The Sun.
London, England, 1851-01-01 00:00:00

WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUA

45-inch 60 reed is scarce and in demand. Jaconets—
Sales 8,226 pieces, at lir. to 2r. oa. 6p. per piece. In-
ferior nr,kes have declined considerably, but a tolerable
fair inquiry exists fur those above 21c. in weight. Long
Cloths—Sales 2,986 pieces, at 4r. Ga. to sr. 11a. per piece.
In small demand, owing to an apprehension which will
probaly prove well grounded, o❑ the part of the usual
purchasers, that they will shortly be prevented from
using the water from the public wells for dyeing pur-
poses. 40-inch is scarce and in demand. T Cloth—
Large sales, at reduced prices, have taken place, no
fewer than 8,119 pieces, at 3r. to 3r. 11a. 6p. per piece
having been disposed of during the fortnight; nomesties
have sold to the extent of 7,000 pieces, at from 3r. 9a.
to 12r. la. per piece, which shows a decline on former
rates.
Bleached Goods—Madapollams sales, 1,950 pieces, at
24r. to 4r. per piece; jaconets, 11,000 pieces, at 2r. to
2-ar.—medium qualities alone in demand; shirtings,
2,750 pieces, at 6r. to 10r. per piece-66 reed and up-
wards the only descriptions inquired after; in other de-
scriptions of bleached goods the sales have been few.
Fancy Goods—ln dyed madapollams, Swiss lappets,
mulls and harness mulls, pine and zebra dresses, there has
been scarcely anything doing; while there is a pretty
fair demand for dhoties, bleached mulls, lappet semi's,
and low lappets.
Dyed Goods—There has been rather more inquiry for
Turkey red plain and twill cloths, but at somewhat
lower prices than formerly; and there exists a pretty
fair demand for good quality.
Cotton Yarn—Sales amount to 191 bales water, and
405 of mule twist, with 12 bales Turkey red yern. Mule
of inferior quality is uninquired after, while good has
sold to a large extent at 7i, 9, and 9f annas per lb. for
Nos. 20, 30, and 40. The price of Turkey red yarn is
firmer; in other dyes there have not been any trans-
actions.

Metals—Copper—South American continued in in-
quiry. Of South Australian 200 slabs have been sold at
40ir. per cwt. Sheathing and braziers' "to arrive"
have, it is reported, been sold to some extent at au
improved rate. Tiles remain as before reported. Iron—
Swedish and British bar and sheet have declined; hoop
as before; round nail rod somewhat improved, while
square remains unchanged. A trifling demand exists
fur Swedish steel in faggots; in tubs dal'. Spelter and
pig and sheet lead have declined.

- Cochineal—This article continues uninquired for, and
is only saleable at a greatly reduced rate; 2,4001 b. aio
reported as having been sold at 2ir. per lb.
Saffron—A sale of 6251 b., good quality, has be(n
effected at 12r. per lb.

"RULES.
" I. The Bank shall be under the management of the
Committee of the Huddersfield Mechanics' Institution;
and the Treasurer of the Institution for the time being,
shall be the Treasurer of the Preliminary Savings' Bank.
"11. The Treasurer shall, on the day after each de-
posit night, pay the balance in his hands into the Hud-
dersfield Banking Company, to the credit of the Preli-
minary Savings' Bank.

" 111. No Moneys to be received or paid unless two
Officers of the Institution, or persons appointed by them,
be present; one to enter the sum in the Pass-book and
the Committee's Cashbook, the other to copy the said
entry from the Pass-book into the Committee a Ledger,
and then affix his initials in the Pass-book.
"IV. The accounts shall be made up half-yearly, on
the 30th of June and the 31st of December, and a list of
the balances (signed by the Treasurer), giving the
NUMBER of each Pass-book, BUT NOT THE NAME, shall
be laid upon the table for one month, thus enabling
each Depositor to see that his balance is correct.
"V. That Deposits will be received from the Mem-
bers of the Mechanics' Institution, their Friends, and
Working People generally.
" VI. That any sums from one Penny upwards shall
be received, and when they amount to Seventeen Shil-
lings (unless requested otherwise by the Depositor), shall
be paid into the Huddersfield (GOVERNMENT) Savings'
Bank ; a Pass-book obtained in the Depositor's name,
and given to the party who may again pay into the
preliminary Bank, until it reaches the Seventeen Shil-
lings, to be again transferred to his or her own credit in
the Huddersfield Savings' Bank, and so soon as such
sums are accumulated. All sums paid over to the Go-
vernment Savings' Bank will no longer be under the
control of the Committee of the Preliminary Bank.
" VII. Any Depositor may draw out his money
on presenting his book, and no sum will bear interest
until paid over to the Huddersfield Savings' Bank."
This seems to us to be but the beginning of a movement
by which Mechanics' Institutions may usefully connect
themselves with the people, by meeting their social
wants, nod helping them on the road to improve-
ment. It is a grand opportunity for replacing the habits
and associations of the pot-house, by those of places
devoted to the spread of knowledge, and we earnestly
trust that such a simple and easy means of raising the in-
tell igence,roid benefiting the moral and physical conditirn
of the peeple, will not be neglected. Each institution may
seem to do but little, bit it is of littles that all great
things ere made up, and the multitude of iustitutious,
each adding its small quota to the general good, would
in time build up a mass of power, resting upon prudence,
regularity, and forethought, sufficient to effect greatna d
beneficial social changes. We cannot, perhaps, concludet
better than by quoting from the Yorkshire Union
report
the following sensible and necessary warning:—" It
cannot be too strongly impressed up n the respective
committees to enforce the most rigid oxactness and
punctuality in the discharge of any pecuniary trust they
may und. rtake, with every precaution against possible
loss; as a single failure in this respect might bring dis-
creit upon the whole system, and even on Mechanics'
Institutions themselves."—Eliza Cook's Journal.

