The Sun.
London, England, 1848-09-05 00:00:00

The House a _ _ before Seven
o'clock till half-past Twelve to-morrow (this day).

fjourned at a few minutes

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STATE OF TRADE.
FOREIGN WOOL TRADE, LEEDS, SEPT. I.—As usual
during the progress of the London sales, there is a per-
ceptible falling off in the amount of business doing in
this market. Prices, however, are very firm, and both
in Germany and at the London auctions, advanced rates
are being paid.
ENGLISH WOOL MARKET, LEEDS, SEPT. I.—There
has not been any variation of moment in this market
during the present week. The manufacturers buy
cautiously to supply their current requirements. Prices
are stationary.
LEEDS.—With a return of a more favourable state of
the weather, our cloth markets improve. More business
was done both on Saturday and Tuesday than had been
the case the last few weeks, and more goods have been
delivered off the market day than of late. Prices remain
about the same, and the stocks in the mauufacturer's
hands much less than usual at this season . There has
also been more business done during the week in the
warehouses. Many country buyers have been in the
town, and they hare purchased winter goods more freely;
there is also more business doing for the contingent than
has been the case at any period of the year.
HUDDERSFIELD MARKET, TUESDAY.—There has been
a moderate attendance to-day of buyers from the Lon-
don, Scotch, and Irish markets, and although we have
not heard of any extensive orders having been given,
still considerable purchases have been made. The in-
quiry is.chiefly for cloths of the better qualities, of which
there is a great scarcity. There has been a steady busi-
ness doing in the warehouses during the week. The
weather has been fine, in consequence of which the har-
vest prospects are brighter, and as the reports of the
potato blight become less conflicting, the spirit of confi-
dence becomes more emboldened, and a better state of
things is more confidently looked forward to.
BRADFORD MA.RKET, THURSDAY.—WOOL. —There is
no change worthy of notice since our last report. Stocks
are fully maintained, and in prices no alteration. The
colonial wool sales in London are progressing with more
animation than was anticipated, considering the immense
quantity (36,000 bales) which will be offered before
the sales terminate. YARN.—Both coloured and plain
yarns continue to be freely used by the manufacturers for
the home trade, but there is no improvement with the
shipping houses. Prices remain stationary. PlEcEs.—
The brisk demand for fancy coloured goods, as well as
for Paramattas arid Orleans, still continues. There are
no stocks in the market, and the manufacturers are prin-
cipally working to order. Prices generally are very
steady, and a satisfactory business is doing.
LEICESTER.--A regular demand continues in the
warehouse. The harvest takes a great many workmen
from the frame, and but little is now producing. Yarns
and wool remain without alteration.
I NOTTINGHAM.—The cotton stocking trade continues
in a tolerable condition, but rather depressed to what it
was a few weeks since; the better kind of cut-ups made
by thread carriers being in the best state.—The cotton
glove trade is rather depressed, and a few hands are out
of employment; neither has the silk glove branch rallied.
—The drawer, pantaloon, and shirt branch is in rather
an improved state.—The silk knotted hose trade is in a
flourishing condition, and, were the wages better, the
hands would have nothing to complain of. On the other
hand, the plain silk hose branch is in a very low condi-
tion, being half extinct.—The bobbin net trade is gene-
rally considered (though heavily depressed) to be in
rather a more active state, but this is only in some quar-
ters; the German and French houses are certainly upon
the move, as is the machine lace trade in the north of
France.—The silk net is much better than the cotton in
the plain trade.—The warp lace trade, whether silk or
cotton, is certainly not worse, but the latter is lamentably
depressed. The attempts to make worsted lace suddenly
failed.—Leeds Mercury.

