The Sun.
London, England, 1847-01-25 00:00:00

LTIVATION OF COTTON IN

THE EAST INDIES.

In our last, we published the memorial of the Hull Cham-
ber of Commerce on this important subject, to the C mut of
Directors of the East India Company, and to the Board of
Control for the affairs of India. To it, the following satisfac-
tory reply has been received from Sir John Hobhouse, Bart-,
the chairman of the latter department :
" India Board, 19th January, 1847.
" Sir,--I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of
your letter, dated the 13th instant, transmitting for my in-
formation, copy of a memorial, addressed by the Chamber
of Commerce of Hull to the Court of Directors of the
East India Company, on the subject cf cotton cultivation in
India.

"In the year 1840, this important subject engaged the
earnest attention of the Court of Directors and this Bocrd,
and arrangements were then made for testing, on a large
scale, the capabilities of India to produce increased supplie,
of cotton, adapted for the home market ; and as several of
the experiments then introduced are still in progress, you
may rest assured that my best considerations will continue
to be given to every practical measure having for its object
the improvement and increased supply of an article so es-
sential to the welfare both of India and the United Kingdom.
"I have the honour to be, sir, your most obedient servant,
JOHN HO
" Thomas Thompson, Esq., &c.," &c,, HuII."BHOUSE.
—Hull Advertiser.

SUN EXPRESS.—About ten o'c;ock on Wedneadat•
morning', we received from Mr. Horn, news agent, a copy of
the Express Sun, containing the debate in the liotke of
Commons up to half-past eight on the previous evening,
another proof of the determination of the proprietors to
gratify their readers with the latest news.—Newcastle
Chronicle.

BRISTOL SUGAR-MARKET, JAN. 22.—1 n the ab•
sence of sugars of direct import, a large business has been
done in coastwise parcels, at a further adYance of 2s. and 3s.
per cwt. on the rates of last week. The refined market is
very buoyant, and 70s. is marked for standard quality;
treacle, syrup, 325. to 31s.—Bristol Mercury.
WATER SUPPLY OF ROME AND LONDON.—The
probable supply to the 1,000,000 inhabitants, of which Rome
could one time boast, amounted to 50,000,000 cubic feet,
being equal to about fifty cubic feet for each individual.
This is probably twenty times the quantity which London
now receives for each of its inhabitants—a fact which goes
far to justify the application of the disgraceful term " bath-
less" to this the largest, the most opulent, and the most
powerful city in the world. How miserably insignificant do
our waterworks appear, and how trifling the• supply they '
furnish to this mighty city of more than 2,000,000 persons,
when contrasted With the immense flood of pure water
poured into old Rome by her gigantic aqueducts I And how
discreditable the difference between the two capitals, when
we reflect on the far superior resources which modern sci-
ence has placed at her command, and on the well-known
fact, that through the happy constitution of the strata on
which London stands, she has at her command—requiring,
as it were, but the smiting of the rock to make them gush
forth—boundless supplies of the purest possible water.—
Mechanics'
Mr. Gully, late M.P. for Pontefract, is spoken t f
as the second Liberal candidate for Andover.—Doncashr
Gazette.

The Worshipful Company of Saddlers, B. B.
Williams, Esq., master, gave a grand entertainment
at
their Hall, in Cheapside, on Wednesday last, to the Baron
Lionel de Rothschild, the Masters of the Worshipful Com-
panies of Salters, Dyers, Cutlers, and Joiners, all of whom
are intimately connected with Ireland. After the usual
loyal toasts, the master gave the health of Baron Rothschild,
Captain Colegrave, John Barnes, Esq., hig,h'sheriff of the
county of Bucks, and the other visitors. The Baron Roths-
child returned thanks in an appropriate speech, congratu-
lating the company upon the unanimity existing with so
many influential companies, and feelingly entere I into the
present unfortunate state of Ireland, and co :chided by pro-
posing the health of the master, a very old and sincere
friend of his family. The evening was one of great har-
mony, the musical department being under the able
ma-
nagement of Mr. Moody, and did not terminate until a late
hour.

NATIONAL GALLERY.—We learn with much regret
that Mr. Eastlake, R.A., has resigned his appointment in the
;rational Gallery.—Builder.

