The Sun.
London, England, 1862-07-04 00:00:00

FRANCE.

La Presse announces that :Admiral Jurien de
Lagraviere will sail, at the end of July, for Mexico,
and will hoist his flag on board the iron-plated
frigate Normandie. The 1,800 men now embark-
ing in Algeria will start on the sth inst. for Guade-
loupe. General Forey will not leave France till
September.

BOURSE, July 3.—The market continues heavy,
but without any variation from the closing rates of
yesterday, Threes, for the account being unvaried
at 68f. 15c, Railway Share Market also dull.
The market improved towards the close, and left off
as follows :

41 per Cents 96 70
Do end month —
3 per Cents
Do. end month 6B 35
New 3 per Cents
Do, end month —
Credit Mobilier 845
Do. end month 846 25
BAIL'

Bank Shares 3140
Credit P oncier 1675
Piedmontes( Fives
Italian Loan 73 20
Roman —
Austrian
Spanish Threes —
Home Debt

AYS.
Cash. Account.
Orleans 1202 50 .. 1005
Northern 1052 50 .. 1053 75
New ditto ** • -- • •
Lyons and Mediterranean 1086 t 5 .. 1087 50
Geneva.. — ..
Southern 845 .. 846 25
Western
Eastern ... , ....... ,
Sardinian
Austrian
Lotrbard

