The Sun.
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No. 16,201.

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JULY 19, 1844.

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EGYPTIAN HALL, PICCADILLY.
This extraordinary LILLIPUTIAN FAMILY, consisting of two
Brothers and a Sister, having astonished all the Continent by their
celebrated Pantomimic Ballets of Action, will continue to exhibit
daily at tke Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, until the 27th instant, in a
Miniature Theatre, constructed for the purpose of their perform-
ances.

NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUIt•
ANCE SOCIETY,
26, CORNHILL, LONDON.
Capital £.500,000:
Empowered by Act of Parliament.
DIVISION OF PROFITS.
The steady success and increasing prosperity of the Society has
enabled the Directors, at the last annual investigation, to declare a
second Bonus, averaging 60 per cent. on the amounts invested *a each
Policy effected on the Profit scale.

Open from Eleven to Two, and from Three to Eight.
Admission, One Shilling.

VICTORIA LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY.
TRUSTEES.
Sir JAMES DUKE_, Alderman, M.P., Chairman.
BENJAMIN HAVES, Esq., Deputy Chairman.
BENJAMIN BARNARD, Esq.
CHARLES BALDWIN, Esq.
Peculiar advantages are offered by this Company. Thus—
Parties assuring the lives of others may snake their policies secure,
notwithstanding the life assured may go out of the limits of Europe,
without the necessary permission of the Directors having been pre.
viously obtained.
Credit of half the premiums for the first five years allowed on po-
licies effected for the whole term of life.
On policies of five years' standing, half the amount paid, after the
first year's premium, may be borrowed thereon by the Assured.
Advances are also made to Assurers on real or undoubted personal
security, for terms of years, repayable by instalments.
Attention is particularly requested to the detailed Prospectuses of
the Company, which may be obtained at the Office, 18, King
William-street, City, or by letter, addressed to the Secretary.
WILLIAM RATRAY, Actuary and Secretary.

LAST WEEK BUT ONE.
ROYAL ACADEMY Or ARTS, TRAFAL-
GAR. SQUARE.
The EXHIBITION of the ROYAL ACADEMY is now OPEN.
Admission (from Eight o Clock till Seven) One Shilling. Catalogue

OxN_Shilling.
HENRY HOWARD, R.A., Sec.

ROYAL POLYTECHNIC' INSTITUTIO'.
IMPORTANT SCIENTIFIC NOVELTY.
Dr. POTT'S PNEUMATIC mode of forming SUBMARINE
FOUNDATIONS in DEEP WATER explained in a Lecture by
Dr. RYAN, on. Mondays and Saturdays, at Four o'clock, with the
variols interesting experiments. On the Evenings of Monday,
Wednesday, and Friday, Popular Lectures are delivered by Dr.
RYAN, and on Tuesday find Thursday Evenings, by Professor
BACHROFFNER. The Daily Lectures are constantly varied.
LONGBOTTOM'S PHYSIOSCOPE and OPAQUE MICROSCOPE.
ARMSTRONG'S HYDRO-ELECTRIC MACHINE, DIVING BELL
and DIVER, NEW DISSOLVING VIEWS, &c. &c.
The Music is conducted by T. Wallis, Mus. Dec.
Athnission, Is.; Schools, Half-price.

The division of profits is annual, and the next will be made in De.
cember of the present year.

This institution offers many important and substantial advan-
tages with respect both to Life Assurances and Deferred Annuities.
The assured has, on all occasions, the power to borrow, without ex-
pense or forfeiture of the Policy, two-thirds of the premium paid,
(see table); also the option of selecting benefits, and the conversion
of his interests to meet other conveniences or necessity. Assurances
for terms of years are granted on the lowest possible rates.

F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Sec.

