The Sun.
London, England, 1865-11-20 00:00:00

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THE RESCUE SOCIETY wishes to add another
home to j 2 now 'll operation. Last year no fewer
han 455 poor. friendless, young 'ernales were rejecte., rorn want of UN D 8 and room, making a total of 3,087, who have
be n seot away five years. Here are brief details of a few
of the . obi recent cases:
le. ▪ aged 14. fallen, mother dead. deserted by her father.
M. A, le., seed .3, homeles. both parents dead.
A. r.. aged 17, fallen, father dead, deserted by her mother
1., ~,t‘.l 15, fallen, mother dead.
C. 1%, a:e 15, alien, mother dead,
A 8., a..cd 16, 'alien, .Irents dead.
IT. • a•;.cl 1, timeless, tieerterl by her parents.
Al. 1 . 1?, ta:len, both parents t.ead.
C. TI age .I '7, fallen, boti. parents dead.
A. cf., aged IS, fallen, father dead.
• aged 8, 'alien, both parents (lead,
. 11. ane.: 7, .'allen,:..oth par. nts dead.
I". %. . ag. J 17, fallen, both pa, entN dead.
S. IL ages 5. allen, both parents deld.
be for
The ,ew :tome the f:omtuities wish 0 form wouldto 15, who
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same D e.

Movements of Cotton in Amer:cl,

- - -

The trade in cotton is assuming an activity
corresponding to the movements of ordinary times. Last
week the receipts at the po.:t of New York reached
29,115 bales, and from the beginning of this month to the
141 inst. (21 businesl trays) the receipts were 93,278 balee.
The total rece:pts at New York from the Ist September to
the beginning of the present week, and at the Southern
ports from September Ist to October 14th, have been as
follows, compared with the same period of the preceding
years:—

Since Sept. 1.
Bales.
1865-66 302,000
1860-61 352,000
1859-60 375,000
1858-59 340,000
1537-58 lOl,OOO
It thus appears that the movement has been nearly
equal to that of the most active of former years. The
exports, from the seine points and to the same dates, com-
pare as follow:
To Great To Other
Britain. France Foreign
For; s.
Bales. Bales. Balsa. Total.
1863-66 94,000 7,000 — 101,000
1860-61 57,000 18,000 12,000... 87,000
1859-60 95,000 29,000 12,000...136,000
1858-59 55,000 25,000 7,003... 87,000
1857-58 41,000 5,000 4,000... 50,000

Only in the year 1.859-60 has the actin ay of the ex-
ports, for this period, equalled that of the present year.
The stock at all the pozs at the same date 3 was as fol-
lows :

Dales.
1865-6 G 321,000
1860-61
1859-60 319,000
1858-59 981,000
1857-58 145,000

Thus it appears that only in the ye,',.. 1860-61 has the
stock of cotton at the ports equ:lied that held during the
present month. The total receipts of cotton at Now York
from January Ist to October 23d were 533,320 bale',
against 229,580 bales for the same period of 1864. Should
the receipts at this port continue at the current rate up to
the close of the year, the total imports of New York for
1865 will reach 850,000 bales.
It is impossible to do more than vaguely guess at the
amount of cotton st!?1 held in the interior of the South.
The firm of Neill Brothers and Co. estimate the amount
held in Georgia, at the close of the war and on the 15th
inst., to have been as follows :
Towns and groups At close of war. On Oct. 15.
of villages. Bales. Bales.
Ma con
Atlanta.. l,OOO
Augusta .. 45,000
Columbus.. .. 3,000
Georgetown 3cc 5,000
Albany 15,000
Americus. .. 5,000
Cuthbert, &e .. 10,000
Bainbridge, &c lO,OOO
125,000
43,0000
Now crop. .. ... 43,000 ..
Griffon
Madison, Ix
..........
8,000 .. ...... ..
On plantations

Grand total ............ 250,000
It is difficult to say what proportion of the entire stock
of the South is held in Georgia, or these figures might
give a basis upon which to estimate the total supply. In
1860 the Georgia crop was 131 per cent. of the entire
cotton crop of tho South. If the same ratio were main-
tained now, it would follow that in the entire South there
is at the present time about 3,375,000 bales. But as it is
impossible to say how far military operations have dis-
arranged the movements of cotton in the interior, it is im-
possible to estimate how far these figures depart from the
facts of the case. They, however, afford reason for sup-
posing that there is a very large amount of cotton still
remaining in the interior of the South.

