The Sun.
London, England, 1856-09-18 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE BUN.

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SIR,—How can the poor man beat the rogues in
grain, and bring the loaf to a fair price ? Fellow-men,
rich men, live and let live, and do not half starve the
poor. Fellow-working men there is a way to conquer
those who keep up the high price of corn. I, sir, will
endeavour to explain. The gold harvest it has pleased
God to send this year bread ought to be cheap. Fellow-
men, endeavour to consume the smallest quantity you
can, that will cause a slackness in the market. Do that
till it comes to a f tir price. I think 6d. is a fair price,
and I think, within myself, if that plan is adopted the
staff of life will soon be cheaper than it is now. T, my-
self, will try, and I hope all England will do the same.
Can you not partly live on rice, beans, fish, potatoes, .or
any other food that is cheap, until the price of bread
comes down. We will say, for instance, a man with a
large family, as I have, consuming 13 or 14 loaves
a-week, make one-half the quantity do. If this plan is
curried out throughout the nation, for a few week., the
loaf w:I1 noon be at a fair price. May those who endea-
vour to do good be crowned with success.
If you can spare room in your valuable journal, you
will much oblige your humble •servant,
N. J. JOHNSON,
Head waiter at the Little Star.

JEALOUSY.—Yesterday morning a fine young woman,
named Georgina Tomlin, aged 22 years, committed
suicide
,by precipitating herself from the towing-path of
the Regent's. Canal, Cambridge-heath. She was an arti-
ficial flower maker, and worked for a firm in Gresham-
street, City. She had been keeping company with a
young man, a commercial clerk, who had promised her
marriage, but latterly he had forsaken her for another
girl, whom she saw with him on Sunday evening last,
ealking in the enclosure of Victoria Park. The cir•
cumstance so preyed on her mind that she left her home
in a state of great mental anguish, and in a moment of
desperation she committed suicide.
NEW DISTILLERY REGULATION.—A. short act, passed
during the last cession, extends a licence to distillers
which has some interest to the public. Rice is now for
the first time included among the several articles from
which spirits may be distilled. The high price of barley
for.some years has set brewers and distillers in search of
every substitute by which their manufacture may be
economised. Potatoes, mangold wurtzel, and sugar
and molasses, are all available for distillation ;
but it appears to have occurred to distillers that, by
mixing rice with some of these articles, a superior result
might be procured, and an effectual step taken towards
the more economic consumption of barley. How far the
Hes will answer its purpose remains to be seen ; but there
is now no legal obstacle to the experiment, and worts
may be bre wed and spirits distilled from rice, either alone,
or in mixture with any of the other articles hitherto in use.
FETE AT ASTON HALL, NEAR BIRMINGHAM.—A.
second fete champetre took place in the park and
at Aston Hall, near Birmingham, on Monday evening.
The proceeds on this occasion were appropriated for
the benefit of the General Hospital, the expenditure on
account of the institution having considerably exceeded
its receipts for some time past. It is impossible to
ascertain the exact number assembled on the occasion,
but at least 80,000 persons were assembled. An un-
fortunate contretemps occurred in the afternoon. The
pressure at the entrance was so great that the barriers
were forced, and the officials whose duty it was to collect
the tickets were carried into the grounds by the persons
pressing for admission, and some time elapsed ere they
were able tto regain their position. In the interval
some thousands of persons had entered the grounds
without delivering up their tickets. The amusements
consisted of dancing, for which five or six bands were
provided, in addition to the bands of the Royal Artil-
lery and the 10th Hussars, whose performances appeared
to give great satisfaction. The London Orchestral
Union, under the conductorship of Mr. Alfred Mellon,
-gave two concerts, morning and evening. In the latter
a portion of the Birmingham Choral Society took part.
Picco, the blind Sardinian, also added to the amuse-
ments by his performances. The entertainments con-
cluded by a display of fireworks from the Royal Arsenal,
Woolwich. It is expected the sum of two thousand
pounds will be realised for the charity. The fete a few
weeks since produced 1,750/. for the Queen's Hospital,