The Sun.
London, England, 1840-03-23 00:00:00

UN WHOLESOME FOOD.

It is matter of notoriety that a very considerable
proportion of the grain of last year was so miserably
harvested,as to be unfit for use without admixture with
foreign flour, or with the flour of beans or peas. The
binding property of sound flour is destroyed in that mad..
from sprouted wheat, and hence the necessity of this or
some other admixture,—a necessity which we fear but
too frequently prompts to a pernicious adulteration of
this first necessary article of food.
We call attention to a letter with which we have
been favoured by our able colleague in this noble
cause, Dr. Epps :
Sir,—ln the course of my professional duties, I hap-
pened a few days since to meet one of the large flour-mill
owners in the county of Cheshire, whose flour passes to
Lancashire, Staffordshire,and Scotland. He stated the
following tact, which cannot be too extensively diffused,
namely, so large a portion of British-grown wheat, the
produce of last harvest., is unsound, having sprouted in
the year whilst in the field, that to make it fit for use.
two-thirds of foreign wheat are added to one of British.
" Believe me, your obedient servant,
" JOHN EPPS, M.D.
" 89, Great Russell-street, March 9, 1840."
Whilst we do not doubt the necessity of this ad-
mixture of two-thirds of foreign with one-third of British
flour, we do seriously question the fact itself, at a time
when the duty on foreign wheat is so high as it now is,
:21s. Bd. per quarter, or 2.5. Sid. per bushel. What
article may be used as a substitute we know not ; but
we well remember, under similarly unfavourable cir-
cumstances some twelve years since, that the Derby-
shire spar was largely and perniciously used. At all
events, the inquiry is of the utmost importance to the
public health.—Anti-Corn-la to circular.

DISTRIBUTING SOCIALIST PUBLICATIONS
AT TILE DOORS OF CIIIIRCIIES.—A young scan named John
Frierson, appeared at the New Bailey yesterday. having been
summoned under the :9th Geo. 111. c. 79, s. U. 5, for distri-
buting a printed publication without the printer's namoattached
to it, by which he rendered himself liable to a penalty of 51.
The Rev. 11. Fielden stated that on Sunday last, as he was
going from St. Mary's Church to the Collegiate Church, the
defendant offered to put into his hand a printed paper; in the
first instance he refined to take it, but after altrds turned round
and took it. Mr. Fielden produced the paper, which was an
exposition of Mr. Owen's views On marriage. Mr. R. B. R.
Cohhett, solicitor, who appeared for the defendant, quoted a
clause in an art which had passed last Session, requiring that

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no person shall institute a prosecution for any penalty under the
Act unless he were deputed by the Attorney-General ; and the
last clause in the Act provided that the two Acts should be
construed as one. Mr. Maude said there must be a nonsuit ;

lie \vas not previously aware that the Act passed last Session
extended to cases of this kind. Mr. Maude said, whether
any reasonable man could approve of the sentiments in the
paper, he was not going to say ; but it was an indecent thing
to distribute a paper of that kind at church doors, among par-
ties whose opinions are the very opposite. The defendant said,
he did it in answer to a misrepresentation which had been made
in a sermon by the Rev. Mr. Parkinson. Mr. Cobbett said,
he trusted the case would not only he dismissed there, but that
no further proceedings would be taken. Mr. Maude said, be
should only decide for that day. The matter then dropped.—
Manchester Guardian.
Mr. Haynes's new tragedy of Mary Stuart was
performed at Bristol on Thursday week to an immensely
crowded house, Macready sustaining the character of Ruthtin
with all his original energy. It also is getting up at Liverpool,
Manchester, and Edinburgh.
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eight o'clock on Thurtstdeanydnin Londonightlast,fodrutring eputrhpeosefnorfthapenpino.inntg-
ing a deputation to a
debate John Petrie, Esq., in the chair.
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emd'ernh-tl'alkwls ;
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William Holt, that John Fenton, Esq., M.P
~George Ash.
worth, Esq. (the magistrate), and Mr. Joseph Fenton, jun.
(Mr. John Fenton's son)ir.
jenohmnple3slteghtthetadteelanitthataitonp,,wtihtii:nhs was
carried nemi
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Somerplace.s Milkstone, Whitworth,
been sent from Milnrow,
and other villages in the parish of Rochdale, which together
contained 3,600 names. These, added to the names that
were attached to the Rochda.le Anti-Corn-law petition, would
nearlj the adult population of the whole
make 13,300. being
parish. A Chartist addressed the meeting at eonsideralile
length, expressing a hope that the middle classes would culti-
vate a kindlier feeling towards them. It was ter want of
unanimity amongst them that the ar.stocracy were enabled to
tax the poor man's loaf, while they allow their own landed es-
tates to pass from father to son free from duty of any kind.—
Manchester Guardian.

