The Sun.
London, England, 1869-08-24 00:00:00

TIIE ST. PANCRAS YORKIIOCSE.

In the modern zeal for economy there is a great
danger—a danger to which our Conservative con-
temporaries are constantly calling public attention—
that reductions will Le made in the wrong place. It
is only just that the country should pot. pay s:ne-
curistS, that departments wasting their time should
be given work to do, and that public prJpetty
now being wasted should be utilised. But it
is most pernicious that public convenience
should be destroyed or the public health imperilled
for a Chancellor to have a surplus, or for a board of
guardians to reduce the rates. The St. Pancras
Guardians, however, were elected specially to reduce
pledged themselves to du
and economise. They had
what they could to prevent the erection of new
buildings, and to utilise to the fullest extent the
prestnt means of the parish. In their attempt to do so
they hive driven from their board table one-third
of theik body ; quarrelled with their servants in the
workhouse and with the Poor-law Board ; and
finally, have been suspended from exercising a most
important part of their duty. An official examina-
tion into one part of the wor!: which they helped to
accomplish has just been made. Their infirmary
was beginning to cost nothing near so much as it
had done. They were triumphant in the matter,
and as.:ed what need there was for a Ilf`W h )spital.
An untoward accident, however, had destroyed all
their arguments. A woman let out of the
infirmary died from cold, and investig:it:o:l
proved that she had been let out too c. rly ; had heel'
sent home, in fact, before she was scaly well. The
official insp'etor has t.nearthed odic r cases of
cliirren couvales ent from scarletina discharged
b, fore peeling, men seat out complaining of illness,
&e. The medical officer seems to have acted unil.er
the impression that he was to clear the hospital. :Aid
he soon brought the numbers down by a third.
Whether in so doing he performed rapid curd, or
sent people away without curing them, before they
ought to have gone from his care, the official inspector
will report to the Government.

FOREIGN NOTES.

COTTON IN INDIA.

The Friend of India Etates that in the better parts of
Central and Western India the yield of cotton is
801 b. an acre, and if India could reach the Ameri-
can level (3001 b.), India would export nearly all the
cotton used in Europe from the land now under
cultivation. There arc, however, four obstacles to the
improvement of the crop— the physique of the
the conditions of the climate, the ignorance of the
cultivator, and the periodical raising of the land tax.
The first obstacle is irremediable, the second is
being slowly removed, and the Friend of India
acccordingly advises Manchester to turn all its energies to
the remova,ltuofalthseetftoieuiii.itehi,itutolictlhieni7ryesent
be effected by grant-
ing a perpt proprietors with
legislative safeguards against excessive subdivision.
The accounts of the Southern Mahratta cotton crop
are satisfactory. The exports from Coompta and Carwar
amount to 170,077 bales, or 6,000 more than last year,
and had not the early monsoon brought the cotton seaiou
to a premature conclusion, 12,000 or 15,000 more bales
would have been exported. The sowing for 1869-70 will
be, it is said, the largest ever known in those districts.