The Times special correspondent says the
Southern people are anxious to plant cotton, and would
raise it on every acre of land adapted to itsculture, but tho
scarcity of labourers prevents them. The Southern jour-
nals are begging the pooplo of the North and of Europo to
come among them and buy the cotton lands. The best
can be bought for $lO in paper per acro.
The Havre cotton market was not well attended
by buyers last week, and there was not much business
transacted. Some bags of Louisianian cotton were sold at
1171. 50c. The brokers subsequntly reduced the prices
137 from sf. to 12f., and the following quotations were pub-
lished: Louisiana, 235 f.; good ordinary Egyptian, 270 f. ;
Peruvian, 265 f. ; Brazilian, 273 f. ; Sawginned, 2201. ;
Broach, 215 ; Dhollerah, 210 ; Tinnevclly, 2151.; Kum-
chee, 150 f. There was an improvement in the price of
cotton in the Marseilles market towards the end of the
week. Some bags of Jumel were sold at 275 f.; smyma,
195 f. ; Aleppo, 170 f. the 50 kilogrammes.

NEW ORLEANS, OCT. 25.—Cotton quiet; sales
2,500 bales middling at 53c to Mc. Sugar firm; fair to full
fair, 15}c to Freights looking up ; cotton to New
York, to 2c. Bank cheques to New York 2f per cent.
discount.

Eiat" E. PAPE B.
Yr. Ruskin on
- - Mr. Ruskin delivered a lest #I,IA
Men's College, Great Ormond-s "9,q1,
evening, to a large number of stuapifig.*2—k%
blishment. The lecturer introduced` iimubjett
disclaiming all intention of delivering a Tormal lec-
ture on the matter which he had chosen for his text
—Art. lie had come there to see them, and to have
a friendly chat, and it would be the students' fault
if they allowed him to have all the talk to himself.
His visits to the college had not been so frequent as
he could have wished. This was owing to various
causes, but chiefly to illness, and, he was bound to
confess, to idlene:s also. It might, perhaps, be for-
tunate for the students that his visits were few, for
lie confessed that there was much more important
business on their hands than drawing. This was a
critical 'time in the history of the country, and, the
matters to which men had to give their minds ivere
of a more serious kind than painting. It was the
difference between going out in a lifeboat and going
out to Venice on a tour. 'Workmen were beim-,
upset in their lifeboat, and id
o their
in
irfeallozisglviesreeas;traungd-
gling and clinging to i
the proper time to speak of art and to listen to him
would be when they had got into the lagoons.
Ile would congratulate them, however, on the pro-
gress they had made under the guidance of their
teachers—men who, he thought, were much better
qualified than himself to teach them. After advising
the students to follow the advice of their teachers,
the lecturer proceeded to criticise the condition of
art in this country, and drew a not very flattering
picture of its progress. Art, be said, was getting
ignoble as well as noble. True we had our Thames
embankment, but we were marring its beauty by
putting a railway under it. We had gas-meters
that blew up. and chimneys that blew down. No
doubt, when we had done our best, it was very pro-
voking to be criticised, but he was naturally a
grumbler, and he had come there to grumble. Com-
pet:tean was the great curs of England, for compe-
tition would keep anyone from excelling in any
graceful thing or any subtle thing. It was not the
love of money, it was not the love of gain, that
prompted commercial men of the present age to
sacrifice beauty to mere mechanical detail. They
were like pigs grubbing for roots. It was the love
of getting more roots than their fellow-pigs. Now,
in matters of art it was impossible for any man to
compete with another, and the only thing a man
could do was to make the best use of the gifts given
to him, instead of borrowing and trying to imitate
the gifts of others. In everyone there was that
which made imitation impossible. And in this lay
the true source of independence, for independence
was the developing of our own gifts and depending
on those above us. This did not destroy indivi-
duality, for individuality was like a link in the chain
which bound all together. Neither could there be
true competition where equality did not exist, and
the whole virtue of competition depended on the
competitors being equally matched. Every man was
made for a certain duty, and what man was made
for that he must remain, and it was by looking to
higher things that excellence could be achieved.
There was a kind of pleasurable competition, how-
ever, that had a real good about it, for it had the
effect of trying the strength and giving the
necessary quantity of excitement to enable us
to get on ; but the pleasure depended on its
being a trial of brotherly skill, in which the de-
sire of the antagonist's success should predominate.
Again, as onlymen can Compete with equals, :Ho also -
can they compete only with equal things. All intern-
lectual work becomes a fellowship, and anything
contrary was entirely mechanical, and thus compe-
tition drove men into the mechanical part of art.
Great artists, said the lecturer, were altogether ig-
norant of what they could do. Anyone could tell
which was the better of two clever drawings ; but
of two clever ideas it was not any one who could
tell which was the cleverest. The lecturer then pro-
ceeded to give an example of the degradation of
which art was capable by referring to a piece of
work, exhibited some time ago, in which the feathers
of an eagle were modelled with extreme care, each
feather being separate, the work occupying three
years in its completion. Three hours at the Zoo-
logical Gardens would enable thelecturer to produce
a better picture than the one to which he had re-
ferred, and which had been cast in bronze or some
patent metal. This love of pains, acting with all
the other evil tendencies of the age, produced a de-
graded art, and in following out the mere dexterity
of the finger the workman was losing all sense of
beauty. In all great art there should be the draw-
ing of the hand, of intellect, and of passion. It
grieved him to say that much of this state of things
was owing not only to the false taste of the public,
but to the competition which existed between artists
and between workmen, and from which even Turner
himself was not wholly free. He declared that the
threedays preceding the annual opening of the itcyal
Academy were days of shame, for there might be
seen artists of merit trying to out-colour one
another by the power of vermillion. Mr. Ruskin
asserted that he had never seen the portrait of a
beautiful English girl ; and while there were
such noble and lovely creatures in England we
were content to have mere vulgar representatives of
them. Beauty was sacrificed to prettiness. The
lecturer then proceeded to compare the state of
art in this country with that of ancient Greece,
and for that purpose exhibited two drawings of
ancient coins of the towns of Camarina and
Tareutum. Comparing these with . our latest
coin issued, he drew attention to the high ex-
cellence of the one as a work of art and to the
degraded and utterly unmeaning character of the
other. The Greeks, by a perfect system of sym-
bols, told the history of their respective towns,
while we were content to have Britannia deified,
and not know:ng what to give her for a seat we had
placed a shield to cover the defect. In order to
characterise :he commercial nature of the country
we used a ship and a lighthouse, and stoleNeptnne's
trident to symbolise our power over the sea. - After
toucUng on various subjects, in the courae of which
he questioned the value of the Crystal Palace as an
educationil agency, and alluded to the self-glorifi-
cation of the London, Chatham, and Dover Rail-
w4y---Company, the lecturer concluded by advising
the students to refrain from all desire of competi-
tion, and to get what good they could from their
fellow-men, but above all to watch themselves, for
progress could only be made by watching how the
mind grew and how the body grew.