The committee of the Athenwum club have
elected his Excellency M. Guizot, the French Ambassador, au
honorary member of their society. Several noblen4n, Fentle-
men. and men of science belonging to the elub have stasa-
quently invited his Excellency to a dinner, to be given 84 a ,
tribute to his literary fame. M. Guizot has accepted the in-
vitation with many exprsesions of acknowledgment.-- Weal
Chronicle.

AT MEETINGS of ENGINEERS and
STEA3I-SHIP BUILDERS, held at the Queen's
Arms Tavern, Cheapside, March 13th and 18th, 1840, to take
into consideration what Measures it may he necessary to adopt
relative to a proposed Bill " To regulate Navigation by Steam, '
to be introduced by Government, founded upon the Report of
the Commissioners appointed to inquire into " Steam Vessel
Accidents," _ _

it was unanimously Resolved,—
That this meeting, having taken into consideration the ex-
pressed intentions of Government to legislate upon the Re-
port of the Commissioners of Inquiry into " Steam-vessel
Accidents," and the extensive powers proposed to be vested
in the Commissioners and Inspectors, are of opinion that such
a measure would not only be detrimental to their interests
as a body, but highly prejudicial to the interests of the
public, by causing an undue interference with marine engineer=
mg, and thereby retarding the rapid advancement which has
hitherto resulted from the unfettered liberty of that branch of
science in Great Britain.
That the following Geneemen be requested to act as a Com-
mittee, with full power t ) communicate with Government,
the shipowners, or other parties, and to take snch measures as
they may deem advisable to protect the interests of the en-
gineers, and steam-ship bu Hers, with power to add to their
number : _

Mr. Alfred Blyth Mr. Joseph Maudslay
John Blyth Thomas Maudesley
Ditchburn Joseph Miller
Fairbairn Murray
Field John Penn
Hague Ravenhill
Samuel Hall John Seaward
Nicholas Harvey Samuel Seaward
That the thanks of the meeting be given to Standish Motte,
Esq., for his attendance and exertions.
That the resolutions and proceedings of this Meeting be
printed and advertised ; and that a copy of the same be for-
warded to the engineers and steam-ship builders at the outports,
with a circular requesting that they will support by meetings
and resolutions the proceedings of the central body.
W. LAXTON, Hon. Sec., 11, Parliament-street.

HIS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of
AUSTRIA having AUTHORISED and GUA-
RANTEED several DISTRIBUTIONS of MONEY
PREMIUMS, which (though they are NO LOTTERIES)
offer many possibilities of obtaining
LARGE FORTUNES,
HEINE BROTHERS, at H_CIIBURGH,
are NOW SELLING SHARES for the said DISTRIBU-
TIONS. Persons desirous to purchase, may receive, PRE-
VIOUS to giving any order, the PROSPECTUS and PAR-
TICULARS, upon addressing WITHOUT DELAY, a line
to HEINE, BROTHERS, at HAMBURGIL
P. S.—THE NEXT DISTRIBUTION contains Portions of
TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND,
FIVE THOUSAND,
TWO THOUSAND,
ONE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED,
ONE THOUSAND,

EIGHT HUNDRED, SIX HUNDRED, FIVE HUN-
DRED. THREE HUNDRED, TWO HUNDRED AND
FIFTY, TWO HUNDRED. ONE HUNDRED AND
FIFTY, ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY, ONE HUN-
DRED AND TEN, and ONE HUNDRED POUNDS,
&c. &e., amounting to £13.1,990 Sterling.