The Sun.
London, England, 1847-04-24 00:00:00

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suggestions offered to him, but it did tot always d°
to adopt suggestions. Marinari. the scene painter, was once
employed to paint a Roman street. A. crowd of artists assem-
o
bled in his painting-room, and one suggested to him
introduce a tree in such a part—another to introduce a rose
bush—another a part,rre, /IA so on ; and the result wa, that
when the scene was fini-lied, instead of being a street it gas
w..u,l.—(Apidause.) tle (Mr. Bonn) mast, therefore. claim
the privileg,, of biang I.,rinitted to judge for himself.—
(Cheers). S.) long es he swayed the dtstinies of Drury La"
Theatre he myth' leave nothirsg undone to merit the public
favour.—(Cheers.) And to use an expression applicable to
membnrs of a higher place—when he should lose the confidence
ot his constituents, he Notild resign his sect.—(Cheer=.)
The i‘ext toast was "Toe Covent-garden Theatrcal Fund,.
which was drunk with three times three; and the last- toast
was "the Ladies,' which was drunk with all the honours,
after whii-h the party broke up.
During the evening several exquisite songs and gl,e3o"(s,
were given by Miss Messent, Miss Rebecca I,'
(who was deservecUy enefled in an exquisite air from 'snew op,ra of Matilda), Miss Bassano (who sung Beneik!
beautiful air, '• B the sad sea waves," from the opera of 7"
Brides of Venice, to exquisitely, that she was honoured by'
ties
especial encore from the Duke of Cambridge), the Nies
Williatr ' , Mr. Hatton Mr. Hobbes, and several other ladi
and gentlemen. Mr. Hatton presi.ied at the pianoforte.
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THE CURRENCY..
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN•
SlR,—it is plainly evident to all who are engagea. in
mercantile• affairs that Sir Robert Peel's Bank Restrict,tr!
Act of 1844 has been " weighed in the balance' s°

found wanting."
The commercial community, is plunged into a state td)l:
much suffering, in orch r that a theory may be test' ?
The question is, has not the experiment gone tar en(igh,
The obligation of the Bank to pay its notes in specie
on demand is an ample security against an exees'ive
issue on the part of that establishment. Why, 0°;
limit its resources by a law which, to all intents an
purposes, renders five millions of its bullion practically
useless ?
With ten millions of bullion in the Bank coffers, di':
counts are more restricted, and the value of moneY Is
higher than with half the amount before Peel's Bill owe
into operation.
The present emergency loudly calls for the repeal 0f
an Act so prejudicial to the commerce of the country.
It ought to be done without delay ; we shall then be
able to pay our way until the next harvest, which, if 1/
turns out a good one, will puf matters right.

Your obedient servant,
NO THEORIST•

April 22.

IMPORTANT EXPERIMENT-GS
CRUCIS, OR DIRECT PROOF OF THE By
TRUCTION OF THE POTATO PLANE -
THE APHIS VASTATOR.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
bare
SIR,—In my treatise on the potato Plant, A
shown that, antecedently to all other changes, a cell°
,
insect is to be found on the leaf, which sucks the juicers
of the plant and causes it to die, locally, at the Pa'

