The Sun.
London, England, 1850-08-08 00:00:00

CUSTOMS BILL.

On the motion for the third reading of this Bill,
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved
the insertion of the following clause:—" And whereas
divers rules, orders, and regulations have from time to
time been made by the Commissioners other Majesty's
Customs, in pursuance of the powers conferred upon them
by certain Acts passed in various sessions of Parliament,
some of v.hich Acts have since been repealed; and
doubts have arisen whether such rules, orders, and regu-
lations are still of legal force and efficacy; be it these-
fore enacted, that all rules, orders, and regulations
already made or issued by or under the authority of the
said Commissioners, under or in pursuance of any Act
or Acts relating to the Customs, or to trade or naviga-
tion, although such Act or Acts may have been re
pealed, shall be and continue in full force and effect,
so far as such rules, orders, and regulations are consis-
tent with the provisions of the laws in force relating to
the Customs, or to trade or navigation, unless and until
the same shall be revoked or rescinded, and that all acts
whatsoever done or to be done in pursuance of any such
orders, rules, and regulations shall be valid and effec-
tual." Upon which
Mr. HUME objected to the clause.
The House divided, when there appeared—
For the clause ... ' ... .
Against it ...
Majority ...
The clause was then agreed to.
On entering the gallery we found
Mr. NEWDEGATE moving the following amend-
ment:—" In page 2, line 35, after the words ' A true
account,' to insert the words,' of the quantities and real
value.' " His object was to enable the Legislature of
this country to obtain that accurate information which
the Legislatures of other countries possessed.
• The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER objected
to the amendment, and hoped that it would not be
pressed at present, as sufficient notice had not been
given. .
After a few words from Mr. NEWDEGATE, the
amendment was withdrawn.
The Bill was then read a third time and passed,
FRIENDLY SOCIETIES' BILL (SALARIES AND
EXPENSES).

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This Bill went through Committee pro forma.
The House then adjourned at Hall-past Fuur until
Half-past Six.

TATTERSALL'S—THIS EVENING.
Six o'Ci.ocs.

No business doing.

EMIGRATION TO AUSTRALIA.

Mr: John Lunn, a printer, who emigrated from
Lincolnshire in September last, and arrived at Ade-
laide, South Australia, on the 12th January, gives a
a less prosperous account of the prospects for emi-
grants who are not mechanics or farm labourers,
than previous writers. In a letter dated a month
after his arrival, he says, speaking of the
voyage (in the ship Douglas), " Nearly all the
passengers were attacked with cholera and diarrba3i,
and 26 died, one of whom was brother to Mr. Ad-
cock, printer, of Melton Mowbray; his son also was
near dying, but has just recovered. After landing, I
called. upon Mr. Edw. Woodroffe and Miss Bigg,
formerly of Stamford, and at Mr. W.'s house I saw
the Stamford Mercury." Speaking of the state of
Adelaide, be says-
" The place is inundated with emigrants. Some of
them are persons who held respectable situations in En-
gland, such as head clerks in lawyers' offices: here they
get only 30s. a week, and under-clerks 14s. to 18s. a week,
and find' themselves. 'There are gentlemen's sons here
who are actually driven to become bullock-drivers :
there aro men in the Bush working on farms for
6s. and Bs. per week with rations : one of my
fellow voyagers had a situation offered him to
take the management of a large farm, and he
stared when the master told him that he would give him
261. and his rations. The only parties wanted here are car-
penters, bricklayers, masons, and joiners, but these will all
be pulled down in their wages, for the place swarms with
Germans, who work for 2s. 6d. per day. and find' them-
sel wee. Ships are still arriving from England and Germany;
and when I tell you that the place (meaning thecity ofAde-
laide) is very much like MarketDeeping, you may guess its
extent. There is only one street at present, with straggling
little wooden houses at the ends of the proposed new
streets: they are as yet only staked out. The city will
be one mile square, or four miles round; and a Bill has
just passed the Government House here to make a rail-
road from the city to the port-the cost is estimated to
be 30,000/. Bats made of cabbage tree and straw are
principally worn here, and clothes are worth little or
nothing. I have seen good black dress coats and sur-
touts sold for 6s. and 7s. each at the auction marts:
there are three or four of those auctions every
night. White blouses are Is. 6d. each, cotton socks 3d
per pair; blue and pink figured shirts 2s. to 3s. 3d.
each; a dozen black hats sold for Is. 9d. each; therefore
it is a folly for any one to lay out his capital in clothes.
Boots and shoes are about the same price as in
England. Peaches for pies are 3d. and 4d. per
dozen, grapes 4d. per lb. (beautiful), apples and pears
lid. each; tobacco 4s. .j.er ib; eggs ld. each; bet f
arid mutton 3d. per lb., prime joints; shop's pluck
3d.; calves' pluck 6d.; onions V. per lb., and
potatoes 63. per. cwt.; but they are double that price in
November. A little wood cottage with only two
rooms on the ground floor and no fire-grate, 9s. per
week. There aro no bedsteads here; all use soils
with straw mattrasses. The sofas cost 11. each: they
are made of. cedar wood. lam boarded and lodged for
12s. per week, and was lucky enough to get work the
first week I got here, and at. the first place I enquired
at; but there are upwards of a score printers
in the bush at bullock driving, and hard work it is to
manage sometimes 6,8, 10, to 16 bullocks in one day,
loaded with copper ore from the Burrs Burrs Mines. I
could show you drapers' assistants, clerks, and
others who have not been brought up to a mechanical
trade, breaking• stones on the road. but they
get 245. to 30s. par week at it ; it is, however, to
joke under a South Australian heat, particularly
when we have a north wind : it is just like standing
before the mouth of an oven. Farm labourers are run
down by the Germans, for both men and women reap
the corn. Our [matinees (printing) is pretty good: we
get 9d. per 1,000 for ell the smaller types up to pica, for
reprint copy as well as manuscript; but as we work only
eight hours a day, we cannot get more than 21. 2s. a
week; sometimes we have five or six over hours, at 9d.
per hour."
Mr. Lunn describes the natives of Port Adelaide as
the ugliest specimen of humanity he has ever seen, their
heads resembling the monster beads through which the
water spouts are carried to run the water from the leads
of our churches.-Stanford Mercury.

