The Sun.
London, England, 1869-01-16 00:00:00

The Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's assembled at the
cathedral yesterday for the purpose of electing a
bishop of the diocese of London, in the room of the Most
Rev. Dr. Archibald Campbell Tait, now Archbishop
of Canterbury. Divine service having been performed, the
Chapter was duly constituted, the Very Rev. Dr. H. L.
Mansel, the dean, 'presiding. The dean announced that
her Majesty had been graciously pleased to recommend
to them for election the Right Rev. John Jackson, D.D.,
now Bishop of Lincoln. The bishop was unanimously elected.
The confirmation of the election by Sir Travers Twiss,
the Archbishop of Canterbury's Vicar-General, will take
place in the Church of St. Mary-le•Bow, in the course of
a few days, and as soon afterwards as he can do homage
to her Majesty he will be formally enthroned in St. Paul's
Cathedral.

AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS.

A very interesting and valuable report has been
issued by the Statistical Department of the Board of Trade,
giving an abstract of the agricultural returns for 1868.
The returns for 1867 are printed with them, in order to
afford a comparison of the results of the two years. Mr.
Fonblanque informs us that the required information
has this year been more readily obtained from the
occupiers of land, and more care has been taken
to state the actual acreage and number of live stock.
As the prejudice at first existing among agriculturists
Against official returns threatened to prove a formidable
obstacle in the way of their accuracy and completeness, it
is very satisfactory to find that such prejudice is dying out,
and that the farmer himself has learned the value of the
statistics thus collected. At present the system is but in
its infancy, as this is only the third year as regards
the average crops, and the second as regards live stock.
The task of tabulating the forms, of grouping them into
classes of crops, of computing the percentage proportions,
and of testing their accuracy, demands both time and
labour, and the public are indebted both to the Board of
Trade and to the Inland Revenue for the manner in which
these departments have discharged their arduous tasks.
The statistics laid before us are full of interest. The
total number of acres under all kinds of crop, tares,
fallow, and grass, in the United Kingdom in 1868
was 45,652,000, being 265,000 in excess of the total
in 1867, and 1,307,000 in excess of the total in 1866. The
increase in 186 S is, however, chiefly due to the increased
acreage of permanent pasture, returned in Great Britain
in 1867 under a more comprehensive heading. Of the
45,652,000 acres returned in 1868, 11,659,000 were under
corn crops, or an increase of 227,000 acres as compared
with 1867 ; 4,865,000 under green crops, or a decrease of
170,000 acres, exclusive of potatoes, in which the acreage
was larger in 1868 than in 1867 by 84,000 acres-
-50,000 in Great Britain, and 34,000 in Ireland.
984,000 acres were under bare fallow ; 5,609 000
under clover and other rotation grasses ; and
22,164,000, or nearly one half the total acreage
returned, were under permanent pisture. In each
division of the kingdom the acreage under wheat
was larger in 1868 than in 1867, the total increase amount-
ing to 30,000 acres. Under barley there is a marked
decrease of 92,000 acres in England ; indeed, the decrease
was 112,000 acres, but it was counteracted by an
increase in the other parts of the kingdom. In oats there
is an increase ; in turnips a decrease, possibly due to the
long drought, which frightened the agriculturists. 'lie
acreage under flax in Great Britain is distinguished for the
first time in last year's returns. There were 15,828 acres
in England, 169 in Wales, and 1,546 in Scotland. In Ire-
land the acreage under flax was 206,44(3. The percentage
of acreage in the returns are exclusive of hops in Great
Britain and flax in Ireland. Coining to the live stock, we
find a marked increase in the number of cattle and sheep
ever 1857. In Great Britain the increase of cattle
a nounted to 430,' 00, but in Ireland there is a decrease of
82,000 totally unaccounted for. The increase in sheep,
again due to Great Britain, amounts to 1,790,000. In pigs
alone there is a decrease amounting to 1,032,000
for the United Kingdom, though in this respect
Ireland has the advantage. The high price of
food accounts for the disparagement of this kind
of stock. The returns give some valuable details
of the percentage of corn crops to the total acreage, and
of the proportionate number of live stock to every 100
acres under crop, div:d.ng the whole of England into two
groups, the corn-grow:ng and the grazing counties. In the
grazing counties the proportion of corn crops is as low as
10 per cent., and not higher than 33 per cent., while in
the corn-growing counties the proportion of corn crops
ranges from 33 to 55 per cent. The calculations are carried
still further, and estimate the additional wheat supply re-
quired every year by the increase of popolation
in Great Britain. In round numbers, 210,000
persons are annually added to the resident popu-
lation in Great Britain, and the additional wheat
supply required for that number, at six bushels a head,
would amount to nearly 180,000 quarters, representing the
produce of more than 50,000 English acres. Returns of
the crops and live stock in British possessions and foreign
countries are given, having been furnished by the statistical
departments. In these comparative tables the United
Kingdom holds a high place; Russia in Europe occupying
the very first position in regard to live stock. The returns
for the United States are not yet ready, but enough is
given to supply most valuable material for the legislator
and political economist, as well as for the trader and the
agriculturist.

The serious illness is announced of Mr. Swart, late
M.P. for the Dumfries burghs.

Mr. Layard, the First Commissioner of Works, is
shortly to be married to Aliss Guest, daughter of Lady
Charlotte Guest. Lord Mahon is engaged to be married to
Miss Pennyfeather, daughter of Lady Emily Pennyfeather.

11.R.H. the Duke of Cambridge, Field Marshal
Commanding-in-Chief, held a lev6e yesterday at the
Horse Guards, which was well attended by officers of various
ranks.

A week or two since a' action for libel was tried
in the Court of Queen's Bench, in which Bradlaugh was the
plaintiff and the Razor newspaper the defendant, when the
jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff with ono farthing
damages. Yesterday Mr. Digby Seymour moved for a
new trial on the ground that the damages were insufficient.
Rule granted.

'The position of the tunnel under Mont Cenis on
January 1 was as follows:--Out of the total length of 12,220
metres, 9,166 have been executed, being from the south
8,363 and from the north 5,803.

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 22.—The steamer Great
Republic arrived to-day with advices from Hong Kong to
Nov. 16, and Yokohama to the 28th. She brings 320 pas-
Bangers, 1,217 tons of freight, 1,549 packages of silk, and
500 packages of tea for New York. The Great Republic
made the connection with the steamer Golden City, which
sailed for Panama to-day.
La-st October three trappers from Illinois for
mink and otter passed Foit Dodge. Two of them started

from Maplo River to go across the prairie to Storm Lake,
when they wore overtaken by a snow storm which hid the
road from sight. After wandering for some time they
decided to stop and dig a hole in the snow-drift, in which

they might be sheltered till morning. Next day they
crawled out, and one of them, Charles Butler, insisted on
going towards the lake, while the other determined to find
the nearest house. Before reaching shelter the latter became
deranged through suffering, and having pulled off his
boots to rub his feet, he was unable to get them on again,
and was compelled to walk several miles barefoot amid
snow and the coarse prairie grass stubble. Butler's dog
afterwards came into Sac city, and was so excited that
several citizens who knew him became anxious for his
master, and next morning, following the dog, several men
started for Storm Lake, where, after twelve miles march,
they found the trapper lying stiff and dead in the snow.
Butler has left a wife in Illinois to mourn his sad fate.

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