The Sun.
London, England, 1855-10-02 00:00:00

REDUCTION OF TFTE NATIONAL DEBT.

The Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury
having certified to the Commissioners for the Reduction
of the National Debt, that there was no surplus of actual
revenue over the actual expenditure of the United King-
dom of Great Britain and Ireland, for the year ended the
30th Juno, 1855 :

The Commissioners for the Reduction of the National
Debt hereby give notice, that no sum will be applied by
them on account of the sinking fund, under the provisions
of the act 10 Geo. IV., cap. 27, between the Ist day of
October, 1855, and the 31st day of December, 1855.
A. Y. SPEARMAN, Comptroller-General.
National Debt Office, Sept. '2B.

NAVAL PRIZE MONEY.
Department of the Accountant-General of the Navy,
Admiralty,•Someraet-house, Oct. 1.

Notice is hereby given, to all persons interested therein,
that preparations are now making for the intended distri-
bution of proceeds arising from the Netherland galliot
De Vroux Alida, captured on the 25th May, 1851, by
her Majesty's ship Archer.
Agents or other persons baying any just and legal de-
mand, unliquidated, against the said proceeds, aro re-
quired to transmit the particulars of any such demand to
the Registrar of the High Court oZ Admiralty, in order
that the same may be examined, taxed, and allowed by
that Meer, and paid under the sanction of the Judge of
the said Court.

Agents and all other persons holding powers of attorney,
prize orders, assignments, or other instruments, by virtue
of which they may be legally entitled to claim the share be-
longing to any captor, are requested, with ts little delay as
possible, to transmit the same, accompanied by the usual
documents, to the Prize Branch of the Department of the
" Accountant General of the Navy, Admiralty, Somerset-
house."

Duo notice will be given, by future advertisements in
the London Gazette, of the date proposed for the com-
mencement of distribution ; and, at the same time, the
amonut of an individual's share in the respective classes
will be announced.

Department of the Aocount:►nt-Genorai of the Navy.

Admiralty, Somerset-House, Oct. 1.

Notice is hereby given, to all persons interested therein,
that preparations are now making for the intended distri-
bution of proceeds arising from the schooner Magle,
captured on the 7th June, 1851, by her Majesty's ship
Archer.

Agents or oilier persons having any just and legal de-
mand, unliquidated, against the said proceeds, are re-
quired to transmit the particulars of any such demand to
the Registrar of the High court of Admiralty, in order
that the same may be examined, taxed, and allowed by
that officer, and paid under the sanction of the judge of
the said court.

Agents and all other persons holding powers of attorney,
prize orders, assignments' or other instruments, by virtue
of which they my be legally entitled to claim the share
belonging to any captor, aro requested, with as little de-
ky as possible, to transmit the same, accompanied by the
usual documents, to the Prize Branch of the Department
of the "Accountant-General of tho Navy, Admiralty,
Somerset House."

Due notice will be given, by future advertisements in
the London Gazette, of the date proposed for the com-
mencement of distribution ; and, at the saule time, the
amount of an individual's share in the respective daises
will be announced.

NOTICE OF INTENDED DISTRIBUTION OF
NAVAL PRIZE MONEY.
Department of the Accountant-General of the Navy,
Admiralty, Somerset House, Oct. 1.
Notice is hereby given to the officers, seamen, and ma-
rines, and to all persons interested therein, that the
distribution of proceeds arising from the eight Russian
schooners, captured on the 17th May, 1854, by her
Majesty's ships Amphion and Conflicts will commence on
Monday, the 15th Oct., in the Prize Branch of the Depart-
ment of the Accountant-General of the Navy, Admiralty,
Somerset House.
Agents and other persons holding powers of attorney,
prize orders, assignments, or other instruments, by virtue
of which they may be legally entitled to claim the share
of any captor", serving in the above-named ships, are re-
quested to present the same at this office.
Any officer, seaman, marine, or other person, who may
desire to receive his share from the Collector of Customs
or of Inland Revenue within the United Kingdom, is re-
quired to intimate the same by letter to be addressed "On
Prize Business, to the Secretary of the Admiralty, Lon
don," in which letter his own place of residence is to be
precisely stated, as well as the place of the nearest Collec-
tor of Customs, or of Inland Revenue, from whom it would
be convenient to receive such share of prize money.
The following are the shares due to an individuallin the
several classes :
Flag share £lol 19 8
Captains, each 124 13 5
Second class
Third Class
Fourth
Fifth
Sixth
Seventh 4 2 11
Eighth
Ninth 1 7 7
Tenth Ol3 0

