The Sun.
London, England, 1820-12-26 00:00:00

CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF DUBLIN.

DUBLIN, DEC. 21.—Yesterday there was a
Post Assembly held at the Assembly House,
William-street, for the specific purpose of ad-
dressing the King. A long and uninteresting
disctssion respecting the form of the proceeding
took place, after which the Address was -put and
agreed to.
Mr. ALLOWAY then moved, that instead of
being transmitted to the Throne through the me-
dium of the Lord Lieutenant, that the Right
Hon. the Lord Mayor, the Deputy Recorder
(Jonas Greene), the senior High Sheriff (Mr.
Geo. Whitford), and the Town Clerk (Mr.
Molesworth Greene), should be ordered to carry
the Address to the foot of the Throne.

Some Members opposed this motion, on the
ground of the expense it would occasion. The
Corporation was, they said, so poor that they
were unable to pay the salaries of their officers.
It being understood that the deputation were
to pay their own expenses, the .motion was
agreed to.
Mr. MOORE rose and said, what he hail to
move might be deemed extraordinary, but he
would submit it to the House, who might dispose
of it. He moved that the High Sheriff, in the
name of the Commons, should wait upon the Lo r
Lieutenant, and request that the Royal yacht
might be ordered to convey the Lord Mayor and
suite, with the Address to the King, across
the Channel.

Mr. Wm.'s said, that it was no wonder that
the mover of such a proposition should fear that
it woutd be deemed extraordinary ; indeed it
was the most nonsensical thing he ever heard
of.; and besides the absurdity of asking till
Royal Yacht for the Lord Mayor—there was the
expense to be taken into consideration, if grant-
ed, which he did not think it would ; the very
warrant would cost 201. ; and there was money to
the sailors, and money to the Captain. lie had
heard a nobleman who had got the Dorset yacht
to convey him to England, declare it had cost
h m above MU

Several members spoke for the motion, and
Mr. Sheriff Whitford, after thanking the House
for the high honour they 119. d done him, declared
for his part, that there should not be a shilling
expence charged to the Corporation. The Re-
solution then passed with a few dissentient
voices, and was sent up to the Board for their
approbation, and was agreed to. The House was
then about to break up, when a Member ex-
claimed, " What a glorious example do the pro-
ceedings of this day present to the Radical Corpo-
ration of London ! We have proved our loyalty,
and their acts have proved any thing but theirs.!"

An Address to his Majesty was voted by the
Magistrates and Town Council of Dundee on
Wednesday, and the Provost requested to trans-
mit the same to the llonourabfe lition LINDSAY,
M. P. to be by him presented to the KING. An
Amendment relative to the QUEEN'S Trial was
proposed by Dean of Guild ROBERTS, and se-
condedby Counsellor BLAIR, but ultimately ne-
atived by a majority of 15 to 3.—(G.tasgow,
Courier, Dec. 21.)

Ti.'. COLONIES.

CANADA.

DISTR#CT OF QUE.I37C.-AaiIICULTURAL. REPORT.

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The usual Agricultural Report for Ocroeztt
LAST has been-deferred) in
-order to include the
close of the season. • •
During the first days of Oetoberthe weather continued to there
is partake of the chars ter of drought, which predominated
throughout 11.. e preceding part of the season. It was not till
after) he heavy rains of the night of the 14th. the 15th, and
161 ff of October, that the ground had imbibed sufficient.
moisture to admit of its being, ploughed with facility front
the 26th to the 2Sth, the snow which lay on the ground sus-
pended -ploughing ; hot upon the wlifile, the season up,to
the 9th Nov. has been favourable for this important part of
the labour-ill the agriculturist, and it is believed that nearly
all the work of :his descrption, which it was thodght neces-
sat yto perform in the fall, has been effected. There was 110
frost sufficient to prevent plouging till the 10th inst., and the
pastures canticle:o good till that time, affording sufficient
food for all kinds of stock, excepting during the short inter-
val when the ground was covered with. snow. Front the 10th
of.the month to the, present date, the farmer has been com-
pelled by the snow on the ground to fodder. his cattle, which
has oat Isoen tl.e case so early for several years past.
as'ely iiitrodisced turnip Flops were taken up in good
orler, after the first of the.presiost month; it'd ;where they
were sonin at the end of June or beginning ofinly. on land
properly prepared and manured, in drills from to 3 feet
apfirt, and thitmid in the rows to a distance of about tight
inches between each plant, and kept perfectly free from weeds
by frequent workings with the horse-hoe and drill-harrow,
the crop has proved excellent ; leaving the ground complete-
ly cleaned, and fit for succeeding grain arid grass crops. Ex-
perience has proved that the only precautions for preserving
them in this climate in a fit state As food for cattle, thrslugh-
out the winter, is to place Owns in long heaps where they
may lie rather exposed to partial congelation than otherwise.
They soon spoil if heaped upon one another in great quan-
tities, or in warm cellars sir root houses. The Swedes and
the Yellow have been found to stand in the fields in sheltered
situations without injury throughout the winter. In the
scarcity of fodder wills which we are threatened, those who
have cultivated the turnip will find it a valuable aid to that
article, and we are confident that this root will eventually
operate a similar advantageous change in the agriculture of
this province which it has so remarkably effected in Great
Britain.
It is still doubtful whether the winter is finally•set in, but
there is an end for the present. season to that part of agri-
cultural labour which immediately contributes to production,
The farmer has now to confine himself for nearly six months
to the labours of preservation, during which himself and his
live stock are little better than mere consumers of formerpro-
duction. This is the great disavantage which results front
our climate. It is however less than is generally, imagined.
Every production of the soil may he raised and preserved
here as well as in milder climates. Our live stock intended
to be slaughtered. may he killed early in the winter, and pre-
served fresh for five months, thus saving a large[Inti' of
their food. The snow preserves the roots of thegrass from
severe frosts, and enables it to revive in the spring as early
as in milder climates. Even winter wheat is found to suc-
ceed where the snows are not driftedoff the fields. Our sum-
mer roads (which like those of all new countries, must he
very inferior to those under tolerable management in old
countries, owing to the impossibility of applying on them
at-first and during the short season of agricultural labour, a
'great proportion of that labou), become good in winter, arid
may be kept so at a trifling expense. The most distant
settler may then communicate with celerity and case with
the best market ; a practicable sleigh road may iudeed he
made and kept up in the in:ginning of winter by the exertion
of an individual alone, to a distance its the'forests, where no
carriage could be conveyed in summer without a ruinous ex-
pense. One of thsl worst featores of our climate, the early
frosts, has disappeared since 181 G, since which time frosts
,alitd:ittetw. have !Lappet-red. nearly as early at Philadelphia arid,.
Niagara as at Quebec.
It is probable that the present state of trade, and its
threatening aspect for the fut me, by forcing us to 'introduce
a greater proportion of domestic manufactures, a greater part
of our labour, which cannot be employed in tillage during
the-winter; may be in future usefully employed in supplying
us with necessary articles which we now procure, front abroad ;
thus in reality increasing the real source of all wealth; la-
bour qusefully employed, the quantum and productiveness
of which, together with the perfect security of property, is
the trite measure and cause of the prosperity of every coun-
try,— Quebec, 15th Nov. 1820.