The Sun.
London, England, 1847-07-12 00:00:00

POTATO CROPIN THE CARSE

OF G 0 WRIE.

The appearance of this important crop continues
healthy-looking and luxuriant over all the county,
with the exception of the Carse of Gowrie, where
symptoms analagous to the disease of the last two
years had again manifested themselves in some in-
stances. Why it should have appeared so early in
that district may be accounted for by their being
planted earlier ; but as in several instances the plant
is already coming into bloom, without the least ap-
pearance of disease, either in stem or shaw, hopes
are yet strong that, if it should prevail again this
season, it will be both more mitigated in its form
and partial in its sphere than formerly. The early
varieties are now coming to market without taint
of any kind, and promise to be a full crop. We
personally witnessed one day last week several cases
of singular growth in that crop, in a large garden at
the west end of the town, and which we observe is
not a rare case this season, but the same has been
remarked at Elgin and other places. Among a
quantity of the early cup-leafed kidney potatoes,
planted in the end of March, and generally whole,
about two-thirds of them came up, and are looking
healthy. The owner, on proceeding to dig where
the vacancies were, found new potatoes forming
closely attached to the old seed, which was quite
instead of producing a stem
fresh ; but no stem p
this instance the order of vegetation appears to be
roceeded from the seed. In
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the stem, has reversed the order, so that the young
potato grows direct from the old one without the
production of any stem whatever. Potatoes, but of
a more globular form, and of a much smaller size,
are sometimes found growing on potatoes stored in
pits ; but we have not till now seen the same pro-
cess going on in the field. The subject, we believe,
is one which has never been investigated, though
extremely curious in its nature. In the present in-
stance, it appears to be connected with the excited
vitality of the potato tuber, which again appears to
be connected with the potato disease. To see a potato
taken on an inverted action, and producing potatoes from
its eyes instead of a stem, is in itself a matter of singular
curiosity and importance, and the investigation of which
would doubtless lead to a far more perfect knowledge of
the growth of tuberous roots, than has ever yet been ac-
quired.—Perth Courier.

THE EDUCATION SCHEME AS

REGARDS IRELAND.

8,950

0,308

,113

9,395

9,780
932

34,25
11,72'

27 215

35,022

75,498

A correspondence has taken place between the Arch
bishop of Dublin and Lord John Russell as to the
education grant for Ireland.
The Archbishop, addressing his Lordship, on the
14th of May, says—" Before the annual grant of money
for the education of the poor of Ireland is proposed in
the House of Commons, I am anxious to bring under
your Lordship's consideration the claims of a large
number of most useful schools which have not as yet
obtained any assistance from the State. Your Lordship
and other members of her Majesty's Government having
announced your earnest desire that assistance out of the
public purse should be extended to schools connected
with every denomination of Christians in England, so
that none should have reason to complain of being
excluded from a participation of the grants for diffusing
education on the ground of their holding peculiar
religious opinions, I cannot bring myself to suppose that
her Majesty's advisers will continue to shut out from all
assistance nearly 2,000 schools for the poor, which are
under the superintendence of the clergy of the Estab-
lished Church in Ireland. The schools to which I refs r
are those which are conducted on the system of the
Church Education Society for Ireland—a system which
is the same as that which was organized nearly fifty years
ago by the Incorporated Association for Promoting the
Knowledge of the Christian Religion, and which has
had the approval of every prelate of the Irish branch of
the United Church without exception. I do not know
whether it is requisite for me to explain to your Lord-
ship that the schools which are founded on this system
are open to children of every creed, that all the scholars
who have attained a suitable proficiency are required to
read the authorised version of the Holy Scriptures, and
that those children only who are members of the Estab-
lished Church are obliged to learn its formularies. The
rule respecting the use of the sacred Scriptures, wherein
this system resembles that of the National Society of
England, and that of the British and Foreign School
Society, to both of which aid is given in England by the
State, forms the sole ground on which these schools in
Ireland are debarred from receiving assistance."
Lord John Russell, in reply, dated May 26, says—
" After giving the most attentive consideration to your
Grace's views respecting the education grant for Ireland,
I am sorry to say that I am unable to concur with your
Grace, or to propose that any part of the vote should
be applied to schools connected with the Established
Church. The great majority of the people of Ireland
being Roman Catholics, I should not think it advisable
to make a provision for education from which their
children were excluded, either by law or by regulation.
The revenue of the Established Church in Ireland
appears to me sufficient, not only for the support of the
beneficed clergy, but also for the encouragement and
maintenance of a Scriptural system of education."

