The Sun.
London, England, 1866-02-01 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—(TuIs DAY.)

The Right Hon. W. E. Denison was unanimously re-
elected Speaker for the ensuing Parliament. The rest of
the business was purely of a routine character previous to
the opening of the Parliament on Tuesday next.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

FIVE MONTHS AFTER MARRIAGE.—David Deady, a young
man, residing at No. 1, Market-place, Great Portland-
street, Was brought before Mr. Knox by Parel, one of the
warrant officers, charged with assaulting his wife Mar-
garet, a rather good-looking young woman. • •
The complainant said she had been married five months,
the prisoner being her husband: Yesterday morning,
about 10 o'clock, he struck her, and said he would give her
black eyes. He then took up a razor and put it in his
pocket, but she took it from him, fearing that ho would
do something either to her or himself. About one o'clock
he was going to jump out of the window. On Monday he
beat her, bruised her arm, and kicked her in the stomach
He was in the habit of beating her nearly every other day,
and. she was frightened ho would either kill her or him-
self.

The magistrate said the prisoner and his wife seemed to
have lived a cat and dog life. Ho bound him over to keep
the peace for three months in the sum of £5O.

Liverpool Cotton Market. ray.

Market opens with a fair demand. Sales probably
7,000 or 8,000 bales. Price, Ito 4 below last Fri-
day's quotations.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the
official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, in
Downing-street. The Ministers present were—Earl
Russell, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Duke of
Argyll, Sir George Grey, the Earl of Clarendon, the Right
Hon. Edward Cardwell, Earl De Grey, Sir Charles Wood,
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of Somerset,
the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, Lord Stanley of
Alderley, the Right Hon. G. J. Goschen, and the Right
Hon. C. P. Villiers.

Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to ap-
point the Right Hon. Lord Napier, K.T., Governor of
Madras.

We have reason to know that the experiments
made under the direction of the Cattle Plague Commission
on the protective influence of vaccination against the cattle
plague have shown that this protective influence does not
exist. The further action of the Government in taking
steps to arrest the progress of the pestilence cannot fail to
be now looked for with great anxiety.

CLERICAL VACANCIES AND APPOINTMENTS.—The
Lord Chancellor has presented the Rev. George Richard
Turner, M.A., of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge,
rector of Radnor, to the rectory of Kelshall, near Royston,
Hertfordshire, rendered vacant by the resignation of the
Rev. Thomas Rawson Birks, M.A., who has accepted the
incumbency of Holy Trinity Church, Cambridge. Sir C.
Wood, Bart., M.P., has nominated the Rev. Enoch Valen-
tine Richards, M.A., formerly curate of Carnarvon, to the
incumbency of Hickleton, near Doncaster. The Rev. W.
Davies, curate of Tydvil's-well, Glamorganshire, has been
presented to the curacy of Penydarren, Merthyr Tydvil.
Mr. T. L. Peacock, the author of " Headlong
Hall," "Crotchet Castle," "Nightmare Abbey," and other
books very popular in their day, and, for all the lapse of
years, very well worth reading now, died a few days
ago, at the age of 80. k The friend and executor of Shelley,
almost his last literary labour was a defence of the cha-
racter of the poet's first wife, Helen Westbrook,
published, if we rememb3r rightly, in Fr azer's Maga-
zine; and not more than four or five years ago he
gave the world, through the columns of the same maga-
zine, " Gryll Grange," a novel, but a novel which, like the
novels which made him famous forty years before, could
hardly be considered a novel at all. The story was
only the vehicle for the outpouring of the rare
scholarship and the ripened wit of his old age,
as his earlier novels have been for his keen
and searching satire of the foibles, social, political, and
literary, of the time. The catalogue of Mr. Peacock's works
would be rather a long one. He found tune in a busy official
life to write a good many of his so-called novels, and he was
a large contributor to periodical literature. One of the most
remarkable of his works is also the least known. It is a
little book of some fifty pages, printed in 1837, " not for
sale," entitled "Paper Money Lyrics, and Other Poems."
The "Paper Money Lyrics" were written in the winter of
1825-26, after the great bank and company crash, and are
sharp, whimsical satires upon Scotch banking and the
" paper money men" generally. Amongst the other poems
is "Rich and Poor ; or, Saint and Sinner," of which few
people have read the whole, whilst there are few who will
not recollect the first verse :

" The poor man's sins are glaring,
In the face of ghostly warning,
He is caught in the fact
Of an overt act—
Buying greens on Sunday morning."
Mr. Peacock was one of that eminent band of writers of
whom the service of the old East India Company can boast
He retired shortly before the suppression of the Company,
and spent the closing years of his life amongst his books.
The share certificates of the Bank of Turkey will
be ready for delivery in exchange for the bankers'
receipts on and after Thursday, the 15th inst.

