The Sun.
London, England, 1852-01-12 00:00:00

railway, in excellent condi-
the demand is heavy, and
pported.

supplies, coastwise and :by
non . Generally speaking,
Iste ra es are with difficulty
Per Ton.
Yorksh. Regents. 65s to 80s Wisbeach & Cam-
Ditto Shaws .. ato -- a bridge ........ to —s
Lincoln. Regents CO3 to 70s Kent Regents-- 60s to 75s
Scotch Regents 60s to 70s Essex Regents... 60s to 75s
Ditto Cups
Ditto Blurs - ato —s Kent Shaws ...... 60s to 65s
Ditto Dahlias - —s to —8 Kent & Essx. —s to —s
Common Whites —s to —s French ..... ~..... —s to s
Newcastle & 13er- German ditto ... —s to --s
wick Regents 6os to 70s Dutch Whites.. —s to —s
Kentish Red Kid. —s to —s,Chats ............ —s to
1343:titOUGEI 7300 rtaliglCET!
Tho show of most Now llops is comparatively small;
whilst the demand for them is steady, at very full prices.
Yearlings and Old qualities are held at extreme rates.
Sussex pockets, 112 s to 106 s; Weald of Kent, 126 s
to 140 s: i'did and East Kent, 140 s to 240 s per cwt.

Per Ton.

WO OZ.
Last week's imports of Wool into London amounted
to 719 bales from Port Philip, 8 ditto from Antwerp, 173
from Leghorn,
and 19 bags from Hamburgh. The
stocks in the manufacturing districts having become
small, more disposition is shown to purchaso both English
and Colonial parcels, at prices fully e
ob-
tained towards the close of last ear. Very little really
line foreign Wool is on offer, and so little is doing in
most kinds that the quotations are almost nominal.
-qual to those

Since our last r- ports only
TALLOW.
a moderate business has
been transacted in Tallow; but we have very little al-
teration to notice in prices. To-day, new P. Y. C. on
the spot is quoted at 36,s 9d; and old, 36s 3d per cwt.
Town Tallow is 378 per cwt net cash; rough fat, 23
1d
per 81bs. The delivery, last week, was 2,313—the im-
ports 1,583 casks.

1848.

1849.

1850.

1851.

3tk,ck this day .• .• ••
['rico of Y. C. •• .. •is

22,355
45s
to 45s Gd
4,294
65,257
!%'865
80,514
49s 6d

38,003 j 44,452
41s 6d 39s Od
to OsOd to 3956 d
2,568 2,618
66,405 61,233
5,181 I 571
95,877 80,215
456 Od 41s Od

52,583 61,246
37s 3,1 to 36s 9d
375 6d to Os Od
2,759 2,313
66,05 67,555
4,670 1,f,83
87,950 92,267
395 6d 39s 6d

Delivery last week .-.-
Ditto from June 1 • • • •
Arrivals last week •
Ditto from June 1 ...

Price of Town • • • • • •

THE ENGINEERS' STRIKE.

the operative engineers of the
A.TIVES.—(THIS,DAY.)
MEAEvTelryNGlarOgeFmTeHeEtinogPoEfß
metropolis was held this afternoon in St. Martin's Hall,
for the purpose of passing resolutions to strengthen the
position of the men. The chair was taken at one o'clock
precisely by Mr. Thomas Crewman, a member of the
executive council, supported by Viscount Goderich,
Thomas Hughes, Esq., A. Long, Esq.,
Cheva-
lier St. Andre. and the
The CHAIRMAN said he was a hard-fisted working-
man, and had hitherto found little opportunities to
met
to render himself capable of addressing a meeting like this.
It ks luipsp
support.
heart,
I was to alleviate the however, was in the cause
the(yHehaar
con-
dition of the mechanic, and mitigate the sufferings of the
—(Hear,
hear.)
indigent; and he was confident no man who wished to
advance his fellow-creatures could sincerely resist such
a noble movement.—(Hear, hear.) He concluded a
brief and simple address by requesting the meeting to
observe order in its proceedings, and to give every one
a fair hearing.—(Rear, hear.)
Mr. USHER moved the first resolution, and said the
men were deeply grieved at being once more compelled
to appeal to the sympathies of the public.—(Bear, hear.)
It was not proper, however, that might should triumph
over right, and they had, therefore, no alternative hut to
assemble in public meeting like this.—(Hear, hear.)
When they last came before the public some regret was
expressed that the men were unsupported by any
of the masters, but that source of regret did
not prevail on the present occasion, for ho
was happy to say some of the masters, who agreed with
them that their demands were just, had come forward to
assist them through the struggie._(Hear.) He was
glad that the mechanical engineers had at length deter-
mined to do for themselves what hitherto they had done
for a few individuals. There was plenty of work in the
country, and the men were prepared to undertake it.—
(Hear, hear.) They had no desire to work from
six o'clock in the morning until ten at night,
as the present system required, at the expense
of two-thirds of their own body, who were
forced to eat the bread of idleness, but they wanted to do
a fair day's work for a fair day's wages, and have the
work so distributed that every one should have his fair
share.—(Hear, hear.) He was happy to tell the meeting
that the majority of the labouring class sympathized
with this great movement, and some trades had already
agreed to sacrifice a day's pay a week to assist those who
should be thrown upon the world for support by the
unjust stop which the masters had taken.—(Hear, hear.)
It was pleasing, however, to think that the men occu-
pied
as strong a position as the masters, and the hard-
working portion of the public might rely upon it that the
men would struggle against the oppression of their em-
ployers to the very last.—(Hear, hear.) He concluded
by moving the following resolution:—" That many of
the employers of London and Lancashire having closed
their workshops, this meeting is of opinion that their
conduct is unjust and particularly oppressive to non-
members and labourers, and pledges itself to use every
exertion in obtaining subscriptions in behalf of all who
are thrown out of employment."—(Cheers.)
Mr. JAMES POTTS seconded the resolution, and told
the meeting that they had arrived at the period when
the great question, whether the operative should be
the slave of capital or an independent member of society,
would have to be definitively decided,—(Hear, hear.)
For his part, he had faith in the justice of the struggle,
and ho was catiaflod that the question would be even-
tually decided in their favour.— (Hear, hear.)
The resolution was supported by other working men,
and afterwards put to the vote and carried by accla-
mation.
It was then moved and seconded, and afterwards
adopted by
the meeting, that " as a means of removing
the evils which beset the condition of working men, in
relation to the unjust conduct of employers, we recom-
mend the principle of self-employment on a co-operative
basis ; and this meeting is of opinion that workshops
should be immediately commenced by the workmen
themselves, in order that the business of the country
may b© proceeded with."
This concluded rho business
of the day; and a vote of
thanks having been passed to the chairmen, the meet-
ing, which was densely crowded throughout, quietly
broke up.

