The Sun.
London, England, 1862-05-16 00:00:00

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NTERBURY HALL AND FINE
ARTS GALLERY.
The miraculous STECKEL at a quarter to 11.
kt Nine o'c renownlocked RUM LN
SEY and NEWCOMB MINSTRELS
eellGrand Selections from "La Sonnambul. "
vrtth Banff and tall vutn-u., cvnaucted by Mr. Jongh-
man-..
'JNSWOR fli, in his celebrated Stump Speech " Or any
•.)ther man," and EUGENE, the great Burlesque Singer and
Dancer, at Ten o'clock.

A tempting cluster of cotton balls has just now
been dangled before the watering mouths of the
cotton growers of Jamaica by his Excellences an_
vernor DARLING. The prospect held out to view
thereby is certainly as appetising and exhilarating
in its way as a game of cherry bob could be to a
group of fruit-loving children. The good fortune
extended at no more (as it were) than arm's
length by Governor DARLING before the Jamaica
Cotton Company—is tolerably certain, we take it,
to be jumped at. And if the Company do but en-
deavour " with a will" to seize the gifts already
seemingly at this moment all but within their
reach—a perfectly new and far brighter Future
than any yet imagined will open up at once before
our home manufacturers. Abundant supplies of
the raw material—in that contingency—will have
a fair and reasonable chance enough of being
always accessible through the industry of our
own colonists. Cotton, the produce of free labour The late Under-Secretary of State for War, Sir
upon the soil of our dominions, will—supposing BENJAMIN HAWES, K.C.8., was one of those able,
we are really not now grasping at a shadow— hardworking public servants who ought always to
rapidly spring up elsewhere than under the culture be held in honourable remembrance at least by their
of the poor African slaves, herded together for that own contemporaries. This, felling the possibility of
purpose in the tropical fields of the Confederates, their being able to lay any claim whatever to the
It appears simply that there has recently been grateful regard of posterity. Sir BENJAMIN
forwarded to the Jamaica Cotton Company a copy HAWES, though but five years short of the allotted
of a certain Lecture recently delivered in what ie age of man—the deceased being at the time
still, for courtesy's sake, called the United States, of his demise, on the 15th inst., in his 65th
by Mr. KENDAL, a cotton planter, in the northern i year, having been born in 1797 here in
part of Maryland. The individual who has had London— cannot but be regarded, neverthe-
the consideration to transmit this remarkable docu- less, by all who knew him personally, as having
ment—for remarkable it will soon enough be re- died prematurely. Almost to the morrow of his de-
cognised to be—being no other than his Excellency mise he bore all the appearance of a vigour of con-
Governor DARLING, the Governor of Jamaica. stitution as yet unsapped by age or toil. Glancing
Upon an examination of the argument put forth down the perspective of those sixty-five years of a
by the lecturer in the paper thus brought via useful and honourable career, it is interesting
The county Jamaica, under the notice of observant English- to remember of the late Under-Secretary
y will not lose sight of Mr. GLAD- men here at home, it appears that the whole pur- of State that in 1820 he was married
STONE'S assertion, that if we could do with sixty- port of it is to describe the Tree Cotton popularly to the daughter of Sir ISAMBARD BRUNEL, the
five millions for our annual expenditure, we might known as "Peruvian" but, botanical) as yossypium great inventor of the Block Machinery at Ports-
give up the Income-tax altogether. The sugges- arboriurn. The trunk of the plant or tree itself mouth, and fabricator of the Thames Tunnel. So
ion of the requisite retrenchment will surely set averaging a diameter of eight inches and an alti- that the future administrator was thus associated
many minds to work. Is it impracticable ? We have tude to the topmost twigs of some twenty feet by intimate family ties with two of the chiefs of
might be
* strong suspicion that, under a vigorously eeono- i altogether. The pamphleteer, or rather the i that great school of engineering which has benefi-
tnical Administration, the thing
don
We We see in our Indian Empire what a ha 1 lecturer we should say, further tells us in regard to 1
dally affected the progress of civilisation during
cial result has followed ' from dealing" Peruvian," vigorously
fruit or balls when arrived at a state of maturity I policies of Governments!