GRAND HOTEL AT CENTRAL PARK, NEC YORK.
--We learn from the Daily News that Mr. Hiram Cranston,
the proprietor of the New York Hotel, has lately pur-
chased the block of ground bounded by Fifth Avenue,
Fifty-ninth-street, Madison Avenue, and Sixtieth-street,
for the purpose of erecting a magnificent hotel. This is
at the Fifth Avenue entrance to the Central Park, and
beyond question the most desirable location that can now
be found for such an enterprise. The building will pro-
bably excel any hotel building in this country or in
Europe in magnificence and in extent of its dimensions.
It is proposed to expend about two million dollars, includ-
ing the price paid for the land.
ie 11 lit perfectly
had been con-
Dyspepsia (indigestion), constlpa.
lion, debility, consumption, and all nervous, bilious, stomach,
and liver complaints in every stage. are only aggravated and
eydrbuyg
thousandss ot e v ery o
f oases
Cur-
able by Du Barry's health-reAtoring Revalenta Arabica
1,, acceleratedoo l by
,as
prov
sidered hopeless, such as-cough, asthma,
also di
lite morrhoids, liver complaints, ilstuleneY, diarrhoea,
biliousness, levers, sore throats, diphtheria, nervousness,
catarrhs, colds,
influenzi,no'ses In the head and ears, ; heum itisrn, gout, im-
purities, eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia,
sprit
t ibility,sleepless-
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dropsy, cramps, spasms, nausea and ! h2adazhe, debility.
nancy or at sea, sinking fits, bro h sickness, even in prr g-
the chest, pains in the pit ef theric
I:18.
scrofula, tightness of
shou'dcrs, &c. 'We quote few stomiith and between the
Roberts, limber merchant,a :—Cure
No. 16,276. Mr James
diFeased lungs, SPittilrr of Frimloy, Surrey, of 30 year.'
tial deatuess.—_are „of Wood, liver deranf,ement, and par-
u No. 47,121. Miss Elizabeth Jacob+, of ex-
treme nervousness, Indigestion, gather ngs; low spirit., a"d
nervous fan • "
fancies. -Cure No 1,771. Lord Stuart de Decks, lord
bent. of W alen•
ord, of many ) ears' dyspepsia. -No. 19,8;2.
Fifty years' indescribable agony from drpepsia, nervousness,
asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, sick,; ess, and
vomiting—Maria July —Cure No. 51,8.6. The Rev. James
T. Campbell, Fakenbam, Norlolk, of indigestion and torpid-
ity of the liver, which had resisted a'l medical treatment.
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mists.—Beware of spurious imitations.

