The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1850-07-06

tains long letter from its London Correspondent.
The United States forms the principal subject of
interest in English circles. The deficiency of the
cotton crop is admitted, and public attention is
again directed to India the region to supply the
British market. The efforts to grow cotton have
not been given up nor is the experiment at all con-
sdered failure One great obstacle is the want
of roads but this ID has been proposed to overcome
BY the construction of railroads. These, however.
it is now thought must be abandoned, and good
roads made to penetrate through the mountains into
the table lands, where the cotton is to be cultiya-
ted. The distance in miles may not be great, but
the difficulties Of mountainous region are more
formidable than any given number of miles. In
this country, cotton, at the average price of the
last ten years, will not pay to haul over fifty miles
The Rail Roads now cutting through the more i'm
portant sections of the Southern States, will bring
into cultivation millions of acres, which, without
these roads, would not be touched. Whoever casts
glance at the map of India, will see that it is a
peninsular of mountains To make roads over
these, which will admit of the convenient
transportation of cotton profitably, will require
an outlay of money difficult to estimate. There
are now no roads, and the cotton is transported on
the backs of bullocks, if we mistake not Our PEG.
pie need not give up the culture of cotton for half
century TO come, and then we shall have factories
at home, to manufacture all we make and we
shall be as INDEPENDENTS the old woman with her
new kettles
The Cuba invasion has of course called out the
Times in long and ll-natured article. 1t accuses
the United States Of desire of conquest and de-
termination to obtain possession of the whole Of
North America. While we are thus denounced for
the lust of territory what does Great Britain think
of her East India acquisitions and her Australian
colonizations
An attempt has been made by the Tories to
revive the principle of protection, by motion to
discriminate in favor Of British free sugar against
slave grown sugar, but it was defeated by large
majority. In 1867 there were consumed in
Great Britain 2s9,477 tons, of which 81, 9O7 were
offoreign growth. In 1S4925O, there were 31s, TT
tons English sugar, and only SO, 100 tons offoreign
The address to the Queen to stop the Sunday
mail was carried by vote Of SO against 6S Yet
under the operation Of the recent regulations, 5000
persons are now in whole, or in great part, re-
lieved from their labor that day.
The bill to empower Synod of Prelates to
settle all questions Of doctrine without appeal, was
rejected by an overwhelming majority.
The Industrial Exhibition continues to attract the
interest of Europe. Upwards of 100000 have
been already raised, but, they say twice that sum
in addition is required
The crop promises to be abundant Provisions
are cheap, and thus compensate, in some measure.
for short wages and short time
The money markets. easy and stocks advancing.
Some interesting details are given of the expenses
and circulation of the Times, which we extract in
full:
I'VE never take up the Times newspaper and
It's mammoth supplement, without rejecting upon
the vast amount of mechanical labor-independent
OF the mental exertons of the highest kind in its
previous preparation for the press-which has been
employed in its production. its seventy.tvo closely
printed columns contain II 800 lines, made up Of
more than a million pieces of type. Thirty-four
thousand copies of this paper and supplement have
been printed in about four hours. The greatest
number ever printed in one day was 81 600 and
the paper used weighed seven tons, the usual
weight being four and half TONS The surface
printed every night with single supplement- is
thirty acres, the weight of type in constant use is
seven tons, and ITO eompositors and % pressmen
are constantly employed"
France is in critical condition. The Ministe-
rial party, is feared, will follow up their success
in the abridgement of the right of suffrage, by the
passage of other laws impairng the liberties of the
people. Another revolution will be the inevitable
consequence.
The heroic Arab, Abd-el Kader, is dangerously
i'll, dying in his prison. 1t is disgrace to the
French nation, that this gallant son of the desert
has been so long immured, and is to be permitted
to die in chains.
In Spain and Portugal there is nothing of inter
est In Italy the people continue discontinued
with the Pope and the Cardinals. The Pope has
made three attempts to escape from the city, but
has been prevented by the French troops,
The King of Naples has abolished, de facto, and
will shortly de juye, the Constitution of 1S4S
Austria is disposed to treat Hungary more
hberay-that is the torture is not to extend to the
death, but only to the manning of the prisoner
The union between Austria and Hungary is to be
perfected on terms approaching to equality.
Turkey is beginning to feel the influences of the
age. Late letters from Beyrout speak strongly Of
the rapid progress which the Turkish Empire is
making in civilization, commerce, and military
power, and states that the erroneous opinion enter
tanned in England that Turkey is lettering to her
fall, is quite preposterous The Sultan has given
his decision ON the Hungarian refugee question.
The Magyars are to be located at Kutaya under
the guard and protection of the Porte until the lst
OF October, 1850, which will be one year from the
date OF their first crossing the frontier At the ex-
plraton OF that term they will be permitted to re-
side IN Consantinople and in the Asatic cities of
Turkey. Kossuth's children, under the guidance
Of their tutor, are their way to join their parents
at hutaya, having received permission to do SO
from the Austrian Government.
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The MARKsvILLE AcADEMY.-The Villager
gives highly gratifying account of this institution