The Sun.
London, England, 1860-11-12 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 12, 1860.

ASHIONABLE CLOAKS.—SENVELL and
CO. have the honour of inviting Ladies to see their
NEW WINTER CLJAKS. All orders are taken and exe-
cuted by sine Dame Francais from one of the first Magasins
in Paris.— Compton House, Frith-street, Soho.

TNTEREST WARRANTS on SHARES and
DEPOSITS.—The Warrants for the Half-yearly Inte-
rest payable on Shares and Deposits one month from Michael-
mas. 1860, have all been issued. Any Shareholder or Depositor
not haying; received a Warrant, who is entitled to the same,
will be pleased to apply at once to the Offices of the Conser-
vative Land Soc,ety, No. 33, Norfolk-street, Strand, N.C.
CHARLES LEWIS GItUNEISEN, Secretary.

-WILLIAM BRADDON, Esq., deceased.—
Pursuant to the Act of Parliament, made and passed
in the 22d and 23d years of her present Majesty Queen Vic-
toria, c. 35, entituled "An Act to further amend the Law of
Property and to relieve Trustees," NOTICE IS HEREBY
GIVEN, that all Creditors of and persons having claims
agsinst the Estate of WILLIAM BRADDON, late of Black-
land, in the parish of Plympton, Saint Mary, in the county of
Devon, formerly of the Bengal Civil Service, Esq., deceased,
who died at Plympton, Saint Mary, aforesaid, on or about the
thirty-first day of October, one thousand eight hundred and
fifty-eight, are hereby required to send in their claims against
the Estate of the said deceased to Henry Watters, of No. 14,
Camden-place, Bath, Esq., the Rev. James Henry Chowne, of
Netherbury, in the county of Dorset, clerk, and Richard
Strode Hewlett, of Portsmouth, in the county of South-
ampton, captain in her Majesty's Royal Navy, Comm ender of
the Bath, the Executors ot the deceased; or to their Solici-
tor, Mr. Henry Cowland, at No. 14, Lincoln's-inn-fields, in
the county of Middlesex, on or before the first day of January
next, at the expiration of which time the Executors will
proceed to distribute the assets of the s tid deceased among
the parties entitled thereto, having regard to the claims of
which they shall then have notice, and will not be liable for
the assets so distributed to any creditor or other person ot
whose claim they shall not have had notice at the time of
such distribution.

Dated this thirteenth day of October, iB6O.
HENRY COWLARD,
14, Lincoln's-inn-fields, London,
Solicitor to the Executors.

A NEVER FAILING' REMEDY.-
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without any danger from wet or cold, act mildly on the bowels,
without pain or griping, clear the skin, remove sallowness
and pimples, purify the
,blood, brace the nerves, and invige-
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Is. lid. and 2s. 9d. each. Be sure to ask for Dr. Scott's
Bilious and Liver Pills. The genuine are a square green
package, with " William Lambert, 20, Jermyn-street,' en-
graved on the Government stamp.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN. SATURDAY.
IRISH AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS.

An important letter on this subject has been ad-
dressed to the Lord-Lieutenant by Mr. William
Levinge, a gentleman favourably known in con-
nection with public efforts for the improvement of
Irish agriculture. Mr. Levinge first points out that
a deficiency in ordinary farm manure for about
35,000 acres of land has, from different causes
(principally from the decrease in green crops and
potatoes). arisen during the present year, and that—
" This deficiency of 35,000 acres requiring to be
manured has caused a present loss of over £250,000
in our agricultural produce, a loss which will pro-
bably not soon be recovered, and the more to be re-
gretted because the manuring of those 35,000 acres
would have assisted much to lay the groundwork
for the future agricultural prosperity of the country."
Mr. Levinge also observes :

" The cultivated arable lands of Ireland exceed
15,000,000 acres, and, on a careful examination, yield
of agricultural produce about £43,000,000 value
annually ; but under a better system of green crop
husbandry—such a one as would satisfy a farmer
that his farm was in a thriving condition—the same
lands should yield from £75,000,000 to £80,000,000
value annually, or nearly double what they produce
at present.
" The fact of Ireland having sustained a loss in
one year of over £1,500,000 in money value of live
stock (partly, no doubt, owing to the severity of the
past season), and of about £500,000 in cereals, pulse,
potatoes, green crops, and flax, as may be gathered
from the agricultural returns for 1860 ; the preca-
rious state of the residue of this year's scanty potato
crop ; the light, because too late sown turnip crop ;
the deficiency of nearly 9,000 acres of cabbage—
the poor man's garden crop, arising in a great mea-
sure from the destruction of the young plants by
frost—are all matters worthy of the most serious
attention ; and it cannot but be regretted that when
the agricultural produce of Ireland should be on•
the increase, her agriculture should appear, from
Government returns, as displaying rather a down-
ward tendency —a fact still more apparent when it
is observed, from the same returns, that the decrease
in restorative crops is in greater proportion to the
decrease in the cereal in 1860 than in 1859.
_ _

