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London, England, 1862-08-01 00:00:00

EVERY WEEK.
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than last year ; and it was anticipated that
the present prices would bring much excellent
cotton from Madras, and larger quantities than
ever from the interior, the poor ryots stripping
themselves we may suppose willingly and making
their rags do double service, to take the benefit
of the present prices for their raw material. Had
Manchester but looked after them by proper buyers,
in a climate where clothing is almost a luxury, it
can hardly be doubted that the natives would have
sacrificed a great deal of what they use in ordinary
times in their desire to make money while they
had the chance. Had they but seen " the sahibs
among them," as Mr. SAUNDERS says, looking after
it, there would have been an increased growth cf
cotton, which would have been a most valuable
relief. As it is, we may well be thankful that India
will at least somewhat alleviate the pressure this

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year.
We may be sure of one thing--these debates will
afford infinite pleasure throughout Yankeedom.
To see the Parliament of England busied in dis-
cussing the deep distress of thousands of men turned
out of work and bread by their blockade—this is a
trophy indeed. Conscious of the moral unjustifi-
ableness of their position, the Yankees have been in
a constant fever through fear of European inter-
vention—half their hatred of us is due to the wrong
satisfaction and injury they do us, and have done us, and yet
theirfactpressdistresswithgreatermalignthan ofour

The Lancashire people have at last obtained very
nearly all they have asked. On Wednesday they

carried a majority of the House with them, in
asking, as Mr. VILLIERS rightly understood it, the

power to borrow, as well as the power offered by

the Government to obtain aid directly from the
union. Last night Mr. VILLIERS brought up an
amendment of the kind they wished ; but as the

power to apply for a rate in aid had been fixed at
the rates reaching ss. in the pound, he had adopted
the same rate as the line at which borrowing powers
should commence. This arrangement, however,
gave general dissatisfaction to those who advocated
liberty to borrow, and ultimately Mr. VILLIERq
capitulated for a line of 3s. in the pound ; he
marched off, however, as he considered, with the
honours of war, because this was nearer the rating
at which he had originally proposed that the rate
in aid should commence.
__

As we understand Mr. VILLIERS' language last
night, when he stated his modification of the
amendment he had brought up, the union is to be

the borrowing party, and is to have the option—
when the rates in any parish exceed 3s. in the
pound—of charging the excess on the common fund
of the union, and so on all the parishes in the union,
immediately ; and then to borrow on the security of
the union rates, when the rating of all its parishes
exceed 35., thus lightening the immediate rressure

It is very unfortunate. But it appears to be in-
evitable. There is a sort of fatality, we suppose,
about the whole neighbourhood. Yet it is—fatality
or no fatality—deeply to be regretted, more espe-

on the union. If this be his meaning, the excess o:

rates above three shillings in the pound in any
parish will be in any case thrown upon the union

but the union will have the option of borrowing
for a term of years. When the union expenditure
exceeds jive shillings in the pound, Mr. VILLIERS
proposes to throw the excess upon the county. Mr.
PULLER'S proposal was, on Wednesday, that the
union, as the better security, and therefore able to
raise money on better terms, should be enabled to
borrow for the distressed parish ; the parish, we
presume, when able, to reimburse the common fund
of the union. As it now stands, the union is to
meet every excess above three shillings in the
pound either by a rate in aid on all its parishes or
by borrowing, and when the maximum of ss. is
reached, the county is to be responsible.
The advocates of borrowing are taunted with in-

cially just at this particular period, within the very
year of the Great Exhibition, when all the World
and his Wife are up from the country, when
Monsieur, Madame, et ses enfans, are over from the
continent—it is, indeed, deeply to be regretted
that such a deplorable accident should have oc-
curred I Everybody who has passed through the
Finest Site (observe, not Sight !) in Europe
must have remarked it. There in that fatal spot—

