The Sun.
London, England, 1860-01-20 00:00:00

NEW ZEALAND,

The following is an extract of a letter from Auck-
land, dated Oct. 14, 1869 :—" It is certainly a beau-
tiful climate here, the fields looking exceedingly
well, potatoes promising. As for wheat, barley,
and oats, they only plant enough for their own use.
Everything being imported, food is at an outrage-
ous price, such as flour ss. per stone ; bread, Bd.
per 21b. loaf ; rice, 4d. per lb. ; sugar, 7d., coarse
brown ; candles, is. 6d., and moulds ls. Bd. Every-
thing else in the same proportion, except beef and
mutton, beef being 7d. the lb., mutton sd. and 6d.,
pork 4d., but everything else three times as dear as
in England. Clothing is remarkably cheap. Had I
known, I would not have brought out a thing.
Everything is sold by auction—that is how the
shopkeepers get their supplies: They put all small
articles up by dozens, and larger things in lesser
lots. I will give you the actual prices of some wear-
ing apparel :—Moleskin trousers 6s. to 7s. the pair,
all sizes and colours ; cloth trousers, 95., 10s., and
1 ls. the pair, all sizes and colours ; ladies' Cash-
mere boots, 45., 4s. 6d., and ss. the pair; children's
shoes, from 2s. to 4s. the pair ; topcoats, from 9s. to
12s. each, of a very good quality. Everything else
in a like manner. Moleskin trousers are preferable
out here to go into the bush ; cords split into
ribands, with the stumps of the tea tree and scrub,
which we find about a foot from the ground. The
country is in a dreadful state ; we have travelled
the country far and wide. I can say we have been to
every settlement to the south of Auckland, and a
great many to the north, but could not get one day's
work of any kind. We took a carpet bag and a change
of clothes and my shears, and were determined to
have work if it was to be got, but really it was dis-
heartening to go to so many places and none to be
found. They did not employ any men ; those who
had sons used to shear for themselves. There was
one man, a German ; he lived in the middle of a
forest ; he had cut a road about five yards wide, and
the trees hung over it. He had cleared about six
acres. He had just enough room to grow stuff for
himself. He was a very nice fellow. I have been
to every surveyor I could hear of. No work was
to be had. A great many who came out in our
ship are now working for their food. There are
only six out of 400 who have got work, that I have
heard of. They started up into the bush ix large
gangs ; they took no provisions with them. They
were going to live on the fern roots and cabbage
tree, which the natives feed on. I saw one of the
many who went ; he had lost his companion, but
luckily ho was not far in the forest. lie was stung
dreadfully by the mosquitoes, the woods being alive
with them ; I have got my share, I can assure you ;
farmers who have their land next the forest dare
not set any corn at all, for if they did they might
go at night and tee a beautiful green field, and in
the morning there would not be a green leaf, for
these creatures and other numerous insects: There
are any quantity of wild pigs ; they are first-rate
eating ; they taste like mutton ; they are bad to
catch, but if you come suddenly upon them they will
attack you ; they have fearful tusks. Lodgings are
very dear; you cannot get lodgings under £1 the
week. House-rent dear—four bedrooms and two sit-
ting-rooms and kitchen, no garden, £4 the week. All
the houses are made of wood ; eyon the Governor's
. house wood. The land is very bad about Auck-
land ; it is white clay, like pipe-clay. I'll contrive
to write again before the mail goes out." Extract
from a letter dated Oct. 23, 1839 :—" I have got
better news to tell you—that is, I have got a job
for the present, until something better offers itself.
Tell all my relations and friends to stick to the
old country. If there is nothing to do there,
they may come here and work for their food. 1
am not doing much more and have to work 16
hours daily, and 18 on Saturday. Thank God, I
have my health. I wish you would put a letter in
the papers. It is too bad—in fact it is a robbery
to knock up so many good homes to come out here
to starve, which they are doing; many hundreds
are here; no one knows how they live."

THE WINES OF FRANCE AND THEIR
PROBABLE CONSUMPTION IN ENGLAND.