PETITIONS OA\ I itIvATE BILLS.
110LTE OF COMAIt/NS.
Room 22, before Mr. Examiner SMITH and .74r. As
alitant .Examiner FRERE )
UNOPPOSED LIST.
The following petitions being unopprsed, the customary
formal proofs were put in, and the standing orders declared
to have been duly complied with :
London, Brig t in, and South-Coast Railway.
London-briage Station and Enlargement.
London-bridge Railway Termini and General Enlargement.
Londonl Brighton, and South-Coats Railway Extension to
London-bridge.
Norfolk Railway (Yarmouth Extension, from the Station
in the parish of Lanham to Great Yarmouth, with power to
lay down tramway from the terminus of such Extension to
the Quays of Great Yarmouth),
Norfolk Railway (Branch from Norwich to Aylshim with
a Branch to North-Walsham).
Norfolk Railway (Branch from Thetford to the Lowestat
Railway, war reed m m, with a Branch to Halesworth ).
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway (Sheffield
Canal purchase).
Manchester Market Acts Amendment.
Fleetwood, Preston, and West Riding Junction Railway,
Burnley and Colliirf Branches.
Sheffield Canal Amendment (repeal of provisions as to
repair of Sheffield and Trinsley road).
Warrington Gsa-light and Coke Company (amendment
and enlargement of 3 Geo. IV., c. 35, with power to sell on
lease to the Commissioners of Police).
This closed Mr. Examiner Smith's list for to-day. •
(Room 23, before Mr. Examiner MAY and Mr. Assistant-
Examiner G urrrtEu..)
BRISTOL AND EXETER RAILWAY EXTENSION.
This was the petition of the above company for leave to
bring in a Bill to make a line from Crediton to Launceston, a
distance of 35% miles. The estimated cost was 905,000/.
Mr. ELLICOMBE appeared to support five memorials against
the petition, signed by 113 individuals. The memorialists
complained of defects in the levels, plans, and sections, and
impugned the accuracy of the books of reference and notices.
Some of the allegations were sustained.
The case occupied the whole of the day. •

HERRING 'TRADE---CONTI-
NENTAL MARKETS.
The Commissioners of Supply for the county of Banff bars
transmitted a memorial to Government, to obtain the admis-
sion of British cured herrings into the continental markets
on the same terms as those cured in Holland, &c. A more
extensive field for our herring trade is much required abroad,
and if such an outlet be not secured for this important branch
of our native industry, many thousands of our population
will be thrown out of employment. In Banffshire alone 800
boats and about 8,000 persons are employed in the severti
departments of the herring trade. Some of the circum-
stances atated by the memorialists are interesting In
1810, the total cure of herrings was ninety thousand, it now
exceeds six hundred thousand barrels, on an average, yearly.
The failure in the potato crop, for the last two years, has ex-
ercised a most depressing influence on the price of herrings
in the home markets, causing a very great diminution in
their consumption ; so much so, that it is consistent with
the knowledge of your memorialists, that a great quantity of
crown branded full herrings, the produce of this season's
catch, remains on hand at the present time in the Irish mar-
kets, unsaleable at a proportionate rate to the value of pther
provisions, or, where forced off, not yielding over 9s. per_ bar •
rel—not half the actual cost of the barrel of cured fish as it
leaves the curer's hands—a satrifice of property ruinous to
those embarked in the trade; and, with a recurrence of the
potato failure, your memorialists are fully aware that a most
material decline in this branch of our native industry must,
in consequence, ensue—save an increased demand can be
created abroad for the cured fish. Looking to the continent
of Europe, your memorialists find, that Prussia and the Ger-
man States are, in a manner, the only countries open for the
import of British cured herrings at moderate duties (Prussia,
35.); Russia, whose population is very fond of salted her-
rings, and on which we have strung claims for reciprocity in
trade, would consume eliormously, were our herrings admis-
sible on a parity of duty with those of Norway, on which it
amounts to Is. 2d. per barrel, whilst the rate leviable on Bri-
tish cured amounts to 4s. and 4e. 6d. per barrel, according
to the rate of exchange. Your memorialists cannot omit
stating that, in consequence of this differential duty, not
more than two thousand to three thousand barrels British
cured herrings find their way into the Russian markets, being
at the same time, well assures that our fine and carefully-
cured herrings, in comparison with the coarse winter her-
rings of Norway, would, at an equal, or more moderate duty,
ind unlimited consumption amongst the population of the
vast empire in question. It is also in the knowledge of your
memorialists, that, were the present duty of 16f. exigible on
British cured herrings, on importation into Belgium, reduced
to that leviable on the cure of the Dutch, viz., sf. per barrel,
the country in question would annually draw large supplies
of the article from the Scotch ports; whereas, under the
existing differential duty, the Dutch fish-curers have a mono-
poly of the important fish market under notice."—The mer-
chants, fishcurers, and others interested in the trade and
fisheries of Orkney, have also memorialised the Government
to the same purpose. They set forth, amongst other disad-
vantages suffered by the enterprise of Orkney, that whereas
the Norwegians have plenty of the best wood for the con-
struction of herring-boats, at a cost little more than the price
of cutting the trees, Orkney does not produce timber. The
cost of constructing vessels is, of course, enhanced by the duty
on foreign timber. Farther, all the articles of foreign pro-
duce consumed by the Norwegian fishermen are imported at
very low rates, while the same articles for British fishermen
(such as tea) are heavily burdened. The Orkney memorialists
state that the best market' for cod is Spain, and that within
these few years a direct trade to a considerable extent had
been opened iu that most important branch of the fisheries;
but that the trade has been greatly restricted by the import
dues, which are, when directly imported in a British bottom,
101. per ton ; indirectly, 121; directly in a Spanish vessel,
6/. 10s. ; indirectly, 8/. 13s. These dues are considered exces-
sive; while herrings, by the Spanish laws, are, if British
cured, altogether excluded. As a nursery for seamen, the
memorialists show the northern fishings to be of importance;
for, in the last war, Orkney and Shetland furnished upwards
of s,ooo'effective seamen for the fleet.—lnverners Courier.

