The Sun.
London, England, 1853-09-23 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 23, 1853,

ments respecting Currency, Bullion, and Corn ; I
according to himself ho did. We must decline
the umpireship. The Earl, however, by his re-
mark that emigration was arrived at a pitch
which needed to be checked, and by proposing
as the means, " improving the habitations of the
poor, and erecting them in the vicinity of those
places where their labour was required," suggested
to our minds whether another set of prizes might
not be proposed by Agricultural Associations.
Some of these institutions have already work-
men's prizes for the best-kept cottages and
gardens. What will the Associations say to
landlords' prizes for the best-built cottages and
largest gardens ? It would be, in fact, a prize for
promoting morality in the relations between the
sexes amongst their workmen, and the cleanliness
which would save much sickness, widowhood, and
pauperism. Landlords' prizes for the best farm-
ing premises, the most improving leases, the great-
est freedom from game, and for political non-
interference with their tenants, might be included
in the list ; and perhaps the landlords fortunate
enough to win the subscription medal
would
to the dinners with a pride not inferior to that
with which Mr. DISRAELI'S prizeman would walk
come
into church with his
buttons.
green coat and Association
Sir FIT7MOY KELLY regards the causes of the
present prosperity, which he holds to be emigra-
tion and gold, as but temporary (differing herein
from Mr. DUPRE, Mr. DISRAELI'S colleague for
Bucks), and therefore wisely exhorts farmers to
rely upon their own energy and the mechanical
skill of the RANSOMS and GARRETTS. Lucky
would
it have been for Sir FITZROY had such ad-
vice been
his only advice. Some grey heads
and shining
foreheads were doubtless present
which felt rather hot under constrained
silence as they remembered certain old Protec-
tionist harangues, not much more than a
year ago, and who would have shaken hands after
dinner much more heartily with the barrister, had
he but been one of the immortal fifty-three.
However, byegones must now be byegones, and
Sir FITZROY KELLY, they will think, may still use-
fully watch the case for the East Suffolk farmers.
The great majority present happily well under-
stood that the Legislature, in future, can neither
injure them nor help them, except by emancipat-
ing, to the utmost, that commerce upon the ex-
tent of which the consuming power of the farmers'
customers depends. Farmers will soon under-
stand that even an India Bill deeply concerns
them. Abundance of raw cotton from India, and
plentiful Indian demands on Manchester looms,
mean good customers for flour and meat in Man-
chester cottages, and good prices for farmers.
Agriculture and commerce now most certainly
" row in the same boat," and even Suffolk far-
mers will soon fully understand this.
At the Bucks meeting Mr. DISREALI tasked his
genius to the effort, vain according to PALEY, of
refuting a sneer. Some graceless journals have
satirised, lampooned, and sneered at the 50s. and
30s. prizes for bringing up large families without
parish relief. The subject is doubtless a most
tempting one for banter, and though Mr. DISRAELI
did his best in defence of the " humble rewards
which gratify the humble," we can hardly say
that he has quite reconciled us to the particular
prize at which the profane of the press and the
towns will laugh. Prizes for skill are old enough,
and no doubt stimulating. We have witnessed
ploughing matches, hedging and ditching matches
even, prizes for the best corn stack, &c., and felt
a deep interest in such reasonable rustic contests.
They are obviously calculated to improve the
quality of rural work, but there is plainly some-
thing different, jesting aside, in a prize to the
labourer blessed with a fruitful vine, and nume-
rous olive branches, whose vineyard and oliveyard
have cost the parish nothing. Suppose the man's
merit is pure love of independence. To us, re-
warding a man for maintaining his independence
to the uttermost, is very like rewarding a woman
for maintaining the point of female honour.
Hence, it is almost an avowal that so severe are
the temptations of the agricultural labourer to
sacrifice his independence, that it has become
an artificial virtue of the highest order. Per-
haps it was so before the New Poor Law ;
since then (and most of these Associations
began subsequently to that law) the most strenu-
ous, and often severe measures have been
taken to make receiving relief as unpleasant and
annoying as possible. Hence the labourer is al-
most coerced into subsisting with his numerous
little family, without aid, on the miserable wages
hitherto paid him ; and if the coercion has done
its work, a shilling or two a year by the time it
mounts up to a sovereign or two, is no doubt
grateful enough at the moment of reception ; al-
though fear of the workhouse may have had much
more to do with his self-denial than love of inde-
pendence. He is rewarded, in fact, for having
been as afraid as he ought of Poor-Law Terrors.
Such pauper benefits as the rules of the Associa-
tion allow, i. e., poor-law medicine and attend-
ance at the cost of the parish surgeon, the 40s.
prize man has not probably had sufficient inde-
pendence to eschew. It should, moreover, be
inquired, how the man has trained his children ?
Has he been compelled, in order to escape the
dreaded workhouse, to deprive them of their day-
school, and to send them to farmers' work when
the alphabet and play were the only things
compatible with their bodily and mental health ?
Have his girls, and perhaps his wife, had to do field
work, which ought to be reserved for the stronger
sex ? And are his family under-sized, of not very
robust constitutions, and noted for rustic want of
intelligence ?
Many are the questions, which, in all soberness,
should be answered before the looking-on public
can quite relish these anti-pauperism prizes. The
labourers themselves, too, must always have a
feeling that the prize givers gained the prize many
times over in diminished poor-rates.
As to the green coats, and Association buttons,
with which the Association clothes the " aged
and industrious labourers" whom it delights to
honour, and in which it expects them to present
themselves "at Church," Mr. DISRAELI and his
friends must forgive us if we smile. Turning
the green to blue, the coat to a riband, and the
Church to a Court, the Honourable Member's
imagination fancies the aged rustic at Church, as
pleasantly conscious of his distinction as a Knight
of the Garter at Court ! We could have wished
for a more secular place to discuss the workman's
pride in than the Church ; but passing that by, we
fancy there are hut few rural villages now where
the man in green would not be conscious of ex-
citing a smile amongst his own class (the most im-
portant to him), and where the one-coloured coat
would not be regarded, as a coat of many colours
once was, as a sign of favouritism rather than
of merit, and where it would not be worn chiefly
for fear
of offending the givers, and with feelings
of awkwardness
ratherpritzhes adanovfeprtred to pride.
Wnohtilevewrye
think the particular
creditable to
add that Air Agricultural labourers, we should
near ISRAELI sees " looming in the
future ". th p
e time
follow the hand-100 when the plough is to
In, and the farm labourer to
become a being of an order who would deem the
rewards now offered beneath lu •
s notice.

