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the like capabilities, visible in Asia Minor : parti-

cularly, it is said, in the immediate vicinity of
Tarsus, and nn the coast of Salonica.

Sixthly, there is—perhaps the most suitable
region of all that could be selected anywhere in
our own possessions—that richest part of all India
for the purposes of the cotton planter, the Presi-
..
dency of Bombay.
Seventhly, there are vast future cotton fields, we
may confidently believe, at our antipodes, in the
northern island of New Zealand, and along the
northern and eastern coasts of Australia.

Eighthly, and lastly, in this enumeration there
is Egypt, and particularly that portion of Egypt
known as the Delta.

In regard to the capabilities of all these widely-
scattered countries, as lands admitting of the cul-
tivation of cotton upon a gigantic scale, the fullest
particulars we have anywhere been enabled to ob-
tain as yet in a compact and popular form are com-
prised within the pages of a remarkable work upon
the subject of " Cotton Cultivation,"*kemaed by Mr.
JOSEPH GIBBS, a member of the Institute of Civil
Engineers. To -this comprehensive volume of Mr.
GIBBS'S we may confidently direct the reader for
useful and reliable information. To its pages we
ourselves shall take the earliest opportunity of re-
verting.

* Cotton Cultivation in its various Details : the Barrage
of Great Rivers, &c. By Joseph Gibbs. Bvo., pp, 248.
B. F. N. Spot, London. 1862.

According to information which appears trust
worthy, the young and vigorous kingdom of Italy
is about to be put to a rather severe trial. Russia
and Prussia have declined hitherto to recognise the
kingdom. Prussia, at least the Prussian people, wish
to do it, and even her divine-right King is said to be
not obstinately adverse; but he hangs to the skirts
of Russia: if Russia will recognise the King of
Italy, Prussia will. Of course VICTOR EMMANUEL
would like to enjoy the diplomatic friendship of
his royal cousins, although the want of it can do
him no serious harm. Still it would, so far, confirm
the position of the new kingdom in Europe.
But the CZAR wants to exact a price. The King
of ITALY must prevent the organisation of Polish
refugees on Italian territory. Many of the Poles
have fled thither, and they have a school which
would have to be broken up. The terms of the pro-
posal are ensnaring, Had it been required simply
that the Poles should not drill and arm themselves
for insurrectionary purposes, this, according to in-
ternational law, could not be refused by any power
on terms of amity with Russia. But the Polish
organisations, now, are not military, but civil. The
Poles understand that theirs must be the battle of
civil right against civil wrong. Their organisations
have all been social and peaceful; and what has
annoyed the despotism of Russia most of all is that
the Poles would not give the least pretext to their
enemies to attack them with the military. It is a
Polish school, not a Polish regiment, in Italy,
which the CZAR aims to destroy. We hope, there-
fore, the King of ITALY will refuse the cunning
bribe. His reply should be, that he is bound in
honour not to allow war to be levied in Italy against
Russia, but that, with all peaceful organisations of
political refugees he must decline to interfere.