in that place, so like " another place" that
should be nameless, seeing that it is, in a manner
as one may say, literally " paved with good inten.
tions"—there in the very centre of Trafalgar-square
it has occurred, this melancholy little casualty. It
afflicts each side alternately. Sometimes both sides
(of the centre, that is) together. The turncocks of
the parish of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields—(so called
pertinaciously notwithstanding that there is not a
blade of grass anywhere within the range of obser-
vation)—the parish turncocks, we say, ought de-
cidedly to look to it. For it must surely come, by
right, within their jurisdiction. The fact appears to
be, so far as it can be in any way correctly regarded,
that a number of water-plugs have burst there in
clusters, in the immediate neighbourhood of
what Londoners have for the last dozen years
or so got ,into the habit of facetiously designating
the Trafalgar Square Fountains. Instead of our
two charming ginger beer bottles being allowed to
foam over at their own " sweet will" upon the top
of that melancholy pair of dumb-waiters in front of
the National Gallery—these unfortunate water-
plugs seem to have burst, out of sheer malice, to dis-
grace our principal square more flagrantly than
ever by squirting in rivalry with the ginger beer
bottles aforesaid. It is sheer malignity to insinuate,
as some have ventured to do, that these squirtings and
cross-squirtings are absolutely intentional—that
they have been designed in cold blood, as well as
realised in cold water by some ambitious wight con-
nected with the office of Public Works, that is to
say, of course, in the public waterworks
department. The base insinuation is only no
doubt to be scouted as utterly ridiculous. It
must be set aside at once as a " miserable invention
of the enemy." And, instead of reprobating Mr.
COWPER and his assistants for another and a worse
blunder even than any they have yet perpetrated,
we ought—(we endeavour to encourage ourselves to
believe this)—to commiserate them upon the unto-
ward casualty that, befalling them where it has
done, and when it has done, must be considered
seriously to amount to little less than a misfortune.

consistency in wishing borrowing powers to com-
ence at a lower point than 59., but we cannot think
with reason. They preferred not to go begging for
help to their neighbours, for one thing ; but they also,
with the full persuasion that the calamity is tem-
porary, wished to save the parishes from being
crushed by exceptionally heavy rates for a short
time. They are composed of shrewd men of busi-
ness, some of the wealthiest of whom have known
what it is to save their general course of busi-
ness from derangement by sown exceptional pres-
sure through a loan on good security. It may
probably be looked upon as almost the habit of
these enterprising men to balance the inequali-
ties of the action of trade by obtaining advances.
They cannot bring themselves to believe that
even AMericans will go on eating each other up
they know, must soon feel—in-
fur ever ; India,
deed, Mr. CRAWFORD showed it was now feeling
—the effect of high prices, and hence all they
ask is to be allowed to manage their own business
in their own way. Mr. COBDEN, with perfect con-
sistency, declared his preference for fixing no sum
at which borrowing powers should commence, but
leaving it entirely to the discretion of boards of
guardians. We have not the smallest doubt that

It is the result of that fatality, therefore, we
will presume, which has always been attendant
upon everything connected with that ill-starred and
ridiculously miscalled " finest site in Europe,"
Trafalgar-square. II is another and the latest,
(would that we might hope that it will prove the
last !) result of that old familiar fatality—this
lamentably ill-timed bursting up of the water-
plugs around the soi-disant Fountains. A fatality to
which we already owe so much ! For example, the
in completeness to this day (to our disgrace as anation)
of the only open-air public monument here in London
to the memory of him who has been well called "the
darling hero of England !" Or, the retention of that
empty pedestal in the north-west corner of the
square ! A national emblazonment of the fact that
we despair of ever finding a match (thank Heaven,
however; be it said, in sober seriousness, for that!)
to that tailor's dummy of a King [" waistcoat, under-
waistcoat, more under-waistcoat—nothing!"] for-
merly entitled by our infatuated sires " the First
Gentleman in Europe," but more aptly described by
Mr. THACKERAY " the Royal Snob," his most gra-
cious Majesty Fum the Fourth Again there is—
in the place of honour—that miserable abortion of
a public building, the stone cruet-stand ycelped the
National Gallery; conspicuous alone for its onate pep-
per-castors. There is Pura the FOURTH'S own statue
—ostler-like, mounted on a bare-backed steed, with
a horsecloth gracefully covering his shoulders, and
a rolling pin held truncheon-like against one thigh.
ould that the horsecloth were but large
enough to cover the effigy altogether from our
eyes, and place it effectually beyond reach of prov-
ing a provocation to more horse-laughter. There is
CHARLES the FIRST, again, on that wonderful
charger of his.—saddled without anything what-
ever in the shape of that girth which is found re-
quisite to keep all ordinary mortals erect when
figuring away as equestrians ! Sir EDWIN LAND-
SEER, too, is certainly paying the authorities
in their own coin, now that they have
been inconsiderate enough to select a painter to do
the work of a sculptor—for in lieu of placing the
folir couchant lions on the empty pedestals, so long
waiting for them at the four angles of the base of
the Nelson Column, Sir EDWIN LANDSEER, we
are seriously told, is only beginning to prepare for
his work by studying tne habits of the lions in the
Zoological Gardens in the Regent's Park ! Looking
around us there in the midst of that jumble of absur-
dities littered about the stony waste of Trafalgar
square, we can only regret that—while the foun-
tains and the burst water-plugs are in full play—
?: floodgates of the neighbouring washhouses at
b e beck of the National Gallery cannot safely
e opened in a discharge of sufficiently copious
streatu. of
cold
water, to sweep all this stone and
bronze rtibili,h
beautiful elear away into the Thames, leaving
only that
Corinthian pillar in solitary
grandeur in the
vacated site. St of the otherwise vacant and