utter improbability of any large supply of cotton
reaching us from the States for a long time to come,
—appealed as we have often done, to Manchester, POLAND.
to devote herself energetically to obtaining a cotton
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
supply. Almost as if in answer to such an appeal,
WARSAW, JUNE 28.
we had the recommendations of Mr. BURNS, which
We are now here mouth-opened, and all expects
we published on Wednesday. They are quite opposed tion at the result of the many decrees published
to the course we have always suggested,and we must and reforms promised by the Emperor, none of
say that we wonder such' recommendations could which has as yet been put into execution. So far
come from the metropolis of Free Trade. They are as the wording of these reforms, particularly in the
an explicit call on the Government to become Man-
sphere of public instruction, goes, it is no doubt
deserving of the general approbation, and does
Chester cotton agents—to buy up native cotton, to
credit to its real author, the Marquis Wielopoleki.
carry it to the ports, and to guarantee a high local But to satisfy the people, wounded and humiliated
price to the growers. in its dearest feelings and aspirations, requires
The probable cost of all this would be enormous; more than empty words, and time must be given
but it is against the principle that we would protest. for the trial of these reforms. The most important
The Indian Government has shown considerable branch of education, and so much wanted in this
disposition to make the most of the American
country, is that of civil engineering and agricul-
ture ; and, with a view to supply this deficiency, a
calamity, and but for CHARLES WOOD it would do
more. But the thought of turning the Government polytechnic and agricultural institute has been de-
cided upon, in lieu of the present gymnasium of
into a great cotton company for Manchester is too Warsaw. This new institute is to be established at
outrageous to be endured for an hour. On the Pulawy (which the Russians now call New Alexan-
other hand, we think the exigency does need some dria), the magnificent country residence of the
l
thing more than the ordinary course of trade. lamented Prince Adam Czartoryski, which, with
his other immense estates, had been confiscated by
Manchester says that its business is not to grow, the Emperor Nicholas. Thus, at least, the spoil of
but to spin and weave cotton. Be it so. But as the late Czar has been turned to some public ad-
a General whose business is to fight must see to it vantage, and no more appropriate place could have
that his fighters have food, and will certainly not been selected for such a purpose.
fight if he neglect his commissariat, so now with You will doubtless recollect my mentioning the
our spinners and weavers. They must bend to the arrest of some young Russian officers on the charge
of spreading revolutionary ideas in the army.
necessity of looking after their own cotton supply, After a trial by court-martial in the citadel they
if they mean to be supplied with cotton. If they
were sentenced to be shot, which sentence Gover-
can do this, by merely increasing the price they nor-General
General Luders having approved, with the con-
offer, well. But, if something more is wanted, they sent of the Emperor, they w ere executed on the
must be willing to do it. 27th inst. This atrocious proceeding led to re-
Now, by their own account, -what they chiefly
venge from a Russian, who having fired at General
want is to convey information of their wants, and Luders in the Saxen Garden, and wounded him
in
of the prices they will pay for cotton properly
the neck, threw down the pistol, and effected his
escape from the garden through a side gate into the
packed and carried, to the Indian ryots. They
place called the Irongate, and disappeared. The
complain that these men are selling to the native police, under some futile pretexts, have made many
spinners cotton for a penny a pound, for which they arrests among the most innocent people. The offi-
could give say double the price. Then why not
lowing account of this occurrence :—" This 27th
.day
responsible persons to compete with these cial gazette, Dziennok Powszechny, gives the fol-
sendhas surely the men
native buyers ? Manchester
his excellency, Count Luders, performing the duties
as well as the money; and it is her business, of June, at half-past seven o'clock in the morning,
of the Lieutenant of the Kingdom, was wounded in
not the Government's, to send both to India the back of the neck by a shot from a firearm of
at once. Manchester could send her agents to a small calibre. The bullet having knocked out one
America, why can she not send them to India ? We tooth passed through the right cheek, and in its
fear the truth is, that she is still " waiting for some- course slightly grazed the arm of a woman that was
thing to turn up" in America. Untaught by the standing close by. The wound of his excellency
presents no danger. The perpetrator
sudden and total failure under which she now suf-
of this hor-
rible attempt has not been discovered."
fers, she prefers still to lean on slavery for her Little as the authorities try to make of the event,
cotton supply. She hopes that intervention, or it is a very significant one, for it shows to demon-
peace without intervention, conquest or compromise, stration how deep is the sympathy among the
may open to her the old sources of supply again. 1 Russian youth in political matters. And when we
If then she will throw her all upon this one cast, if J consider what passes now in St. Petersburg—that
old and highly renowned periodicals and journals
she will not spare some money and trouble, now
have been suspended on the ground of liberal ten-
that she has nothing else to do, in creating for her- dencies—that the fires all over the country seem to
self another cotton market, we can see no prospect be on the increase—that a visible discontent reigns
of anything but a long prostration of this great in the army, and a general distress pervades all
manufacture. May Lancashire awake ere it is too classes of the community—it must be acknowledged
late. that a storm is approaching which to all appearance
will split this heterogeneous colossus. The
An "Old Indian" in yesterday's Times thus Empe-
ror,illus- lit
deprived of financial resources, as the country
trates the practicability of what we have so often is in a state of bankruptcy, and commerce in a cora-
urged on our Manchester manufacturers—the send- plete stagnation, yet, unmindful of the extravagant
ing of agents to purchase the cotton and instruct expences to which the Asiatic splendour of the
the natives :—" To show what might be done by Court is accustomed, seems to leave to some of his
such men, let me conclude this letter by showing Camarillo the task of averting the danger with
which he is threatened. Whatever concerns this
y
what has been done b a single Englishman
country he has left to his brother Constantine,
bent upon improving the quality of Indian cot-
whose arrival here is daily expected. It is averred
ton and trusting to persuasion alone to effect, his that the Grand Duke will be,
objects. When Mr. SHAW introduced the New autocrat of Poland, and that, only for the form's
Orleans cotton into Dharwar, the price of sake, he will have, in some instances, to refer to
Dharwar, then called " Coompta" cotton, the Emperor. How he will acquit himself of his
trust time alone will show.
was 30 per cent. below the price of the " best
News received here from Lemberg
Surats ;" it is now 20 per cent. above it, a difference speak of an
occurrence characteristic of the A '
of 50 per cent. There were last season 280,000
went. On the 24th June ustrian Govern-
the Princess L. Sapioka
acres in and adjoining Dharwar, producing 40,000 had arranged a public
entertainment far the benefit
candies of this cotton, worth, by the latest price of a charitable institution
called " Cerownia," in
current of Bombay, £3O per candy, or £1,200,000 ; which a large number of the orphan girls receive a
the price of the " best Surats" being at the same gratuitous education, under her Highness's special
the difference of patronage..thall zeal and atriotism and the sums
The public responded to the appeal
date £6 less, or £24 per candy ; w
£240,000 at the least having been added to the relai. p,
ised were rather, considerable. But what was
value of this produce by the disinterested efforts of
the surprise when, at the end of that fete, two Go-
one public-spirited man. vernment agents presented themselves and claimed
We see that Mr. E. POTTER, the Member for the State. The
money as the property of the
Carlisle, in a letter to the Times, still insists that Princess had noalternative, and gave np the amount,
that the Government must grapple with the ques- about £4OO, into the hands of some members of the
lion, and excuses Manchester capitalists, on the municipal council of the town who were present at
the fete. The subject came under the deliberation
ground that large importations from India might
of the Council, mostly comprised of Poles, who,
prove a losing speculation, as the price would fall after many speeches for and against, have resolved
one half if the trade with America' sh°uld be speedily to restore the money to the Princess, in acknow -
resumed, an event he acknowledges to be improbable iedgment of her virtues, and her solicitude for the
welfare of her fellow-creatures, who so much adore
enough. We can only say that if the Manchester
men are really afraid, on this ground, to lay them her kind and amiable nature.
selves out to do their appropriate work, no Govern-
ment can do it. Cotton for Manchester, from India,
depends on what Manchester will do in India.

Gold has been discovered in the Calliope ranges,
20 miles from Gladstone, in Queensland,