THE WEATHERAND THE CROPS.
Six days of splendid harvest weather have been of in-
calculable benefit, at this most critical sason, in saving the
crops. On Saturday last the prospects were very gloomy.
Since Sunday, however, the weather has been sunny and
breezy ; the barometer has been constantly on the rise ;
and every day has seen vast quantities of corn safely
housed. In Yorkshire a great quantity of corn has been
; much is now in the field,
conveyed to the stack or barn
ready to be carried; and comparatively little remains
uncut. The importance of this favourable change in the
weather, especially in the existing circumstances of the
country, is beyond all calculation, and calls for the live-
liest gratitude to Divine Providence. We believe the
grain is in fair condition, though the yield is not above
an average.—Leeds Mercury.
HARVEST OPERATIONS,--The late gloomy harvest
prospects have, since Sunday last, been followed by
glorious weather, and harvest operations, during the last
few days, have made uninterrupted progress. To the
north of Driffield, towards the Wolds, nearly the whole
of the wheat, for miles round, has been cut, and looks
very promising. Within the last few days large quanti-
ties have been secured in fine condition. During a
journey into the country on Tuesday, the writer saw
teams busily engaged on every farm, and stacks were
rapidly rising in every stack-yard. A large portion of
the spring corn, which has been very backward, will also
this week bend beneath the scythe. The weather has
been very trying to the potato crop, and in many places
they have been found to have been seriously affected.
The present dry weather, however, is highly favourable,
and it is to be hoped that the fearful devastation of this
useful article will, in some measure, be arrested, as it is
now quite clear that the potato disease is caused by no-
thing more or less than atmospherical influences, viz.,
alternate wet, and brilliant sun, and scorching winds
from the west. The groups of harvest labourers are not
so numerous as they were a week or two ago, and it is
to be hoped that many of them have succeeded in
getting employment. Some of the .more disrespectful
seem to have already earned money ; for on Sunday
evening last great numbers were seen in a state of in-
toxication at the north-end of Driffield. Several pugi-
listic encounters took place, and a great concourse of
idle persons were assembled. At the market on Thurs-
day last the number of labourers had considerably
diminished.—Hull Advertiser.
Although the reign of St. Swithin, which commenced
on the 15th of July, and ought to have ceased on the
24th inst., after the spell (or spill) of 40 days which is
claimed for him, he would appear to have corrupted his
fairer brethren, for since that time up till to-day
not a 'day has passed without rain in greater or less
quantity—throwing a damper on the progress of
the harvest, and exciting gloomy apprehensions as to the
result of it. Saturday was a elose, misty, showery,
growing day, and before midnight a perfect deluge of
rain descended. It must have extended over a wide
district, for the rivers next day were roaring wth un-
woutea stood from baLIK n 1.-na_ unclay she
skies were more propitious, and there was almost
uninterrupted sunshine; but the sun set with a fiery
glare; black clouds were driving about, and the fears
of more rain were realiseed before midnight. In the
forenoon of Monday heavy showers fell, but the day
cleared up in the course of the afternoon. On Tues-
day and Wednesday there was more rain, but not an
entire absence of sun ; the high wind, however,
which accompanied it would prevent serious damage
to the country. Yesterday exhibited a little im-
provement, but as yet there is no appearance of the
weather taking up. Shearing in this neighbourhood
has progressed but languidly. There is a large breadth
of land under stook, and cutting in the intervals of dry
weather goes briskly forward; but little grain has as yet
been carted. Reapers offer themselves in large numbers.
Many have returned to Ireland (whence they came in
the hope of profitable employment) in consequence of the
low wages, which do not exceed is. 6d. a day, and are
frequently as low as a shilling.—Carlisle Journal.
The weather improved exceedingly in the early part of
the week, and continued fine, with few exceptions, until
Thursday afternoon, when a violent thunder storm and a
heavy fall of rain took place, but hope again revives with
a clear sky this morning (Friday). We quote the fol-
lowing passage with reference to the prospect of the har-
vest from a very intelligent agricultural gentleman of
upwards of half a century's experience in this county:—
t
" With respect to the wheat, in consequence of thegrea
quantity of rain which fell in March and July, the heavyh
two-thirds lands n this f neighbourhood
everaverage
c Ie
pw. i 111 nt
ho
this unto-
ward result is not so likely to take
The barley
cold rains, as when it is hot and showery.
itekyitehldermeoiret
not than
much sprouted as many people suppose, as th
is rather a heavy crop, but in consequ
ffraolimofthrieli
pelnaccee ionf ctohnetginrueeadt
to show the same result of deficiency. Oats wll prove
an average erep."—Monmouthshire
cinuiannfiutyly,ofthe
straw.yield aß, i
el la
els
se
aoende -pt he
ai rsdadri ell
filci
ki eenl
yt,

SINGULAR CIRCUAISTANcE.—A few days ago, the
following circumstance took place at Cwm Amman:—
A cottager there possessed a little hen and chickens;
whilst they were sauntering about, a huge hawk espied
the chickens, and pounced on ono of them. The hen
perceiving the destroyer, immediately ran to the assist-
ance of her offspring, and succeeded in retaining her hold
of the hawk until the cottager's attention was attracted
to the spot, when the bird was secured. He is now in
" durance vile," and is considered a fine specimen of the
tribe,—Cambrian.

