The Sun.
London, England, 1861-08-23 00:00:00

" GENERAL ORDERS, No. 13.

" Communications of any kind, and on any pre-
tence, with the black Republicans is positively and
peremptorily forbidden. Any citizen detected in
communicating with them will be arrested and pro.
secuted.

"By command of Major-General Twiggs,
"D. BELTZEIOOTER, Major La. Artillery,
A.A.A.G.C.S.A."

Strange and almost incredible as it may appear,
it is nevertheless the fact that it is the deliberate
intention of the American Governments—both
North and South—to seal up the new cotton crop,
so that not a bale of it (which they can prevent)
shall leave the plantations during the continuance
of the war. The North believes that the need of
money will bring the South to terms; the South is
just as firm in the faith that the need of cotton will
bring the North to terms, or lead the European
Governments to interfere. How long these efforts
will be successful it is impossible to say. No doubt
some cotton will reach the ports, creeks, and bays
along the coast—notwithstanding all the recom-
mendations of patriotic factors—and escape the
blockade in spite of the vigilance of the whole
United States fleet. But it is clear that any supply
that can thus reach us will be of very trifling im-
portance. A week hence the time will have arrived
(Ist September) when, under ordinary circum-
stances, the new shipping season should commence.
What we wish our friends to understand and fully
realise is that there is abselutely no prospect of its
commencing then, or for months to come.
Ordinarily we view the high prices of cotton as
injurious to our customers and to the trade, and we
condemn speculation which is so frequently un-
founded, and not required to attract a supply
which would be certain to come in the natural
CouLzo of trade. But we now beg onr friends to
understand that the only means of even slightly
mitigating the fearful evils incident to a cotton
famine are a great and timely advance in price,
which will prove to merchants and growers
in India and other distant countries that the
scarcity is a real one, and induce them to gather
up and ship cotton hither rather than leave it to
be manufactured by the natives of those countries.
Thus our distress may be mitigated, the wheels of
trade may be kept in motion, even though at low
speed, and partial employment may give food to
thousands who would otherwise be destitute. A
national benefit would also be conferred by all
spinners who, by running their mills at half time,
should reduce by so much their consumption of cot-
ton. If this were universally adopted, the present
stock, instead of being exhausted in December,
would last till May, and before then it is possible
that peace may be restored.—Very respectfully
yours, NEILL BROTHERS.

According to the Presse the subscription to the
Piedmontese loan has already produced more thrn a milliard
(£40,000,000).

On the mobilisation of the Prussian army, two
years ago, the fortress of Hohenzollern was completely
armed, but, as it is not of any importance in a strategic
point of view, the cannon are now being removed to Cob-
lentz.
FATAL ACCIDENT AT SIIOREDITCIL—On Wed-
nesday morning inquiry was gone into before I Mr. IL
Rates Walthew, the deputy-coroner, at the London Hos-
pital, on view of the body of Charles Waller, aged eight
years. The deceased and another boy were amusing them-
selves by playing on a large piece of granite, weighing half
a ton, in front of the premises of Mr. Spencer, the stone-
mason, of Danston•street, Kingsland-road, Shoreditcb,
when the former got down to pick up his companion's cap,
which he had dropped, and while he was stooping the pon-
derous mass fell upon hi n, crushing the bones of his left
leg and arm. He was removed to the above-named insti-
tution, where one'of the senior surgeons deemed it neces-
sary to amputate the leg, but deceased gradually became
exhausted, and died on Sunday morning, the day after the
accident, Verdict, accidental death,