The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-27 00:00:00

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Ships at market

Foreign Mail Packet List.

MAILS DUB.
ustralia and Mauritius, via Southampton Sept . 18.
via Marseilles Sept. 1".
J razil and Cape Verds, by British packet. Sept.
Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helcna Aug. 2J.
China, Penang, and Singapore, via Soutb.ampton Sept. 1
via Marseilles Aug. 27.
A

Falkland Islands •• O
Gibraltar, via Southampton .. Aug. 25,
India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton.. Sept. 1
via Marseilles.... Aug, 27•
India (Bombay), via Southampton .. Aug. 25.
via Marseilles Sept. 4.
Portugal.... Sept. 4.
Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Aug. 25.
via Marseilles Aug. 27*
Newfoundland
Oporto and Vigo ..
U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.... Aug. 25'
by U.S. packet....
69
All parts of West Indies, includingb Chili,Canadian
California. and British Columbia.. .l
Fearcute t
t. Aug. Aug. 2
2:

THE EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN IN MINES.--'
The more intelligent and thoughtful of the miners
themselves have repeatedly protested against it, but their
protests are of no avail. The employers state that the
remedy lies in the hands of the men, who have but to
keeP
their wives and daughters at home, and the evil will be
checked at once. Very true, but does the misconduct, follYl
or what we will, of the men justify the employers in thus
permitting or tolerating the misuse of female labour? The
truth is, female labour is plentiful and cheaper, far chea
ll pe,
than that of the men, and unscrupulous employers wi ,b 0
found very slow in encouraging a change which may
n d
to diminish their profits. There are very many nosyhowever, where no female labourers are allowed, and I have
not heard that the proprietors of these have been losers
thereby. If they did have to pay more for manual labour,
they had that labour far better and more effectively
ye
they
per-
formed than if it had been done by females,
were exempt from the frightful amount of demoralization
entailed by the toleration of a pernicious and utterly unjtir
tifiable system.--Once a Week.
The French Legation at Teheran sent last spring
to the Minister of Foreign Affairs a despatch on.
the subject of the breeding of silk worms, the following
analysis of which has just been published in the bulletin
of the SociCte d'Acclimatation :—" Silk worms are prinel-
pally bred in five provinces in Persia—Meshed, Yezd, Ca-
chan, the Mazenderan, and the Ghilan. The first two pro-
duce silk of good quality, bat that of the Ghilan is superior.
No malady has prevailed in any of these provinces although.
no great care is taken of the worms. The establishinett
is composed of a plank hut of four or five floors, open to all
winds, and the worm, when once hatched, is left to
itseLf•
Little or no attention is paid to the variations of tempera-
ture, the only care of the breeder being not to allow the
worms to want for food. One Swiss house (Acchart and
Co.), and three Greek houses, do a very profitable business
in the province of Ghilan. As to the trade in silk worms'
eggs, it is unknown in Persia, and the Consul, who hao
sent the account, expresses surprise at having seen an'
nouncements in the journals that persons have passed
through Constantinople on their way to Persia to purch
ers
ase
them. It appears from this account that many 1 revell
on arriving at Tiflis receive unfavourable information at; t°
the silk worm productions of Persia, and retrace their steps'
is r
or else direct their course towards Boukhara, which
e;
presented to them as an Eldorado, and where their,r/ns
their lives and liberties from the pillaging tribes. The v°"-'.
sul attributes the disfavour which attends the silk product;
tions of Persia to the malevolence of neighbours seekillgni
prevent a formidable competition. He has forwarded. s—;
pies 01 the productions of each of the five Persian Potudeet
with an indication of their quality and price if exP°r-- °
France."

Births,
DICKINSON.— 'On 'the 25th inst ,at Thorndon-heath, the
wife of WM. Dickinson, jun., Esq. of a son.
MANNING,— 4
On the 25th inst at Cheltenham,, the wife of
W. W. Manning, Esq., of a daughter.
PATTEN.—On the 25th inst.' at 24, 10-street
t,
he Ist Berkele ila
Guards, of of a daughter. atlten, of L
square, the wife of Captain Wilson
P

Marriages.
J 250
ht hn i nEsltl.i,oat tt Holy
aTriien, floi!
lin XTABLE—NIXON.-04ut2,e
: Keswick, Cumberland. '
Church, Cloudeeley
parnsbury, to Isabella, daughter ot
u844.70n the 25th inst., at the Roman C. John
30 ,h
tJ Arundel-square,
n Nixon,de 1 sq
W AL LACE--IVrAN•--
church of St. Ansel and St. Cecilia, Willu:111
only son of Mr. Martin Wallace, St. George l',
Tthhooliracas,
place, Hyde-park, to Rosetta Ann eldest daughter of
Mr. James Ryan) of Long-acre. '

Deaths.
Thomas Allan Esq., formerly of Lloyd's
ALLAN.—On the 25th inst., at his Cottage, at Addletone,±
Exchange, aged 87. priOrY,
BATT.—On the 25th' inst., George Batt, Esq., The
Sydenham, and late of 412, Strand, seed merchant.
COW'
BRUCE.—On the 25th inst., at Leckie, Stirlingshire9 Brace,
sequence of a fall from his horse, Charles D. P.
and the 803c1`
Esq,, late of 10, Great Cumberland-street, aged John
I°bn
GILBERT. —On the 25th inst., at Southsea, IlantF'
Gilbert, Esq., of Francesca, Dublin, aged 53.
Captain
LINDSAY.—On the 23d inst., at West Brompton,
John Lindsay, R.N., aged 73.
MARSH.—On the 24th inst., at, Beddington RectorY, 5t,...
li:
rey. the Rev. Wm. Marsh, D.D., rector of Bedding 0.,
aged 90.

London PriWect and 1'
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of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Tits sing otfice
Strand, In the Precinct ot the Savoy,lin the (;""
I's; by WILLIAIII ANDlib • •
Xidll74ox.-_-)saturd&y, August 27, ,1801.