The Sun.
London, England, 1866-06-20 00:00:00

AUG
4,5, 6 I

Rochefort
Bourges...
10, 12
Valenciennes
Moulins
Cherbourg l9

Baden-Baden .... SEPTEMBER.
..... 3. 5' I 7 Paris (Autumn) 23, 30
Chantilly ................ .. 16
OCT

Paris .....
Chantilly ......
......................... 187 1

,BER.
Vincennes

The Southern States and the Lumber Trade.

There is scarcely any one article of importation
to the British Isles in which the people should feel
a more lively interest as regards its future supply
than that of lumber. For many years there has
been a tariff upon its importation which happily now
does not exist, and no doubt there will, in future,
be a larger business done in lumber than hereto-
fore, and merchants engaged in this branch of enter-
prise will derive no little advantage by this
instalment of free trade. At the same time we
desire to call attention to a comparatively new
source of supply—a supply that is almost inex-
haustible in its quantity, and not less convenient
to the English market than are the forests of
British North America, which are becoming so in-
accessible as to add very materially to the cost of
shipments. We refer to the immense and almost
unbroken forests of pine, cypress, oak, and ash—to
say npthing of the other valuable timbers, such as
beech, birch, cedar, and plum—to be found in
the north of Florida, the South of Georgia, the
central portion of Alabama and Mississippi, the
western portion of Louisiana, and the eastern por-
tion of Texas. All of the above-mentioned regions
are penetrated -by navigable rivers, down which
vast quantities of lumber might be rafted to the
seaports at a nominal cost. The city of Mobile,
Alabama, is especially well adapted to the building
up of an extensive trade of this description, as the
thousanduisGeolamrngilaes; ipn
enlseancgotlah.,
one
snaev a
n Orleans,uari,
rivers emptying into its bay united are not less than
Florida;Th rtaNeowf
and Galveston, Texas, are all
provided with excellent harbour facilities, and are
all recognised outlets of the vast timber regions
above referred to. As a speciman, the little town
of Sabine Pass, Texas, alone imported over
1,000,000 feet of lumber, principally pine and
have supplied treble that amount if a suitable mar-
cypress, during the year 1860, and could readily
ket had presented itself. The above statements,
made from actual knowledge .of the
i facts, are, we
think, worthy of the consideration of those
interested in the traffic referred to.—Anglo-Ameri-
can Times.

A WEDDING AT AN HOTEL °
ar air of
HOTEL—fashionable
is a fatal ah l e
fother-
wise—is rather a dismal businessTh
insincerity over the banquet, which has a "baked-meats"
air. The waiters eye the "happy pair" h
competition. Rather they never lose hungrily and with
man for a second, fearful lest he should sight of the happy
de-
fraud them of expected bucksheesh be plotting to
about, looking at the guests s The landlord hovers
given no orders, and is thinkinguspiciously, for they have
secure out of the feast. Reis dissatisfied
of what salvage he can
settle-
ment, for how can money make with any
conspi-
cuousness of the proceeding,the up to him for the
the families perhaps
frightened away by the block of car-
rots in a cage.—Dickeni guests in the windows like par-
All the Year Round."
TUE REFORM LEAGU
E.--A meeting of the Coun-
cil of the above League was heldyesterday at two
e-
o'clock, o'cle 1,
consequence
, to consider the course to be adopted
uquence of the defeat of the Government on Monday
night. The following resolution was unanimously
adopted : —" That in the opinion of this Council a Confer-
ence of all the Reform Associations throughout the United
Kingdom should be held at an early date, to consider and
adopt a plan of united action for the purpose of obtaining
a more complete, comprehensive, and sattsfactery Reform
Bill than the very moderate measure introduced by the
Government; and which, moderate as it was, has been
obstructed and defeated by the sham Liberals and the Tory
faction in the Howie of Commons; thus showing their
hostility to allreal reform, and absolving all true Reformers
from further compromise with regard to the complete en-
franchisement of the people." It was also resolved, " That
the secretary be instructed at once to correspond with the
National Reform Union, Northern Reform Union, Glasgow
Reform Union, and other associations, for the purpose of
arranging the preliminaries for such conference. The
meetiug then adjourned to this day (Wednesday), at eleven
o'clock.