The Sun.
London, England, 1846-08-28 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR.

Sir,—As the potato disease is occupying the atten-
tion of the great bulk of the community, and its se-
rious results upon the poorer class, allow me to men-
tion that the same disease is now showing itself in
the turnip in this neighbourhood. I have a caop of
swede turnips, which has excited great notice from its
luxuriant and forward appearance, being drilled on
the 2.2 d July, upon ridges, with a composition of sul-
phuric acid and bones, nightsoil, ashes, and gypsum
mixed up together. From their first appearance the
plants looked healthy ; they grew very strong and rapid,
escaping that general scourge, the turnip fly. I had
them regularly horse-hood between the drills, and struck
out by hand to about twelve inches apart in the drills.
Although no rain fell for at least five weeks, they never
once flagged in their growth. As the rains came on,
the impulse given to the turnips was very perceptible ;
the land soon became covered with the plant, and bulb.
ing began, which has now attained a very large size,
many of the bulbs weighing upwards of 101 b. It always
gave me great pleasure when I visited them, par-
ticularly when the accounts of others were so dis-
couraging. On Saturday week I was induced to go
amongst the Swedes, from what I observed in some white
stone top turnips (about half an acre), which I had had
drilled in the same piece, but which I now found to be
all rotten, and emitting an effluvium of the most offen-
sive kind. I thought as the white turnips had attained
a very large size, they might have overgrown them-
selves, and decayed prematurely; but upon examining
the sound ones I found them perfectly sound, not
hollow. Now the swedes are certainly affected as above
stated, but not so extensively as the white turnips. I
found many putting on this appearance—the leaf a little
mildewed, in the centre of the eye a dark appearance ;
in a word, in every respect like the diseased potato. On
putting the end of my stick down the eye, I could force
it into some of them as much as a couple of inches; the
smell from them was most offensive, a kind of mattery
appearance, the same as the potato had last winter. I
visited the same field last Saturday, and am sorry to say
nearly the whole of the white turnips are affected, and the
swedes to a much greater extent. Not feeling satisfied, I
have visited some of my neighbours' crops, and can '
easily see the same disease amongst them, in the inci-
pient state ; being later in their growth, the disease has
not yet developed itself so fully. One field I examined
particularly, which had been transplanted in June, but
they were affected. Not wishing to become an alarmist,
I merely write this in the spirit of inquiry. Having
carefully perused the different agricultural reports from
your numerous correspondents, I cannot see in them any
allusion to the disease ; all concur that since the late
rains, the turnips are looking much more promising. I
wish when they write again they would pay especial at •
tention to the crops in their several localities, and report
thereon ; for if the disease should prove to be an epide-
mic, the consequence to the grazier the ensuing winter
will be very serious. Its being detected early in the
season may be the means of enabling us to provide a
substitute before winter sets in.—l am, Mr. Editor, your
H. MORRIS. obliged servant, _ _

,
Gasberton, near Spalding, Lincolnshire.
THE POTATO DISEASE.
TO THE EDITOR.

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stroyer of the potato was an insect ; and that that insect
was in such numbers in the neighbourhood of Kings-
bridge, Devon, as to destroy whole fields of the potato
crop. The potato crop in the district of North Lincoln-
shire, with which I am acquainted, looked as well to all
appearance as any crop of the kind could look a fort-
night ago. In a very short time many crops withered.
A respectable carpenter of my acquaintance looked over
his crop on Saturday evening, the Sth—they were well
and thriving then ; on Sunday morning, the 9th, they
were withered. Can this be the work of. a tiny insect ?
On Saturday last I saw two crops of potatoes divided
only by a wooden fence—one, about half an acre, en-
tirely withered ; the other, belonging to myself, about
one acre, freshly green and in full flower, no insect per-
ceptible to the eye on either of the crops.
This year I have grown several kinds of the potato;
they are all affected with the disease, some more so than
others; the tops withered in a very short space of time.
The potato which we commonly call the " toad back"
—a good sound potato for the spring o f the year—is
more affected than most others, and this pbtato has the

seed apple upon it. I, for one, have not been able to
solve this question, although I have paid a little attention
to the subject, and most certainly have never discovered
a bug, or any other insect, on mine or my neighbours'
plants; and I am led to think it is not an insect (with
us at least) from this circumstance.—l have dug up the
Cambridge white kidneys this year, the foliage being
green; and the disease I have found in the tuber,
although I was most particular as to seed, and placed
every potato of the kind in the ground with my own
hand.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant,
Caistor, Aug. 20. E. W. G.
—Bell's Weekly Messenger.