Lord John Russell. will give his 6ret Polligmen.
tAry 24 #lO 15th Mt.

1 8b 1.

PRELIMINARY SAVINGS' BANKS. A ROMAN CATHOLIC MIRACLE.
In May last we noticed a plan of Mr. Charles W. (From Galignanis Messenger of the 30th Dec.)
Sikes, of the Huddersfield Bank, for making Mechanics' It has already been stated, on the authority of a
Institutions the means of fostering provident habits Lyons paper, that an alleged miracle recently took
among the working classes, as well as places of instruc- lace in the church of St. Saturnin, canton and arron-
tion and amusement. The mode which Mr. Sikes sug- •
con-
gested was, that Preliminary Savings' Banks should be C)l.iss.eme.nt of Apt, department of the Vaucluse, formed within each institution, for the purpose of col- sisting in the flowing of blood from. a picture. repre-
lecting pennies, and twopences, and such small sums as seating the descent of Jesus Christ from the cross.
would not be received at the Government Savings' The Pouvoir publishes a letter, dated the 24th, from
Banks, from its bumbler members, and that when any the Sub-Prefect of Apt, M. Grave, on the subject, in
depositor's accumulations should reach a sufficient sum which he makes the following extraordinary state-
to bear interest, the amount should be paid over to the ments :
Government Savings' Bank in the neighbeurhood, in the " About the middle of the month he learned that
name of the owner. The machinery prposed for this the population of the district were greatly occupied
purpose was very simple, and such as every Mechanics' by the statement that a girl of Saignon, named Ro-
Irstitution has as its command; a few of the leading setts Tamisier, long noted for her piety, had while
members might form a Savings' Bank Committee, the • • the chapel treasurer of any institution would, in all probability,of St. Saturnin,mar -
consort engaged in prayer in
consort to act as treasurer to the preliminary bank, a few tyr and Archbishop of Toulouse, seen, touched, and
inexpensive pass-books would be provided for the de• kissed blood which flowed from the wounds in Christ's
positors, the bookkeeping re quisite would be of the body in The painting placed above the altar, represent-
simplest possible kind, and the liability would be very ing the descent from the cross. It was-added that
limited, as each depositor's money, so soon as it reached this `supernatural fact' had been repeated on three
U. is., or 21. 25., would to paid over to the Government following days. Shortly after the sub-prefect re-
institution, and its control entirely left to the depositor. ceived through the mayor the copy of minutes drawn
The feasibility and practicability of the plan seemed up by the lieutenant of gendarmerie, in which that
to us at the time to ensure its adoption by many of the functionary states that having on the 16th, at the in-
more advanced Mechanics' Institutes, because the atten- vitation of the cure gone to the church, .he having
tion of the public seems to be extensively directed to the .
with the cure got on a table close to the picture, dis-
power of the pennies of the millions, and the wisdom .
tinctly saw `blood flow from the wound by the side, and
of providing some means to enable those who occasion-
ally have a few pence, bat seldom a few shillings to those of the two hands and the left foot.' The blood
spare, to safely accumulate their small savings. From on the right side consisted, says the lieutenant's re-
this direction of public feeling have sprung up the penny port, of ' eight drops in the form of pearls, of the size
banks, which within the last few months have been of a little pea ;' on the right hand 'it formed a line of
established in the metropolis, and other large cities and six centimetres in length, ending in a drop ;' on the
towns of the kingdom, and whose operations might be left hand and left foot the blood ' was less abundan',
so much, and so beneficially extended by calling into but still sufficient to trace a line from the two points
action the facilities at the disposal of the managers of of three or four centimetres, also terminating in a
Mechanics' Institutions.
We do not mean to advocate saving as the very highest drop.' Six or seven hundred persons were present at
the
sort of virtue, but it is unquestionably the parent of ,
time and saw all this. The cure then asked Dr.
many virtues, and that obstacle to many evils. The Clement, who was present, to wipe the blood away
power to save with security very often produces the de- with a piece of white linen. This was done, and
sire to save, and that desire gives birth to a wise eco- eleven marks of blood remained on the linen. After-
nomy, and stimulates habits of temperance, regularity, wards the flowing of the blood recommenced, but was
and order. It is not merely that a penny is laid by, or allowed to coagulate on the painting. That 'no doubt
that a guinea is accumulated, but that the penny, if not might exist as to the reality of the prodigy, ' the lieu-
saved, might have been transformed into the fiery dram, tenant caused the upper part of the altar and the paint-
and the guinea have furnished the means for a series of ing to be removed, and ascertained that 'it was abso-
drunken frolics, in which virtue would have been sacri- lately impossible that the least thing could have
ficed, health deteriorated, domestic happiness and com-
fort broken down, and the ability and will to labour for • • •
the future impaired. It often happens, and often must painting : moreover, the wall behind the painting
happen, that, not only, according to the good old adage, was covered with a cement perfectly intact in all
" a penny saved is a penny gained," but that sickness is parts? In consequence of this marvellous state-
avoided, miserable homes are made comparatively happy, went the sub-prefect went on the 17th to St.
the police station, and the police court, and the work- Saturnin. The cure was absent, but in company 1
house are unvisited, and industry and intelligence are with the mayor, Dr. Clement, and M. Gay, advocate,