AN ANNULLED.
Hugh Welch CoKoRUPTCYper, builder; Wakefield-street; Re.
gent-square, Middlesex.

BANKRUPTS.

Richard Megg ArLict'aeebetaonger, King-street, Co-
vent-garden, to surrender, Oct. 11, at twelve, and Nov.
12, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Bell, official, as-
signee; Chidley, Gresham Street.
Richard Goodwin, grocer, Derby, Oct. 23 and Nov. 6,
at ten, at Nottingham. Harrison, official assignee, Not-
tingham; Pickering, Derby; Reece, Birmingham.
James Kenyon, innkeeper, Blackburn, Oct. 12 and Nov.
2, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Herna-
mann, official assignee, Manchester; Wilkinson, Black-
burn ; Sale, Worthington, .and Shipman, Manchester.
George Poyser, boot and shoemaker, Derby, Oct. 23 and
Nov. 6, at ten, at the Birmingham District Court. Harris,
official assignee, Nottingham ; Bowley, Nottingham.
Isaiah Belcher, augur manufacturer, Wolverhampton,
Oct. 15 and Nov. 5, at hell--past ten, at the Birmingham
District Conrt. Whitmore, official assignee, Birmingham;
Motteram and Knight, Birmingham ; Bolton, Birmingham.
John Cooke, glass manufacturer, Spitalfields, Oct. 13, at
half-past one, and Nov. 13, at one, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Lee, official assignee, Aldermanbury ; Stubbs,
Moorgate-Areet, City.
Richard Hoyes, postmaster and licensed victualler,
West Cowes, Isle of Wight, Oct. 16, at eleven, and Nov.
23, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Lee, Alderman.
bury ; Hamber, King's Arms-yard, City.
Thomas Wayland, beer-shop keeper, Battersea, Oct. 11,
at eleven, and Nov. 12, at twelve, at the Court of Bsnk-
raptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Pain,
Gresham-street.

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Lyon Samuel, goldsmith and jeweller,Bury-street, Saint
Mary Axe, City, Oct. 11, at half-past eleven, and Nov.
15, at half-past one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pen-
nell, official assignee, Guildhall-chambers; Norton and
Son, New-street, Bishopsgate.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.

_
John Robertson, grain merchant, Glasgow, Oct. 11, at
one, within Carrick's Royal Hotel.
dharles Richardson, patent medicine dealer, Glasgow,
Oct. 10, at one, within the Glasgow Stock Exchange-rooms.
Hugh Smith and Co., dyers, Pollokshaws, Oct. 11, at
on:), within the Franklin Hotel, Glasgow.
Alexander King and Co., merchants, Borrowstownness,
Linlithgow. Oct. 12, at one, within the Star and Garter
Hotel, Linlithgow.
John MacDonald and Co., engravers and lithographers,
Glasgow, Oct. 9, at twelve, within the Crow:Hotel, George-
square, Glasgow.
Archibald Galbreath and Co., ship and insurance brokers,
O. 11, at one, within the Glasgow Stock Exchange-rooms.

[ANGE.-THIS DAY.

