The Sun.
London, England, 1846-08-15 00:00:00

PARTY 'PROCESSIONS.

On Monday last Mr. Steele left town for Ballyhaise,
county of Cavan, where the Orangemen had determined
upon a procession, and the Catholic peasantry threatened to
have a counter procession. Mr. Steele has been quite suc-
cessful in inducing the Catholic party to abandon their in-
tention ; and it appears by the following that the Orangemen
have also abandoned their exhibition:

" ORANGE MEETING AT BALLTIIAISE.—At a meeting of
the di-trict masters and masters of Orange Lodges, held
in Cavan this day, the following resolution was unanimously
passed :
" Resolved, That in obedience to the recommendation
of Lord Farnham and other friends, to whose opinion we are
bound to defer, we have come to the determination of
having no procession to-morrow. We have come to this
decision solely because it is the conviction of those influential
friends that such a meeting could not take place without
great risk to the public peace. (Signed)
" ARTHUR PATTERSON, D.M.
" WILLIAM MAGEE, Arva.'
" August 11, 1846."

BROMLEY UNION WORKHOUSE.
Returns have just been printed, pursuant to order of
the House of Commons, relative to the diet table now in
use in the Bromley Union Workhouse, &c. The follow-
ing are extracts therefrom :
DIETARY, ALTERATION OF.
Bromley Union, January 17, 1846.

Gentlemen,—l am direct-(d la% the Board of Guardians
to inform you that they resolved at their meeting yes-
terday to make the following alteration in the existing
dietary of the union workhouse :
Wednesdays and Saturda) s, for dinner, one and a half
pint soup and four ounces bread, in lieu of seven ounces
bread and one ounce cheese ; ail classes. _ _

Thursdays, for children's dinner, meat pudding, in
leo of bread and cheese.

The Board of Guardians request that you will sanc-
tion this arrangement.
I subjoin a copy of the report from the medical officer
of the union workhouse on the subject. I have, &c.
(Signed.) HENRY NOTTINGHAM.
Clerk to the Guardians.

The Poor-law Commissioners.
To the Committee on the Dietary.
St. Mary Cray, Dec. 10, 1845.

My Lard and Gentlemen—Having been requested to
offer my opinion on a proposed alteration of the diet
tables for the able-bodied and children, by the substitu-
tion. two days in the week, of soup and bread for bread
and cheese, I beg, at your request, to repeat in writing
the substance of what I have stated verbally.
During my six or seven years' attendance (id est, from
the first formation of the union), upon the able-bodied
poor at the Chislehurst House, my attention was much
directed to the diet of the inmates, and I always found it
sufficient to preserve a healthy person in health; and I
am, moreover, of opinion, after seventeen or eighteen
years' observation of the agricultural poor at their own
dwellings, that an able-bodied labourer, having a wife
and two or three children, does not obtain more, if so
much solid refreshment as the diet table affords; but I
am of opinion that the form in which that solid nourish-
ment is given in the diet table is nut the best, though I
believe it was chosen from its approximation to that of
the labourers of the district. There is nothing warm be-
tween breakfast and supper ; the solid food is not insuf-
ficient, but in the winter especially some warm drink is
desirable, and in the Chislehurst House was to a certain
extent afforded, though not named in the diet table; I
therefore strongly advise the alteration proposed.
The above is equally or more applicable to the chil-
dren. I have, &c.

(Signed)

THOS. H. SMITH, Surgeon

On the 12th February, 1846 (after some correspond-
ence had taken place on the subject), the following let-
ter was sent fr.na the Poor-law Commissioners to the
clerk to the guardians of the Bromley Union :
Poor-law Commission-office, Somerset House,
February 12, 1846.
Sir,—l am directed by the Poor-law Commissioners
to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the Bth
instant, on the subject of the proposed change in the
dietary table of the workhouse of the Bromley Union.
I am now to state, in reference to this matter, that
the Commissioners agree in opinion with the committee
of the guardians, a copy of whose report was forwarded
with your letter, and consider it inexpedient to make
the proposed change, always keeping in view, however,
the power of making temporary alterations in the diet
of the inmates, on the recommendation of the medical
officer, which is vested in the board of guardians by the
I workhouse rules. I am, Bze.
• (Signed) E. CHADWICK, Secretary,