The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-31 00:00:00

COTTON TRADE.

The accounts of the crops continue to be contra-
dictory. Many
,statements from the Mississippi repre-
sent a great tailing off in the production of those sec-
tions, and estimate the yield of the year at not more
than 1,300,000 bales. Others place it at 2,000,000 bales.
This great discrepancy arises from the state of finan-
cial affairs ; and it is not improbable that 'a very
great reduction in the production of cotton will take
place during the present year, through the operation
of the general bankrupt law, which may lead to suspen-
sion of business on all those plantations which were sti-
mulated into activity by the paper expansions a few
years since, and which have thus been struggling for life
by the extensive bank favours that must now be brought
to a close. It is scarcely possible to estimate the extent
to which the cotton production may be reduced by the
change. The result will be an immense gain to those
planters that are on a substantial basis.
CORN TRADE.

This Market is now rather inactive. Sales are made
at 6 dols. 25c., which is about the average price in all the
markets in the country. One year ago the average price
was about 5 dols. a barrel.

Comparative ,Statements of the Exports of Flour and
Wheat from the Port of Cleveland, for the month of
November, 1840-and 1841, show the annexed result :-
1840. 1841.
Flour. Wheat. Flour. Wheat.
U. S. Ports 51,152 86,145 24,677 88,403
Canada.... .. 2,856 28,444 403 none

45,008 114,589 25,085. 88,403

This exhibits a large aggregate decrease in the ship-
ments in November. And a statement we published a
day or two since, of the shipments on our canals, showed
the same for the same month.

.MILITARY INTELLIGECE. -WOOLWICH,
DEC. 30.-92 D REGIMENT, OR GORDON IIIGIILANDERS.
—By private letters from Dominica, dated 9th Noven-
ber last, it appears the yellow fever and black vomit had
prevailed to a great extent, and this gallant corps has
lost several officers, and a number of its best and cleverest
men. Two officers of two companies, and three ser-
geants of one company, who had been in the—habit of
paying it, all fell victims in the course of one week.
'Thirty-nine rank and file had died previous to the:lBth
October, and there • were upwards of thirty men in the
hospital at that date. The disease having somewhat
abated, it was hoped that it would have ccased 'entirely,
but about the end of the month it returned with twofold
severity, and no less than fifty-two men of the garrison
became its victims, and there were a greatmany hopeless
cases in the hospital at the date of the latest letters.

CHELTENHAM, WEDNESDAY.— So great is
the feeling in this town become against railway travel-
ling, that this morning a lady offered five pounds for an
inside place to London by one of the coaches, which was
booked full, and no one felt inclined to relinquish their
place for that sum.
A DISCRIMINATING PRECEPTOR.---A school-
naster in
.Cornwall, advertising his establishment, says,
" Every boarder must be supplied with a Bible and a
Prayer-book, a knife and fork, three towels, and a silver
dessert spoon ; all of which, except the books, become the
proprietor's perquisite oa the pupil's quitting school."
Mr. George Wigney, brother of the Member
of Parliament for Brighton, has issued a long address
to his fellow townsmen, on the subject of the breakwater
off Brighton. It appears that Mr. Wigney has taken out
a patent for making solid breakwaters, of iron plates,
np with 1111 pioi,os that one should be
erected off Brighton, in preference to the flouting break-
water.