The Sun.
London, England, 1865-07-27 00:00:00

T.Y.C.

Captain King's Gent of the Sea, 5 yrs, 9st 71b...(Goater) 1
Mr. J. Woolcott's May Queen, 3 yrs, 7st 31b (S. Adams) 2
Mr. Saunders's Belle of the Ball, 5 yrs, 7st 31b...(Neale) 3
The following also ran :—Crythoia, Grey Stockings,
Queen Mary, Ulphus, Violent, and Sister to Amber.
Betting-5 to 2 agst Sister to Amber, 4to 1 agst Cry-
theia, 6 to 1 agst Gem of the Sea, 7 to 1 each agst May
Queen and Belle of the Ball, and 10 to 1 agst Ulphus.
After running a few strides, Gem of the Sea took a slight
lead, but was immediately after headed by Belle of the Ball,
Grey Stockings, and the favourite, who came on nearly
abreast to the distance, where Goater again assumed the
load, followed by May Queen and Mr. Saunders's filly. The
three from this point ran a close race home, the former
winning cleverly by a length ; a head divided the second
and third ; Ulphus was fourth, close up.
The Goodwood Derby of 25 soya each, 15ft, for 3-yr-olds ;
colts, Bst 101 b; and fillies, Bst 71b. Maiden horses al-

lowed 81b. Gratwicko Stakes Course, one mile and four
furlongs. Eight subs.
Mr. Spencer's Longdown, Bst 10Ib (Fordham) 1
Mr. J. Bowes's Farewell, Bst 101 b Ashman) 2

Betting-6 to 4on Longdown, who made all the run-
ning, and won, in consequence of Farewell breaking down.
by half a distance.

Manchester Chamber of Commerce.

A quarterly meeting of the Chamber took place
yesterday, but it was very thinly attended.
The PRESIDENT (Mr. M. Ross) said that, judg-
ing from their experience so far, it did not appear
likely that these quarterly meetings were likely to
prove very attractive or interesting either to the
public or the members. The business transacted
by the Board since the last meeting had been
comparatively uninteresting, partly owing to
the intervention of a dissolution of Parliament. A
great number of interesting communications, how-
ever, had been received, which would afford suffi-
cient matter for inquiry. He enumerated among
them a number of foreign commercial treaties as
forming the subject of these communications, and
among the rest he read an interesting statement re-
specting the cotton trade of Russia. .He said—ln
1822 a productive tariff of 60 to 100 per cent. on
cotton goods was adopted, and cotton prints were
prohibited. This tariff led to the establishment of
cotton mills, and in 1853 noblemen were embarking
in them. From this time the import of raw cotton
increased, and that of yarn diminished. In 1824-26,
in raw cotton there were imported 74,268 poods of
361 b. ; in 1853, 1,814,282 poods. Taking the same
years, the imports of yarn diminished. In 1824-26
the imports of cotton yarn were 337,101 poods ; in
1853, 83,548 poods. The duty upon
yarn was 10d
per lb., or about 60 per cent. on Nos. 20 to 40 ;
present duty, 3i per cent. The mills are mostly
working day and night, and the average production
is 361 b. per spindle per annum. The individual
consumption of cotton goods of Russia, as compared
with Austria, is as 10 to 18 ; France 10 to 35; Loll-
verein, 10 to 35 ; and England, 10 to 83. The
difference in price, as compared with other coun-
tries, will be 35 to 40 per cent., and, in some in-
stances, 60 per cent. or more. The number of
1,0,0, reesenting a cai-
spindles in Russia7soo
is
tal of £7,000,000. The dividend for 24 years ha pve
averaged 11 per cent., and the original capital has
increased five and six fold. The cost of mills per
nominal horse-power is £9OO ; per spindle, £4 7s. ;
per loom, in addition, £37 10s. In England, he
says, the nominal horse-power is £5OO. For every
hand there is an outlay of £3OO in machinery spin-
ning 30's to 40's. The wages of 41,000 operatives is
6,150,000 roubles of 3s. each per annum, besides
the salaries of masters and clerks. The cost of coal,
oil, and stores is generally equal Lo wages. Coal,
255. per ton. Russia employs 14,000 power-looms
and 50,000 hand-looms. Field labour is only pos-
sible during 130 to 150 days in the year. The popu-
lation of Russia in Europe is 65,000,000, and of
these there are 52,000,000 who do not reside in
towns ; there are 74,000,000 in all Russia. The
average wages in mills are 9s. 42d. per hand per
week. The loss on spinning in 1864 was equal to
10d. per lb. Before the American war they re-
ceived from Persia 50,000 poods of cotton ; now,
75'0,000 Roods. The cost of engines and boilers,

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and the gearing within the engine-house, is £5O per
nominal horse-power. The mills have double win-
dows to keep out the cold. A. great amount of
influence for good has been exercised by English
overlookers. The loss occasioned by supporting
this industry is estimated at £2,550,000 per annum.
The consumption of cotton ought to be 10 or 11
times as much as it is. At present only 'one-fifth
of the mills are working.

A conversation followed of a very desultoryope cha-
racter, in which a member expressed a hope
some steps would be taken by the Chamber relative
to the amendment of the law of bankruptcy, which
he said was to form a topic of consideration at next
year's meeting of the Social Science Association at
Sheffield.
Mr. WALKER wished to call attention to the want
of more reliable returns of the stock of cotton in
Liverpool, which he thought the Chamber might
usefully direct its attention to remedying. He
said that at the close of last year there were found
to be 114,000 bales of cotton more than the weekly
returns had led them to expect. It was clear, there-
fore, that these weekly returns had been in error
for some indefinite number of weeks, and yet we
were every week this year receiving returns of
stock, and comparing them with those of last year,
which it was now well known were erroneous.

