The Sun.
London, England, 1842-07-20 00:00:00

" FARMING STOCK.

" Sir,—As the orders for Farming Stock Insurance
are now coming in in large numbers, it is necessary
that we should call your attention to the fact, that
our accounts show us to have been great losers by
this branch of our business for some years past. We
have, unhappily, reason to expect that the losses will
rather increase than diminish during the ensuing
autumn, by the wilful destruction of Farming Stock,
in consequence of the dissatisfaction among the
labouring classes, and the fiendish suggestion which
they have received from one of our leading dema-
gogues—to destroy the property of their employers
—a hint which they readily adopt, ignorantly sup-
posing that their vindictive object will thereby be
attained.

" We must consequently admit, that we are by no
means solicitous for Farming Stock business, particu-
larly where the parties do not insure other property
with us. Upon this, point, however, we place our-
selves entirely in the hands of our agents. We rely
upon their using the utmost caution in taking farm-
stock orders from strangers ; and we suggest the
expediency of their declining to do so until they have
inquired into, and are satisfied with, the character and
circumstances of the proposer.
" It is with the utmost reluctance that we withhold
our protection from any parties who seek it, but the
interests of the Office demand our circumspection ;
we therefore enumerate some of the leading points of
objection which occur to us :—The holding appoint-
ments which render them obnoxious to the labouring
classes ; the indulging in harsh and oppressive con-
duct towards their servants ; the being in reduced
circumstances, which may lead to their making fraudu-
lent claims ; general bad character.
These points, and others which your better judg-
ment will suggest, being duly attended to, we trust
that our Farming Stock business may be less bur-
thensome to us than heretofore, and that we may not
be compelled to decline it altogether.
" I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
" J. E. BEAUMONT.

" The rule, that no insurance of farming stock
within five miles of an incendiary fire be taken at less
than ss. per cent. fur the first year,' must be strictly
enforced.

" The use of steam threshing machines is full of
danger, and must not be allowed within twenty paces
of the riekyard."

NO STARVATION AMONGST
LANDLORDS OR FARMERS.

(From Woolmer's Exeter Gazette, July 16.)
NoaTa DEVON FARMERS IN 1816 AND 1842.—Twenty-
six petitions, signed by 700 occupiers and owners of
land in North Devon, stated that "many of them,_ in
order to meet the payments of the Income-tax, had been
under the necessity of selling their young cattle to great
disadvantage ; and many of them were in confinement
for debt, from inability to pay 1"
"Happily the times are altered, and the Income-tax of
1842 finds a patriotic and generally prosperous body
able and willing to pay it."
So much for the Corn-laws. Landlords and farmers
boasting of prosperity while manufacturers and trades-
men' are starving ! And as regards the farmers of the
north of Devon paying towards the Income-tax it is a
gross fallacy, for the generality of farmers are small,
and not one in fifty of the whole number is rated to tl e
value of 300/ per annum ; and if a return should 1
ordered by Parliament, it is generally considered tbn t
100 renting farmers in the north of Devon will not Le
found as payers to the Income-tax.

It 15 now confidently stated that Parliament will,
be prorozued the second week in August.
Mr. Wood, Chairman, and Mr. Dehaney, Solicitor
of the Board of Excise, had an interview with the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer this morning in Downing-street.
We quote the following from the Univers :—The.
Catholic Archbishop of Sydney—M. Polling, of the
Order of Benedictines—having come to Paris from
Borne, and remained here a short time, set out on Mon-
day for England, whence, in September, he will return to
)ouay, where there is a College of English Benedictines.
The Pope has built the town of Sydney into a metro-
polis, and created Archbishop Polding Apostolic Vicar
of the whole country, with the exception of such parts as
are intrusted already to other vicars, over whom he will
be metropolitan. Hobart Town is made a Bishop's See,
and its Prelate will, be a. suffragan of Sydney, being at
the sane time Apostolic,a.
Vicar of South Australia.

