The Sun.
London, England, 1864-03-03 00:00:00

METROPOLITAN CATTLE.

The supply of beasts on sale here, to-day, was very mode-
rato, and the condition of the stock was inferior. Prime
breeds moved off slowly, at Monday's currency—the late
figure being 5s per 81bs—whilst inferior breeds were very
dull, at barely stationery prices. Sheep—the show of
which was by no means extensive--were a dull inquiry, at
late rates. Downs, in wool, realised Gs 10d to Gs—out of
the wool, 45 10i to 5s per Blbs. We have to report a dull
trade for lambs, at from Gs 81b to 7a 41b per Blbs. Calves,
though in short supply, were heavy, and 2d per Blbs lower
than on Monday. In pigs and milch cows very little was
doing, at barely late rates.
Per 81bs.to a.
s. d. e.
Crse. &inf. beasts 3 6 3 10
Secondquality do. 4 0 4 4
Primo large oxen 4 6 4 8
Prime Scots, ol:c. 4 10 6 0
Crso. & inf. sheep 3 10 4 4
Second qualitydo. 4 6 5 2

ink the offal.
s. d. s. d.
Primecrs-wool d 0.5 4 5 8
Prue. S'thdowndo.s 10 6 0
Large orse. calves 4 0 4 6
Prime small do 4 8 5 0
Large hogs 3 6 4 0
Small porkers ..., 4 2 4 6
and quarter-old store pigs,

Suckling calves, 20a to 263
Os to 263 each.
TOTAL SUPPLY.

Beasts 720
Cows l2O
Sheep
Calves
rigs 340

FOREIGN BIIPPLT.
Beasts 3lO
She©p and lambs
CAlves
Pigs

MEAT MARKETS.

NEIVOATE AND LEADENIIALL.—The supplies of moat
are moderate. and the trade rules inactive, as followh:
Beef, from 3s Od to 4e 2d; mutton, 3a Gd to 4e Gd ; veal,
Is 41 to 4s 8d; and pork, 38 4d to 4e 4d per 81be by the
carcase.

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SOUTHALL, March 2.—Our market was fairly supplied
with stock, and the trade ruled heavy, as follows :-13eot,
from 3s 6d to 4e 13d ; mutton, 3810 d to Gs Od ; veal, 4s 4d to
4s 10d ; lamb, Os Od to Os Od ; and pork, 38 8d to 41 6d per
81ba, to sink the offal.
Romronn, March 2.—Primo beasts and sheep were in
moderate request, as follows :—Beef, from 3s 4d to 6s Od;
mutton, 4s Od to 6s Od; veal, 48 4d to 4s 10d ; and pork,
3d 8d to 48 Gd per 81bs ; suckling calves, 16s to 225; quar-
ter-old store pigs, 20e to 268; and much cows, £l4 108 to
Mg each.

