The Sun.
London, England, 1863-05-25 00:00:00

MARKETS—This Day.

Last week's import was 2,948 bales from Sydney, 1,595
from Port Augusta, 425 from Auckland, and 194 from the
Cape. Practically, the wool trade is quiet.

Most of the country markets held on Saturday were

derately supplied with wheat, and all kinds changed hands

to a fair exient, at full prices. Barley and oats moved off
slowly, but the value of beans and peas, as well as flour,
Wit 3 well gtipPortpd.
Throughout the Continent Ni'heat has changed hands
slowly, at about previous rates. Most kinds of spring corn
have realised full quotations. American advices bring
only a moderate export demand fOr produce.
The imports from abroad last week comprised 24,365
quarters of wheat, 2,826 barley, 65,421 oats, 1,031 rye,
1,092 peas, 17 tares, 8,314 linseed, 4,875 rapeseed, 60 sundry
seeds, 166 sacks and 7,238 barrels of flow.

Fresh up to this morning's market the arrivals of Eng-
lish wheat were small, but the condition of the produce was
good. For all qualities the trade ruled firm. Essex wheats
were disposed of at the fall prices of Monday last; but in
the value of Kent produce an improvement in some in-
stances of is per quirter took place.
With foreign wheat the market was well supplied, both
ex granary and ex ship. In most descriptions a fair
average business was transacted, and last Monday's cur-
rency was well supported.
Floating cargoes of wheat and other grain were in steady
request, at full quotations.
The supply of barley was very moderate.
The trade ruled firm both for grinding and distilling
qualities, and previous rates were well supported.
Malt was steady and without change in value from this
day se' nnigh t.

The supply of foreign oats was very large, of home-
grown qualities small. The trade was in a sluggish state
for all descriptions, and prices were 6d per quarter lower
than en Monday last.

With beans, the market was scantily supplied, and the
trade was firm, at an advance of is per quarter, compared
with Monday last.

Peas realised extreme rates, and the demand for them
was steady. The supply on offer was very moderate,
Both in English and foreign flour a fair business wail
transacted, and prices ruled firm,

CURRENCY PER IMPERJAL MEASURE.
Wheat—Essex and Kent, red, new
Ditto, old 4Bs 54s
Ditto, white, new 43s 528
Ditto, old sos 57s
/Norfolk and Lincoln, red, old —s s
Ditto, new
Talavera,
Rye—
Barley—Grinding
Malting
Brown
58 688
Kingstown and Ware 650 6s
08 68s
Chevalier 66s 688
Oats —Yorkshire and Lineolnsh., Feeding l9s 233
Potato
Youghal and Cork, black l6s 229
Cork, whitel7s 23s
Scotch, Feeding 2os 2is
Beans—Tick
308 33s
Pigeons,
........... 388 43s
Peas—Grey, new
Maple
........ 33s
40535
White, new
Boilers
36s 38s
36s 38
Flour—Town-made
47s
Suffolk 4B 47s
Stockton and Norfolk. ...... . 3OB 328
298 31s

METROPOLITAN CATTLE.
There was a large number of Hamburg sheep on offer
here to-day, in somewhat improved condition. The show
of foreign beasts and calves was moderately good.
The arrivals of beasts fresh up from our own grazing
districts, as well as from Scotland, was seasonably good,
both as to number and quality. For ail breeds the demand
ruled steady at fully last Monday's currency. The general
top figure for Scot, and crosses was ss, but some very su-
perior stock realised 5s 2d per 81bs.
From Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire, we
received 2,500 Scots, crosses, and short-horns; from other
parts of England, 300 various breeds; and from Ireland,
630 Scots and crosses. No fresh Irish beasts were on offer.
The supply of sheep was tolerably extensive, and the
quality of each breed was good, though not to say very
prime. Heavy Lincolns sold heavily, and prices were rather
lower than on this day se'nnight; otherwise, the mutton
trade ruled steady at that day's currency. Prime Downs
realised 48 10d ; prime Lincolns and Leicesters, 4s 6d
per 81bs.