affected, or generally through its entire sYstcw• wits
By tracing the insect to numerous other plants Idis
found to produce similar effects—the turnip rotted
is-
the bulb, the carrot in the root, and even the ie 11,
tructible groundsel equally suffered from its attacks- feifet
the damsged plants anatomy demonstrates inWeri.is.
tissue—chemistry, a deficiency of the solid materblef
and natural history indicates the source of the nlisehich
by pointing to the creature which abstracts that iv
should form the fibre and starch of the plant
To those who prefer experiment to observation I ?II!.
now to announce that at length the direct proof of,,:t;
capability of the aphis vastator to destroy the r'si,
plant has been obtained ; an experiment which has
clips
ready been performed with the same result upon Ur-
crocuses and other plants. well
Several Russian tubers apparently sound andd the'
filled with starch were planted in a greenhouse, an of
roughly healthy plants were produced. -upon
.0,:00
the best of the number, when about two feet
than.hignt
placed a colony of vastators which fed and throve ,„
dantly, and which were prevented from travelling ''''
neighbouring plants by a covering of gauze. neigh-
For a time, this plant throve as well as its ,thered
hours, but eventually the entire haulm died and ";` its
up, as was observed last year in the blighted Auld'
t'
neighbours, which had no insect to suck the viti"..'" .tto
were perfectly healthy, forming a striking een
the withered and dead stalk.
cayoend eixeamthienitnirgantnheev collarwhich ilthwavaes
dfien;rdibpeadrt,itasllybe,,diri:i
he
especially attributable to the ravages of aphides.
of disease.
The a hardness characteristic.t . 0
truobootsrswartheofuogutindntoot blc6ethztetnhseivbeulylkrootftethh,eanodrit,hineallit:et
divert
te fromhave striven ee
rna
vhaagreds
ot f
the vastator ; and in the, unparalleled virulence of their
opposition, they have even frequently substituted acri-
monythe and mis-statement for courtesy and truth.
theless, no scientific ram in any country h s ever dig'
; ,s ; and
proved my statements, or confuted my deduct-1;r who
if amongst practical men there be one still left im°
doubts the destructive power of the vastator I begat7,
to consider deeply and repeat this experiment, thall
matters
being of one mind we shall not be diverted Sever-
which are irrelevant, but shall be enabled to concentrate.
our ener2ies in the annihilation of the destroyer, ne
the protection of our crops.--I ain, Sir, your ob,ient
servant,
7, Finsbury-circus, April 19, 184 A SAME.
7.LFRED

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
DISTRIBUTION OF THE MEDITERRANBAN'
SQUADRON.
ikrliAnLgTA the APRIL
a ofl
174.—Admiral
-tALdimsbioranl—sTirhew. llibrearrnkiethr,ll4o'
ben
Commander- in-Chief; and the America, 50.
At Gibraltar—The Virago war-steamer.
At Barcelona—The Amazon, 26. be
' ) aring
At Malta—The Ceylon,' 12 (receiving-ship ,
~ cu•
the flag of Sir L. Curtis, second in command, 97 'the
perintendent of Malta Dockyard; the Belleisle, ~„.,,
Spartan, 26; the Mutine, 10; the Research (surveYn.
cutter), the Locust steam sloop, and Wee Pet steam-I.h
At Corfu—The Athens steam-sloop. he 110c1-
At the Piraeus of—The Albion, 90; t , the
ney, 90; the Vanguard, 84; the Fantome, 16; and '
Bonetta (surveying vessel).
At Constantinople—The Hecla war-steamer.
At Beyrout—The Harlequin, 16.
MAIL STEAM-PACKETS.
d :
_
herA wt
aMyatlhtait—heTrhfernSmpimtfiarres,eAiliredse,nt, and Flamer; an
_e . ,S
PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL COMPAIs!X, °
_MEDITERRANEAN PACKETS. _:..,,te
At Malta, the Ariel and the Ripon. On her 5'15.70a
the Volcano.
Malta from Southampton and Gibraltar, the Tagus. to
her way from the ports of the continent of Dal t;
Southampton, the Tiger. Between Trebisond and U.°
s t,a4nttiinngoeprl,e,o
rtiheen
taEl
,r iAn.e
hill
st , Smoounthtraoms
ep, t
Royon, atlh eTarsonsol
p
Iberia.
MOVEMENTS AT THE PORT OF MALTA SINCE
THE STH OF APRIL.
The Belleisle arrived from Corfu on the 6th, and if,
ltottarydiningvlanliddisa,nshmeewalidhlflooltr.nr,Ckltyeoh Cork, with
ptrwheidtteohpdrwaerhstuincrnrhee, and some some Milt'
surveyingweek.
d ) v
v li.
Archipelago, in the waters of Skyre,ll,;
brings no
i from
ntel r
labourswhereim
IsTmiih i
LBtahi
ton'
ee)
Locust
immediately
sht i
the 13th, but the
ectepirleam England)fngAlatnhens
00
isnugltathnewTiulircdoeiGainrenekll
clure7ktiltgme.ncelnorailmlsppoorrotbaanbcielittr t;_
the required satisfaction
until
Greece are the chief carriers
will tend to distress I
the ports of the continent of It i
and France
requiring corn, of which the vessels
vefsrsboemel s
gtahi tveetronh
aetnnuDhbale.
mr d,
andawn Dardanelles
the
Black Sea.
The Ariel returned from Alexandria at ten o'clock last
night, bringing the India passengers and mail, with th__
heavy portion of which the Ripon (whose detects 1:r
(tte)oai
returned
ensg.Aet
eu,hri
ce( h i
been made good) will be dispatched this evenin, 1"..
Southampton; whilst the Spitpire will carry on to gel,
seilles this morning the mails for England by the over-
land route.
The Flamer arrived last night from Patras an the
lonian Islands; and the Tagus, from Southampton, a.
the Volcano, with the overland mail from Marseilles, sr:
hourly looked for. The Ariel will carry on the latter t
Alexandria.
The Louisa cutter yacht sailed yesterday for the Levarit.
where,The Afolrutistoiemewitlilmperopbaasbt,lythebree ohradserbeedenton
os r3ryirtil.
supposed to be French, Pas
shiAp- elfin- we-aerf-sbtaattitolened. j
ship, (1
Malta for the eastward on the llth.