It is announced that a public meeting of capi-
talists interested in the establishment of direct
telegraphic communication with America, the con-
tinent of Europe, and the colonies will take place
to-morrow (Friday),
the 2d inst., at the London
Tavern at 4 o'clock. Admiral the Right Hon. the
Earl of Shrewsbury and Talbot, C. 8., will take the
chair.

The Bank of England have given notice that the
balances of the accounts in the following funds will
be struck on the night of Thursday, March 1 :—New
£3 per cent. annuities, reduced £3 per cent. annui-
ties for 30 years, annuities for terms of years, and
India 4 per cent. stock. On Friday, March 2,
the above funds will be transferable, without the
dividend due on April 5 next. Bank stock will
be shut from Wednesday, March 14, till Friday)
April 6.

At a meeting of the London and Provincial
Marine Insurance Company, held this day, a divi-
dend and bonus of 10 per cent. was declared.
THE CULTIVATION OF CoTTON.—Several estimates,
made some years ago, of the expenses of cultivating
cotton under the old slave system are given in
De Bow's Review for January, 1866. One of the
calculations was for a plantation of 4,200 acres of
land (2,700 acres in cultivation), worked by 254
slaves, old and young, which produced 331,000
pounds of cotton, at an expense of four cents seven
mills per pound. Another statement is given of
the expenses on an estate of eleven hundred acres
of land, worked by one hundred and twenty slaves,
which produced a crop of 128,000 pounds of cotton
at an expense of about six cents per pound. It
is probable that the present eost, after allowance is
made for liberal wages to the freedmen, would not
greatly exceed the above estimates ; it would, we
suppose, not be more than doubled. Yet cotton is
now selling for from forty-five to fifty-five cents
per pound in England, twenty pence in America,
and will probably command a very high price for
-several years. The extraordinary profits thus
promised are producing, as a natural result, the
industrial condition described below in a Virginia
paper, which learns the facts from private sources :
—" In the Mississippi bottom mules aro worth from two
hundred dollars to two hundred and fifty dollars each, and
farm hands are paid twelve dollars per month, besides
their rations of four pounds of meat and a peck of meal per
week. All the expenses of farruing are vastly increased,
but cotton is selling in Yazoo City at 52 cents per pound.
Northern capitalists, with their usual keen apprecia-
tion of pecuniary profit, have not been slow to seize upon
the opportunities offered them for making money in the
rich bottom lands of Mississippi, and have rented planta-
tions at apparently unreasonable prices. Three plantations
on the river, adjoining those of ex-President Davis, and
his brother, Joseph Davis, Esq., brings an aggregate rental
for the present year of thirty-six thousand dollars, and a
plantation of eight hundred acres of cleared land on Deer
Creek rents for ten dollars per acre, the lessee contracting
to repair the negro quarters, and rebuild all the necessary
fencing. It may be estimated that bottom lands will gene-
rally sell for about twenty dollars per acre, and they
will rent for about one-half the selling prices. Tho
people of Mississippi now intend to devote all their
energy to making good crops of cotton ; Cie standard of
value is changed, and an heiress, instead of being worth
so many negroes, is now reputed to have on hand so many
bales of cotton. There is every probability that the negroes
will work tolerably well with proper supervision and care ;
and if a man has not ready money, he can rent his planta-
tion for this year, and be able with the proceeds to make
a good start for himself in 1867. One year or five would
be but a short time in which to recover from the effects of
this tremendous ordeal through which we have passed,
and if in 1870 the Mississippi planters can equal their pro-
duction of cotton in 1860, they and the country will be
more than satisfied."

A MEMORIAL TO THE CONFEDERATE DEAD.—A
movement is on foot in the Southern States to erect
a memorial cathedral to the Confederate dead. As embraced
in the cathedral system, it is proposed to build a house of
refuge for the widows of fallen heroes, and a college for
the sons. The whole is to be placed under the jurisdiction
of the Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in
the Vnited States.—xep York Times,