The Sun.
London, England, 1833-11-27 00:00:00

burg to England. It would be unjust to pass °vet
in silence the humanity wi:h which, during all these
arbitrary proceedings dictated by Russia, we were
treated by the Saxon authorities. When we ar-
rived at Hamburg the same intriguing influence
which Russia exercises all over Germany did not
permit us to remain in that free town more than a
fortnight, and, notwithstanding the tempestuous
season of the year, we were compelled to quit our
last temporary retreat on the continent. Tossed for
13 days on the sea, at the risk of being twice
wrecked, we at last reached the shores of a f, ee
peop'e, not yet curbed under the yoke of the ds-
grading Russian autocrary, and where, foriunateiy,
we congratulate ourselves at being beyond the
reach of our relentless persecutors."
The noble exiles, thus hunted m• rcilessly frnm
place to place by the despoticP•iwers, at the d;et.,,,s
of the vile Mu covite d'plomacy, wh'ch Hppett‘ irre-
sistible throughout Germany, are indiviihia!3 of dis-
tinguished and heretofore wealthy fam I.es in Po-
land, some of whom, by their bravery during the
last struggle for independence, did justice to the
.floit exalted spirit of chivalry. Arniiegst them is
Casimir Count Oborski, Colonel of Kralcuses dieing
the rev luiion, who made a campaign under Nap ;-
Icon ; Lieutenant Ordon, at the storming of Warsaw
commander of a redoubt, with mines, is tech ex-
ploding, destroyed a number of enemies ; Captain
Ted Nen, who, tieing prisoner of war, escaped friim
Siberia, whither he had been sentenced to banish..
merit for life ; Captain 13ansemer, formerly dii eeter
of the manofactoiy of arms at Wa:saw, lint less
distinguished by his solid multifarious learning than
devote Ines. to his country; Francis S awiarski
and Julian Dombski, young patriots, who retina heed
their advati-ageuus social position for the riaegera
and hardships of a barbarous warfare: these and
other meritorious pwriots, nine in number, on ac-
count of their sudden expulsion from Saxany, have
arrived utterly unprovided with every necessary, en
the shores of this country. Not fioding, even here,

the means of subsistence, or any fu ure pros!)• c s
for the amelioration of their condition, or any sup-
port from their families, with whom they are pro-
hibited even to correspond, they were compelled to
apply to the French Government in p +s—
ports and an hospitable retreat, which that Govern-
ment provided for the rest of their ill-fated coontty-
men- In expectation of a favourable answer, they
hear their hard lot with an equanimity becoming thy
character they aq,iir,d in the conflict fur their
country's independence.

PRESUMED REASONS OF RUSSIA FOR EXPELLING THE
REFUGEES FROM GERMANY.
1. For security's sake of the Emperor.
2. To keep them away from their own country
and corn municition with the hulk of the nation.
3. To repress the excitement among the people
of Germany to which the sympathy with their fain
,lid nor fail to give rise every where.
4. That they may not become a most dangerous
corps of army in case of war.
The measures appear to have been taken in com-
mon with Prussia and Austria, being executed simul-
. ratieously in Trieste and Danizie. The Poles of
Saxony were to be delivered to Austria in case of
their willingness to go to America.

MANNER OF LIVING IN OLD TIMES.-
Perhaps the following view of the manner of living in the
fifteenth century may amuse some of our readers. It is
part of the journal of the celebrated Dizaheth Woodville,
before her marriag.• with Lord Grey ; she was afterwards
Queen to Edward IV., and died in confinf m nt at South-
wark, under Henry VII., in 1486. This was extracted
from the ancient manuscript preserved in Drummond Castle
anti communicated to the public by Lady Iluthven:—
" Monday morning, rose at four o'clock, and helped Ca-
therine to milk the cows, Rachel, the other dairymaid,
having scalded her band in so bad a manner the night be-
fore ; made a poultice for Rachel; gave Robin a penny to
4et something from the apothecary's. Six o'clock; the
~uttock of beef trio much boiled, and beer a little the
stalest. Mem. To talk to the cook about the first fault,
and to mend the second myself, by tapping a fresh barrel
immediately. Seven o'clock : went to walk with the lady,
my mother, in the court yard ; fed twenty-five men ar,i
women ; chid Roger severely, fur expressing some ill will
at attending with the broken meat. Eight o'clock: went
into the paddock behind the house, and caught Thump,
the little pony. and rode a matter of six miles, without
• oldie or bridle. Ten o'elock : went to dinner. Deveri

