The Sun.
London, England, 1851-05-13 00:00:00

EVENING. MAY l3, 1851.

CRICKET.
ELEVEN OF ENGLAND v. TWENTY-TWO OF
ST. IVES.
This grand match was on Saturday last. its third day,
brought to a conclusion, St. Ives winning by thirty runs.
The following is the aeon- :

ST. IVES.
Cornwell, b Wisden 3 a Box, b Clarke ...... 6
Smythe, run out .........
W. Prem., c Felix, b Wisden.. 5 b Hillyer
Casson, b Wisden 0 b Wisden
Lord Sandwich, b Wisden ... 0 b Wisden ..... 3
Bird, "c and b Wisden ~... .. 0 not out ...
Prest, b'• isden ..... 0 b Day... 0
Norris, b Wisden ..... 3 c 1114rtingell, b Clarke 3
Stevens, c Hillyer, b Wisden. 5 b Wisden
Spencer, b%% isden . . ......... . 2 b Hillyer • 1
Payne, b Wisden ...... .. • ...... 0 run out
Boning, c Caffyn, b Clarke .. I b Hillyer .
Nash. b Wisden ... 6 b Wisden
trnold. b Clarke
. chaidson, b Wisden ...
buns, c Hillyer, b Clarke ... 4 s Box, b Day ...
(unwell, b Clarke I 1 b Day ,.. 2
W. A' aldock, c Clarke, bWisden 0 c Felix, b Wisden. ... 13
Jorner, b Clarke
Buttriss, 1b w, b Wisden... 1 c Hillyer, b Day ...... 1
Beck, c Day, b Clarke 0 b Day....
H. Waldock, not out ... 0 b Hillver
Leg bye

THE ELEVEN.
Caffyn, b Arnold - ....... ....... 3 b Arnold .. ,
Thomas, b Arnold ........... .. 0 b Buttriss . ,
Parr, c Stevens, b Arnold ... 1 c Norris, b Buttriss,
Box. b Arnold
Guy, b Buttriss ... . ... 1 b Arnold ...,...
Martingell, b Arn01d........... 2 b Buttriss ...
Wisden, b Buttriss ... 8 b Arnold
N. Felix, Esq., b Arnold 5 b Buttriss
Day, b Arnold ... ..
Hillyer, b Buttriss
Clarke, not out 6 b Buttriss
Byes

A USFFUL DOG.—A well-dressed young woman,
on Saturday, entered a restaurant not far from the terminus
of the Orleans Railway, and told the waiter to bring her in
all haste a basin of soup, as she was about to take her de-
parture by the next train. This was immediately done;
and after having taken it, and paid the waiter, she was
hurrying away, saying that she should certainly be late,
when she perceived her passage barred by a large dog
which refused to let her pass. She attempted by caresses
to put it aside, but the animal held firm, and opposed her
way. " I shall certainly be late !" cried she. "Do take
away that horrible dog!" The waiter and the master cried
out, " Vidocq, Vidocq ! give way sir," but the dog never
stirred. One of the waiters here whispered something to
the master, who, coming up to the young woman, said, " If
my dog prevents you leaving the premises, the reason must
be that you have some of the property belonging to the
house about you. You had better give it up at once, and go
your way." The person thus addressed at first affected great
indignation at being so addressed, but at last drew out a silver
spoon, which she banded to the ov ner of the restaurant.
The dog then allowed her to pass, and she was hurrying off
when she was seized by her mantelet, and forced to stop. This
time it was a police agent, who had been on the look-out for
se-- eral persons su pected of being concerned in a robbery, and
who, it was thought, might attempt to get off by the railway.
She was arrested, and on examination her mantelet was
foundito be furnished with immense pockets' for receiving pil-
fered goods. It is said that this is not the first time that the
dog. belonging to the restaurateur, has shown himself a faith-
ful guardian of his master's property.-- Galignani's Messenger.
THE ROTATION OF THE EARTH.—The Rev. Mr.
Longtnuir made a partially successful attempt in his own
church on Tuesday, but at a public experiment on Wednes-
day, to the confusion of the assembled savans, his machine
indicated that the earth was terming the wrong way. The
fault, of course, lay with the construction of his apparatus,
or the currents of air in the room. Further attempts were
more satisfactory. An experiment at Spring-garden has
been conducted with great care. A si'lb. ball has been sus-
pended by a fine brass wire 28 feet long, and the joint or
pivot at the top is an accurately prepared ball and socket
one, which of course moves with equal facility in all direc-
tions. The ball, which has a draw point projecting from it
below, was made to traverse a drcular table of six feet dia-
meter, and it invariable tended in the proper direction.
Much dificulty was experienced in getting the ball to swing
in a :mathematically accurate plane, but this obstacle having
been overcome, the revolution of the table, and of course of
the world, under the pendulum, became quite apparent.
Further experiments are to be made.—Aberdeen Herald.
The Clothworkers' Company, of which the Right
Hon. the Lord Mayor is a member, and his Lordship was
master when the grand entertainment was given to the late
Sir Robert Peel, Bart., at Clothworkers' Hall, are about to
invite a number of the most distinguished foreigners who are
now in this country to a banquet at their hospitable board on
an early day. It is said that the other companies are pre-
paring to show the spirit with which they can sustain the
character of the citizens of London for hospitality. There
will be, it is supposed, a most strenuous rivalry.

