The Sun.
London, England, 1847-07-08 00:00:00

JULY 8, 1847.

BRUSSELS AND DUTCH PAPERS.

BRUSSELS, JULY 6.—Their Majesties the King and
Queen are expected at the Palace at Lacken, on their
return from London, on Tuesday evening next. Their
Majesties will reach Ostend on Monday. Her Royal
Highness the Duchess of Kent is also expected at Brus-
sels in the course of a few days, o❑ her return from
Germany.
"Leopold, King of the Belgians, to all persons present

and to come, greeting,
" On the proposition of the Minister of the Interior
and Finauce,—We have decreed, and do further decree,
" Article I. The time fixed for the decrees of the 7th
and 20th March, 1847, for the free importation—first,
of flour and meal of all kinds—second, of cattle—are
passed for flour and ireal of all kinds, till the Ist of
April, 1848 ; for cattle, till the Ist of September, 1847."
The frontier of the province of Luxembourg, are ex-
cepted from the present decree, in that relating to cattle.
There shall be charged a right of bilance of ten cen-
times per 1,000 kilogrammes of flour and meal, and per
head of cattle.
Article H. Our Minister of the Interior and of Fi-
nance, are charged, each in his proper department, with
the execution of the present decree.
Given at Loudon, June 28, 1847.

LEOPOLD.

ANTWERP, JULY s.—ln the first six months of 1846,

1,040 ships arrived at Antwerp, the tonnage of which
was 144,130 tons; in the first six months of this year we
had 878 ships, with a tonnage of 143,431 tons. Thus
there was 162 ships less, but only 699 tons less; there-
fore the ships which have arrived this year, bavo been
superior in tonnage to those of 1846.
Numbers of ships continue daily to arrive laden with
corn, and every facility is given them to urload their
cargoes, so thatas little time as possible may be lost.

ATTEMPT TO ROB A POSTMAN.

A desperate attempt was made yesterday morning to
rob the old postman, who has been in the habit of con-
veying the bankers' letters and parcels from the Post-
office in St. Martin's•le-Griind to Lombard•street. The
following is the substance of the account of the attempt,
given at some of the banking-houses :
As Inspector Woodroffe, of the City police, was pass-
ing, at about five minutes after eight, along Wood-
street, Cheapside, he was informed by a man that there
was a cry of murder in Mitre-court, a narrow passage
between Wood-street and Milk-street. He immediately
ran to the entrance of Mitre-court, the gate of which is
locked every night at eleven o'clock and opened at six in
the morning ; and finding that it was locked, he sus-
pected that there was foundation for the outcry, and
dispatched one of the men round to the gate in Wood-
street. It was then ascertained that the postman in-
trusted with the transmission of the Lombard-street walk,
and who was in the habit of passing through Mitre-court,
had been attacked by three men in the narrowest part of
the passage, that he had been struck by one of them
with a life preserver on the head, and knocked down,
and that the others endeavoured to drag away his bags
from him, but without effect, as he roared out " mur-
der" in such a manner as to strike his assailants with
the dread of detection. The thieves, who were, no
doubt, what were called " family men," escaped. When
they heard the strong lungs of the postman they ran
to the Wood-street gate, and, being supplied with a
skeleton key, they pulled to the gate, locked it,
and got away just before the inspector was
informed of the alarm. The skeleton key and the
life-preserver were found by the officer. The poor post-
man bled profusely from the head, but although the vio-
lence used against him was very great, he grasped his
bags in the most determined manner, so that even those
who went to his assistance could not have got them from
him without great difficulty.
It is conjectured that the plan had been laid for some
time, and it was remarkable that the communications
from the correspondents of the bankers happened to be
unusually large yesterday morning.