STATE OF TRADE.
(From the Manchester Guardian of this day.)
MANCRESTER.—We are happy to be enabled to
state, that the improvement which manifested itself
last week has continued down to the present time;
anti that a more healthy feeling prevails in the market
than at any period for some time past. The large sales
of produce made under the operation of the new tariff
have liberated a considerable amount of capital which
had been for some time locked up, thereby placing addi-
tional means at the disposal of the more active and
enterprising merchants of the country; and, as a ge-
neral impression prevails that the prices of cotton ma-
nufactures are now at their lowest point, the inclina-
tion to make purchases for foreign markets has be-
come more general. Since Tuesday last, a very consi-
derable amount of business has been done in shirtings,
domestics, and cther goods suitable for shipping, and
also in yarn, especially in the numbers and qualities
adapted to the Russian market. In printingcloth no im-
provement has yet been manifested ; but .w e under-
stand, that some considerable orders for prints have
been received from the West Indies, Canada, and the
United States ; so that it is to be hoped, that that
description of cloth, which is now much depressed,
will, ere long, participate in the general increase of
demand. It is necessary to observe, however, I that
hitherto, even in the fabrics that are selling the most
freely, little or no improvement of price has yet been
realized. In some descriptions ofshirtings, an advance of
lid. to 3d. per piece was demanded yesterday by the
principal manufacturers, but it was not generally, if
at all, acceded to by the purchasers; and the amount
of business done was to some extent limited by the
demand. Indeed, it is not very probable that any
substantial improvement in prices can take place, un-
til, by the result of a good harvest, or by a change of
the Corn-law, the great bulk of the working classes of
this country, whose entire earnings are now absorbed
in:the purchase of food, shall be enabled to procure
those supplies of clothing of which they stand so much
in need. In order to show the operation of this cause
upon the market, we may observe, that the exports of
yarn from Hull during the first six months of the pre-
sent year show an enormous increase upon those of
the same period in 1841. The quantities in each year
are the following :-
1842. 1841.
llamburgh bales 14,465 .... 11,787
Amsterdam 72 .... 94
Rotterdam
St. Petersburgh 9,517 .... 4,644
Gottenburgh
Other ports 2,567 .... 1,804

Total bales
This statement, it will be seen, exhibits an increase of
nearly 50 per cent. during the present year ; and, if
the home trade of this country had continued in a
healthy state, it would have been difficult, if not im-
possible, to supply the quantity that has been exported.
Owing, however, to the very great diminution in the
demand for manufactured goods, many of the spinners
who previously supplied the home demand have been
seeking their yarn for foreign markets, until those also
have been to some extent glutted.
ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY, JULY 18.—
There is a change in the flannel market to-day for the
worse. The pieces sold have been few, and the
buyers have offered lower prices, which, in numerous
instances, have been refused. The wool market is
much the same as that of the preceding Monday.

HEALTH OF FRENCH PRISONS.
The Minister of the Interior has sent to the Pre-
fects of all the departments a circular letter urging
the transmission to him of the reports already re-
quired by existing regulations, from the physicians
and surgeons of the various central prisons of the
kingdom, in order that the medical and sanatory sys-
tems of each establishment in particular, and of the
whole in general, may be fully comprehended and
acted upon. The letter is accompanied by a series of
tables to be filled up periodically by the directors of
the prisons. The first table is for a monthly return
of the numbers of prisoners, classed as to their ages,
and the works upon which they are employed. An-
other table is to comprise the number of those who
have fallen sick, classing them also by their ages, and
the occupations in which they have been engaged ;
how many have left the infirmary cured, and how
many have died. Another table is to contain an ac-
count of the trade, profession, or other occupation
exercised by each prisoner previous to his confine-
ment, and the state of his constitution when first
brought into the prison, so that an estimate may be
formed of the influence of the regulations in each pri-
son on the health of those who are confined in it. In
making these reports, the medical men are to indicate
such prisoners as are affected with the itch, ringworm,
syphilis, or other diseases, and all such as have or have
not had the small-pox, or been vaccinated. The medi-
cal men are also to indicate in their reports their opi-
nions on the causes of any diseases which may have
prevailed; on the general sanatory state of the pri-
sons, and on the means of improving it. In case of
any epidemic disease a separate report is to be made.
The letter refers to and enforces instructions given
in like manner in July, 1840, for returns of the com-
parative mortality among adults in the free population
of 'the country immediately around the prisons, in
order that that the increased chances of death within
the latter may be ascertained. It further directs that
reports may be made of the number of the soldiers
composing the garrisons of the central prisons, and of
the towns of the departments, who have been ad-
mitted into the hospitals of the respective places, and
how 'many of these have died, so that a comparison
may be made, and inferences be drawn, as to the effect
of penal confinement on human life.

