The Sun.
London, England, 1848-07-31 00:00:00

about 20e,000,000f. (say 8,000,0101.) would be raised at
a rate of very nearly 64 per cent. per annum. The for-
feited deposits upon the last loan are to be available in
the subscription, and with the hdp of this resource it is
just possible that the French peoile may be able to en-
trust their new Government with the money. Nobody
seems to expect that foreign calitalists will extensively
interfere. The escape of the railways from confiscation
is somewhat too fresh in the menory of the creditors of
France to permit such an expectation.—Bankers' May.

THE STATE OF TRADE.
(From the Bankers' Magazine.)
There can be no longer any question whatever that
the trade of the country during the last four or five
weeks has undergone a most iecided change for the
better. There is both more busness in hand and for a
greater number of places. We refer with the greatest
pleasure to the following returns of the Manchester
mills :

31111 s.

Work people.

June 20, 1848. July 13. June 20, 1848. July 18.
working full time . 135 ... 167 ... 29,745 ... 34,891
Working short time 43 ... 27 ... 6,274 ... 3,345
Stopped work

203 211 44,422 44,733

SIR ROBERT KANE on IRELAND.
The population of Ireland his been determined by the
census of 1841 to be 8,175,124 souls, of whom four mil-
lions are males, and of these two millions and a quarter
may be considered as of the labouring age. Now, as we
have in Ireland thirteen million and a half acres of arable
land, there is precisely the allocation, to every 100
acres, men; bat as of the Irish popula-
tionb of 17
uttwo- labouringthirdsareactuallr engaged in agriculture,
it may be considered that to ,?.very 100 statute acres of
land there are 11 labourers dependent for employment;
and on those again are depenlent for support, females,
old men, and children, to the rumber of 29 ; and these
persons must be supported by the land out of its produce
before profits can be reckoned, or the value and propor-
tion of rent can be struck—in ill 40 persons, of whom 20
are females, 9 are feeble old hen and children, and 11
are working men. Thus for tle whole country:
Agricultural females
Old men and b0y5......., 1,219,178
Agricultural labourers.. 1,490,107

Total
Now, if we refer to the circumstances under which the
working of land npon the largefarm syatean is conducted,
we shall find, as well from practice as from the estimates
put forward by the best informed writers, such as Pro-
fessor Low, that on a farm )f 500 acres there will be
permanently engaged the farmer, his steward, or fore-
man, and 20 workmen. There will be at certain seasons
extra field work done by men, women, and children, who,
if not of the families of the workmen, must be drawn
from some source external to the farm, and must, except
at those short periods, live upon means not derived from
farm labour. The staff of the farm employed upon and
living by means of it is reckoned as above. Now, let
us suppose our thirteen and a half millions of acres of
arable land in Ireland arranged and cultivated on this
plan, there will be employed twenty-two persons to each
500 acres; but we lave seen, that upon 500 acres there
are dependent fifty-five working males. Employment
cannot therefore be afforded to one-half, indeed but to
two fifths, and there will remain—
Females . .
Old men and male children 731,508
Labourers .. 894,063

3,351,242
for whom the land can afford no employment; who can-
not by their laboir earn in any way their share of the
produce of the laid; and the question, truly important
fur the landlord vho has to seek for rent, as well as for
the farmer, who las to pay rent, is the manner in which
these three and cne-third millions of useless and surplus
people are to be removed, or in some way provided for.
—Agricultural and Industrial Journal.

JOHN BULL'S ATELIERS
NATIONAUX.

"I say, in England, Mrs. Bull, we have no Ateliers
Nationaux."

And I say 3ou have," replied the dame, " only other-
wise ehristiank." .

" Well then,' said Mrs. Bull, " suppose, John, every
week I was to set down in the house expenses, say ten
pounds a week, for seed and sugar and toast for parrots;
when at the same time there wasn't a single bird in the
house."
" Well, then, what do you say to that precious Duke
of St. Alban's?—that precious Duke that takes in the
Nashuno 1,20(1. for feeding hawks, when he hasn't a
single feather on his hands? What's that?" * *
" And wha are you to say to that Earl of Ellen-
borough, that,as the monkey ate the cheese instead of
weighing it, tikes 9,0001. and more every year out of the
scales of Justce? And what do you say, then, to the
German Primes that are paid for doing nothing in our
Nashuno? And what do you say to the Six Clerks'
pensions, and the Duke of Marlborough's pension; and
Lord Campbell's pension, for wearing the Seals of Ire-
land at his wttch•chain for a week; and, moreover, what
do you say to the Earl of Besborough, that takes of the
dear Queen (poor lady, how she is robbed among 'em!)
1,7001. a year for feeding the buckhounds, as if the
Crown was b be supported by dogs; and—but here—
Mr. Bull, look at the list, look, and then say, if you can,
that you have in England here—where we're obliged to
darn stocking=, when we should buy new ones—say then
that you have no Telyura Nashuno."
"Mrs. Bull," he said, "I'm sorry to own it, but you're
quite right. We, too, in England, have Our Ateliers
IV ationaux for pensioned idlers. But we must sweep
them away; we must, and no mistake about it. We,
too, must throw up our barricades—but tremble not, my
love—they shall be barricades in the House of Com-
mons."—Punch..

