The Sun.
London, England, 1865-07-17 00:00:00

GAINS.

Lincoln
Leicester
Mallow 1
Newport
Poole
Portsmouth ... 1
Portlarlington 1
Sligo 1
Taunton
Tynemouth 1
Wareham
Warwick
Wallingford ... 1
Wakefield 1
Waterford city ... 1
Weymouth ... 1
Windsor 2

Total ...

... 39

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HER MAJESTY.

OSBORNE, July 15.
The Queen went out in the grounds yesterday.
His Highness the Prince and her Royal Highness
the Princess of Tour and Taxis visited her Majesty.
The Prince and Princess of Wales, Prince Lein-
ingen, and Count Gleichen dined with her Majesty
in the evening.

JULY 16.

Her Majesty the Queen went out in the morning
and afternoon of yesterday, accompanied by Prin-
cess Louise.

The Lord Chancellor and Lady Cranworth arrived
on a visit.

The Rev. G. Prothero performed service this
morning at Osborne before her Majesty, the Prince
and Princess of Wales, Princess Helena, and Prin-
cess Louise.

Prince Leopold and Princess Beatrice attended
the service at Whippingham.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
of Wales are expected to arrive to-day at Mount-
Edgcumbe, on a visit to the Earl of Mount-Edgcumbo,
from the Isle of Wight. The prince and princess are ex-
pected to remain for two days the guests of the noble earl
at his beautiful family seat. The noble earl loft town on
Friday to see that the proper preparations wore carried out
for the reception of the prince and princess. 0 wing to th•
recent confinement of the countess she will bo unable to
attend to moot the prince and princess.

The Duke of Northumberland, who left town on
Wednesday to travel by easy stages to Alnwick Castle,
arrived at the ancient baronial seat of the Percies in
Northumberland, on Friday last, for the first timo since
succeeding to the dukedom. The duke was most cordially
welcomed by the tenantry to the number of some hun-
dreds. The local rifle volunteers received the duko at the
railway station, and escorted his grace to the castle.
The Duke of Richmond will leave town a►t the
end of the present week for Goodwood House, Sussex,
where his grace will, as usual, receive a distinguished party
during the races, which commence on the 25th inst.

The Duke of Beaufort and a select party have been
staying at Apthorp, Northamptonshire, with the Earl of
Westmorland during the race meeting at Stamford.
The Duke and Duchess of Manchester were
honoured by the presence of the Queen of tho Netherlands
at dinner on Friday evening at their residence in Stanhopo-
street, Park-lane. A select party assembled after dinner
to meet her Majesty.

The Earl de dreor loft his residence in Carlton-
gardens on Saturday for Portsmouth, and will proceed to
au inspection of the forts on the Devonshire coast and in
the west of England to-day.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Hastings have
arrived at the St. George's Hotel.

The Marquis of Abcrcorn will leave town this
morning for Mount-Edgcumbe, his son-in-law's seat, near
Dovonport.

The Earl and Countess of Strafford and family
have loft town for Wrotham Park, near Barnet, for the
season.

The Earl and Countess of Yarborough have gone
to pass a few clays at Brighton before going to Brocklosby.
There is not the slightest foundation for the
statement published by a weekly contemporary that Lord
Stanley is about to marry Lady Mary Stanhope, daughter
of the Earl and Countess Stanhope.

Lord Stanley arrived at Hatfield House, Herts,
on Saturday, on a visit to the Marquis and Marchioness of
Salisbury, from attending to his re-election at King's-Lynn.
The Marquis of Hartington, M.P., returned to
Devonshire House on Saturday morning from Lancashire.

The Earl and Countess of Derby will leave town
in a few days to visit the Earl and Countess of Carnarvon,
at Highclere Castle, near Newbury.

American Cotton Supply.

The amount of cotton in the South is still puzzl-
ing our statisticians. A correspondent of the Winns-
boro' (North Carolina) News makes the following
estimate :

Bales.
Crop of 1861 ~. ... ... ... ... 3,000,000
Crop of 1862 ... ... ... ... ... 1,000,000
Crop of 1863 ~. ... ... ... ... 500,000
Crop of 1864 ... ... o ... ... ... 500,000

From which deduct:— Bales.
Exports during the war ... ... 1,900,000
Home consumption during war 1,500,000
Destroyed during war 1,000,000
Damaged and worthless cotton 500,000

5,000,000

Surplus on hand
Crop of 1865 ~

4,000,000

... 1,000,000
... 350,000

The cotton supply is, therefore, ... 1,350,000
The writer divides it among the various States as
follows :

Louisiana ...

Mississippi

Old Crop in Hand. Present Crop
.., 110,000 ... 50,000

200,000 ...

Texas

100,000 ...

75,000

75,000

... 250,000 ... 50,000
... 10,000 ... 10,000
... 200,000 ... 50,000
... 130,000 ... 30,000

Alabama ...
Florida ...
Georgia
South Carolina
North Carolina and Ten-
nessee

.. ... 0,0
1 00 ... 10,000

Totals ... 1,000,000 350,000
In the North the consumption of cotton has
averaged about 300,000 bales for each year during
the war. We have other estimates of the amount
of cotton in the South. The New Orleans Price
Current,
-informed parties on both sides of the
Mississippi" upon the subject. That journal con-
siders that the amount available and unavailable
now in the South does not exceed 1,700,000 bales,
and that the crop of 1865 cannot possibly go beyond
500,000 bales, and even this amount will depend
upon the nature of the season later on.

The Duke of Somerset and the rest of the Lords
of the Admiralty left Portsmouth on Friday, and
arrived at Dartmouth yesterday. They will proceed to
Plymouth this (Monday) afternoon, and probably arrive
there on Wednesday. The Prince and Princess of Walee
will proceed this afternoon in the Osborne Royal yacht
from Cowes. The Prince Consort, Captain Gco. 0. Wills,
C. 8., and the Achilles, 20, iron ship, Captain E. W. Van-
sittart, left the channel fleet at Portland on Friday to meet
the French squadron. Tho grand review of the combined
fleets will not take place till the end of August, the French
fleet not yet being in a sufficiently forward state.
THE MURDER AT InEwoßTlL—Ort Saturday
the unfortunate man Daniel Dosset, who is supposed to
have first murdered his wife at Isloworth and then to have
cut his throat with a razor, was yet alive, though in an
emaciated condition. A month has elapsed since the dread-
ful occurrence, and during that time he has remained
under the care of Dr. Mackinlay, at the Isleworth Union-
house. At present the only nourishment that ho can re-
ceive is administered by injection, and by these means he
has been kept alive till the present time.

To preserve the flowers of a nosegay let a goo
spoonful of charcoal powder bo added to the water, and
the flowers will last as long as they Mould on the plant
without any need of changing the water or Ming any
trouble at all.