A blue-book of 200 pages, yesterday issued from
the press, contains a series of reports from her Ma-
jesty's Secretaries of Embassy and Legation on the
effect of the vine disease on the commerce of the
various countries wherein they reside. These re-
ports include France, Spain, the United States,
Austria, Tuscany, and Sardinia. France is far more
fully reported on than the rest, and as at present
the commercial policy of that country has received
a new impulse and direction from the late Imperial
edict, it may be well to refer to what is said with
respect to French wines. The solution of the vital
question, " whether, in the event of a reduction of
the duty, France would be always in a condition to
meet any demand (for her wines) that might arise
from England," forms the principal subject of in-
vestigation in the lengthy and elaborate report of
Viscount Chelsea on the past history and present
state of the wine trade in France. The narrative
of Sir E. Tennent, drawn up for the Board of Trade
some years ago, is recited and discussed, and many
of its arguments are controverted in detail. The
result of Lord Chelsea's inquiry would seem to be
in every respect favourable to an encouragement of
the importation into England of French wines in
large quantities, and strongly affirmative of the
vinous fertility of her soil, as sufficient to supply
the increased demand that may arise. It is shown
that prior to 1849, leaving finest growths (which are
confined to small districts) out of account, the qua-
lity, as respects the wine, had degenerated in
France ; that it had lest in flavour what it had
gained in fecundity, and that the adoption of the
new methods of cultivation, the introduction of the
common sorts of grape, and the abuse of manure,
had caused the wine to lose its primitive superiority
and distinctive qualities. Hence a diminution of
price. Bat this diminution of price being counter-
balanced by the sale of much larger quantities, the
wine-grower has benefitted by the change, and the
total value of vine property in France, instead of
declining, has increased in a larger ratio than that
of other descriptions of agricultural produce.
Wine property, in a word, far from being neglected,
is eagerly sought after. A Ministerial report by
M. de Chabrol, dated March 15, 1830, and another,
communicated to the Commission of the Budget,
Nov. 29, 1849, both establish that, since 1788, the
cultivation of the vine has been constantly on the
increase in France. In 1830 there was an increase
of 438,000 hectares ; it was upwards of 200,000, or
10,000 per annum nearly, from that ueriod to 1849;
in 1851, the total area of land under vine culture
amounted to about 2,000,000 hectares. The present
report goes on to establish-1. That the increase
above mentioned is a constant and universal fact,
manifesting itself throughout the whole extent of
the country, but chiefly in those districts where the
cultivation of the vine is most profitable. 2. That
the increase of production is greater still, and, in
proportion, more general than the increase of land
cultivated. 3. That where there has been a. dimi-
nution in the price of wine, it was owing to adalte-
ration. 4. That the value of wine property has in-
creased far beyond the proportion of the develop-
ment of the population.
A Laig report on the working of the wine-tax,
from the same French source follows. Lord Chelsea
having quoted these data, carries down the narra-
tive to tne end of 1858, and concurrently tests the
accuracy of Sir E. Tennent's estimate of the pro-
ductive powers of France as embodied in his work
on "Wine, its Uses and Taxation." First, is wine a
luxury or a necessary of life ? Lord Chelsea cannot
deny that established facts would go to prove the
former proposition, quoad England; but the ab-
stract justice of the system which onerously taxes
the juice intended to gladden the heart of man he
takes leave to dispute, and states, moreover, that
there is every a priori reason for classing wine as a
necessary of life. Again it is contended that aggra-
vations and remissions of taxation produce a remark-
able effect on the consumption of wines, it being de-
monstrable that reduction of duty has always pro-
moted consumption, and that since the equalisation
of the wine duties by the English Government in
1810, there has been a steady increase. The de-
clining taste for wino in England, one of Sir E.
Tennent's positions, is satisfactorily disproved by
statistics ; for there is every reason to believe
that if the English artisan could procure wine at a
moderate rate, he 'would soon bid. adieu to gin,
whisky, and other injurious liquors, as was the case
in the 17th century, when the wines of France en-
tered for one-third into the total consumption of
the people of England. But, to insure this con-
sumption now, the wine merchants, it is hinted,
must change their habit of extorting large profits
on the sale of retail quantities. " Whether it is
possible by a lower duty on wine to increase con-
sumption so as to sustain the revenue is another
question, discussed and resolved by Lord Chelsea in
the affirmative. It is also believed that, were the
duty reduced to ls. per gallon, French wines, not-
withstanding the alleged preference of the English
for strong brandied beverages, would eventually
contend with their rivals on equal terms, or alto-
gether beat them out of the market, as they did
port wine before the Methuen treaty. An appeal
to official documents to ascertain what is the rela-
tive proportionate amount of wines of all countries
consumed in England will show that, as regards
French wines, this proportion, which for a period
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fairly expected that the equalisation of duties on
all others would operate to the same degree as an
actual reduction on French wines. Whether the
upper classes would consume a larger quantity of
the finest vintages is immaterial to the point at
issue ; the great question is, whether a new body of
consumers, among the middle and labouring classes,
may be created for the inferior growths. On the
question of consumption in England, Lord Chelsea
re-affirms still more positively that, if the English
artisan could procure, at a cheap rate, a wholesome,
palatable, and. moderately invigorating beverage,
he would not resort to the use of " poisonous and
maddening liquors." Moreover, the vile and sicken-
in," compounds of sugar, water, spirit, and colouring
matter, known as " home-made wines," would cease
to destroy the digestive organs, and to poison the
juices of the psorer class of the community, who
would at once substitute the use of the genuine
article from abroad. It is further contended that
France can supply an increased demand for her
wines in England, both as regards quality and
quantity, and that since Sir E. Tennent wrote, a
great change for the better has taken place in the
wine trade of France. That France is now indif-
ferent to a reduction of our duty on her wines is
emphatically denied. It is proposed, in fine, that
the wine duty be lowered gradually (say in the
course of five years) to is. per gallon. The pro-
bable effects of an increased consumption of wine in
England from 6,000,000 to 60,000,000 gallons a-year
is also discussed, but this is rather a matter of
speculation. As regards the vine disease, it is
answered that its recurrence could never produce
the same deplorable consequences as before. The
efficacy of sulphur to decompose and destroy the
fungus known as toidiuni is indisputable, and char-
coal has recently been found to possess the same
virtue.