THE IVETV GOVERNOR OF THE CAP.
(From the Times.)
The necesscr of Sir Harry Smith in the importan
command of the Cape has been named; and is just upon
the eve of departure for the seat of war. It is Major-
General the Hon. George Cathcart, who has been re-
moved from the Deputy. Lieutenancy of the Tower of
London, and is appointed to replace Sir Harry Smith in
Kafraria. The selection, wo trust, may prove a fortu-
nate one, although there is little in General Cathcart's
antecedents which would seem to mark him out as the
most competent person to fill such a post. We find by
the Army List that he entered the service in Miy, 1810,
and he is, we believe, something
less than sixty years o f
age. Thus far all is well. General Cathcart may fairly
be asaurned to be in possession of full mental vigour
and bodily power. But when we come to turn toithe brief
abstract of his services which the Army List supplies,
the account appears somewhat bald and unsatisfac-
tory, with reference to his present appointment.
One might naturally have expected that an officer of
considerable experience in the peculiar species of
warfare practised at the Cap©
would have been
appointed to the command. The little service that
General Cathcart ever witnessed—about forty years
ago—was entirely involved in military operations on the
largest scale. Nor does he appear throughout his
brief campaigns to have acted in any other capacity
than as a staff-officer. In the years 1813-14 Lieutenant
Cathcart, then a very young man, acted as Aide-de-
Camp to his father, Lord Cathcart, who was present
with the allied armies as a kind of English Commissary.
He was present at Lutzea, Bautzen, Dresden, Leipsic,
in 1813; and throughout the advance into France, in
the 1814. In 1815 Lieutenant Cathcart
acted
a
—amp to the Duke of Wellington, and
witnessed the-do-pax,
battles of Quatro Bras and Waterloo.
All the military
a Api part of
n
operations named were, of course, on
they afford in the art of bush-fighting at the Cape?
the most gigantic scale, I, but what instruction could
We can readily conceive that some of our Indian officers
might hare found themselves comparatively at home in
the sharp skirmishes of Southern Africa. The case
seems very different with a young staff-officer of the
great German campaign
of 1813. We cannot but notice
one, considering the mag-
nitude of the interests involved, and the comparative
the appointment as a strung()
disgrace to the British arras which so far has been the
result of the operations.

, k;:arr
(From the Daily News.)
a Government gossip be cor-
recltflytb
~„Y Smith has been superseded
in the government of the Cape of Good Hope by Major-
General George Cathcart. That the time bad come for
the withdrawal of Sir Harry Smith from the Cape, no
one can doubt. lie had in the beginning of his admi-
eSundy
instructed—Sir medium
admi-
nistration hastily patched up one Kafir war without
having gained any security against the recurrence of
another; he had been deluded into the belief that his ill-
arranged truce was in reality a permanent peace.
Whilst his old enemies were but recruiting, he wa s
giving them fresh grievances to revenge. By his indis-
creet attempt to degrade the principal Kafir Chiefs, be
was precipitating. those hostilities of which he was as-
suring the Imperial Government he had no apprehension.
And in the conduct of the war he had suffered a succes-
sion of reverses at the hands of savages he rashly threat-
ened to exterminate by a blow. Nor, whilst thus untor-
tunate in the external relations, has he been more sucees-
ful in the internal auministration of the colony. For in
the interval of peace and tranquillity vouchsafed to his
government he arrested the formation of a constitution
by foolishly pressing. unnecessary ordinances of
very minor importance in the Legislative Council—the
elective members of
which had been chosen for the one
special object of filling in the details of the constitution,
of which Earl Grey had spit but the outline. The time,
it will therefore be admitted by every one, had fully
come fur the Colonial dime to withdraw from the colony
the gallant old soldier whom, during a spirit of national
enthusiasm, it had sent thither to gain a momentary
round of popular applause.,
Major-General George
appointment in a military point of view
there is probably no objection. Though not a young
man, General Cathcart is a juvenile major-general, and
this is something,gained. when the commands of
the
Bombay and Madras armies have been confided by the
Whigs to aged invalids. Though a member of an aris-
tocratic family, which has been unusually well rewardeod,
for its public services, General Cathcart is one. !
the few English officers who in time of peace nav°
studied the art and science of war, And, though