The Sun.
London, England, 1857-06-22 00:00:00

Indian product requiring care and skill, so long as
they remained in the exclusive hands of the natives
of India. Such was the case .with sugar, indigo,
silk, and lac, until their preparation was undertaken
by Europeans, and the value of these articles now
exported. cannot be es'imated at less than
15,000,0001., a properly, the greater part of it, the
creation of English skill, enterprise, and capit'tl.
Europeans have not engaged in the culture of cotton,
which no doubt they would have done had they found
it profitable, and the consequence is that Indian cot-
ton is abtrbarous article. It is not the only one
that is in this state when neglected by Europeans.
Tot,acco, for example, has been cultivated in India
for 200 years, and many of its soils and climates are
as well adapted for it ai those of Maryland or Cuba.
Although universally pro luced it is a wretched
article, so unfit for exportation that it hardly shows
its face in an English price current. The value of
all the crude tobacco imported into England in
1855 was 1,303,000!., of which British India sup-
plied 171. worth. The value of cigais furnish- d
by the Spanish possessions of Cuba and the Philip-
pines in the same year was 237,447/. ; that of Bri-
tish India was 4831. ! In consequence of Iri,h
famine and free trade, maize came to be a hew im-
port into England, a fow years back, and re idy
America supplied us in 1855 with this cora to tho
value of 1, 471,5001., our whole impor s amounting
t i the value of 2,640,2511. Of this British India
did not furnish a single bushel.
Although Indian industry is incapable of pro-
ducing for exportation commodities demanding
skill and care in preparation, it produces freely
enough such as are the mere product of crude and
cheap manipulation, or wh;ch can be raised ou lan.l
too poor to be applied to the.production of bread-
corn, or which the forests yield, or which there is
no market for at home. Thus, although oppreised
by a pernicious monopoly, it produces opium to the
yearly value of 2,000,0001. We' have at ih's mo-
ment before us a list of no fewer than 24 aft cles
unknown to Indian commerce before the ab3litien.
of the monopoly, and the aggregate value of which
imported into England in 1855 was no less than
3,500,0001. They consist of such commodities as
cocoa-nut husks, oil seeds, a kind of coarse hemp
(corconts junccea), sheep's wool, coarse but us 'ful,
hides, cocoa-nut oil, gutty pepha, Indian rubber,
gambier, and tallow. Sack Eommodities as these,
it will appear at oncie, denarrid no dill ; wherever
skill and care are required. ,ftar the production of
commodities suited- to the European market, the
Hindus will be found unequal-to their producion.
The Chinese can makefinta sugar and fine ilk without
European help, but not the Hindus. Among such
new commodities as those above referred to, those
demanding skill are all of Chinese manufacture,
such as Malay tin, sago, gambler, and the go Al
sugars of Siam, Java, and Manilla.
For improvement in the growth of Indian cot-
ton, tbe. Manchester interest is disposed to lay
mighty stress on irrigation, but this is quite a mis-
take on their part. Cotton is a dry-field, not a wet-
field culture, and there are, indeed, few useful
plants ,that thrive so well with little rnoistura.
When land is made amenable to permanent irrri-
gation (an expensive process) its productive powers
are increased five-fold, nay even up to ten-fold,
when the water supply is ample and its sources
perennial. The most valuable crops only will then
be cultivated, and rice, within the Tropics and near
them, will be sure to have the preference, even on
lands but partially irrigated. Cotton will only
follow rice, as a second crop within the year, as do
sesame, pulses, and such like plants—save all
crops, as it were. This is Indian husbandry, and
Manchester possesses no magician's wand to
change it.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—{Phis Day.)
LONDON, June 22.—Wind this day at noon, N.N.E.
light airs, and hazy.
PLYMOUTH, June 21.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Gentoo,
from Sierra Leone.
PORTSMOUTH, June 21.—Wind W.—Arrived—Her
Majesty's steamer Avon, from Devonport, and proceeded
to the Eiatward.
DARTMOUTH, June 21.—Wind W.—Arrived—Scotland
(s.s ). from Calcutta.
DUNDEE, June 29.—Wind S.E.—Sailed—Job=, for
Cape of Good Hope.
FALMOUTH, June 21.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived—Va-
lencia, from Matanza.
CARDIFF, June 21.—Sailed—St. Augustine, for Ceylon ;
Raumei, Rio Janeiro.
HULL, June 20.—Wind E.N.E.—Sailed—Rob Roy, for
Bombay.
NEWPORT, June 20.—Wind E.S.E..—Arrived—Hap-
niman, from Nantes for St. Thomas

(PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
SOUTHAMPTOX, Monday, 10 a.m.

Wind W.

Arrived—Beanie, from Portsmouth ; Union, Wyborg ;
Mermaid, Newport.
Sailed—Thuds, for Copenhagen ; Hamlet, Ernestine,
and Solide, Guernsey; Harmony, Griffin, Ellen, Atalanta,
and Sir R. Peel, Sunderland.
LIVERPOOL, Monday Morning.

IV ind S.W.
Arrived—Bonne Mere, from Bourdeanx; Adolphine, Ice-
land; Emma, Hamburg.
Sailed—Fox, for Venice; Preuzen, St. Petersburg; Isaac
Wright, New York ; Bannockburn, Montreal ; Normal
screw steamer, Hamburg; Cora, amburg ; Elise, Cron-
stadt.

(BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Monday, 9.20 *.m. •
Wind N. `Y. ; tide two hour's flood ; cloudy.
Ai rived, June 22—Denmark, from Havre; Don Alfonso,
Valencia.

