The Sun.
London, England, 1861-10-03 00:00:00

EVERY EVENING.

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A Grand Selection from Verdi's new opera, " Simon Boo-
cancfzra" (now produced for the first time in this country),
by Hiss Russell, Messrs. C. Greville, Tivoli, Greene, Morley,
and Herbert; also from Verdi's "Macbeth," by Madame
Enderssohn and the entire Company. Full band and chorus.
Conductor. Mr. F. Jonghmans. Varied Comic Entertain-
ments by Harvey and French (The Nerves), Wood and his
Son, E. Marshall, and W. Randall. Hall, 6d. ; Balcony and
Stalls, ls. ; Private Boxes, 10s. 6d.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
This DAY.—Morning, 12h. 30m.—Afternoon, lh.
TO-MORROW. -Morning, lh. 30m.—Afternoon, lh. 50m.

THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, OCTOBER 3, 1861.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
63—highest since noon yesterday.
51—lowest this morning and during the night.
60—this day at noon.
BAROMETER-30.18; a sudden rise of nearly half an inch,
WlND—North-Westerly in the morning—now South-
Westerly—light ; with very fine weather.

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THE SUN.

LONDON, THURSDAY, OCT. 3, 1881.

We recommend to the attention of our readers
an interesting letter on the cultivation of cotton in
Egypt, for which we are indebted to the Cotton
Supply Association. It was addressed by Mr. G. R.
IfavavooD, secretary of the Association, during his
stay in Egypt, to the Viceroy of that country, and
details facts of great promise and importance. All
persons of any public spirit must be interested in
the cotton question now. The fate of negro slavery
hangs on our listening at the right time to the
warning that we must not trust to America again.
But of far more importance to us that a Lancashire
population, as large as that of the negroes of Ame-
rica, depends for its very bread on the spinning
and weaving of cotton.
India we have not overlooked, and never can.
But it will tax the resources of all cotton growing
countries to save four millions of Englishmen from
idleness and want; and we read, therefore, with
much gratification the report of Mr. HAYWOOD.
There appear to be all the elements for prompt
activity in Egypt. No want of conveyance in a
land, which is the valley through its whole length,
of a great navigable river; nothing but to grow,
clean, and pack the cotton. The land and climate
are all in its favour, the former abundant. The
obstacles are want of money, and want of know-
ledge. The knowledge has already begun to make
its way among the Fellahs. Already there are in
operation 600 or 700 MACARTIIY gins worked
by steam power ; some of them belonging to enter-
prising Europeans, but others to the Paslias them-
selves ; and all very profitable to the proprietors.
Still there is much to do, three-fourths of the cotton
being still cleaned by the old process.
Money to extend the cultivation is the funda-
mental want. The fellahs are as poor as Indian
Ryots. They receive advances now at an interest
of about 60 or 70 per cent. per annum. The advance
appears nevertheless to be secure. It is proposed
that a cotton bank, or some other arrangement,
shall furnish the advance at 1 or 2 per cent. per
month, Which would, doubless, be a safe as well as
very profitable undertaking. The Viceroy is dis-
posed to render his most cordial and efficient aid ;
indeed, he has every inducement to do so. English
aid to cotton growing will tell very differently
on hir Exchequer to what French canal cut-
ting at Suez does, and may make up
for some of that great loss. There seems nothing
wanting in Egypt now but English capital and
intelligence to obtain, at a
short notice, a large
supply of cotton of very good,
quality, and doubt-
great improvement. AVe refer our
less capable of
readers, however, to this unusually interesting and
hopeful communication. What is done shows what
can be done. And Egypt is a country with which
we can now converse by telegraph, and which our
ships can reach in a few days. In the great cotton
famine we must follow the example of the patri-
archs in the corn famine, and go down to the land
of the Pharaohs.

In a very able lecture at Bradford, last Tuesday
night, Mr. W. E, FOSTER, the member, described
as very different the real object of the American
war, and that of the parties engaged in it. In the
beginning of his lecture he remarktd that
it was a War "of intense interest, because be con-
ceived that it was a war to solve the problem
whether a race of civilized men in this age of the
world could, in peace and safety, keep millions of