OCCURRENCE IN LONG-ACRE. """-P, :
ThDursßdEaAypmForitting, between the hours of eleven and wtwhlc'ch,
o'clock, an accident of a most appalling character, and
ofrcpemarrtehde
asetrtiohuesenoarntuerreooffEtnhdeeiLjsutrrieeest,iLnfloincgte.aderteo, tw° irli-
viduals, is expected to be attended with fatal consequenceg'
past workmen have been employed in effecting
following circumstances :—lt appears that for some UM°
in the above-mentioned street, and some scaffolds having
been erected at the spot where the improvements are being'
carried out, at the period specified, two labourers, namedt
Thomas Welch and Thomas Cockling, yvhere engaged a
work, when some of the boards on which they were stang
suddenly gave way and fell beneath them, by whichotb!):
were precipitated from a considerable height on t T.:
ground. The pcor fellows, assisted by their fellow-we.;
men, and two police-constable 3 of the F division, were ided
an under the_
rnedi.dely taken to the Charing. cross Hospital, andaaittteertatti
to by Mr. Stegball, the resident medical officer. Both 01.011_
were frightfully mutilated, and remained insensible
.I_l
several hours, and at length the surgeon asctrtained tna:
Welch, who is about twenty-five, had fractured his left sr;
broken a leg, and received a fearful wound in the head, 1,,
year,oth r
has contusions;evidetievidently
sustainedhilst Cock Cocking, e who isi
severen
besides outward bruises, but owing to his state of in.sner. •
bility it was difficult to say the precise nature of the inj
cr.
Both sufferers remain at the institution in a deplorable 0
dition.
nIESIIP*'
THE REY. D. ROBINSON AND MRS. BA-- 50L
It seems that the sum of 101., being a portion of the
the
which the Rev. D. Robinson was compelled to pa,' 9 re.
result of the late trial for a libel upon Mrs. Barker,
his
internalttalent}.-
entYauwunrirets7,
w" Pbut
sented by her to the Wesleyan schools of Cheltenham.;
„...
the Rev. W. Burt and G. C. Taylor, the Wesleyan mints_e`:
have handed it over to Mr. Robinson, with an
their sympathy.— Worcester Chronicle. river
DUTCH CATTLE. A vessel arrived in the
_.
from Nieu Dieppe, llolland,has brought, besidesB,7l9 cl_synesf:
96 bags of potatoes, 272 bags of beans, several casks of ej..
tables, 341 sheep, 1 horse, and 44 cows, the very largo net'
Nv do
assurance •
ber of 60 calves, the production of that countryA ipi..
not recollect so large a number of this particular "1" .
portant description of young stock to have before been
ported from a foreign country on any single occasion.