this is the wiser course. The Poor Law Board
can hardly believe that it has not the wisdom to
prescribe by rule for all the varied cir-
cumstances of all the parishes and all the
unions in the kingdom. We have much
more faith in the guardians themselves. They
are, with the exception of the magistrates belonging
to them ex officio, composed of gentlemen who
have shown their business capacity by conducting
well, first, their own business. And we should
think they, of all persons in the world, may be
trusted to manage it in the present case. For no
man's integrity and fair ability as an administra-
tor has the country more respect than for those of
the President of the Poor Law Board; but we can-
not think that he and all his staff will manage a
Lancashire Union's pecuniary difficulties so well as
the guardians themselves of the union.

We have reason to be thankful that the Lanca
shire members succeeded by the aid of numerous
Tory coadjutors in carrying their main point.
Sudden collapse is the danger in many of these
manufacturing parishes. When the mills close all
must close. Not only the hands who watch the
spindles and the looms, but the numerous artificers
and workmen directly employed by it, are thrown
out of work, and the numerous tradesmen who sub-
sist entirely on the custom of the workmen. No-
thing can be more correct than Mr. COBDEN'S Com-
parison of such a parish, to an agricultural one
in which sterility had smitten the entire soil. If
the cause of that sterility might be with certaintyd
rento_e_
in a year or two, there could not be a worse
policy than
to annihilate the property of the few
who had
re utillitu.g left, so that they should be in-
capable
c:e. Ating again the fields when fer-
tility returned,
loan would be infinitely better.
71&is is the real
drift
:f
the Lancashire people.
They
Want to prevent ruesereent calamity from de-
stroying
antirelythe renovill
13a
itteioeftothroesgeaiwnhtoh,ewirhoeind
it has passedaway,
position. It seems singular to see the country gen-
tlemen so ready, to back the men
,
,of Manches-
ter, but their interests in this
case are
The former cannot Wish the
identical. rates in
aid to reach too soon the agricultural
onts; the
latter desire to save their own communities from
the crushing rates which Would require a rate n 1
aid.

The facts mentioned by Mr. CRAWFORD are en-
couraging, as far as they go. He showed► by exact
information from India, that it has been a mis-
statement when the Indian supply of this year was
represented as certain to be less than that
of last
year. The reverse is the fact. Up to the end of
June the cotton coming from India was sixty thou.
sand bales more than last year at the same time ;
the numbers being 405,751 bales this year, and
last year, up to the same time, 345,394 bales. A
larger quantity also, happily, remains to be sent

An admirable suggestion, as it
now been thrown out by the
anonymous just
appears to us, ha 9
cor-
respondent of a contemporary. It has reference to

THE SUN, LONDON FRIDAY, EVENING. AUGUST 1, 1862.