IRISH LABOURERS A Tl-'-HE PARIS

FORTIFICATIONS.

Captain Capsicum Cayenne Pepper, in his face-
tious book, " France Daguerreotyped," tells the fol-
lowing tale, for which his veracity is to be held respon-
sible :—" The great multiplicity of labourers required
for the fortifications of Paris, and the comparative
scarcity of French labourers, as compared with the soil
which they have to cultivate, occasioned directions to
be some time since transmitted to the French Con-
sul at Dublin, to ascertain whether any disposable num-
ber of Irish labourers could be induced to proceed
to Paris, with a certainty of procuring regular employ-
ment for at least a year to come. The result, as may
readily be conceived, was that a number of the
finest peasantry' jumped at the offer as nimbly
as a salmon-trout at a summer fly. Under the special
superintendence of the Consul they were shipped in
disorder and ragged condition for Havre, felicitating
themselves on the• gentility of the excursion, and the
unlooked-for opportunity of makin' the tower of France,
all as one of the foremost quality—and that upon
vilvit, and be paid for their pleasurin' into the bargain !
Since the memorable period when the immortal hero of
the gridiron, bein' in distress in regard of the atin','
thought a solitary ' Parley voo Fransay' a passport to
all the mysteries of the French mind, nothing more
bizarre and provocative of laughter has been witnessed
than the landing of these stray sons of St. Patrick at
Havre, and their journey on foot to Paris. It was ►ny
lot to meet with one of them in the centre of the Palais
Royal at the magnificent Galerie d'Orleans. There he
stood beneath the splendid glass roof, reflected in a
hundred mirrors along the walls, stared at by scores
of moustached loungers, and giggled at by a dozen
magasin grisettes in their exquisitely soiyneuses toilets,
looking like Houris in a paradise. Paddy had changed
in no respect the costume of his native hills. The corduroy
smalls were patched and repatched, yet broken at the
knees. The buttons enjoyed a sinecure for convay-
nience," the long strings which held the place of knee
buckles fluttered down to the ancle. Like Lord Hamlet,
he appeared in the midst of that emporium of fashion,
- With his doublet all unbraced,

No hat upon his head,'
but a very stunted and Itraw-bound caubeen, with the
immemorial short and blackened pipe stuck on the dexter
side ; and to complete his parallel with
The glass of fashion and the mould of form,'
Pat had

His stockings fouled,
Ungartered, and down-gyved to his ancle.'
When to this I add that his hardy and sinewy leg was
thickly matted with hair of a dusky hue, and that his
face was bespread with some ten days' growth of beard
of a foxy-brown colour, that his brogues, loosened by the
journey, were made fast around the instep by hay-ropes,
that his coat was of aboriginal blue frieze, and that in
his hand he wielded a stout alpeen,' which had been his
firm support for many a rood, I need scarcely wind up
his resemblance to the Danish Prince, by saying that he
was 'The observed of all observers !'
When I first espied him in that attitude of upward
gazing, which, according to philosophers, distinguishes
man from the beast (a distinguishing characteristic
whiCh •i 3 sometimes very. requisite), I drew closer to
him, impelled by an irresistible curiosity, and was no
little astonished at hearing him ejaculate :—' Holy Var-
gin, if that disn't bang Banagher. Ah. then, it's with
ylass they thatches their houses in Paris !' "

A numerous deputation of gentlemen connected
with the northern part of the principality of Wales
had a lone- interview this morning with Sir R. Peel and
the Earl of Lincoln, in Downing-street, on the subject
of the Welsh Landowners' Memorial. Amongst the
deputation were Earl Powis, Lord Clive, the Hon. R.
Clive, Mr. Ormsby Gore, M.P., Mr. Richard Richards,
M.P., Mr. W. B. Hughes, M.P., Mr. J. R. Ormsby
Gore, M.P., Colonel Vaughan, W. P. Richards, Esq.,
William Jones, Esq., and several other gentlemen.
Mr. G. A. Hamilton is canvassing the electors of
Dublin University in anticipation of Mr. Sergeant Jack-
son's elevation to the Bench. Alr. Shaw is not a can•
didate to the vacant judgeship, and would not, were it
offered him, accept it—at least so says the Dublin Mail.
It is stated by another Dublin paper that Mr. T. B. C.
Smith, son of the late Baron of the Irish Exchequer, is
likely. to be the new Solicitor-General, if he can get into
Parliament.
Lately a well-dressed man entered a barber's shop
at Batignolles, and with great tranquillity desired the
owner to shave him. After the operation he complained
that one part had been . badly done, which the other
denied. " Since I must convince you of the contrary,"
said he, " lend me the razor." Taking it from the man's
hand, he drew it rapidly across his throats and expired
instantly.

