The Sun.
London, England, 1862-08-19 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 19,, 1862.

dead and five wounded, whilst the soldiers had six
wounded." Such are the exact particulars as to
this one exceptional collision. And it is rather
significant in reference to this one solitary incident
of the kind, that immediately tidings of the occur-
rence reached Palermo, the people of that city rose
in a great turmoil of indignation ! The KING'S
General there, General CUGIA, only calming the
agitation, by declaring that the " untoward event"
had taken place without his command, without
even his knowledge, and that he deeply deplored
it lAs it was then—so will it be afterwards and
throughout. It is a mere pretence—this of putting
down civil war or insurrection—on the part of the
Government. GABIBALDI—rash though his pre-
sent enterprise unquestionably is in itself, to the
uttermost degree of rashness—GARIBALDI is strong
in this, that the Royal troops, the Government,
the KING himself, will hesitate before drawing
= the sword against him and his in serious earnest.

We have so often joined in what we st ill think
the just, as well as nearly universal censure of
Manchester for its practical inactivity on the cotton
question, that the operations of the
.Manchester
Cotton Company have the more claim upon our
distinct and comma n
as welldato as n
the somewhat less direct
ry o Those
tions, however,
efforts of the Cotton Supply Association do, in truth,
but attest the justice of the general complaint. Had
the great body of the manufacturers, interested in
the C
we ott r
Supply, but have united earlier in the
formation of companies similar to that whose meet-
ingport to day, we should have needed no
on e
gate in Aid Bill, nor even powers to raise loans on
1 the security of the Rates. It has always been an
object of importance to Manchester to have more
Ithan one string to her bow in the supply of her
material. Had she but taken the hint last April

twelve months, had she but regarded, as she should
have done, the PRESIDENT'S declaration of war as
a summons to look elsewhere than to America,
she might, by this time, have had a
very large supply from India, and in
a condition, and of a quality well
fitted for her use. The money she will pay for
extra rates would probably have been amply suf-
ficient to have brought her into direct contact with
the cotton growers of India, and yet further to have
opened, by the very purchases she made, a market
for the manufactured material.

All honour, however, to those who do work.
India is not the only country to which they direct
their attention. A practical beginning, under an
enterprising Englishman, has been made in West
Africa, at Winnebah. Mr. A. C. HUTTON has pur-
chased 300 acres of the native King, and has brought
the greater part of it under cotton cultivation. The
reasonable hope is, that his success will stimulate
the native chiefs and people to imitate his exam-
ple, and that negro free labour may be aroused to
do as much for cotton as it has for palm oil. Egypt
has also been attended to with success. Its culti-

vation of cotton will be increased this year from
120,000 to 200,000 bales, and the following year to
250,000. It will assuredly be the policy of those
who direct these movements to interest as numerous
countries as possible in their object. Of
course the laws of political economy must
be obeyed ; but we do not know that
it is in contravention of them, for those who have
the knowledge and ability, to guide those who have
not, to work which will prove profitable to all par-

But India is, of course, the grand hope ; and as
much so for the sake of India herself as of Lanca-
shire. Our readers will see from the report and
from Mr. HAYWOOD'S speech that the company is
proceeding in the way which all sensible men have
urged on the manufacturers. No one wished them
to do anything so absurd as to turn cotton farmers.
But the evidence had accumulated from every
quarter that the native cultivator needed
two things, which he could never have, unless
those who wanted what he could produce came
forward and met him. He wanted deliver-
ence from the frightfully usurious Asiatic
bankers, and he wanted deliverance as much from
the native middleman. The latter the company
will at least furnish—the poor ryot will see near to
him a buyer who will give him the market price for
his article, and who will then undertake its clean-
ing, packing, and carriage to the nosiest port. The
distinct statement of Mr. HAYWOOD, after the
examination on the spot, is, thEit the natives are in-
telligent, keen at a bargain, willing to make the
profit of a rupee when they see the possibility, but
they have not that practical knowledge which is
requisite to make India a Competitor with the
United States. And that the sooner efforts are
made to send out European agents in numbers
to go into the various fields of labour,'
the sooner the cotton trade of Lancashire
will realize its great hope of making India, not
only its great field for the supply of cotton, but its
great market for manufactures. Our readers may
remember how earnestly and often wehave expressed
these views, and we can, therefore, but feel gratified
that a gentleman should return from the cotton
districts of India themselves, and from commencing
the establishment of warehouses, the erection of
fitting machinery, and the opening of a port, to
enforce on Lancashire the same lesson.

Our colonies are still our teachers, After years
of struggle our Government has succeeded this ses-
sion in carrying their measures to "facilitate the
transfer of land, to make titles more simple and
secure, and diminish the expense attending pur-
chases and sales." Such were the terms in which
her MAJESTY congratulated My Lords and Gentle-
men not many days ago. Meantime another por-
tion of her MAJESTY'S subjects have given her far
more cause to congratulate them. They have
risen, it appears, almost in a mutiny against the
lawyers. The plain untechnical men of business
have seen that to identify and transfer real pro-
perty ought to be a very simple business indeed,
and they have made it so. VICTORIA, following
the lead of South Australia, has turned the lawyers
adrift, rejected amendments proposed by them to
their bill, apparently because they were lawyers'
amendments, and has passed an Act virtually abo-
lishing the pest of conveyancing, and establishing
in its place a registration of the very title itself.
We have not seen the Act as passed, but believe it
will be found to adopt a principle which will make,
as it ought to make, the sale and transfer of real
property as easy as that of funded property. The
title to a property is registered. Of course there is
no difficulty while it remains an undivided property.
But when diviced, what then ? Why it is but to
cancel the title of the former single proprietor alto-
gether, and to issue to each of the new. proprietors a
fresh title to the portion each holds. Thus there is
no such thing as a long hunt for verification of titles.
aoh certificate of title gives one which is good
against all comers. Charges on the property can,
of course be entered against it, though such a
system tends to prevent the accumulation of en-
cumbrances. There is, we believe, nothing what-
ever but the interested
tsed opposition of conveyancers,
throwing legal
t in the eyes of Legislators,
which hinders unp,o foesional
business English-
m6n from sweeping
away 11,--r1 the cobwebs and