The Sun.
London, England, 1847-10-20 00:00:00

PRODUCTIVE LABOUR.

The proprietors and farmers of the electoral division
of Collinstown, county Westmeath, have come to the
determination of making a voluntary assessment, in
order to employ the able-bodied labourers of the
district. On Thursday last a meeting was held,
when they adopted the following resolution :—" Re-
solved—That it appears that in this district there are
137 able-bodied persons likely to remain permanently
unemployed during the ensuing winter, who would
become entitled to relief, being in the proportion of
about one person to 50 Irish acres ; that it
seems an equitable principle that as the cost
of their relief would have to be about equally
shared by landlords and tenants, that instead thereof
they should be equally divided among them for
employment; that accordingly each landlord will be
expected to find employment for an extra man, se-
lected from the above number, for every two Irish
acres he possesses, for the ensuing five months ; and
that every occupier of land (whether landlord or
tenant) will be expected to employ one such extra
man for one month for every twenty acres occupied
by him, being in the same proportion of one to each
100 acres for five months; it is proposed to make a
registry of the above 137 persons, and to allocate
them tor employment as soon as the general consent
of the proprietors and tenants can be obtained. The
majority of the former have already consented, pro-
vided that the others will concur. It is earnestly
hoped that every one in the district will see the urgent
importance of active and instant co-operation for their
own and the common interest, and will not lose a
day in giving their consent.

" W. B. SMYTHE.
" Barbavilla House, Oct. 16, 184721

STOCK EXCHANGE.
Royal Bank, 10i ; Dublin Consumers' Gas, 3 ;
Dublin and Belfast Junction, 2.

A NEW KAVANAGIL—On the 14th ult. there died
at Puckeridge, a young woman, named Elizabeth God-
dard, aged 22. Four years since, while a domestic ser-
vant in London, she slept in a damp bed, in consequence
of which she lost the use of her limbs, and has been
bed-ridden ever since. Her parents and intimate friends
assert that she has not eaten any solid food for three
years, attempting to take nothing but water, and her
stomach even rejecting that. During her illness she
was visited by gentlemen from Old Hall Green, and
adopted the itomiSh faith. The friends refused to allow
her body to be opened, and the registrar gives the vague
and insufficient report—" Cause of death, internal."---
Hertford Mercury.
LORD ASHLEY'S VISIT TO THE WEST PORT TER^
RITORIAL SCHOOL, &c.—lmmediately after the meeting
at the Ragged Schools, Lord Ashley, accompanied by
the Rev. Mr. Tasker, the Rev. Mr. Guthrie, the Rev.
Mr. Miller, Sheriff Jameson, and other gentlemen, pro-
ceeded through the Grassmarket to the territorial church
and schools of the Rev. Dr. Chalmers at the West Port,
where they found nearly 300 children under instruction.
His Lordship expressed much delight with the aspect of
the children, and the arrangements of the school. Like
many former visitors, he at first seemed disposed to doubt
that the children present could be the offspring of so
destitute a locality. His Lordship, having inspected
the church, next visited the Victoria House, 85, West
Port, established some years ago by the Association
for Improving the Lodgings of the Working Classes,
which is so successfully conducted by the superintendent,
Mr. ITGuire, and which has become s-, popular among
those for whose benefit it was established.—Edinburgh
Witness.

Perrot has left Paris for Milan, where he will pro.
duce a new ballet of hia own composition at La Scala.

See. 6. The states of the league propose facili-
tating, as much as in them lies, the means of com
munication in the inland frontiers, by redueing as
much as possible the existing duties.
Sec. 7. They also propose taking measures for
the adoption of a uniform money currency, and a
uniform system of weights and measures.
Sec. 8. The states of the league expect that the
other states will acknowledge the German flag, and
that consequently any vessel sailing under such
colours, though with a crew belonging to some other.
state, member of the league, or laden with produce of
another state of the league, will be placed exactly on
the same footing as one of its own vessels.
Sec. 9. The states of the league are ready to con-
cede to the ships of all other states the same privi-
leges they have mutually conceded to each other; but,
on the other hand, they expect that the other states
will concede the same privileges in their ports to the
ships of the league.

sec. 10. The states of the league are willing to
place the ships of all nations on the same footing, as
regards shipping dues and custom duties, thus giving
no preference to the shipping of any particular state.
On the other hand they expect their ships to be treated
in every respect on the same footing as the most
favoured nations.