• A COMEDY IN REAL LIFE.--The residents of the
Sixth Avenue, near Thirty-second-street, were, on Wed-
nesday, treated to a very effective comedy by a couple of
amateur performers, who went through their parts so
well that it is generally believed they have had consider-
able practice in the same line. The main incidents of the
piece are as follows :—A gentleman went home to his
dinner, and, having suffered a trifling loss from a fall in
the stocks, was disposed to make up for it by venting
his disappointment upon the unoffending members of his
family. This is a very old practice among married
gentlemen, and wives ought by this time to be used with
it, as lobsters are to be boiled alive. But the wife of this
gentleman didn't exactly understand the mission ; and,
when he remarked that there was too much pepper in
the hot pie, and that the dinner generally was not fit for
a hog, she replied that, if she bad known it was to be
eaten by a hog, she would have made it fit for him.
This, of course, led to a spirited reply; and the lady at
last forgetting the humility so becoming in a
jumped up in a passion, and dashed her plate on the
floor. "0, ho," exclaimed the husband, "if you are
going to play that game, I will be up with you!" So
he seized a tureen and smashed it against a crimson
sofa. The lady, not to be outdone, upsets the table,
and so smashes all the crockery at one blow, and then
dares her husband to go on. To show that lie was as
full of spirit as his wife, the gentleman flings a water-
goblet at the French clock on the mantelpiece, over-
turns his wife upon the floor, and darts the chair on
which he was sitting through the window into the
street, and then tosses the mirror which hung in the room
after it. Having finished the work of destruction in-
side, he rushed into the street, and began to demolish
the chair and the remains of the mirror. While en-

gaged in this work, a body of M.P's., who had been sent
for, made their appearance, and took the spirited gen-
tleman into custody. lie asserted his right to destroy
his property, and remonstrated with the MX*. on their
impertinent interference. The officers of the law ad-
mitted his right to destroy his property, but denied the
lawfulness of his doing it in the street ; and for that
offence they took him off to the station-house, where we
lost sight of him, and remain in profound ignorance of
the winding-lip of the-comedy. .From the turbulent and
unhappy conduct of this piece we see the wisdom of the-
old dramatists in ending their comedies with a marriage,
instead of beginning their dramatic personages in that
blessed condition.—New York Mirror.

PROSPECTS OF THE HARVEST.—The weather has
again become most propitious, and never did England
appear more rich and beautiful than at this time. The
crops of every kind and everywhere are most luxuriant,
and we speak not as mere road-side spectators ; for we
have gone with practical men and extensive farmers
among the crops, and have heard and marked their opi-
nions of them ; and they all agree that there never was
a time when the harvest was more abundant. On Tues-
day we saw three pieces of wheat at Cooksbridge, near
Lewes, belonging to Mr. Waters. The first was a piece
of Talavera wheat, which was out in full ear; the straw
strong and abundant; the ears as level as a bowling-
green, and every plant healthy and vigorous. Another
and much larger field of red wheat was also very
fine; the stems five feet high, and the ears level,
full, well formed,
and in bloom; but the third, and
one of the finest pieces we ever saw, was a very large
field not reckoned very good land, and which has
been only brought into a good state of cultivation
within a year or two by under draining and proper
dressing. Here the stems Nyere nearly six feet high;
the ears very full, fine, and in full bloom, and with fine
weather it will yield a most abundant return. Mr.
Elhaiann, at Landport, has als3 a capital field of barley,
and another of wheat, lying together opposite his house.
But go in what direction you may, the crops almost
universally look well, except in some very poor land, or
where the land has been too highly dressed: for land
may be over as well as under manured. The beans,
peas, oats (with some exceptions), and barleys, look
as well as the wheats, and nowhere have we seen any
indication of the disease in the potatoes.—Brighton
Herald.
CAUTION TO PARTIES RESIDING AT THE COAST.--

Friday morning, about day-break, a gentleman occupy-
ing a bed-room on the ground floor of a house in the
West Bay, Gourock, was awakened by a slight rustling
noise in the apartment, such as might be produced by a
mouse or a rat playing with a piece of paper. After
listening for a few minutes, the gentleman got up, and
having drank a glass of water, was returning to bed, when
he observed the window blind, which was drawn down,
wave as if moved by a current of air. This drew his
attention to the fact that the window was opened
though it had been shut, but not snibbed down, when he
went to bed. On farther examination he found that his
pocket-book, which he had left on the toilet• table, had
been rifled of its contents, and was lying outside on the
window sill, and that some silver coin, together with a
small gold seal, had also been abstracted from the table;
the robbery having seemingly been effected by opening
the window and using a short hooked stick which was
found lying on the ground beneath the window.—Glas-
goiv Argus.
THE POTATO CEOP.—We are sorry to state that
there no longer exists a doubt that as far as regards the
early potatoes, the same mysterious disease which
committed such havoc the two last years has again
made its appearance in this district (Kirkby Ire-
leth). We have not; heard of any well authenti-
cated case of its having yet attacked the more re-
cently planted potatoes, though, of course, great
apprehensions are reasonably entertained respecting,
them. This is the dark side of the picture. The
bright one is, that the weather is most propitious,
ous,
and there is every probability of an early and abundant
harvest. Should this fair prospect be, by
otfhtehe bless
same
ng
potato
of Providence, happily realised, the fa 0
crop, should it occur, will not be prodiulcutrive of the
ear. By reason
melancholy consequences as it was i a
st
labouring portion of
of the high price of provisions, them ly
of whom receive
the population of Kirkby Ireleth, an
but scanty wages, have had for some. months back to
endure much suffering, and it is onlyciufsotriteietutdoestahyatthdaot
they have done so with a patience
them credit.—Lancaster Guar ian..
OMNIBUS AccipnriT.--Yesterday afternoon, about
seven o'clock, a young girl, aged seventeen, daughter to
Mr. Hurley, of Quebec-street, Marylebone, was crossing
Oxford-street, near the end of South Moulton-street,
when, in endeavouring
to get out of the way of an ap-
proaching carriage, she was knocked down by the
horses of an omnibus coming in an opposite direction,
the wheels passing over her abdomen. From the dread-
, fulintigeof the inAry r,be t sot expected to recover.

