The Sun.
London, England, 1839-10-07 00:00:00

RAILWAYS AND THE GROWTH OF CORN.—
. Being a few days since in company with several farmers,
and requested by them to calculate the extent of lansi
occupied by the Grand Junction Reilroad from London
to Liverpool, and also the quantity of oats consumed by
the horses employed for one up and down coach, and
the extent of land necessary on which to grow them, the
following. is the result :—From London to Liverpool
200 miles, 11 yards wide, is exactly four acres per mile'
not including that part occupied by the soil excavated,
that is, the sides. The aggregate from each of the said
places is 860 acres. Divide the distance from London
to Liverpool into twenty stages by the turnpike road,
and 10 miles each stage, for two coaches ; the total
number then, for 20 stages, require 160 horses on the
whole distance. It was agreed that each horse would
consume half a bushel of oats daily (they eat very little
• hay, and their every day work is the same), consequently
• they consume every day 80 bushels, which in one year
amount to 29,200 bushels ; and allowing 25 bushels per
acre, would require 1,168 acres of land to produce them,
This calculation is fur one up and down coach only. 1..- , , ‘• - ---
How many have discontinued running since the open- VICTUALLErtS.—A case has been recently de-
will of the railroad, I am not prepared to say , but it
will be no exaggeration to suppose ten. Then, for this
ing that landlords are liable for everything thee take
requiring 11,680 acres of land to grow them. Suy, cicled in the Tower Hemiets Court of Requests, show-
number, 292,000 bushels would be consumed annuallcharge of, and that they are not authorised in gh ing it posing 11,680 to be thrown out of cultivation, and the up to any person but the person who deposits it.
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railroad to pass through 800 acres of cultivated land, The I.‘lenai Bridge is undergoing a complete re-
the difference is 10,880 acres. Now, only imagine what pair, having suffered consideralilc damage in the storm
last winter. Government has granted 8,000/., but this
it would be for 20 or 30 coaches thrown off the roads.
is by no means sufficient. Her Majesty's steam frigate
The farmer naturally asks what he is to do with his
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oats, or the land oa which he grew them. Now this Medea, commanded by Capt. Beachey, has been sur-
veying the coast and harbours, under the direction of
' question is already pretty well answered, for it is not a
little remarkable that oats have generally sold well ever the Trinity House.
since the opening of the aforesaid road, at a fair ren,u-
TELEGRAPH.—Thursday afternoon the Eclipse
neratinet price.7—Correspondent of the Staffordshire steamer, which left on Wednesday evening with pas-
Gazette. senders for Newcastle, was reported to be off the
NELSON.--When almost killed 1)1 cold and sea-
Spurn, with loss of mainmast and chimney and with
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sickness (which Isis "affectionate friends" at the Admi
rally knew very well he was liable to) in the Downs, he off Dimlington, on Wednesday evening. This intelli-
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paddles damaged, having been run foul of by a vessel
was, when it suited their Lordships, allowed to recruit genee arriving just before the packets started for
his shattered frame at his lately-purchased seat at Mer- Grimsby, Lieut. Watson gave the information imme-
diately to Captain Waterland, who promiged to go the
ton. Here, then, he used to plant shrubs with his one
assistance of the Eclipse after landing his passengers.
hand, and fish in the Wandle, a small trout-stream,
which steals through the meadows not far to the north- As this vessel was not in the Hull list, she would not
cast of the village of Merton, passing through the village be known at the Floating Light until her name could
of Garrett (renowned for its " Mayor") andemptying be read, otherwise the intelligence might have been
itself into the Thames at Wandsworth. Often, too, communicated perhaps two hours earlier
;however;
was he seen kindly among the poor in his own viliaee, this circumstance shows how desirable it is that vessels
with passengers should not only have signals to repre-
al ways doing good. Sailors, at least, should make a
sent their number, but also to communicate to their
pilgrimage to Merton. Here he passed the few moments
of ease, quiet, and what might be called pleasure, this agents what assistance they may stand in need of, as by
may be
man was destined to enjoy through his brief and prompt information both lives and property
saved.--Hull Observer.
brilliant career. This was his only home : not a palace, . .