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 20, 1842.

RIGHT OF SEARCH QUESTION.
The following despatch has been addressed by the
Minister of Marine to the Maritime Prefects :

"By the terms of Art. 9 of the Convention agreed
to May 22, 1823, between France and England, for
the repression of the slave trade, the captains of mer-
chant vessels of both nations, who think they have
cause for complaint from vexations or abuses of the
right of search without seizure, are to make their de-
claration on oath before the competent authorities of
the first port of their country which they touch at, or
before the consular agent of their nation should they
repair to a foreign port. This•declaration, indicating
the damages which they lay claim to, is to be verified
by means of examinations on oath of the chief mem-
bers or the crew, or of passengers, who may have been
witnesses of the search, and informations of the whole
are to be drawn up, two copies of which are to be
delivered to the captain, who is to forward one to his
Government in support of his complaint. In case
the captain shall be absolutely prevented from giving
testimony, his declaration can be supplied by that of
the owner, or any other person interested. These
formalities have been hitherto been neglected by such
captains as have had complaints to make against the
English crisers, and the maritime and colonial admi-
nistrations have not taken care either to remind them
of the necessity of complying with them, nor have
they conformed to them themselves, not requiring at
the time when they send_ their report, or when they
pass the statement of landing, the necessary declara-
tions and examinations, as they ought to have done
each time that they were charged to transmit to any
department reports in which such complaints as those
alluded to have been mentioned. You will, therefore,
be pleased to give orders that, for the future, Art, 9
of the Convention of May 22, 1833, may be punctu-
ally executed in the ports of your maritime arrondisse-
ments. It is proper also to remind the captains of
vessels that, without waiting for their arrival in a
French or foreign port, they are always to profit by
the first opportunity which offers, to get their com-
plaint carried to one of the vessels on the French
station appointed to protect our commerce in the lati-
tudes where they may happen to be.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

(THIS EVENING..)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'Clock.
Mr. COLLET presented a petition from Tyrone,
against the Tobacco Regulation Bill.
Mr. BULKELEY HUGHES presented a peti-
tion from Carnarvon, against the St. Asaph and
Bangor Cathedral
WAGES COMMITTEE.

Lord ASHLEY brought up the Report of the
Payment of Wages Committee, which was ordered to
be printed.
POOR-LAWS.

Mr. HARDY presented a petition against the 46th
section of the Poor-law Amendment Bill.
MAYNOOTH COLLEGE.

Mr. PLUMPTRE presented a petition from the
City of London Tradesmen's and Operative's Protestant
Association, against any further grant to the College
of Maynooth.
Mr. B. DENISON presented two petitions from
Halifax and Scarborough, against certain clauses in
the Poor-law Amendment Bill.

Mr. SHARMA.N CRAWFORD presented a
petition from the brewers, distillers, maltsters, and
wholesale traders in the vicinity of the metropolis,
praying that toll on the metropolitan bridges might be
abolished.

Mr. O.• MORGAN presented a petition from Mon-
mouth, praying for certain alterations in the Poor-
law Bill.

TEN HOURS' BILL.

Mr. BECKETT presented petitions from places in
the county of York, praying the House to pass a law
to time the labour of persons in factories, above the
age of 13 and under 21, to ten hours for five days in
the week, and eight hours on the Saturday.
Mr. T. DUNCOMBE presented a petition from a
person of the name of Younger, chicory merchant, of
Great Tower-street, against the Tobacco Regulations
Bill ; also a petition from a place in Ireland, praying
that the duty on all kinds of provisions might be re •
pealed for a short period.
NEWCASTLE-UNDER-LYME ELECTION.