LIVERPOOL ELECTION.
The following handbill has bean extensively cir-
culated :

" ELECTORS OF LIVERPOOL.

"In choosing your representatives, select no man who
will not pledge himself to a revision of of the money laws.
" So long as raw material, labour, and skill are abun-
dant in the country, or can be readily obtained, if we
possess a sufficient medium of exchan,.,,e, we have the
elements of everything that is wanted in human exist-
ence ; but if any of these are deficient, merchants and
traders are embarrassed, and workmen thrown out of
employment.

‘i Will you say we lack labour? Will you say we lack
skill or industry? Do we lack the raw material neces-
sary for our clothing or building, or land on which to
produce or procure food? If we lack none of these things,
and, besides, a large portion of the world is eager for our
productions, and anxious, upon fair terms, to exchange
theirs for ours, what do we lack but money and common
sense ?—Not a contracted currency, which raises the price
of food when it ought to be cheapest, and reduces the
value of labour and of all manufactured articles, and
fills the pockets of the drones of society and the bul-
liouists. Oh, no!
" The Currency Bills of Sir Robert Peel have proved
the curse of the country; therefore no candidate ought
(for party reasons) to be supported who refuses to vote
" Z."
for a modification of the same.

WISDOM OF THE EXCISE LAWS-
(Abridged from the Edinburgh News.)
A highly respectable paper-manufacturer near
Dover was lately subjected to one of those many annoy-
ances that the Excise-laws, as they now stand, unjustly
warrant. In order that those unacquainted with the
Excise-laws in regard to paper may understand the
hardship of this case, it may be necessary to premise that
the Excise duty on paper is levied by scale weight only,
and that the Excise officers themselves weigh the paper.
It is a custom of the trade (introduced by stationers) to
mark each ream of paper one pound heavier than the
actual weight, and 10 per cent. on the actual weight is
allowed by law for this " making up." A hundred reams
were charged by the maker in question, and because
it happened that these hundred reams, in the bulk,
were a few ounces under the prescribed allow-
ance, they were instantly seised and carried off in
triumph, the officer himself sitting on the paper in the
waggon, as if some great fraud had been committed,
instead of a trifling inaccuracy in computation on the
part of some of the workpeople; and, be it observed, an
error which, even if intentional, could neither be pro-
ductive of benefit to the manufacturer or loss to the
revenue. Nevertheless, in addition to the loss of the
paper, which was enough indeed, a highly-principled
manufacturer, of thirty years' standing, had his hitherto
high reputation injured by a cartload of seized paper
being paraded through a populous neighbourhood to
the residence of the supervisor, no one but those
immediately concerned knowing the why or the where-
fore—the only construction that could be put on such an
exhibition being, that an attempt at fraud had been
detected. On sth November, 1842, a puncheon of spirits,
in the act of being lowered into the 'Princess Royal'
(a London steamer, lying at Granton and bound
for London), slipped from the slings and was smasked
to atoms at the bottom of the hold. The spirits con-
tained in it were of course dispersed over the whole year
sel by the violence of the concussion, and thence run-
ning down amongst the bilge water, were utterly lost.
This accident happened in the presence of many highly
respectable witnesses, and one might have imagined that
no duty would have been charged on spirits which had
thus never gone into consumption. The distiller accord-
ingly petitioned for remission of the duty, but was in-
stantly refused; he then sought that, at all events, he
should only be charged the Scotch duty of 3s Sd a
gallon, since, if the spirits were held to be consumed,
they were, at all events, consumed in Scotland. And
what was the reply ? Why, this, that the distiller
had intended these spirits for the London market,
and that, therefore, to the London market they
should go; or, at all events, that whether they went to
the London market or not, the distiller should pay the
duty upon them. Accordingly, the full English duty of
