The Sun.
London, England, 1864-12-05 00:00:00

METROPOLITAN CATTLE.

The supply of foreign beasts and calves here to-Jay was
limited, of sheep tolerably good. The general condition of
the stock, however, was inferior.
Fresh up this morning from our own grazing districts, as
well as from Scotland, the arrivals of beasts wero moderato,
and of improved quality. All good and prime breeds com-
manded a steady sale ; nevertheless the extreme rates of
last week were not supported. Interior beasts moved off
slowly, at previous currencies. The best Scots and crosses
sold at 5s 4d to 5s 61 per Bibs.
From Lincolnshire, Leicestershire. and Northampton-
shire, wo received 1,900 shorthorns, &c., from other parts
of England 500 various breeds, from Scotland 295 Scots
and crosses, and from Ireland 300 oxen and heifers.
With sheep we were tolerably well, but not to say heavily
au/ Tiled. The quality of most breeds was very middling.
The best Downs and half-breds sold readily, at very full
prices ; but inferior breeds were dull, at barely late rates,
The top figure was 5s Iod per 81bs.
Calves—the supply of which was limited—commanded a
steady sale at lull quotations—viz., from 4s 41 to 5s 4d per
Sibs.
Primo small pigs were the turn dearer, with a good de-
mand, but large hogs were very dull.
The great Christmas market will bo held hero:on Mon-
day next.

Is 7d to 2s—medium do., is 41c1 to is 51d—and greasy do.,
91d to is per lb. Up to the present time about 55,000 bales
of wool have been disposed of, I❑ the trade for English
wool, by private contract, there is less activity. owing, in
some measure, to increased firmness in the money maaket.
The late advance in prices is, however, supported. The
import into London last week was 1,041 bales from Por
Natal, and 182 bales from Bremen,
Current prices of English wool per lb,
s d

Fleeces —South Down hoggets 2 0
Halt-bred do
Kent fleeces.
south Down ewes and wethers 1 11
Leicester do,
Sorts—Clothing
Combing

SEEDS.

s d
2 lf
2 3
2 21
2 0
2 2
2 01
2 2

For the time of year the stock of seeds was large. The
dem tnd, however, was only moderate, at about late rates.
The he ivy arrivals of East India linseed have caused a re-
duction in the value of that article. R ,peeved s old steadily
at full late currencies. An avert.ge business was passing
in cakes, and prices ruled firm.

Mustard, Brown .. —s
rurntp,Wh C
ite,p.bus.2Cs to 223' arraway 34s 35s
Swede
---s s Coriander 215 25s
s I flempseed, per qr 42s 4qi
White,
Tares, Spring.... .• s mis Crushing
--
New.winter, bush I's 1; s i Baltic —s —s
Canary, per quarter —s -8 I Odessa
Rye grass
• .. 24s 28 I Linseed Cake, p ton —s —s
Clover, lied Eng., et. - s 8 English £lo Os £ll 513
White -s s Foreign ' .i 9 lOs .£ll 5s
Foreign Red —a --s , Rape Cakes& ton £slos .£6 5s
White —s
Trefoil new.
—s ' Rapeseed, uew,pr qr 74s 783

Archaeological Institute.

An ordinary meeting of the members of the Arcbsologi-
cal Institute was held on Friday afternoon in their rooms
in Burlington-gardens—Sir John Boileau in the chair.
Mr Purnell read a paper, by Mr C. W. King, author of
" The Gnostics and their Remains," on ancient gem en-
graving, in which he undertook to show that the art of
engraving on gems was not practised in Europe during the
Gothic period, from the time of Charlemagne until 500 years
afterwards. In the Middle Ages, he said, the engravers
worked on softer materials, and on the revival of the art in

the 14th century the first engraving on gems were evidently
executed by artists who had baen accustomed to work in

metals.