Sailed, June 21—Northumberland, for Calcutta; Mid-
summer, Sunderland; Isabella, Benin.
DEAL, Monday, 9 a.m
Wind N.N.E. ; light weather, foggy.
Passed, June 31—Vesta (s.s.), fur Oporto; Durham,
Africa ; Fomasino, Swansea ; Feliz, Cadiz ; Agatha (4),
Salcombe.

Sailed—Bromleys, for Trieste ;'Prinse Arthur rind Prince
of Wales, Hudson's Bay ; Excel, Cape Town ; Euphrates,
Algoa-bay ; Mary Lyon, Ferrol ; J. B. Reeler, New York.

MONUMENT TO CAPTAIN LYONS.—A. monument to
the memory of Captain Lyons, son of Admiral Lord
Lyons, who was killed on board the Miranda, which be
commanded in a night attack on Fort Constantine, on
the 15th of June, 1855, in the late war with Russia, bas
just been placed in the south aisle of St. Paul's Cathe-
dral. It was executed by Mr. Noble, of Bruton-street,
and consists of a large tablet, on which is carved the
Miranda attacking the battery. The sculpture is very
good, the difficulty of representing water and smoke in
marble having been surmounted with HUM 'BE. The
national flags of England, France, Sardinia and Turkey,
with a medallion likeness of the lamented officer, sur-
rounded with oak and laurel branches, are introduced,
The monument, as the inscription states, is erected " in
deepest grief by the officers and ship's company of her
Majesty's ship Miranda, who had served under the gal-
lant officer in the Baltic, White Sea, Black Sea, and the
Sea of Azoff."
ST. JAMES'S PALACE.—Wbenever there has been a
question of abolishing St. James's Palace, or of apply-
ing it to any useful purpose, the court always maintained
that, however old and ugly it might be, it was the most
convenient and commodious inside for receptions and
state occasions of any palace in Europe. Thanks to
Verbena, the falsehood of this cry has been exposed ;
and as it is now known that St. James's Palace is as in-
convenient as it is ugly, there can be no possible reason
why it should be allowed to encumber the ground. Let
it come down at once, and open St. James's-street into
the Park and Pall-mall into the Green-park. We should
then have a metropolitan improvement for which the
public would not object to give a quid pro quo in the
shape of providing a place for court ceremonies and
state receptions. But as for' laying out a penny on
St. James's Palace, the proposition is absurd and offen-
sive to the common sense of the nation. Clear the
ground and sell the old materials for what they will
fetch, and then let the site, except the roadway into the
Park, be applied for public purposes or leased. Then,
with the money, we may
be able to put up a couple of
boiler-houses in Kensington swamps fo'r the courts to be
held, if it still be inconvenient to hold them in Buck-
ingham Palace. In fact, Kensington swamp appears
a very proper place indeed for the court to be held in.
It is the place of predilection of the Field Marshal. A.
couple of boiler-houses would not cost much, and they
would be quite costly enough for drawing-rooms, seeing
they have been deemed good enough for our fine art
:collection.—Building NCIPB.
' LADVERTISEMMT. J—SIOIIT AND HEARING. SPECTACLF.S.- --
' POWERFUL TELESCOPES.— OPERA, RACE, AND PERSPECTIVX
thassEs.—Messrs. S. and B. Solomons, opticians, 39, Albe-
marle-street, Piccadilly. Observe—opposite the York note',
w.--By her Majesty's Royal Letters Patent for valuable and
extraordinary improvements in the most powerful and bril-
liant Telescopes, Camp, Racecourse, Opera, and Perspective
Glasses, to know the distances. These telescopes lossets
such extraordinary power that some, three and a-half inches,
with an extra eye-Vece will show distinctly Jupiter's moons,
Saturn's ring, and the double stars ; with the same telescope
can be seen a person's countenance tbree-and-a-half miles dis-
tant, and an object from 16 to 20 miles. For the waistcoat
pocket, ant arc
of larer, and all sizes, with inc, casing
powers accordingly. The
Royal Exhibition, 1851.—A valu-
able newly-inveutixt very small powerful Waistcoat Pocket
Glass, the size of a walnut, by which a person can be seen
and known ono Ad a half mile distant. They an,wer every
purpose Oil the :race-course, and at the Opera Houses.
Country scenery, sand ships are clearly seen at 12 to 14 miles.
They are invaluable for shooting, deer-stali kien!, yachting,
t• sportsmen, gentlmeee,
Camp, Perspective
powers. —lnvaluable Preserving
e'
greatest transpare rewii: t isi g •
gAinekeep3erGs,, sutstowni,tihst .0 Opera,
tamp,
and Ilaceour,rsq
eelasse ,
Lenses
w nd
er
rh preataeled of the
a V ta. vdantage d_erived
on impaire becomes pre-
from this invention ini
,ne , and very aged persons are enabled
served and strength,
is 'ht at the most minute occupation—
to employ their 's
can see with therm .lenses
,of a muchless magnifying power
—and they do not sequin the frequent dialyze.' to the
dangerous effects
a further powerful a.ssistaneei Persons
d
can
be suited at tbe nloit remote part of the world by send-
ing one of the glasses out of their spectacles in a letter, and
stating the distance from the eye they can read small prints
with it, and those 'who have not made use of spectacles by
stating their age. Deafness.—New Discovery.—The Or-
ganic Vibrator, an extraordinarily powerful, small newly-
invented instrument for deafness, entirely different from all
others, surpasses anythim,.-; of the kind that Uas been, or pro-
bably ever can be produced. Being of the same colour as
the skin, is not perceptiblo. It enables deaf persons to hear
distinctly at church and at vublic assemblies ; the unpleasant
sensation of singing noises in the ears is entirely Imo ved,
and it affords all the assistanc e that possibly could he d csii o l„
—39, Allyetuarle-street) Piccoidlly,— Observe—opposite the
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