7s. 10d. per gallon was charged, and the distiller was
forced to pay to the Crown the sum of 65/. 13s, id. for
spirits which he had satisfactorily proved, by the oaths
of the parties in charge of the vessel, had not, and never
could have been consumed. The whole value of spirits,
exclusive of duty, was 151. 9s. 6(1., and this loss one
might have supposed, was sufficiently heavy ; but no,
the Excise duties, amounting to 65/. 13s. Id., must be
paid in addition, and the unfortunate trader's loss was
thereby increased upwards of four hundred per cent.
by the exactions of the Excise. A seizure was once
made by a supervisor of about fifty little parcels
of paper at a mill, because these were tied up in
wrappers without labels being pasted upon them.
The Excise, at the time in question, did not allow paper
to be put up in less quantities than a ream, and the
parcels referred to consisted of remnants of so many
different kinds, ranging from one shret or quire up to
nineteen. They had been tied up for no other purpose
than that of keeping them clean and in good order. It
'only required the statement of this circumstance to the
Board of Excise, to procure the restoration of the
paper, though not without a good deal of trouhle, and
alter some weeks' tfelay ; but, in the meanwhile, the
trader had to endure all the odium consequent on the
fact, proclaimed abroad, of a seizure having been
made, without its being known that it proceeded from
excess of zeal in a contemptible officer ; the
manufacturer, besides, being greatly inconvenienced
by the want of specimens of the papers which he had
been previously making, in consequence of these rem-
nants having been carried away. This robbery was
eren sanctioned by the letter of the law. On the Bth o'
August, 1844, an extensive fire happened at Leith
Distillery, when among other things, a considerable
quantity of spirits and wash was destroyed. One might
suppose that so great a calamity overtaking anindivi-
dual would be loss sufficient; but no, the Excise roue'
share with the devouring element in the amount of spoil
—415/. Is. 4d., duty on 2,264 gallons of spirits, which
the Excise assumed ought to have been produced, but
which never were produced, was levied on the unfortu-
nate distiller! If a distiller in Campbelton wishes to
export 20 puncheons of malt whisky to New York (and
Brother Jonathan, be it known, loves a drop of moun-
tain-dew), the excise regulations in regard to it are
somewhat amusing; for, if it be exported from Liver-
pool, the distiller pays Bd. a gallon more duty than if he
export it from Glasgow or Greenock. Upon 20 pun-
cheons, this would amount to about 1001., no trifling
sum to pay for the privilege of exporting from the
Mersey instead of from the Clyde.

BARTHOLOMEW'S AND GUY'S CLUBS BOAT.

RACE.
This event, which has of late excited great interest in
the aquatic circles, came off on Tuesday; but owing to
an unforeseen occurrence, disappointed a great portion
of the aquatic amateurs who had assembled to witness it.
The distance was from Putney-bridge to Chiswick
Eyot, and the Thames, Herne, Guy's, Bartholomew's,
Thetis, Clothiers', and other boats were in attendance.
I3artholomew's— Messrs. Girdleston (stroke) ; 3.
Watson ; 2. Williams ; 1. Warwick ; Waship

(steerer)
Guy's—Mr. Hewitt(stroke); 3. Cooper; 2. Mathorpe;
1. Brinekly ; P. Thompson.
Mr. Chapman, of the Thames, officiated as umpire.
A reasonably good start was succeeded by both parties
veering from the course in which they should have
rowed, the Guys too closely hugging the Middlesex
shore, their station, and the Bartholomew's, on their
part, steering too much towards the bight on the Surrey
shore. In a few strokes they were almost level, the
Bartholomews having the lead for about a foot; then
the Guys began to draw in advance, and off Rose Bank
had their length clear. It was a capital race all the way
up to Hammersmith-bridge, the Bartholomews putting
on some strong spurts, but the Guys! gaining at every
stroke. At about 200 yards above Hammersmith-
bridge, at which time the Guys were leading by above
three lengths, Mr. Mathorpe broke his thaul, and, of
course, could row no longer ; the other three pulled
away as well as they could, but the Bartholomews gra-
dually came up to their opponents, and jumped their
boat in half a length ahead.

