The Sun.
London, England, 1862-01-06 00:00:00

LARGE EXPORTS OF C07201V FROM

:LIVERPOOL TO AIIIERICi4.

Large purchases of cotton have been made in
Liverpool during the last few weeks for the pur-
pose of reshipment to the States, and the demand
for vessels, and particularly steamers, has been so
great that the Inman Company have decided to de-
spatch the City of New York on Wednesday with
800 bales of cotton, the intention being to despatch
the Glasgow about the 9th or 19th as an extra
steamer. The steamship John Bell, which came
round from the Clyde on Wednesday, is taking in a
cargo of about 2,000 bales, and sails in a day or two
for New York. The Hope, steamship, a vessel of
smaller tonnage, is taking in about 1,000 bales,
and applications have been made to the owners and
agents of other steam vessels in Liverpool. It is
stated that the agents of one of the mail lines have
declined to take out cotton on freight, preferring to
adhere to their usual business.

The steamship Sarah Sands was offered but re-
fused, in consequence of not being in readiness, as
she is at present undergoing necessary repairs re-
quisite before being sent on a long sea voyage.
As regards the rate of freight now being given
for cotton to New York, we may state that the
state that the steamers now engaged are receiving
2d. per lb. and 5 per cent. primage. The Inman
Company, however, decline availing themselves of
the present crisis to raise their freights to their cus-
mers, and therefore adhere to their customary
charges.
It was stated, and on very good authority, that
the Cunard Company, now that the whole of the
10,000 men have been despatched to Canada, have
received instructions from Government to the effect
that their steamers will not again be required at
present for transport purposes, with the exception
of accommodation for 20 officers. This one fact, the
truth of which is more than probable, speqks well
for the " peacemakers," as it is generally believed
here that Captain Seymour, who took out Earl
Russell's despatch in the Europa, and who arrived
at Queenstown on Wednesday morning, in the
Africa, was the bearer of return despatches, the
purport of which was much more serious and im-
portant than the public at present have any idea of.
Altogether, the feeling in Liverpool now is that
there will be no war at present; and we may add,
from our knowledge of the American press, that
when such papers as the New York Tribune, Times,
and herald coincide in opinion that Mason and
Slidell ought to be given up, it is quite clear the
Federal Government will find no serious difficulty
in doing so. As another pacific fact, we may state
that the British ship-of-war Rinaldo, which was
at Annapolis to receive Lord Lyons in the event
of the Federal Government refusing to accede to the
British request when the Africa left, had, in the
interim between the sailing of the Africa and
Hansa, left port. The Europa, which was to have
left Boston on the 25th ult., is now due, and it is
hoped and expected that her news will strengthen
the hopes of peace.

MEMORIAL OF THE PRINCE CONSORT'
AND THE GREAT EXHIBITION OF 1851.

At a meeting of the committee for the erection
of a memorial of the Great Exhibition of 1851, held
on Thursday last—Alderman Challis in the chair
—a duplicate of the letter from his Royal Highness
the Prince of Wales, which appeared in our impres-
sion of Saturday, in connection with the proceed.
ings of the Horticultural Society, was read. The
committee unanimously resolved to carry out the
wishes of her Majesty, and the appended reply was
determined on. A committee, consisting of Mr.
Foley, R.A., Baron Marochetti, A.R.A., Professor
Westmacott, Mr. S. Smirke, RA. ; Mr. George
Godwin and General Grey (as a channel of commu-
nication with the royal family), was appointed to
confer with Mr. Durham, who is to execute the
statue :
" Brompton, Jan. 3.
"To HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES, &c.
Sir,—The committee for the erection of the memorial of
the Great Exhibition of 1851, for which the Horticultural
Society have granted a site in their gardens, have received,
through General Grey, by command of your royal highness,
a duplicate of your letter addressed to the council of the
Horticultural Society. In this letter your ro3 al highness re-
calls to recollection, by command of the Queen, that her
Majesty had been pleased to assent to a proposal to place a
statue of herself upon the memorial ; that the characteristic
self- denial and modesty of your royal highness's deeply
lamented and beloved father (whose loss the whole nation
now mourns) had induced him to interpose to pr4vent his
own statue from filling that position on the memorial which
properly belonged to it ; that her Majesty had directed your
Royal Highness to say it would now, however, be most
hurtful to her feelings were any other statue to surmount
this memorial than that of the great, good prince, your
Royal Highness's beloved father, to whose honour it is in
reality to be raised; further, that your Royal Highness had
sought and had obtained the permission of the Queen to
present the statue thus proposed to be placed on the me-
morial.
" The Memorial Committee, having considered this com-
munication, request me to state, with most respectful and
heartfelt expressions of the cheapest sympathy, and of just
admiration of the sentiment that suggested it, their entire
readiness to meet these wishes, not only as enabling the
subscribers to the memorial to carry out their original de-
sire, which was emphatically and aim e all things to offer a
public and lasting tribute to his Royal highness the la-
mented Prince Consort in connection with the Great Exhi-
bition, but as rendering that memorial also the first of the
many records of public homage which will be offered
throughout the length and breadth of the kingdom to the
memory o
as a private as well as a national calamity.
This f a prince whose loss is deplored by every subject
of thes griefrealm
ism felt peculiarly by the committee I have the
iire
honour to represent, they having received from the Prince
for a long time the kindest consideration and personal as-
sistance of inestimable value in the preparation of the
design.
They recall with melancholy satisfaction the circum-
stance that the last public act in London of the lamented
Prince, your royal highness's father, was the approval of
the statue of her Most Gracious Majesty, by Mr. Durham,
then intended to surmount the memorial.
,4 The appropriation of this statue, which is now being pro-
duced in bronze, the memorial committee most respectfully
place in the hands of your royal highness.
" With reiterated expressions of the deepest sympathy on
the part of the committee, and their prayer for the health
of the Queen, I beg leave, sir, most respectfully to sub-
scribe myself your royal highness's humble servant,
4‘ GE9RGL QODWINI 1/011, Secretary,"

The eldest sister of the plaintiff, Martha Watson,
65 years: old, said the plaintiff was about 60 years
of age, and was a:dressmak er. Plaintiff and defen-
dant had been courting fora long time; and they
had often been together, both in the garden
and in the house. On one occasion, five or six
years ago, defendant said to plaintiff, " I am deter-
mined to be wed, Barbara, and if you will not have
me somebody else shall ;" to which the plaintiff re-
plied she was quite willing. On another occasion,
after having been on a pleasure excursion, the
defendant said, " Barbara, I have not brought you
you anything, but I can give you money and you
can buy something for yourself." On a third occa-
sion he said, " Barbara, I think we will order our
wedding now, to which she again replied that she
was quite willing it should take place. She had
procured a shawl for the anticipated marriage. De-
fendant had continued to keep ccmpany with the
plaintiff until a very short time before his marriage
In cross-examination, the witness admitted that
she, in common with most of the neighbours, had
been to the defendant's wedding party, and that
she had enjoyed herself pretty well. She was some-
what dubious as to the exact age of her sister, and
said the plaintiff might be, though she did not
know, 62 years of age, and that she might have been
born in September, 1799. She considered defendant
a very agreeable man, and he always appeared
very fond of the plaintiff.
No witnesses were examined for the defendant,
but it was contended by the learned counsel in his
address to the jury, that no promise of marriage
had in fact been made by the defendant, all the con-
versations deposed to by the witnesses being merely
jokes between old and intimate friends, and that if
the plaintiff had really sustained any injury, very
slight damages would compensate her.
The jury gave a verdict for the plaintiff—
Damages, £l5O.