Gibraltar ...... •••• • • • •
Leghorn .. •• • • •• • • 30 5
Genoa .. •• •• •• .• 25 70
Milan • • ...... ••
Venice ................
Naples •. • • ...... 41
Palermo ..... 132
Messina ... . 13214
Lisbon ......... • • 53!3
Oporto ..... •• 53M
Rio Janeiro • •
Buenos Ayres.. •• • ..
New York,6o days' sight
Philadelphia • • ........

PRICES OF BULLICN, PER OZ.
For3tgn Gold in Bars 43 17 9
1 Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0
Mexican Dollars .... 0 5 0%
New Dollars ...... 0 0 0
Silver in bars ...... 0 5 13g

THE EARL OP ALBEMARLE ON HAR-
VEST HOMES.

The village of Banbam, near Attleborough, Norfol!;,
has just witnessed a truly delightful scene—an attempt
by the Earl of Albermarle, assisted by some of the
neighbouring clergy and gentry, to make "harvest
homes" more nearly approaching their original object
and des!gn—that of thanksgiving to the Creator for the
plenteousness of the earth's fruits, and to celebrate, by
reasonable and sensible rustic festivities and good cheer,
the termination of this season of joy—" When every
barn is filled and harvest done."

The festivities were well arranged by the farmers in
the locality, and the tea meeting was attended by be-
tween 2,000 and 3,000 persons. Amongst the company
were the Earl of. Albermarle and his two daughters,
the Hon. F. and Miss Clements, Major Vincent Eyre
(author of Eyre's "Cabool "), Lieutenant-Colonel Haw-
kins (from the Crimea), Sir George and the Hon. Lady
Nugent, a number of the clergy, farmers, &c. In the
evening the labourers were addressed by the noble earl,
the Rev. Scott Surtees (the rector), the Rev. T. A.
Wheeler, Mr. J. Lerner, &c.
The Earl of ALBEHARLB delivered a very lengthened
address, in the course of which he said—l accepted at
once the honour proposed to me of presiding over you
this evening, because, being one of the principal resident
landowners in this part of the country, and entertaining
also a strong conviction that property has its duties as
well as its rights, I consider that I should incur a
heavy responsibility if I were to refuse to lend all the
influence of my accidental position among you to for-
ward a scheme which appears to me to be eminently
calculated to promote the welfare, the prosperity, the
morals, and the happinees of that most important por-
tion of society, the labouring classes. (Cheers.) I can-
not profess to have that experiende in rural matters
which some of you—nay, most of you—possess. My
trade has been that of a soldier ; it has carried rue
into foreign countries, and a great portion of my
life has been passed beyond the shore of Great
Britain. (Loud cheers.) Now, one thing always
strikes a person who has been in foreign countries.
We have on this platform, at this moment, one of the
heroes of India, who has covered himself with glory
in the service of this country—he goes in the name of
Punjaub Eyre—and I am sure he will agree with me in
this, that we come back ter England with gratitude to
God that he has placed us is this free and happy coun-
try. (Hear.). But at-the same time the pride we feel in
being Englishmen inirt he mingled with some mortify-
ing reflections. We think ourselves a very fine set of
fellows, and so we are—(laughter)—but we feel a humi-
liation in reference to the labouring clams of this coun-
try. Ido not mean to impugn their merits as labourers ;
on the contrary, I think they are the first labourers in
the whole world—(hear, hear)—but there are some
points in their character which would be greatly im-
proved if they were to take the advice and follow the
example of our neighbours—our neighbours, and thank
God for it, our friends, the French. (Hoar, hear.) I tell
you where the French beat us—and it is this which I
wish to see improved in this country, and for Which I
have accepted the chair this evening—they beat us in
the heart of holiday-keeping. (Hear.) They are better
holiday-keepers than we are. I am surel shall have
all the ladies with me (and I am delighted to see so
many bonnets among you) when I say that the first
great merit of our French neighbour is that he does not
think his holiday worth a sixpence unless he takes his
wife under his arm. (Cheers.) He is nothing, in fact,
without his wife and children. Remember that, English.
men, and consider it a disgrace to leave your wives at
home. (Cheers.) This is the first blow I intend to strike
against the old harvest home—those who attend them
don't take their wives and children with then], though
they ought to be participators in all their amusements
and in all their joys. There is another matter, and it
is a more important one, in which the French are infi-
nitely superior to us. The French labourer, although
be is probably beaten by the Englishman in doing a
spell of work, is superior in this respect—he does not
think it necessary to get drunk 6n a holiday. (Cheers.)
There are two young ladies on this platform—my two
datightet3—who have attended with me I don't know
how many village frolics in France. We have been'
at them at mid-day, and we have been at them
at mid-night ; but none of us can tax our memories