" Such," concludes the report of Lord Chelsea,
" it is submitted, are some of the conclusions that
may fairly be arrived at from a careful and impar-
tial consideration of the best and fullest evidence
obtainable up to a very recent period (end of the
year 1858) with respect to the wine producing and
exporting power of France. If the estimate of her
resources contained in the foregoing remarks be
not exaggerated, the result will he to remove, in
the event of any proposal being entertained for a
further remission of the import duties on wine in
England, one, at least, of the stumbling-blocks
that has hitherto stood in the way of a measure
calculated to prove so mutually advantageous to
both countries, and that has so many social, com-
mercial, and, it mai b© added, political recom-
mendations to plead in its favour."
There is an appendix to the report containing
some useful statistics on the subject.

PARISH OF ST. GEORGE-IN-THE-EAST.

Last evening a meeting of the vestrymen of this
parish was held in the boardroom of the workhouse
for the purpose of proceeding with the election of an
afternoon lecturer in the parish church, in the room
of the Rev. Hugh Allen, M.A., who had been no-
minated by the Lord Chancellor to the rectory of
St. George's, Southwark. Mr. Foulger presided.
Owing to the revival of the disturbances in the
parish, consequent upon the practices which are
carried out in the church, there was an unusually
full vestry ; and many of the most influential
parishioners were present to watch the proceedings.
The CHAIRMAN announced that the following
gentlemen had announced their intention of becom-
ing candidates for the lectureship :-1, the Rev.
Thomas Richardson, St. Bees' Theological College,
Cumberland, incumbent of St. Matthew's Church,
St. George's-in-the-East ; 2, the Rev. James Kelly,
M.A., late incumbent of St. Peter's Episcopal
Chapel, Queen-square, Westminster; 3, the Rev.
J. B. Courtney, M.A., of Trinity College, Dublin,
late curate of St. Mary's, Whitechapel, and All-
hallows, Thames-street ; 4, the Rev. Joseph Irving,
M.A. ; 5, the Rev. John Dickenson Bell, St. Bees'
Theological College, curate of Mansfield; 6, the
Rev. James Parker, M.A.; 7, the Rev. Henry Temple,
M.A., of Brasenose College, Oxford, head master of
Coventry Grammar School ; 8, the Rev. Horace
Roberts, M.A.; Magdalene College, Cambridge, late
assistant minister of Bedford Episcopal Chapel,
Bloomsbury ; 9, the Rev. Robert Bick.erdike, M A.,
Trinity College, Dublin, curate of St. Saviour's,
Southwark ; 10, the Rev. Charles Thomas Woods,
M.A., of Trinity College, Dublin, minister of Wo-
burn Chapel, Tavistock-square ; 11, the Rev. Geo.
Eastman, St. John's College, Cambridge, rector of
Drayeott Folliatt, Wiltshire, late curate of Stepney;
12, the Rev. Alfred Henry Roxbargh, curate of
Ufton, near Leamington.
No sooner had the proposition for proceeding to
the election been made than a vigorous discussion
sprang up as to the mode of taking the votes. One
vestryman suggested that the candidates should be
reduced to two, and that then there should be an
election of one of them. Another prepoged that a
ballot should be taken, and that the highest on
the poll should be declared elected. Various ways
of proceeding were recommended, but the Chairman
ruled that, according to a by-law of the vestry, a
ballot must be taken for all the candidates, and that
the gentleman who obtained most votes should be
declared successful.