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REPRESENTATION OF TAMWORTII.—It is currently
reported in this locality that Mr. William Peel, on the part
of the Protectionists, has determined to oppose his brother,
; Sir Robert Peel, at the next election ; and likewise, in the
event of his doing so, that Captain Townshendiwili contest
the seat with Captain A'Court. We give this rumour as it
has reached us; but the idea of opposition to the Right Hon.
Baronet from such a quarter seems to us so monstrously
absurd, that for the sake of Mr. William Peel, we should be
sorry to vouch for its correctness.—Birmingham Journal.
THE QUEEN'S CONCERT ROOMS, HANOVER-SQUARE.
—Menzies annual Caledonian Ball took place at these elegant
rooms last Thursday night, and, notwithstanding that several
other favourite as,emblies came off in different parts of town
the same evening, as well as the very unfavourable state of
the weather, this one was patronized by a numerous and
highly respectable company. Mr. Menzies, assisted by one
of the directors (Mr. Vote), conducted the ceremonies.
Adams attended himself as Leader to his famed band,
playing all the most choice and fashionable airs ; and Mr.
Siackay, his late Royal Highness the Dukeof Sussex's piper,
lelighted the Highlanders with strathspeys and reels. The
;upper tables and refreshment rooms were under the super-
intendence of Mr. Shelley, of the Swan Hotel, Fulham, who
dvinced the utmost attention to the wants and comforts of
the party, which gave universal satisfaction. The dancing
continued with unceasing vigour until an early hour. The
whole. of the arrangements reflect credit on the judgment of
the directors. Notting was overlooked that tended to the
happiness of the company, which all enjoyed to indulgence.
I'HE DESTITUTION IN THE BIGHLANDS.—We are
4lad to observe, by advertisement, that Mr. Wilson, the
favourite vocalist, has generously announced his intention to
give an entertainment on the songs peculiar to the fligh-
Leeds of Scotland, in the Princess's Concert-room, on Tues-
lay evening. The programme contains a choice selection!.
and, we doubt not, but those who feel for the misfortunes
this brave and loyal people, will co-operate withinbef.o.dyW,il
and
JiEfsu3l
by their attendance, to listen to his matchless
their sympathy with the cause.
TS.
rovoe's herself
By Mos. TAOLLOPE. —The volumes FATHER EUSTACE, A TALE OF
,shep
would
ObrefOLHEUs,
with the greatest
them-
selves be calculated to inspire us _ respect for
tiaonn3..thlinrigtheemse
frollope had never ,ryroifttiei
her powers as a write.
unfolded to be a woman of genius, and has the depth and the
grasp of her mind. til e feel convinced that " Father ELs-
tace" will be sought for eagerly, and devoured, not only by
those who habitually indulge in the reading of
persons of education and enlarged understanding. Wh( re-
f-ore it should appeal thus strongly to the
feelings of the
whole t e
whole public must be explained. '
the novel is directed
against the Je,uitsi, or, more it •
properly be said, against that
unwholesome influence stealing beneath a hundred forms,
clothed in a thousand sectarian guises, in to the very to som
of society, which no one can deny to have existence. Evi ry
day affo
rds some instance of a secession from the ranks of the
Church of England into those of the Catholic Church, and
nothing could occur more opportunely than the publication
Father Eustace," which is destined, we feel assured, to
penetrate far and near—to reach those to whom an essay or
other work might be addressed in vain. M. Michelet has
endeavoured to make known the principles which keep to-
gether the institution of the Sacred Heart, but they have
never, perhaps, been brought so intimately into connexion
and contrast with the concerns of our own domestic hearths
as in the ably written pages of" Father Eustace." It is full
of scenes depicted with the most extraordinary felicity and
power."—Sunday
THE LAMBING SEASON.—The lambing season
having commenced, we hear of several births upon various
farms in the'district. Mr. Graham, of Blackwell-wood, Mr.
11. Ferguson, of Harker, and Mr. Thomas Dockray, of Green
Quarries, are among the earliest who have had an accession
of lambs to their flocks. Mr. Graham, of Blackwell-wood,
has a ewe which dropped a fine lamb on the 18th instant.
The offspring of the same ewe has graced the sheriff's table
at the spring assizes fur the last three years successively.—
' Carlisle Journal.

