The Sun.
London, England, 1839-08-29 00:00:00

COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON INTELLIGENCE,

SAILINGS.

AUG. 23d, 430 A. M.—Ariel schooner, Almon Hill,
Esq., for Havre. Light airs S. W.
24th, 10 15 A. M.—Wanderer schooner, Earl of Durham,
for Guernsey; Aurora cutter, William Beach, Esq , for
Weymouth. Fresh breeze W. S. W.
11 40 A.M.—Dolphin schooner, G. H. Acker!, Esq.,
for Plymouth and other western ports ; Kestrel yawl,
Commodore Earl of Yarborough, for Torquay, Plymouth,
Cadiz, and Gibraltar ; Cynthia cutter, Richard Frankland,
Esq., for Torquay and Plymouth.
4 A. M.—Reindeer cutter, John Moore, Esq., for Tor-
quay and Plymouth. Light breeze S. %V.
27th, 7 P. M.—Miranda schooner, Alexander Murray,
Esq., M.P., for Cherburg. Light breeze W. N. W.
26th, 11 A.M.—Edith cutter, Joseph Ewart, Esq., -for
Plymouth.
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I A.m.—Harriet schooner, John Beardmore, Esq., for
Plymouth.
3 p.m —Will-o'th'-Wisp, Sir Robert Harland, Bart.,
for Ipswich, left for the season.
ARRIVALS.

At:a. 22d, 8 P. M.—Naiad cutter, William Delaficid,
EN.. from Brest. Light airs S. S. E.
27th, 10 a m.—Miranda schooner, Alexander Murray,
Esq., from Cherburg.
7 P.M.—Wanderer schooner, Earl of Durham, from
Guernsey and Cherburg. Fresh breeze N. W.
YACHTS AT AND ABOUT THE STATION.
Emeurtaters—Nautilus Vampire, Elizabeth, Theree, Hebe,
Id, Earl St. Vincent, Mary, Breeze, Albatross,
Naiad, Phebe, Spider, Sapphire, Amulet, Heron, Gany-
mede, Giaour,
Schooner Julia,N
Ruby, Midge.
orna, Wanderer, Miranda, Miuhief.
The Earl of Durham, who arrived with his family last
evening, left this morn i ngf for Southwark House, on a visit
to T. Thistlethwayte, Esq.
It eis rumoured that his Royal Highness the Duke of
Sussex is about to pay a visit to Cowes for the benefit of
his health.
A number of yachtsmen are leaving
season (
Septem-
great many
families are daily arriving for the bathin;g and
a
bee and October).
An accident, which appeared likely to be attended
very serious consequences, befel the lady of the Rev.
Atkinson on Tuesday afternoon : returning from .a
in her pony phaeton the pony shied, and dashed off at lilts'
utmost speed, and when opposite the direction-post on thp
Newp)rt.road, upset the carriage, throwing the lady out,
and breaking the carriage ; she was conveyed home in
another carriage. On inquiry this morning, we are happy
to bear she received no very serious injury, and that no
bones wer e broken.
Newpoar.—Three American gentlemen, driving from
this town to Cowes on Saturday evening, were greatly
el, rmed at perceiving a large body of fire and smoke
traversing a field in advance of them at a rapid rate ; after
a minute's reflection, they drove towards it, when it proved
to be a waggon loaded with wheat, drawn by four horses;
the latter being frightened, bad ran away : they were with
difficulty stopped, taken out, and with the assistance of the
strangers the waggon upset, but not till nearly all the
sheaves were destroyed, as well as the body of the waggon.
How the accident originated is not known ; some assert
that it was from the axle not being greased, and driving
hard to get the corn housed : others, particularly the
females, that it was a judgment, in tile shape of a Lucifer,
for the farmers using the scythe and raking the corn—we
hope and believe the latter statement is not the correct one.

LONDON:
THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 1839.

The Wiltshire Independent stated a few days
ago that the condition of the agricultural labourers
in that shire was not at all improved by the high
prices of agricultural produce. But the paragraph
is worth studying, and therefore we insert it
We regret to state that the condition of the agricultural
labourers in Wiltshire is but little, if at all, better than it
was in the winter and spring. Bread, made of smutty
wheat and of barley, with very low wages, was their por-
tion then; now, notwithstanding the impetus that has or
should have been given to agriculture by the high prices
resulting from the Corn-laws, 'pretty nearly the same des-
cription of food, and the same rate of wages prevail. We
have now lying before us a loaf of bread, part of the store
of a labouring man in one of the Southern parishes of
this county, which, although neither so black nor so bad
as some we had occasion to notice early in the spring, is
nevertheless far from good, and in our belief unwhole-
some ; it is made from wheat which, in addition to being
smutty, has also been further injured by being mow-burnt.
For this very ordinary wheat, the consumer, who is a
thresher with a large family, four of whom are quite
young, pays 7s. a bushel : the earnings of this man are
only Bs. a week ; wiLh such wages how.can ho procure
better food ? It must not be imagined that this is a soli-
tary instance; many more might be recorded from the
same neighbourhood. _ _ _

As one reason alleged in favour of the Corn-
laws is the benefits they confer on the agricultural
labourers, some further evidence of the same cha-
racter as that supplied by the Wiltshire Independent
may be appropriately produced. In the House of
Commons, on the 15th ult., Mr. WAKLEY stated,
that in Devonshire wages had not been raised by
the rise in the price of corn, and that notwithstand-
ing that rise no allowance had been made to the
labourers except a little sour cyder. In the Fifth
Annual Report of the Poor-law Commissioners, to
which we have already adverted, and from which
we have extracted one important illustration of the
mode in which the Corn-laws. injure the health of
the people, we find the following confirmation of
Mr. WAKLEY'S assertion and of the paragraph of
our Contempora►y :

" At a meeting of the guardians of the Newark Union,
on the 12th of November, 1838," says Mr. Hall, an Assis:
taut Commissioner, " I first heard that barley was begin-
ning to be mixed with wheat in the bread consumed by the
independent labourers; it was soon afterwards apparent
that this practice was extensively prevalent. The diet of
the inmates of the workhouses, and that portion of the diet
of the out-door paupers which they procured in the shape
of relief in kind, now exhibited a strange contrast to the
food of the industrious and independent man and his family
To many guardians it was evicknt that their practice in
this respect involved an inconsistency and a departure from
sound principle, which it was desirable to remedy ; but it
Grantham Union
did not appear easy to bring about the change. At length,
on the 14th of February, the Board of Guardians of the
to attend , than hich no Board that it is my duty
discharges its administrative functions with
greater ability and consideration, entered the following re•
brought forwEtrd
solution upon the •
`" On the minute-book
question
of the alteration of the bread being
last meeting, it
wain pursuance of the notice given at the
Rutland, seconded 313
mously resolved, Thyat this Boa Gregory'
proposedGre by his Grace the Duke of
(21' mixed barley consuna.rd considering that during
corn, independenttheEsci. an
dunan
-
the present high price of bread
la-
bourers are generally
consuming
and wheaten
barley
wheaten flour, whilst
bread made
wheaten bread is only distribyutednto
gso
that both
to diminish the ,
bread or
the paupers receiving
desirous to
ttohere
relief in this Union, and being
labourerssum resume
the 1
consumption of wheaten flour,
and the paupers may the sooner be '