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THE CORN TRADE.
LIVERPOOL, SATCTRDAY.—The duty has declined this
week Is. per quarter on Wheat, and 6d. per quar-
ter each on barley, oats, rye, and peas. The weather
has been exceedingly favourable for harvest work all
this week, and a great proportion of grain has been
carried in this locality, and in better condition than
could :be expected after so long a spell of unsettled
weather. There was a thin attendance of millers and
dealers at our market yesterday, and the business done
in any article was quite limited. Wheat declined 3d. to
4d. per bushel on both free and bonded. Sack flour was
2s. and barrel flour ls. lower. There was no change in
the value of oats, barley, or oatmeal. Egyptian beans
were Is. per quarter cheaper. Peas were unaltered. At
a decline of is. per quarter there was a better demand
for Indian corn than on Tuesday to inferior millers and
for shipment for Ireland. A few Irish new oats sold at
3s. 6d. to 3s. 7d. per 451 b. Owing to the fine weather
the trade was very dull to-day, and prices without
change for any article except Indian corn, which is held
for Is. advance.
MANCHESTER, SATURDAY.—During, the present week
the weather has been of a decidedly more favourable
character, causing great inactivity in the trade generally,
with a tendency towards lower prices. The imports
from all quarters into Liverpool and Runcorn, excepting
about 15,000 quarters of Indian corn from America, con-
tinue on a very limited scale. At our market this morn-
ing the transactions in wheat were at a decline of 2d. to
3d. per 701 b. on the currency of this day se'nnight.
Flour was freely offered at a reduction of Is. per sack,
but without inducing purchasers to come forward. Oats
and oatmeal met a slow sale, and barely supported their
previous value.

Table 2 refers to those who, having been expelled the
class, forfeited their privileges.
Table 3 refers to those who have been removed to
other prisons.
Table 4 refers to those who, though subject to the ge-
neral disciplit,e of the prison, are still considered as be-
longing to the Milbank juvenile class.
The schoolmistresses' report of the female prisoners
is as follows :
The general subjects taught are-reading, writing, the
Church Catechism and the faith and duty of a Christian.
The classification of prisoners and the books* used by
the several classes remain the same as in the previous
year.

The improvement of the prisoners, considering their
difficulties, arising from habit and :ignorance, continues
to be encouraging.
The conduct of the prisoners while under instruction
is generally marked by obedience, attention, and thank-
fulness. Occasionally the hardness and headstrong im-
petuosity of the character of some among them will ap-
pear, but generally a little forbearance and manage-
ment suffice to check and lead them to acknowledge
their fault.
The health of the prison during the early part of the
year was as good as in former years; but during the
AULULLIII ,611,1 Willtk, months there occurred an unusual
amount of sickness,and an almost unprecedented mor-
tality.
It is not difficult to account for this great increase of
fatal disease. For, besides the increase iu the number
of prisoners, there were several causes in operation from
which no other result could follow.
One cause was the abandonment of the system which
had been in practice for several years, of removing from
Millbank Prison to an invalid hulk at Woolwich all those
male convicts who, from infirmity, disease, or other cause,
were not fit either to undergo transportation, to work in
the dockyards of this country, or to be submitted to re•
England,
fanodtber convicts,
practice was discontinued at the commencement. of the
formatory discipline at Pentonville or Parkhluvrsat.les,Talniids
year 1847. For several months later, convicts advanced
in years, or labouring under various chronic diseases,
t
wbnasw epuacepsmoraatebloardaeesnf
vnrnetednaht
than
accumulation
cetafoiudrnnomfimbmturoe healthyifaiotati hbrbi
infirmary,
,enwn,aol
khaomwoncef;inatni,ul
grrawr.
esffhtahcooeeoeoncaeli,.
affected
aecteuidvwoldeysfhenvlaaisE:
whichhnith
eet
serious
Millbank,mooi l
url original
prisoners,
acnehasi
chronic
ort
ngt
ileycr
disease during their sojourn there. The consequence
nd
in-
firmitiesin the
vdheiedarffnreoocdt
.tuteeeditiihdo:taolotarhyafnaptiaenlrcsrroeensasuslebtd,uytaemstliogwuhentrtle liable to
who for the most part required medical care and the com-
forts
suffer severely from accidental causes of illness which
Another circumstance which has had considerable
Milbank Prison, since the middle of the yeary:lBB
w shareo lwould
i
disease, and more particularly of consumptive disease, in
18.17, is
the almost total discontinuance of the transportation of
male convicts, and their consequent detention at Millbank
for longer periods than before. This cause operated
especially in the cases of those convicts who, being less
robust and healthy, were less well fitted for dockyard
labour; but, in a measure, it affected all the convicts;
and it nearly doubled the length of the average term of
imprisonment of the whole body of convicts. ()lying to
this circumstance, disease had time to develop itself in
many prisoners who in former years would have left
Millbank in good or apparently good health; and this
development of disease was the
more frequent and rapid
from the mental depression produced by the sentence of