THE BOSJESMANS—EGYPTIAN HALL.—The crowd
of fashionables that yesterday honoured the exhibition
IBS
of the Bosjesmans with their presence,were greater
by the appearance of the celebratedrformancnteered his
would
e singer, American Barlow, who kindly vole
services to see the effect his Accordingly,
have upon the Bush his banjo and
four o'clock Mr. Barlow, w_
pia' tform, he commenced
blackened face ascended
°thee - Bosjesmans standing in
people..th Accordingly, about
one of his lively melodietsili g
rest surprise and satisfac-
tion. At the termination nof tie song Mr. Barlow made
bursting of a steam vessel ; the
elegant positions, indatitilnea
a peculiar noise, like
bowffrigh and the young one i
People
seizedt''. his and arrow with an evident in-
binuesdhiateiy
on the defensive. The nigger melcdists
inueentced the Railroad Overture, and not only
excited
the utter astonishment of the Bush people,
but also the satisfaction auditory. Lords
Comberrnere, Barr
of a numerous .
thent e n
ti
° commenced o to
ington, Edwin Hill, Forrester ; Lady
Seymour, Lady Payne, Colonel King, and many others
of the aristocracy, were present on the occasion.
ACCIDENT TO TIIII SEA KlNG.—Yesterday morn-
ing, about 2 A.m., owing to the very dense fog which
prevailed, the steamer Sea King went ashore on the
smallest of the Copeland Islands, on her passage from
Liverpool to this port. No blame whatever is attribut-
able to Captain Gowan, who was on deck at the time.
The lead was going constantly, and the vessel at slow
speed, but the fog was so intense that no precaution was
of avail, as a proof of which we may state, that even
after the ship struck, the laud was invisible,
though but
fifteen or twenty yards distant. The passengers weren
morning, all safely disembarked in the course of the _iveiwol
Lad
came up to town by various conveyances.
_...

Courier:
REPRESENTATION or BOLTON.—RETIREMENT OF
MR. AiNswoant.---The Liberals of South Lancashire
will rejoice to learn that Mr. Peter Ainsworth, after
having misrepresented Bolton for the last twelve years,
has at last deemed it prudent to withdraw, rather than
contest the borough with Mr. Brooks and Dr. Bow-
ring at the approaching genoral eleotion—,Manchester
Emitter'.

HOP INTELLIGENCE.
BATTLE.—In the parish of Crewhurst thles are in
most places well clothed with bine, and a parently in-
clined to branch very thickly, which gives to the grower
a hope of succepir; yet the bine looks something more
dried, and the leaves less expanded than they were a
fortnight back ; a warm shower would probably do them
good. Amongst some young pieces, being the first year's..
poling, there were aphides, and one piece from which
sap was exuding, and forming slight honey-dew on the
leaves, but nothing serious, the dry north-east wind.
being rather unfavourable. The general opinion of the
growers in this neighbourhood is, that they are doing
very well at present in the flat grounds, where it is cool
and moist ; on the upward pieces:they are little:affected
with insects.

~~

BECIELEY.—The hops in this and the neighbouring
parishes are much infested with fly, but are in growing
and thriving condition.
Bunwasix.—Among., the hops one race of insect is
devouring another. The " niggers" are eating up the
lice ; the fly has disappeared ; there is, however, more
honey this week than last, and the appearance of the
bine is in most gardens less healthy now than then.
BRIGHTLING.—The hops in this parish, in some
gardens, are much worse than they were a week back,
and have some honey dew; while others are growing
fast and looking very promising.
FLETCHING.—The hops this week have made no pro-
gress, and generally they are much infested with
vermin and honey-dew. Some of the gardens are look-
ing very bad.