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MATRIMONIAL ALLIANCE.--The
—A matrimonial alliance is arranglelfd"nfacyesle:-
ost
tween the Lady Elizabeth Grey Egerton
of the Earl of Wilton, and Captain till's
De Ros, eldest son of Lord De Rog
her Majesty the Queen. The marriage „warn' to
brated at Heaton-Hall, the seat of the Wilton family,
near Manchester, on the 12th of October.
The Marquis of Lothian, who has just attained his
majority, is on the eve of leaving England on an ex-
tended tour of two years in Asia, intending to visit all
the provinces of British India.
PROGRESS OF THE STEAM-SHIP GREAT BRITAIN.—
Messrs. Gibbs, Bright, and Co.'s magnificent steamer,
the Great Britain, arrived at St. Vincent on the 24th
of August, and sailed thence again at two o'clock in the
afternoon of the 27th. She has thus made the passage
to St. Vincent in twelve days and about eighteen hours,
her departure from this port being on the afternoon of
the 11h of August. All the passengers were well, and
spending the time most pleasantly under the genial
auspices of Captain Mathews and his officers. St. Vin-
cent is as nearly as possible halfway to the Cape of Good
Hope, and it is anticipated that the Great Britain will,
with favourable or even moderate weather, complete the
fifty passage to Melbourne in days. On her last voyage
it may be remembered,
the Cape to Melbourne twenty-four days.—Liverpool
she made the distance from
.tes. in
ays.—Liverpool
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MONEY MARKET

AND
CITY INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.