* The books referred to Pare the Holy Scriptures, Cross-
man's Instruction, Faith and Duty, and the Broken Cate-
chism, with Ludlow's Class Reading Book for the better
informed.
Much benefit has been 'found to arise from the prisoners
being required to exercise.their memories in the repetition
of the collects from the Liturgy, or some Of the hymns:com-
monly sung in the chapel.

MILLBANK" PRISON.
The following is the Fifth Report of the Inspectors of
Millbanki Prison, which has been presented to both
Houses of Patliament by c,mimand of her Majesty :
Millbank Prison, Aug. 19, 1848.
Since the date of the last report, Captain Williams,
one of the Inspectors of Prisons, has been associated with
Mr. Perry in the management, the number of inspectors
of Millbank Prison being thus-limited to two.
In consequence of the alteration, alluded to in the last
Report, in the disposal of prisoners, it will be seen in the
Appendix that the only individuals sent to the colonies
in a penal condition, in the last year have been women,
334 of whom have been transferred to the Penitentiary
at Hobart Town. The male prisoners, 2,446 in
number, have either been • sent to the hulks in this
country or at Gibraltar, whence they will be removed,
after probationary terms of varying:duration, with tickets
of leave or conditional pardons to the Australian
colonies, or to the prisons of Pentonville and
Parkhurst, there to undergo their probationary disci-
pline, or to certain other prisons in which conveniences
exist for carrying into effect strict separate confinement.
The other prisons alluded to arc those enumerated be-
low, in which the magistrates have contracted with the
Government for the probationary residence of the num-
ber of convicts placed opposite to their names re-
spectively :—Wakefield 400, Leicester 120, Northamp-
ton 50, Reading 40, Leeds 40, Bath 24.
Notwithstanding the relief afforded by these several
means, the number of prisoners has gone on increasing
to an unprecedented extent, the average number having
exceeded that of the previous year by 151. During the
past months of the current year, the excess has still
further increased, the average number during the first
seven months having reached 1,354, of whom 1,210
were males, and the number in the prison at one time
during that period having sometimes amounted to
1,473 males and 98 females. To provide accommo-
dation for this increase of numbers with as little risk
as possible to the health and security of the prison,
the inspectors have converted, by the permission of
the Secretary of State, the whole of the upper floor
of one of the pentagons into large rooms, four in
number, in which 320 males are lodged under the con-
stant supervision of officers, whilst the cells which were
removed for the construction of these rooms accommo-
dated only 84. All the appliances of the most perfect
ventilation and cleanliness have been adopted to guard
against the injurious consequences of an over-dense po-
pulation; but it cannot be concealed that the excessive
accumulation of human beings in a locality which is not
of the most salubrious character is a measure by no
means desirable. Nothing but the extreme necessity of
the case arising out of the difficulty of providing tem-
porary accommodation for convicts, would have justified
its adoption; and the inspectors hope that the opening
of the barracks for convicts at Portland and other outlets
in contemplation will soon relieve them from the necessity
of its continuance.
The observations which were made in the last report,
on the greatly increased amount of duty required of the
whole staff of officers, in consequence of the increased
number of prisoners, may be now repeated, and with
far more force. The inspectors have seen with much
pain the oppressiveness of the duty of some of the su-
perior officers, and they have been compelled most re-
luctantly to increase the staff of supernumerary inferior
officers, from time to time, to meet the necessities of the
occasion, in order that the sacrifice of discipline might
not be added to the other evils of an over-full prison.
The onerous duties of the Governor, chaplains, medical
officers, and secretary, have been most cheerfully per-
formed, and the inspectors feel that they cannot speak
too highly of the manner in which they have been
executed.
The number of officers temporarily employed, owing
to casualties and the great influx of prisoners at parti-
cular periods, has been so considerable, that the item for
salaries has much exceeded the estimated sum. The
extra diet also of prisoners, and the other expenses of
the infirmary, are very much larger items than they
were in the previous year from the like cause, as also
the expense of heating the prison.
The victualling of prisoners has greatly exceeded the
estimate, each male prisoner having cost 11. 19s. 4id.
and each female 1/. 10s. 9d. on the annual average, more
than estimated for. This excess has been mainly caused
by the high price of flour during the greater portion of
the year.
The conduct of prisoners has been on the whole fa-
vourable, notwithstanding the greater temptation and in-
creased facility to bad conduct occasioned by the over-
full state of the prison. It will be seen by the returns
in the Appendix that the number of punishments has
been less than in the preceding year.
The buildings have undergone many and great re-
pairs during the last year, and much yet remains to be
done, partly from the natural wear and tear, and partly
also from the necessity of providing increased room for
prisoners, stores, offices, &c. AR additional 'clamp is in
course of construction, to be worked, like the others, by
prisoners, the existing pumps having been found insuffi•
cient for the supply of the present necessities of the
establishment.
The staff of schoolmasters has consisted of seven, but
the amount of time employed in clerkship on various
occasions by two of them may be reckoned as the full
time of one; thus virtually leaving the services of six
schoolmasters only for the educational department. The
inconvenience arising from the want of school-rooms is
obvious and great, the passages in which the prisoners of
the respective wards receive instruction being ill-adapted
for such a purpose; thus the schoolmasters are working
at a continual disadvantage.
To measure the advancement of the prisoners would
be difficult, if not impracticable, owing to the continual
changes through the reception or removal of some por-
tion of the vast numbers which the prison ordinarily
contains. Speaking generally, they have evinced full as
great a desire for instruction as might be expected from
men under their circumstances. Instances of misbeha-
viour at school have sometimes occurred, but not so fre-
quently as to detract from the foregoing remark. It is
to be regretted that the amount of instruction afforded
should have been so scanty.
During the first quarter of the year the number of
schoolings averaged only 11, second quarter 13, third
quarter 19, fourth quarter 19.
This comparative increase is attributed to the Mill-
bank Juvenile Class having been, in the beginning of
August, absorbed in the general mass, and not as before,
receiving instruction apart from the other prisoners.
In addition to a full service on the Sunday, alternately
morning and afternoon, the prisoners, male and female,
have attended a daily morning service of the same cha-
racter as named in the last report. The prisoners
located in the General Ward have had the benefit of two
full services every Sunday. The Sacrament of the
Lord's Supper has been administered eight times in the
course of the year, namely, four times respectively to
such of the male and female prisoners as having ex-
pressed a desire to communicate, either already pos-
sessed, or who, under the means employed with them
individually by the assistant chaplain, attained to a
competent knowledge of the nature and design of that
holy ordinance.
Table 1 in the Appendix (C.) refers to those indi-
viduals of the Millbank juvenile class who, in the
course of the year, were sent abroad with conditional
pardon.

