The Sun.
London, England, 1842-09-12 00:00:00

ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.

GRAND EVENING FETES, THIS DAY, and THURSDAY
NEXT, with the to lowing matchless combination of uniq e attrac-
tions :

The celebrated MENAGERIE, recently enriched by several Zoo..
b?icat
lthe stupendous
artie 1
YPO R AM IC MODEL ALFRESCO of ROME
lrorn the left bank of the Tiber.

The PROMENADES MUSICALES by the unrivalled Band of
Wind Instruments, conducted by Mr. Godfrey including Overture
and Marche Triomf.bale—Quadrilles, " Le Voleur," and " Prince
of Wales' "—Pot Pourr:s "Jocko," " Fra Diavolo," " Melange de
Danses," and " Ein Strauss von Handel"—A new selectio from
the woks of Handel—Grand Due " Dove Vai" from " Guillaume
Telt " performed i y Haddley and Prospere— Glee " Mynheer van
Dunes ''—Spanish Danc. - And Grand Papal State March.
After the Concert the Illumination of St. Peter's, and the Giran-
dola of Saint Angelo, with Southhy's magnificent rotechnic Spec-
racl,r, Extraordinary Aquatic Fireworks, on the Lake, and Superb
Ca.catte of Fire.

Admission to the whole of the Entertainments, One Shilling.
Open at Ten in the Morning.—Feeding at Five.—Concert at Half-
past Five.—Fireworks at Eight,
TO-MORROW, be ides all the above unique Entertainments, a
superb FLOWER SHOW and magniticent Fireworks!—Open at
One o'clock.

ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.
THE LAST FLOWER SHOW OF THE SEASON.

TheC636IIWEE of the ROYAL SOUTH LONDON FLORI-
CULTURAL SOCIETY have the honour to announce that the
GRAND AUTUMNAL DAHLIA SHOW, and Miscellaneous Ex-
hibition of FLOWERS, FRUIT, and VEGETABLES, takes place
TO-MORRGW, SEPT. 13.
SEVENTY-THREE GOLD and SILVER MEDALS
_ .

will be awarded as Prizes. Two Gold and Twenty.one Silver Medais
for Dahlias, in stands of 2.4, and 50 dissimilar blooms ; and Fifty
other Prizes for Miscellaneous Plants, Asters, Hearts'..ease, Rose.,
Cut Flowers, British-grown Fruit, Pines, Grapes, Vegetables, Or-
chides, Specimen Plants, Seedlings, &c.
Besides the Exhibition of Floral and Horticultural products, which
is confidently expected to be unusually rich, varied, and extensive,
the whole of the popular Entertainments for which this Establish-
ment is so widely celebrated, will be given on a scale of grandeur
eclipsing all previous efforts. Admission One Shining. Gates open
at One Concert at half-past Five. Fireworks at Eight.
gnbjects for Exhibition must be in the Gardens before Ten o'clock,
or they will positively be excluded, the great number of entries ren-
derirg it necessary peremptorily to enforce this rule.
Prize Lists and Regulations for Exhibitors may be had at the Gar-
dens, or of the Honorary Secretary, li. H. Cunning. Esq.

HIGH W &TER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY.
%forams.... 47 minutes after 6I Evening IS minutes after 7.

LONDON:

MOND AY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 12, 1842.

We -showed, on Saturday, that agriculture
cannot possibly employ an increasing population.
We showed, that the more knowledge is brought
to bear on it, the fewer hands are required to
obtain• equal quantities of food. We remarked,
too, that employment of fewer and fewer hands
in agriculture had been in progress from the
beginning of civilization. We may add, that
every person acquainted with the subject knows
that thrashing-mills, moved by water, and vari-
ous other contrivances for diminishing labour,
are in use in Scotland—that fewer bands, in pro-
portion, are employed in agriculture. there than
in. England—and that English farmers, to be
able to compete with Scotch farmers, must adopt
their methods, which will make still fewer
hands be required in England to produce the
raw material of our food.

Some persons may run away with the notion
that more land may be brought into cultivation,
and that thereby more hands may be employed ;
but in the present condition of society, nothing
of the kind will, or can be done, on an extensive
scale, except it be profitable for the capitalist,
after paying all charges. Now at present, with
the mere show of one good harvest, the price of
wheat is down to a mere remunerative price.
To cultivate land that has never yet been
ploughed, except it be the parks of the nobility,
will cost more than to cultivate the land at
• present under the plough. But when the price
of corn does not more than pay that cost, when
it is only.necessary to have two or three successive
goodharvests to involve the farmerin distress,wh en
the scientific improvements going forward tend
to increase the supply and lower the price, it
seems to us clear that the first and indispensable
Condition to bringing more land under cultiva-
tion with a profit, and employing an increased
number of hands in agriculture, is to increase the
• numbir of the customers of the agriculturists. In
other words, to make it profitable to bring waste
land into cultivation, the commercial and mane.
facturing population of the empire must increase.
Before agriculture can find any additional em-
ployment for our increasing population, there-
fore, the manufacturing population must be em-
ployed.and augmented. We need not, to confirm
this view, remind our readers of the great exten-
sion ofagriculture in consequence of the increase
of The manufacturing
population ; but we will be
b4611-d tO say tuat this has done
and extend agriculture more to improve
than all the Acts of Par-
liament that ever were made, and than all the
agricultural societies that ever existed. All
other stimuli to production united, are -as no-
tiling compared to an increasing deniad.
r
Ali these are plain matters of fact,i and we
might suppose that the statesmen and
public
writers of England, knowing, as they must, the
tendency of population to increase, and
that the
condition of society is only healthy when popu-
lation can find room to increase, should have
been filled with unsreakable gratitude to the
Giver of all Good, for bestowing on England, by
her manufacturing skill, the means of providing
employment for an ever increasing number of
people. We might suppose, bad not facts con-
vinced us of the contrary, that our statesmen
would embrace every opportunity to extend ma-
nufacturing- industry; that far from laying obsta-
cles of any kind in its path, they would be as
careful as a mother with her infant who is just
beginning to walk, to remove every one out of
its way. We might suppose that the landowners
in particular should be exceedingly desirous of
promoting and extending a species of industry
which at once increases the number of their cus-
tomers, and finds profitable employment fur the
surplus hands on their estates; and when we find
public writers and statesmen, and find' landown-
ers in particulars endeavouring to check the in-
crease of manufactures, their folly seems to us to
amount. to absolute fatuity. Asthese men, how-
ever, for the national sins, are endowed with pa
litical power, and as their interest is, in this re-
spect, closely bound up with the national good,
it is very desirable to convince them that mann-

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