This decision gave rise to an animated and not
very polite discussion. Phrases such as " holding
an unjust balance," " unworthy of Englishmen,"
and " dodge" were freely bandied about. Finding
that there was no chance of an amicable settlement
of the Matter, it was proposed by Mr. ARMSTRONG,
and seconded by Mr. BATMAN, that the election of
lecturer be deferred for a month.

Mr. HERBERT strongly protested against the ad-
journment. There had been no afternoon lecture
during the last fortnight, and this motion would
deprive the parishioners of the only service they
could attend with any satisfaction in their parish
church. (Cheers.)
Speeches of extraordinary vigour pro and con.,
having been delivered, the motion for deferring the
election wai agreed to.

Mr. Churchwarden THOMPSoN gave notice that at
the next meeting of the vestry he should move the
rescinding of the by-law which restrained the
vestry from voting in any way they thought proper
upon the matter.
Mr. BARRETT inquired whether any opportuni-
ties would be afforded for hearing the caddidates
preach before the election was proceeded with.
A vestryman suggested that the Surrey Music-
hall should bo engaged for a day, so that all the
candidates might preach there. Vestrymen who
might have the courage to hear them all would be
able to form an opinion before voting.
The report of the Lecturer's Committee was then
brought up. It stated that the committee who had
been appointed to remunerate Mr. Allen for his
services had collected £4G. (Mr. Allen was lecturer
three months.) They. had deducted £4 for the
organist and for lighting the church, and had
handed over £42 to the rev. gentleman.
Mr. HERBERT moved that the thanks of the vestry
be conveyed to the Rev. Hugh Allen for the manner
in which he had discharged the duties of lecturer,
under very trying circumstances.
Mr. BARRETT thought it would be better if the
vestry would put their hands in their pockets and
give him a bit of vellum, like men. (Laughter.)
Mr. PAREITT did not think the vestry ought to
humble themselves by adopting such a motion. It
must be remembered that Mr. Allen said he would
bear the law expenses consequent on the appeal to
the Court of Queen's Bench. He did not think a
vote of thanks was at all called for.

Mr. STEPHENS contended that the law expenses
were incurred in defence of the rights of the parish-
ioners, and that the vestry were clearly responsible
for them. He would second the motion for the
vote of thanks to Mr. Allen.

Mr. SMITH considered it preposterous to use the
words " trying circumstances" in connexion with
Mr. Allen's lectureship.
- Mr. BARRETT believed that any vote of thanks
which the vestry might award would amount to
just nothing at all. When Mr. Allen received it
he would scarcely know what to do with it. If
gentlemen would subscribe half-a-crown a-piece for
lellum and frame it would be very much better than
a dry vote of thanks. The congregation of St.
Jude's had, on the previous day, given Mr. Allen a
vote of thanks and 1:70. That was something like
a vote of thanks. He had no doubt that the money
was the more acceptable part of it. (Laughter.)
Mr. SLY said he thought it would be something
to a man of honour to have a vote of thanks from
the vestry who elected him.
Mr. ARMSTRONG thought it would be ungracious
to refuse such a simple act of courtesy. lie thought
Mr. Allen would be quite content without any half-
crowns. - (Laughter.)
At length a resolution, simply thanking Mr.
Allen for his services, was agreed to.
Mr. Sm Frit (rave notice that, at the next meeting ,
of the vestry, he'‘ should move a resolution affirming
that, in consequence of the determination of the
rector to persist in practices which were opposed
to the feelings of the parishioners, the parochial
constables and other officers be withdrawn from
attendance on the services of the parish church.
Mr. 11 ERBERT assured the vestry that all the
disturbances, which were renewed last Sunday,
were by persons wholly unconnected with the
parish, who same from a distance to support the
rector, and who were admitted privately into the
church, through the rectory-house, before the gates
were opened for the ordinary congregation.
The vestry then adjourned.