The only method, in his opinion, was to educate
the negro to maintain his own right, and to parti-
cipate with us in the abolition of this inhuman
traffic. It might be true that in America and Cuba
the trade had declined ; yet at Z tezibar it was
three times as great as at Cuba. The slave trade
also on the White Nile was almost unparalleled;
the merchants sent large parties up the country to
obtain ivory in any way they could, by beads or
bullets, and sided with one chief or another to rob
the natives and capture slaves. It was calculated
that the capture of one slave involved the loss of
four lives. The cost of our present system of sup-
pression was something like £150,000 annually, and
so large a sum should realise much greater results.
The propositions he had to make were the follow-
ing, and were calculated, in his opinion, to effect
the objects he was assured all present desired :-1.
That our Government be petitioned to use its influ-
ence, conjointly with the Egyptian Government, to
suppress the illegitimate tendencies of the "White
Nile trade ; and, for that purpose, to establish an
alliance with the Bari negroes, at the foot of the
cataracts above Gondokoro, 2. That our Govern-
ment be petitioned, with other European Govern-
ments, to support an united Church mission, to bo
sent, via Luwakem on the Red Sea, to Berber on the
Nile, thence up the Nile to the foot of the cataracts
above Gondokoro, whence, by land, they would
march up the Nilo to the kingdom of Unyoro. 3.
That the missionaries composing the mission be
selected not for the purpose only of preaching to the
Wahumo, but for general instruction ; and that they
shall be bound to be self-supporting after the first
two or three years, or until a trade can be insti-
tuted with Egpyt. 4. That when the King of
Unyoro can see and understand that legitimate
trade is the best thing for the maintenance of his
Government and the prosperity of his people, de-
tachments of missionaries shall be sent further on to
the kingdoms of Agunda and Karague. 5. That
our Government be petitioned to make some ar-
rangement with the Sultan at Zanzibar to put a
stop to the slave trade in his dominions. 6. That
our Government be petitioned to recognise all per-
sons convicted of taking part in slavery as conniv-
ing at murder, and to treat them accordingly; for
without bloodshed slaves cannot be caught. 7. That
our Government be petitioned to form a chain of
negro depots round the east and west sides of Africa,
in sufficient numbers to half man our men-of-
war, and yet to have a strong reserve at each
depot, who shall be educated and brought up for
the holy purpose of liberating their fellow coun-
trymen from the thraldom of slavery; as it :is ob-
vious that the great sums of money now spent with
a view to suppress slavery are doing more harm
than good. 8. That, as much as possible, negroes
should be educated and employed in all British
services, and taught to abhor the slave trade, which
they have hitherto been taught to consider legiti-
mate from the fact that they are purchased with
European articles of merchandise. Fertility and
good government are necessary to the missionary ;
from the want of these essentials the Zambesi Mis-
sion had failed. The great belt of fertility he
(Captain Speke) had discovered within three degrees
of the equator, on either side ; the existence of
three kingdoms, governed by kings of Abys-
sinian origin, of an intelligence superior to the
natives, and of milder disposition; at Unyoro
a King who would readily receive the missionary ;
the opening of the ivory trade and other products
down the Nile—guaranteed the success of a mission.
A settlement, with an English consul, should bo
established at Gondokoro to prevent the passage of
muskets without a written authority. The trade
with this country would then be carried down the
Nile, instead of, as at present,through Zanzibar and
so round the coast. He would also observe that the
climate on the equatorial belt was more healthy than
is usual in intertropical Africa. He recommended
his propositions to the meeting with great confi-
dence, as he was assured it was the best course to
suppress slavery by the education of the natives in
Christianity, and the advantages of commerce and
agriculture, (Applause.)
Dr. Murie, Mr. Perry Watlington, the Rev. S.
May, and the Rev. Wyndham Malot having ad-
dressed the meeting in favour of Captain Speke's

plan,
Mr. C. MURIDOCII proposed the following resolu-

tion :—" That this meeting, having considered a
statement made by Capt, Speke, is of opinion that
an association should bo formed for the suppreslion
of the slave trade, the instruction of the natives of
Central Africa in the truths of Cbrietianity, and
opening a wide field for commerce in lands remark-
ably rich and fertile."
The Marquis TOWNSEND seconded thb resolution.
Mr. PERRY WATLINGTON then proposed " That
the gentlemen present be appointed a committee to
carry the preceding resolution into effect, with
power to add to their number."
The Rev. WYNDHAM MALET seconded the re-
solution.

The Marquis TOWNSIIEND then pat the third
resolution : " That the committee hold a mating
on Monday, the ith inst., and that Mr. Herbert
Safford, of 6, Bolton-row, be requested to under.
take the duties of honorary secretary;" and fourth,
" That the thanks of the meeting bo given to.CAp-
tain Speke."
These resolution,' having been agreed to nenz. con.
and after some observations fro►n Colonel Dleva and
Mr. Herman Lowenthal upon the success of the
mission in Africa with which they were acquainted,
the meeting adjourned.

