The Sun.
London, England, 1866-02-20 00:00:00

CATTLE STATISTICS.

Colonel WILSON-PATTEN asked the President of
the Board of Trade when he would ba able to lay upon the
table of the house information with respect to the num-
ber of cattle in the United Kirg-dom ?

Mr. M. GIBSON said the returns of cattle that had
been called for would bo mule by about the sth of Ma-ch.
No time would be lost in making the aggregate ratite,-
which ho hoped would bo laid on the table after the
Easter Recess. The returns, it must be borne in mind,
were purely voluntary. He could not say that the returns
would be continued for the future, as those about to bo
produced were merely experimental, and until that experi-
ment had baen fully tested, it was impossible to say what
would be done in the future.
Mr. GREGORY asked whether the Government in-
tended bringing in a bill with respect to the cattle diseaze
in Ireland.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said such a bill had been
prepared, and immediately it had received the approbation
of the hish Government it would be submitted to the
house.

SUSPENSION OF THE HABEAS CORPUS ACT IN

IRELAND.

Mr. D. GRIFFITH asked if it was legal for a bill to re-
ceive the royal assent on a Sunday morning ?
Sir G. GREY oaicl there was no law preventing the

house sitting on Sundays. It might, in certain cases of
great urgency, become actually necessary.

CATTLE PLAGUE BILL.

The house then went into committee on this bill (the
ono brought forward by Mr. Hunt).
Mr. HUNT explained the exceptions to the general pro-
hibition of the removal of cattle which the bill proposed to
allow. Up to the 25th of March beasts moved from one farm
to another would be allowed to travel 200 yards along a
high road ; beasts landed at a port would be allowed to
move to a slaughterhouse 500 yards, and moved from a
farm to a slaughterhouse two miles along a high road.
There would be exceptions in favour of calves, working
oxen, and milch cows required for seagoing vessels. After
the 25th cf March sound cattle would be allowed to be
moved at a change of tenancy, under the license of the
local authorities, and during two periods of seven days in
each quarter for the purpose of stocking farms. He pro-
posed also to allow a relaxation for breeding purposes.
The operation of the bill, he further expl.Lined, might be
suspended by Order in, Council at any time after the end
of April next.

On clause 13, which contains a general prohibition of
the movement of cattle, a long discussion was raised by a
proviso, proposed by Mr. 11. VIVIAN, which was ulti-
mately agreed to, with amendment; and which suspends
the prohibition in large districts having well defined boun-
daries, and declared by the Privy Council free from the
cattle plague, and gives the local authorities power to make
orders to prevent the introduction of diseased cattle,
and to regulate the movement of cattle within those
districts.

On clause 14, which allows cattle moved from one part
to another of the same farm to pass along a highroad for a
distance of 200 yard; Mr. BOTILL carried an amendment,
by a division of 146 to 83 votes, allowing them to travel
any further distances under a licence, and on the sugges-
tion of Lord ORANBOURNS the further distance was limited
to two miles.

The discussion of the first 27 clauses, some of which,
however, were postponed, occupied the house until close
upon 1 o'clock, when the Chairman was ordered to report
progress._ _

The National Debt Reduction and the Savings Banks
and Pcst-office Savings Banks Bills passed through com-
mittee.

The house adjourned at 5 minutes before 1 o'clock.

COTTON IMPORTS INTO THE UNITED STATES.

The last census returns represent the average
annual value of foreign cotton manufactures of all
kinds imported in the United States from 1821 to
1839, inclusive, as amounting to $10,624,687, the
highest amount having been nearly $18,000,000 in
1836, and the lowest about $6,500,000 in 1838.
From 1840 to 1865, both inclusive, the average
annual importation increased to $16,795,418, the
yearly exportation of the same averaging $909,114.
The average imports of the last three of those years
was $28,811,966. These values during the later
periods consisted largely of piece goods from Great
Britain, which has enormously increased her ex-
ports of cottons. Of plain white British calicoes
alone American importations increased from
10,000,000 yards in 1846 to 85,000,000 in 1856,
'and of painted or dyed calicoes from 13,500,000 in
the former to 97,000,000 yards in the latter year.
In 1860 America received from England altogether
226,776,939 yards of cottons of the declared real
value of $3,849,915 ; but in the first two years of
the war the quantity fell off to 74,680,537 yards in
1861, and 97,375,709 yards in 1862. The total
value of cotton manufactures imported from all
countries into the United States for the fiscal year
ending June 30, 1862, was only $5,254,258.
STATISTICS OF THE UNITED STATES. —Tho
Secretary of the Interior, in response to a re-
solution of Congress, has communicated a I'9t of
the cities of the United States, with the statistics of
their manufactures, including those haNing ten thou-
sand inhabitants and upwards. It includes one
hundred and two cities, beginning with New York
and ending with Newport, Ky. The total capital
employed is $417,129,234 ; hands employed, males,
410,920 ; females, 147,000 ; value of products,
$874,934,827. New York stands first in the list :
—Capital, $61,212,757 ; males employed, 65,483 ;
females, 24,721; value of products, $159,107,369.
Philadelphia employs a capital of $73,318,885 ;
male operatives, 68,350; females, 30,633 ; value of
products, $135,979,777. Cincinnati, third in or-
der:—Products, $46,000,000; capital, $17,000,000,
in round numbers. Boston—Products, $36,000,000 ;
capital, $13,000,000. The other principal cities
produce as follows :—Brooklyn, $34,000,000 ;
Newark, $22,000,000; St. Louis, $21,000,000; Bal-
timore, $21,000,000 ; San Francisco, $19,000,000 ;
Lowell, $18,000,000 ; Prov:dence, $15,000,000 ;
Louisville, $12,000,000 ; Richmond, $12,000,000 ;
Pittsburg, $11,000,000; New Bedford, $11,000,000;
Chicago, $11,000,000 ; New Orleans, $10,000,000 ;
Manchester, $10,000,00(1 ; Troy, $10,000,000 ;
Rochester, $10,000,000.