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LAW INTELLIGENCE—Jan. 19.

COURT FOR DIVORCE AND MATRIMONIAL

CAUSES.

(Before the Judge Ordinary, Mr. Baron Channel,

and-Mr. Justieo Keating.)
SIMONINT (EALSELY CALLED MALAC) V. MALAC.

Dr. Phillimore, Q.C., and Dr. Swabey appeared
forthepetitioner.

The hearing of this petition by Mdlle. Simonin
for a doclaration of the nullity of a do facto mar-
riage which she had contracted with Leon Malac,
which was commenced on Tuesday, was resumed at
the sitting of the Court.

Madame Simonin, the mother of the petitioner,
said that Mdlle. Simonin is now 28 3-ears of age,
and that at the time of the marriage M. Malac told
her ho was 29. Her daughter and Malac asked her
consent to the marriage before they came to Eng-
land, and she gave it. They asked it, and she gave
it verbally.
Mr. Noel, who formerly practised as a notary
public and advising counsel at Paris, explained
the French law, as contained in the 170th, 63d,
151st, 152 d, and 154th articles of the Code Napo-
leon, on the subject of the marriage of French
subjects in foreign countries. If two French subjects
went to a foreign country for the purpose of evad-
ing the French law, and there contracted a mar-
riage without due publication in France and with-
out consent of parents, and then returned to France
the French courts would annul the marriage. But
if the consent of the parents was signified after the
marriage it would be held good. When the parent.
of parties under a certain age who wished to con-
tract a marriage withheld their consent, the proper
course was to draw up an acterespectueztat et fornzel
before a notary, requesting their consent. The pa-
rents might then give or withhold their consent,
and a minute of their decision would be drawn up
by a notary. If the parents consented, they must
either go before the Maire when the marriage was
contracted, or their consent in writing, drawn up
by a notary, must be produced to the Alaire. When
certain prescribed forms had been observed, and a
certain time had elapsed after the acts respectueux
had been presented, the marriage might take place
even without the consent of parents.
Dr. Phillimore submitted that he had now esta-
blished that the parties had a French domicile at
the time of the pretended marriage, and that the
marriage was in fraud of the French law. The
want of capacity to contract the marriage by the
law of domicile was, he contended, fatal to the va-
lidity of the contract. He admitted that Storey, in
his " Conflict of Laws," laid down that contracts of
marriage were governed by the lex loci contractus,
whatever might be the capacity or incapacity of the
parties by the law of domicile ; but that proposition
was not borne out by Pothier, Huber, Savigny,
Felix, and the other jurists whom he cited. If their
lordships should be of opinion that there was no
precedent for a case like the present, he hoped they
would not lay down a principle different from that
which guided all other civilised States, but would
give effect to the prohibitory laws of a foreign
country when they found that two subjects of the
foreign country had come to England to enter into
a marriage contract for the mere purpose of evading
those laws.

Sir C. Cresswell regretted that the Court had not
had the assistance of counsel on both sides in a case
of this importance, and said they would take time
to consider their decision.

WILTON V. WILTON.
Mr. Karslake appeared for the petitioner.
This was a petition by John Wilton, a major on the
retired list of the Madras army, and late a captain
iu the 36th Regiment of Madras Native Infantry,
for a dissolution of his marriage with Emily Blake-
ney Wilton, on the ground of adultery. The mar-
riage took place at Ootacamunde, in the East
Indies, in May, 1833, the petitioner being then a
lieutenant, and the respondent a Miss Pilkington.
They cohabited at various places in India at which
his regiment was stationed at different times until
1842, and had two children. In that year, in con-
sequence of his wife's bad state of health, he brought
her and the children to England. They reached
England in September, 1842, and he remained with
her until April, 1843, when he was obliged to re-
turn to his regiment in India. He placed his two
daughters at school at Brighton, and left his wife
an allowance of £7O a year, as her health did not
permit of her returning with him. Capt. Wilton
remained in India until 1848. In the December of
that year he was living with his wife at the house
of a Miss Dotterill, who kept a school at Stratford,
in Essex. In the same house there was a child
named Amy, and in consequence of a communica-
tion that he received respecting that child he sepa-
rated from his wife, and has not since cohabited
with her, but until a recent period continued to
make her an allowance.