DEATLI OT TIIE WELL-KNOWN " JERRY."—No one
who has for the last ten or dozen years visited any of
our principal race courses but must have a more or less
perfect acquaintance with the " original," whose death
took place on Friday evening last, at the hospital in
Chichester, whither he had been conveyed in conse-
quence of serious injuries accidentally inflicted on the
previous Wednesday. l.ccording to custom, Jerry had
repaired to Goodwood, oy means of " Adam's own car-
riage, the ten-tied machine the haymakers use in Ire-
land," for the purpose of ♦ending the cards, containing
" a full, thrue, and particular account of the horses,
their names, weights, and colours of the riders," when
in the act of soliciting a bevy of " noble sportsmen"—all
men were noble and sporting--on the step of whose car-
riage he stood, the horses swerved violently, overturned
the vehicle, and crushed poor Jerry beneath. His in-
juries, a fractured thigh, and a concussion of the brain,
terminated in his death on Friday night. Jerry was a
" character," a diverting vagabond in the truest sense,
and it Johnson's dictum be true, that " he possesses it
who strikes out novelty without effort, and distinguishes
himself above his fellow-men, be his vocation humble or
exalted," then Jerry was a genius. Departing from the
common place and tiresome importunities of your vulgar
lazzaroni, his very impertinencies were amusing, and his
intrusion welcome. We must not omit, as limited space
forbids further notice of his eccentricities, to state, as a
proof of sporting generosity and kindly feeling, that
Mr. Justice, before the fatal result, collected 701. in his
behalf, which will be handed over to his widow.
We are happy to learn that the potato crop in
most parts of BaniLlaire, and along the Morayshire
coast, generally wears a healthy and promising aspect.
—Edinburgh Post.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
NORFOLK ClRCUlT.—Norwich, July 28.
NISI PRIUS COURT.—(Before Mr. Baron PARKE.)

QUARTER V. BACON.

Mr. Sergeant Bytes, Mr. Palmer, and Mr. Wells, were
counsel for the prosecution. Mr. O'Malley and Mr.
Worlledge appearee, for the defendant.
This wan an acticn by a gentleman who practises as an
attorney at Aylshato, in this county, against the pro-
prietor of the Norwich Mercury, fur the publication of
three several libels in that newspaper. The libels pur-
ported to be comments on the conduct of the plaintiff in a
cause in the County Court of Norfolk, which was ter-
minated by an arrangement between the parties. The
first libel charged the plaintiff with having sent to the
Norwich Mercury " a garbled report" of the case in the
County Court; the second libel imputed to him the
having sent the garbled report from dishonourable and
personal motives; and the third, in addition to other
severe remarks, accused the plaintiff of having behaved
in a manner for which he ought to be struck off the roll
of attorney. The libels were justified by the defendant's
plea. The plaintiff, however, went into all the facts of
the manner in which he conducted the case in the
County Court for the purpose of disproving the allega-
tions in the pleas of justification; and, before the case
had been brought to a close,
Mr. Baron PARKE recommended the defendant to
submit to a verdict for 405., and make an ample apology,
if the plaintiff would aecept these terms.
Ultimately this suggestion was deferred to, and a ver-
dict was taken for the plaintiff accordingly, with damages
—Forty shillings.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice MAULE.)
If Wiwi& Jones was indicted for having cut and
wounded Sarah, his wife, with intent to murder her, or
to do her some grievous bodily harm.
Mr. Naylor conducted the prosecution. The prisoner
was not defended by counsel. He was found guilty of
the latter count in the indictment, and sentenced to be
tran:p3rted for fifteen years.
July 29.
The cases in the Civil Court were of no public inte-
rest. Those in the Crown Court were for the most part
utterly unfit for publication. It is,
however, proper to
mention, that the stupidity of the witnesses and the
brutal character of the crimes deposed to by them were
such as to elicit from Mr. Justice Mauls the remark that
the ignorance and bad morals of the lower orders in this
county was astonishing.
HOME CIBC UlT.—Maulstone, July 29.
The business of these assizes has been singularly un•
interesting, and although the number of cases, both in
the Crown Court and at nisi prius, was larger than
usual, very few of them presented any feature of inte-
rest to the public. Mr. Sergeant Dowling assisted Mr.
Justice Coltman on Friday in trying prisoners, and this
will tend materially to shorten the business of the
assize.
CIVIL SlDE.—(Before the LORD CHIEF BARON and a
Special Jury.)
MOORE, THE ELDER, AND MOORE, THE YOUNGER, V

BECKETT AND OTHERS.
These were two actions brought to recover compensa-
tion for an injury sustained in consequence of the alleged
conduct of the servants of the defendants, who are pro-
prietors of the Satellite, Gravesend steam-boat ; but as
the same point was involved in both, it was arranged
that they should be disposed of by one jury.
It appeared that, on the 13th July, last year, the
younger plaintiff, a lad about sixteen, went on board the