The Sun.
London, England, 1860-01-30 00:00:00

TILE LATE CAP PAIN HARRISON.

A meeting of the shareholders of the Great Ship
Company was held this afternoon at the offices of
the company, King William-street, City, for the
purpose of considering the best mode of expressing
their regret at the untimely death of the gallant
commander of the Great Eastern Steamship.
A gentleman attended from The Sun newspaper
to report the proceedings but was refused admis-
sion to the meeting, he, like the other representa-
tives of the press who attended, being informed
that the meeting was a private one.

His Excellency the Ambassador of France and
the Countess de Persigny entertained a select circle at din-
ner last evening at Albert-gate House.

His Excellency Count Lavradio gave a grand
dinner at the Portuguese Legation in Gloucester-place on
Saturday evening, in compliment to the late British Minis-
ter at the Court of Lisbon, Mr. H. F. Howard, who has
removed to the Court of Hanover.

The Earl and Countess of Derby will leave town
to-day on a visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle, and will
remain until Wednesday.

The Countess Granville, we are happy to state,
is gradually improving in health. The countess will con-
tinue at Brighton. The noble Lord President of the Coun-
cil, who left town after the Cabinet Council on Saturday
afternoon returns to town to-day.
Viscountess Palmerston has issued cards for
assemblies on Wednesdays the lat and Bth of next month.
The Right Hon. Sidney Herbert,
Herbert left Belgrave-square on Saturday afternoon for
Wilton House. near Salisbury, intending to return to town
to-day.

The Right Hon. P. Peel, M.P nd Mrs. Peel
'th aeir seatr,s 1-1.
amp-
have returned to Parr .ace's Hotel from •
has, ON..—The importation of
ton-in-Arden, Warwickshire.
the import duty was
IMPORTATION OP COTTON.---The
been 63,000,000
cotton into this country
abolished, increased sixteen-fold.
n neither overlooko it nor
higher
earohose giant facts
a thousandl
lb., it is now 1,000,060 lb. This is
manytells
whichsoh i
ghs
andtand sho e abdr
broad
dd
thats shoulders uvil deear sa than the crowd--
affect not to see it. It proves the existene
smaller facts that must stand under its shadow
of sixteen times as many mills, sixteen times est
English families living by working those mills, sixteen
times as much profit derived from sixteen times as much
capital engaged in this manufacture. It carries after it
sequences of increased quantity of freights and insurances,
and necessities for sixteen times the amount of customers
to consume, to our profit, the immense amount of produce
we arc turning out. There are not many such facts as
these arising in the quiet routine of industrial history. It
is so large and so steady that we can steer our national po-
licy by it ; it is so important to us that we should be re-
duced to embarrassment if it were suddenly to disappear.
It teaches us to persevere in a policy which has produced
so wonderful a result ; its beneficent operation makes it
essential to us to deal carefully with it now we have got it.
Some years ago an island arose in the Mediterranean and
we were all discussing it and quarrelling about it, and
keeping up a brisk fire of diplomatic notes over it, when
one fine morning the disgusted island suddenly went down
again, and ships sent out to survey it sailed over the site
it had occupied. We must not do anything to disgust this
huge lump of pirefitable work which has suddenly arisen
among us. We are inclined to look at it with a respootful
and superstitious tenderness, rather as a gambler does upon
a run of luck at cards, hoping it may last for over.—Pllloo