The following Members were called to the table
and sworn to try the merits of the petition against
the Newcastle-under-Lyme Election :—Lord Ashley,
Chairman, LOrd Alfred Harvey, Lord Dalmeny, Mr.
0. Morgan, Mr. F. Paget, Mr. W. B. Hughes, and
Mr. Brocklehurst. The Committee to sit to-morrow
at eleven.

(LEFT SPEAKING.)

CERTIFICATES— A Ira. 9.

In the Bill to that effect.—(Hear, hear.)
In the third place, he proposed to make a provision
for the mitigation of penalties, where it should
appear that the article substituted was not of
the nature precisely required by the Bill, and
that there had been no fraudulent intention. The
provision, as it stood, was very severe. The clause
provided the forfeiture of the package, and in-
flicted a penalty of 51. for every quarter of
such substituted article. He proposed to introduce
some words into that clause to provide for the case of
parties who had erred without any fradulent inten-
tion. This was the form he proposed to give the Bill
in Committee ; and he begged to recommend it now
to the consideration of the House, being fully con-
vinced that the apprehensions entertained with regard
to it were groundless.
Col. RUSHBROOKE opposed the Bill, as one
which would injuriously affect the interests which he
had the honour to represent. He opposed similar
measures in the years 1836 and 1837, on the
ground that they would open the door to
extensive fraud, and he felt bound, in consistency, to
oppose the present Bill. The Hon. and Gallant Co-
lonel concluded by moving that the Bill be read a
third time that day three months.
Mr. TROTTER said; that in 1837 a Bill was in-
troduced by Mr. Robinson, the Member for Wor-
cester, which was precisely similar to that under dis-
cussion. That Bill was then opposed by the then Pre-
sident of the Board of Trade, and on the division the
ayes were 43, and the noes 108. He had the authority of
the two predecessors of the President of the Board of
Trade for saying, that a Bill which proposed to sub-
stitute flour or biscuit for any given quantity
of wheat, would open the door to extensive
frauds. He did not look at this in an agricultural
point of view ; he threw that out of the question.
The question with him was, whether there could be
that guard thrown around as would benefit trade, and
he felt bound to say that his belief was there could not.
Mr. G. PALMER said he did not agree with the
Hon. Gentleman in saying he did not consider this an
agricultural question. This Bill was a step towards
free trade, which he had always opposed. , He
felt it to be his duty to support the
amendment. He thought this Bill would tend to
throw the population out of employment. Another
consequence of it would be to increase the poor-rates.
The balance of trade would go against this country
if this Bill were passed.

FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE.

DIVIDENDS.
At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street.
J. H. Arnold and W. H. Woollett, ship agents, Clement's-
lane, Aug. 11, at two—H. Staffell, druggist, Strood, Kent,
Aug. 11, at twelve—J. Lamont. J. D. Stewart, and J. 11Ia-
travers, brewers, Skinner-street, Bishopsgate-street, Aug 10,
at eleven.

In the Country.
J. Rose, grocer, Monk Wearmouthshore, Durham, Aug. 12,
at two, at the Thompson Arms Inn, Sunderland—J. G. Raweliffe,
draper, Snaith, Yorkshire, Aug. 15, at one, at the Guildhall,
Doncaster—C. H. Webb, corn dealer, Forebriage' Stafford-
shire, Aug. 15, at eleven, at the Swan Inn, Staffordshire—J.
Radford, upholsterer, Tiverton, Devonshire, Aug. 29, at one, at
the Old London Inn, Exeter—T. and R. Brown, canvas mann-
facturers, Jarrow, Durham, Aug. 10, at twelve, it the Bank-
rupt Commission-room, Newcastle-upon-Tyne—J. S. Daintry
and J. Ryle, bankers, Manchester, Ang. 12, at ten, at the Com-
missioners'-rooms Manchester—E. Turner and J. Ogden,
iron founders, Leeds, Aug. 13, at two, at the Commissioners'-
rooms, Leeds—J. Bnckton, grocer, Darlington, Durham, Aug.
11, at one, at the King's Head Inn, Darlington.

S. Rogers, earthenware manufacturer, Dale-hill, Stafford-
shire—J. Stansbury, bookseller, Hackney-road—J. Edisbury,
grocer, Holywell, Flintshire—W. Stone, linen draper, Glou-
cester.