Lambs—the supply of which was good—moved off
heavily at a decline of 4d per 81bs. The quotations ranged
from 5s 4d to 6s 8d per 81bs.

We have to report a fair demand for calves at late cur.
rencies. The top price was 58 per 81bs.

The demand for pigs was very inactive at last week's
prices.

Per 51b. to sink the offal.

s d. s. d. s. d. s. d.
Crse. &inf. beasts 3 4 3 8 I Prunecrs-wool d 0.4 6 4 8
Second quality do. 3 10 4 4 ; Pme. S'thdown d 0.4 8 4 10
Prime large oxen 4 6 4 BiLarge crse. calves 4 0 4 6
Prime Scots, &c. 4 10 5 0 Prime small d 0... 4 8 5 0
Crse. & int'. sheep 3 6 3 10 Large bogs ...... 3 4 4 0
Second quality do. 4 0 4 4 Small porkers , 4 2 4 6
Lambs, os 4d to Gs Bd.
Suckling calves, 12s to 20s ; and quarter-old store pigs,
20i to 28s.

TOTAL SUPPLY. ( FOREIGN SUPPLY.
Beasts ..
Cows '
Sheep and lambs
.... 4,550
Sheep and lambs
Calves
, ... 68 ' Pigs ....
Pigs. 390
A statement and comparison of the supplies and prices of
fat stock exhibited and sold in the great, metropolitan
cattle
Monday, mar May ket, on
25, MlB63,onday, May 26, 1862, and this day,

Per 81b. to sink tho offal.

May 26,
Coarse and inferior beasts 1862.
2 10 to 3 0
Second quality do 3 2 3 6
Prime large oxen .. 3 8 4 0
Prime Scots, &c. 4 2 4 4
Coarse and inferior sheep .... 3 8 310
Second quality do
Prime coarse-woolled do 4 4 4 6
Prime Southdown do.
Lambs
Large coarse calves
Prime small do.
Large hogs
Neat small porkers 4 2 410
Beasts
Sheep and lambs
Calves
Pigs 430
SUPPLIES ON SALE, May 27, 1861.—81
sheep and lambs, 24,410—calves, 166—pigs,

May 25,
1863,
3 4to 3 8
310 4 4
46 4 8
410 5
3 6 310
40 4 4
46 4 8
4 8 410
54 6 8
40 4 6
48 6 0
34 4 0
42 4 6
4,190
25,040
68
390
19ists, 3,790
0.

MAY 28, 1860.—Beasts, 3,93 o—sheep and lambs, 28,500
—calves, 180—pigs, 270.
The total imports of foreign stocx into London, last week,
amounted to 5,353 head. In the corresponding week in
1862, we received 3,929—in 1861, 6,147—in 1860, 6,972
—in 1859, 2.762—in 1858, 2,132—in 1857, 2,229 head.

IMPORTS INTO LONDG/s LAST WEEK.
From Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs.
Rotterdam 195 .. 475 ... 247 .. 252 .. 4
.
Harlingen 155 .. 1,387 .. 30 .. 41 .. 4
Hamburg 53 .. 1,431 .. ~ . .. 116
Boulogne. — ..
Cuxhaven
Havre
NieweDiep — ..
Amsterdam -
Antwer • •
p.
Ostend .... ..
• •. •
22 ..
DOporto
Bordt. ......
remen.
• •
300 . •• ••

-- • • - • • 7 • • -

• • e • • • ...""
- • • • • 41 ..

Total .... 498 .. 3,701 .. 407 .. 620 .. 124
The yearly comparison of weekly imports is as follows :
1862 ... . Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs.
.. 193 .. 2,586 .. 657 .. 642 .. 1 1861 . . 450 .. 4,946 .. 231 .. 270 .. 250
1860 625 5,068 255 .. 380 .. 1740
1859 1859 184 .. 2,789 .. 471 .. 112 ..
1858 77 .. 1,658 .. 166 .. 231