Ica AND POOR.—There is, in our apprehene
but a plain country-house, standing a little off the road R
only screened from it by its shrubbery and small grounds, sion, a sort of blunted or perverted moral feeling
lent which is worthy of notice._ Our__ people,. crowded in
for it was not of a consequence to boast of a park. How,
many cases into dark aleys and huddled into damp cel-
few, now-a-days, know even where the little village of
laps for want of sufficient room, and able to obtain, owing
Merton lies in the villa-teeming vicinity of London!
to Corn-laws and coal monopolies, neither a sufficiency'
How few even stop or ask at the inn—where
of food nor of warmth, are carried off prematurely by
fevers and other painful disorders. To the Fifth Annual
" Dog-cart, curricle, or tandem"
of the Poor law Commissioners recently pub-
bait and water to and from Epsom races—that inn, ,
appended a-report of Dr. Southwood Smith on
which has not so much as the grace to be the e Nelson,' itepodrt.
prevalent in the metropolis, in which he
Inn (a mile further on), how few now ask " which is fished, is
atsiceribesertshem to thed filthy, close, and crowded state
Merton-place?" Know then, forgetful Britons, that
and
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Merton is about three miles from Tooting, and nine from
of the houses
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London, on the Epsom, Guildford, and Portsmouth road
77,000, 14,000
1,300 die from that disease alone!
—still rather a scattered hamlet than a village, and
very little increased since his time.—United Service cokfNedoaw this mass of
e and premature d-ath has been repeatedly and
distinctly brought home- to the Corn-laws, which de-
Journal.
We regret to have to announce that the price of
p ve the people of food and narrow their accom-
modation ;
isread has again risen, and is fixed for the first fortnight
but these and a multitude of similar
of the current month at 18 sous per 4ib. loaf first qua-
evils resulting from the Corn-laws have made no
litv, and 15 sous second quality. It is to be hoped, for
the sake of the poorer classes, that the causes, whatever impression on the public. Of late, however, the Bank
of England—that juggle for cheating the people, that
they may be, which have produced the present high
prices will shortly cease. Upon this subject, we find
monopolist of public credit witiels it sells to the public—
the following in the Ministerial Evening Journal :
has been effected by the exportation of gold, and the
"This increase fortunately takes place at a period when danger with which this Corporation is threatened has
the rigours of winter are not yet felt, and when there is I caused a greater outcry against the Corn-laws amongst ;
abundance of employment. We know that the Muni-
1 the monied classes than all the sufferings of the people
s been the parents. In fact, the different classes have
cipal Council is engaged in devising means to render this ;and all the immorality of which the Corn-laws have
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burden less heavy to the poorer classes, in case it should
l continue until a less favourable season, which, while it little or no sympathy with each other ; they have no con.
generally puts a stop to certain works, brings with it in-
nanes Afessenger. i ception of sorrows they do not feel. To rouse either
creased wants."—Gallig class, its prejudices or its interests must be astsoaiilleadv:
I and very often the interests of one clashes with that
ANCIENT CoiNs.—As the labourerswerehouse, em- of another class, or its prejudices are excited against
ployed in digging the foundation for a
the site of the one recently occupied byiiew on j it. To have labour cheep, and consequently
Mr. J. G. , labourers poor, degraded, impovezished, half starved,
Brown, in the Market-place, in this town, a few days and humble, appears the intei est of capitalists
since, they discovered an earthern vessel of Roman j alanmde'empleyees ; and it is only in rare cases that the I
origin, and several ancient coins, It is supposed that a i feel any repugnance. to a law which throws additional 1
convent covered the spot several centuries ag o.—Leices. I burdens and hardships on labour.—Brighton Guardian. I
tershire Mere' • Lay.