ROYAL YA CIIT SQUADRON INTELLIGENCE.—At
the meeting of the members at the Thatched House Tavern,
on Wednesday, it was resolved to postpone the election of
Commodore till the May meeting, and that then every
member should be allowed to vote either by letter, by being
present, or by giving his name to one of the candidates.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Proprietor. Mr. W. Batty.
Mr. BATTY respeettully begs to acknowledge the unprecedented
success bestowed on his productions at the above Establishment,
and, in returning thanks, purposes devoting a night for the benefit
and relief of the destitute Irish arid Scotch, on THURSDAY, Feb.
11. The evening's receipts will be given, st.rd the extmsive re-
sources of the Theatre will be brought into action.
Patronised by her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, Prince
Albert, Prince of Wales, and Royal Family. Grand Juvenile
rites, and last wee: of " The Denton Horse."
• THIS EVENING
Wut be:t,rformed a grand new Magical Equestrian Romance, en•
••,ted TUE•DF MON MORSE ; or, The Twelve Wishes and the
Chz.,..Texed "
=lure
To
con, Change of the SCENES of the CIRCLE.
Tlirble7
entitt ith thesuccessful ' • Comic Equestrian Fairy Pantomime,
the Robbor.. FoltTYCave THIEVES; ; or, Harlequin and Ali Baba and
vey ; ranwocm,ei‘trelown, Mr. Rochez ; Harlequin, Mr. W. Har-
anitiox•omee o
ven Laffaritii ; Columbine, Miss Louisa Waite.
at hm eleven till live o'clock.—Doors open at six
Broadfoot. alf•Dait six o'clock.—Stage Manager, Mr. W.

it"AL SiTitEY THEATRE.
Lessee, Mrs. Frances Davidge.
THIS EVENING
The
Will be
Progres performed
of a Scam ormed a new Drama, entitled LADY RATTLER; or,
etgength of the Company. s p. Characters supported by the whole
To conclude with a grand fairy Pantomime. called TILE KING
OF THE CASTLE ; or, Harlequin in the Land of Dreams. liar-
tenni it Herr DLjlin ; Pantaloon, Herr It. Devlin ; Columbine, Mdlle.
_Clown, Herr N. Dentin • Punch, Ilci r E. Detain
, .
Theodore

--______ ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE.
Another new Drama, and
Head continued career of the great .. co_a.
" l'untomime,
THIS EVENING

Will be performed THE GUNSMITH OF ORLEAN'S •
Duel Woman's Secret. In which Messrs. Hicks, Forin'an or, The
Searle,
Bird, Howard, 211iss Vincent, Mrs. flicks, lam Lee, and hlias
Pearce will appear.
After which, the Burletta of TILE MISTAKEN STORY. Mr,
Forman, Miss Pearce, &c.
To concluder with the grand Christmas Pantomime, sa:
titled THE B Ifni OF THE STEAM ENGINE ; or, Harlequin
" Go-a-Head," and Joe Hiller and his Men. Clown, Mr. T. Barry.

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EXTRAORDINARY DISPATCH.—"Through the poli e
attention of G. Graham, of out Post-office, we were favoured
on Wednesday morning last, about eleven o'clock, with a
copy of The Sun newspaper, crntaining the Queen's Speech,
and nearly the whole of the debates in Parliament on the pre-
ceding night! The papers were sent by Mr. Smith, the
aprited and active news agent 'of 192, Strand, and conveyed
by the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway.—Car.isle Journal. I