The Sun.
London, England, 1848-11-09 00:00:00

N 0 VEMBER 9, 1848.

rordre dans la liberte, seul regime convenable aux
soci&es comprennant veritablement leur dignite.
Marcher u'un commun accord dans cette voie philan-
thropique est une mission bien plus sacree pour nos deux
pays que d'entretenir de grossieres antipathies fausse-
went decorees du nom de patriotisme et qui ne sont qee
de vielles erreurs Z releguer an nombre tie ces prejuges
inveteres dont le flambeau d'une seine philosophie fait
justice de jour en jour.
Les Garde: Nationales du Havre seront heureux de
pouvoir, en une meilleure saisou, realiser le projet qu'ils
n'ent pu executer dernierement d'aller visiter les ha-
bitans de Southampton et de Londres, puis ont
la certitude d'y recevoir un accueil en harmonic aveo
les sentimens qui motivent cette excursion. Et dans ce
cas, veuillez croire que le compliment de notre satisfac-
tion aerait d'avoir de nouveau le plaisir de vous voir au
milieu de nous.

Agrerz Monsieur, l'expression de ma haute consi-
deration.

J. BREDART,
Le Colonel, Chef de Legion,
Officier de la Legion d'Honneur.
A Monsieur Lloyd, Etc., &c.
Beaufort Lodge, Chelsea, Angloterre.

HOME SUPPLY OF FOOD.
TIIE FARMERS' QUESTION.

" It is calculated that the supply of farm-yard poul-
try to the markets of this country is not equal to one •
third of a fowl for each person in the population annually."

The long existence of what was called " protection "
enabled English agriculturists, for a time, to obtain a
large income with little industry; but such a system
gradually brought on its own punishment, and the ill-
cultivated lands of this country must now experience the
pressure of competition. The lazy system was in-
dulged in, by the devotion of the soil to the production►
of grain; and so neglected was the growth of. green
crops, cattle, poultry, and garden stuffs, that animal food
has been for years at almost a prohibitory price to the
working classes, while few of the middle orders of so-
ciety can even think of enjoying the luxury of poultry.
We are acquainted with a gentleman who has kept house
for thirty years, having a fluctuating income of from
2001. to 8001. per annum, and he assures us he has
never felt himself justified, during all that period, in pur-
chasing thirty couples of fowls; so exorbitant has the
price generally been. It will be well, now, that all per-
sons deriving their living from the land, should prepare
for foreign competition in the right way. The price of
grain will assuredly be very low, in a majority of years,
from this time forth; and, therefore, the best soils only
should be appropriated to corn crops, and the needful
rotations for them; but, as far as is practicable, all
manner of animal food (especially of the lighter kind,
poultry, eggs, milk), and, also, garden produce, of every
description, should be diligently attended to, and increas-
ingly produced. Milk is almost unknown to millions
of poor children in this country—this being one of
the results of the idle, large-farm, corn-growing, system;
but corn will now come in, in unprecedented abund-
ance, from abroad; it is hardy; it can endure the transit
from the cheapest and most distant lands, even as distant
as the antipodes. Not so the milk, poultry, and other
articles which have hitherto been, and still are, so exces-
sively dear. Larger quantities of these, then, ought to
be produced in this country; and with industrious and
skilful labour applied to this department of farming, and
also to gardening, the comforts of the people will be
augmeuted, and the condition of the agricultural classes
will be really protected against that distress which will
otherwise ensue from competition. The motto at the
head of this article is a scandal to the country, and
ought soon to be rendered a record only of bygone im-
policy. There is no doubt that the farm produce of this
country might be doubled, and, then, less money being
sent abroad for food, the farmer could be a better cus-
tomer than ever to the manufacturer.—Liverpool Mer-
cury.

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY.

University course may be divided into two portions,
in the first of which the conditions hitherto exacted
may be retained, while the latter may be surrendered
to an extension of the experiment hitherto
tried only in classics ; that is to say, that
certain compulsory requisites may be exhibited at a pre-
vious examination, and that in the subsequent work of
supererogation the student may be left more freely to his
own bent. This, in substance, is, perhaps, the most
likely result, and it would combine, as will be seen, the
general training of the student with the proper encou
ragement of those " specialities" which are called for
by the requirements of the age. The basis of the system.
as already qualified by the heretical elements, first, of
classics, and, secondly, of theology, is left untouched by
the late changes, nor do any of the advocates of the new
measures pretend to asset t that no modification of them
will be found necessary in practice. How they will
work remains to be seen ; but, whether successfully or
unsuccessfully, they have at least not bee❑ attemp-el
without an encouraging precedent, nor can any risk at
all proportionate to the national benefits anticipated be
shown to await the experiment.—Times.