The Sun.
London, England, 1861-11-13 00:00:00

TILE PROPOSED ROAD ACROSS HYDE

PARK.

Yesterday, at a meeting of the representative
vestry of Chelsea, under the presidency of Mr. .T.
Miles, a communication from residents in Bayswater
was submitted, asking for an expression of opinion
frcm that body on the proposed new road across the
park, north and south.

Mr. LAHEE (vestry clerk) read the communica-
tion. which was to the effect that the parishes of
Paddington and Kensington had been induced to
commence an agitation for this much-required rord,
and a public meeting would be held shortly on that
side of the park ; and the object of the communi-
cants was to request the active members of that
vestry to take up the question simultaneously, as
they thought that such an array of opinion would
certainly carry the point, which was very desirable,
for London generally, and especially for Chelsea
and adjacent parishes. _

A long letter from Messrs. H. and R. Powell, of
l3ayswater, also accompanied the above, stating the
expediency and urgency of the scheme being imme-
diately carried out in time for the forthcoming
Great Exhibition ; and containing their plan for the
said road, which has been already pretty generally
published. It proposed that the road should enter
on the north, at the foot of Westbourne-terrace, and
running along the ditch on the east of the
brick wall which enclosed Kensington-gardens,
passing over Kensington-bridge, into the main
road opposite Exhibition-road, at an expenditure of
£25,000 or £30,000.

The CHAIRMAN and others expressed their opinion
that the road was much needed for the convenience
of the public, which was admitted on all sides, but
the plan to accomplish the object required more
consideration than they were then prepared to give
it.

Mr. BIRCH moved that the question be referred
to the Committee of Works to report, which was
seconded and unanimously agreed to.

SILK FROM TIIE PUN.T_IUB.

Mr. H. Fleming, secretary to the Manchester
Chamber of Commerce, has received, through the
Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade,
some samples of silk grown by Mr. H. Cope, in the
Umritser district of the Punjaub ; and also copies
of correspondence between Mr. Cope and the pri-
vate secretary to the Governor-General of India
with regard to the same. The samples, which are at
present at the offices of the chamber in King-street,
are to be submitted to the silk trade in this district
together with the correspondence ; as in the letter
addressed to Mr. Fleming it is requested that " my
lords may be favoured with the opinion of the
chamber as to the character and commercial value
of this silk, and especially whether it would com-
mand a sale in the English market, and if so what
price would probably be obtained for it." The spe-
cimens are, we understand from cocoons of the
Kasbmeer stock ; and the secretary to the Agricul-
tural and Horticultural Society of India, in report-
ing to Mr. Cope the discussion at a meeting of that
society, when cocoons and some of the reeled silk
were submitted, says :—" This silk was much ad-
mired by the members present as of first-rate quality
being of very fine bright colour and good thread.
It was considered that it the production could be
extended, it would be a favourite silk in the Eng-
lish market." Mr. Cope, in his first letter to the
Governor-General, stated this opinion with some
general information as to the plans he had adopted,
adding, "My recent experiment may be considered
to have finally and affirmatively decided the hitherto
disputed question whether silk may be raised with
advantage in this part of the Punjaub . Land
and labour are cheap, and the mulberry tree grows
to perfection here." In his reply the private secretary
t o Lord Canning says that his lordship has read the
letters with much pleasure, and desires to be in-
form( d " what steps you have taken to make known
in England the value of samples such as you enclose
in your letter, and whether the Government
can be of any use in this respect." Mr. Cope
answers that he will gladly make over the whole of
his out-turn to be sent to England under the auspices
of the Indian Government. In subsequent letters he
informs Lord Canning that he proposes to keep his
operations on a limited scale this year (the corres-
pondence was in July), but that he hopes to do more
hereafter ; that he has planted 31 acres with the
Morus Multicarius, and proposes to extend the
area largely next year, if he can get land on fa-
vourable terms ; that a friend had, on his strong
recommendation, entered on a large plantation,
where he had got 50,000 cuttings of the mulberry
shrub into the ground ; and that the executive of
the Barce Doab Canal were anxious to plant the
shrub along the banks of their canal, and he hoped
to have cuttings enough to supply them next year.
—Manchester Guardian.