The Sun.
London, England, 1864-09-29 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

FRANCE.

PARIS, SEPT. 29.

M. Vaitry has been appointed Minister Presi-
dent of the Council of State, replacing M. Ron-
land, who has been appointed. Senator and Governor
of the Bank of France.

An Imperial decree has been issued declaring the
herring and mackerel fishery henceforward free,
and suppressing the regulations hitherto in force
respecting it.
The 21Iontteur of this morning says :—" It is
announced that the Emperor and Empress of Russia
will probably go to Nice towards the middle of
October, where the Empress thinks of passing tho
winter."

The illonitcur also states that the Ootroi guess
Lion does not engage th© attention of the Govern-
ment at present.

According to the official returns published in the
.310 ntteur by the Ministry of Agriculture, Commerce,
and Public Works, the total receipts of the French
railways for the six months ending 30th June were
243,539,684 f., showing an increase of 15,372,423 f.
over those of the same period in 1863. The total
length of the lines woeked on the 30th of June last
was 12,357 kilometres, against 11,419 on the same
day in the previous year.
A great name of the Empire has just become
extinct, The Duchess Decrei died last week at her
Chateau of Rim.ncourt (Haute Marne) bequeath-
ing 135,000 f. for charitable works in the country.
The deceased, who was the daughter of M. de
Saint Joseph, Mayor of Marseilles, a Baron under
Napoleon I„ and previously ennobled by Louis
XVL, and Rose Clary, first married General de
Saligy, who was created Duke de San Germano by
Murat. She had among her mother's sisters the
wife of Joseph Bonaparte, King of Spain, and the
wife of Bernadotte, King of Sweden. The sister
of the Duchess married the Duke d'Albufera, and
her brother is General of Division of the Reserve.
fhe Duchess de San Germano had only one daugh
ter, who was the first wife of the Duke de Dalmatia,
son of Marshal Soult. In 1813 the deceased mar.
ried Duke D6zres, MinisterZof Marine and Vice-
Admiral.

BOURSE, Sept. 28,—The market has been heavy,
and the little business done shows a slight decline.
Threes, for the Account, are now at Gsfr. 85c.
Mobilier are unvaried at 1,012 fr. 50e. Railway
Market dull, with only alight variation in prices.
The market closed as follows

4i per Cents. 92 50
Do. ead
3 per Cents . 65 70
Do. end month.... 65 80

Credit Mobilier,,,,loo3 75
Do, end month 1003 7:5
Bank Shares 310)
Credit koncior 1220
Roman .. 75 50

Italian Loan 67 30
Do. end month 67 30
Ditto Threes .. -
New Mexican .... 55±

Russian
Austrian
Spanish ThreeP 49
Rome Debt
Deferred

RA.ILWATS.

............, _
Cash. Account.
Orleans - BBO .. BSB 75
Northern
Lyons and Meditarrancan 915 .. 916 25
Southern 628 75 .. 630
Weston
Eastern ....
Sardinian 317 50 .. 347 50
Austrian
Lowbard
North of Spain
Saragossa.. 475 .. 477 i
Ditto to Barcelona -

Sir H. Verney, M P., and Mr. Hubbard, M,P,
on the Condition of Agriculture.

At the annual dinner of the Bucks Agricultural
Association at Buckingham yesterday,
Sir H. VERNEY said that a few days ago he was
in some of the manufacturing and commercial die•
triots of the country, where he heard a great deal
respecting the existing prosperity in those districts
and the prospect of increasing prosperity. But his
visit was not altogether of a satisfactory character;
for he heard that very little sympathy existed be.
tween the employers and the employed ; and he
could not help contrasting that state of feeling with
that which prevailed in many of the parishes in the
neighbourhood of Buckingham. (Hear, hear.) When
he heard that in Manchester and Liverpool a man
in a state of sickness was almost absolutely nes
glected by those who had employed him, and who
perhaps hardly knew his name, he could not help
contrasting that state of things with the practice
which existed in his own neighbourhood, where
parishes were divided into districts and district
visitors were appointed, consisting of farmers wives'
and other persons, whose duty it was to relieve such
cases of distress as came under their notice. He
had been assured in the districts he had recently
visited that in the course of a short time there would
be a very great press for labour, and no doubt at-
tempts would be made to seduce the agricultural
labourers by offering them higher wages ; but he
believed that the agricultural labourers, who were
well and kindly treated, would not desert their
employers. (Hear, hear.) It was most desir-
able to endeavour to retain the labourers in the
agricultural districts, and that was one reason why
great efforts were now making to improve the dwel-
lings of the peasantry. (Hear, hear.) But that
ought to be done quite as much for the sake of the
employers of labour as for the sake of the labourers
themselves. (Hear, hear.) He had always been
opposed to a system which found considerable
favour some years ago—that of getting rid of the
peasantry by sending them into distant parts of the
county, or advising them to emigrate. (Hear, hear.)
There was another subject of considerable import-
ance, and that was the loss of sewage from the
large towns. It had been stated that not less than
90,000,000 of gallons of manure were thrown into
the sea every day from the city of London. He
sincerely trusted that by the labour of practical
men and the experiments of scientific men some
mode would be devised of preventing the continu-
ance of that tremendous waste. When the rail-
way systems now in progress were completed, he
trusted such a ready and convenient access would
be found to London as to insure the transmission of
that manure from the metropolis to those districts
where its application would be of the greatest pos.
Bible value. (Loud cheers.)

