The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-02 00:00:00

CHURCH OF ENGLAND MAGAZINE.

This Magazine, which it seems is got up under the
superintendence of a Committee of clergymen of the
Church of England, contains this month an instructive
biogrnphical sketch of the late Dr. Isaac Milner, to-
gether with several sketches from natural history.

TO THE EDITOR OP THE TIMES.

SIR,—My name is Yangfang ; I was born at

Wangfong, in the province of Quangtong, and I am
a distant relation of the poor Keshen that was killed.
I learned some English at different ports, as Canton,
Macao, Hong-Kong. I came to England about the
fifth moon this year to learn better the language, and
some of your customs and religion. But lam much
confused with those things I see and hear, and must
ask your kindness, or some of your correspondents,
before I believe, as I am told yours is the largest
gazette of these western countries. I shall then be-
lieve what you write to me, for I know you will
speak nothing but ti ae, and shall thank you for in-
structions. Pray answer some questions for me.
Do you call our inner land, the flowery country of
Cathay, by the name of China? Do you say -the
needle of the magnet we use for guiding ships in their
courses on the great sea points to the north? We
discovered it many ages before you knew it, and con-
sider it rather points to the south.
You are Christians by religion. Do you put a tax
now on the food and corn for the poor people
which is so big that the fool cannot come to the
poor people ? for in Cathay, and all its countries,
we are pagans, and worship different gods, which
you call idols. I, like most of the other Chinamen,
am a worshipper of Budh ' • but our good Emperor,
the Brother of the Sun and Moon, gives a reward to
all the big ships which bring in enough rice, or he
does not order them to pay the dues of the port where
they come, which is a great help to them ; this is to
make the- food cheap and plenty for the poor men ;
but tell me, do you want to make it dear for the poor
men, and very little of it ?
Do your good Christian priests give help to make
the food dear, that they may get more money, and
do they act for our proverb that the full stomach
never thinks for the empty stomach ? Is it true
that the poor really drop down dead for hunger, as I
have read in your great paper of news? In our
inner land, when people are crying for want, we
think it best to give them some work to do and pay
them, then with the money they buy the food; but
I am told you think it best to give them baths and
warm water. In your country is water good for the
hunger ? Do the kind priests always give the water
for -the hunger ? In our country we find it takes
away the thirstiness, but we do not drink it when we
want the food. Does the climate here make any dif-
ference in this, or is it only in the customs of the
English Christian people ?
When people are very poor in our land we give
them work to do that they may., buy the food and eat
rice ; but you give them what you call charity, or put
them in prison, where they must not see their friends;
wife must not see husband, husband must not see
wife nor children,—is it so ? This very bad. Pray,
Sir, do tell me if it costs more money to put them
in the prisons than it does to let them work and pay
for their own food out of the prisons ? I think it is
in England, but not in Cathay, that the big fish eat
the little fish, the little fish eat the shrimps, and the
shrimps eat the mud.

But the Mandarins in our country are very bad,
and do the people much harm, and steal their food
and money, and then they say Mandarin very good
indeed to poor man. Are your-Mandarins like ours ?
Pray tell me this plainly, with your own real English
honest word.

I hope you will pardon me for asking one more
little question. Is it true that you put all your ma-
nanure and nasty things, not on the lands, but into
the rivers? What fur do you this? It makes the
water not good to drink, but very nasty, and we could
not drink it so ; but is this why you give water and
the bath to feed the hungry people ? Let me under-

stand.
In our inner land we save it all and sell it all, even
the hairs from shaving the head, and put it on the
land to make the rice, and many other things, grow
well and fast.
Is it true that you send big ships to the other side
of the world to get the manure of birds to make the
corn grow in the place of what you have, and put
into the rivers ?

Pray forgive the faults I make in English, and all
the mistakes of another land, and give me a true
answer to all these doubts which I ask you, that I
may tell my countrymen when I get home, which I
intend soon to start.
From your humble sIave,YAGF ANG.
Gloucester-place, Kentish-town.

CONSUMPTION OF PORTER AND
ALE IN LONDON AND ITS VICINITY
DURING THE LAST AND PRESENT YEAR.