LEGAL and EQUITABLE LIFE
ASSURANCE SOCIETY.
Capital, One Million, in 10,000 Shares of 1001. each.
Deposit 51. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
Capron, George, Esq., Saville-place.
Clarke, Mr. Sergeant, Temple.
Cooper, Charles Parton, Esq., Q.C., New Boswell-court.
Dwarris Sir Fortunatus, a Master of the Queen's Bench.
Ewart, Francis, Esq., Temple.
Glover, Mr. Sergeant, Sergeant's Inn, Chancery-lane.
Hughes, Wm. Hughes, Esq. F.S.A.,&c. (Alderman), Temple.
Roe, John Herbert, Esq., Q.C., Lincoln's Inn.
Lucas, John Esq., Argyll-street.
Philimore, Joseph, D.C.L., Doctor's COMMONS.
Rogers, Fras. Newman, Esq., Q.C., Temple.
Senior Nassau, W., Esq., a Master in Chancery.
Wilbraham, Edward, Esq., Q.C. Lincoln's Inn.
With power to add to their number.
BANKERS—Me.S.SII. Hoare, Fleet-street.
SoLicrrons—Messrs. Lucas and Parkinson, 9, Argyll-street, Regent•
street.
The Members of the Legal Profession are [stormed that the Shares
in the Capital Stock of this Society will be ALLOTED in the order of
the dates of the applications, on the Ist of August next.
Applications for shares to be addressed to the Provisional Com-
mittee, No. 9, Argyll-street, Regent-street, London, where prospec-
tuses may be obtained.

PELICANLIFE A
70, LOMEARD-STREET
Established 1797.

M. Attwood, Esq., M.P.

John Coops, Esq.'.
W. Cotton, Esq., F.R.S.
Sir W. Curtis, Bart.

Wm. Davis, Esq.
Richard Fuller, Esq

DIEM

SSURANCE OFFICE,
C, and 57, CHARING-CROSS.

Sir Wm. Hey-gate, Bart.

Kirkman D;Hodison, Esq.
R. H. Lawrence, Esq.
J. Petty Muspratt, Esq.

_ .
G. S. Storey, Esq.
C. H. Turner, Esq.

J. A. Gordon, i5q.,31.D., F.A.S. I M. Whiting, Esq.'
The plan of this Office will be found to comprise all the solid ad-
vantages of Life Assurance.

Persons have the option of Insuring upon the Return or Non-
Return Systems ; and the Tables, which include Ascending and De-
scending Scales of Premium, have been formed to suit the con-
venience of all parties. _ _

The Rates have recently been reduced agreeably to the most ap-
proved calculations ; they are also verified by the experience of the
Office during forty years, are as low as consistent with safety ; those
adapted to the RETURN SYSTEM entitle its assured to an equitable
participation in the surplus premium, according to the plan detailed
in the Company's Prospectus.

The Assured- under both Systems will possess the guarantee of a
large Paid-up Capital, and the further security of a responsible body
of Proprietors, without being exposed to thelabilities of partnership.
Policies are purchased on liberal terms when the object of an
assurance is effected ; or, loans will be granted thereon to the extent
of five-sixths of such purchase-money.
Prospectuses and every information obtained on application at the
Offices as above, or to the Agents of the Company appointed in every
city and principal town in the kingdom.

IMPERIAL AUSTRIAN LOAN of 30,000,p00
FLORINS, authorised by his Majesty the EMPEROR of
AUSTRIA.

On the 2d of SEPTEMBER, 1844, there will take place at
VIENNA, the DISTRIBUTION of 700 GAINS, amounting to
70,1701. sterling. There being only 700 Bonds in all, each Bond must
obtain one of the above 700 Gains, the highest of which are 23,0001.,
5,0001., 1,5001., 1,0001., &c. &c., and the lowest 801. each.
A few Bonds can be had for 125/. each, or with the deduction of
the 501., which they must at least obtain, for 75/. Halves and fifths
in proportion, being a considerable reduction from the former price.
LOAN of the GRAND DUKE of BADEN of 5,000,000 FLORINS,
NEGOTIATED in the YEAR 1841.

The SEVENTH DISTRIBUTION.wiII take place at Carlsruhe,
publicly and irrevocably on the Ist of AUGUST, 1844, when 400
Gains will be obtained. One Gain of 35,000 florins, 10,000, 5,000,
3,000, &c. The lowest Gains being 65 florins each ; and 12 florins
are equal to If. sterling.
_ _

Price of a share, les:. Eleven for 5/. ; Twenty-three for 101., &c.
For full particulars and Bonds of the above loans apply to Messrs.
J. A. Schwarzschild, Bankers, Frankfort-on-Maine, or, to save
postage, all applications by letter can be addressed, Mr. A Schwarzs-
child, Plough-court, Lombard-street, London.

