The Sun.
London, England, 1865-08-16 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sin,—As considerable misapprehension has for some
time existed as regards the quantity of cotton still iu the
Southern States of America, I beg to send you for pub-
lication the following extract from a private letter of a com-
mercial correspondent of a highly respectable firm in this
town, and dated Ne w Orleans, July 18, 1865 :
" The following is a statement of the stock of cotton in
the Southern States, as compiled by the agents of the Go-
vernment going from plantation to plantation :
Stock of cotton in Virginia B,OOO bales
77 11 North Carolina
71 17 South do.

Georgia
Alabama 308,000 „

Mississippi 156,000

Total east of the Mississippi
375,000 „

„ west „

Total 1,242,000 „
of stock from old crops. The now crop may be estimated
from 400 to 500,000 bales, which, added to the above, gives
the total supply during 1865 and 1866. We consider these
estimates to be more correct than any of those lately pub-
lished, it may be that at the end they differ from the rea
quantity, by 1 or 200,000 bales, more or less, but it is not
possible to give the exact figures beforehand. We must,
however, particularly draw the readers attention to the
fact, that in the above figures, no allowance whatever has
been made for rotten or otherwise useless cotton. It
would result, should the above prove to be correct,
that the late estimates of 2 millions of bales of actual
stock, as given by the New York papers, and said to be
official, were strongly exaggerated. Thus, America could,
up to the latter end of 1866, provide the consumption with
only 11 million of bales, and deducting from those figures
at least 500,000 bales for home consumption, and deducting
further no inconsiderable allowance for rotten and spoilt
cotton, there would remain but a very limited quantity for
Europe. Under such circumstances we may. not yet hope
crisis, have arrived at the end of the cotton csts, on the con-
trary we must yet expect some critical moments before the
right proportion is restored between the stock and con-
sumption. Therefore actual prices can by no means be
considered as being too high."
I am anxious that this reply to the extravagant reports
lately put forth should appear in your columns, for I find
that the concurrent testimony of all private American cor-
respondence to agree with this estimate, and to entirely
disagree with the report put forth as official by the New
York herald, and which proves totally unreliable.
The idea of any large quantity of cotton being received
from America the next six months is, therefore, quite out
of the question, and it will be well for those in the trade
to notice that the shipments of cotton from America have
thus been, with the war over, very little more than those
of last year ; whilst the consumption of cotton in America
.at present is fully 10,000 bales per week, with the prospect
of still further extension owing to the increasing demand
for cotton goods and the high protective tariff.—Yours
truly,
MAURICE WILLIAMS.
Liverpool, Aug. 12, 1865.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This day.

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

PLYMOUTH, Wednesday Morning.

The iron screw steam troopship Mogrera, 6, Captain
Montague B. Dunn, arrived in the Sound last night. She
left Rio Janeiro June 6th, touched at Ascension, and brings
some invalids and time-expired men.
GRAVESEND, Wednesday Morning.
Arrived, Aug. 16.—Cologne, steamer, from Rotterdam;
Rhine, steamer, from Ostend.
Sailed, Aug.l6.—lnternational, for Canaries; Red Rover,
for Geelong; Maria, for Buenos Ayres.
DEAL, Wednesday Morning.

Passed, Aug. 15.—Joan Taylor, barque, from Trieste;
Island Queen, steamer, from Marsala ; Corsair, ship, and
Persia, from Quebec ; Rival, from Taragona ; Phanet and
Royal Diadem, from Colombo; Lady Melville, from Cal-
cutta—all for London.

The Prudence, of Wilderwank, from St. Valerie, for
Runcorn, with a cargo of stones, having sprung a leak,
was put ashore at Dungeness, and has since become a
wreck. Crew saved and landed here.

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day.

Sales probably 8,000

Market rather fumer.
bales.

The GREAT WESTERN CARRIAGE WORKS.---The
Great Western Railway Board have, it is stated, resolved,
after all, not to go to Oxford, but to select some station
near it, where they can find suitable accommodation for
their workmen and works. The Town Council of Abing-
don, iu reply to an application from the company, have
stated that they will seek the consent of her Majesty's
Treasury to a loan of X 20,000 for building purposes.
Voss' Gazette of Berlin publishes the following
letter from Dr. Geist, of Dresden :—" I have in my
possession the pipe which Princo Blucher smoked at the
disastrous battle of lena, having received it from my late
father, to whom it was given by my uncle, a trumpeter in
Blucher's Hussars. When the Prussians were retreating
to Auerstadt, my uncle saw the pipe fall from Blucher's
sabretaslie, as the general was leaping over a ditch. My
uncle immediately alighted, picked up the pipe, and carried
it to the general, who refused to take it, testily replying,
' Since the battle is lost the pipe may go to the devil. You
may keep it, Geist.' Tho pipe is a small meerschaum, well
browned, with a very short stem. • A silver chain which
attached the bowl to the tube has beet:. lost."

The Cattle Plague

ESSEX.

It was agreed at the meeting at Chelmsford, no-
ticed in 2he Sun of Monday, that a memorial
should be prepared and sent to the Privy Council,
asking to have inspectors sent down to the different
markets in the county with power to destroy any
animals exhibited for sale that might be infected, or
to provide such other means as might be necessary
to prevent contagion. The disease bas been no-
ticed at Easton, near Dunmow, Hazeleigh, Sandon,
and other points. In most cases the introduction
of the disease on a farm has been traced to pur-
chases made in a public market.