NEWCIATE AND LEADENHALL.
Only moderate supplies of !neat are on sale at these
markets. For all qualities the trado rules firm, and prices
are somewhat higher than on Monday last.
Per 81b, by the carcase.
sited
Inferior beef .. A 0 8 4
Middling do. .. 3 0 3 8
Prime large do. 3 10 4 0
Do, small do. .. 4 2 4 4
Large pork 36 4 0
Inferior ulutton. 3 4 3 10

sdsd
Middlingmutton 4 0 4 4
Prime do .. 4 6 4 8
Veal
Small pork ~ 4 2 4 6
Lamb

BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS.
The supply of old home-grown potatoes has fallen off,
and the receipts of foreign produce have been very small.
the imports last week having been confined to 1,400 boxes
frOtn Lisbon. The trade rules steady, and late rates are
well sUpPol-W., New Ware are selling at 12s. to 16s. per
cwt.

-Yorkshire Regents
Do. Flukes
Rent and Essex Regents... --s to —s Scotch Regents .......... 708 to 90s
Do. Rocks ,, .... 60s to 708 „ Do. Reds. .......... —a to —a
Foreign ....„
.............. 50s to 60s "

BOROUGH HOP.
Since we last wrote, less activity has been observed in the
demand for hops; nevertheless, the late improvement in
the currency has been steadily supported. Foreign hops
continue to arrive freely, the import last week having
amounted to 9 bales from Rotterdam, 21 Brussels, 278
Antwerp, 176 Hamburg, 16 Ostend, 692 Dunkirk, and 20
Boulogne.
Mid and East Rents
Weald of Rents
Sussex ..
Bavarian
..
Belgian
American
.. ......

708 to 180 a per cwt.
60s to 140 s „
70s to 126 s „
70s to 112 s „
65s to 76s „
70s to 86s ~

0,
WOOL. The public sales of colonial wool he
gone off steadil
rites b ld since our last have
y, at the recent improvement in the cur-
t,renc peing, as regards inferior and medium pro-
duce, 3-. d. to id• per lb, lower than at the close of last sales'
with the same period. The su
The value of fine wools exhibit very little change compared
pplies offered have been
mostly taken by home manufacturers and French buyers.
The export trade as regards Belgium and America is unim-
portant,
bands, leaving Up to the present time about 65,000 bales have
changed
33,000 bales yet to be disposed of.

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 25, 1863.

SHIPPING—This Day.

BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.

Horrible Murder of a Wife and Attempted
Murder of a Son, by a Tradesman in the
Borough-road.

This morning, long before the opening of the gonthwark

Police Court, the streets were crowded by a mob of persona
anxious to witness the proceedings against Mr. Thomas
Ledbetter, an old established tradesman, for many years
carrying on business as a cabinet-maker at 21, Borough-
road, Southwark, who, it was alleged, murdered his wife,
and made a most determined attempt to murder his son, at
an early hour this morning. As soon as Mr. Combo had
taken his seat on the bench the primer was placed in
the dock. He is a very stout full-faced man, rather bald,
and 61 years of age, and seemed rather careworn and ner-
vous. His poor unfortunate wife was 59 years old, and the
son, who is now in Guy's Hospital, not likely to survive, is
17, and unfortunately has been bedridden for a long time.
On the charge being read over to the prisoner by the
chief clerk, the prisoner said he was a cabinetmaker, and
had for many years lived in the Borough-road, near the
Bridge-house Tavern, and he was sixty-one years old.
Police-constable 39 M was sworn, and stated that about
half-past seven this morning he was on duty in the Borough-
road, when he received information that a woman had been
murdered at No. 21. He entered the house, and in a back
bedroom upstairs he saw an elderly female lying on a bed
quite dead. In another room he saw a young man lying in
another bed with his throat cut in a frightful manner. He
was not dead, and he procured assistance, and he was re-
moved to Guy's Hospital, where he now remains. After
the discovery witness went across the road to Mr. Pugh's,
chemist, where he saw the prisoner, trembling very much.
He told witness that he had cut his wife and his son's
throat, and he supposed they were dead. He said he did
it with a razor, Witness then took the prisoner into
custody.

Mr. Combe asked if he had any further evidence to give
to-day. He replied that he had not.
The prisoner, who remained perfectly silent, was then
removed until after the coroner's inquest, and he was im-
mediately conveyed to Horsemonger-lane Gaol.