Mr. HUBBARD observed that in the course of the
last ten years the chief articles of agricultural pro•
duce had increased to an immense extent, notwith-
standing the competition to which this country was
subjected. The increase in our imports in value
during the last ten years was clearly shown by the
following statement :

1851.

1863.

Animals £1,400,000 £2,600,000
Beef ..
Butter 2,174,000 .. 4,527,000
Cheese 906,000 .. 1,886,000
Pork
Bacon and ham— 893,000 2,750,000

£6,130,000 £12,514,000
If, in the face of this increased competition the agri-
culturists have been able to keep their to ound,to im-
prove their property, to enlarge their produce, and
to improve their prices, it was a wonderful evidence
of what English industry, enterprise, and intelli-
gerice would do whenever it had the opportunity.
(Hear, hear.) Although he admitted that the price
of grain was excessively low, still he hoped that
would be made up by large crops. But what he
particularly wished to call attention to was, the
improved value of live stock and butter. These were
articles in which the English producer might defy
competition. The foreigner might bring in pickled
pork to any extent, but he could not bring in fresh
beef to supply the London market, or such sheep as
were exhibited at these annual shows. The price
of beef had improved from 4s 4d in 1849, to 4i 10d
i❑ 1854, and to 5s in 1863. The price of mutto❑
had improved from 4s 4d in 1849, to 5s in 1854, and
to 58 6d in 1863. Ho was quite satisfied that the
great grass farms of this country would never lose
their value, or their cultivators,' a good profit.
(Cheers.) These were satisfactory evidences of pro-
sperity and of the solid basis on which that prospt-
rity rested. It was impossible to think of prospe-
rity of the landlord without thinking of the prospe-
rity of the labouring classes. (Hear, hear.) It had
often been said that their interests were, as they
ought to be, identical. It had been said at some of
the agricultural meetings, that the notion of the
comforts of the labouring classes, the provision of
batter dwellings and better food, was after all a
matter of sentiment, and one which concerned the
labourers alone, and not those who employed
them. Now he entertained an entirely different
opinion. In these matters the welfare of the
labouring classes was clearly connected with the
welfare and prosperity of their employers. A re-
port had recently been published upon the dietary
of the labouring classes, which was full of interest-
ing and useful informa►ion. Dr Edward Smith
having taken a survey of the whole agricultural
population of the country, points out the standard
minimum of subsistence, not in Eo:many pounds
of beef and mutton, but he says that the labourer
ought to have provided for his weekly diet
30,100 grains of carbon and 14,000 grains of
nitrogen. Dr Smith pointed oat that diet which
produced the most carbon and the most
nitrogen :which was necessary to maintain the
health of the labouring man. He gives the diet
of some of the Yorkshire labourers. At Buck.
ston the diet for breakfast and supper is cold meat,
cold pie, cold bacon, milk, bread, cheesecakes, and
custards ; for dinner, hot meat, broth, hot meat pies,
vegetables, fruit pks, bread, milk pudding, beer at
discretion. He did not call that a bad diet. (Hear,
hear, and laughter.) It was one which gave the
men strength to go through their work in a manner
fully proportionate to the expenditure on their diet.
(Hear, hear.) It was not at all surprising that on
such a diet the labourers were in the habit of tak-
ing an hour's nap after dinner. (Laughter.) Dr
Smith remarked that in only three-fourths of the
labourer' cottages they were provided with milk,
and he went on to observe that of all articles of
diet none possessed such a sustaining property for
women and children, and nothing was more deeply
to be lamented than the difficulty experienced by
the labouring poor in providing their family with
milk. In some parts of Wiltshire the farmers re•
fused to sell milk to their labourers, and gave it to
their pigs. Suoh a wilful denial of an essential
nutriment for women and children he never before
heard of. (Hear, hear.) There was only one other
remark which he wished to make. It was said
on a former occasion that many tenants would be
willing to pay their landlords five per oent. for any
outlay which they might make in providing im.
proved cottages for the labourers, and he had re-
ceived an application of that nature from two of his
tenants, with which of course he had no hesitation
in complying. (Cheers.) He believed that if that
plan was extensively followed a solution of the
difficulty which now existed would be found. (Loud
cheers.)

ROBBERYAT ETON COLLEGE..-0 Tuesday after-
noon two thieves, who had been seen lurking about Eton
during the morning, contrived to enter the diming-room in
the residence of the Rev. Francis Edward Durnford, the
lower master of the Eton School, and carry away upwards
of £3O worth of silver articles, with which they got clear off,
The men are well known to the police, and one is supposed
to be a returned convict.

A LADY LOCKED IN CEITIRCH.—A lady, a
stranger to Christchurch, visited the Priory church
for the purpose of taking drawings of various portions of
the interior. She told the person in charge of the church,
on his showing her the _room popularly known as " Oliver
Cromwell's Hazness Room," not to forget her, and she re-
mained there, he going about his customary duties, on the
somplet on of which he went home, leaving the lady locked
in, having entirely forgotten her. Some alarm was caused as
she did not arrive at her lodgings at the usual hour for tea
at seven o'clock, and eventually some gentlemen volunteered
to search for her. The church was thought of, and the lady
was found in the before-mentioned room, trying to compose
herself to olesp,—Wiltthii .51frt 9r.