The Sun.
London, England, 1845-07-29 00:00:00

FUNDS.

EIPENSEa OF AisNaGemrivT.—Each trade in the Association
shall contribute one penny per month for each paying member.
STRIKES, TURN-OUTS, AND Law PROCEEDINOS.—The Central
Committee shall from time to time raise such levies from the as-
sociated trades as may be requisite for the maintenance of such
strikes, turn-outs, law proceedings, or other measures for the pro-
tection of industry to which they shall have given their sanction.

There are several other clauses, but they are provisions for
carrying out the report in detail.
When the Bristol Delegate had concluded,

'I he Delegate from the cigar-makers suggested that as the
last read plan had not had any consideration, it should be re-
ferred to a Committee.
The Delegate from the Potteries thought that the adoption
of that report would only have the effect of throwing the apple
of discord amongst them, for there were some trades who would
agree to the land proposition, and no other, and others who
agree only to the strike plan, &c. He concluded by proposing
a resolution to the effect, that it was the opinion of this con-
ference that to attempt a general union of trades upon the
combined principle of the two-fold object of strikes and the
purchase or rental of land, would be impracticable, and there-
tore prejudicial to the organisation desired by the present con-
ference. _ _ _ _ .

After a Delegate had objected to the amendment, it was put
and carried, and the meeting then agreed that each Delegate
should have the power of admitting four friends to the gallery ;
and some other matters of a routine character having been dis-
posed of, the delegates adjourned till ten o'clock to:morrow.

OREGON AS IT IS.
(From the New York Tz ibune.)
We propose to shed such further light on the charac-
ter and settement of Oregon as is afforded by " A
Journal of the Events of the Celebrated Emigrating
Expedition of 1843," appended to Mr. G. Wilkes's
" History."
The emigrants left Independence, on the western
borders of the Missouri settlements, on the lith of May,
1841. The winter arrived at Vancouver (ninety miles
up the Columbia, and nearly opposite the mouth of
the Williamette), on the 10th of November, but the
mass of the emigrants, with their cattle, were some
days behind, and did not probably reach the settle-
ment on the Williamette before the Ist of Decem-
ber. At all events, it is a good six month's work to
traverse with cattle and waggons the 2,000 miles in-
tervening between Independence and the Williamette.
It might be done in somewhat less time with horses only,
but the hardships of this mode, from hunger, exposure
to storms, &c., are infinitely greater. Stout men may
endure them, though the parties of Farnham and Fre-
mont respectively suffered everything short of death, but
ignorance and want of due forecast in the one case, and
unseasonable exposure in the other, greatly aggravated
their sufferings. The present route is shorter and easier
than that traversed by Mr. Farnham ; grass is found over
a good part of it ; and where there is grass those who drive
mulch cows and bullocks in adequate numbers need not
fear starvation. But the sterility and destitution of
19-20ths of Oregon is utterly inconceivable by men who
have been accustomed only to the fertility and verdure
of the Atlantic slope and the valley of the Mississippi.
Even the country for 500 miles on this side of the Rocky
Mountains is barely saved from being one chlerless, uni-
form desert, by the springs and the everlasting snows of
the Great Chain. Of the Great Plate, or Nebraskie,
which runs about 600 miles due east, nearly under the
43d degree of latitude, before it unites with its southern
branch, it is said in tke journal before us—that " Like
the Nile, it runs hundreds of miles through a sterile
wilderness, and like the Nile it unrolls its strips of green
across the vastness of the desert, and is father of all the
vegetation rear it."
Leaving the fountains of the Platte at the South Pass,
in lat. 42, deg., 30 min., the emigrating party were nearly
a month passing through the Rocky Mountains, and,
though this was in midsummer (August), their sufferings
were no trifle. Says the journal, " This was the most
arduous and difficult part of the journey. In many parts
of this region we had to move sharply to secure water
and range for our cattle, and the scarcity of game forced
us to rely for food en the resources of our private lar-
ders. The greater portion of this country is a sterile,
flinty waste, and except in occasional dots and in the
gresu ribbons that bind the edges of streams, is worth-
less for agricultural purposes." Such is, according to a
settler in Oregon, another 500 miles of the route thither.
But the next stretch of 500 or 600 miles, from the

Rocky to the Blue Mountains, or to the junction of the
Saptin, with the larger branch of the Columbia, is still
more forbidding. The journal says of it—
The third region is called the high country, and is a
mere desert, consisting of ridges of rocks of volcanic
strata and alternate sandy plains. It has its occasional
fertile spots, it is true, but they are few and far between.
Its distinguishing features are its excessive dryness, and
the extraordinary difference of the temperature between
night and day. This extremity, amounting sometimes
to a variation of 40 or 50 degrees, is modified somewhat
in the approach toward the middle region, but tkis out-
side section is doubtless incapable of being reclaimed to

any great vxtt.rit by the hand of man.* emerged
front the patch of vegetation around Fort Hall in a &AN
hours upon wide batten plains of yellow sandy clay,
which, among its short and dry grasp, bore nothing but
the wild wormwood and the prickly pear, with here and
there some stunted cotton wood or willow."

The country thus described comprises the larger part