The Sun.
London, England, 1865-12-16 00:00:00

THE TALLAHASSEE

mado two raids from the port of Wilmington, N.C., in
1864, capturing and destroying nearly thirty vessels, a
number being fishing vessels; on August 13, 1864, being
within six miles of Nantucket lightship, and ran back to
Wilmington.

THE CHICKA.MAUGA7
under command of Lieutenant Wilkinson, left Wilmington
October 24, 1864.

THE SHE'SANDOAH

was built in October, 1863, at Glasgow, and called the Sea
King. She is 790 tons, 200 horse-power, ironframe, wood
planking, owned by William Wallace, of London, being,
like the Alabama, entirely of British origin and equipment.
In September, 1864, she was sold to Richard Wright, of
Liverpool, and under command of Captain P. L. Corbett,
who received written authority to sell her for not less than
£45,000 within six months from October 7, 1864. She
cleared at London for Bombay, and arrived at Madeira, off
which port she afterwards received guns and crew from the
British bark Laurel. She was christened the Shenandoah,
and under command of Captain Waddell she sailed towards
St. Helena, near which she destroyed a few vessels; thence
going to Bay of Bengal and Straits of Sunda. She put into
Melbourne for coal, and thence proceeded to the Arctic
Sea, where, between the Ist of April and the end of June,
1865, she destroyed twenty-nine vessels. She arrived at
Liverpool November 6, 1865, and surrendered to a British

man-of-war, and has since been delivered up to the United
States authorities.

THE STONEWALL

is double turreted, 196 feet long over all, 163 feet from the
front of the forward turret to the sternpost, with a steel-
plated prow or ram extending 33 feet forward of the
turret, 35 feet breadth of beam and 20 feet depth of hold,
draws 16 feet of water, with 4 feet above the water
line, and 4 feet of bulwarks above the hull not plated.
Her plating, which is about 41 inches thick on hull and
turrets or casemates, extends about 5 feet below the -water
line. Her turrets are stationary, for revolving like our
Monitors, and are more properly casemates ; the forward
ono has three port; one bow and two broadsides, and
contains a 300-pounder Armstrong rifled gun, 10-inch
bore, taking a 45-pound charge of powder, the same se
our 15-inch guns. This gun is mounted on a neat mahog-
any carriage, and elevated with a quoin, unlike our guns,
on which the screw is now universally used. It is also
trained with a roller handspike instead of the slide
car-
riage and eccentric, wheels, on which all our heavy gone
are mounted. The other turret contains two 70-pounder
Armstrong rifles, mounted in the same primitive manner
as the large gun forward, and has four ports quartering on
the starboard and port bow and stern, she thus being ebb)
to fire at any point except dead aft. She has two steering
wheels, one on deck, aft, and the other below, amidshiPs,
both peculiarly attached to two rudders, with one set Of
steering gear or tackle. She has also two propellers'
which give great facility for turning almost within her
own length, and thus enable her to keep her bow con-
tinually on an adversary who could not, by superior
speed, keep out of her way.

Movements of Cotton in America•

Mr. William N. Neill writes from Memphis, Tennessee,
to the Liverpool Post as follows regarding the probable nest
year's cotton crop :

"As regards the probable planting next season, it is too
soon to make a close estimate, but the prospects at present
are very gloomy. The general belief is that not much over
1,000,000 bales will be produced; and upon the most
iavoumble view that can be taken of the question, unless
things alter very much between now and January, we can-
not rely with anything like confidence on more than
1,500,000, of which this country, north and south,
will
require to retain 800,000 bales, unless prices rule exces-
sively high. I may, however, repeat that I think the
blame for short growth should rest very much on the
moral, mental, and pecuniary incapacity of the planters to
adapt themselves to the new order of things, at least an
much as with the negro. The latter, however, is now Vei
anxious to have done with plantation life, and either to
have a plot of land of his own or to live in towns. It will
take time for the re-organisation of so gigantic an indus-
try as the cotton culture in the South. The almost uni-
versal opinion throughout this country now is that next
summer cotton will range towards one dollar per pound,
and such a belief always goes far towards its own realisa-
tion. It must be at least admitted that after the old stocke
now coming into market are disposed of, 41 in the future
is vague and uncertain except the large consumption.
That is beyond all question, and it will continue and gain
upon the supply for at least two years from January next;
for even if the crop after next, viz., that of 1867, should
be a large one, it will be January, 1868, before
any weight of it can visit the European markets.
You will have gathered from the foregoing that I think,
and indeed am convinced, that the time has come when
you may safely and probably with a large profit import
cotton from this country. We have deferred executing
any Of the discretionary orders we hold till December, or
till we see signs of a decrease of receipts, from our con"
viction that until then prices would fall. We think it,
however, unsafe to delay any longer. A series of monthly
or fortnightly shipments beginning in December would
probably have in their favor a rising market. It maY
appear that in these considerations I ignore the supplies
from other countries. Ido not do so, but it must be
evident that the American supply is sufficient to control
the market. Whatever is the range of prices in December
while you are receiving or expecting our large supply of
the old and new crops together, they will begin to advance
in January if (as we think it certain) the receipts then
show a falling off."
THE DEPOSED KING.—In 1848 kings out of employment
were plenty in Europe. In America the deposed King of
1861 is not precisely out of business, but is fast resuming
his old supremacy, so far as the wants of the world are
concerned. It was imagined by some that the war would
forever deprive American cotton of the load in the markets
of the world, but the experiment has failed, so far as it
aimed to stimulate a production of equal quantity or value
in other countries. The consumption for four years ha
been growing less and less on account of the increase of
price, and the point is at last reached where the demand
must be supplied. The Commercial Chronicle estimates
the present supply at all the ports of the United States at
400,000 bales, and the receipts from the interior average
6,000 bales a-day, so that in six weeks our stock at current '
prices would be adequate to a twelve months' consumption
for the United States. Estimating the cotton in the South
at the close of the war at 1,500,000 bales, at the ports
60,000, and the crop of 1865 at 300,000, our supply from
May, 1865, to September, 1866, would amount to 1,860,000
bales. Our own consumption during the same time ninY
be put at 900,000 bales, leaving about 960,000 bales for
shipment and stock. Of this quantity about 700,000 bales
would be exported. If an export tax of three or five
cents a pound could be laid upon this, it would add, from
the pockets of the foreign consumers, a handsome sum to
our revenue.