Two insane prisoners were removed to the criminal
Lunatic asylum in the course of the year. One of these,
a male convict (J. L.), was manifestly insane, when he
was received. The other, a female convict (E. C.), had
been four months in the prison when the first symptoms
of disordered intellect were observed (see Table 4).
Three other male convicts laboured under delusions at
the time of their reception; two of these (G. S. and H.
R.) received pardons on account of the state of their
minds; the third (P. H.) recovered under treatment in
this prison.
Another male convict (E. S.), after being more than
seven months in the prison, had a slight attack of in-
sanity, from which he soon recovered. But he subse-
quently relapsed, and since the commencement of the
present year he has bean removed to Bethlehem Hospital.
The prisoner who committed suicide in the year 1847,
had only been four days in Millbank Prison. And in
this instance, as in several previous ones, the act appears
to have been the result of the disturbed state of the feel-
ings caused by the prisoner's recent conviction and the
sentence of transportation passed on him.
It has already been stated than an unusual amount
of sickness occurred in the later months of the year
1847. The average proportion of sick for the
whole year was thereby rendered greater than it
had been in the several preceding years. The
average number of sick in the infirmary, which in
1846 was 49.9 per 1,000 prisoners, was in 1847 67'3 per
1,000 prisoners ; and the average daily number of the
cases of casual sickness, which in 1846 was 17.0 per
1,000 prisoners, was 20.6 per 1,000 prisoners, in 1847.
The causes of this increase of sickness have been ex-
plained. It remains only to remark that, even if these
causes be removed, the greatly-increased number of i
pri-
soners confined in the establishment, supposing this n•
crease be permanent, will of necessity cause the number
of sick requiring treatment in the infirmary to ba much
larger than it was at former periods ; and that, under
these circumstances, a new infirmary will be indispens-
able, the part of the prison at present used for that pur-
pose being inadequate in extent, as well as exceedingly
inconvenient in construction.
The net profits of the manufactory, although exceed-
ing by nearly 4001. those of the preceding year, fall very
far short of the amount which they might be made to
attain if an additional number of trades' instructors were
engaged. Even under the disadvantage, however, of an
insufficient staff, they amounted, as will be seen detailed
in Appendix E., to 4,2981. 2s. 3,1 d.
JOHN G. PERRY,
WILLIAM JOHN WILLIAMS
Inspectors of Millbank Prison.