" The general tenement valuation of Ireland
being under £12,000, it appears from the above
figures that the country has sustained a loss of
agricultural produce, in one year alone, exceeding
one-sixth of that valuation. This may appear a
somewhat startling statement, but it would be of
use if it should lead the agriculturists of Ireland to
adopt a more improved system of husbandry, and
to make better provision for the future."
In conclusion, the writer says :

" The agriculture of Ireland cannot be improved
without a due expenditure of labour and capital.
M. De Lavergne estimated that £300,000,000
would have to be expended in order to place Ire-
land on an equality with England as to farms and
cultivation. This would appear rather an extreme
view. It is certain that it would require
£200,000,000 to render the farms suitable for con-
ducting a proper system of husbandry, to complete
the main arterial drainage of the country and to
reclaim the waste lands,—a sum which may well
cause aniazement when it is recollected, that
although the Land Improvement Act has been in
operation for 14 years, and is still justly popular
and successful, upwards of £300,000 still remain
unexpended of the £2,000,000 originally granted
for loans. But even £100,000,000 judicially ex-
pended on the light arable lands, providing for
small as well as large farms, so as to retain a proper
supply of labour in the country, would soon enable,
Ireland to yield at least £75,000,000 value annually
of agricultural produce, thus returning a very large
interest for the capital employed."
The letter to a great extent upholds the views
expressed by his Excellency on the subject of green
cropping on more than one oecasion during the
Viceroyalty.

productions of yarns with the usual enterprise, but
the extreme rates for raw material press close on
the margin of profits, anti in coarse numbers that
margin has been exceedingly narrow for some
months past. On this department of the staple
trade tb€ action of the treaty will have its influence,
but not to the extent anticipated by the more san-
guine capitalists.
" Flax—The markets for raw material have been
more liberally supplied this week, and sales went
off on terms which must prove satisfactory to _enter-
prising growers. In the lower ranges of fibre there
is more firmness, owing to the lessened prospects of
large supplies from Riga and other parts of Russia.
The value of prime lots of hand-scutched is the
turn higher; in low and very inferior qualities the
rates have been fluctuating, but these extremes can
hardly be taken as true tests of general quotations.
Hand-scutched sold this week at 6s Ed to 8s 3d,
and for a few extra quality samples 83 6d was had;
milled went off at 7s 6d to 13s 6d per stone of
16/Ib."

DUBLIN, SUNDAY.
DESTRUCTION OF THE KILDARE CLUB-HOUSE BY

FIRE.

At half-past 4 o'clock this morning the Kildare-
street Club-house was discovered to be on fire, end
in less than two hours after the fire tle building,
with the exception of the front wall, was completely
destroyed. Three lives have been unfortunately
lost—thoie of Miss Smith, the barmaid, and two
female house servants. Miss Smith was an English
lady, and had won the respect and esteem of every
member of the club. Owing to the ts xtraordinary
exertions of the clerk, Mr. Hughes, six other female
servants were rescued uninjured. Owing to the
perfect stillness of the morning the flames were
directly confined to the building in which they
originated. Neither of the adjoining houses has
been in the slightest degree injured. The Club-
house, so far as I have been able to ascertain, was
insured for at least £14,000 in various offices. The
building was sold some months since to the College
of Physicians for £5,000, a splendid new edifice
being in course of erection for the members of the
club in Nassau-street and Kildare-street: It will
not, however, be ready for occupation for six
months to come.

take no strong interest in the taxation of the coun-
try, or in the expenditure of the State; he will
conclude that the only mode of bettering his con-
dition is in an advance of wages, forced from capi-
tal, it may be, at the risk of its destruction, and
gained and secured only by combinations NI. hich,
in the long run, must be as injurious to himself as
to the employer against whom he is contending.
" I have never denied the legal or the' moral
right of workmen or employers to combine ; but I
believe there is not one case in a hundred where it
is wise to exercise this right. And, looking at the
consequences of the strikes we have seen in this
county, and indeed throughout the country, it is
amazing that so many men of sense, so many men
competent to works of skill and ingenuity, should
take any part in them. Ido not expect in our time
that these deplorable transactions will come to an
end, but I am persuaded that they would occur much
more rarely, and be attended with less of bitterness
and of that obstinate folly which now so often dis-

tinguishes them, if the wall of partition between
Classes were broken down by the admission of the
great " labour interest" into the rights of citizen-
ship. Then the same questions would interest us
all ; the same grievances, where grievances exist,
would be seen to affect us all ; the same great public
objeCts would stimulate us all; and, instead of
being, as we now are, two nations in one country,
having different ends and adverse sympathies, we
should have objects and purposes in common, to the
incalculable and permanent gain of the people.
"I am not now propounding a new doctrine. I
have held this opinion ever since I have considered
social and political questions. I have as much
interest in the harmonious working of our industrial
organisation, and in the welfare of my country, as
any other man has, and I give it as my deliberate
judgment, that it is the interest and the duty of all
the employers of labour amongst us, to confer upon
the workman, whose labour we purchase, and whose
wages we provide, those rights of franchise and of
citizenship which we ourselves possess. Some men
imagine that the existing exclusion can be perpe-
tuated, and that it is safer to repress and exclude
than to admit. This is the common delusion of
those who shut their eyes to all that is passing
around them, and who, in their timidity, adhere to
a course which, more than any other, is dangerous
and untenable.