JUDGMENT CREDITORS.
A BILL.
:NTITULED AN ACT TO MAKE CREDITORS
WHO HAVE PROVED UNDER PROCESS OF
BANKRURPTCY OR INSOLVENCY JUDG-
MENT CREDITORS OF THE BANKRUPT OR
INSOLVENT.

Whereas it is expedient to give additional remedies
to creditors against debtors who, having been declared
bankrupt or insolvent, do not account in a satisfactory
way for such property as has been traced into their
possession, or who have not kept such books as they
ought to have done, or who have not continued to make
the usual entries in their books up to the time of their
bankruptcy or insolvency, or who may appear to have
been guilty of great extravagance in their expenditure, or
who may have put their creditors to unnecessary ex-
pense by vexatiously resisting proceedings taken against
them in courts of justice for the recovery of debts, and
who for these or for any other reasons shall appear to
the Commissioner to be undeserving of protection ; Be
it therefore enacted, by the Queen's most excellent
Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the
Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this
present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of
the same, that the Commissioners of the Court of Bank-
ruptcy acting in the matter of any bankruptcy or insol-
vency may at any time suspend or withdraw the protec-
tion granted to the bankrupt or insolvent as to his per-
sc n and property, as to either of them, as to him may
seem just and expedient, and may again renew and
again suspend the same from time to time.
And be it enacted, That the assignee or assignees of
any bankrupt or insolvent shall from the time of the
bankrupt's or insolvent's accounts becoming records of
the Court be deemed judgment creditors of such bank-
rupt or insolvent for the total amount for which such
bankrupt or insolvent shall thereby admit .himself to be
indebted to all his creditors; and that if the Commis-
sioner acting in the matter of such bankruptcy or insol-
vency shall think fit to withdraw or suspend the pro-
tection granted to the bankrupt or insolvent as to his
person, he shall, on the application of such assignee or
assignees, grant to him or them a certificate according to
the form specified in the schedule to this Act annexed,
marked (A), which shall have the same force and effect
as a judgment of her Majesty's Court of Queen's Bench
for the sum therein specified.
And be it enacted, that every creditor of a bankrupt
or insolvent who shall have proved his debt, shall from
the time of his proving such debt, and in the order in
which the same shall be or have been proved, be deemed
a judgment creditor of such bankrupt or insolvent for the
sum so proved ; and that if the Commissioner acting in
the matter of such bankruptcy or insolvency shall think
fit to withdraw or suspend the protection granted to the
bankrupt or insolvent, as to his person or property, or
both, he shall, on the application of any creditor so ad-
mitted, grant to him a certificate thereof according to
the form specified in the schedule to this Act annexed,
marked (B), which shall have the same force and effect
as a judgment of her Majesty's Court of Queen's Bench
for the sum therein specified.
And be it enacted, that the assignees or assignee or
any creditor holding such certificate may procure the
same to be sealed with the seal of the Court of Bank-
ruptcy, and upon producing such certificate so sealed
to the proper officer of her Majesty's Court of Queen's
Bench, may procure the proper writ of Capias ad satis-
faciendum or Fieri facias against such bankrupt or in-
solvent, or his property, as the case may be, to be sealed,
in the same way in which he might have done if he had
recovered a judgment against such bankrupt or insolvent
in her Majesty's Court of Queen's Bench, and had pro-
duced to the proper officer the judgment paper.
And be it enacted, that if any bankrupt or insolvent
shall be in prison under a capias ad satisfaciendum so
issued as aforesaid, the Court having jurisdiction in the
matter of his bankruptcy and insolvency may order his
release after he shall have undergone such imprisonment,
not exceeding one year, as to such Court shall seem
sufficient punishment for the offences of which he may
have been guilty : Provided always, that no bankrupt
or insolvent against whom or by whom in respect of
his bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings shall have
been had shall be imprisoned fur any debts, proved by
whatever creditors under such bankruptcy or insolvency
for a longer period than one year, taking into the ac•
count all the imprisonments which he shall suffer under
such process.
And be it enacted, That whenever a bankrupt whose
certificate the Court shall have refused or suspended, or
an insolvent to whom the Court shall have refused his
final order, shall appear to any creditor who shall have
proved his debt to be in possession of property which
might have been seized for the benefit of the creditors,
but which has not been so seized, he may apply
to the Commissioner acting in the matter for an order
upon the assignees to show cause why he should
not be permitted to seize the same at his own
risk for his own benefit, upon which application the
Commissioner may order, unless cause be shown to the