nOUSES.—Messrs. TOPL IS and ROBERTS
have numerous furnishei and unfurnished TOWN.
Suburban, and Country RESIDESVOES to LET or SEL
Paris
forwarded for three stamps, upon stating exact
requirement s ,•nd rentsi. Offices, 2, conduit-street, Regent-
street, and south liensington, lacing the Museum.

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ham Terraces, Queen's-gate, Cornwall, and Prine,es Gardens,
Elvaston-place, Cromwell-road, Onslow and Thurloe Squares,
Boltons. etc. Messrs TO PLIA and ROBE itTS have ItE •I-
DEN CES to SELL and LET in these and surrounding
localities. Offices, 2, Conduit-street, Regent-street, and
5o ut 11 nsington, facing the Museum.

ROBERT COCKS and CO.'S NEW DANCE
MUSIC:—The Cold,tream Cu irds' altz, for piano,
is., A. F. Godfrey. The Guards' Galop, for piano, 2s. r d., by
henry Prince. Tire Ass nobles (alop, for piano, lis., by 1).
Godfrey. United • eivi.e Ilan° -010, ditto duets,
each 43. ; ditto orchestra, by A. P. Godfrey. United Ser-
vice Galop, lot piano, :'s , by A F. Godfrey. UnUed Service
Walt z, for piano, sob, an I duct, cacti Is., A. F. Godfrey. All
at halt pr.ee, so , e with an extra si amp to each for postage.
•
IY IJE B AWN, sung with splendid success
p.-77 by Madame Lernmens-Sherrington. Music by W. T.
W,,rcirros. 2s. ed ; l.ee for o stamp.;.
" His late,t composition, `Shylie all,' is equal to any ti
his former." - Press.

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of all Musicsellers and Booksellers; and of the Publishers,
Robert Cocks and Co., New tsurlington-street.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
SltiNod. ARDITI'S CONCERTS.
EVERY EVENING, FOR FOUR WEEKS ONLY.
TO-NIGHT (Monday), November 20th.
VOCALISTS.
Mdlle. Sinico, Mdlle. Edi, and Mdlle. Sarolta.
Signor Stagno, anti Mr. Santley.
VIOLIN.
Mdlle. Emilia Arditi (her that appearance in England).
THE GRAND ORCHESTR,A. OF lIER MAJESTY S
TtIEAARe',.
Conductor—Sig-nor ARDITI.
Admiasion, One Shilling.
A GRAND FANCY DRKSS BALL will take place on
TUEuAY, the 19th Member.

ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT-
GA.ELDEN.
(Opera Company, Limited.)
TIIIS EVENING will be performed Meyerbeer's Grand
Opera, L'AF RICAIN Mss Louisa Pyne, nladame Lem-
mens-Sharrington, and Mrs. A. Cook ; Messrs. Alberto
Lawrence, henry Corri, A. Cook, E. Dussek, J. G. ratry, C.
Lyall, and Charles Adams.
Conductor, Mr. Alfred Mellon.
Commence at half-past 7.

THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.-
Managers, Messrs. E. Falconer and F. B. Chatterton.
THIS EVE NING the performances will commence with
the Farce of HUSH &NDS BEWARE. air. lx. Belmoro ;
Miss ilazlewood, Miss R. Leolereq, &c.
After which, Slinks, ere's Tragedy of KING JOHN: Messrs.
Phelps, James Anderson, T. Swinbourne, ltsynor. G. Bel-
rnore, E. Phelps, C. Harcourt; Mies Atkinson, Mrs. H.
Vandenhoff. Mrs. Hodson, &c.

Commence at 7.