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FOREIGN NUTS.—The American ship Ocean Queen,
from New York, has brought 100 packages of chesnuts as a
portion of her cargo, consigned to order. We are not aware
of a previous importation of this description of nut from the
United States of America.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS. May 12.
FOREIGN FLOUR.
The Earl of GLENGALL presented a petition of
which he lied given notice from the grand jury of Tip-
perary in favour of
„protection to home-made flour.
The Noble Earl ssia this was a most serious question.
There was as large an amount of capital invested in
flour-mills as there was in cotton-mills, and in Ireland,
the flour establishments were as large as the cotton es-
tablishments in England, and now the French had
erected mills and undersold them in the market in the
finer specimens of flour. Tee Irish mill-owners had pur-
chased up all the corn in Ireland, and had driven
a most profitable trade in it, and now their profits would
be sensibly diminished by the importation of French
flour, and the carriage of corn and flour would be oi-
mudshed. He had frequently seen in the town with
which he was connected 500 or 600 carts employed in
carrying corn to these mills, and bringing the
flour away. The consequence of free trade had
been that these mills had been ruined, and
that the people had been compelled to livo upon that
nasty filth called Indian meal, which was positively
peisonous. The people could not work upon it. In all
the milling districts the workhouses were crowded, and
they had been compelled to take auxiliary workhouses,
and those auxiliary workhouses had formerly been stores
for the millers for Irish corn. This was a positive feet.
It reacted on this country, producing a deluge of Irish
paupers, who were sent over by the Irish unions at half-
a-crown a head; and if they continued the free-trade
system they would have all the Irish paupers sent over
to England. Now for the fact.,. In 1849 there had
been imported into England of foreign flour 3,349 899
cwt.; in 1850, 3,890.440 cwt.; whereas in 1847 there
had been imported only 1,339,000 cwt. of flour. He
then proceeded to show that a large bonus was realized by
importing foreign grain in the shape of flour, instead of in
its raw material, owing to its being rendered capable of
stowage in a smaller compass by that process. He con-
tended that there was as large an amount of capital invested
in flour mills as there was in cotton mills; that in Ireland
the flour mills were as costly as the cotton mills of England ;
and that it was a lamentable circumstance that the French
millers, who lived at no cost on board of the vessels with
which they imported the finest flour into Ireland, should
undersell the Irish and the British miller in their own mar-
kets. He concluded by expressing his conviction that free
trade would be destructive of all the beat interests of the
country, and that under its fatal dominion industry would
never reap the advantages which were its due, and skill and
energy would be of no use.
Earl GRANVILLE observed that it was always a dis-
agreeable task to make a reply to a statement of distress,
when, in admitting the existence of that distress to a certain
extent, you had to deprecate the remedy which was proposed
for its relief. He did not feel himself bound on the present
occasion either to reply to the objections which the Noble
Earl had urged against the system of free trade generally, or
to enter into a discussion on the state of Ireland, into which
the Noble Earl had entered so largely, especcially when the
accounts which he had received from various quarters dis-
proved, rather than proved, the accuracy of the Noble Earl's
intbrmatiou. He believed that the distress suffered by the
millowners of Ireland, and so elaborately detailed by the
Noble Earl, existed to a considerable extent; but he could
not agree with the Nolsle Earl thst it arose from increased
competition with the French millowners, or with his sug-
gestion that protection to home-made flour would be the best
remedy for it. He also believed that distress was sustained
by the millowners of England. They were undergoing at
this moment the same fate which.oftee befell the manufac-
turers of the country. Amid the improvements which had
recently been made in the construction of mills and machi-
nery, it was found that those millowners who had a limited
capital, and resided at a distance from the best markets,
were gradually displaced by those who had a larger amount
of capital, and who had the benefit of the best markets. It
could not be disadvantageous to the millowners to have the
raw material of their trade cheap; for its cheapness led to
greater consumption on the part of the people; and, there-
fore, they must derive advantage, as well as the bulk of the
community, from having a larger introduction of grain than
formerly into the markets of this country. With regard to
the competition of the French millowners, he bad recently
seen a French gentleman, well known to many of their Lord-
ships, who had recently, held high office in France, M. De-
leseert (we think his Lordship said), and that gentleman
bad informed him that there was no branch of industry in
France in which so much progress had been made in the laet
20 years as that with which the millowncrs were connected,
and that, nevertheless, the millowners were at that moment
complaining loudly of the insufficient remuneration which
they received in return for their labour and their capital. It
was clear, from the statement made to him by M. Delessert,
that some of the minor millowners of France must have
given way in the competition which they bad recently under-
gone with the larger capitalists, and vet he did not expect
that any of their Lordships would be prepared to say that it
would have been a wise measure on the part of the French
Government to have bolstered up the weaker portion of this
trade by aid furnished from the resources of the etate. An-
other observation which had fallen from the Noble Earl was
That the French farmer was deriving great profit from im-
porting corn to England. Now he (Earl Granville) bad
tiiivry reason to believe that the contrary was the fact. The
same complaints which were made in England of the dis-
tressed condition of the English farmer were made in France
Hepectins; the distressed condition of the French farmer. He
likeable believed that the great distress alleged to be suf-
fered-by the British millowners was disproved by the success
of the -mill recently erected at Battersea, and by the nume-
rous new mills now in course of construction in different
parts of the country. The Noble Earl had suggested that
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flour should be immediately protected by a duty, which
would enable the miller to continue his operations.the He
(Lot d Granville) was not disposed to underratevery
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Vert to-thesistemofprotectiVe imp—ort duties upon grain ; but
he must say he thought such a niessure would be infinitely
more defensible than to afford protection to the millers be-
cause a portion of that body were involved in some distress
in consequence of the altered circum►tances of their re-
spective localities. The Noble Earl had slid that this ques-
tion would be brought forward again ; and he could only say
that, if a definite proposition were submitted to the House
his Noble Friends behind him would be quite ready to die:
cuss it. 1.
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