FOREIGN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES
and STATE BONDS, RAILROAD SHARES, &c.
Mr. GEORGE VOELCKER, jun., Banker, of Frankfort-on-the-
Maine, respectfully calls the public attention to his occupation as a
Broker and Agent hi the Sale and Transfer of the following Govern-
ment Stocks :
The Imperial Austrian 500 florin Bonds of the Loan of 1834
250 I f PP
~ 1839
If
The Grand Duchy of Baden 50 „ „ 1840
Prince Paul Esterhazy's 50 „ „
,u 1836
Russio-Polish - - - - 500 ~ ~ PP 1835
The City of Frankfort Bonds PP PP PP 1844
The Prussian Naval Trade] 50 dollar PP PP 1832
Company's
and all other Foreign Stock, Railroad, and Estate Shares, &c.
Applications by post (pre-paid via France) will meet with imme-
diate attention, and prospectuses and particulars will be forwarded
if required.

kyTATE LOAN OF HIS ROYAL HIGH-
NESS THE GRAND DUKE OF BADEN .OF 5,000,000
FLORINS, to be reimbursed with 9,034,055 fl. in lots of 11. 50,000,
40,000, 35,000, 30,000, &c. &c. GRAND PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION
on the Ist of AUGUST NEXT, at Carlsruhe; Official Bulletins thereof,
forwarded immediately to every Shareholder. Price of the Certifi-
cates 10s. ; Eleven fir 51. ; Twenty-three for 101. ; Sixty for 251.
sterling. Payable by Money Orders or Remittances.
Apply for full Particulars, without delay, to Moriz I. Stiebel
Banker, Frankfort-on-Maine. To save Postagea, all Letters ad-
dressed to Messrs. Stiebel and Co., 8, Lime-street, London, will be
promptly forwarded and attended to.

ESTABLISHED 1821.

THE LONDON MARBLE AND STONE
WORKING COMPANY, are enabled, with their PATENT
MACHINERY, to execute Chimney Pieces, Monuments, Tablets,
Slabs for Furniture, and every description of such Work, with an
accuracy, rapidity of execution, beauty and durability of Polish, and
reduction of cost, which cannot be obtained elsewhere.

R. TUCKER, Secretary.

The Public are invited to inspect their extensive SHOW-ROOMS,
containing the largest stock in this country.
The Trade supplied with every description of Rough Slab Blocks,
or Scantlings; or Blocks sent to the Works cut to order.
Esher-street, Holy-well-stsect, Milbank, Westminster.
Please to be accurate in ctpying the Address, to prevent impost
Lion, the Company having no connexion with any other Establish-
ment but that in Esher-street.

KNIGHT'S WEEKLY VOLUME.
,
TALES from This
SdayHAKSPERE.
By CHARLES LAMB and MISS LAMB.
To which' are added, Scenes illustrating each Tale. Vol I.
London : Charles Knight and Co., 22, Ludgate-street.

On the 31st July will be published, price Gs., No. 11. of the
NORTH BRITISH REVIEW.
TO BE PUBLISHED QUARTERLY.
CONTENTS:—

GENERAL .TOM THUMB will POSI-
TIVELY CLOSE his EXHIBITIONS in LONDON on the
20th of Julyl and immediately leave for several of the provincial
towns, Ireland, Scotland, and Paris. The General has had the dis-
tinguished honour of thiee .times visiting, by Royal command, her
Most Gracious Majesty and the Royal Family. The elegant presents
from her Majesty the Queen Dowager, the Duke of Devonshire, and
others, may be seen. The General exhibits in the day time . from
Eleven to One, and from Half-past Two to Five, in CATLIN'S
INDIAN GALLERY, Egyptian-hall; and in the Evenings gives
Concerts at the ADELAIDE GALLERY, from Seven to Nine
o'Clock. • Admission One Shilling.

the judgment of the House of Lords were favourable to the
assignees, then the creditors of Igr. Chambers' separate
estates would realise 15s; in the pound.
Mr. Commissioner Hornovn said that the separate estate
must first be heard here, and then the parties, if.they thought
proper, might parry the matter elsewhere.
Mr. HAMILTON said that Mrs. Chambers and her family
have not been represented here, although they had an in-
terest of 35,000/. in the estate, and for which, unfortunately,
they had been hitherto unable to prove, by reason of Mr.
Wilton being their trustee.
The further hearing was then adjourned to an early day
in November next.

PARLIAMEN TAR Y DIV MONS.

(From the Votes and Proceed:mg: of the House y Commo!ss.)
THURSDAY, JULY 19.
POST-OFFICE.

Motion made, and Question proposed, " That it be an In-
struction to the Secret Committee on the Post-office, that
they do allow Thomas Slingeby Duncombe, Esq., Member for
the Borough of Finsbury, to attend beore the said Com-
mittee, and produce and examine witnesses in support of the
Petitions of Joseph Mazzini and others, and of Charles Stolz-
man, referred 'to the said Committee :" The Manse divided ;

. .
MINORITY—AYES, bl. •ri,
Aglionby- H. A. - .- Gtiest, Sir John Plumride, Captain
Aldam, W. Hastie, Archibald Power, James
Archbold, Robert . Hawes, B. Protherne, Edward
Barnard, E. G. " Hill, Lord:Marcus Ramsbottom, J.
Bellew, R. M. Horsman, Edward Rawdon, J. 1).
Bowring, Dr. Martin, John Scott, Robert
Brotherton, J. Mitcalfe Henry Shell, IL L. •
Busfeild, W. Mitchell, T. A. Somerville, Sir W.
Chapman, B. Morris, David Towneley, John
Collett, John Morrison James Villiers, Charles?.
Denison, W. J. Murphy, F. S. Wakley, Thcinlaa
Dennistoun, J. Napier, Sir Charles Wawn, John T.,
Duncan, George O'Brien, J. Williams, W.
Elphinstone, Howard O'Cennell, M. J. Wyse, Thomas
Forster, Matthew O'Ferrall R. More
Gibson, T. A L Oswald, James TELLERS.:
Gill, Thomas - Pattison, James Duncombe, T. S.
Gore, Robert Pechell, Captain Hume, Joseph

must contribute to maintain tranquillity in Algeria. It is
much more with a view to Algeria that I shall seize every
rightful opportunity to fight, than for the pleasure to beat the
Moors.—Receive, &c., &c.

" First P.S.-1 forgot to mention that the enemy's force
in to-day's battle amounted to about 4,000 cavalry, of which
3,000 were regular troops. His infantry was much too far
behind to engage in it.
" It is asserted that libd-el-Fader was present at the
battle.

" Second P.S.—I have just now received positive informa.
tion that Abd-el-Kader was present."

POST OFFICE COMMITTEE.
Mr. Duncombe's account of his interview with the House
of Commons' Post-office Cemmitteois an entertaining inter-
' lude in the progress of that business, the interest in which
has been rather slackening of late. Mr. Duncombe, it seems,
has made a charge with respect to this transaction of letter
opening. He professes himself able .to substantiate this
charge. He says he can prove that some fifty or sixty of
Mazzini's letters have been opened, as well as of Captain
Stolzberg's and other individuals, and he believes he can
prove that some of his own letters have been opened too.
Under these circumstances the Committee send for him, and
say. they understand he has a statement to make to them.-
Mr. Duncombe says he has no statement to make but this,
and that he is willing to give the Committee the benefit of
his information. "Then give us your list of witnesses," he is
told; " we will send for them and examine them punctually;
and in the meantime we have no further concern with you,
Mr. Duncombe—good morning to you." Now, everybody
knows what an examination of witnesses by a Committee is.
Just so much is extracted from the witnesses as the Com-
mittee choose to extract, and no more. The amount gained
may vary, from everything to nothing, according to
the disposition and questioning talent of the members
of the Committee. In the present instance, letting alone the
disposition, there was not one man on the Committee who
had any knowledge of, or had at all entered into the matter
in hand ; or who could, therefore, know anything of the
proper way of getting at the facts of the case, and the pro-
per questions to put to the witnesses. Mr. Duncombe was,
accordingly, much obliged by the courtesy of the Committee
in offering to take the trouble upon themselves, but he had
rather examine the witnesses himself. He knew, from his
acquaintance with the circumstances, how to get the truth
from them, and they did not know. A person at a table
d'ltote, who sees a very awkward carver going sedulously to
help him to the driest and most unsavoury corner of the
whole joint, says, " Thank you, is that for me ? I will -not
trouble you." Mr. Duncombe had rather help himself to his
own evidence, and carve the joint himself. He had a pre-
sentiment of the bones, and gristle, and skin that the Com-
mittee's carving would result in, and thought that he should
take more interest, probably, in proving his own charge
than the Committee would m doing it for him ; in other
words, that he would find himself and his charge left in
the lurch. But the Committee were bland and pressing.
" The Committee pressed him very much to give up
his list to them. He had nothing to complain of their de-
meanour. They were all of them in their manner most in-
dulgent—(Hear, and a laugh)—indeed, he might term their
conduct as almost coaxing.—(Loud laughter.) It was sug-
gested that he might leave his papers in the hands of some
member in whom he had confidence, and who might put all
the requisite questions. To this he (Mr. Duncombe) had re-
plied, with perfect candour and courtesy, that he had equal
confidence in all of them.—(Loud laughter.)" Mr. Dun-
combe has certainly a good deal of prima facie justice on his
side. A Committee that takes the substantiation of an ac-
cuser's charge out of the accuser's hands into its own, has
the former's character forthwith in its power, and can, by
simply preventing as much as they please of that substantia-
tion,_ make his charge empty and himself calumnious. As
Mr. Duncombe says—" The Committee was appointed to in
vestigate certain charges which he had brought against Go-
vernment ; but it turned round suddenly and converted
itself, in fact, into a Committee for trying his (Mr. Dun-
combe's) veracity." Lord Sandon was willing to allow him
to be present, but not to examine, except, indeed, the
House made him a regular member of the Committee. Sir
Robert Peel, after an eulogium upon his own great indul-
gence in allowing Mr. Duncombe to bring on his motion at all,
which he thought he would have been justified, according to
the rules of the House, in objecting to, proceeded to state
that he should certainly oppose Mr. Duncombe's being one
of the Committee ;—" he should certainly advise the House
to adhere in this case to the general practice with regard to
all Committees of the sort. It was now a question of confi-
dence in the Committee." Mr. Strutt, a member of the Com-
mittee, observed upon the difficulty which would be occa-
sioned by a fresh member coming in, and having to be told
all that had gone on before. The motion was after a discus-
sion put, that Mr. Duncombe should be placed upon the Com-
mittee, and was negatived. Now, " the rules of the House,"
and " inconvenience," and other reasons of this sort, may be
fair reasons in their way; all we know is, that here a charge
is made and the accuser is not allowed to prove it : a Com-
mittee is appointed for the express purpose of collecting
information, and it refuses by one act a whole body of in-
formation • that is to 'say, it refuses the only prac-
tical condition on which that information is to
be got, and therefore it refuses to receive, that information
itself. But, "We asked for the names of. the witnesses,"
said the Chairman of the Committee. Why, certainly you
could not do less. If an accuser declares he has witnesses, a
Committee must in decency profess itself ready to admit
them. But to ask for the witnesses, and to exclude at the
same time an efficient examination of them, is a poor, ambi-
guous course to take. As Mr. Vernon Smith remarked, a
Committee ought to catch at information, and take every
means to procure the development of the truth. The bare
material of evidence, as everybody who has been in a court
of justice knows, is nothing without the power to open and
lay it out. Whitt the Committee have done in the present
instance has been to express their readiness to admit a quan-
tity of witnesses corporeally within their Committee-room.
What is to be got out of them when they are there they
leave to chance. They cannot examine them themselves,
and they will not allow the person who can do so. They are
willing, however, to have a certain number of individuals
sent up and then sent down again. So much for the zeal for
information manifested by a House of Commons' Committee.
They just save their bacon—they just do not actually refuse
evidence, and that is all that can be said.—Times.

VALUABLE LEASEHOLD HOUSES, UPPER STAMFORD-
STREET, BLACKFRIARS-ROAD.
TO be SOLD by AUCTION, by Mr.
PEYTON, at Garraway's, onrnev, August 9, at Twelve,
in Two Lots,

Two substantially-built DWELLING-ROUSES, in excellent re-
pair, being 43 and 46, Upper Stamferd-street: Blackfriars-road, held
for an unexpired term of upwards of 42 years, at a ground-rent of 91.
each house, in the occupation of Mr. Napper and Mr. Baldwin,
tenants from year to year, at the several rents of 501. and 521. 10s.
per annum.