GARIMEt-STREET.—Since my last the hops in this
parish have undergone a change. In many gard(na
there is a considerable quantity of honey-dew fallen in
the past week, and the appearances are not so favour-
able for a crop as.they were ten days ago.
HEATIIFIEED.—The past week has been a disastrous
one to the hop-plant, and not only is it general in this
locality, but' wheresoever we gather intelligence from
the like inauspicious cry is given. The myriads of
vermin (flea, fly, and lice) have been daily increasing,.
and continue to do so, while the honey-dew has literally
begrimed most of the large leaves, on many of which
in the hot afternoons it flows freely and drops ofE
All these evils are rapidly progressing concomitantly
with a continuous north-east wind, remarkably cold
nights for the season, blue-misty mornings and hot
afternoons, so that a more unpropitious combination of
circumstances for the hop-plant, which is daily getting
of a blacker hue, can hardly be imagined, and unless a
speedy change takes place, a general blight is foreboded
by many. .
HORPIONDEL—Some plantations are very much
honied, and the leaves are getting black, with an increase
of lice, which are in a doubtful condition. In other parts
of the parish that are comparatively clean, the blues are
progressing satisfaCtorily. We are stillOf opinion that the
or will be partial. . .
MAYFIELD, J*ITLY 4.—The hops are not unproved this
last week, but in some instances in worse condition, being
sitaoked with honey-dew and covered with lice ; but we
live in hopes of a favourable change, not forgetting what
took place last year.
NEWICIE.—With the exception of two or three gardens,
the hops have since the last account much gone. off: •
Vermin and honey-dew exist to a great extent, indeed
so much so, that it is the general opinion there oan be but
a very slight crop.
NINFIELD, JULY 3.—The hops in this neighbourhood
are growing, but are not free from vermin. We have at
present but little honey-dew; fine weather for a week or
two would very much assist them.
ROTRFIELD..—FIy and vermin among the hops, in this
district are very partial; some are in an improving,
others in a declining state.
TIINBRIDGE.—Within the last three or four days the
lice and honey-dew have increased in some grounds in
this neighbourhood ; generally, the accounts are less fa-
vourable than last week.

WADHITRBT.—The hops in this district since the last
report have experienced a decided change for the worse.
The cold eastern winds that have prevailed for the last
few days have checked their previous vigorous appear-
ance, and the honey-dew is visible in many grounds.—
Sussex Advertiser.

ALARMING SPREAD OF FEVER
AMONG THE LABOUR) S ON THE CALE-
DONIAN RAILWAY.
The amount of fever raging among the " navvies
engaged in forming the Caledonian line, is very great
It is of a very dangerous and fatal description—mostly
black spotted typhus. A great number of deaths have
occurred recently. A few weeks ago there were six
corpses, at one time, lying at Eccletechan. The num-
ber of burials in Crawford church-yard was becoming so
great, that, fearing the place would be shortly filled, a
piece of ground has been procured at Elvanfoot, in
which a number of interments have taken place.
It is a melancholy spectacle this spot, on the
bank of the river, close by the bridge,' along which
the coach road goes. There they are placed in regu-,
lar rows. much the same way as are the victims of
cholera in the supplementary burying grounds. 4Fune-
rals there are taking place daily, and now upwards of
twenty bodies are laid in it. The fever has assumed
the most alarming aspect about the highest summit
level ; and the contagion has spread to a considerable
extent among the regular inhabitants of the district.
There_ are very few who have not known the loss of one
or more of their relations. One man, who keeps a
small shop, had his wife, son, and daughter dead in one'
week ; and next week his sister, her husband, t heir
son and daughter also died—all from fever caught by
infection. The medical men attribute the extensiva
.pread of the disease to the a'most entire want of vege-
tables—the general food being of a dry, hard I stare.
The appearances of the huts in which many ot tha
" navvies" lodge would strike a stranger as being con-
ducive to disease—ninny of them are built ot wet turf,
on a damp mossy soil, and taken possession otimme-
diately on being roofed in. The amount of disease
therwise, taus 'd by irregular habits, is stated to be very
considerable.—. North British Mail.