The cotton market at Liverpool yesterday closed
heavily. All descriptions, except solid Orleans,
being lower. The sales amounted to 6,000 bales
(of which, 1,500 were for export), comprising 220
Pernams and Maranhams, at 60. to 80. ; 100
Bahia, at Od. to 61d. ; 300 Egyptian, at 6d. to
11d. ;, and 300 Surat, at aid. to 4d. per lb. Rail-
way Shares receded fully 2 per cent.
In the produce markets this week there have
been moderate purchases. Sugar has been at about
the former range, but coffee has gone lower, and
for cocoa the demand has not improved. Tea has
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vious rates.

There are no later ship arrivals this morning
with news of any interest, and attention is wholly
absorbed by the Continental political intelligence.
Business is greatly interfered with, and every de-
partment begins now to feel the injurious eftects
of the existing suspense.
There has been a good deal of business trans-
acted in English Stocks, and the depression owing
principally to speculative sales, has continued.
Consols have been 94-14, and since 94i for Trans-
fer, 941 *, and subsequently 941 to for account.
At present there is more buoyancy owing to the
loans which will be made by the Bank, and even
the telegraph, stating that the Conference is united
urgingin upon Turkey the acceptance of the
Vienna Rote gives a little, encouragement. The
enormous amount of the sales for time should be
estimated by those who seek to arrive at an expla-
nation of the actual present position of the market,
for although the money sales are large, they are
exceeded ten-fold probably by the operations for
Account. Exchequer Bills have been ss. to 10s.
discount, and India Bonds 3s. discount to par.
East India Stock has been dealt in at 250.

In the Foreign Market there have been a few
sales at lower rates, but securities representing the
debt of countries out of Europe ought not to be so
much affected, as others. Sardinian Stock hasbeen
marked 92. Austrian 5 per Cents. have been
quoted 87, and Dutch 2i per Cents. have been
down to 631 to for money, though done at 63
for Account. Spanish New Deferred Bonds have
realised 221 to # and Portuguese 4 per Cents.
43 to Mexican Stock has been at 241 to
241, and Peruvian at 724 and 73k. Brazillian Old
Five per Cents. have been done at 1001 and 101.
The fall in English Railway Shares, previously
so great, has made further progress, and the Bears
for the time rule pre-eminent. Caledonian have
dropped IL to 2/. ; Great Western, 15s. to 11. ;
Lancashire and Yorkshire, 10s. to 15s. ; Midland,
ss. ; North British, ss. to 10s. ; York and Ber-
-1 wick, 1/. to 2/. ; and others in proportion. The
French lines keep up more firmly, comparatively,
than the rest, but Northern are cheaper. Stras-
bourg are in demand at high prices, owing to the
new shares to be allotted to existing holders.
At this moment all the English lines rule firmer
on account of the measure announced at the Bank.
The Gold Mine shares have been a little weaker,
but can scarcely be called lower.
The Australian Bank Shares are merely nominal,
no transactions being reported, but in the Bank of
Asia there is a decline. The Land Companies are
about the same.

LATEST FOREIGN NEWS.

FRANCE.

The Emperor and Empress quitted the Palace of
St. Cloud yesterday morning at half-past eleven
o'clock. The cortege consisted of six carriages.
Their Majesties arrived at the St. Denis Station of
the Northern Railway shortly after twelve o'clock,
where they were received by the directors and by a
number of high functionaries. Their Majesties were
placed in the waggon of honour, and the train pro-
ceeded on its journey.
The Emperor and Empress attened the first re-
presentation of the new ballet of 'Elia Mysis at the
grand opera last evening. Queen Christina and
the Duchess de Alba were also present ; they were
in box opposite to that occupied by their Majesties.
The Minister for Foreign Affairs, who had been
absent for some days from Paris,--an absence for
which some foreign journals assigned a political
motive,—has returned. The Union states that M.
Drouyn de Lhuys has had a long conference with
the Emperor, and has since received the Turkish
Ambassador.

