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and the gearing within the engine-house, is £5O per
nominal horse-power. The mills have double win-
dows to keep out the cold. A great amount of
influence for good has been exercised by English
overlookers. The loss occasioned by supporting
this industry is estimated at £2,550,000 per annum.
The consumption of cotton ought to be 10 or 11
times as much as it is. At present only one-fifth
of the mills are working.

A conversation followed of a very desultory cha-
racter, in which a member expressed a hope that
some steps would be taken by the Chamber relative
to the amendment of the law of bankruptcy, which
he said was to form a topic of consideration at next
year's meeting of the Social Science Association at
Sheffield.

Mr. WALKER wished to call attention to the want
of more reliable returns of the stock of cotton in
Liverpool, which he thought the Chamber might
usefully direct its attention to remedying. He
said that at the close of last year there were found
to be 114,000 bales of cotton more than the weekly
returns had led them to expect. It was clear, there-
fore, that these weekly returns had been in error
for some indefinite number of weeks, and yet we
were every week this year receiving returns of
stock, and comparing them with those of last year,
which it was now well known were erroneous.

Mr. HUGH MASON said through this Chamber and
the Cotton Spinners' Association an arrangement
had since the close of last year been made with the
Liverpool cotton brokers to publish a quarterly re-

turn of the stock of cotton. As to the false returns
of last year he feared there was no remedy, but he
hoped the new arrangement would prevent such
errors in future.

The meeting ended with a vote of thanks to the
president.

AMERICA,

SOUTHAMPTON, Wednesday.
The North German Lloyd screw steamship
America, Captain H. Wessels, from New York on
the 15th inst., arrived off Cowes at noon to-day, and
went on to Bremen after transhipping mails, &c.,

for this port. She brings 88 passengers for South

ampton and Havre, and 367 for Bremen; and on
freight, 27,520 dols. for England, 2,000 dols. for
Bremen, and a general cargo. She has had fine
weather and variable westerly winds during the
voyage. On the 16th, at 710 a.m., in lat. 40 35
N., long. 70 7 W., the America spoke the steamer
Hansa, from Southampton on the sth, for New
York ; and at 10 30 a.m. on the 16th, in lat. 40 37
N. long. 69 19 W., she spoke the Bremen ship
Columbus, westward bound.

Judge Marvin, formerly United States' district
judge for the Southern district of Florida, was on
the 14th inst. appointed Provisional Governor of that
state by the President. This appointment completes
the work of supplying all the States lately in rebel-
lion with civil executives and in once more placing
the entire sisterhood of the Union under the direc-
tion of Governors, either elected or appointed,
acknowledging and in accord with the general
Government.

The work of confiscating the property of wealthy
rebels was inaugurated at Richmond on the 10th
inst., much to the consternation of the people of
that city, by the seizure of the famous Tredegar
Iron Works by Government agents. Descriptions
of a large amount of other property liable to be
confiscated have been taken, and the tenants thereof
have been notified to pay no more rent to the rebel
proprietors.
The publication of the Richmond TVhig was sus-
pended on the 11th by General Terry, and the esta-
blisment taken possession of by the Provost-Marshal,
in consequence of an editorial appearing in the paper
on that morning in which a portion of President
Johnson's amnesty proclamation was pronounced
" heathenish," and one of the Acts of Congress
" mean, brutal, and cowardly, revoltingly absurd
and atrociously unjust."

A correspondent of the New York. Herald, who
has lately been through Northern Alabama, states
that that region is almost one continuous field of
cotton. The planters have given their attention to
the business again this year almost as much as in
ante-rebellion times, and the growing crop looks
very fine. The negroes are working for their for-
mer masters for wages, and the new labour system
appears to progress very well.
The New York Herald Buys:—

" It is estimated that there still remain in Texas from
ono hundred thousand to one hundred and fifty thousand
bales of the old crop of cotton, while, owing to various un-
favourable circumstances, it is thought that this year's
crop will not exceed fifty thousand bales. It is also calcu-
lated that there are within the State, accumulated during
the war, five million pounds of wool."
Governor Brownlow had issued an address to the
people of Tennessee, in which he declares that the
spirit of rebellion is still unsubdued, and that at
the approaching elections those who have been in
actual hostility with the Union will attempt to re-
instate themselves in authority. He notifies that
to prevent such a result the laws regulating the
exercise of the right of suffrage will be rigidly en-
forced, even though it should become necessary to
call in the assistance of the military.
Mr. Harlan, Secretary of the Interior, during an
address at the laying of the corner stone of a new
orphan asylum in Washington on the 14th instant,
said, in alluding to the relations between France
and the United States :
" When the French sprang to arms in the defence of
Turkish nationality we all applauded, but not that they
attempt to crush feeble Mexico. We wish it might be the
will of God that this 'great Republic of ours should be
called upon to protect her feeble sister Republic."
Ex-Postmaster-General Montgomery Blair made
a speech at Hagarstown, Maryland, on the 12th,
denouncing Secretary
Seward's policy of non-inter-
ference with the schemes of the Emperor Napoleon
in Mexico, asserting that by it he had tacitly
favoured the establishment of the Mexican empire.
He congratulated the people upon having, however,
at the head of their Government a man of courage,
judgment, .constancy, and patriotism, who would
not long tolerate this violation of the long-settled,
well-approved policy of the country.
The Superintendent of Freedmen in Shreveport,
Louisiana, had notified the planters in his district
that they must retain and support the aged and in-
firm negr, oes who have been their slaves.

A despatch from Cincinnati, dated the 14th inst.
says :

" At a festival given to Generals Sherman and Cox yes-
terday, at Columbus, General Sherman, on being enthu-
siastically called upon to make a speech, came forward, and
with much reluctance did so. In the course of his remarks
he alluded to the charge that while he was in command in
Kentucky he had demanded for the campaign 200,000 men.
Ho said that was when he was visited by Secretary Came-
ron. He then explained to him the difficulty of marching
into Tennessee by divergent lines—one to Nashville, and the
other to East Tennessee, with forces largely outnumbered
by the rebel armies confronting him. On one of these lines
he had 4,300 men to meet an opposing force of 18,000.
When asked by Secretary Cameron how many men were
needed for the present campaign, he (Sherman) replied,
' 60,000, and before you can reduce the South to subjuga-
tion you must have 200,000.' This statement was made in
the presence of Secretary Cameron and his military family,
and was • afterwards published in the Eastern newspapers
in a very distorted and incorrect form."

A great International Trade Convention assem-
bled at Detroit, Michigan, on the 11th. All the
different commercial organisations in the United
States and British North American PrOViLICES were
represented. Various reports and resolutions were
submitted, but the Convention adjourned without
important action. A report presented on the 14th
by Mr. Howes, of Nova Scotia, contained the de-
claration that the annexation of the British Pro-
vinces to the United States has no place in the
minds of the people of those provinces, and that
should any one attempt to go to the hustings as an
advocate of such a scheme he would be treated as a
revolutionist.

A meeting of the Canadian Cabinet was held at
Quebec on the 14th. The Governor-General has