14 MAY 1864, Page 3

The Realm describes a singular scene. Some cotton has lately

been imported into Farringdon, where the mills have been closed for a considerable time'. The people, who were previously in the deepest distress, went out to meet the cotton, the Women wept over the bales and kissed them, anl finelly sang the doxology over the welcome importation. Imagine cotton becoming poetical, and people spontaneously raising a 're Damn became asked once more to toil -1 If that incident is true as it stands, it would make a better incident for the painter than half the worn-out incidents of dramatic story.