OVERWORK AMONG THE FARMERS.—Near Gains-
borough, Lincoln, and Louth, the labourers walk even
longer distances than near Reading. I am informed of
instances where they walk as far as six mil c, that is,
twelve miles daily, or seventy-two miles weekly, to and
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rmi
cyu•e
that such a waste can have taken place. Fifteen miles
a day is the regular march of infantry soldiers, with
two rest days—one on Monday and one on Thursday;
twenty. four miles is a forced march. The man who
expends eight miles per diem, or forty-eight miles per
week, expends to the value of at least two days' bard
labour per week, or one hundred in the year, uselessly,
that might be expended usefully and remuneratively
in production. How different is it in manufac-
tories, and in some of the mines, or at least in the best
managed and most successful of them In some mines
as much as 2,0001. and 3,0001. is paid for new machinery
to benefit the labourers, and save them the labour of
ascending arid descending by ladders. In many manu-
factories they have hoists to raise them and their loads
from lower to upper rooms, to save them the labour of
toiling up stairs, to economise their strength for piece-
work to mutual advantage. The Rev. Frederick Peel,
of Gainsborough, informs me, "I have farms under my
knowledge where the labourers, going to and fro, do not
walk less than a hundred miles a week." The whole of
this mileage, paid partly by the farmer and partly by
the labourer, and in part, eventually by the owner him-
self, may be set down to the law of parochial settlement.
—Mr. Chadicick's Speech at a Meeting of the Farmer's
Club. .

TRADE IN Gons!—Strange and even profane as
this title may sound, it is literally a fact. La Demo-
cratie Pacifique states that there is a warehouse in Paris
with the title, " Depot for African Gods ! " The firm
of Regis carries on an extensive business with
Senegal, where there are about as many kings
as medireval Italy had princes. These African kings
make war by way of a little pleasant excitement.
When one of them has lost a battle he dismEiessiess his
and
" gods," and oruers new French ones frofm
deal,g
with
Co., who employ artists to make them, ;7,i_a.s.
When
serpents' heads, lions' manes, and tiger! I
°lc:lt their efficacy.
" gods," he goes to war in order to a Senegalian potentate obtains a c
in their "gods."
Hitherto Regis and Co. have beeno gnm ept of new
fine weather has
THE lIAY lIARVEST.of 1
hay that mowers are ex-
caused so general a file]]
procured. The crops, gene.
tremely difficult to
of the
but tko coldness
ec)ss which prevailed during the
weather and the wsome
localities,
by checking vege-
spring, have, in
d the crops light, we saw. a
e-
lation, rendered the rally speaking, arcetfb good,
„ of Italian rye-grass, which was grown
specimen
by John Priestley, Esq., at Hirdrefaig, that mea-
sured five feet six inches in height, and Dr. Owen Owe%
Robert. has just bad mowed, at Hendrewen, Bangor,
about four acres of Italian rye-grass, cow-grass, and
trefoil, which appears to be as heavy a crop as ever
was produced in these districts. When green about
a week betore mowed, it averaged, when accurately
tested, six pounds to the square yard.—Curnarrort
Herald.

FEARFUL ACCIDENT.—EASTERN COUNTIES LINE.
—On Friday
evening, as Mr. Richardson, master of the
carriage department on the Eastern Counties line, was
proceeding to Tottenham in a special engine, he per-
ceived, when near the Edmonton station, a child huddled
up, and apparently lifeless, lying on the side of the line
and close to the rails. The engine being stopped, and
the body lifted upon it, Mr. Richardson perceived it to
be a fine boy, between the age of ten and twelve yfears,
quite insensible and covered with blood yet flowingfrom
frome whence
extensive lacerations on the head. Two of tbreerto
the
consta-
bulary were instantly forwarded with the sufferer
advice,
had re ditc h
Grimahaw,term thein u s
stationb y the trainot as thenter,
b), due,
medical
For
choandsidhei obtained to the boy's
being of
.such a nature as to
Bible to account for the
parents, and it was equally m
rmablceontivmeye•endo
clueto theeouTi.donbdeon Hospital. a
lesion of their having been inflicted by
warrant the cone
ns At length it was ascertained that
the passing trai •
name is Henryaccident, the injuries not equally
the hapless child, whose.
wandered from his home in Green-street, Bethnal-green,
to Edmonton, where climbing a high wall for the purpose
of viewing the railroad, he overbalanced himself and fell
over. Not any hopes are entertained of his recovery.
AN ANECDOTE.—" Martha does thee love me ?"
asked a Quaker youth of one at whose shrine his .heart's
fondest feelings had been offered up. " Why, Seth,"
answered she, " we are commanded to love one another,
are we not?" " Ay, Martha; but does not thee reward
me with that feeling that the world calls love?" " I
hardly know what to tell tnee, Seth. I have tried to
bestow my love on all; but I may have sometimes
thought perhaps that thee was getting nether more than
thy share "
The New York Herald contains an advertisement
1 from " a respectable young woman who wit Ates $o Kt sr
wet nurse to a iroteitant baby."