Sec. 11. Should another state not act up to the
terms of Sec. 8, the states of the league would be
placed in the necessity to impose double port dues,
and extra flag-money on the vessels of such state en-
tering their ports.
Sec. 12. In so far as foreign states should refuse

to admit, or place heavier conditions on the ships of
the league, coming from the ports of another state,
and laden with the produce of another state (indirect
traffic), than on those coming direct from the ports
of the league, or with the produce of the states of
the league, the allied states reserve to themselves the
right of retaliating by placing higher entrance duties
or higher duties on the produce imported by the vessels
of those states into their ports.
Sec. 13. In so far other states should treat on more
favourable terms the ships or produce of a third state
either entering its ports or crossing its land frontiers
than those accorded to the states of the league, the
latter propose imposing differential duties to the
disadvantage of the ships and produce of such states.
See. 14. The same to be the case towards those
states who by monopolies, privileges, or other means
should throw obstacles in the way of the commercial
and navigation interests of the states of the league.
Sec. 15. The principles contained in secs. 8-10
are to constitute the basis for the conclusion of all
treatie3 of commerce and navigation between the
league and other states, as also to serve as a guide to
the line of conduct to be observed in their relations
with Wier states.

Sec. 16. In future the leagued states, as a general
rule, 'are only to conclude treaties of commerce and
navigation with other states in the name of the league.
should individual states of the league conclude trea-
th-s with other states on their own account, it can
only be done on the condition that it is in the option
of the other states of the league to enjoy the same
privileges acquired by that treaty by placing them-
selves on a reciprocal footing.
• Sec. 17. All states of the league bind themselves to
notify within as short a time as possible the disconti-
nuance of existing treaties of commerce and naviga-
tion
with
conditions other states,
contained in e
and osnlc. 6.y to renew them under
the
Sec. 18. The states of the league propose establish-
ing consols at the common expense, to guard over
their interests.

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Sec. 19. As regards the measures to be taken re-
specting neutrality, quarantine regulations, and other
measures, they are still open to consideration.

IDLE ARMIES TRANSFORMED INTO " INDUSTRIOUS
NAVVIES."—By a sort of exemplary inversion of Mr.
w eale's proposition to turn " navvies" into armies,
50,000 soldiers have been turned into "navvies," on the
St. Petersburgh and Moscow line of railway. and their
immense united strength thus turned to better account
than to the idle and continual waste of this description
of " working power," so prevalent elsewhere, yet so
capable everywhere of assisting great national works,
not otherwise to be even dreamt of.—Builder.
RAILWAY ROBBERIES.--On Saturday information
was circulated that a parcel containing a number of gold
March," and a small
and silver watch-cases had been stolen, from the Euston-
square terminus of the North-Western Railroad; and
sthaamteanroatihlwerayp.,areceenithaaindiopgrevaiosumslyallbegeonldstoalnend from theGenova
watch, No. 8,931, akTeßistnoaßmAel:
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laid on the east Sid© Seymour street the pipes are being
rear the foot pavement,
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riFperso74othnigs
the New-road, King's-cross, I'entonville, City-road, &c.
to the central station of the Telegraph Company, in
Lothbury. Upon the railway the telegraph is rapidly
approaching completion. Below Wolverton it is already
finished, and in working order. From that station to
Camden-town the pots are fixed and the wires hung for
some considerable distance. It is expected that the
whole line of communication between London and Liver-
pool, by means of the telegraph, will be completed before
the close of the year.
SUICIDE OF A CLERGYMAN AND. MAGISTRATE.—
On Sunday afternoon last Haslingden and the neigh-
bourhood was thrown into a state of considerable excite-
ment, owing to a report that the Rev. W. Gray, rector
of Haslingden, who is also a magistrate, had committed.
suicide by cutting his throat. It appears the reverend'
gentleman
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lie eat his dinner as usual, and at half-past two o'ebek
in the afternoon ho was found dead in his bed, with; his
throat cut in a shocking manner. A razor was found in
his hand. No reason can be assigned fur the rash act.
Deceased was about sixty years of age.—Liverpoe/ Mer-
cury. -