The Sun.
London, England, 1868-08-08 00:00:00

THE DOVER MURDER.

The warrant for the execution of the culprit Thomas
Wells, for the murder of Mr. Walsh, the station-master at
Dover, was received by Major Bannister on Friday, and
was read over to the condemned man, who received the
announcement with great composure. At half-past
seven the same morning the Holy Communion was
administered to him by the' Rev. W. F. C. Fraser, the
chaplain. On Thursday he was visited by his father,
two sisters, two aunts, and the youog woman with whom
he kept company. The interview was very painful and
distressing, the culprit being the only one who maintained
anything like fortitude. The scaffold has been erected on
a level with the ground, the earth being excavated
beneath to admit of the drop. The execution— the first
under the Execution Within Prisons Bill—will be held, in
accordance 'with the Act, within the gaol, at half-past
ten on Thursday morning, when a black flag will be
raised on the wall of the prison, over the old scaffold, when
the bolt is drawn. After the body has been suspended an
hour it will be cut down, when the flag will fall. A
coroner's inquest will be held on the body within twenty-
four hours, and the verdict of the jury will be posted on
the gates of the gaol, In future the capital sentence
will be inflicted on Monday, instead of Thursday, as
heretofore.

It is announced in a Bolfast journal that Mr.
Dickens will make a " farewell visit " to that town during
the autumn, and "read" in the Ulster Hall.

Messrs. Day and Co., the iron shipbuilders at
Northam, near Southampton, have received an order to
build a monster steamer for the Royal Mail Company.

Adelina Patti, now the Marchioness de Caux,
is passing her honeymoon in Paris. The young mar-
chioness was present at the opera on Monday ev• ni g in
an open box in the dress circle, when the " Trouvere " and
the " Giselle " were represented. Notwithstanding the
heat of the weather the theatre was crowded.
CONSCIENCE MONEY.—The money remitted to
the Chancellor of the Exchequer by sundry persons for
conscience sake in the financial year 1867-68 amounted to
£4,688. In the preceding year repentance produced a
larger sum, £5,087, which was more than the Chancellor's
salary.

The following is a specimen of Western
eloquence :—" Where is Europe, compared with America?
Nowhar ! Where is England ? Nowhar ! They call
England the mistress of the sea, but what makes the sea?
The Mississippi makes it, and all we've got to do is to
turn the Mississippi into the Mammoth Cave, and the
English navy will be floundering in the mud !"

The Commons are not treated with much consideration
when they make their appearance in the Upper House.
The peers do not even rise when the Lords Commissioners
enter the House, and are seated during the ceremony of
prorogation ; the Commissioners wear their hats ; but Mr.
Speaker, the First Minister of the Crown, and the rest of
the Commons have to stand at the bar all the time. The only
acknowledgment of their presence is at the entry of the
Speaker, which is the signal for an interchange of
bows between the right honourable gentleman and
the Commissioners. These bows used to be three in
number ; at the last prorogation they were cut down to
one. The clerks at the table utterly ignore the Commons,
acting, no doubt, upon ancient precedent and practice.
The Clerk of the Crown continues bowing at intervals to
the Lords like a Chinese Mandarin, but studiously turns
his ba,-,k on the Commons. On the last occasion the mem-
bers of the Lowcr House stood at the bar for nearly an
hour, the Serjeant-at-Arms with the mace on his shoulder,
Secretaries of State and members of the Cabinet
hustling each other like boys at a show. When the Queen
Dpens or prorogues Parliament in person, the scramble
for a place at the bar turns the House of Lords into a
bear-garden. The Commons might demand better treat•
went and accommodation, with the terrible threat of
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IiER MAJESTY.

PARIS, August 6.

The Queen, travelling as Countess of Kent, ac-
companied by Princess Louise, Prince Leopold,
and Princess Beatrice, arrived at Paris by railroad
at 7 o'clock this morning.
Her Imperial Majesty the Empress of the French
visited the Queen at the Embassy.

Iler Majesty drove to the station in the evening,
accompanied by Lord Lyons, and left Paris for
Lucerne.

The Princess of Wales drove out yesterday, At'
.ended by the Hon. Mrs. Hardinge.

POULTRY MA NA GEMENT.

(Front the Gardener's Magazine.)

I need not say the mode of pt.:A:lacing poultry is ono
well worthy of attention, because we find that fowls
weighing 41b might be produced just ai easily and 53
cheaply as fowls weighing only 21b each, if attention were
paid to having good breeds, such as the Dorking, Cochin,
and the best French breeds, with the Malay crossed with
the Essex or Lincolnshire fowls. I find that the fowls
which have been sent into Lincolnshire and Yorkshire

(from whence we get large supplies) have completely
changed the breeds; thirty years ago they were quite
small, and now they are large and fine. This was all
brought about about by Charles Clarke of Boston, who
bought the best stock and gave away the eggs to the
farmers and co tagers. In Essex, likewise, the quantity
of poultry is kept up, whilst in Norfolk, some parts o
Cambridgeshire, Suffolk, and other counties, poultry hat
gone completely out of cultivation, in consequence of the
absorption of commons and waste lands, as well as that
small cottagers are not allowed to produce poultry ; whilst
the English farmers' wives and daughters have forgotten
the habits of their ancestors, in sad contrast to the French
farmers' wives, whose greatest pride is their dairy and
their poultry.
The suggestion 1. would make would be simply this-7"
that whe e there are cottagers and small farmers the gen-
tlemen in the immediate neighbourhood should find a suppV
of good stock, and then distribute the eggs for breeding
purposes, the cost of which could not bo more than 50. or
10s., and by that means the recipients would do as they
have done in Sussex, where a very large quantity of
chickens is raised all the year round, in the district of
lleathfield, in a radius of about 20 miles ; during the
next three months we shall have sent to London, front
that part of the country, £l,OOO worth a week, which
will show what can be done by industry and method•
The supply for London is o (very great importance, be-
cause we must not only consider that there are 3,000,000
of people to supply food to here, but we aho supply
a radius of 50 or 60 miles round London when our Or
plies are above the demand for home consumption in con-
sequence of the railways being so accessiLle. That is not

the case iniFrance ; the poultry, nearly all, go to Paris,
and there is hardly any demand in other towns. In this
country the supplies are required constantly. At Brighton
and all round the south coast, especially at Oxford and
Cambridge, as well at other large towns, it is not likely the
price will decrease, as a more general use would, I am per"
suaded, lead to an unlimited consumption. I have recently
paid a visit to South Wale; and I find that in some parts
the cottagers and small farmers are increasingly producing
poultry, and this ought to be established through the

length and breadth of Ireland.
By the plan I propose I think we could introduce a nevi
mode of breeding and feeding poultry, Thus, chickens
two or three months old, will fatten in 7, 14, or 21 days,
at a cost of 4d. or 6d. per week. Ido not think there is
possibility of raising any kind of vegetable so quickly se
that, so as to produce a fat article out of a lean one hi
about 7or 14 days. The way in which the people round
about Ileathfield, Cuckfield, Uckfield, and other parts
of Sussex, have improved within the last, ten years
is marvellous ; and they now make from 3s. 6(l'
t i ss. 6d. for chickens not more than three months
old. The chief point is the labour, the only expense there
can be in rearing, until they get about two months old,
which should be by the side of a hedge, or where there i 0
grass, which cannot cost more than Is. to Is. 6d. ; strong,
healthy, well-fed chickens are very soonfattened. I think
that is a power of manufacture which is worthy of the
consideration of the country, as the profit must be at least
from 50 to 75 per cent. The means of feeding are simply
these:—Barley or oatmeal ground fine, grease, fat, or stet
mixed with it ; now milk, or if not procurable, meat broth
mixed with it to the consistency of thick soup, and
administered twice or thrice daily for 7, 14, or 21
days. Fowls from four to six and nine months old should
be fed on this food with the funnel, and kept in the dart
on clean straw. All kinds of animals kept in the dark, and
quiet, a:ways fatten quicker than when they have toe
much room or light; that is a very important part of the
French system, to keep them in the dark. But whet
would wish to point out is this : the French fowls which
,ire fed with a funnel aro a particular breed—the Craves-
sieur (Crcivecceur ?), La Fleche, Le Mans, and Holdall ; 11'
small chicken would not beer the ranee' to go down its
throat. This class of fowl are now selling wholesale, is
Paris, at from Gs. 6d. to 15s. each.
I think it would be rather difficult to introduce this s3l
tem of feeding by funnel at first amongst farmers, as it '4
a process which requires some dexterity and patience ; but
it is very simple. To make a coop for twenty-four WO'
with a small trough, to be kept clean, to peck the cltic-
ens (as they do in Sussex) for seven or fifteen days, 14
what any one could undertake. The chickens must (MU
have food enough to fill themselves full ; then they Must
be kept in the dark, and quiet. The food must be made
into a consistency similar to soup ; boiled eggs are solve-
times given to them during the last two or three days
and as fowls well fattened fetch such a price, it i 8 worth
while to bring them to the highest perfection. I have
never seen such fowls in England as 1 saw in the Paris
market and the Palais Royal, each weighing 101bs.
141b5., which fowls were eight or ten mouths old. The
must be large to be fed with the funnel; while ohickel
from ten weeks to four months old have this special feed
in coops (holding twelve to twenty-four each), provides
with troughs which must be daily cleared. There is ;
difference, of course, between a chicken fattened lb;.;
way and fowls fattened for any special purpose, as is deg-
with a funnel.
Our own supply of poultry can be only increased be
giving plots of land to farm labourers, stimulating th
cottagers and small farmers to breed and fatten poultry'
0
for, wherever it is mixed and crowded together, disease!,
sure to follow, and it is impossible to produce them to s'l,,
vantage. I am quite certain that the supply of potiltrj
might be increased at least ten, and the eggs at least will
fold, and when you seriously consider tho matter you
see how important this is. I do not know how mane
cattle there are in this country ; but when you come
fowls you can count them by millions, and then if yun.
crease the weight of each fowl which is eaten by 0m;
half a pound, you will see what an important effect I.
produce. But that is putting it at the very lowest Poi ;
by properly breeding and feeding fowls, the weight 030,
be increased, not half a pound, but from 11b. to 21bse
th
cording to the breed and the system adopted. ia,
respect to poultry, therefore, I earnestly cf,i,
ull tend it is the duty of the people of this co'da
who have at heart the true interests of the industrial s°io
working classes, not only to give them a good cottegeiso
live in, and a small piece of ground to cultivate, hutd
to give them a brood of two good fowls, which Nv(:,
answer the purpose of a bank. This would be a hati'v°o
the best kind, because the children can so much ilar.°,.ea
it. It is watchful labour which is particularly requ''oe
to produce poultry, and we should then find, as is °dify
on the continent, that where people have this opportnueo
of employing their time, and their children, it makes tbere
careful and-saving. But it is of the utmost emporia ti
to have a good breed. 1 take this matter up, not olio
a matter of business, but from benevolent motives• beets
engaged now as a guardian of the poor, and I have tieel
always connected with associations for the Pracieel-
benefit of industrial populations, especially the agrira- Doll
tural labourer ; and I have been much interested in the
Girdlestone's project for improving the condition °f
agricultural labourer, especially as I come from 14 breed
myself. I feel that if the method of improving the_titee
of poultry were put before the people, it would e'raogt
them to help themselves ; and that is really the ed, iti
satisfactory way of helping them. I have been info ranch
one district where the breeding of poultry has heeu
increased, the poor rates have sensibly aiininiele sot
should not be afraid to go before any body Of Pieutoci
convince them that here is a kind of El Dorado, it out
should be very happy to show them how to work het
practically. In conclusion, I would say that if 7tlie,
have stated could be printed and put before the P.:food
would be of the greatest possible advantage, as it Ira, 001-
to be in many parts of our own country, Delorig eed
land, Normandy, and many other parts of Fra,fue;terel
wherever there is conceded to the industrial eg
l'noaitre"
poor some advantag •, such as the keeping t, thought
would be considered, these habits of econceny 33"" 33006
would insure the surest pledge of ordir and virtue
any people.

MODE OF FEEDING.
Ist at 6 a.m.; 2nd at 12 noon ; 3rd at 6 pin.
1. Raley or oatmeal ground fine. 8001
2. New milk, if obt:tinable. Skim do (toiled) sc'h t-

sugar. Pork lard, suet, or grease.
Meat broths—if milk is not procurable.
tjt
3.4. Pork
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.Boiled eggs for high feeding during the last tno
days. ee
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Time of feeding in coops for chickens, seveig or
four Len days ; time of feeding by funnel largo folv
z ,ors the
turkeys, twenty-one days; throe times daily.--,i-• 0 j
Evidence of Mr. Brook, a Poultry Salesman, before
: diet:
Committee of the Society of Arts, as reported 0 -
Journal. the io .