CHELTENHAM ELECTION.
CUELTENHAM, MONDAY EVENING.—The poll was
opened this morning at eight o'clock, and closed at four.
Mr. Berkeley took the lead at once, and in sporting
phraseology, ' maintained it to the winning pst."
following was the state of the poll at the
closeo :
The
The Hon. Granville Lennox Berkeley 990
Mr. Escott ............
..
842
Gross majority for Mr. Berkeley —l4B
Mr. Escott's committee, however, make a very diffe-
rent result. They have published during the day state-
ments of the poll showing a difference of 100 between
their list and those published by Mr. Berkeley's com-
mittee' and make the gross majority of Mr. Berkeley
about fifty only.
The returning officer had not made his declaration
when the last train left. There can be no doubt, how-
ever, about the return of Mr. Berkeley.

......
USEFUL HINT ABOUT CHOLERA.— (From a Cor-
respondent).—A writer in a weekly medical journal,
who saw much of the cholera in 1832 and 1834, sug-
gests a very simple, and, as he asserts, a very valu-
able prevention against the susceptibility of the di-
ease. The weakened state of the stomach, he
says, which predisposes to cholera, is so decidedly ob-
viated by eating freely of common salt with our meals
that it is believed that three-fourths of the cases
which would otherwise occur may be prevented by this
simple addition to our food. The writer recommends
for an adult a ninth of an ounce (about a small tea-
spoonful) three times a day, at breakfast, dinner,
otoef.i.: or supper. It may be eaten with fish, animal
uft
edr.
poultry, game, bread, toast, or bread and b t
The same beneficial result is not obtained
dis-
solved; meats, broths, soups, &c., in which salt
solved; because by the action of heat, or long .
is change
admix-
ture of the salt with other matter, a
with
power,
pro-
duced in its properties, and the preventive.
vy hen
destroyed. '
reference to this particular use of it, destroyed.
was constantly
cholera prevailed in London the is with
pre-
ventive measure. The beneficial
stimulating the diges..
exposed to its influence, and
.onilyewffuescetdofthtehisabpolavne
p 0
bably depends, first, upon the salt
digestion and assimila-
tiontive organs to produce a perfect
of the blood; for it is well
than usually saline conditionr
itstheFs
of the food; and, secondly, upon maintaining a more
deprive the blood ofesalinleiemstateeff
reicatlss. of cholera is to
known that one of
THE ALL.—At a select party in
who had made a competency in a small
couple present w and retired from business, leaving their
Edinburgh of ~ABN'epn Bodies," there was an ancient
shop in town,
only son a successor to the shop, free from every incum-
brance. But
became the theme of
Jbn' after a few years had failed in the
world, e
did sae ill in the same shop you
dwiscou, and his misfortunes
rse. Airs. A.—Dear me, Mrs. 11., I wonder
your Johnne
did so well in. Mrs. ll.—Hoot, woman, it's
i
ae wonder
at a'. Mrs. A.-Weel, how did it happen ?
Mrs.' H.-1' --
11 tell ye how it happened. Ye mun ken,
when Tom and me began to merchandize, we took par-
ritch night and morning, and kail to oar dinner. When
things grew better we took tea to our breakfast. And
weel woman, the age mended, and we sometimes coft a
lambkin for a Sunday dinner, and before we gee up, we
sometimes colt a chuckie, we were doing sae weel. Naw
ye maun ken, when Jonhneo be
began at the chuckie first. gan to merchandize, ho
POTATO DISEASE IN IRELAND A CENTURY AGO.—
Lord Chancellor Jocelyn, writing from Ireland in 1741,
to his brother Chancellor (Ilardwicke) in England,
"mentions the distressed state of the country at that
period, owing to the entire failure of the potato crop
which had occurred, and which was followed by famine
and diem, to a frightful extent."