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be produced than in Ireland. A skilful and judicious
farther is certaln to produce the more valalhlc (Lbw ip-
tion, and it is only reasonable to suppose that the
example thereby afforded will, in a short time, when
its advantages ar.e fully understood and appreciated,
be generally followed. In estimating the annual
return, we shall, however, restrict ourselves to the
present average value, and make no allowance for
the probable improvement that may follow a more
thorough knowledge of the details and operations
connected with its growth.

An acre of ground will produce from forty to fifty
stone of good flax as a fair average ; there would be
a much larger quantity of the coarser description,
but the quality would be deteriorated in proportion
to the increase of quantity. This may be averaged at
15s. per stone ; we thus find a return of 30/. per acre
for the fibre alone, in addition to which there is the
value of the seed, which will be found to average
from 51. to 101. per acre. This seed will be
found a most valuable and nutritious food for
cattle ; every large farmer will, therefore, be
enabled to use it on his own lands, the impor-
tance of which for any description of produce
it is impossible to over-estimate. In addition to
the profit of the manure thus produced, the
water in which the flax is steeped will be found a
most useful liquid manure, enriching the soil, and
producing the most luxuriant crops. We, therefore,
find that every portion of it is turned to advantage,
and a money return of from 35/. to 401. per acre in
addition, which, if we allow for the increased expen-
diture in labour rendered necessary, will leave a
' larger profit for the farmer than almost any other de-
scription of crop. There is no danger of an insuffi-
cient demand ; on the contrary, there is a constant
drain of money going from our shores to pay
foreigners for that which might be produced
at home. By the official returns for six years, end-
ing in October, 1845, it will be found that no less
glorious misfortunes of the last days of the Imperial
period."
According to the National expresses have been re-
ceived from Brussels, announcing that the life of
King LEOPOLD is despaired of.
The price of grain is falling in all parts of France.
From the following paragraph, which appears in
the CourrierFrangais, it should seem that the Bey of
TUNIS has already found cause to repent of the
facility with which he suffered himself to be
duped by M. GUIZOT into the desertion of his
natural allies, for the purpose of throwing himself
into the arms of those who, having used him as their
tool, now cast him off, and leave him to his fate. The

Courrier says—
" The Bey of Tunis is said to have appealed to Aus-
tria for its mediation for settling two of the serious
differences which have arisen between him and the
Turkish Government—the one relating to the disputed
line of boundary between the frontier of the Regency
and the Pachanc of Tripoli; and the second on a de-
mand made by Turkey upon the Bey for the payment
of very large sums of money-, pretended to have been
due to the Porte from his father. These differences are
distinct from the question of independence, the most
serious of all, into which the Bey has been drawn by
the demonstrations of the French Cabinet, which now
confesses itself to be incapable of supporting him in it."
Intelligence has been received from Algiers of the
10th. The Moniteur Algerien of that date says—
" On the 7th the Prince de Joinville left Algiers on a
rapid tour in the south, accompanied by his aide-de-
camp, M. Touchani, and by M. de Cissy, chef d'escadron
of the staff. Relays were ordered to be in readiness all
along the road. His Royal Highness stopped at Bouf-
farick, and was struck with admiration at the richness
of its vegetation. Colonel Claparede and most of the
officers at Blidah came to meet the Prince at Mered,
where he mounted on horseback in order to have a
better view of the country, which being covered with
the harvest and studded with pretty villages, presented
a striking contrast with the negative results which the
evil passion of misrepresentation has attributed to all
our attempts at colonization. The Prince de Join-
trifle received visits from, and invited to dine with him,
all the chief civil and military authorities of Blidah, but
declined all the public honours due to his rank. This
species of incognito, however, is to cease on his enter-
ing the territory of the Arabs ; because it would not be
considered by them as consistent with their ideas of
royal mijesty. It may therefore be expected that they
will come in crowds to receive the son of their Sultan,
and entertain him with brilliant fantasias. On the ith,
the Prince was to start at six in the morning for the
Col de Mouzaia, where General Marey would be ready
to meet him with a numerous goum of Hadjoutes.
Before the Prince left Algiers, the Governor-General
ad interim, General de Bar, and the Admiral command-
ing the naval statio‘had the honour of dining with him
on board his flag-s "
We read in the same journal :