The Moniteur announces that the Queen of
England has designated the Earl of Lucan the
Marquis of Worcester, Lord Bingham, and Co-
lonel Dupis, to visit the camp of Helfaut to
compliment the Emperor.
The raising of the camp of Helfaut is to take
place on the 27th.
The Minister of Finance has extended the de-
creesO freeing from all navigation dues
inf France vessels laden altogether
the of
interior Sept.
with corn or other articles of food, to such vessels
as are only partially laden with such articles. The
dues
s will on the miscellaneous
The Minister of the Interior has given a first
warning to the Constitutionnel for " continuing,
portion of bteherevied cargoes. only
for purposes of private speculation, to write up,
in its Bourse articles, certain industrial enterprises,
and to depreciate others, by discrediting them by
means of erroneous and malevolent appreciations,"
notwithstanding the friendly warnings given it to
the contrary.
Letters from Germany announce that the Count
de Chambord is to visit the Duchess of Berry at
Brunsee, in Styria, on the 29th of this month,
being his birthday. The friends who wish to cele-
brate the Count's birthday are to meet for that
purpose.
Letters from French Guiana of the 13th August
state that the Governor had found it necessary to
declare the colony in a state of siege, in conse-
quence of disturbances and acts of rebellion com-
mitted in the island of La Mere, one of the places
of provisional confinement of the convicts.
The Bourse was heavy yesterday, and sales diffi-
cult. The Three per Cents. opened at 76f. 85c.,
fell to 76f. 65c., rose subsequently to 76f. 90c. and
closed at 76f. 85c. for the end of the month. The
Four-and-a-Half per Cents. closed at 101 f. 80c. ;
Orleans Railway shares, 1,232 f. 50c. ; Rouen,
1,057 f. 50c. ; Havre, 515 f. ; Great orthern,
855 f. ; Paris and Strasburg, 962 f. 50c. ; Paris and
Lyons, 920 f. ; Lyons to the Mediterranean, 765 f.;
Western of France, 730 f. ; Bordeaux and Cette,
607 f. 50c. ' • Great Central, 525 f. • ' Lyons to Ge-
neva, 525 f. ; Shares of the Bank of Credit
777 f. 50c.

tions of a couple of cases of cholera, but no deaths.
Here we have had the cholera now for eight
weeks, but the epidemic appears sensibly to de-
crease. The last three weeks the proportion was
80, 72, 36 cases.

The accounts from Stockholm continue to repre-
sent the cholera as making very fearful progress.
On the 13th inst. there had been 165 attacks and
113 deaths. Upon the whole 2,538 cases and 1,401
deaths. Mr. Ranvyl Schutt, for some years for-
merly Mexican Vice-Consul in Hamburg, had fallen
a victim to the disease.

Now, from the account given from Carlscrona,
in Sweden, it will appear that the dreadful havoc
which the cholera has made, has been in a great
measure attributed to the bad quality of the water,
as out of a population of 12,000 inhabitants there
have been 1,767 cases, and 932 deaths.

THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON'S FIRST VISIT
TO THE NORTHERN DEPARTMENTS
OF FRANCE.