Mr. HUGH MASON said through this Chamber and
the Cotton Spinners' Association an arrangement
had since the close .of last year been made with the
Liverpool cotton brokers to publithikquartgly,re-
turn of the stock of cotton. As to the false returns
of last year he feared there was no remedy, but he
hoped the new arrangement would prevent such
errors in future.

The meeting ended with a vote of thanks to the
president.

AMERICA.

SOUTHAMPTON, Wednesday.
The North German Lloyd screw steamship
America, Captain H. Wessels, from New York on
the 15th inst., arrived off Cowes at noon to-day, and
went on to Bremen after transhipping mails, &c.,
for this port. She brings 88 passengers for South-
ampton and Havre, and 367 for Bremen ; and on
freight, 27,520 dols. for England, 2,000 dols. for
Bremen, and a general cargo. She has had fine
weather and variable westerly winds during the
voyage. On the 16th, at 719 a.m., in lat. 40 35
N., long. 70 7 W., the America spoke the steamer
Hansa, from Southampton on the sth, for New
York ; and at 10 30 a.m. on the 16th, in lat. 40 37
N. long. 69 19 W., she spoke the Bremen ship
Columbus, westward bound.
Judge Marvin, formerly United States' district
judge for the Southern district of Florida, was on
the 14th inst. appointed Provisional Governor of that
state by the President. This appointment completes
the work of supplying all the States lately in rebel-
lion with civil executives and in once more placing
the entire sisterhood of the Union under the direc-
tion of Governors, either elected or appointed,
acknowledging and in accord with the general
Government.

The work of confiscating the property of wealthy'
rebels was inaugurated at Richmond on the 10th
inst., much to the consternation of the people of
that city, by the seizure of the famous Tredegar
Iron Works by Government agents. Descriptions
of a large amount of other property liable to be
confiscated have been taken, and the tenants thereof
have been notified to pay no more rent to the rebel
proprietors.
The publication of the Richmond Whig was sus-
pended on the 11th by General Terry, and the esta-
blisment taken possession of by therrovost-Marshal,
in consequence of an editorial appearing in the paper
on that morning in which a portion of President
Johnson's amnesty proclamation was pronounced
4, heathenish," and one of the Acts of Congress
4‘ mean, brutal, and cowardly, revoltingly absurd
and atrociously unjust."
A correspondent of the New York Herald, who
has lately been through Northern Alabama; states
that that region is almost one continuous field of
cotton. The planters have given their attention to
the business again this year almost as much as in
ante-rebellion times, and the growing crop looks
very fine. The negroes are working for their for-
mer masters for wages, and the new labour system
appears to progress very well.
The New York Herald sb.ys:—
~ It is estimated that there still remain in Texas from
one hundred thousand to one hundred and fifty thousand
bales of the old crop of cotton, while, owing to various un-
favourable circumstances, it is thought that this year's
crop will not exceed fifty thousand bales. It is also calcu-
lated that there are within the State, accumulated during

the war, five million pounds of wool."
Governor Brownlow had issued an address to the
people of Tennessee, in -which he declares that the
spirit of rebellion is still unsubdued, and that at
the approaching elections those who have been in

actual hostility with the Union will attempt, to re-
instate themselves in authority. He notifies that
to prevent such a result the laws regulating the
exercise of the right of suffrage will be rigidly en-
forced, even though it should become necessary to
call in the assistance of the military.
Mr. Harlan, Secretary of the Interior, during an
address at the laying of the corner stone of a new
orphan asylum in Washington on the 14th instant,
said, in alluding to the relations between France
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The Superintendent of Freedmen in Shreveport,
that they must retain and support the aged and in-
firm negroes who have been their slaves.
says : .1

" At a festival given to Generals Sherman and Cox yes-
terday, at Columbus, General Sherman, on being enthu-
siastically called upon to make a speech, came forward, and
with much reluctance did so. In the course of his remarks
he alluded to the charge that while he was in command in
Kentucky he had demanded for the campaign 200,000 men.
He said that was when he was visited by Secretary Came-
ron. He then explained to him tispiifficulty of marching
into Tennessee by divergent lines—one to Nashville, and the
other to East Tennessee, with forces largely outnumbered
by the rebel armies confronting him. On one of these lines
he had 4,300 men to meet an opposing force of 18,000.
When asked by Secretary Cameron how many men were
needed for the present campaign, ho (Sherman) replied,
460,000, and before you can reduce the South to subjuga-
tion you must have 200,000.' This statement was made in
the presence of Secretary Cameron and his military family,
and ivas afterwards published in the Eastern newspapers
in a very distorted and incorrect form."
A great International Trade Convention assem-
bled at Detroit, Michigan, on the 11th. All the
different commercial organisations in the United
States and British North American Provinces were.
represented. Various reports and resolutions were
submitted, but the Convention adjourned without
important action. A report presented on the 14th
by Mr. Howes, of Nova Scotia, contained the de-
claration that the annexation of the B h
ritis Pro-
* cei to the United States has
no place in the
minds of the people of those provinces, and that
should any one attempt to go to the hustings as an
advocate of such a scheme he would be treated as a
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