Mr 0. Morgan, M.P., exhibited a very curious example
of engraving on hard stone. the property of Mr Bosanquet,
from Babylon. It was a small cylinder, on which, among
other devices, was engraved a bull with a human head. The
data of it was conjectured to be 100 years before Cyrus. Mr
Morgan also exhibited a beautifully executed cameo, on
which was a figure of St. George, of Cappadocia. A brief
discussion arose, in which Professor Westmacott and the
Rev. Dr Rock took part on the question whether our St.
Gorge and St. George of Cappadocia were identical, or
were different personages ; for in the cameo a female
figure is introduced, which does not appear in the English
decoration. In the course of the discussion, Professor
Westmacott mentioned an anachronism of Sir Walter
Scott's, in his minute description of the costume of the
Earl of Leicester, in " Kenilworth," in which Leicester is
described as wearing the star, though that decoration was
not worn until the reign of Charles I.
The next paper was read by Professor Westmacott, on
the statuary recently added to the British Museum, in
which he directed attention almost exclusively to the nude
statute of a boy, who is represented to be standing, resting
his weight on one leg, end to be tying a fillet round his
head. This statue, Professor Westmacott said, there is
sufficient inherent evidence to show, was sculptured about
600 years before the Christian era, and that it is either an
excellent copy of the celebrated Diodumonus, by Polyclitus,
if not the original. Professor Westmacott described the
statue very minutely, and compared it with the description
given of •the original by Pliny, wha.said it was valued at
100 gold talents, which would be equivalent to 426;000.
The statue, which was brought from Rome, had been
previously considerably injured, and had been repaired
very clumsily. The left arm was broken, a modern one
having been substituted, and the nose also was mutilated.
The statue was of Grecian marble, and from the style of
execution it had evidently belonged to the age of Greek
sculpture preceding that of Phidias. Professor Westmacott
adduced various particrears in confirmation of his opinion
that if it was not the original Diodumenus described by
Pliny, it was a copy of that statue, and he was strongly in-
clined to think that it was the statue itself.

Dr BIRCH put a somewhat different interpretation on
he words of Pliny to that given by Professor Westmacott,

which made it doubtful whether the original was executed
in bronze or in marble- The rough manner in which the
statue had been repaired induced him also to doubt whether
it would have been considered in ancient times of the great
value of the original statue. The question whether it was
an original or a copy was, however, mainly an artistic ques-
tion, and no one, he said, was better capable of determining
it than the author of the paper.
Professor WESTMA.COTT said there were lines about the
the nose and mouth so expressive of genius and originality
that he thought it highly probable the statue was an origi-

nal. It .was the figure of an athlete, and from the largo
development of the muscles of the legs compared with those
of the arms, he conjectured it must be the representation of
a victor in races.

After some remarks from the Rev. Dr Rock and others,
'he meeting adjourned.

MURDER AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.—SOUTH
AMPTON, Sunday.—A most atrocious and cold,

blooded murder was committed last night at the village of
Shirley, about two miles from this town, followed immedi-
ately by the attempted suicide et the assassin. The mur-
derer's name is Broomfield, a butler in a gentleman's family
in Loudon, and his victim was Mr Frederick Coburn, now
resident at Shirley. It appears that the parties formerly
lived together in a family at Alrestord in this county, as
butler and lady's-maid. Contrary to his wishes and desires,
the latter married from that situation, and Broomfield sub-
sequently left and went to London, where he has also since

married. Yesterday (Saturday) afternoon ho cam© down
from London by the three o'clock train, and went over at
once to the deceased's house at Shirley, where he was in-
vited to take tea. After tea Mr Coburn said to his wife

that they had bettor go out and do their marketing, as it
was Saturday evening, on which Broomfield said, "Well,
don't go out and leave me hero alone, but if you go your
wife had better stop here with me." This was objected to,
and they went out together, leaving Broomfield alone.
After they had been back a little while Mrs Coburn was
about to get supper, and her husband left the room for a
few moments, 'a hen Bloomfield immediately pulled out a
revolver and fired at the poor woman, who ran to the back
door and there fell dead. He then fired two of the barrels
at himself, and ran after her, falling on her at the back
door. He was subsequently brought into the Royal South
Hants Infirmaiy. in this town. where he has received

medical assistance, End it has been found that one of the
shots passed under his lunge, and the first apparently
passed off from the chmt without doing any serious
injury. He is not expected to recover. Broomfield himself
says that he came down from London to get her to go away
to America with him, which she refused to do. The murder
must have been deliberately planned in case of Mrs Co-
burn's refusal to accede to his request, as he brought the
revolver down with him from London, having, it is said,
purchased it at a shop in Oxford-street. Two shots were
found in two of the barrels of the revolver after the affair.

