The Sun.
London, England, 1869-09-04 00:00:00

TIIE GLASGOW CONSULSHIP.

We are glad to announce the last of the difficulty
touching the appointment of the Fenian Haggerty as
American Consul for Glasgow. Mr. Isaac Jenkinson,
of Indiana, has been nominated to the post in his
stead.

A FORLORN PARISH.
Spiritual food is decidedly lacking at Springfield,
near Dover. The Archbishop of Canterbury has
just visited this model parish. He found the path-
way leading to the church overgrown with moss and
weeds ; in the chancel were to be seen many excel-
lent specimens of fern ; the communion table was
partially overgrown iith fungi, &c. ; and the whole
fabric was in a sadly dilapidated state. The one
service on Sunday is performed by a clergyman
coming from a distance. The value of the living is
£ti4 a year, and there is no residence.

THE COTTON SUPPLY.
All interested in the question of cotton supply—
and this class must surely include the entire British
public—will be glad to hear that the prospect of a
large immigration of Chinese to the American
cotton States is improving. Indeed, so general is the
expectation of an abundant supply of cotton being
raised through Chinese labour that in Mississippi the
plantations along the river have risen from 25 to 50
per cent. in price during the last few months.
Agents are actively employed throughout the South in
canvassing for contracts for bringing over large
numbers of Chinamen, and they are stated to have
been very successful. A few planters in South
Carolina are reported to have contracted for 1,000,
and the first shipload is expected about the Ist of
January next.

(From the Anglo-American Times.)
The Harvard crew, or rather Messrs. Blaikie
Loring, and Fay, left Liverpool last Thursday
for New York in the Inman steamer City of
Antwerp, after writing to Mr. Lord of the Thames
Conservancy, as did the Oxford crew, a letter of
thanks for the admirable arrangements whereby the
difficult task bad been accomplished of keeping the
course clear. Last Monday they were entertained
at the Crystal Palace by the London Rowing Club,
the dinner being followed by a grand display of
fireworks, introducing special devices, with the
names and colours of the Universities, crossed oars,
and so on. Mr. Dickens proposed the principal toast,
which was responded to on the part of Harvard by
Mr. Lyman and Mr. Simmons. Xoth gentlemen
admitted that they never had any great expecta-
tion of winning, and that they were satisfied with
having rowed so good a race against such a crew as
that sent by Oxford. Mr. Willa'', on the part of
Oxford, admitted the race to have been the hardest
he ever pulled, though he had rowed many at
Putney. Sir Aubrey Paul, the judg-e, wrote to
the papers to correct the general report that Ox-
ford had won by three or four boats' lengths ; a
half to three-quarters of a length clear being the dis-
tance officially reported by him, to which Mr.
IVillan replied by explaining, that just below the
" Ship" at Mortlake, they lost one of their four or
five lengths a-head by a row boat crossing the bow.
After rowing above the Ship for some distance,
and fiudirg that they had not reachel the judge,
they thought that the flag boA might have been
forgotten—in fact some essentials are, as a general
rule, forgotten, and having forgotten the means by
which the boats were to be started, which caused
the delay in getting off, it would not be unrea-
sonable to sappo3e they had forgotten the boat
which marked the finish. Believing this, or that it
had drifted, the crew paddled on grumbling, as Mr.
Willan says, while the Harvard men w ere rowing with
"that pluck and determination" with which they
rowed all through the course, and came up with them
hand over hand. The result of the race telegraphed
to New York when the gun fired, reached the Ame-
rican metropolis at one o'clock p.m. the same day,
and on the next it was known in England what the
comments were of the American press. The lead-
ing article of the Times of Monday on the race was
telegraphed by the French Cable to America, and
edin America with
appapreerasr.ed
Theon Tuesdayreselt asw morningreeeiv in the New York
great interest, and satisfaction was everywhere
expressed at the fair play and hospitality tendered
to the Harvard craw, which they desire to return
if the Oxford crew will accept an invitation to row
next year on American waters.
During the past month 29 ships left Liverpool,
carrying 14,891 passengers ; 22 of these sailed for
the United States with 12,030 emigrants, of whom
about half were English, the Germans constituting
the most of the other half. These do not include
the " short ships" or vessels not under the emigra-
tion Act, of which there were 19, carrying 929 pas-
sengers. Of these, five went to the United States
with 682 passengers. The total emigration from
Liverpool for August was 15,820, an increase of
4,675 over the number from Liverpool during
August of last year, and 110 in excess of that of the
preceding month of this year. What is remarkable
in the return is the steadily-growing increase of
English emigration to the United States; a very
healthy sign, and one we hail with pleasure.
Gen. M'Mahon, late American Minister to Para-
guay, has arrived, we presume, or will soon arrive in
England. He embarked on the 24th July with the
lion. Mr. Worthington, from Buenos Ayres for
Monte Video, to take the Chili= steamer Pata-
gonia, bound to this Country. Her Majesty's Mi-
nister at Buenos Ayres has informed his Govern-
ment that General ANlahon had reached that city.
He left the British subjects resident at Gen. Lopez's
head-quarters in good health, well satisfied with
their position, and in no way desirous of leaving the
country at present. He brought away
with him a
considerable amount of money, remitted by British
residents in Paraguay to parties in Europe and
America; and it was said that President Lopez bad in
some cases made advances of money to enable them
to do so. General McMahon purposed at once to
proceed to England, and he is the bearer of several
letters and messages from these residents to their
friends in England. The following is a list of the
cases received by Mr. Parish, her Majesty's Consul at
Buenos Ayres, from Gen. Bl'Mahon, with the amounts
they are represented to contain :—Addressed, Frank
Parish, belonging to George Miles and J. Cam-
bridge, amount, 550 f. ooz. (sic in original) ; Messrs.
J. A. Blyth, W. Eden, 400 f. 40oz. ; ditto, Eliza-
beth Thomas and Elizabeth Cutler, 1,300 f. ; ditto,
Capt. Thompson, 500 f. ; W. Hunter, Hunter and
Nisbit, 1,218 f. 3 oz. A bag containing P 7 of mixed
coinage, to defray expenses." The news is confirmed
by the Buenos Ayres Standard, the editor having
an interview with the General, -who looked well.
" He informed us, amongst other things, that very
many of those whose torture and death were so feel-
ingly and accurately described by army correspon-
dents and others are alive and in the enjoyment of
the best of health." President Grant's letter to
President Lopez announcing General M'Mahon's
recall evinces a favourable feeling towards Lopez,
and is as follows:
"Great and good Friend,—Mr. Martin T. Infahon,
who has for some time resided near the Government of the
Republic of Paraguay, in the character of Minister Resi-
dent of the United States, being about to return to his
country, 1 have directed him to take leave of your Excel-
lency. Ur.DlNAhorktanseinistructins had km to Qui-