" The column from Algiers which took part in the ex-
pedition into Kabylia is expected back to-day. It has ac-
complished its mission, which was to obtain positive
pledges of obedience, and to strike with awe such
tribes as by manoeuvres had avoided compliance with
our summonses on the first passage of the artity. The
column from Setif has obtained similar results, but had
to fire some shots on the 31st ult. This rencontre ended
in a complete submission, and cost us only one man
killed and four wounded. We also receive the most fa-
vourable news from the west, where General Renault
has brought his operations on Brizina to-a happy termi-
nation, and sent his goums on the track of our enemies
in flight, as far as almost one hundred leagues from the
Tell. General d'Abbouville, with a moveable column,
has collected the tribute from the Msirdas. The accounts
from Morocco represent Abd-el-Kader as being very
powerful in the north of Taza, and procuring ample sup-
plies of provisions for his Deira, notwithstanding the
near neighbourhood of a camp of the Emperor's regular
troops, commanded by his son. Muley Abderrhaman
dared not return into Fez, and every indication presages
great events."
The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on
Wednesday at 77f. 60c.; the Five per Cents., at 117 f. 65c.;
Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,275 f. ; Rouen, 9751 ; Havre, 6551.;
Great Northern, 593 f.; Avignon, 730 f.; Vierzon, 6171. 50c.;
Bordeaux, 511 f. 25c.; Troyes and Montereau, 280 f.; Basle,
190 f. ; Dieppe, 3151. ; Paris and Strasburg, 428 f. 75c.;
Tours and Nantes, 4121. 50c.; Paris and Lyons, 447 E 50c. ;
Lyons and Avignon, 448 f. 75c; Belgian Two-and-a-Half per
Cents. 54 f. ; Spanish Three per Cents., 35f. ; Spanish Do-
mestic Debt, 30.

Lyows, JUNE 14.—Paris and Rouen, 973 f. 75c.; Avignon
and Marseilles, 751 f. 25c.; Vierzon, 617 f. 50c.; Northern,
600 f.; Paris and Lyons, 443 f. 75c.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, JUNE 17.
Central of France (Orleans and Vierzon), 16—Luxem-
bourg, I%—Namur and Liege, 3q—Northern of France,
11%—Paris and Lyons, 5%.

LATE RAILWAY ACCIDENT.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sax,--Observing in your excellent paper this morning
that various means are pointed out by parties to ensure
additional security to the public travelling by railway,
I beg to point out one that I think the late awful
accident near Wolverton imperatively calls for, which is,
that not only upon all points of the railway, such as
where Fossey was placed, but also upon all engines and
tenders, now conducted by two individuals, an over-
looker, every way competent, should be at hand, to see
that the duty of those so appointed should be properly
attended to. Just for a moment consider what would be
the consequence should any of the three employed be
seized suddenly in a fit of apoplexy, or otherwise dis-
abled from performing their duty. Had such an officer
been appointed, Fossey never would have dared to turn
the train improperly off the right direction, which the
verdict of the
.jury proves he did.—l am, Sir, &c.,
ONE OF THE CORONERS FOR THE
COUNTY OF YORK.
June 17, 1847.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
STOCKBRIDGE RACES.—THURSDAY.
The Stewards Plate of 80 sovs., added to a Sweepstakes of
2 sovs. each, for the second horse. Gentlemen riders, &c.
Heats, one mile and a half.
Mr. Isaac Day's Kismet, 4 yrs (Wakefield) 0 1 3 1
Mr. Waller's Columbus, 5 yrs, list 7W
Mr. Bayley's Satyr, 6 yrs, lOst 71b ...... 00 1 3
Mr. W. Sadler's Antagonist, 3 vrs, 9st 91b
Mr. Elwes's Chemise, 5 yrs, lOst 7lb
Mr. Pedley's Miss Burns, aged, 1 Ist 31b
Mr. Brettle's Brunel, 6 yrs, list (6 lb extra) 0 dr
Mr. Dorrien's Laird o' Cockpen, 5 yrs, lOst 101 b 0 dr
Captain Patten's Flirt, 6 yrs, lOst 7lb (61bs ex) 0 dr
Mr. Treen's Wild Ito% 5 yrs, 9st 111 b
First Hea'.--2 to 1 each agst Antagonist and Miss Burns.
Won by a neck ; •Miss Burns a bad third, Laird o' Cockpen
fourth, and Wild Roe fifth, the others did not go for the heat.
Second Heat-6 to 4on Columbus, 4t9 1 agst Kismet, 4
to 1 agst Antagonist, and 10 to 1 agst Satyr. Won by a
neck. Chemise a bad third, Satyr atAl Columbus did not go
for this heat.

Third Heat--G to 4 agst Kismet, and sto 1 agst Satyr.
Won by a length.
- Fourth Heat-7 to 4on Satyr, and 2to 1 agst Kismet.
Won by two lengths.

THE HISTORY OF MARY ANNE I`ll ELLINGTON.—
BY THE REV. R. Conisorm,—A new and cheaper edition of
this interesting work has just appeared, complete in one
volume, with illustrations, in which form it will probably
become as popular as "
The History of Margaret Catchnole,"
by the same, which is now in its fifth edition.—'The story
of Mary Anne Wellington is no fiction ; it is almost a literal
relation of the strange and eventful life of a female who,
born in the camp, followed the ranks during the last war,
witnessed the most memorable events of the Peninsular cam-
paigns, and was herself engaged in many surprising adven-
tures. It gives a most lively idea of a soldier's life, of the
excitement of battle, and of the horrors that followed. It
turns up new ground, as we do not think any narrative of a
like kind has previously been given to the public, and well
deserves perusal for the singularity of its heroine's history,
for the adventures and perils it relates, and for the startling
pictures of warfare it discloses.—Britannia•
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the Ist of May next, no person under the age of eighteen is
to be employed in a mill or factory more than eleven hours
per day, nor more than sixty-three hours per week. From
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to be employed in a mill or factory for more than ten hours
per day, nor more than fifty-eight hours per week. Both
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