stimulated and aroused in consequence of saving. We he visited what he calls ' the miraculous paint-
mnst not look only at the good effected in a monetary ing.' These gentlemen stated to him that they had
point of view, but also at the increased power of mora- witnessed the oozing of the blood as stated by the
lity, resulting, with more or less directness, from the lieutenant of gendarmerie, and caused him to re-
establishment of well-managed saving institutions for mark the coagulated blood on the painting.
the humblest classes of society, to whom such efforts,
small and insignificant as they may seem, are of the At this the sub-perfect says 'he felt pro-
greatest importance. Nothing that concerns them is found emotion.' He then went to visit the young
unworthy of serious and earnest attention, not only for girl ; he found that she lived in an inn kept by a
their sakes but for the welfare of the whole community, female cousin. ' She was in a state of suffering; her
which, with all its aggregated wealth, and progressing appearance was sickly ; her eyes rolled mysteriously
intelligence, rests, in fact, upon the good conduct and in their much-developed orbit, and seemed to lose
the energies of those for whose immediate benefit such themselves in a cloud ; their expression was full of
institutions are proposed.
melancholy, her body extraordinarily thin ; her atti-
It appeared to us, and so it still appears, that Mr. tude excessively modest; humility was painted in all
Sikes's plan was of paramount importance to the Ma- her movements,and
[lagers of Mechanics' Institutions, with regard to the expressed hertelf with great propriety, and spoke
prosperity, stability, and usefulness of those institutions,
which have hitherto been, too often, only for mechanics French more correctly than most uneducated persons.'
in name. They have been, in the mass, rather orna- To all the sub-prefect's questions, the damsel replied
mental than useful, and have done little, compared with with great intelligence. ' God,' she said, ' had
what they might have done, for the elevation of the effected this miracle for the conversion of sinners,
many. Their lectures, libraries, and classes, are gene- and he had specially chosen St. Saturnin, because,
rally suited to the tastes and requirements of the middle four years ago, this locality was the witness of a
classes, rather than the labourers, and their halls have great scandal. Her conduct,' she added, `had been
been left empty, while the tap room of the public-house, outrageously calumniated, as also that of a priest ; but
where the benefit society, or the sick-club, or the burial- she had not demanded reparation from God.'
club is held, is crowded. Such habits of providence as On the 201 h, the sub-prefect, accompanied by M.
the people have, have been, as it were, systematically
er . ,
surrounded by and associated with evil influences, which Guillibt Jugs d Instruction," and M. Jacques,
have weakened the power of those habits, and too often substitute of the Procureur of the Republic, went to
converted them from incentives to good into temptations St. Saturnin ; the Archbishop of Avignon had ar-
t() evil. Members' fines have furnished the occasion for rived on the previous evening. After paying his re-
many a debauch, and members' spending money has spects to the prelate, the sub-prefect went, in com-
laid the foundation of many a drunken fir. It is in the pany with Dr. C. Bernard, an eminent physician of
power of Mechanics' Institutions in a great measure to Apt, towards the church. As they were ascending
remedy this—to make the lecture and the reading-room the hill on which it is situated, they heard the bell
as popular and attractive, and ten thousand times more a- ' this ' says the functionary, ' was the signal of,
useful than the tap-room and the singing-saloon, and at thing ; '
e commencement of the manifestation of the prodigy.
the same time to add largely to their funds, their mem- He was much vexed at it, as he was desirous of being
hers, and their powers for usefulness, and promote the
well-being and heighten the moral tone of the people. ins the chapel_' before the appearance of the oozing of
the blood.' But they hurried on. A number of per-
It is necessary that the means of instruction, and the op-
sons were assembled around the church. The cure
portunity of practising what that instruction may teach,
should, as far as possible, be offered under the same met him ; he announced that the oozing of the blood
roof, and many a family may be saved from destitution, had commenced, but that he could not open the
and many a Mechanics' Institution from decay, by a church until the arrival of the Archbishop. How-
timely attention to she social wants of the people, ever, the sub-prefect insisted, and, at last, the cure
evinced by offering to them provident instiutions of a let him in ; he took with him Drs. Bernard and Cle-
bitter kind, and connected with purer associations, than meat. The high altar was lighted with wax candles ;
those they now have.
at one corner was Rosette Tamisier, kneeling in
With these views we were glad to see, by the Report for
ra y ,er with her hands crossed, and her head
1850 of the " Yorkshire Union of Mechanics' Insti-
p
tutes," that Mr. Sikes's recommendation has attracted leaning on the altar. She appeared completely
the notice, and secured the approval of the committee of absorbed in devotion. ' I ascended the table of
that body, who express an opinion, "that, wherever such the altar,' says the sub-prefect, ' accompanied by Dr.
a plan could be carried out, it must largely tend to in- Clement ; I examined the wound by the light of a wax
crease the moral influence and social importance of these candle ; I ascertained that from those of the right hand,
institutions," for " institutions are likely to derive an the two feet, and heart blood oozed. The drop of blood
accession of members where such a department should which was on the right hand visibly increased; it ap-