LONDON, May 25.—Wind this day at noon—North-
Easterly ; moderate breeze and fine weather, but rather

cloudy.
COWES, MAY 24.—Wind N.—Arrived--Ellen Rose,
from Bathurst.

GRAVESEND, Mon,lay Morning.
Arrived, May 24—Marie, from Aalborg ; Juno, from
~frindsand ; Niord, from Nestvid.
Arrived, May 25—Bella, frem Dantsic; Orion, from
Norkophtg Ariel, from Algoa Bay ; Jane and Eleanor,
from Stettin; Exchange, from Memel ; James White, from
Frederickstadt ; Hercules, from Uddewalla ; Ada, from
Stettin ; Aron, from Anclam ; Appearance, from Freda-
rickstadt ; Twee Zusters, from Worcum ; Nettie Cornelia,
from 12rfuningen ; Carolina, from Stockholm ; Marianne,
from Gron/Agen ; Christiania Cecilia, from Sarpsborg ;
Roelfina Kniper, from Falconberg.
Sailed—City of Petersburg, for Madras ; Nimrod, for
MfßrPourne ; Frank, for Boston.
DEAL, Monday Morning.

Passed (in tow), May 24--gyflentiam, from Demerara;
Glenbrook, for Sactmica; J. A. U., for Liverpool; Milli-
cent, for Bermuda—all from London.

Passed, May 25—Trade Wind, from London, for Sierra
Leone; Bedfordshire (in tow), from Sunderland. for
Shanghai.

M. LEVASSOR En? VISITE.IankS to Mr.
Mitchell, the old English friends of M. Levesor can
still see him every other night at the Dudley Gallery of the
Egyptian Hall. On Saturday the room was crowded in
every part by an enthusiastic audience. Who could help,
in fact, enjoying the perfectly truthful imitations of British
character, with its little imperfections ludicrously exagge-
rated, given so amusingly as they are (though in rather
questionable taste I) by the most finished fa? ceur of
modern dwell. In justice to the entertainment,
it must be mentioned, however, that while the
generic Englishman this• comes in for a share of it,
that M. Levassor's satire, as good natured as satire can ever
be, is also lavished upon the prominent traits of the well.•
bred Parisian young lady, whilst some of the finest acting
of this inimitable:comedian is devoted to the part of a choleric
middle aged Frenchman, whore grand passion is a furious
hatred of pianos in all shapes and size, whereon he pro•
nounces a commin Won which sets the audience in a roar,
The piano music is nevertheless tastefully executed and
judiciously selected, and a young lady fills up en interval
with amusing little French songs.
GENERAL RELIEF COMMITTEE, ASFITGN-UNDER-
LYNE —The committee, of which S.D. Lees, M.D., I
Mayor of the Manor, is chairman, has expended in relief
during the week ending the 21st of May, 1863, the sum of
£538 12s. 3d., including £l9l 12s. sd. for the relief of 1,353
women in the sewing classes; £175 ss. 11d, for the relict of
1,171 persons assembled in educational classes ; £l2 for
school pence from 1,449 children in schools; £3 19s. for
medical tickets; £147 12s. 7d. for relief to families in dis-
tress in the five districts of this committee ; and £5 las. for

salaries. The total number of persons relieved is 12,174.

TROOPS FOR MEXICO.—During the last two days
troops have been leaving Paris by the Western Railway for
Cherbourg, where they will embark for Mesico. The re-
mainder of the reinforcements, amounting in all CO '2,500 or
3,000 men, will consist of two squadrons of cavalry end
troops of the line from the military command of Lisle.—
Galtgnani.
How TO SETTLE THE AMERICAN WAR.--“Man.
hattan"says, "There has been a generally expressed
opinion that this war would end, and peace be restored on
a permanent basis, if twelve of the leading extremists could
be hung on each side by a rogular hangman. It is said
that overtures have positively been made to Mr. Calcraft,
of London, and he has stated that he will cross the Atlantic
for 500 dollars and his expenses to be paid ; to be free at
the Bancroft House, in this city; at the White House, in
Washington; and at Richmond, at the Capitol. He will
find his own rope if paid 240 dollars, or an extra charge of
10 dollars per bead, to hang twelve on each side. Those
that would be nominated by acclamation on this Bide would
be, first, Horace Greely, of the Tribune; ; second, Wendell
Phillips; third, Rev. Mr. Cheever ; fourth, Henry Ward
Beecher; fifth, Senator Sumner ; sixth, Gen. Wadsworth ;
seventh, W. L. Garrison, and five others that I will not
name, In Richmond the Conservative members of the
Congress would be requested to select the twelve for the
operation of Mr. Calcraft.