LODGING-HOUSES IN GLASGOW FOR THE WORKING
CLASSES.—" The Glasgow Association for establishing
lodging-houses for the working classes" has just opened
its tirst or experimental establishment. This is situated
on the west side of Mitchell-street, a few doors from
Argyle-street. The house—which has been fitted up
for this purpose under the direction of Mr. James '
Wylson, architect—comprises four storeys, thus afford-
ing facilities for accommodating separately the three
classes of inmates who in such places must be provided
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couples, leaving the ground storey to be appropriated
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a day-room, divided by
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compartments for the use of the lodgers during the
low
partitions
and in whi,:h they may take their meals. For
according to thisaoc classification,
the
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the passengers'
cabins on ship-board, excepting that the upper and
economy
of spare,
lower berths are entered from opposite sides; thus,
though rendering more standing room necessary, accom-
plishing the complete separation which is essential in
houses of this description. Each berth is furnished
with a seat, and is Kicks( d by a door, in order to secure
the clothes and other property of the occupants; and
each dormitory: is provided with a water-closet; also a
lavatory, containing several wash-hand boxes, so that. a
small number may wash at one time. The kitchen and
bar are combined, and are situated at one end of the
ground storey, separated only by a counter from the
seated portion forming the day-room. Here are pro-
vided the means of furnishing plain wholesome meals;
and advantage is taken of the draught in the furnace,
which heats the coppers, for ventilating the dormitories
above: this is effected by means of an upright shaft of
tin tubing which communicates with each floor, and
leads into this furnace, so as to become mainly the
source of its supply of air, while it is the medium by
which the vitiated atmosphere of the several floors is
drawn off downwards. Arrangements are being made
for fitting up, in the rear of the premises, one bath for
male and another for female lodgers.— Glasgow Citizen.
INHALATION air ETHER.—On awakening from the
inebriation, the personal experiences of the etherised
are most interesting. A gentle aura, of the most
curious and thrilling character, steals over the entire
frame ; and a sensation of the most perfect wellbeing
possesses the mind. Then comes a gradual loss of con-
sciousness ; sight, hearing, and tactile sensation dis-
appear. The mind appears perplexed what to
make of its new condition, and feeling as if the chains
which bind it to the earthly tenement were burst, it is
in a state of the most downright apathy with regard to
the body. The soul then seems to bathe in an atmosphere
of light, and revels in the happiness of apparently another
' world, while frequently a dream of transcendent glories
passes before it. If the inhalation is discontinued,
this blissful state is of short duration, and the stern,
cold realities of our unspiritual world force themselves
back once more upon the recollection. The baseless
fabric of the vision, and the glories fade away, and some
casual movement in the apartment summons the patient
at length out of his beatific condition. But the same glo-
rious things aro not vouchsafed to every one. Some,
on the contrary, are troubled with ideal contests with
fiends ; some are violently altercating with their
relations ; some are tumbling down bottomless abysms;
and horrors of all sorts crowd in upon the minds of others.
In these cases, it is frequent that during the praoncdess ver
io-
lent struggles, contortions of the features, oth
tokens of uneasiness,
betray the troubled state of the
dreamer's mind. A lady undergoing this process at our
hands, during the removal of a tumour, was the whole
child c
her
to
time violently struggling and crying out,
with whom she believed herself to be violently contend-
ing. Where this state exists the termination of the
process is an inexpressible relief to the etherised,
but it is an almost universal experience that
no actual pain was felt :—" It was a frightful
dream," or " I thought a fiend had hold of me,"
or "I felt I would have given worlds to be out of it,"
are the expressions often made use of on awaking. In
some cases these gloomy impressions are the result of
imperfect inhalation; but in others it is a question
whether the impurity of the ether employed is not the
cause.—People's .Journal.
DUNDEE TRADE, JULY 6. Our markets have
undergone no change claritng the last eight days. Flax
possessed of colour and quality is inquired aftt r, and is
) saleable in small quantities at about former rates. In
hemp and hemp cedilla there is little or nothing doing
for want of supplies. East India jute continues rather
scarce, and meets ready buyers at prices varying from
) 221. 103. to 241. 10s. per ton, according to the colour and
quality of the parcels.—Courier.
LARGE FAMILY OF Musnitooms.—ln a field at
Hayton, near Retford, a family of mushrooms has this
week been gathered, amounting in number to 26, of
most extraordinary dimensions, the largest of which
measured 36 inches in circumference, and weighed rather
more than qlbs. avoirdupoise.
SNOW IN JUNE.—Last week there was a pretty
heavy fall of snow in the parish and district of Reay,
so much so that the inhabitants gathered it in laandsful.
I; did not lie long, however.--Dundee paper.