his efficiently carried out, because those who went merely peered to me like a drop of blood such as arises on
to deposit their twopence or threepence, would become the end of the finger- on being pricked by a sharp in-
aware of the other advantages offered to them." But strument when the lower part is lightly pressed. It
we are happy to find that something more has been
was at the moment at which the drop of blood of the
done, than to express an opinion, for the committee add, ' We are, therefore, glad to learn that the plan of Mr. right hand was about to fall or flow that I wiped it
Sikes has already been adopted in conjunction with the three several times with a piece of linen. The first
Institutions at Wortley, Meltham, and Keighley, at two operations gave two very red stains of blood ; in
which latter place it is found to succeed admirably. At the third the stain was clearer. After this operation
Hunmanby a Provident Society has been formed, to in- the wound remained perfectly dry. I also wiped
elude the benefits of Friendly Societies and Life Assur- several times the two wounds on the feet, and I re-
ance. It is also in contemplation to establish preliwi- marked that the drops were clearer, and the oozing
nary Savings' Banks at the Dogley-lane, Kirkstall, and less sensible. I did the same to the wound on the
other institutions; we hope it will be with such results right side; there were there a dozen drops of blood,
as may enable us to recommend it still further at our which nearly formed the design of a heart. That of
next annual meeting."
We find, from other sources, that preliminary Savings' the middle presented the same phenomenon as that of
Banks have been established in connexion with the Man- the right hand, and it was of a darkish colour. Those
cheater and Huddersfield Mechanics' Institutions and that were around resembled, on the contrary, the
that their progress is highly satisfactory and promising. drops of the feet. • I took away the drop of the middle,
The preliminary Savings' Bank at Huddersfield was and one or two on the right. At this moment the
opened on the Bth of July last, with 57 depositors, lodg- Archbishop entered the chapel. I accordingly left
ing 31. Os. 7d., and by the end of September the num- untouched the other drops of the wound on the side,
her of depositors had reached 205, and the deposits to and abstained from wiping the wound on the left
691. 102. 4d., averaging 73, of about one shilling and hand, from which no blood had oozed. I descended
fivepence each night, and in 19 cases individual deposits from the altar. The Archbishop, followed by a numerous
reached the sum (seventeen shillings), to bo paid into the body of the clergy, knelt at the foot of the altar, and
Government Savings' Bank. Humble as this may ap-
after a short prayer examined the drops of blood
pear, we may draw an inference as to the good it is.
likely to effect from the information of a trustworthy which I had left at the wound of the heart, and he
correspondent, who says, that, "Of the 205 depositors, wiped them with a piece of linen. This piece of linen
possibly not more than half a dozen (so humble are they an mine were covered in all with about thirty drops
in lite) would have thought upon the subject, but for of blood ; and they were exhibited to the curiosity of
the preliminary banks;" and we are at present scarcely the population, who filled the church. The clergy
in a position to estimate the social good which thousands and a body of young girls sang hymns ; and we waited
of such banks, at once strengthening institutions calcu- in expectation of a new oozing, but none came. The
lated to advance morality and intelligence, and benefit- girl, Rosette Tamisier, who still remained absorbed
ing the people, would inevitably confer upon the country. in prayer, was asked several times if the blood would
We have had forwarded to us copies of the Moriches- flow again. A first time she did not answer ; a
ter and the Huddersfield "Depositors' Book," with
second, she said she did not know ; a third, that she
copies of the rules of each institution, and in te hope • . .
did not believe it would. After this last reply, about
of promoting the good work, we give thoSe of the Hud-
dersfield Preliminary Bank, trusting that they may serve an hour after the arrival of the Archbishop, the cure
for a model, on which many similar institutions will be (M. Grand) caused the picture to be displaced, and
'winded : workmen turned it round. We examined it with a
good deal of care, but I saw no particular mark.
The canvass was perfectly dry ; a thick coating of
pitch covered all the back, and it was placed against
a very thick wall. This was all the part I had in the
event. The Archbishop then proceeded to celebrate
mass, and I went away to draw up an account of what
I had seen. I then visited Rosette Tamisier, whom
I found suffering and greatly discouraged. She an-
nounced to me that she believed the prodigy would be
renewed. And, in fact, I have since received a re-
port from the Mayor of St. Saturnin, announcing
that at nine in the morning of Saturday, the 21st,
there was again An abundant oozing of blood.
In a postscript to this letter, the sub-prefect states
that a gendarme named Brio!, who after his retire-
ment from the chapel had been placed to prevent the
crowd from approaching the painting too closely, had
remarked two drops of blood ocze from the right side,
that he had wiped them two or three times with his
pocket•handkercief, and that four or five stains still
remained on it. He said that he had not at first given
any account of this because he feared that his
pocket-handkerchief would be taken from him, and he
wished to send it to his mother.
The Courrier de Lyons states that the blood which
is said to have issued from the wounds in the side of
our Saviour, as represented in the painting in the
o
church of St. Saturnin, has been analysed two
medical medical men, who have declared that its
human
composition exactly corresponds with that of
blood.