with the army, where it must be much more need©d
than at home. Tax after tax is dropping away, Plant, looked to generally speaking for the bulk of readily enough enumerated. In 1828 he was ap-
and the Income-tax itself down to two per cent., the cotton crops twice the size, that is, of those pointed a magistrate of Surrey, as well as
and levied only on the higher class of incomes, borne by the latter, wherever those shrubs approach deputy lieutenant of the county. In 1832 he was
Can nothing similar be done here ? No one asks the
that the Emp colder latitudes. Yet though so much larger elected M.P. for the borough of Lambeth, a consti-
ire should be weakened, but every these balls of the Peruvian contain a fibre that is tuency which for fifteen years, namely until 1847,
one now asks two tbings_ote, that
we should not still firm, while the length of the staple is increased. he continued to represent in Parliament. At the
waste Ora resources in such
sheer
mismanagement, We are informed
as Lo:rd CLARENCE PAGET ex , moreover in reference to the end of those fifteen years, during which he
posed
so
vigorously Peruvian cotton tree, that "It is propagated either had then very ably represented the borough of
when out of office ; and as Mr. COBDEN from seed or cuttings
illustrates so unanswerably in , and may be planted out as Lambeth, acquiring for himself, while so
his e Three an apple or peach orchard, and the field cropped I doing, a certain distinction more than marked by
Panics ;" the other, that we should
not be
with
cereals until the tree occupies and."
the l And the attributes of mere respectability in the popular
superfluously strong. If two thirds of our
present further it is related that " A sample of this cotton branch of the Legislature—Sir BENJAMIN HAWES
army and navy are an ample defence,third is the countr
will, after all, think that anothery has been shown to an extensive English cotton- was, almost it seemed by a whim, rejected by his
,as Mr. spinner,
who
pronounces it to be of excellent old constituency. He obtained another seat, how-
DISRAELI said, supported not for moral influence, quality." After further describing the peculiari- ever, the year afterwards, namely, as M.P. for the
but for moral terror, It cannot be denied that if
ties of the yossypienz arboriUm itself, and descanting borough of Kinsale, for which place he sat from the
we merely made our island-home unassailable, our upon the more important particulars that ought to March of 1848 to the February of 1852, when he
influence would be very great, as great as we need be borne in mind in respect to the manner of its withdrew altogether from the ranks of the national
wish, in ihe councils of the nations. Let our cultivation, the American lecturer goes on to main- representatives. As long previously as the year
colonies do a little more for themselves ; let our taint that the culture of the tree by free labour, 1846 he had been nominated to thu post or Uoceee-
peace establishment be equal to meeting that now that is yin the colder climates for which this Secretary for the Colonies. In 1851 he was ap
almost impossible thing_a surprise; and then, let cotton tree is found to be suitable, is likely, Pointed Deputyssecretary for War. At length,
war come when it would, a very short time, indeed, if but properly conducted, to prove exceed- however—upon the formal abolition of that office
would turn out such a naval and military force as ingly profitable. Wherever maize can be as a superfluity—he was gazetted in 1857
none would attack with impunity. grown, be insists, the Peruvian Cotton Tree as permanent Under. Secretary of State for War.
But Mr. GLADSTONE'S fencing with Mr. HUB- can be grown also—remuneratively ! Nay, this His labours during the year previously, while
BARD suggests a second way of dispensing with experienced cotton planter, in the northern part holding his earlier post (a position of very great
the Income-tar. Ingenious enough were the illus- of Maryland, taking occasion to contrast the cost responsibility) at the War Oefi justly
ce, were re_
trations by which he sought to take off the edge of free labour in the Federal States, with the warded, by the way, after the close of the Crimean
of Mr. HUBBARD'S main Proposal. Mr. GLAD. cost of slave labour in the Confederate states, War by his nomination as a Civil Knight Common
STONE knew that the distinction between press-'estimates that " the latter, including interest of der of the Most Horiourabl9 Order of theßath. That

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