MONUMENT TO ISAAC DISRAELL—Daring the
sitting of Parliament last year a monument was
erecting at Hughendon Manor, Buckinghamshire, the seat
of the Right Hon. Benjamin Disraeli. As it progressed
the neighbourhood evinced considerable curiosity as to
the purpose of an erection of such importance. Conjec-
tures were life, but no information could be elicited from
the workmen, who were not informed of its purpose ;
nor was its object known until, the session over, the
lord of the manor, passing through his domain, for the
first time saw this tribute--erected without his know-
ledge--to the memory of his father, the late Isaac Dis-
raeli, The inscription is as follows :—" In memory of
Isaac Disraeli, of Bradenham, in this county, Esq.,
and Hon. D.C.L. of the University of Oxford, who,
by his happy genius, diffused among the multitude
that elevating taste for literature, which, before his time,
was the privilege only of the learned. This monument
was raised in affectionate remembrance by Mary Anne, the
wife of his eldest son, the Right Hon. Benjamin Disraeli,
lord of this manor, Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1852,
1858, 1859, and now, for the sixth time, knight of this
shire." The monument is placed prominently on the sum-
mit of a high h:11, flanked by woods, opposite to the eleva-
tion upon which the manor house stands, and can be seen

irom many places at a considerable distance. The situation
istmost judicious and picturesque, and commands many
extensive and interesting views. The monument, in the
Renaissance style, is a great ornament to the manor and
neighbourhood ; it is built of Bath stone, upon a rustic
base. In the centre of the shaft there is a medallion of the
elder Disraeli. The monument is 50 feet high, and is the
design of Mr. E. B. Lamb, architect, of Hind-street, Man-
chester-square.

A STORY OF RED TAPE.—A laughable circum-
stance occurred in the House of Commons last
week, when the Solicitor-General rose to withdraw one of
the few Ministerial measures of the session—the bill to pro-
vide for the Registration of Assurances (or Title-deeds) in
Ireland. The hon. and learned gentleman had, it seems,
dropped a piece of red tape into his hat, so that when he
stood up to address the house it was curled upon the top of
his head, with. one end gracefully depending over his right
shoulder. So trifling an incident could not, of course,
escape the observation of the occupants of the front Opposi•
tion bench, who, almost involuntarily, indulged in a well-
bred giggle. The attention of the hon. gentlemen below
the gangway w;its soon directed to the circumstance, and
the giggle exploded into a loud laugh. The Solicitor-
General then, for the first time, became conscious
of the presence of the red tape on his head, and
hastily threw it behind him, when it fell into the bat of the
the Right Hon. Frederick Peel, the Secretary of the Trea-
sury, who is himself the very incarnation of red tape. This
itllut•ity, but most appropriate incident, evoked a fresh roar
of i'aughter from the house, which upset the gravity even
of the k. olicitor-General himself, who made matters in-
finitely
y, orse by turning round to the Right Hon. F. Peel,
and exclah
I beg your pardon l"—Court Journal.
gh some four or five years ago, Mark Roches-
[Oddly enou,,
ter in his Cak.imet Pictures (page 201), spoke of the Right
,
Hon. F.
Peel D.," The very type, model, and incarnation
ono the Hands of whose existence must
perpetually running. out in. pounc-t ; one whose bowels,
of a Placemah;
if
he have any (and we are disposed to be as incredulous upon
that point as Scrooge was in the case of M
arl e 39, must as-
suredly be mace of tortuous involutions of red tape; one
the very breath of whose nostrils is the language of circum.
locution