1:b
Eel,. j. F. Denham,
ST. MARY-LE-STRAND.— e
!uedhea pastoral letter to
idsuties. Mr. Denham in-
cidentallyt y urges the
rector of St. Mary-le-Strand, has
the inhabitants of his parish, in which.
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fonn to the parish has
s ce which he considers
s now
that
ta
great
Ci
eschireciiusatmti remarks
tan
l)eorina performance
observes r Nt'hese
prosperous ; and he adds :
exceeded twenty years,
es that an unusually large
will render
ail sleiomeusar 4
ourselves
charities.
" We may congratulate
proportion of the children of the poor receive the benefits of
education in our parochial, infant,
and Sunday schools; for I
found upon a personal inquiry last year, accompanied by a
at every house, and as far as it was practicable,
u
abode of the poor, that out of 369 children, between
thePtai *
everyl'ages ih °
noefr,' two and fourteen, there were 270 in distinct at-
tendance at our various schools. Your own zeal and kindness,
therefore, to your neighbours, render unnecessary in this
parish, any legislative enactments for popular education. The
benefits of this threefold system of parochial education among
us (for more than half the children now in the parochial
schools have passed through the infant school, and the
majority of the children in both these schools attend the
Sunday school) were pleasingly manifested in the course of
those public catechisings of all the schools which I have
held, throughout the greater portion of last year in church,
on Sunday afternoons. Permit me to bring again before
your notice my earnest desire that a new parochial school-
house, &c., might be built on the piece of ground belonging
to the parish, which has long ago been disused for burials,
and which, I am assured by professional persons, might be
rendered perfectly healthy and secure for the purpose. I
have reason to hope that this valuable opportunity of pro-
viding for the accommodation of the schools, and of per.
petuating your benevolence to the poor, as an- example for
future generations, will be speedily taken into the etronueue
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