The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-06 00:00:00

JESUITS AND JESUITRY.

" Not to Put too Fine a Point Upon It,"

The following is Mr. Punch's humorous report o
the Speech from the Throne at this last prorogation
of Parliament :-
1 " trust" that Russia will carry out the stipulations of
the Treaty cf Vienna as to Poland. [But not a word about
making her do it, Lord Ellenborough.]
Federals and Conlederat-28 are still unfortunately at war,
to the detriment of neutrals, but I have seen no reason to
depart from neutrality. [No, Mr. Bright; no, Mr,
Roebuck ; no, Mr. Elected of the Millions.]
I am taking steps to unite the lonian Islands to Greece,
whose nice new King will shortly take steps thitherward
I am in communication with the parties to the treaty of.
1815, and shall ask the lonians what they have to say.
[Nothing about your views, your Majesty Abdul Aziz.]
I have demanded reparation from Japan, and I hope not
to be obliged to use force. [Daimios at a distance will please
to accept this intimation.]
Brazil is angry with me because I did not comply with
demands I did not deem it possible to accede to. [What do
you mean by possible, Lord John? Is not this writing
like like a possum, who is decidedly up a Brazilian gumtree
[John
But I should be glad to see relations re-established.
must write to Moreira and say so.]
n e
Thanks to the Commons for supplies, for Fortifies
money [na I Pam, ha I Cobden] and for the proen iol7itu,
and
.ea_t i of
young Mr. and Mrs. Wales. [Long may they
in Marlborough House.] 'touring districts.
Things are rather better in the manuetgisd y
I assented to
I recognise private generosity, and have
glorious harvest is
the relief measures. [And, happilYt
coming.] bumptious, but a mixture of
Sir Cannibal Tattoo is s hoped, smooth him down,
conciliation and cuffing will,
eyv Zealanders being treated
[Mr. Punch insists on these
w., almost as handsome as him •
properly. Some of them
improving small benefices.
selAf.lbill has been Passed for
Lord Westbury would smile as
f whetherace
[We looked to se preserved its calm. Perhaps the
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he read this, but h
about Simony in a Simple-simony
way
Member who talked
was not in the liouse.Len
revised.
typ
.s, your Majesty,
The Statutes have
and industrious gentlemen w
bleecanrned
and the
very badly paid for invaluable work.]
it' The volunteers have been placed upon a well-defined
footing. [Who wrote this slip-slop fHe had better send
his English to drill.]
An Act for carrying into effect the American anti-slave
trade treaty has passed, and I hope that the honourable co-
operation of the Government of the " United" States [this
means the North] will materially assist me in putting an
end to the Perpetration of that Most Disgraceful Crime.
[Words worthy the Queen of Freemen, your Majesty.]
Our General Prosperity is unimpaired, our financial re-
sources have been fully maintained, and our general com-
merce with the world at large has not been materially
impaired. [The information is more gratifying than the
tautology.]

India,
recovering from disasters, enters upon a course
which holds out good promise for growing prosperity. [A
course holds out a promise. On the end of a fork, or how ?
Wood, Wood, Charley Wood I]
On returning to your several counties you will have im-
portant parts to perform. [We see that amateur theatricals
are announced as in preparation at several aristocratic

houses.]
The keeper of She Queen's conscience added the usual
devotional valediction, and mentioned the 14th of October
as the day on which his audience would again hear that
they were not wanted.

The Duke and Duchess of Richmond and Lady
Caroline Lennox have come to town for the marriage of
Lord Alexander Gordon Lennox and Niss TowuleY, second
daughter of Colonel and Lady Caroline Townley.

At the Antrim assizes, on Saturday and Monday,
Baron Fitzgerald and a special jury were engaged
in hearing a breach of promise case. The plaintiff,
Miss Jaue Marian Shallow, was a milliner at New-
castle, in the county Down. The defendant, Mr.
James Savage, a widower, was much older than the
plaintiff. He was a coal and timber merchant,
residing at Newry. He became acquainted with
her in the year 1860, and an attachment springing
up between them, he professed himself to be a de-
voted lover. At last their marriage was fixed
for the 17th of June, 1861. In consequence of
this the plaintiff was induced to selloff the greater
portion of her business, as defendant assured
her he was worth £7,000 or £B,OOO, and, therefore,
there would be no need for her to continue it.
When the 17th of June arrived the defendatit
backed out from fulfilling the engagement then, on
the ground of ill-health, though it didn't appear to
be very serious. September was next named for
the interesting ceremony, but once more he de-
clined, and, as a matter of course, the plaintiff lost
her appetite, and indulged in nothing but crying
and fretting—indeed, her mother stated that for
tour months she hardly came down from her bed-
room. When asked why be had bought her the
" wedding dress," he denied he had done so.
He was a sporting man, and as one of his dogs
had won a wager, he presented the plaintiff with a
new dress on the occasion. One of the strongest
proofs that he really was courting the plaintiff was
the fact that, during a comparatively short time, he
sent her 200 letters. Most of them were of a very
prosaic and insipid character. However, in one or
two he described his tender love for her "as being
like a lava flood that burns in the breast of Etna's
flames." This burning sensation must have soon
gone off, as he forsook the plaintiff and married an-
other lady. The jury awarded the plaintiff 100
guineas, though she had estimated the outrage on
her feelings at £3,000.

