The Sun.
London, England, 1849-05-30 00:00:00

BRUTAL CASE OF MURDER.

SOUTHAMPTON, MONDAY NlGHT.—Considerable ex-
citement was created here this morning, in consequence
of a man of the name of Holloway, a labourer, having
been brought before the borough magistrates, charged
with causing the death of his son, a boy about ten years
of age, by inflicting a number of wounds on the head
and body of the poor little fellow with a leather strap,
on the end of which a buckle was attached. From the
evidence it appeared that the deceased child had been
ordered by the prisoner not to leave his home during
the day, buZ, had done so ; and on the prisoner's
coming home at night, somewhat in liquor, he fol-
lowed the deceased child into his bed-room, and beat
him with the strap in a most unmerciful manner. After
a short interval he repeated the chastisement, and at
this time inflicted a fatal blow on the head. The pri-
soner then brought the child down stairs, and applied
some water to his face, but life was quite extinct. The
body and head of the deceased presented a most shocking
appearance, and evident:ed the brutal flogging he had
received from his unnatural parent. The whole of the
evidence having been gone through, the prisoner was
remanded until Thursday next. The coroner's inquisi•
tion took place this evening, but was adjourned until
Thursday, for the purpose of allowing time for a pose
mortem examination of the body.

THE REVIEW IN HYDE PARK.—The following
corps of Enrolled Pensioners will be reviewed in Hyde-
park on the morning of Friday next, the Ist June, at
half-past ten A.M., by the Commander-in-Chief and
staff, Major-General Brotberton, inspector-general of
cavalry, Lieutenant-Colonel Tulloch, &c. &c., viz.:-
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Woolwich ditto Major Forbes..,.,, 960 „
We understand the war medals, to which many of the
veterans are entitled, will be distributed on the occasion
by the staff.
MONEY MARKET.—The premium on gold at Paris
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101 d. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of
25.49; and the exchange at Paris on London at short
being 25.471, it follows that gold is 0 06 per cent.
dearer in Paris than in London. By advices from
Hamburgh the price of gold is 439 k per mark, which,
at the English Mint price of 31. 178. 1011. per ounce for
standard gold, gives an exchange of 13.12 k; and the
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"COPY OF A DISPATCH FROM GOVERNOR GENERAL THE
RIGHT HON. THE EARL OF ELGIN AND KINCARDINE
TO EARL GREY.
" Government House, Montreal, May 5,1849.
"(Received May 22, 1849.)
" My Lord,—ln consequence of the excitement which
the passage of the measure for the indemnification of
parties in Lower Canada, whose property was de-
stroyed during the rebellion of 1337 and 1838, has
occasioned, and of the desire expressed in certain quar-
ters that her Majesty's power of di►allowance should be
exercised in this instance, I think it my duty to furnish
your Lordship with a report upon it in anticipation of
the usual period for the transmission of the Bills of
the session. It will be necessary, however, before I
proceed to explai❑ its provisions, to submit a statement
of the circumstances which led to its introduction. •
" 2. In the last session of the Parliament of Upper
Canada an Act was passed, entitled An Act to ascer-
tain and provide for the payment of all just claims aris-
ing from the late rebellion and invasion of the province.'
The intention o f this Act would seem to have been to
provide indemnity only for owners of property which
had been destroyed by rebels and sympathisers from the
States. But in the first session of the United Parlia-
ment, an amended Act was passed (4 and 5 Viet., c. 39),
which contains the following clause:—' And be it
enacted that the powers vested in, and the duties re-
quired of, the said Commissioners. under. the said Act,
shall extend and be construed -to extend to inquire into
all losses sustained by her Majesty's subjects and other
residents within that part of this province to which the
said Act extends, from the first breaking out of the said
rebellion to the passing of the said Act, and the several
claims and demands which have accrued to any such
persons by such losses, in respect of any loss, destruction
or damage of property occasioned by violence on the
part of persons in her Majesty's service, or by violence
on the part of persons acting, or assuming to act, on
behalf of her Majesty, in suppression of the said rebel.
lion, or for the prevention of further disturbances, and
all claims arising under, or in respect of, the occupation
of any house or premises by her Majesty's naval or mili-
tary forces, either imperial or provincial.'
" I do not find that any objection was taken by the
Home Government to the principle or details of either
of these Acts, except on the ground that the preamble
of the first, as it was originally introduced, contained a
pledge, which was afterwards, on Lord John Russell's
remonstrance, expunged, that the indemnity in question
should form a charge on the Imperial Treasury.
" 3. On the question of providieg funds for the pay-
ment of the indemnity thus voted, considerable difference
of opinion appears, however, to have prevailed in the
Local Parliament. The leaders of the Liberal party
generally contended that it would be unjust to make it a
charge on the resources of the united province, without
extending a similar boon to Lower Canada, and that it
would be inexpedient to saddle on the general revenue
so considerable an additional burden as the joint indem-
nities would probably amount to. No steps were ac-
cordingly taken during the subsistence of the first Bald-
win and Lafontine Administration. In 1845, however,
Lord Metcalfe's Conservative Council proposed that a
special fund, derived from tavern and marriage licences,
which formed part of the revenue of the Consolidated
Fund, and was more productive in Upper Canada than
Lower Canada, should be surrendered to the municipali-
ties; and that in Upper Canada it should, in the first
place, be charged with the payment of the indemnity.
This proposal was carried through Parliament. On the
same day, however, and at an earlier hour, the follow-
ing resolution was adopted by the House of Assembly
unanimously:—
" Resolved,—That an humble address be presented to
his Excellency the Governor- General, praying that his
Excellency will be pleased to cause proper measures to
be adopted, in order to insure to the inhabitants of that
portion of this province, formerly Lower Canada, in-
demnity for just losses by them sustained during the re-
bellion of 1837 and 1838:

"4. In order that the scope and purpose of the ad-
dress thus unanimously voted, and of the measures taken
by the Government upon it, may be properly under-
stood, it is necessary that attention should be directed to
the following circumstance:—Ordinances were passed by
the Special Council in the years 1838 and 1839, under
which the losses of those loyal inhabitants of the pro-
vince whose property had been destroyed while they
were supporting the Government had been ascertained
and reported upon. It was, therefore, clearly the in-
tention of the Government and Parliament, in the pro-
ceedings adopted at this period, to extend the indemnity
beyond that limit.

"5. The mode of getting 6ver
"* the pecuniary difficulty
in the case or the indemnit . was d,,,-4_t-k-_+,-
:tiril;;;ilOnsi;ly.
thg.,,Pkrasfinnt it'ifas—ii way s been contended by those
who opposed the plan, that, as in the financial arrange-
ments cqnsequent on the union between the provinces,
Lower Canada had by no means the best of the bargain,
it was not fairingi've,up a portion of the common fund,
to which' the tiiitAr happened to contribute more largely
than the lower province, witlibut granting an equivalent
to the latter.

" 6. The Commissioners appointed to apportion the in-
demnity in Upper Canada appear to have been unfettered
by any special instructions, and to have acted under the
provisions of the Acts to which I have referred, which
give large discretionary powers. At the close of their
labours they d. livered to the Government lists of the
claims rejected or allowed by them, without, however,
any s•atement of the grounds of their decision. There
is no reason to doubt they discharged their trust with
fidelity. During the course of the recent debates in Par-
liament quotations were, however made from these lists,
with the view of showing that in some instances the
names of persons who had been actually convicted
of treason appeared upon them as recipients of indem-
nity. Much irritating discussion took place on this
point; for, while on the one hand the Conservative op-
position affirmed that such cases were both few in num-
ber and defensible on special grounds, Mr. Papineau and
his adherents contended that the insertion of a clause in
the Lower Canada Act, excluding persons so situated
from participating in the indemnity fund on any pretext
whatsoever, was only a fresh proof of the invidious dis-
tinction between the provinces, constantly made to the
disadvantage of Lower Canada.
" 7. In pursuance of the address of the Assembly above
quoted, Commissioners were appointed to inquire into the
claims of persons in Lower Canada whose property was
destroyed during the rebellion in 1837 and 1838. I en-
close herewith copies of the document under which they
were appointed, and of the instructions by which it was
accompanied and followed. Your Lordship will observe
that the Commissioners were directed to classify the
cases of those who may have joined in the said rebellion
or any- have been aiding and abetting therein, from the
cases of those who did not; and when they inquired
through their secretary how they were to establish such
a classification, they were answered by Mr. Secretary
Daly, under the authority of the Governor in Council, in
the following termse—,
In making out the classification
called for by your instructions of the 12th of December
last, it is nut his Excellency's intention that you should
be guided by any other description of evidence than that
furnished by the sentences of the courts of law.'
"8. The Commissioners furnished their report (a copy
of which I inclose)
in April, 1846; Mr. Daly having, on
the 2d of that month, intimated to them, in a letter
marked immediate,' that his Excellency was desirous
to be enabled to come to an early decision as to the
course to be taken by the Executive- during the session
of Parliament in regard to the same. It does not, how-
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dealing with the question satisfactorily.
" 9. Such was the state, however, in which this ques-
tion s
stood when the present Government came into office.
That they should propose to found a measure on what
their predecessors had done in the matter was to be ex-
pected, and I do not think that I should be justified in
risking a Ministerial crisis at a time when my Council
was supported by the large majority of a recently
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belonged,
thisA
elected Assembly, by refusing to permit the introduc-
tion of a Bill which was similar to one that had already
been passed for the benefit of Upper Canada, and which
seemed, moreover, to be nothing more than the :strict
logical consequence of preliminary measures adopted by
the Local Government and Parliament under former
Governors.