clock: rose from the table, the compiny all desirous of
walking in the fields ; John Grey would lift me over every
Toree o'clock : poor farmer Roiiinson's house hurnt

lawn, by acciden'al fire; John Grey proposed a subscrip-
tion among the company, and cave no less thal four pounds
with this lictievolenr inti-nt. Mem. Never saw bum look
so comely as at that moment. Four u'cl : went to
sayers. Six o'clock: foil the hogs ano p ,ultry. Seven
o'clock : supper on the table ; delayed till that hour ion
iecount of farmer Robinson's misfortune. Nine o'clock ;
ti,e company fast asleep. These late hours very disa-
greeable."
Last week, as the wife of Mr. Joseph Will-
farmer, of the parish of Tywardreath, was walking
through the farm yard, she saw a hawk busily engaged
,n devouring a chicken it bail killed, and which it t eld in
its claws. The feathered mar ,uder was so intent on
coinpleting its meal, that Mrs. Willcock was en ,ble I to
iiounce upon and carry it off wi h the remains of its
victim in its claws.— West Briton.
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••••••-•
BOOKS.—A few drops of any perfumed oil
will secure libraries from 'be consuming vti-cti of mold
and damp. Russian leather, which it perfumed with the
far of the birch tree never mould. rs ; and merchants suffer
large bales of this leather to remain in the London D fcks,
knowing that it cannot sustain any injury from drop.
This manner of preserving books with perfumed oil, was
known to the ancvnts. The Romans used oil of cedar to
Preserve valualfle MSS. Hence the expression used by
Horace—" Digna cedro"—meanint any work worrhy of
being anointed with cad tr nil, or, in other words, worthy
of being preserved and remembered.
SPADE HUSBANDRY.— A field at Hornsea,
East Riding, the propery of B. Haworth, Esq con•ain •
ing upwards of twelve acres, has been allotted out in roof's
a id half-acres, and let chiefly to small tradesmen, at Si.
an acre, clear of all taxes. The third harvest has now
closed, and the results are highly gratifying to the experi-
mentalist, and remunerating to the occupiers. Beans
have produced on some well managed pieces twelve
quarters per acre. Wheat varies from six to eight
quarters; and althuugh potatoes are a general failure in
the neighbourhood, some pieces hive yielded 1 600 pecks
per acre. The advantage of the spade ovee the plough
is the most striking in grain. Potatoes do not seem to
average more than usually obtained by the plough.
Although the object in letting these garticA is experit, sat
and not charity—and none riceiving parochial assistance
are eligible as tenants—yet indirectly the p ,or are bene-
titled. The tenants, being chi fly tradesmen, cannot
spare time for the cultivation of it themselves, and the
labourer is employed at the usual wages.—Hull Ad-
vertiser.

CULTIVATION AT HOLKIIANI.--Mr. Coke's

(state around Hoikham consists principally of a hungry,
sandy loam, or light gravel of the same charac'er, with oc-
casional, but not frequent, interruptions of small patches of
hog. The latter description of soil was, during the early part
If Mr. Coke's proprietorship, covered with low alder bushes
and sedges,which seldom failed to hold a fox. They are ia,av
by his skilful application of capital, rendered productive
water-meadow. The instances of this kind are, however,
few, and not of any great extent, where they do occur.
But in every posaitile case advantage has been taken of
circumstances, and the profitless bog bas been converted
into water meadow of the highest quality. With re-
spect to the arable land, and the permanent pasture,
which principally owes its existence to the system
( f inoculation, the nature of the soil, and the ex-
tent of its amelioration, may be best judged of from
rie following facts :—An estate let, when Mr. Cok
first came to Hoikham, at Is. 61. per acre, and sub-
sequently on a lease at 3s.,was,at the end of his term, quitted
by the tenant in consequence of his considering lie could not
pay a rent of ss. per acre. The estate was tithe free ! Now
Ina, k the nifference in the performances of two men. and lei
all despondency
cease as to the capabilities of our poor
soils to produce food, and profitably to produce it, under
quitable and judicious protectioa. From this identical
state Mr. Coke, under his superior management, «trained
9 bushels of barley per acre . Again on the same land, and
(ia land of similar qu Airy, his crop of wheat of I 532, nom
306 acre', produced 2,632 cootnbs ; bring an average of
r pater !luxe than 34 bushels per acre. This was obtained
from land decidedly not Wheat land; but it snows what
iltivation will achieve.—From an article in the Bran di
rartneeli Magazine (entitled " A few days at Holkhael
by the Rev. Henry Barry.