ment of abuses, will, it is expected, put an end to
the numberless brigandages and robberies of which
that province has been the scene. He is described
as one of the beat officers of the Porte, and one who
feels a real interest in the welfare and progress of
his country, A confident hope is therefore enter-
tained that trade with the interior may be carried on
without the least apprehension. A letter was received
calling attention to an article in the Journal de Con-
stantinople, urging the necessity of an extensive
use of American seed, and of the complete relief of
cotton cultivation from fiscal burdens on the land,
as essential to the full success of cotton growing in
Turkey, and its continuance when the day arrives
for competition with America. A letter was read
from Buenos Ayres, stating that a quilt has been
forwarded to the Association, made from wild cot-
ton, which abounds in the province of Corrientes,
and in that unknown- territory, the Gran Ceaco.
Millions upon millions of pounds of the raw mate-
rial from which this quilt is made could, it is said,
be gathered at the most trifling cost, but no one
recognises its value or Cares to look after it. A
sample of the' wild cotton is also forwarded. A
forwarded by the Colonialeoffice, was re-
ceivedom the Lient.aGovernor of the Bahamas,
despatch,on from
the
progress made in the cultivation of cotton in
those islands, and enclosing a report upon this sub-
ject from the police magistrate of the district of
Long Island, which, with St. Salvador, constitute
the principal cotton growing islands in the colony.
The former has an area of 135 square miles, with a
population of 2,571, and the latter has au area
of 101 square miles, with a population
of 2,378. Besides the efforts of some
native inhabitants of Salvador in cotton culture, it
has been further stimulated by an English come
pang, whose agent lived sufficiently long to see a
considerable number of acres, by his indefatigable
exertions, planted with cotton, the shrubs of which
were in blossom when he died from fever. In Long
Island the success of cotton cultivation has far ex-
ceeded all the expectations that were formed. In.
pleated,
as was the case
wsteadhen ofth
the last
s t acresre report
brtein was furnished, there are at
present between 900 and 1,000 acres. The island
is literally covered with cotton fields of various di.
mansions. An instance of success in the case
of one person is given which has stimulated
others to imitate his example. He planted cote
og
ton in March of last year, and had no assistance
but that of his own children, except for
une day, when he hired a man for 2s. He
sold his cotton for £125, being more than he had
received from anything else for the last six years.
Great scarcity of labour was experienced both at
Long Island and Ram Cay during the whole of
1863, and still continues. Formerly an adequate
supply of labour could be obtained from the adja.
cent settlements, but the labouring portion of the
population (almost all of whom are proprietors of
small portions of land) DOW find it more profitable
to grow cotton themselves. The difficulty may be
obviated to some extent by immigration. The
greater portion of one of the largest islands in the
islands in the colony, Inagua, is the property of the
Crown, and well suited for cotton, which was grown
there when slave labour was available, It has an
area of 657 miles, with a population in 1861 of only
994 persons, which number has since decreased
rather than otherwise. The difficulty experienced
by the present scarcity of labour might it is thought
be remedied by an immigration of the poor white
population of Barbadoes, who are not equal
to the heavy work on the sugar plantations, but
could undertake the lighter work required in cotton

cultivation. They are of Eurcpean descent, already
acclimatized to a tropical climate, intelligent, moral
in their habits, and have frequently large families.
Probably L 5 a head would be the expense of pas
sage and outfit. The upset price of Crown land in
the colony is lOs the acre. A letter from Tortola,
West Indies, states that the weather has been very
favourable, and that a fine crop of cotton is ot•
petted. A letter was read from Chingleput,
containing details of some experiments made by the
writer with Peruvian andother cotton seed, and stat-
ing his intention to forward a bale of cotton shortly
to the association. Copies of a Franco-Prussian
treaty of commerce, signed at Berlin on the 2d of
Aug. 1862, and of the treaties and tariff, the result
of negotiations with certain States of the Zollverein,
with a view to the promulgation of the term for which
that union was contracted, were received from the
Foreign.office ; and also a translation of that part
of the new trade law recently promulgated by the
Swedish Government, which regulates the right of
foreigners to exercise trade or any other branch of
industry. Samples of cotton were submitted for
examination from Venezuela and Montserrat. A
grant of seed was made for experiments at St.
Thomas, West Indies. Mr. Consul Skene, from
Aleppo, had an interview with the committee, and
communicated valuable information respecting the
cotton-growing capabilities of his consular dis-
trict, in which there appears to be encouraging
prospects of still further progress.