It was proved by Mrs. Ayres, a nurse, that on
'dm 15th luly, 1815, Mro. Wilton. was delivered of
a child at a house in the City-road, which was
christened "Amy,'' and of which she said that Mr.
Robertson, a surgeon, was the father. Mr. Robert-
son was then on his way to South America, where
he had an appointment connected with a mine. He
has since died, and leave had been obtained to pro-
ceed with the suit without a co-respondent.
The delay which had taken place in the institu-
tion of a suit was explained by the inability of
Major Wilton to incar the expense which would
have been necessary before the passing of the Di-
vorce Act.
The Court held that the allegations in the petition
had been established and the delay satisfactorily
explained, and dissolved the marriage.
BILL V. BILL.
Dr. Phillimore Q.C., and Mr. Aspinall were
counsel for the petitioner.
John Bill, a bootmaker of Liverpool, married the
respondent in December, 1830, cohabited with her
until 1847, aid had eight children by her. In con-
sequence of her intemperate habits he was obliged
to separate from her in 1847, and made her an
allowance of 12s. per week. In August, 1848, he
discovered that since the separation she had com-
mitted adultery, and he withdrew the allowance.
He now prayed for a dissolution if the marriage.
Direct evidence was given of an act of adultery
committed by the respondent about 10 years ago.
The Court dissolved the marriage.
DAVIS V. DAVIS.
Mr. J. A. Stephens, Q. C., and Dr. Spinks were
oounsel for the petitioner.
Mrs. Maria Louisa Davis prayed for a dissolution
of her marriage with Henry Hart Davis, on the
ground of adultery coupled with bigamy. They
were married in 1835 at Brighton, and cohabited
until 1844, and had two children. In 1844 they
separated. Mrs. Davis afterwards instituted a suit
for a divorce a monsa et Moro in the Consistory
Court of London, on the ground of adultery ; and in.
July, 1845, the learned judge, Dr. Lushington, pro-
nounced a decree of divorce.
Evidence of these facts were given by M.Michaul
a brother of the petitioner, and it was also proved
that on the 14th of November, 1858, Mr. Davis
went through the ceremony
of
.ss marriageO'Neill, and
at the
British Embassy in Paris with a MI
afterwards cohabited with her as man and wife at
10, Rue Lepelletier.
The Court dissolved the marriage, with costs
against the respondent.

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unwillingness to rely upon its efficacy, fancying he possessed
in the produce of his farm, ample materials whereby to feed
and fatten his cattle at a cheaper rate thanby the employment
or addition of artificial food. The tests to which this food has
been subjected have proved its perfect admissibility as a cheap
addition to the natural produce of the farm ; inasmuch as in
realised, and rendered marketable in two-thirds of the time
usually consumed in developing fat ; it, therefore, becomes
apparent that a certain saving is effected by a fair application
of Thorley's Compounded Food. It is believed that the present
unprecedented low price of wheat has induced its very gene-
ral use, in preference to any other of the usual articles of
food ; it is, however, much questioned whether wheat is a
nourishing and proper food for the working horse, certainly
it is not for cows or pigs.
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all aniamals, is a tonich and gentle stimulant, and when mixed with their other
, food, materially assists their digestive powers—a matter of
great consequence, since it is an undoubted fact that the
nourishment contained in their aeilinary food is lost, conse-
quent upon the impaired or defective action of the digestive
organs ; it will also be found to be particularly beneficial
in restoring to good working condition horses which have
been over-worked, or become weak from disease, or an
naturally of a feeble constitution. In cows its effects art
undoubted, indeed almost marvellous, nearly doubling the
yield of milk and butter, whilst it at the same time enriches
the quality of both. In pigs its fattening qualities are still
more remarkable, displaying in a few weeks its manifest
superiority over every other kind of compound or manu-
factured food adopted in the feeding of swine. such has
been its marked success, that at all our great cattle shows,
Royalty, noblemen, and others who have fed their cattle
on Thorley's Food, have invariably carried off the principal
prizes, whilst cards of commendation have been awarded.
The patronage of Royalty, of our principal nobility, the
clergy, and of our leading agriculturists, must prove a
great incitement to this gentleman to pursue his onward
course ; and he may confidently rely, in producing so
highly-favoured a compound, on A MatiAllia.loll of gush
high and (listing-Walled patronage,: