The Sun.
London, England, 1850-11-15 00:00:00

FLAX CULTIVATION.

A movement, now in progress, for the promotion of
flax cultivation in Ireland was described on the 7th
lost, and it was mentioned that application had been
made to the Board of Trade to incorporate a company,
with a capital of 1,000 0001, who proposed to encou-
rage pr. duction by the offer of a certain price per acre
for the crops that might be raised. To this applica-
tion, we are glad to say, the following favourable reply
was received this morni, g :
" Office of Committee of Privy Council for Trade,
Whiiehall, Nov. 13. 1850.
" Sir,—With reference to the paper transmitted to this
hoard on behalf of Lord Talbot and others, and to the
interview betwe oi Mr. Labouchere and yourself, Mr.
Doulan and Mr. Clayton, in which you stated that the
object of the persons applying to form a j9int•stock com-
pany in Ireland for the preparation of flax upon an im•
proved method, and upon a very extensive scale, and
thereby to encourage the cultivation of flax in that coun-
try. and that the parties were desirous of ascertaining,
before incurring further expense, how f..r it war probable
•hat their Lordships would think it right to recommend
to her Majesty to grant a charter of incorporation to
such company when formed, I am iustructed to state to
you, fur the information of the parties interested, that it
has not been usual for this board to recommend the
granting of charters of incorporations for any purpose
of a commercial character except in cases where the en-
terprise was necessarily of such magnitude as to require
a capital larger than could be expected to be raised by
persons associated in the ordinary mode of partnership.
Under ordinary circumstances, therefore, my Lords would
be unable to hold out any expectation that such a charter
as that now sought could be granted. My Lords, how-
ever, taking into consideration the present circumstances
of Ireland, sod being strongly impressed with the great
I importance of encouraging at this time by every means
the cultivation of fl .x in that country, would be dis-
posed, upon a sufficient case being made out, to
relax the rule by which they are governed under ordinary
circumstances, and they therefore direct me to say, that
so soon as the company proposed to be established
in Ireland shall have been so far matured, and such
a body of directors willing to take upon themselves the
management of the affairs of the company
may hold out a reasonable assurance that the objects of
ndae
,ter, u a adequately defined will be
the omoters of the company, as above
named, as
council
nuntheiel
beinge fearedarr,ried iu
tot° themfft
in the usual mode, be prepared to recommend that a
charter of incorporation should be granted.
" The charter will be required t) contain the pro-
visions usual in such case", restricting the operations of
the company until a certain proportion of the capital is
subscribed for, and a certain amount paid up, and re-
quiring a deed to be executed providing for the due go.
by. whyerL,Nolradjesstwylilal,
aernment of the company, and for auditing the accounts,
and for ebforeing the payment of the sums subscribed
by the shareholders. The particulars of these provisions
I am, Sir, your ohedi, nt, servant,
`• JAMES BOOTH.
may be the subject of future arraagem.et.
" Thomas Price, E,q ,Eastcoq cotta e, West Pinner."

Nobody is worth anything who has not a comfort-
able share of vanity; it is the manner, and not the matter,
of the thing that is offensive. -Eliza Cook's Journal.
MARYLEBONE.—The Bishop of London has licensed
the Rev Arthur Baker 8.A., of Wadham College, Oxford,
late curate of Trinity Church. St. Marylebone. and the Rev.
Thomas Walter Perry, late curate of St. Peter the
Great, Chichester, to be curates of the newly formed district
of All Saints, St. Marylebone. A new church, the foundation
stone of which was laid a few days since by Dr. Posey, is to
be erected in this district, and is to be consecrated on ;sTov. 1
(Au saiuti Day), ISA