It would be difficult to describe fully the enthu-
siasm
of the inhabitants of the ancient town of
Arras in their essay to give effect to the prepara-
tions for the due reception of the Emperor and
Empress. For the last week the greatest efforts
have been made to render the, visit of the august
personages one not easily to be forgotten by the
population, and agreeable to their Majesties.
It is said in England that the French are fond of
witnessing decorations, yet it may be observed,
with equal truth, that Englishmen are by no means
less enamoured with that which pleases the eye, or
why so many of our countrymen in this remote
provincial place at this moment ? Why is it that
they have been arriving at Arras for the last two
days, not on commercial speculations, but assuredly
to have their part of the pleasure to be derived
from this the first of a series of ovations to the
French Emperor and Empress in their northern
provinces ? _

The scene here may, without exaggeration, be
said to be truly magnificent ; every street has its
triumphal arches, and even the very pathways have
their festoonings of laurels and flowers, while the
windows and house-tops have their decorations of
garlands. This display is not confined to the prin-
cipal thoroughfares through which Royalty is to
pass, but extends to the byways of the town inha-
bited by the poorest of the population ; and in the
latter localities the expenditure is defrayed out of
their own slender resources, without the slightest
aid on the occasion from their more affluent fellow-
townsmen—a fact of itself highly indicative of
their esteem for the Sovereign.
All the decorations were completed as early as
three o'clock on Thursday morning—the flowers
having been plucked but a few hours prior to their
being fashioned into their respective positions, for
the better preservation of their fragrance, a precau-
tion characteristic of the care bestowed by the
French artist in the minutest detail, and which
gives them that pre-eminence so widely acknow-
ledged in efforts for effect.

At the railway station is a superb canopy,
crowned with evergreens entwined with the
choicest bouquets, and over all the golden eagle,
with, on either side, the letters N. and E. (Napo-
leon and Eugenie), worked in burnished gold.
The national flag floats majestically from various
points of this tastefully-arranged erection, while
the flooring, surfaced with green velvet, infringed
with golden lace, augments the imposingness of the
interior.

Passing the last-mentioned point of attraction,
we behold, from the Porte Ronville to the Prefec-
ture, the entire length of a long line of streets,
bearing ample testimony to the ingenuity of those
employed in catering for the occasion. Here are
trees growing, as it were, for years, yet not many
hours in the pathway they skirt, at both sides of
the roadways. There is even unity in this tem-
porary plantation, ghily woven garlands and fes-
toonings gracefully linking them into brother-
hood, while the letters " N." and " E.," most
artistically worked in flowers, catch the eye on
all sides. So far as the proprietors of the prin-
cipal homes feel concerned, a restless spirit of
emulation would seem to have taken possession
of them, for even now, that which at an early hour
of the morning was admitted to be faultless, is
momentarily undergoing additional embellish-
ments ; and as a few commence such augmenta-
tions, they are rapidly followed by the surround-
ing neighbourhood.

The grandest sight, however, is that of the Pre-
fecture. Here has been a lavish display of what
efforts regardless of expenditure can achieve. Two
superbly draperied canopies, over one platform,
richly covered with velvet of green and gold, the
bordering studded with golden bees, and the
arms emblazoned in varied embroidery ; the eagle,
surmounted with a crown, capped the canopies,
and the two splendid throned chairs. Indeed, the
whole may be said to be a masterpiece of artistic
skill.

As early as eight o'clock in the morning the
various deputations from the town and communes
began to assemble, and at ten o'clock the municipal
body were hurrying to the rendezvous for the
purpose of being marshalled according to the rules
laid down by the municipal authorities for pre-
cedency.

The military in the town having been reinforced
by detachments from neighbouring towns, were,
like the civilians, alive to the interest of the scene,
and at an early period of the morning they were to
be seen marching in sections, headed by drummers,
from the lower to the upper town.
As the time drew on towards three o'clock, the
prefect, his officers, the municipal body, and the
deputations of the trades, together with a depu-
tation on behalf of the peasantry of the district,
took up their positions in the place allotted to them,
adjacent to the canopy at the railway station, while
the Otte of the town, to the number of some 3,000,
had taken their seats in an immense amphitheatre,
which had been constructed at their own cost.
At four o'clock the Bishop of Arras, with other
high dignitaries of the Church, approached the hall
leading to the canopy, and there, surrounded by
their clergy in full canonicals, they awaited the
momentary expected arrival of their Majesties.
The picture presented at this moment was most im-
posing—the dark crowds of people serving as a
relief to the gay festooning of flowers, while silken
flags wafting in the breeze, augmented the effect.
It was stated that there could not have been fewer
than 200,000 persons in the town ; and when it is
considered that the population of Arms is under
26,000, it may easily be believed that the interest
must have been extreme which could add so greatly
to that number.
At a few minutes to five o'clock their Majesties'
arrival was signalled by the booming of heavy guns,
whereupon the bell of the cathedral, quickly fol-
lowed by those of the various churches of the town,
informed all that the visit for which they had been
so eagerly looking forward had been at length
placed beyond the possibility of doubt.
Their Majesties were received by the Bishop of

