The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-20 00:00:00

" TO THE TENANTRY OF THE SHIRLEY ESTATE.

"Sept. 15. .
"My Friends and Tenants,—Application having been
made to me by some of you on the subject of the exist-
ing distress and alarm caused by the failure of the pota-
toes, I take this method of stating my opinion and advice
on the occasion. '

" It becomes the duty of all classes, under this afflic-
tion of Divine Providence, to exert themselves to alle-
viate the distress occasiont d by the awful dispensation;
the poor, to exert their patience and to calm their fears;
the rich, to aid in devising the best plan to secure food
for those whose means will soon be exhausted. The
Government is ready and willing to assist in the good
work; and grants of money arc making, under certain
regulations, to enable proprietors and landlords to em-
ploy those in want of work; and thus all such will have
means to provide for their families. The larger tenants
must take care of their colliers, and supply them with
money, or meal in lieu of their potat,.es: thus, the burden
will be divided, and all will bear a share of the general

" Meanwhile, let the tenantry take advantage of the
blessed weather, by increased exertion in securing,
threshing, and selling their corn while the market is
high, and paying their rent, aiding the landlord to help
the distressed. Thanks to a merciful God, the corn is in
a good condition, well saved, no wind to shake it out, no
wet to injure it; the hot sun we are blessed with must
be beneficial to the potatoes.
"Let us by cheerfulness and firmness soothe the timid
and encourage the active and industrious; remembering
that this afli►ction is intended as a trial for our good, and
must be borne with resignation to the Divine will. But
above all things avoid the counsel of these bad men,
who, with their rents in their pockets, delay in paying
it, while they endeavour, for their own selfish purposes,
to increase the alarm in the mind. of the poor and weak.
If such should be found in Farney, let them beware;
for, if detected, neither their wealth nor their station
shall secure them from the utmost punishment an injured
landlord can inflict.—l remain, your faithful landlord,
"E. J. SEIIRLEY."
ARMY MOVEMENTS.
The 3d (the Buffs) regiment of infantry, under Sir
James Dednis, K.C.8., arrived in two divisions—the
first yesterday, the second this morning--from England,
and took up their quarters in Ship-street and Ald-
borough• barracks.
The Carabineers will arrive here on the 30th inst., and
the 3d of November. They are to be stationed at New-
bridge and out-quarters.

IMPROVED CONDITION OF THE POTATO CROP.-
A few weeks ago it was the general impression, in Co-
vent-garden-market, and the other vegetable markets
in the metropolis, that before the middle of November
a single potato could not be anywhere obtainable.
Within the last eight or ten days a change has taken
place in the opinions of the potato-dealers in London,
and they now admit that though the price of that es-
culent may not be much lower than it is at present, yet
that the metropolitan markets will be liberally supplied
with potatoes until the end of next spring. They have
received intelligence from various parts of England,
Scotland, and even Ireland, especially from the southern
parts of the latter country, to the effect that large fields
in which the potatoes were looked on as totally de-
stroyed, have unexpectedly and agreeably turned out, on
proceeding to dig them up, to be in a sound and healthy
condition, in the proportion of from fifty to seventy per
cent. Not only, therefore, have all apprehensions in
reference to seed vanished, but, as just remarked, this
part of the food of the lower classes will continue to be
liberally supplied for months to come without any in-
crease on the present prices.
A TRICK.—The following ingenious trick was last
week endeavoured to .be played off on Taylor and
Bowley, Charing-cross. A stout man, about 40 years
of age, entered the shop, and expressed a wish to par •
chase a large quantity of boots and shoes, at a reduced
price, for the purpose of shipment; at the same time to
prove that he was in the habit of doing business of this
nature, he produced invoices of goods bad in a similar
way, from Gundry's, Soho•square, and other respectable
West-end houses. A parcel having been selected, a price
was agreed upon, upon condition a tertian other quantity
was added to it at a much lower rate, to make up for
what was considered too high a price for the first lot.
An invoice being asked for and given, the money for the
second lot was offered, with the promise of sending for
the others in half an hour, but upon being told that one
parcel could not be taken without the other, or a suffi-
cient deposit left upon the second, he walked off much
disconcerted, stating that he would send for them all.
Upon inquiry, it has been found in many cases he has
succeeded in this way in obtaining parcels of goods for
one-third their value, which it is feared the possession of
the invoic s unguardedly given to him will much fa-
cilitate.

THE PRICE or GRAIN.—We feel more regret
than surprise at finding that the price of wheat continues
to advance in all the principal markets. The weekly
average for the kingdom, which was made up on Thurs-
day last, is 565. 10d. per quarter ; and we find that the
Wakefield average for this week, which will enter the
general average of next Thursday, and is usually about.
the same in amount as that for the whole kingdom, is no
less than .595. 34 1. per quarter. Since the sales were
made on which that return is founded, prices have been
further advanced about 2s. per quarter ; so that the ave-
rage price of the whole kingdom is now certainly above
60s. per quarter.—Manchester Guardian.
IMPROVEMENTS IN TOWER WARD.—On Saturday
a copy of a letter from the Duke of Wellington to the
Alderman, Common Council, and inhabitants of the ward,
respecting the proposed new street through it, in answer
to their memorial, was exhibited triumphantly in several
of the tradesmen's windows, the Duke having expressed
himself favourable to the widening of Great Tower-street
in preference to a new street.
FOREIGN CATTLE.--A sailing-
vessel is arrived in
the London Docks from Hamburg, with, in addition to
a cargo of speltor, 40 head of horned cattle. This ar-
rival presents two distinct features of novelty, it being
the first importation into the port of London of live
cattle in a sailing-packet from this distant Hanseatic
port, and the first time also, we believe, that a vessel has
entered any of the dock establishments having a con"
sigoment of live horned stock on board,