GARDENING OPERATIONS FOIE,

THE WEEK.
Cuttings of roses should be taken immediately and
planted in a close cold frame, in a north aspect, for
three weeks or a month, until they are cicatrised
at the base; they should then be.taken carefully up,
potted in thumb pots, and plunged in a close warm
frame, with a gentle bottom heat. So treated, they will
make nice plants in a very short time, and if kept
under slight protection during winter, will fill their
pots with roots, and be ready for planting out in
April or May. Pink pipings, if put in at the time
we recommended, will now be ready for transplant-
ing; and in doing this not a moment should be lost,
as they have need of all the rest of the season to estab-
lish theniselves in such a manner as to prevent the
frost injuring them. If the situations ultimately
intended for them are vacant, they should be planted
in them at once, as they thereby flower much finer ;
but if these places are occupied for the present by
something else, the young pinks should be planted
four inches apart, on reserve beds in an open situa•
tion, the soil of which should consist principally of
light loam, to which has been added some charcoal
dust or charred refuse ; a little dung mixed with
road drift and soot should be added. The rotten ma-
nure from an old mushroom bed answers very well
for this purpose, as it encourages a mass of fibres,
and produces a healthy but over-gross deve-
lopment of top. Some time ago we
promised to
remind our ;readers about making memoranda of
the most suitable arrangement for half-hardy
plants next season ; we are just now doing so our-
selves, and we take this opportunity of redeeming our
pledge. As an easy method of reducing the thing
more completely to a system, a rough plan should
be made of the arrangement of the beds, which
should be numbered, and referred to an accompanying
list of the names of the plants with which it is
designed to fill them next year, and the quantity
required for each bed. By compiling a summary
from this list, accurate information is at once ob-
tained of the quantity of plants which must be propa-
gated immediately by cuttings, and both by these and
seeds in spring. By this simple means redundancy
and deficiencies are avoided, disappointment is pre-
vented on the one hand, and waste of labour on the
other. Whilst the half-hardy plants are in their
greatest beauty, a tasteful eye will easily discover the
weak and improvable points, and, by observing the
more satisfactory parts, will readily perceive the most
desirable future arrangement. Plant out the second
crop of pink pipings,
taking care to examine the beds
rather late in the evening ; worms may then be
caught, and every pink grower knows how often
they make great confusion among his stock by loosen-
ing the pipings, and very often drawing them together
in heaps. Take care that dahlias have abundance of
water, keeping the roots will mulched with rotten
manure. Let the lateral shoots be sedulously at-
tended to, by trying them out. Encourage the'
weakest seedlings, for it very frequently happens that
p icotees ere
with
fast
they are the best. and generally bloom the very last
of the collectien. Carnations and
getting out of bloom ;
roce ed rapid
tht, ly
layering ; use leaden pugs to fasten layers
down; these are preferable to, ferE! or