The premises are in complete repair, and may be viewed by leave
of the tenants, on application to Messrs. Peyton and Aikin, 10,
Cook's-court, Lincoln's Inn-fields, of whom particulars may be had ;
also of Messrs. Rippingham and Rose, solicitors, 17, Great Prescott-
street, Goodman's-fields; and at Garralyay's.

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AGRICULTURAL LABOURERS'
WAGES.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR,—In your capacity of a journalist, perhaps the follow-
ing statement of the condition of the agricultural labourers
in the counties of Hereford, Monmouth, Gloucester, and Ox-
ford, may not be unacceptable. It would be as well to give a
statement of the present rate of wages, as in the course of
two or three weeks the harvest time will commence, and a
different rate of wages will appear ; but such as I shall now
state is now, and has been, the rate of wages since the last
autumn.

Pascal.
Our Scottish Fishermen.
Sacred Literature of the Hindus.
Descriptive Poetry of Last Century.
Christian Union.
Gould's Birds of Australia.
Arnaldo da Brescia.
Archbishop Whately's Works.
Forbes' Travels through the Alps.
Recent Novels: The Prarie Bird—Ellen Middleton—
Coningsby.
Edinburgh : W. P. Kennedy. London : Hamilton, Adams, and Co.
Dublin : W. Curry and CO.

I look upon the county of Hereford as one of the finest in
England, and it is a boast of the natives that it will produce
everything necessary for the. wants of man. Now I find,
upon strict inquiry at four different parts of this rich and fer-
tile county, that the labouring man cannot earn more than
7s. per week, with an allowance only of two quarts of cider
per day. On my journey to Hereford last October, I asked a
farmer (a distant relative of my own) what he considered the
labourers were getting on an average. His answer WAS in the
following terms :—" They will tell you here that they are
getting 7s. per week, but I will bet any man 1001. that I go
into the Hereford market to-morrow (Saturday), and pro-
cure any quantity of labourers necessary for working a farni
of 500 acres at ss. per week."

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At Ragland, in Monmouthshire (one of the best farmed
parishes in the county), I inquired of a farmer whom I have
known for many years the rate of wages in the neighbour-
hood. He said we talk about 7s. a week and an° allowance of
cider, but the fact is we can get them at any price, there is
such a superabundance of labour.
In the neighbourhood of Cirencester and Northleach I find
that the rate of wages are about the same as those I have
mentioned, but in one parish, situated between the above-
named towns, there are 250 people out of employ.
In the neighbourhood of Bicester (Oxon), I am assured,
upon good authority, that wages will not average more than
6s. 6d. per week ; and on Tuesday last thirty-five able-bodied
labourers marched through the town of Bicester, on their
way to the union at Lanton.
In Northamptonshire wages are better, but this may be at=
tributed to a branch of manufacture which runs through the
county; but there are an immense quantity of hands unem-
ployed, and who are suffering great privations. I make no
comment upon the above state of things; further than the re-
ply of a customer of mine in the town of Thrapstone, who,
upon an observation of mine as to the state of the agricultu-
ral labourers, said, " Sir, they are broken-hearted."
A COMMERCIAL TRAVELLER.