RECORDS OF THE WAR. - The Surgeon-
General of the United States has applied for
the assignment of the property known as
Ford's Theatre for the deposit and safe keeping
of the records relating to soldiers discharged for dis-
ability incurred in the service, or who have died in
battle, in hospital, or in rebel prisons, and the Sec-
retary of War has written to the Chairman of the
Committee on Appropriations, recommending the
application, and that authority should be given to
purchase the place, and an appropriation made to
fit it for the reception of the records in question,
which are among the most important of the Govern-
ment, both as relates to the Government itself and
to individuals, for they aro the records and the
papers upon which the widows and orphans of those
who are entitled to the support and bounty of the
Government depend as evidence of their just claims.
FORD'S Theatre was the scene of the murder of the
late President, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, and there would
seem to be no more fitting purpo3e to which the
building could be applied than to have the spot hal-
lowed by his blood consecrated to the preservation
of the memorials of those who, like himself, suffered
as martyrs in the national cause.

TILE FREEDMEN. The Savannah Republican
receives the most encouraging accounts in re-
gard to the actions of the Freedmen. in North
and South Carolina, and Alabama, they ire
said to have surpassed the most sanguine
expectations of the friends of free labour, end
agreeably disappointed those who lacked con-
fidence in the system, and prophesied it would
prove a signal failure. The officers of the Bureau
in these States are besieged from morplig till night
by hunclrees of them ftlin'OUS to make contracts
either Ivlth their foi.ner masters or those Tor whom
they have taken a special liking. It matters not
whether this favourable turn of affairs is attribu-
table to their having made the discovery that they
must do something to keep off the grim phantom of
starvation, or whether they are moved to it by the
same incentives that operate upon the rest of man-
kind. Whether it comes from the promptings of
an empty stomach or a heart in the right place, the
fact remains the same, and speaks volumes of good
cheer to the hearts of the struggling, almost despon-
dent people. We are content to know that it is so.
The prospect brightens. Instead of fears being en-
tertained that there will be a short crop of the great
staples of the South, in some places, where the law
of supply and demand is none too well understood,
there is a feeling of apprehension lest the yield will
prove too great. Of course this is all mere moon-
shine, as every
one will understand who will take
the trouble to examine the facts and figures, but
better that than a well-grounded fear that another
year is to be lost to the work of rebuilding the shat-
tered fortunes of the Southern people.
Cholera is devasting the Island of Guadaloupe
westaveragehlaies ' of and
tl
e ita is sail thpoatpattilatthioen last
o f
tenaccountsthousand t h e
daily
people,
was as high as ono hundred and thn.y-one. At
d:4, in a
ono place, Point-a-Titre, ono hundred and forty-nine per-
sons died between the 19th and 22d of December. The
whole population of the Island must soon be swept away if
this rate of mortality should continue. Stringent precau-
tions were being taken to prevent the spread of the pesti-
lence to the other West India Islands, and thus far with
success. Cholera was introduced in Guaclaloupe by a ves-
sel from Marseilles, and the pilot of the ship is in custody
for his gross neglect in not giving warning to the autho-
rities that the disease was on board.
TILE MANUFACTURE AND TRADE IN WOOL.—
While the woollen manufactures of the United States have
doubled since the commencement of the war, it is shown
by official figures that in the four years ending June 30,
1865, the
of
wool imported shoddy and woollens make anaggregate
$130,000,000 of which the unmanufactured
wool amounts to 287,000,0031b5., costing $45,000,000.
Nearly all the impors of woo under the late taiiff came
in either at three or six cents. per pound, the duty ave-
raging less than five cents. The wools of Au4ral;a, and
South Africa, which are fine merinoes, are invoiced at less
than twenty-four cents per pound.
In Missouri and Arkansas there are thirty-two
negro-schools, with forty teachers and 2,827 scholars,