Arras, the prefect, the mayor, and the municipal
body, and were amidst the most vociferous cheer-
ing of the multitude, and a salute of artillery, on
their way to the Prefecture to receive the addresses
of the townspeople, through their deputations,
when this despatch was being sent off.
The lower and upper town are to be brilliantly
illuminated to-night, and a grand ball, to which
their Majesties are invited, is to take place.

OFFICIAL PROGRAMME OF THE PREPARA-
TIONS FOR RECEIVING THE EMPEROR
AND EMPRESS IN THE CITY OF CALAIS.
"CALAIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING.
"Their Majesties will arrive on Monday, the 26th
inst., between the hours of four and five o'clock in the
afternoon.

" Early in the morning an extra allowance of meat
and bread will be distributed amongst the poor, under
the care of the managers of the charitable fund
"At noon, the sound of bells will announce to the in-
habitants the solemnity which is to take place.
" The public buildings are to be decorated. The na-
tional flag will he hoisted. The inhabitants are invited
to decorate the front of their houses.
"At four p.m., the authorities, functionaries, and de-
putations, convoked by the mayor, are to meet at the
railway station, where each of these bodies will take the
place designated for it.
"As the train which conveys their Majesties will ap-
proach, a salute of 101 guns will be fired by the artillery
of the place.
"Their Majesties will be received at the railway sta-
tion by the members of the municipal administration,
and the several authorities of Calais and the neighbour-
ing towns and communes.
"After the usual compliment, their Majesties will be
conducted to the Hotel de Ville by a cortege composed
of the persons above-mentioned.
" The place in the cortege will be indicated in advance
for each body.

"At hall-past five their Majesties will hold a recep-
tion at the Hotel de Ville. From thence they will be
conducted by the Prefect, Sous-Prefect, the Mayor of
Calais, and his adjuncts, and the commanding officer of
the place, to the imperial residence.
" In the evening, the public edifices will be illumi-
nated. The inhabitants are requested to illuminate the
fronts of their houses.
" At nine o'clock their Majesties will attend the ball
which is offered to them by the city of Calais, in the
Concert Room.

DAY OF THE 27TH.
"At nine o'clock in the morning, his Majesty the
Emperor will inspect the harbour, docks, and the cour-
gain. The functionaries wishing to join the members
of the municipal board will be admitted to accompany
his Majesty. They are to meet at the imperial resi-
dence by half-past eight in the morning.
"At eleven o'clock their Majesties will leave Calais.
At their departure they will be saluted by the firing of
101 guns. They will be conducted back to the limits

of Calais by all the authorities and deputations which
made part •f the cortege of the day before.
" This cortege will be in the same order as that of the
preceding day.

(Signed) "E. MAYER, Mayor of Calais.
"Hotel de Ville, Calais, Sept. 21, 1853."
There was a meeting of the English residents of
the town yesterday afternoon, to consider the pro-
priety of presenting an address to the Emperor on
his arrival ; but as the English consul, by his offi-
cial position, did not feel at liberty to be present
and take part in the special object in view, the
assemblage, notwithstanding that their chaplain
had prepared the address, separated, upon the un-
derstanding that it would be superfluous for them
to trouble his Majesty during his brief sojourn in
the town, which they thought even to short to
enable him to receive the compliments of his
own subjects as fully as they would desire to ex-
press them.