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ht by the friends of the North, and caused a rises in American securities in London and cotton at Liverpool." The following is the summary: Highly important gun experiments had again been fried at Shoeburyness. The new Whitworth shell, weighing 182 pounds, had proved itself most destructive. At six hundred yards it passed clean through a formidable iron and wood to get as if it were a punch, and afterwards exploded with terrific force. The charge of powder was twenty-five pounds. Mr. Whitworth was warmly congratulated on his success. A "Southern Clue" was being organized in some of the towns of England, Liverpool had already subscribed fifteen thousand dollars. The fund is intended for the relief of Southern prisoners held by the Union armies. At a meeting of the Scinde Railway Company in London it was stated that the cotton crop of Scinde, India, would exceed 50,000 bales, and the next year's growth is expected to be three that quality. Mr. Harben, the discove