with having ever seen at those frolics a drunken
individual. (Cheers.) It is not against the use of har-
vest frolics that I am here contending ; I am contending
against their disgraceful abuse. lam prepared to con-
tend for your innocent enj Iment, but I say to the
women here, " Dont allow yourselves to be trampled
upon ; don't let your husbands get drunk while you are
locked up and starving at home." (Cheers.) I think
we might condescend to imitate our neighbours the
French in their innocent recreations, and in the agree-
able manner in which they celebrate their harvest homes.
What is the contrast between ourselves and the French
in this respect ? The subject is so familiar to you that I
feel I am telling you truisms; but there are wounds as hiCh
cannot be healed unless they be probed add opened.
How do the majority of Englishmen pass their harvest-
homes ? How do they return their thanks to God for a
plentiful supply of food for another year ? They get
drunk. Each roan at the end of harvest receives a cer-
tain present from his employer, and then a party goes
round and asks for largess. Now what is largess ? Tell
me the English of it. Nobody can. I have frequently
heard persons say on public hustings, "I hate such and
such a thing ; it is un-English." I think you hear the
word "nn-English" when it ought not to be used ; but
I will use it in its right sense—" largess" is un-English.
It is a French word, introduced at the time the French
were our conquerors; "largess" came into England
when we were in a state of comparative slavery. There-
fore, I object to the word ; but still more do f ob-
ject to the thing itself—it is a disgrace to free-
born Englishmer. The hard-working, honest, free
Englishman does what ? He goes to gather "largess."
He is quite right to use a foreign word when it refers to
a disgraceful tbiag. Largess means begging from door
to door. Oh, set your faces against it, my countrymen,
and don't allow it to exist any longer. And for what
purpose is this begging ?—I see many ladies present,
and I feel almost ashamed to say it, but I like plain
speaking, and must use the words—for getting beastly
drunk. Oh, shame that this should be I hope this
meeting will be the means, in some respects at any rate,
of mitigating the evil. The "largess " man, having
begged all he can, goes to the public-house to get drunk.
I won't follow him in the orgies which take place at the
public-house, for I must not intrude so much upon your
time, but the immorality—the gross, shocking immo-
rality of both sexes—ought not to be lost sight of. I
will say just a word or two as to the condition of the
"largess" man in the wiorning after he has received it.
Everybody knows that at the present season every hour
is important, and ought to be rsed to the best advantage,
for the purpose of getting the land prepared for the new
crops; but the "largess" man cannot work—he is never
up to the scratch. (Laughter.) His depression and lan-
guor from his last night's debauch make him unable to
work a stitch, and what does he do ? Ale made him ill,
and ale or brandy must make him well ; and to use a
homely expression, he "oats a piece of the tail of the dog
that bit him." And where is the money to come frOm ?
All the "largess" was spent (in drunkenness the night
before, and he begins to draw upon his own earnings--:-
upon those earnings which ought to pay the rent of his
cottage, and provide comforts for his family. The
result is that he becomes in arrear with his landlord,
and in debt to the grocer. But where is the wife all this
time ? She is either hungry at home, or, what is worse,
her husband has made her the guilty partner of his diti-
graceful debauch. There is an expression which I dare-
say you have heard applied to our sailors, and which is
equally applicable to our harvest labourers, or at least
Mast portion' of them who desecrate the bounties of Pro-
vidence by getting drunk at harvest homes. They say
of the sailors, "that they earn their money like horses,
and spend it like asses." (Laughter.) I don't object
to that simile being applied to our drunken harvestmen,
but when I see a harvestman grunting and wallowing in
the middle of the road, I think of an animal less cleanly
in his eating and drinking than the poor donkey.
(Laughter.) Why, the donkey is the very pattern of
patience, frugality, and temperance. (Laughter.) I
asked you where the wife of the drunken harvestman
was during his debauch. She is at home, with an empty
cupboard, and when the husband has no money in hand
to give her, he closes his fist, and woman-beating be-
comes one of the disgraceful crimes of the harvest-home
keeper. That cowardly, dastardly thing makes my blood
boil. Now, lam a soldier. I hope none of the men
who would raise their hands against women will enlist,
for depend upon it they will run away the very first
battle. (Laughter and cheers.) It is with shame I
reflect that some of these ruffians are the fellow-parish-
ioners, perhaps the brothers, of the heroes of Inkerman,
Alma, and Sebastopol. It is a sad thing that it should
be so.