SERIOUS ACCIDENTS AT A CRICKET MATCH.—
Yesterday Captain Stewart, of the 2d Life Guards,
met with a serious accident while engaged in a match at
cricket in the barrack-field at Woolwich, between the
Household Brigade and the Royal Artillery, Captain
Stewart, in attempting to catch a short ball from the
wicket, fractured the middle finger of his left hand, which
was also severely lacerated. He was taken to the Royal
Artillery Infirmary, where the wounded hand was care-
fully attended to, and, being informed that amputation
would be necessary, he was removed to London at his own
request. Captain Taswell, R.A., was also severely wounded
in the same match. The ball struck him with terrible force
between the eyes, and for a moment it was feared that the
blow was fatal. The :sufferer will, it is stated, bear traces
of the wound through life.

GRANITE CYST FOR THE LATE PRINCE CONSORT
AND Tra QUEEN.—A stone has been successfully
cut from the Cairngall Granite Quarry at Peterhead, which
is to form a tomb for Prince Albert—on a smaller scale, but
on the same principle as the tomb of Napoleon at Paris—
being placed on the floor of the vault, and not underground.
The stone is ten feet long by about seven broad, and three
and a half deep; and it is to be cut into a sort of sarco-
phagus, to rest in a pedestal. Two cysts are to be cut in
the stone for the insertion of coffins and lids lett to be
cemented down, The body of the late Prince is to occupy
one cyst ; and we believe it is the express wish of her Ma-
jesty that her own remains shall be deposited in the other.
The obtaining of this stone has been a work of extreme
difficulty—one or two fine blocks having been already re-
jected for flaws. The stone weighs above 18 tons, and will.
'
at once be conveyed to Mr. Macdonalds establishment in
BIIRMAIL
Aberdeen, to be dressed and polished.—Peterhead Sentinel.
hCe ogToTvOe Nr Cult re Tt TD fdoi
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hasfN pßußbllTi
hed a brief report
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of
of an experiment in cotton cultivation in British Burnish in
1862-63. The experiment was on a very small scale
cer-
tainly, too email, we should think, to be of value for any
practical purpose, or to test fairly the
capabilities
for the profitable cultivation. of the plant ferofcotihne
distrie.,-
merciat purpose?.
i‘Four acres of ground were cleared of
elephant grass in lay, 1862, near a
age on the banks
of the Boben stream. Three
and a half
with seed of the New Orleans acres were sown
(which were unfoitunately mixed), and Egyptian varieties
Sea Island peed. The seed and half an acre with
cultivation; the sowings was all the produce of last year's
partly in July. The
Sea g g took place partly in June and
Island cotton failed entirely, and in
no instances, says the
report,
has it succeeded in Burniah.
other
sorts ripened in October, before
the rains had ceased,
,but great care was taken to pick
the cotton immediately
the pods burst, so as to keep it
from damp. An E
per superintendent was sent to the
spot to superintend the picking, which continued up to the
end of November. The first crop from the
three and a half
acres yielded 6751 b. of cotton with seed ; a small second
crop was picked up in March, 1863, when 1501 b. more
were collected, making a total for the year of
8251 b. After ginning, only 2041 b. of cleaned cotton were
obtained, which was a proportion of about 21b. uncleaned
to lib. cleaned. It appears the seed sown in June did not
produce as much:as that sown in July, which is accounted
for partly by its ripening too early when the rains were
still heavy, partly because the ground was not so well pre-
pared, and partly because the July or second sowing was
superintended by an overseer who knew something of the
cotton plant and its treatment, from a residence
in the Southern States of America. incessant rain,
it is said, prevented his superintending the first sow-
ing. The result c f the exper;ment is stated to be that
cotton will grow, but the experiment is very incomplete,
" as failures arise from accident, such as bad seed and
want of proper superintendence, if the localities chosen
for the seat of the experiment are distant and difficult of
access." It is proposed, however, next year to try expe-
riments to test whether it can be grown for profit, and
" whether later sowing, so as to ensure the heavy rains
being ended before the picking begins, will not give
more fruitful results." The esperiment, such as was
obtained, being the utter failure of the Sea Island seed.
The report closes by stating that " some seed has been
given to an overseer who works in the forest, oad who is
anxious to try an experiment of his own on a huger scale,
to see whether the plan't• will thrive with a minimum
amount of labour spent upon it, and thus be made rernu-
terative." We should have thought the Government, if it
did anything at all in the matter itself, would have done
it on a larger scale, and taken a great deal more pains to
ensure the success of what it did undertake. Judging
from the proceedings of Government in the present case,
from its own report of a em,.
meagre experiment,
• it seems hardly to have had a fair trial, for the
brief report on the subject admits ignorant and im-
perfect superintendence, atAl that the various varieties
of seed used were hopelessly mixed together, so that
it was impossible to say whether one kind of seed
would do better than another, The experiment clearly
failed from the want of precautions most essential to secure
bny chance of success, and without which failure have
veep looked on as certain,—Bombay Gorette,