" The workmen are great in numbers, growing
in intelligence, and their power of combination
is without limit. They will contend for them-
selves, by themselves, if condemned to remain a
separate and suspected order in our social system ;
and this contest has in it the seeds of future and
tremendous evil to them, and to the great indus-
trial interests of the country. I wish to unite all,
to have no separate interests ; to blend all in a
common sense of common right, and thus to give
peace and strength, where now discord and weak-
ness too much prevail.

" I do not write this to you as though you dif-
fered from me in opinion on this subject, but I take
the opportunity which your letter affords me of
expressing to you the views I honestly hold, ear-
nestly hoping they may one day become those of all
the employers of labour in the manfacturing coun-
ties of England.—l am, very sincerely yours,

" JOHN BRIGHT.

'` To

~ Esq., Blackburn."

THE BOMBARDMENT OF CAPDA.

The following letters give a graphic and highly
interesting account of the bombardment of Capua
and the operations which preceded it :

" Caserta, Oct. 29.

" This is a diary rather than a letter, and it is
very probable that I will finish it within the walls
of Capua. I came up here and asked Garibaldi to
put me up. I had seen him on the day of his en-
trance into Naples—l now saw him just as he had
surrendered his absolute power as Dictator in the
King's hands. I have just read the letter he has
written to the Marquis Pallavicino to tell him
that henceforth he must apply to the King for
orders, and thanking him in the name of Italy
for the result of his labours. Garibaldi then
penned a farewell address to the army, which
will be published after the fall of Capua,' and
two decrees which are to be promulgated by the
King—the first confirming all the volunteer officers
in their rank, and the other sanctioning and vali-
dating all the acts of his administration as Dictator.
Some doubts may fairly be entertained as to the
King's signing this last decree. The last act of
Garibaldi's dictatorial administration has been his
authorising the free worship of the Reformed
Church of Geneva: The Swiss consul, M. Meure-
koff, and the Calvinist minister, are in ecstacies at
this concession, which the Bourbons had always
refused. A Sicilian commission came over here to-
day to present Garibaldi with a sword of honour.

It is that which the Sicilians intended to offer
Charles Albert in 1848—an intention which the
defeat of Novara frustrated. Garibaldi is prepar-
ing a general report on the campaign, and especi-
ally of the affair of the Ist of October, of which his
generals have published the most fantastic accounts.
I heard him telling General La Mara, Where
have you fished out all these wonderful feats of
valour which you have stuck into your order of the
day ? Have you forgotten the fainting fit at Cala-
tifimi ?' I have had the opportunity of reading
Garibaldi's account of his own share in that memo-
rable day's proceedings. It is a model for modesty
and truth. I may mention that he is opposed to
the bombardment of Capua, as he looked upon its
surrender as inevitable, and he has a wholesome
horror of these violent means. With what face, I
have heard him say, can we reproach the Bourbons
with their cruelty in slaughtering the innocent
citizens, women, and children of a town by a bom-
bardment, when we follow their example, especially
when such cruelty is unnecessary. Victor Emmanuel
however, and Count Cavour think it a case where
cruelty may be humane, or possibly place la raison
d'etat above paltry consideration of mere humanity."
" Santa Maria, Oct. 30.
" On the 28th a flag of truce was sent by Della

Rocca into Capua to announce that the bombard-
ment would forthwith commence. Salzano, the
Neapolitan commander, refused to receive him. On
the 29th the day was consumed in sorties, which
were driven back, and in spite of which the Pied-
montese contrived to bring up their mortars for the
bombardment. In the course of the afternoon Sal-
zano sent out a flag of truce, and two officers, who
were received by General Cosenz and Della Rocca.
General Salzano offered to capitulate on the eondi.
tion of being allowed to march out of Capua with
arms and baggage, and to retire to Gaeta. Against
Garibaldi's advice these conditions were refused,
and skirmishing was resumed on both sides, which
lasted until nightfall. By that time the Piedmon-
tese had brought 32 60-pounders up to within 130
yards of the place."

" Naples, Oct. 31.
" The bombardment did not commence today,
sufficient number of shells and bombs not flaying
been brought up."

" Sant Angelo, Nov. 1.
" The bombardment of Capua commenced to-day
at four p.m., when 48 pieces of heavy ordnance,
howitzers, and mortars began to pour a shower of
iron upon the devoted town. I spare you the detail
of the batteries. It will be sufficient to, state that
the most efficient was one at a, farm-house, called
Tognini Calvarola, at 900 yards from the walls.
At half-past two Garibaldi came up to the front,
and was received with an enthusiasm all the greater
from the fact of his resignation having got wind.
About three Victor Emmanuel came up to Santa
Maria in a carriage, and gave some orders to Della
Rocca, and returned to Sant Angelo about an hour
later, and strolled about the foot of the hill with. Sis-
tori. Garibaldi by this time had returned to Caserta.
and ordered a red The King then climbed the hill,