The Sun.
London, England, 1866-11-03 00:00:00

Walter is seeing for himself the wonderful progres,

which the Republic is making in all that consti-
tutes a prosperous State. I quite expect to see Mr.
Walter a guest of President Johnson's by special
invitation. The gimes has been a fast adherent of
the South all through, and of late, as if to prepare
the way for its principal proprietor, Mr. Johnson
has been singled out by it for more than ordinary
flattery. Mr. Walter does not interfere much in
the management of the Times. He does not write,
though he is a scholarly and well-read man. His
University career was creditable, and the little he
said when he was in Parliament was sensible,

though not brilliant. The Times pays him assiduous
attention. If he speaks at a meeting of fifty or
sixty labourers on his estate a reporter is sent down,
and the world is taken into his confidence. Were
Mr. Delane, the editor, to visit America, there would,
perhaps, be more significance than in Mr. Walter's
tour. During the rebellion Mr. Walter, no doubt,
was on the side of the slaveholders, or his influence
would have checked the rabid Confederate writing
of Dr. Mackay and his colleagues, but nothing
exists that can be traced specially to him on the
subject. He is cold and imperial in temperament ,
and strikes most men who meet him as proud and
reserved. Every year the members of the Times
corps are entertained by him at his country seat,
and I assure you the day is not looked forward to
with any impatience. The men speak afterwards
of the proceedings as iced, from first to last. Mr.
Walter's father, though a plainer man, had more
ability about him, and by his enterprise and indo-
mitable pluck laid the foundation of the present
success of the journal. In 1806, when the grand-
father gave up the paper to his son, the circulation
was only 1,000 a day, but it was soon established
and its reputation rose. Mr. Walter is very rib,
and is understood to be ambitious for a peerage.
Indeed some people attribute the inveterate hos-
tility of the paper toward Mr. Gladstone and Earl
Russell to the refusal of those statesmen to advise

the Queen to exalt Mr. Walter to the House of
miable."

Only 778 feet of the lake tunnel at Chicago re-
main to be completed, which may be dug out in five
weeks. The length of the tunnel when finished will

be 10,550 feet.
Such estimates of the cotton crop of the United
States in 1866 as are made upon any apparent basis
of authority will no doubt be of value abroad. The
Agricultural Department of the United States Go-
vernment has just issued an estimate founded upon
the personal observation of a corps of agents
throughout the South. This department, while not
considered thoroughly reliable by Americans, still
has some weight attached to it from the fact that it
is the official superintendent of American agricul-
tural affairs. The commissioner prefaces his esti-
mate by stating that it is too early yet to predict
the result of the year's efforts with certainty, as in-
sect enemies may yet affect the result, and the corps
of observers is not sufficiently complete to warrant
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a reliable estimate of the amount of cotton.
however, takes the result of their estimates as 3
basis for estimates of the crop in the several States.
The statements are in tenths, not of an average an-
nual crop, but of the large crop of 1859 reported ill
the census of 1860. Upon this basis he makes the
following estimate for the cotton-growing States :---
S tate. Proportion of Crop of 189. Bales.
Alabama Three tenths .... 296,986
Arkansas ... Four tenths 146,957
Florida ... Three and one-eighth tenths... 21,717
Georgia... Two and one-quarter tenths... 175,460
Louisiana Three and three-quarter tenths 281,651
Mississippi Two and one-half tenths 300,026
North Carolina Five tenths 71,757
SJU th Carolina Two tenths 70,280
Tennessee ... Ten tenths ... 296,460
Texas ... Fourth tenths ~, 172,585
Total crop ... ...1,835,487
General Grant's pay is $18,678 per year, and
Lieut.-General Sherman's $13,518. Each is allowed
50 horses. A major-general gets $5,800 per year,
and is allowed five horses. The pay of a brigadier
is $4,940 50.