THE PUBLIC PRESS AND THE QUACKS.—Among
the most salutary of the consequences which may be antici-
pated from the righteous punishment of Henery and his
accomplice is the influence which it may exert on public
opinion, and the additional demonstration which it affords
of the necessity of that purging of the advertisement sheets
of the public journals which we have long urged, hitherto
with little effect. The opportunities afforded to these
scoundrels for gathering in their crop of victims by the
daily and weekly press of the metropolis and the provinces
are the most fruitful of the sources of their infamous pros-
perity. The exposure and the denunciation of these fellows
by the medical press have been unsparing. We have re-
peatedly singled them out by name, and have stigmatised
their filthy works, their vile practices, and their shameful
extortions. It is not just, therefore, to say, as has recently
been stated, that the medical profession or its representa-
tives shrink from the dangerous duty of openly denouncing
and exposing these men. But a great responsibility lies
with the conductors of those daily journals who consent to
receive and parade on their broadsheets the filthy adver-
tisements of these unblushing miscreants. Take up many
of the most respectable and influential of the London daily
papers. and the eye will be arrested almost immediately
by obscene announcements cf " Guides to Manhood,"
" Silent Friends," " Treatises on Manhood," and other vile
publications of an equally disgusting and dangerous charac-
ter. With country papers it is still worse. Column after
column is frequently filled up with baits of the kind, cun-
ningly spread for the unwary; professing to reveal secrets
which excite the curiosity of some, and appeal to the fears
of others; which ten•pt the imagination of the young, and
hold out promise to the prurient; and which are so written
as Jo excite groundless fears in the mind of almosteevery
reader to distort' ordinary symptoms, to draw gloomy pic-
tures of future misery, and by every artifice and lie to draw
victims within the trap of the quacks who devise such books
as instruments of their infamous trade. Thousands have suf-
fered from yielding to the temptation : and, being drawn
within tho net, have been terrified, swindled, and many of
them driven nearly to frenzy by tho false fears thus created
and cunningly towered. The conductors of tho public press
are mainly responsible for the gigantic proportions which
this evil has assumed. That we do not exaggerate the facts in
describing them as gigantic may be proved by references to
our own columns for some years past ; by an appeal to the
experience of the whole medical profession, of whom there
aro really few who could not repeat tales of suffering and
extortion within their own experience; by the evidence of
many crimiaal solicitors, of whom there are scores who have
been employed in resisting or compromising claims set up
by these rogues. It is of little use for the writers in tho
public journals to indite indignant leaders on tho subject of
the vile traffic of these quacks, or to frame denunciations et
their abominable practices, while the advertisement sheets
are still left open to their announcements, and the whole
circulation of the papers is utilised for bringing fresh vic-
tims to the sacrifice. We earnestly appeal to them to re-
fuse any more to permit their columns to be thus sullied.
--The Lama.

A JUDGE IN THE STOCKS.—A ludicrous story is
told of Lord Camden being on a visit to Lord
Dacro in Essex, and accompanying a gentleman, notorious
for his abience of mind, in a walk, during which they came
to the parish stocks. Having a wish to know the nature of
the punishment the chief justice begged his companion to
open them so that he might try. This being done his friend
sauntered on and totally forgot him. The imprisoned chief
tried in vain to release himself, and on asking a peasant who
was passing by to let him out, was laughed at and told he
"wasn't sot there for nothing." Ho was soon sot at liberty
by the servants of his host; and afterwards on the trial of
an action for false imprisonment against a magistrate by
some fellow whom he had set on the stocks, on the counsel
for the defendant ridiculing the charge and declaring it was
no punishment at all, his lordship leaned over and whis-
pered, " Brother, were you ever in the stocks P' The
counsel indignantly replied, "Never, my lord." "Then
I have been," said the chief justice, " and I can assure
you it is not the trifis you represent it."—Foss's ,judgis
of England.
OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS.—Mr W. Ratbbone
Gregg, Commissioner of Customs, has been appointed Con-
troller of the Stationary-office, in the room of the late Mr
J. R. M'Calloe,h. Colonel Frederick Hominy has been ap-
pointed to a seat at the Board of Customs, in the room of
Mr Gregg.— Observer.
SALE OF BLAIR ATHOL.—Mr. J. Jackson, of
Fairfield, has purchased the above celebrated " racing
crack" for the sum of 7,500 guineas, by far the largest
sum given in modern times for a race-borsch—Bell Life