Similar meetings have been held in other parts of the
county.

Captain and Brevet• Colonel the Hon. Alexander
Gordon, C. 8., Grenadier Guards, has been appointed
Deputy Quartermaster-General to the Forces, in suc-
cession to Major-General Sir Arthur Wellesley Torrens,
K.C.8., deceased.

[AnvranezmExr.]—lt is with pleasure we notice the daily
increase of cures without medicine of indigestion (dyspepsia),
flatulency, constipation, nervous, bilious, and liver com-
plaints, cough, asthma, consumption, and debility, by Du
Barry's delicious Revalenta Arabica. We quote the follow-
ing : —Southwick Park, Fareham, Hants, Oct. 31, 1848.
Gentlemen, I sincerely thank you for your kind attention,
When I began taking the Revalenta 1 was in as deplorable a
condition as can well be imagined. I was confined to my bed,
and so weak that I could neither stand . nor walk, suffering
severely from flatulency, constipation, and indigestion, and
being compelled to have recourse to aperients every second or
third day; and, upon one occasion, I swallowed no less than
seven doses within twenty-eight hours, under medical advice;
There was a giddiness in my head, and a singing in my right
ear, that when I turned my head on the pillow it resembled
the sound produced by a light touch on a musical glass. I
had a pain and rort of fullness across the chest, a sore throat,
and a slight cough ; but the pain around my loins was eo
great that I could not remain iu the same position fore ten.
minutes all night long. The principal seat of the pain seemed
to be just below the ribs on my left side, and about three
inches from the backbone. I commenced taking Du Barry's
Revalenta Arabica morning and evening, boiled in water "and
salt ; and in less than a fortnight my appetite was greatly
improved, and flatulency and constipation so far vanished
that I have not tasted pill or drug of any kind
since. I am much stronger, can walk steadier, and
less like a drunken man, &c.—JouN VAss, Land-steward.- -
In canisters, 11b. 2s. 9d.; 21b. 4s. 6d.; 5114 lls. ; 121 b. 22e.
The 121 b., carriage free, on receipt of Post-office order. Barry
Du Barry & Co., 77, Regent-street, London ; also at 182,
Piccadilly ; 60, Gracechurch-street ; 330, and 451, Strand;
4, Cheapside ; 60 and 68, Cornhill; 49, Bishopsgate-street:
55, Charing-cross; 54, Upper
.Baker-street; f 3 and 150,
Oxford-street; 89, High street; Camden-town; 18, Pall-
mall; 7, Pall-mall-East; 132, New Bond-Aro-4 • •
comb-street ; 13, Kin- v""'