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

MAILS DUE.

Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton . .
va Marseilles Sept. 12.
drazil and Cape Verds, by British packet. Sept. 4.
Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Aug. 29.
China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton Sept. 1
via Marseilles Aug. 27..
Falkland Islands Sept. 18.
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.... ......
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....
by Canadian packet. Aug. 26.
All parts of 'West Indies, including Chili, Peru, I Aug, 29r
California. and British Columbia..

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, folly,
or what we will, of the men justify the employers in thug
permitting or tolerating the misuse of female labour? The
truth is, female labour is plentiful and cheaper, far cheaper,
than that of the men, and unscrupulous employers will be
found very slow in encouraging a change which may tend:
diminish their profits. There are very many collieries,
however, where no female labourers are al!owed, 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 effeetwely per-
formed than if it had been done by females, while they
were exempt from the frightful amount of demoralizationi
entailed by the toleration of a pernicious and utterly unjus-
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 tho breeding of silk worms, the following
analysis of which has just been published in the bulletin.
of the Societe d'Acclimatation :—" Silk worms are princi-
pally bred in five provinces in Persia—Meshed, Yezd, Ca-
chan, the Mazladeran, and the Ghilan. The first two prow
duce silk of good quality, but 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 establishment
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 thee
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 has
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 purchase"
them. It appears from this account that many travellers,
on arriving at Tiflis receive unfavourable information as tc'
the silk worm productions of Persia, and retrace their steps,
or else direct their course towards Boukhara, which is re"
presented to them as an Eldorado, and where they risk
their lives and liberties from the pillaging tribes. The Con-
sul attributes the disfavour which attends the silk proclutY
tions of Persia to the malevolence of neighbours seeking tfiP
prevent a formidable competition. He has forwarded 031'
plea of the productions of each of the five Persian province 1P
with an indication of their quality and price if exported to
France."
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