The Sun.
London, England, 1863-06-24 00:00:00

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAM.)
Market quiet. Sales, about 5,000 bales. Im-
port, 11,594; previously, 15,523.

ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETY.

We have recently seen the third annual report of
this society, which contains some interesting par-
ticutars of its proceedings. The pi incipal objects
proposed by its members are the introduction and
acclimatisation of animals, birds, fishes, insects, and
vegetables, useful and ornamental; the perfection
Qf races already domesticated ; and the transmission
of animals from England to her colonies and to
foreign parts. These designs are likely to be very
beneficial, if properly carried out, and to add largely
to our comforts and luxuries at home and abroad.
As a proof of the increasing favour in which the
society is hold, wo may mention that its members
have increased more than 135 per cent. during the
last year. The results of the experiments with
Chinese sheep, prairie grouse, Honduras turkeys,
and the Ailanteus silkworm, have been especially
Satisfactory. Some of the newly-introduced vege-
tables have also been successful. Lord Powerscourt
has been making several experiments with a view
to domestical ing and acclimatising several rare kinds
of deer, with varying success. He reports as the
result of his experience that the climate of Ireland
is too damp to be favourable to tropical animals,
although he has not entirely abandoned the hope of
naturalising the eland or some similar species in
these islands. The society is likely to be of even
greater service to our colonies than to ourselves,
while the climate of our Australian settlements more
especially would offer fewer obstacles to their ex-
periments. We observe that its annual festival will
very shortly be held, when several new and elabo-
ishes will pique the curiosity of the gourmand,
rate d

THE POLISH INSURRECTION.—The CzaB publishes
the following letter from Polish Livonia The whole of
Poland will utter a cry of lamentation on hearing of the
death of Count Leon Plater, shot in the square of the for-
tress of Dunaburg. This great patriot has stained with
his blood the soil on which Count Henry, his grandfather,
Ambassador from the States of Livonia to Sigismund
Augustus, King of Poland, took leave of his electors in
the Stavostie of Thinaburg, which for centuries, up to
the partition of Poland, had belonged to his family. Leon
Plater, was only 96 years of age, and from the moment he
fell into the hands of his executioners he suffered martyr-
dom. He died calm and resigned for the liberty of his
country. In returning from the execution we entered a
Church where were assembled the desolated sisters of the
zaurdered man, his family, and his friends, who had taken
refuge near the altar, and were off,ring up their prayers.
We admired the courageous mother of Leon Plater,
Who, seeing those around her bathed in tears, consoled
them by saying, Do not weep, my dear friends ; you
see that I do not. I should have shed tears if my dear
Leon had been afraid of the Muscovite condemnation ; I
went to give him my blesring; I prayed to God for him
and with him.' It is only faith in the holiness of the cause
that can inspire such heroic courage and perseverance. A.
nation which producee such characters cannot die in Mus-
covite chains. Twenty Russian soldiers guarded the vene-
rated tomb, and were reinforced at midnight. At one
o'clock a cart came and convoyed it into the interior of the
trtress, his body pierced with balls. It appears that he
had been provisionally buried in the bastion which bears
the name of Constantine."