HEATRE ROYAL, HA YMARKET.-
Sole Lessee and Mangier, Mr. Buckstone.
THIS EVENING, THREE WE.,KS Art ER MAR-
RIAGE. Mr. W. Farren, Mr. Chippendale, Miss Snowden,
Miss Nelly Moore.
After which, USED UP. Mr. Charles Mathews, Mr. Howe,
Miss Nelly Moore, Mrs. E. Fitzwilliam.
To be followed by (7ill time) WHO KILLED COCK
ROBIN ? Mr. Chippendale, Mr. C. Mathews ; Mrs. Charles
Mathews, Mrs. Fitzwilliam,
Concluding with THE BALLET. Messrs. Arthur and
Char ea Leclercq. Miss Fanny r 5 right, Miss C. Adams, and
the Corps de Ballet.
Commence at Seven.

ROYAL LYCEUM TEIEATRE.—
Under the sole Management ct Mr. Fechter.
I HIS EVENING, at Seven o'clock, TIIE DAY AFTER
Tll WEDDING. Mr. and Mrs. Horeman.
After which, at 8, a New Lrama, entitled TnE WATCH
CRT. Mr Fechter, supported by '_Messrs. 11. Widnicombe,
S. Emery, C. Horsman, itsymond, Fitzpatrick, Clifford. and
Miss Elsworthy.
To conclude with the Farce of NURSEY CHICKWEED.
Messrs. H. Widdicomb, Raymond, Moreland; Mrs. Lee and
Misi Lavenu.
Box Office open daily from Eli ven till Five.
Acting Manager, If. Barnett.

NEW THEATRE-ROYAL ADELPHI.
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.
THIS EVENING, at 7, GOOD FOR NOTHING. Mrs
Allred Mellon and Mr. Felix Rogers.
After which, at 8, RIP VAN WINKLE. Rip (his 67th
appearance), Mr. Jefferson, supported by Messrs. Billington,
P. Bedford, R Phillips, leelix Rogers, Ashley, hburne, C. J.
Smith; Mrs. Biliingtor, &c.
To c iaelude, at half-past 10, with TIIE WIDOW'S
Vic TIM. Messrs Bilington, Felix Rogers, Ashley ; Miss
(lodge'', Miss Seaman, and Miss Jenny Willmore.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
Sole Lessee auit Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining.

'PHIS EVENING, QUIET LODGINGS.

Atter whi.ll, at a (parer to Eight, IT Is NEVER TOO
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J,. Mo,re Mild Miss Katherate IZodg,As.

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LONDON, MONDAY, NOV. 20, 18G5.

The public will turn with interest to the supple-
ment to the London Gazette, which contains a de-
spatch from Governor EYRE to Mr. CARDWELL on
the rebellion in Jamaica. So much attention has
naturally been paid of late to this subject that any-
thing of a decidedly authentic nature will be sure to
attract notice. The commencement of the sad
affair was the disturbance made by a body of
negroes to rescue a black man when he was on his
trial. The arrival of the police at the spot, where
they expected to apprehend these disturbers of the
peace, was the signal for a regular outbreak, and
the despatch states that " a shell was blown, and the
negroes collected in large numbers, armed with guns,
cutlasses, pikes, and bayonets." Such a display as
this showed that there was a predetermined purpose
in the matter, and that far more was in view than a
mere retaliation for real
or imaginary grievances
and insults of a minor character. The Governor
details his plans for the suppression of the Insur-
rection, and it must be admitted that they were
quite as good as could reasonably be expected
under the pressure of such adverse circumstances,
and such an unexpected emergency. The details
which are given of the proceedings of the negroes
are as fearful as can be well be imagined, and,
indeed, surpass all that those not acquainted with
the ferocity of the race when incensed could picture
to themselves. The most decisive measures were
adopted from the outset in dealing with
the miscreants, and of five prisoners who
were on board the Wolverine four were hanged.
Besides those who met frightful deaths, and who
were injured by the savage attacks of the insurrec-
tionists, it is dreadful to
contemplate the sufferings
and privations which were borne by many in their
precipitate flight. Refugees, numbering among
them ladies and children, succeeded in getting on
board a gunboat at Port Alorant, and they had en-
(lured many perils and privations on their way
thither.
Without food and with little clothing,
these unfortunate beings " suffered great hardships
and ran great risks, hiding for days together in the
woods, and encountering the evils of Passing nights
in exposure in the tropics." Under these circum-
stances it can easily be imagined what miseries
these passengers had to endure, and although
most fortunate so far in getting on board and after-
wards in landing in safety, their hurried flight, and
its connecting circumstances, are not likely soon to
be forgotten.

An important point on which he had to act with
prompt decision is explained by the Governor with
reference to the course adopted in the case