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the correspondence of the Government above referred
to, it is necessary and just that the particulars of such
losses not yet satisfied should form the subject of more
minute inquiry under legislative authority, and that the
same, so far only as they may have arisen from the total
or partial, unjust or wanton destruction of the dwellings,
buildings, property, and effects of the said inhabitants,
and from the seizure, taking, or carrying away of their
property and effects, should be paid and satisfied, pro-
vided that none of the persons who have been convicted of
high treason, alleged to have been committed in that
part of this province formerly the province of Lower
Canada, since the Ist day of November, 1637; or who,
having been charged with high treason, or other offences
of a treasonable nature, and having been committed to
the custody of the sheriff in the gaol of Montreal, sub
mitted themselves to the will and pleasure of her
Majesty, and were thereupon transported to her Majes-
ty's island of Bermuda, shall be entitled to any indemnity
for losses sustained during or after the said rebellion, or
in consequence thereof.

"It authorises the appointment of commissioners for
the purpose of the Act, and the issue of debentures to
the amount of 100,000/, 10,000/. of which, however,
are set apart to make good claims allowed by the com-
missioners appointed under the ordivance of the Special
Council; 1 9toh,eosoeo/p.arretmteauilnerfeor
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merely adopts the purposes of the
recommendation of the Qcquinissivuers of Inquiry named

" 12. The opposition raised to the Bill in Parlia-
ment was echoed out of doors. A considerable number
of petitions against it were sent up from different parts
of the province. It is remarkable that although these
petitions were prepared while the measure was still in
progress through Parliament, and in many instances, as
appears from incorrect statements contained in them,
before its provisions were accurately known, the great
majority were addressed to me, but few comparatively
being presented to either branch of the Legislature.
Whether from the belief that it was hopeless to attempt
to cause their views to prevail with the representatives
of the people, or from some other motive which may
not be so easily intelligible at a distance, it seems to
have been from the first the determination of the oppo-
sition to force me to join issue with the local Parliament
upon this most delicate and exciting question.
"13. The petitions addressed to me on this subject
generally concluded with the prayer that I should either
dissolve Parliament, or reserve the Bill, when it reached
me, for the signification of her Majesty's pleasure.
The former of these courses was obviously lull of
hazard, and could only have been justified by the
pressure of an overbearing necessity and the clearest
prospect of success. The Parliament had been but
recently elected under the auspices, not of the
Ministry, but of the Opposition. To have recourse to
a geheral election, in order to test the feelings of the
people on this exciting topic, was to provoke in
many parts of the country scenes of violence, per-
haps of bloodshed. Moreover, a dissolution implied
a change of administration, and if it failed of its
object, its only effect would be to implant suspicion and
mutual distrust between the representatives of the
Crown and the local Parliament. I was bound, there-
fore, as it appeared to me, to weigh all probabilities care-
fully before resorting to so desperate an expedient. The
best consideration which I was able to bestow upon the
subject, led me to the conclusion that a dissolution of
Parliament, under the circumstances in which the pro-
vince was placed, would not have been justifiable, either
in principle or policy.
14. The other course suggested by the petitioners,
viz., that of reserving the Bill, was undoubtedly more
safe and practicable. Perhaps if I had consulted in this
matter only my own ease I might have been induced to
follow it; but I felt that after what had occurred with
respect to indemnity in Upper Canada, I could hardly
fail to cause just umbrage to Parliament if I declined
to sanction the Bill which it had passed for the benefit
of sufferers in Lower Canada. I analysed with care
all the votes of the Assembly, and I found
that, on the passing of the Bill, forty-seven voted for,__ and
18 against the measure; that of 31 members from Upper
Canada who voted on the occasion, 17 supported and 14
opposed it; and that of 10 members from Lower Canada
of British descent, 6 supported and 4 opposed it. These
facts seemed altogether irreconcileable with the allega-
tion that the question was one on which the two races
were arrayed against each other throughout the, pro-
vince generally. I consider therefore her
poivasdopsma which ought, in the
Instance at least, LU itso. '..rt shoulders, that
I should awaken in the minds or Inc pcopte at large,
even of those who were indifferent or hostile to the Bill,
doubts as to the sincerity with which it was intended
that constitutional government should be carried on in
Canada; doubts which it is my firm conviction, if they
were to obtain generally, would be fatal to the con-
nexion.

" At any rate, however, this is a point which can be
determined only by the Government of the Queen. If
I have erred, the error is not irreparable. Should your
Lordship be of opinion that there is in the character of
this measure some specialty which ought to have removed
it from the category of local questions on which the
local Parliament is entitled to pronounce, I shall at
once bow to your decision, confident that Sou will still
give me credit for having, under circumstances of no
ordinary difficulty, acted with a sincere desire to per-
form my duty to her Majesty, and to promote the best
interests of the colony.
" I have, &c.,
" ELGIN AND KINCARDINE.