An accurate Statement of the Number of Quarters of Malt
used by the under-mentioned Brewers, from the 10th of
October, 1843, to the 10th of October, 1844 ; distinguishing
those whose Consumption has Increased and Decreased:—

.. .5, 8
t(4l.'s' -05-
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God
Names, Signs, and Situations. c"
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't tt ss. E c 3
e:i 0 "4 Cr ad 0)
V P-I
.
Barclay and Co., Anchor, South-
wark
Traman, Black Eagle, Spital-
fields
Whitbread, Hine's Head, Chis-
well-street .
Reid,* Griffin, Liquorpond-st 51,830 51,205 625
Meux,* horse-shoe, St. Giles's 44,956 46,467 1511
Combe, Wood Yard, Long-acre 42,524 42,202 322
Hoare, Red Lion, E. Smithfield 29,326 31,001 1675
Calvert, Hour Glass, Thames-st. 29,923 30,375 452
Elliot, Stag, Pimlico
Thorne, T., Harrow, Westmin
ster.
Charriugton, Anchor, Mile-end 19,328 20,243 915
Goding, Lion, Lambeth
Taylor, Barley Mow, Limehouse 19,350 16,995 2355
Gardner, Cannon, St. John's -st. 15,350 16,830 1480
Mann, J., Albion, Mile-end... 14,895 16,186 1291
Broad
wood, Lion, Golden-5q.... 15,141 15,553 417,
Courage, Anchor, Horselydown 11,641 11,994 358
Wood, Artillery, Westminster 8,004 8,461 457
Moore, Scottish, Old- street.- .. 7,332 7,409 77
Tubb, Castle, St. George's-field:, 5,865 6,364 499
Manners, King's Arms, White-
chapel
Strong and Co., Ratcliff
Kempson, Star, Mortlake
Abbott, Bow 6,068 5,275 793

Those marked thus (*) brew
Increase on the year's consumption by ti
brewers

orter only.
Le above

20,722 qrs.
... 4,095

Decrease on the year

Balance of Increase

16,627

DREADFUL OCCURRENCE.

We have received the following from a person who
subscribes himself a " Constant Reader :"
" OLDirAm, OCT. 31.—One of the most dreadful
catastrophes which ever happened in this neighbour-
hood occurred this afternoon, by the sudden falling
of a portion of Messrs. Ratcliffes' cotton-mill. About
half-past three o'clock the whole of the part recently
erected upon the most modern principle instanta-
neously fell, almost to the foundation, burying every
hand then at work. The magistrates are on the spot
superintending the removal of the ruins. Up to this
time (half-past eight o'clock in the evening) about
12 or 14 bodies have been found. It is not yet known
how many are missing, but report says 30 or 40.
You shall know by next post."

PARLIAMENTARY SITTINGS, &c.—Returns moved
for at different periods by Mr. Brotherton, Mr. Hawes,
and Mr. Estcourt, having reference to the sittings of the
House of Commons, the divisions of the House, and
public and private Bills, have just been published for the
use of Members. From the first of these it appears,
that from the Ist of February to the 9th of August
(being the session of 1844) the House sat 119 days and
four Saturdays, the hours of sitting being 9061, of which
69 hours were after midnight, and the average time of
sitting being 7 hours and 36 minutes. The total num-
ber of divisions in the same period was 167, of which
126 were on public matters before midnight, 28 on public
matters after midnight, and 13 on private Bills before
midnight. The largest division appears to have been
upon a motion of Lord John Russell's, for a Committee
of the whole House on the state of Ireland, when there
were 554 Members present, including the Speaker, of
whom 227 voted for the motion, and 326 against it. 'The
smallest division was on a motion for discharging Mr. B.
Denison from further attendance on the Poor Relief
(Gilbert's union) Committee, when only. 32 Members
voted, 12 being for the motion, and 20 against it. Dur-
it% the same session 136 public Bills which commenced
in the House were introduced, and 23 Bills which com-
menced M the House of Lords. The Bill which occu-
pied the longest period in passing was the Poor-law
Amendment Bill, which occupied six months, the stages
being as follows : —Bill ordered February 10, read a first
time February 10, read a second time February 23, con-
sidered in Committee May 10, July 4,5, 12, 13, 15, 17,
and 18; reported with amendments and considered July
24 and 25, read third time July 26, received the Royal
Assent August 9. The Bill which required the shortest
period to pass was the Exchequer-bills Bill "84°74"r°e121
which only occupied 10 days. It was. ordered a2n
a first time April 30, read a second time May 6
read ,
acthonisrid-
dered in Committee May 3, repoortieido y.
MalaAss'ent May 10.
time May 7, and receivedull h
t read aytirst time was 148 ;
The number of p the number
rthepeorntuedmbue,arsr2aBd:i
tav :set
number
bsetirmoef wpasri
vla3t,
07
;Bills brought
from the Lords was 44; and the number of opposed Bills
was 82.
PREACHERS ARRESTED FOR STEALING.—It is
Stilted in the Cincinati Bulletin, that two preachers,
named White and Coffee, have been arrested on a charge
of stealing and counterfeiting. The stolen goods were
rccog-,iised as forming part of the dre:s of Coffee's
daughter, and a disclosure was made implicating that
pious with a set of villains who infest the
country. Mr. White was taken from his pulpit shortly
after, and a large amount of counterfeit money found
upon him. Coffee was required to give bail in 1,500
dollars to mover the above charge.