ADUTERATION OF GUANO.—We have already as-
serted that gain() is often an abominable mixture of all sorts
of brown ingredients that are worthless. Here is the ana-
lysis of some which a near-sighted gentleman purchased
lately at 121. a ton. It contained one-half per cent. of am-
monia, not a trace of urea, minute quantities of alkaline
sulphates and phosphates of lime; in short, the largest esti-
mates that could be made of the real guano present in the
sample amounted to three per cent., including feathers, which,
however, appeared to have belonged to sparrows and phea-
sants. On the other hand, there were 50 per cent. of stones
and yellow earth. In this case the buyer was near-sighted
indeed, for this guano cost him nearly four hundred
pounds a ton. These. must be famous times for farmers,
when manure can be bought at such a price. A quantity
of guano sold at Manchester has been found to contain
seventy-five per cent. of brickdust ; another sort from Derby-
shire contained ten per cent. of sawdust and six per cent.
of clay; and another Derbyshire specimen was doctored
with ground bark to the extent of twelve per cent. Really,
with such facts staring us in the face at every turn of the
road, it is most incomprehensible why farmers will not throw
themselves into the.hands of the chemist, who alone can
help them. We are urged to publish the names of the
people who are swindling the country in this manner. Per-
haps we may. But that will never abate such enormous
evils as we have now described. Farmers must look to them-
selves, and get their manures analysed before they buy them,
or they must purchase under warrranty, as they do with their
horses.—Agricultural Gazette.
We regret to hear that Lord John Russell has been
detained in the country by the indisposition of Lady John
Russell, who, however, is, we believe, gradually recovering.
ST. MONANCE.—A few days ago a boat's crew of
our enterprising nautics captured a sea-eagle--a creature
never before witnessed by our oldest fishermen. This rare
marine prodigy had made a hapless plunge beyond its pro-
vince on a catering expedition, and in its aquatic gambols
became entangled in the meshes of a turbot-net, when in-
stinct, craft, and energy, entirely failed to effect a release
from its inglorious bondage. The 'computed length of this
tenant of the deep was about four feet from the one extreme
to the other; it had a brace of piercing eyes, and a pair of
Jerusalem wings, with which it plied in the fathomless abyss
of the ocean, as its nominal relative traverses the aerial re-
gions of infinitude. We understand that this peculiar fish
has been sent to the grand museum of the Modern Athens.—
Edinburgh Evening Post.
PARISH OF SOUTH HACKNEY.—A church-rate was
yesterday carried in this parish without a poll being de-
manded. The West Hackney parish should follow this
example.

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POICEMN. •
On Tuesday the French Chamber of Peers adopted the
Bill relating to the Extraordinary Credits of Algeria, and the
Tours and Nantes Railroad Bill. In the Deputies, the Bill
relative to Credits for Canals, Roads, &c., was adopted.
On Monday evening the King and Queen received the
Sardinian Ambassador, the Ministers of Denmark, Wirtem-
berg, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and the Hanse Towns, the
I%li-
nister of Marine; Generals Excelmans and de Prevost, Counts
McAllen and Beranger, and the Baron de Barante.
Marshal ,Soult left Paris on Tuesday for his estate at St.
Amans, where he will remain some weeks for the benefit of
his health. During his absence, the portfolio of the war de-
partment will not be held by any other person, and all im-
portant matters will be submitted, as last year, to his
decision. The dispatches from Africa will reach him direct,
and, says the Moniteur Parisien, all things have been so
arranged that no inconvenience will arise from his temporary
absence.
The grand banquet given to the Minister of Commerce by
the manufacturers and artisans who exhibited their produc-
tions at the Champs Elysees, was held on Tuesday, in the
orangery of the Louvre. The tables were served with great
lukury, under the management of six stewards chosen from
the body of exhibitors. The Dukes de Nemours and Mont-
pensier, the Ministers of Commerce and the Interior, the
:Prefects of the Seine' and Police, Duke Decazes, Count

Montalivet, Baron Thenard, and other distinguishedpersons,
honoured the meeting with their presence. The number as-
sembled was calculated at six hundred. The health of the

King was drank with.much enthusiasm. The Duke of Ne-
mours returned thanks.

The Patrie states, on the authority of letters from Oran,
that the place of rendezvous of the French squadron, under
I the command of the Prince de Joinville, is to be Algesiras,
and not Gibraltar, as had been reported.
M. Forbin-Janson, Bishop of Nancy, who has long lived
apart from his see, died a few clays ago at Guilhermy, near
Marseilles, aged 58. His fortune is estimated at 3,000,000 f.
The works of the Rouen and Havre railroad are proceeding
with great activity. M. Jones, one of the contractors, has
commenced the great tunnel, which is more than 2,000 metres
in length, and has already arched and bricked a considerable
portion of it.
An extraordinary quantity of rain has fallen in Paris
within the last few days, and we regret to learn that very
serious injury has been done to the crops in some of the pro-
vinces. Much of the corn -has been laid almost beyond
recovery. For the last two days the rain in Paris- as been
incessant.

It will be remembered that shortly :after the murder of
Mr. Ward, in the Rue de Londres, it was announced that
several men, addicted to infamous practices, and with whom
he was said to have had relations, were arrested. They were
tried on Tuesday by the Tribunal of Correctional Police, upon
charges 'of outrage upon public morals. Three were con-
demned to six months' imprisonment, one to eight months,
and another to two years, and five years surveillance.