" The Right Hon. Earl Grey, &c."
The following is the reply of Lord Grey to Lord
Elgin's first dispatch describing the outbreak in Mon-
treal:—

" Downing-street, May 18.
"My Lord,—l have received and laid before the
Queen your Lordship's dispatch of the 30th of April,
giving an account of the scenes by which the city of
Montreal has been disgraced, and in the course of which
the building occupied by the Provincial Parliament has
been destroyed by fire.
"I am commanded by her Majesty to inform your
Lordship that while she has received with very great
concern the intelligence of these deplorable events, they
have not impaired the confidence which her Majesty
has hitherto felt in your ability and judgment, and that
she continues to regard your administration of the
affairs of the province as meriting her entire appro-
bad )n.
" Upon the Act of the Provincial Parliament which
has afforded a pretext for the outrages which have been
committed, it is the duty of her Majesty's servants to
reserve their judgment until we shall be in possession of
the full information which you lead me to expect, as to
its character and objects; but, whatever may be the
view which may be taken of the merits of that measure,
there can be but ono opinion as to the guilt of those who,
in resistance to law constitutionally passed by the Pro-
vincial Legislature, have had recourse to violence of so
disgraceful a character, or as to the very serious respon-
sibility incurred by all who have even by the imprudence
of their language, assisted in producing the excitement
which has led to such lamentable results. Her Ma-
jesty's servants entirely concur with your Lordship as
to the consequences which must follow from submitting
to the kind of dictation by which it has been attempted
on this occasion to overrule the decision of the legally
constituted authorities of the province, and they confi-
dently rely upon your firmness, supported, as I trust you
will be, by the Parliament and the great majority of the
people of Canada, to enforce for the future obedience to
the law, and to compel those who may disapprove of the
measures either of the legislative or executive govern-
ment of the province, to confine their opposition within
legal and constitutional limits.
" I appreciate the motives which have induced your
Lordship to offer the suggestion with which your dis-
patch concludes; but I should most earnestly deprecate
the change it contemplates in the Government of
Canada. Your Lordship's relinquishment of that office,
which under any circumstances would be a most serious
loss to her Majesty's service, and to the province, could
not fail, in the present state of affairs, to be most injuri,
ous to the public welfare, from the encouragement which
it would give to those who have been concerned in the
violent and illegal opposition which has been offered to
your Government. I also feel no doubt that when the
present excitement shall have subsided, you will succeed
in regaining that position of ' dignified neutrality' be-
coming your office, which, as you justly observe, it has
hitherto been your study to maintain, and from which,
even those who are at present most opposed to you will,
on reflection, perceive that you have been driven, by no
fault on your part, but by their own unreasoning violence.
" Relying, therefore, upon your devotion to the in-
terests of Canada, I feel assured that you will not be in.
duced by the unfortunate occurrences which have taken
place to retire from the high office which the Queen has
been pleased to entrust to you; and which, from the
value she puts upon your past services, it is her Majesty's
anxious wish that you should retain.—l have,‘,Stc.,
GREY.
" The Earl of Elgin and Kincardine, &c."

THE FIRE AT BERMONDSEY.--ille official report
returns the greatest portion of Mr. Clapham's property
as being destroyed, and the foreman's house adjoining
considerably damaged by fire. The premises and con-
tents were insured in the Sun. The bark-houses, mills,
and leather-houses of Mr. Ilugman are also returned as
being all but destroyed, and the Fellmongers' Arms
Tavern, on the opposite side of the road, the property of
Mr. C. Head, as damaged by fire. Mr. Hagman was in-
sured in the Sun office.
METTERNICH THE OLDEST INHABITANT.--We
have at length discovered who that remarkable indivi-
dual so often alluded to by penny-a-liners must be—the
oldest' inhabitant. Everybody has heard Prince
Motternich's famous bon mot, " After me the deluge."
The Austrian statesman, according to this account, must
have smuggled himself into the ark unknown to Noah,
and be in consequence about 4,000 years a age,—The
Puppet IShotc.

It is said of the Emperor of China that he stops
the pay of all his physicians whenever be falls sick,
and never resumes it until he feels hirnselUonvales-
cent. Some less civilized oriental potentates go on
cutting off the heads of their doctors until their dis-
temper is removed. They do not stop to inquire
whether it is the leech's fault that they have a head-
ache, or their own. They only know that they are
ill, and that they keep a medicine man, and that he
must contrive somehow to keep his patient sound
in wind and limb, or else " there will be the
devil to pay, and no pitch hot." So it is with the
sa-
gacious British public. If the ledger has a queer look,
and customers are scarce in the front shop—if the mills
fall to half time, and the slug takes the wheat—if
wages are low and rates are high—no goods on the
wharf, and ships have to go in ballast, and bills
are dishonoured, and thousands of pounds are
owing, and no money coming in, John Bull looks
no further than to the luckless Ministry, Whig or
Tory, Protectionist or Free Trade, which happens to
be in power, but manfully resolves that whereas they
are in, they must in "double quick time bundle out.
If the bread-tax reigns when his travellers write
I home that all the customers require more time, then
it is the bread-tax that is ruining trade. If free trade
predominates when his acceptances are returned on
his hands, then it is "those cursed political economists
that are at the bottom of all this." Like the fine
gentleman who, cleaned out and hunted by duns, ,
makes a pair of dumb-bells of the boot-jack and
his tiger's head, so John Bull, when bad times
make him sulky, seizes the first thing that comes
to hand to be revenged, and that first thing being her
Majesty's Ministers, they are bow-strung by the fury
of enlightened public opinion. Then is the time for
the Opposition to get up a " good cry" to be re-
venged upon the good cry which the Ins got up
against them when they were the Oats. Then is the
time when, " anything for a change," they would
prefer Satan himself; on the wrong side of the
House, to the angel Gabriel on the Treasury benches.
Vtre are now in the access of this fever. French Re-
volutions, and Red Republicans, and Communisms—
Italian triumvirs, Sicilian rebellions, Hungarian
troubles, and universal turnings upside down, coupled
with Irish treasons and English Chartist plans of
general conflagration, have so arrested trade, and
stopped business, that conversions to Toryism may
be reckoned by tens of thousands among the
electoral body. There is a decided reaction among
many towards Conservatism. But this tendency
might, perhaps, be more than counterbalanced by the
inclination which gains ground among the Anti-Corn-
law Leaguers to finish the work they have begun by
following up their advantage in a united effort to
attain an extensive measure of organic reform. It is
here that the middle and working classes seem in-
clined to meet on common ground, each to give and
take for the sake of that union which is emphatically
strength. We should ill perform our duty, however,
as " the abstract and brief chronicle of the time," if
we did not warn our friends of a very imminent peril
which at this moment hangs over the principles of pro-
gressive liberty. We see many indications of a rather
decided reaction towards the doctrines of Protection.
"As the bell clinks the fool thinks." Every man
who has a grievance goes to Catiline Stanley to be
revenged upon the State. The decaying shopkeeper,
the struggling merchant, the unemployed mechanic,
the nervous shipowner, are all just in the humour
to fly at anything which promises a change. The
farmers, one after another, are throwing up their
farms, keeping their sons from taking any which are
to let, toasting " Peel to the Devil" to the very
lees of their bottle of bad port at the
market ordinary, holding meetings, sending
deputations, hawking about petitions, and wear-
ing out the knocker of No. 1, New Bond.street,
to " see what's to be done about it;" and the no •
bility are beginning in earnest to try their old game
of popularity-hunting, and " fighting the battle of
the Constitution in the Registration Courts." Mark
our words. There is a central office in London where
have been collected the registers of every county and
borough in the kingdom. The Protectionists are I
even now quietly, but effectively busy with their
objections. If they can steal a march on the Liberals
they will. and we call upon our friends, as speedily as
„cs:me, to provide proper guardians of their franchise in
every electoral district, if they would prevent a surprise
which may saddleby.in eyjl.t 121f,kikearicfAr
formers, in looking for more, neglect to secure what
they have got. Free Trade is yet in danger. We
must not go back, by forgetting where it is we
stand, in our eagerness to go forward. The shipping
monopolists are powerful at the outports. The
farmers are desperate in the counties. The country
tradesmen are sulky and eaten up with poor-rates in
the agricultural boroughs. The Irish Members are
either furious at the Rate in Aid, or quite
ready to be bribed by railway grants, or
other less public-spirited coasiderations. The
country gentlemen are rattling the dice for
their last throw. It may be necessary to commission,
indeed we think there is no time to be lost in again
sending forth, the lecturers of the League. A new
phasis of the question demands novel illustrations.
The tenantry of the kingdom are in a declining con-
dition, and as the year wears on, as our own crops
promise abundance, and foreign importations accumu-
late, their pro3pects will become rapidly worse.
On all hands we hear of farms upon farms thrown
upon the owners' bands, and an absence
of offers for renewals. Men whose whole ar-
rangements have been made upon the theory that
scarcity was profit, and abundance ruin, have much
to suffer, and more to learn, before they can adjust
their calculations to a more natural and humane sys-
tem of agricultural polity. " Here comes a farmer,
who hath hanged himself on the expectation of
plenty" was a possibility not alone in the age of
Shakspere. We anticipate, and have not hesitated
to predict, a season of deep bucolic tribula-
tion. We believe the fortunes of the tenantry
to be in the most desperate state, and to
demand our immediate and first and best attention.
There are fifteen millions of acres of waste lands in
those islands capable of profitable cultivation, besides
a vast tract of deserted farms in Ireland. lVe shall
not be sorry to see half the farms in England thrown
up. That is the only way to enforce a reduction of
rent, and to compel the landlords to dictate economy
in the public expenditure and retrenchment in tithes.
We trust that it will have the effect of entirely abo-
lishing the law of settlement, so as to enable the
poor to obtain relief wherever they please, to equalize
the burden of poor-rates, and to levy them by a
general equal impost over the whole kingdom. The
condition of the five and ten acre tenantry of Bel-
gium, and of Ireland under Mr. Blacker, proves how
infinitely more productive our land may be made by
an extension of small holdings. There are 1,000
families, embracing 5,000 individuals, comfortably,
respectably, independently provided for on 5.,000
Belgian ,000
Belgian acres, of far inferior land to that which is
held by a single farmer in Northamptonshire, who
provides, on the whole, for not above 100 labourers, or
500 individuals. These labourers can scarcely afford
any encouragement to the home trade, while their em-
ployer produces not one-half the quantity of food on
his huge holding, which is raised by his humble Bel-
gian rivals, and is unable to afford his landlord much
more than half the same amount of rent. Among all
these peasants of the Netherlands also there is not to
be found a single pauper, while our agriculture has to
support three millions and a half, at a cost of nearly
8,000,000 sterling. It is mere cant in our politico-
economical ignoramuses to talk about the economy of
producing food with fewer hands, when to do so we
only make "wealth accumulate and men decay." It is to
small purpose that we employ horses on the farm onlyghi
by sending men into the workhouse at a cost
nd boy
of eight
millions a year. For every 50 acres at least a coupl
e
of horses are employed, and a ploughmana
to hold and drive. In much of the land at least
three are used. Each horse costs annually
for horses,
301,
besides his price—so that for 50 acres
and 271. for man and boy, or 1171. in all, is re-
quired 9
the
ex
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tu r
esswil al reach n
acrec 130 fl.r
'this
sr-sruatm would
find find wages for seven labourers, and maintenance for
is only 7 acres to each under
s
35 individuals. The culture ofspsaodaecrheus amongshand husbandry, and
we have no hesitation in saying they could till at least
double that quantity, or 100 acres, and that they are
thus actually more economical than horses, besides
being infinitely more productive, experiments having
shown that the spade produces half as large a crop
again as can be raised by the plough. It is
not without deep regret that we regard the
anxiety and distress of our honest yeomen, and the
compulsory migration of our industrious peasantry.
We would, for this kingdom's sake, far rather keep
them at home; and, that we may do so without ruin
to themselves and the country, there is no safe expe-
dient but the reforms we have indicated. Protection
is gone—high prices can never return—there is no
remedy but in diminished burdens, rents, rates, and
tithes, and the reclamation of waste lands. Let us all
strive manfully and lawfully for these ends, in the
assurance that in them lie the redemption of agricul-
ture and the safety of the kingdom.— WeeklyDispalch.

Mr. Thomas Dickinson, of Eslington, killed, in the
River Breasaish, a few days ago, in the short time of six
hours, 21 dozen of trout, which weighed upwards cf three
st9ne.--Faccastie Journal.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TATTERSALL'S.—YEnTERDAY.
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considering
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much better, indeed, than could have been
anticipated. One very heavy account, however, aid two
or three other smaller ones, are as yet altogether in
abeyance, greatly to the inconvenience of the ring, and
more particularly of three or four parties who themselves
were " hit" to a considerable amount on both races.
Late in the afternoon some business was transacted on
future events, at the following prices.—
ASCOT STARES.
4 to 1 agst Lord Clifden's St. Antonio—taken
9 to 2 agst Sir K. Pigot's Essedarius—taken
7 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Swordplayer
9 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Vampyre
10 to 1 agst Captain Williams na Chicaneur—taken
10 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Jelly Fish—taken
10 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Gardenia
12 to 1 agst Mr. Disney's Keleshoa—take 15 to 1
20 to 1 agst Mr. R. Boyle na Wyke—taken and
afterwards offered
EMPEROR'S VASE (ASCOT).
2to 1 agst Mr. Merry's Chanticleer-5 to 2 taken
3 to 1 agst Lord Stanley's Canezou
7 to 2 agst Lord Eglinton's Van Tromp
ST. LET.ER.
5 to 4 agst Lord Eglinton's Flying Dutchman
10 to 1 agst B. Green's Lady Superior
10 to 1 agst any other.
DERRY, 1850.
18 to 1 agst Mr. Gordon's William the Conqueror—t
30 to 1 agst Mr. Henry's Pitsford--taken
40 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Compass—taken
40 to 1 agst Baron Rotlachild's Decoy colt—taken
40 to 1 agst Mr. J. Scott's Cyprus—taken
40 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Ghillie Callum—t
40 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Knight of Avenel—t
50 to 1 agst Sir G. Heathcote's Lady Geraldine c—t
In the course of the settling a gentleman paid a 1,000/.
note in error for a small one; the mistake was discovered
shortly after, but the note is not forthcoming. The matter
has been placed in the hands of Leadbetter, who, we
hear, is on the scent of the dishonest receiver.
MANCHESTER RACES.
MANCHESTER, TUESDAY NIGHT.
LATEST BETTING ON THE CUP.
3 to 1 agst InheritrCa--take n.
7 to 2 agst Joe o'Sot—taken.'
9 to 2 agst Sylvan—taken.
6 to 1 agst Mrs. Taft—taken.
• 8 to 1 agst Camphine.
8 to 1 agst Romance. .
Lady Wildair, Shylock, Melton, Rolla, Westow, and
Velox are not expected to run.
PARIS SPRING RACES.
At the second meeting the attendance of spectators,
though very large, was, on the whole, not so numerous
as might have been expected, owing probably to the
great - heat. The tribunes, however, were fully and
fashionably occupied, and the gathering of carriages
outside the ropes was as great as usual. There was a
strong muster of members of the Jockey Club. The
Marquis and Marchioness of Normanby were present.
Stakes of the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce of
2,000 f, tor horses and mares of three years old and
upwards, foaled and bred in France, whose descent is
traced in the French Stud Book; entry 100 f ; weight
for age, with extra on winners of certain stakes, and
less on mares and fillies; distance, two kilometres;
heats. (9 Entries.)
M. de He louville's f PrincesseDesit ee (Pantal) 0 1 1
M. Riv'ere's c Couche-tout-nu, 4 yrs, 1121 b ... 1 0 0
M. de Pierre's c Mytl6me, 4 yrs, 1401 b ... 2 2dr
M. de Beauvau's f Juliana, 3 yrs, 881 b
... 0 odr
In the first heat the pace was bad all the way round.
Couche-tout-nu and islytheme were constantly in front,
and the former won by half a neck. In the second heat
Mytheme and Couche-tout-nu were again ahead till the
last turning, when Princess Desires dashed forward and
won by a length and a half. In the third, Princess De-
sire, won by several lengths.
The lens Stakes of 1,0001, for horses and mares of three
years and upwards; weight for age; distance, once
round; the winner to be claimed for 2,5001. French
jockeys only allowed to ride. (6 entries.)
M. Latacho de Fay's Miss Peter, 3 yrs, 891 b (Michel) 1
M. Lupin's f Felonie, 3 yrs, 89Ib ••• ... 2
M. Carter's t Nanette, 4 yrs, 1121 b
51. Maissonneuve's c Lady Heraldic, 3 yrs, 921 b ... 0
M. Courtois's f Henriette, 4 yrs, 1121 b 0
M. de Veauce's hLe Chourineur, 6 yrs, 1131 b ...
Won by about a couple of lengths.
The Stakes des Produits of 3,000 f, added to a Sweep-
stakes of 500 f, h ft; for colts and fillies from mares
covered in 1845; weights—colts, 1081 b; fillies, 1051 b;
the second horse to save his entry. Distance, once
round (5 entries.)
M. Lupin's c Capri ... .„
M. Carter's f Horeceapathy
M. de Beauvau's f Luche
M. P. Lachaise's c EupLemesine 0
A very good race. All horses were close together to
the end. Capri was, however, always first, but only won
by a head.
Extraordinary Stakes of 3,0001, for horses and mares of
France or Belgium of eight yrs and upwards ; entry,
200 t, h ft ; weight, for age, with extra on winners of
certain stakes. Distance, to ice round and a half ; the
second horse .0 the climes, provided three
shtuld start. (6 entries.)
s
, •teerie3 IL
M. de re louville's 'kat; yrs, 1181 b 2
Euphrosine went off first, and, though never headed,
won only by a neck.
Sakes du I'rintemps of 4,000 f, for three yrs old colts
and fillies ; entry 2001 ; weight, colts, 1081 b ; fillies,
1041 b ; distance once round. (7 entries.)
M. Lachaise's f Coquette ... (Hardy) 1
M. Fasquel's f Suprema „ 2
M. Blarney's c Bon E,poir 0
M. d'l' 6 louville's f Aphra 0
M. de Perccval's f Vergogne
This race was won by :snout two lengths. Bon Es-
po!r made the running to the Ecole Mllitaire, when be
was caught by the others; and Coquette, which had been
third, went a head.
Stakes des Pavilions of 4 COO', for horses and mares of
three 3 ears and upwards; weight for age; entry, 300 f;
distance, twice round and a distance; the second horse
to receive half the entries. (5 Entries.)
M. Lupin's c Gambetti, 4 yrs, 115ibs. (Neele) 1
M. de Beauvau's m Predestines, aged, 1271bs ... 2
M. Lupin's f Sahretacho, 4 yrs, 1121bs 0
Great interest was excited by this race, from the cele-
brity of Gambetti and Pr6iestii a >, and it was admirably
contested. Eventually Gambetti won cleverly by several
lengths.
II M

(Neele) 1

_ER AJESTY's THEATRE.--Their Royal High-
nesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, accompa-
nied by their Royal Highnesses the Grand Duke and
Grand Duchess of Mecklenburgh Strelitz, and his Royal
Highness Prince George of Cambridge, honoured the
performances at Her Majesty's Theatre yesterday even-
ing with their presence. Their Royal Highnesses were
attended by the Baron Knesebeck and Major Stevens,
and occupied her Majesty's box. His Royal Highness
Prince Leopold of Naples (Count of Syracuse), attended
by the Chevalier Colonna, also honoured the theatre with
his presence. Amongst the visitors were—his Grace the
Duke of Wellington, the Duke and Duchess of Leeds
and Miss Lane Fox, the Duke and Duchess of Marl-
borough and the Ladies Churchill, the Duke X
Northumberland, his Excellency the Russian Minister,
his Excellency the Swedish Minister, his Excellency the
Austrian Minister and the Countess Colloredo, his Ex-
cellency the Neapolitan Minister, the Marquis of Staf-
ford, the Marquis and Marchioness of Thomonde, the
Marquis of lluntly, the Marquis and Marchioness
of Ely, the Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury,
the Earl of Falmouth, the Earl and Countess of Lich-
field, the Earl of Lousdale, the Earl of Belfast, Vis-
countess Bury, Viscount Anson, Viscount Somerton,
Viscount Enfield, M. de Kechmer, the Baron de Gerkoff,
the Count and Countess de Kersen, M. de Begg, Lord
and Lady Laserlles, Lord Sandys, Lord W. Lennox,
Lord G. Paget, Lord Elphinsfone, Lady Fitzroy Somer-
set and Miss Fitzroy Somerset, Lady Mallets, Lord and
Lady Templemore, Lady Ashbrook, Sir Charles Lyall
and Lady Lyall, the Hon. Mrs. Churchill, Sir T. Ret-
ford, Lady Mary Stephenson, Lady Flower, Lady Lis-
ford, Sir George Armytage and Lady Armytage, Sir H.
Wet,b, Sir Bellingham Graham and Lady Bellingham
Graham, Lady Lushington, Sir C. Sbakerley, Sir J.
Bayley and Lady Bayley, Sir Thomas Barrett Lennard
and Lady Barrett Leonard, Sir T. Hare, Sir C. Ricketts,
General Sir Richard Armstrong, the Baron de Garliche,
Lady Rivers, Sir G. Rose, Lady Austrutber, Sir G.
Carroll and Lady Carroll, Lady Webster, Lieutenant-
General Sir Alexander Woodford, Lady and the
Misses Woodford, Lieutenant-General Sir Andrew Bar-
nard, General the Hon. R. Cavendish, Mr. and Mrs. B.
rNaosrctohoeys,,,,
Smith, GAIr
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Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent
honoured the performance at the Royal Italian Opera
with her presence last evening, and occupied her Ma-
jesty's box. Her Royal Highness was attended by Lord
James Murray, Lady Augusta Bruce, Sir George Couper,
Mr. Ramsay Murray, and Mr. and the Hon. Mrs. Charles
Bruce. The Conde de Montemolin also honoured the
performance with his presence. Among the visitors
were the Sardinian Minister, the Prince Patrols, the
Duke and Duchess of Montrose and the Countess of
Glengall, the Duke and Duchess of Roxburghe, the
Duchess of Inverness; the Marquis and Marchioness of
Ailesbury, the Marchioness Dowager of Westmeath, the
Countess of Shannon, the Countess Dowager of Essex
and Miss Johnstone the Earl of Wilton, the Countess
de Flahault and INlalemoiselle de Flahault, the Earl of
Durham, the Earl of Besborough, the Earl of Bradford
and the Ladies I3ridgeman, Viscount Cantilupe, Vis-
count Mandeville, Viscount Clifden, Lord and Lady S a-
field, Lord Ward, Lady Charlotte Denison, Lord Cron-
stoun, Lady Milted, Lord Ernest Bruce, Lord Petie,
Lord George Manners, Le Chevalier and Math.= de
Herta, the Baroness de Knotlesdorf and Mademoiselle
Schimmelpenninck, Sir William de Bathe, Sir John
Walsh, Sir Charles Marshall, Sir William Fraser, Sir
Henry Webb, Sir John and Miss Burgoj ne, Sir Thomas
Phillips, the lion. Alfred Begot, Hon. Henry Coke, Hon.
entitles Barrington, Hon. Cecil Forrester, Hon. Mrs.
Murray, &c.
THE EGYPTIAN FRIGATE.—This fine vessel, built
in Egypt, and brought to this country to be fitted with
engines of 550-horse power and a screw propeer by
tlearnndennC,on.,npaasssbeodrr
troioallof withhaart
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Seasen 1849.
FRENCH PLAYS and OPERA COMIQUE.
THIS EVENING,
M. COUDEEC'S BENEFIT.
The Performances will commence at Half-past Semi o'clock with
LA DAME BLANCHE.

Georges, Mons. Octave ; Anna, Mdlle. Charton ; Jenny, Mdlle,
Guichard. _ _

To conclude with
LA PART DU DIABLE.
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' =eased expenses of the present entertainment, the prices of admis-
don are determined as iollows :
Boxes .. • • •• •• •• 6s. Od
•
Pit • • • • 3s Od.
Amphitheatre .. • • .. 2s. Od.
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