the application of the magnificent sum of money
collected together to pay for the construction of
some superb and colossal memorial to the PRINCE
CONSORT. At the outset it will be remembered that
the favourite idea in regard to this national monu-
ment of love and gratitude to the gifted Prince so
very recently and, as it it appears to us poor pur-
blindhuman so prematurely deceased,
wasthat
Obelisk or Monolith. The
creatures,
of a
stupendous
widowed QUEEN herself regarded the notion
of that being the central point of the proposed
memorial, with favour. And knowing such
to be the desire of her MAJESTY, even those
who failed to recognize anything whatever appro-
priate in the notion of a Monolith to commemorate
the fair fame of an European Prince, waived all
such considerations in order that they might aid,
so far as might be practicable, in realizing the
projected design. The erection of a monolith,
however, proved to be impracticable under
the circumstances. The difficulty of find-
ing a block of granite of adequate grandeur
in its proportions, and yet sufficiently near to the
site upon which it was intended to be raised to ren-
der the expense and labour of its carriage not the
source of any formidable objections—was consi-
dered at last, and, we believe with reason,
to be almost as one may say, insuperable.
A different application of the Funds at
the disposal of the Royal Commissioners has been
but very recently resolved upon. According to
this new plan, the blending of sculpture with archi-
tecture is to result in the fabrication of a memorial
in Ilyde Park upon the site of the Crystal Palace
of 1851—a monument worthy in every particular
of the great and good name to be inscribed upon it.
An improvement, hcwever, upon even this idea has
to-day been suggested, through the columns of a
contemporary : namely, the appropriation of the
chief part of this large fund, collected for the pur-
poses of the ALBERT Testimonial—to the relief of the
distress in Lancashire ! Reserving only sufficient to
raise a noble white marble statue of our lamented
Prince upon a suitably grand and enduring granite
pedestal upon which pedestal, beneath the
name of " ALBERT the Good," the fact of this
suggested appropriation of the rest of the fund
(mentioning the very amount if such should be
deemed advisable) might be inscribed ! Th
thought, we repeat, is in itself really beautiful.
And it is certainly a suggestion worthy of being
taken very seriously into consideration.

Paris.

(By Telegraph to Bombay.)

LATEsr NEWS.

ROCHES POINT, AUG. 1 11.15 A.M.
The Inman steamer Kangaroo, from New York
on the 19th of July, is now coming in.

PARIS, AUG. 1.

The Moniteur of this morning announces the ap-
pointment of three vice-admirals.

MADRID, AUG. 1.
General Concha leaves this capital to-morrow for

It is stated that his mission is to endeavour to
establish an understanding been France and Spain
upon the Mexican question.

PARIS, JULY 31.

The Patrie of this evening states that, in conse-
quence of fresh information, orders have been issued
by the Government for the energetic maintenance
of a strict watch upon the Roman coast.
The same journal announces that very animated
discussions take place in the conferences now being
held at Constantinople on the Servian question
several of the Powers expressing divergent views
upon the subject.

INDIA.
(By Telegraph from Suez.)
BOMBAY, JULY 12.
The Supreme Court of Calcutta was closed on the
30th ult.

The letters patent relative to the constitution of
the High Court will be published on the 18th inst

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Shirtings active. Mule twist in good demand.
Cotton higher prices demanded. Copper quiet.
Malwa opium, 1560.
Exchange on London, bankers' bills, 2s. op.
Government Securities.---Four per Cents., 94i;
ditto, Five per Cents., 104 k,
Freights, 655.

CALCUTTA, JtTLY 12.
Shirtings quiet. Mule twist dull. Copper
nothing doing.
Government Securities,—Five-and-a-Half per
Cents., 114 t.
Freights 70s.

BOMBAY, JULY 12.

Broach, 282 rupees per candy, advance 29 rupees;
Dollera, 289 rupees per candy, advance 32 rupees.
Freights, 65s per ton, advance 20s. Exchange,
2s ON per rupee, steady. Broach will cost 9 893 d
per lb, with freight, or 98d; and Dollera, 10.004 d
per lb, with freight, or 10d. Shirtings-50-39in,
61b, 5r 2a, n©t 8s 3d, advance 6 annas; 54-39 in,
71b, 6r la, net 9s 9d, advance 8 annas ; 60-39 in,
81b, 6r 14a, net lls, advance 10 annas; 64-39 in,
B.lolb, 7r 2a, net 1 ls. 6d, advance 6 annas;
54-45 in, 811 b, 6r 6a, net lOs 3d, advance 3 annas.
Market brisk.

THE CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS.
SOUTHAMPTON, AUG. 1.
The Massilia, with the above mails, passed Hurst
Castle at 11.25 this morning.

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THE SUN.
LONDON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 1862.