The Sun.
London, England, 1871-02-11 00:00:00

the conspirators of 1605 lodged the barrels of gun-
powder, was allowed to remain in the old Houses
of Parliament till 1825, it is not now in existence ;
still the custom of searching for a Guy Fawkes
is annually obsc+rved. On Thursday the scene was
very picturesque, as a party of Her Majesty's Body
Guard, accompanied by some officials of the House,
all in antique uniforms, wound their way through
the cloisters of the handsome building so maligned
by Mr. Ruskin. The ancient ceremony was per-
formed just as seriously in 1871 as if there were still
such men as Sir Everard Digby, Rookwood, Guy
Fawkes, and Winter abroad in the Queen's
realms.

THE SHALL-PDX IN IRELAND.
Four cases of small-pox have occurred in Dublin,
and all have been clearly proved to be the result of
importations from England. One death from the
disease has taken place at Belfast, and in this instance
also there is reason to believe that Ireland has been
made to suffer for our sins. The sister island, until
this year, has enjoyed almost complete immunity
from smallpox. Indeed, in the great epidemic of
1723, when one out of every fourteen deaths in Lon-
don was from small-pox, no prevalence of the dis-
ease in Ireland is recorded. Three of the persons
who are now stated to have suffered were recruits,
who had not had vaccination performed on them
before they left England.

CRUELTY TO FOWLS.
Such great numbers of live animals and poultry
are in these days transmitted from one place to
another by laud and water, that it is very important
a strict watch should be kept over the manner of their
transit, andall needless crueltyshould be severely dealt
with. Too many farmers and dealers seem to be of
opinion that as the creatures are destined for
slaughter, it is of little consequence whether they
suffer more or less upon the journey, and so try
to save expense at the cost of pain. Such cruel and
shortsighted economy often defeats itself, and it is to
be hoped that i‘lr. Horner, a Chichester farmer,
will be henceforward wiser and more humane,. He
sent twenty fowls from Chichester to Brighton in a
crate thirty-two inches long, fourteen broad,_ and
twelve deep. It was boarded in at the top and
bottom, and gave about a superficial foot for three
fowls. On arriving at Brighton two fowls were dead
from suffocation, and the other eighteen were suffer-
ing greatly. The feathers of the dead ones were partly
stripped off by their struggles and the trampling
of the others. When the miserable survivors were
put into a larger crate by the railway officials, they
could not stand. When summoned for the offence,
the farmer said seventeen fowls had gone all right in
a similar crate, and he thought twenty would go in
this. He was fined 20s. and costs, or 14 days' hard
labour, so that, as he has lost the value of at least two,
fowls as well, he would have found it considerably
cheaper to provide a larger crate.
COOKS.

Justly lamenting the ignorance of cooking common to
Englishwomen, a society, under the patronage of the
Earl of Shaftesbiiry and the Countess of Warwick,
is about to establish a training school for cooks and
chafbbermaids. Women_too often undertake these
duties without the slightest qualification for the
performance of them, and it is scarcely fair
that their instruction should devolve upon their
employers. Moreover, masters and mistresses who
kindly undertake to make their cooks competent are
liable to suffer great injustice. One gentleman recently
procured for an ingenuous young lady, who professed
to be his cook, a thorough course of instruction in
the art. When she was "finished," she demanded
double her original wages, and failing to
obtain these terms, speedily left her situation, and
got them elsewhere. This is not encouraging to
private instruction in cookery. There can be no
doubt that women who went through a course of
instruction at school would be highly remunerated.
CANADIAN FOREIGN TRADE.
The Toronto Globe calls attention to the large and
increasing foreign trade of Canada. In the valley of
the Ottawa alone the lumber traffic, as the timber
trade is called, employs 50,000 men and 15,000 horses,
but this is a small part of the lumber trade of Canada.
The Eastern States import immense quantities,
which they manufacture and send to the West
Indies, South America, Australia, and Africa, where
timber is scarce, and it fetches high prices. The
Toronto Globe urges Canadian merchants to trade
directly with those countries themselves, by which
means they would greatly increase their profits.
If the Americans find it remunerative to buy the
timber imported with a duty of 20 per cent., manu-
facture it, and export it, it is argued very justly that
it must be well worth the Canadians' while to take
up this branch of business free of the 20 per cent.
charge. The trade is already extending in the
direction indicated. Five years ago, says the Globe,
it had no existence ; five years hence, if no unforeseen
calamity occurs, it will have attained gigantic dimen-
sions. It was not until 1864-5 that a Canadian
vessel started on such an enterprise ; but in the last
season Canada exported 25,000,000 cubic feet of
timber to La Plata, 1,700,000 to Australia, and
2,000,000 to Valparaiso. At the same time 200,000,000
cubic feet were sent to Europe, and three times that
quantity to the States, a great proportion being
afterwards re-exported.
CHINA AND CHRISTENDOM.

Some American missionaries have translated a
pamphlet from the Chinese which is called" A Death-
blow to Corrupt Doctrines," and sets forth the
6ffences of those who profess to teach Christianity.
The translators consider it to be a " faithful repre-
sentation " of the feeling against foreigners which
possesses the ruling and literary classes of China. They
are somewhat averse to publishing it in the English
language on account of the impropriety of its style,
but they think it advisable for the world at large to
understand the way in which foreigners are regarded
in China. •The pamphlet commences with a denun-
ciation of " vagabond adventurers" who teach
strange religions. The "frivolous and unreliable
books" which Christians have published in the
Chinese language come in for their share of censure,
and then the readers are informed of the practices of
the Christians. The "Death Blow" is a short
paper in two parts which reproduces a plea against
Christianity, published by a Mahomedan two
hundred years ago. The compilers of the work
have shown great skill in collecting all
the available literature of the country against the
Christians. Those who peruse this pamphlet can
have no difficult) in comprehending the meaning
of the massacre at Tien-tsin, and the hostile feeling
against foreigners in general, which pervades the
Chinese Empire.