The Chronicle estimates the crop of 1866 at only
1,000,000 bales. A small amount indeed, but, in the
present and prospective state of the Southern labor market
quite likely to be true. India, Africa, Egypt, Brazil, and
all the known and possible sources ofsupply, have entered
into earnest competition to fill the p ace made vacant by
their great rival ; and, although cotton has been producall
and in considerable quantities, it can maintain no success-
ful comparison with our own. American skies and sun
seem to impart to this wonderful fibre a strength and
evenness which it does not have elsewhere ; and cotton,
though it could not be prostituted to the despotic uses of
a slaveholding power, will yet be " king " in a better and
more ennobling sense than before.—Boston Journal.

COUNTRY MARKETS.

RIPON—FRIDAY.
The farmers brought a fair supply to market to-day.
The demand was not brisk, but late prices maintained.

LIVERP 0 OL.—FRIDAY.
At to-day's market there was a small attendance of toWII,
and country buyers. Wheat and flour barely maintained
Monday's rates. Oats and oatmeal rather lower. Barlei•
beans, and peas no change.

DERBY—FRIDAY.
New white wheat, 508 to 558 ; old red, 50s to 53s per 96
stone. Barley for malting, 328 to 40s per qr. ; grinding'
27s to 30s per 30 stone. Oats, new, 21s to 26s ; old, 28$
to
31s per 24 stone. Beans, old, 50s to 525; new, 440 to 45'
per 38 stone.

WAKEFIELD.—FRIDAY.
Wheat meets a steady but not extensive demand, and 11.°1.
alteration in value to note from last Friday. Barley in 'l5
demand ; other sorts quiet at late rates. Beans and esL
as dear.
Averages, December 11—Wheat, 2,379 qrs, at 49s 7el;
barley, 1,000 at 37s Old ; oats, —, at Os Od.

ST AMF ORD.—FRIDAY.
Old white wheat, 50s to 528 ; red do., 42s to 48s per 3.,5.
stone. Barley, malting, 32s to 365; grinding, 27s to a'
per qr. Oats,- new, 22s to 288; old, 25s to 27s per 24 stone,
Beans, 44s to 54s per 38 stone. Peas as of late.

LINCOLN.—FRIDAY. 36
New white wheat, 51s to 56s ; new red, 42s to 488 peL
stone. Barley for malting, 35s to 40s per qr ; griu,,r„ to
27s to 29s per 3() stone. Oats, 26s to 30s. Beans, '1"
51s per 38 stone.

BRISTOL SUGAR.--FRIDAY. r'
The demand is more active for raw and refined 011 e
and a fair amount of sales has been made for most deser4
tions. Rum in good demand.
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Births. Of
BUTLER.—On the 12th inst., at Davenport, the NY -
Lieut. J. V. D. Butler, R.N., of a son.
BONHAM.—On the 14th inst., at South Kensington, tiles
70n the 11
of Mr. F. C. Bonham, of a daughter. nc°
CAvE.th inst., at Florence, the wife of Le—

Trent Cave, Esq., of a'daughter.
Marriages. bOn°
HULLAII—RossER.—On the 14th inst., at St. Mall btor
Church, John Hullah, Esq., to Frances, only da.ollgotli
of the late Lieutenant-Colonel G. F. Rosser, a.. •
Lancers. do,
WHEELER—WILLEY.--On the 14th inst., at St. Ge,c's", Z„ar
Hanover-square, Sir Trevor Wheeler, Bart" of'do ' of
ington Hastings, Warwickshire, to Frances,
the late Rev. Jocelyn Willey, of Camblesforth
Yorkshire.

Deaths.
Cill nx d 7
mcu.— On the 13th inst., at Deddingtont
Mary °lcc)°'
_ Anne, widow of J. Churchill, Esq., age 9. d,
EASTWOOD.—On the 12th inst., at his residence, astvro°
Todmorden, Yorkshire, Thomas Eastwood, aged 83. t
HALL—On the 14th inst., at The Grove, Stratford, Bsst"
Mr.
HoDGE.— Wm. Hall, aged 36. Grostoiloi
On the 15th inst., at his residence 18,
road, West Brompton, John Hodge, Esq., of' the r,1.11
Spalding and Hodge, Drury-lane, aged 78.
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LoVIE.—On the 13th inst., at Grove Hall, Bow, A' j
Lovie, aged 70.
PORTMAN.—On the 13thinst , at Bournemouth, Walter,G;
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