The Sun.
London, England, 1860-02-04 00:00:00

AVERAGE PR

:CS OF SUGAR.

The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com-
puted from Returns made in the week ending the 31st day
of Jan., 1860, exclusive of the duties of Customs paid or
payable thereon, on the importation thereof into Great
Britain :

Per cwt.

From the British possessions in America 27s 100
Muscovado, the produce of the Mauritius 298 31d
Muscovado, the produce of the East Indies 25s 4d
Average prico of the foregoing

BAN K TM PT S.
Theodore Hyla Jennens, japanner, Chelsea.
Christopher Storry, fishmonger, Aidershot.
Joseph Chapman, china dealer, Scarborough.
William Boswell, licensed victualler, Birmingham.
Thomas Sharp, hotel keeper, Aldershot.
Richard Rees, cabinetmaker, Llanelly, Carmarthan.
George Cuckow, grocer, Woodbridge, Suffolk.
Isaac Nathan, merchant, Bury-street, Bevis Marks, City.
Edward Ellis Hill, merchant, Liverpool.
Thomas Nicholson, steel merchant, Sunderland.
Joseph Gawthorpe, cloth miller, Horbury Bridge, near
Wakefield.
Thomas Hobson, grocer, Sheffield.

SCOTCH BANKRUPTS.
James Forrester, bookseller, Glasgow.
William Scott, tailor, Kilmarnock.
Robert Watson, clerk, Regent-street, London.
Alexander Hamilton, grocer, Edinburgh.

TILE COTTON TRADE.

Upwards of 600,000 workers are now employed
in our cotton factories, and it has been estimated
that at least 4,000,000 persons in this country are
dependent upon the cotton trade for subsistence. A
century ago Lancashire contained a population of
only 300,000 persons ; it now numbers 2,300,000.
In the same period of time this enormous increase
exceeds that on any other equal surface of the
globe, and is entirely owing to the development of
the cotton trade. In 1856 there were in the United
Kingdom 2,210 factories, running 28,000,000 spin-
dles and 299,000 looms, by 97,000 horse power.
Since that period a considerable number of new
mills have been erected, and extensive additions
have been Rade to the spinning an I weaving ma-
chinery of those previously in existence. The amount
of actual capital invested in the cotton trade of this
kingdom is estimated to be between £60,000,000
and £70,000,000 sterling. The quantity of cotton
imported into this country in 1859 was I,lBli million
pounds' weight, the value of which at 6d. per lb. is
equal to £30,000,000. Out of 2,829,110 bales of cotton
imported into Great Britain, America has supplied
us with 2,086,341, that is 5-7ths of the whole. In
other words, out of every 71b. imported from all
countries into Great Britain, America has supplied
51b., India has sent us about 500,000 bales, Egypt
about 100,000, South America 124,000, and other
countries between 8,000 and 9,000 bales. In 1859
the total value of the exports from Great Britain
amounted to £130,513,185, of which £47,920,720
consisted of cotton goods and yarns. Thus, more
than one-third, or £1 out of every £3 of our entire
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of cotton goods. Two conclusions, therefore, may
safely be drawn from the facts and figures now
cited—first, that the interests of every cotton-
worker are bound up with a gigantic trade which
keeps in motion an enormous mass of capital, and
this capital; machinery, and labour depend for 5-7ths
of its employment upon the Slave States of Ame-
rica for prosperity and continuance ; secondly, that
if a war should at any time break out between
England and America, a general insurrection take
plaee among the slaves, disease sweep off those
slaves by death, or the cotton crop fall short in
quantity, whether from severe frosts, disease of the
plant, or other possible causes—our mills would be
stopped for want of cotton, employers would be
ruined, and famine would stalk abroad among the
hundreds and thousands of workpeoplo who are
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time." Count up all the trades that are kept going
out of the wages of the working classes, indepen-
dent of builders, mechanics, engineers, colliers, Sze.,
employed by the millowners. Railways would
cease to pay, and our ships would lie rotting in
their ports, should a scarcity of the raw material
for manufacture overtake us.—Cotton Supply Re-
porter.

THE HASTINGS.—The Lords of the Admiralty
having decided on employing the Hastings as a drilling
ship in the Mersey for the naval coast volunteers, her
Majesty's screw ship Majestic, 80 guns, is to be sent to
Liverpool in order that .he officers and crew of the Hastings
may be transferred to her.

•
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loway's Pills expel all humours which taint and impoverish
the blood, which they purify and invigorate, and give general
tone to the awes, stomach, liver, lungs, heart, andkidiaeya,

SUSPECTED MURDER IN GLASGOW.

In our afternoon edition of yesterday we gave
some particulars of what at first appeared to be
most decidedly a case of murder, and which even
now presents a most suspicious aspect of foul play,
having led to the death of George Mitchell, a com-
positor on the Christian News, and residing at 2,
Mathieson-street, Hutchesontown.

On Monday evening, after receiving his wages
and those of a fellow workman, amounting in all
to £4 55., he met with a brother in trade, with
whom he had about a couple of glasses of
whiskey, and with whom he parted, none the
worse for liquor, it is said, at a quarter
before 9 o'clock, at the corner of Govan and Rose-
streets, Ilutchesontown, that being his direct way
home. He was next seen (so far, at least, as our
present information goes) between 12 and 1 o'clock
in the morning, in a close in Malta-street; but how
he hid spent the intervening time we have no means
of knowing. At that time he was in company with
a low woman, whose husband is a soldier in India,
she having informed upon him as a deserter some
years ago. Her name is Elizabeth Rogers,or Soddon,
or Wallace. About half-past 2 o'clock two respect-
able women were passing along Malta-street, when
their attention was drawn to the same close in
which the deceased was seen with the woman some
two hours before, by the moaning of a man. They
at once called the policeman on the beat, and de-
ceased was found lying on his side in the middle of
the close, with at least one severe wound upon his
left temple, in a pool of blood, robbed of his money
and watch, and insensible. At this moment his
wife, who had been inquiring for her husband at
the police-office, came forward, and to her horror
recognised him of whom she was in search. He was
at once carried home, where Dr. Stewart attended
him, and did everything in his power to save the
poor man's life ;.but his utmost efforts were unavail-
ing, he never rallied, and died yesterday morning
at 8 o'clock. As soon as the circumstance was re-
ported to the police, Mr. Robb, assistant superin-
tendent of the southern division, and his able offi-
cers, were on the qui vivo, and about 6 o'clock in
the evening detectives Mackay and M'Coll found
the woman they were in search of, in a state of
drunkenness, in a spirit shop in Crown-street. They
at once took her into custody, and on her way ti
the police-station she dropped a watch, an empty
purse, keys, a knife, and a number of papers, but
no money. All these articles have been identified as
belonging to the deceased. No doubt, therefore, the
woman will be remitted to the sheriff for examina-
tion.

The deceased, George Mitchell, was a native of
Edinburgh, and about 38 years of age. He was
educated in Heriot's Hospital, and subsequently
served an apprenticeship as a compositor. At the
letterprca3-printers' strike in Edinburgh, in 1847,
he came to Glasgow, and has been employed on the
Christian News sin'ie that time. He was a steady
and industrious man, and for half-a-dozen years, up
till recently, was a teetotaller. He has left a widow
and four children.—Glasgow Morning Journal.

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