LANCASTER GRAMMAR SCHOOL. —We have
great pleasure in observing that the Royal Gram-
mar School of Lancaster still maintains its high reputation,
not only at the universities, but also what is of almost equal
importance, in the middle class examinations. It is there-
by shown that boys aro as well prepared for commercial
pursuits as they are for the more learned professions. For
the Cambridge Mathematical Tripes of this year, we find
that Mr. Metcalfe was 26th wrangler, and Messrs. Bolden
and Pritt occupied good positions among the senior and
junior optimos. The following were successful candidates
at the Cambridge local examination, held in December last.
In the list of senior candidates, first class honours were ob-
tained by Irvine and Baynes—second class, Irawxby—third
class, Barton. Among tho junior candidates--first class,
Fitzgerald—second class, Bond, Cooper, and Murton--
third class, Fowell and Leach. Booth and Wane passed
also to the satisfaction of the examiners. While Irvine
and Baynes were first and second of the senior candidates
examined at Liverpool, Fitzgerald surpassed all rival com-
petitors, and his name accordingly figures at the head of the
whole list which embraces boys from all parts •f the king-
dom. Should Lord Derby give the same five or 10 guinea
prizes that ho did in Juno last, both will:have been carried
off by Lancaster boys, who have been entirely educated at
the Grammar Scheel of Lancaster.
THE ELEVENTH EDITION OF RENAN'S " Vie de
Jesus," unchanged in form and price, has just been issued
by Messrs. Ldvy frZrcs of Paris.
NATIONAL SAINTS.—St. Patrick, the patron
saint of Ireland, was a Seotchman, named Somali.
Being of noblo birth ho was Bummed Patricius, which
became afterwards Patrick. St. David, the patron saint of
Wales, was the son of a Cymric prince and uncle of King
Arthur. St. Gall, the apostle of the Swiss, was Colhinbau,
an Irish priest. St. Augustine, the apostle of the. Saxons,
was an Italian. St. Boniface, the apostle of the Germane,
was a Devonshire man, named Winifred. Constantine the
Great, who first made Chtistiauity a state religion, was born
in Britain. Pelagius, one of the great heresiarchs of the
ancient Christian Church, and who as an eye-wituess !rote
an account of the sack at Emma, was one Morgan, a Briton.
St. Dunstan was a Glastonbury man. St. Swithi n, who
escorted Alfred the Great when a boy to Item°, was a Win-
Il-
chester monk. St. Boethius lived and died a pagan.
was canonised on account of the inestimable value of his
great work on " The Consolations of Philosophy to Reli-
gion and Morality,"

his own thoughts without effort to him.seif, and
chronic anger because he can't succeed. Lord
Dundreary would be even a lucid-mindtd man if
ho could attend to anything for two consecutive
minutes. If he calls everyone and everything " a
fellah," even to the candles an his dressing-table, it
is not confusion of thought, but simply indolence in
expression, which induces him to use the abstract
instead of recalling the specific term. When ho can
explain himself without an effort, there is something
graphic in it notwithstanding the lassitude of his
exposition—as when he defines the game of draughts
by "wound piece of wood hopping over each on
squares of leather," or illustrates bis own assertion
that he is a good-natured fellow, by explaining that
"two out of every thwee men who know me would
think so," and adds, after a brief pause, that
" the third fellah who didn't think so
so would be an ass." Then the habitual angriness
of his state of mind is only the natural disgust
attending the discontinuity of his own thoughts,
and the perceived impossibility of remedying it
without an effort. When he says of the peacock,
"I hate a bird all tail and no head," and reviles the
pigeons for tumbling head over heels because " 1
hate a bird that doesn't know its own mind,"—the
irritation he feels is merely a mode of cuttiag short
his thoughts about a rather singular phenomenon
which he feels would haunt him if he didn't get up
temper and abuse it. None of this is native imbe-
cility—it is a haughty sort of lucidity which is
furious because in this universe nothing is isolated
and comprehensible at a glance, so that you are in
danger of being led on from one thing to another
in a very perplexing way which does not suit a
man anxious to find adequate amusement in the
straws floating on the surface of his thought. Even
the uphill triumphant catch in hie voice or crow
which is his equivalent for laughter, admirably ex-
presses this momentary character of his perceptions,
for his sense of the ludicrous is not the full meeting
of two incongruous ideas in his imagination, but a
mere point, a spark, an infinitesimal gleam of in-
congruity, which it is a triumph in him to have
caught at all, and which vanishes from his grasp
just as ho catches eight of it. The angry stare with
which his lordship looks at us when he gets into
difficulties about folding his arms, and can no more
remember how the double j unction is effected than a
child learning to tic its shoe for the first time, is one
of Mr. Sothern's most effective touches in this carica-
ture; the difficulty represents somehow the single
threat of hie associations, which is never quite equal
to the mastery of any two aimultaneous actions, and
the resentment which he evidently feels at the failure
of memory and the need of recollection, betray-et the
indolent pride which is at its root. Even the lop-
sided run with which he makes his exit from the
room is expressive of this utter want of coherent
mental effort. One leg drags the other after it, as
it were, instead of their both marching together,
just as one thought succeeds and excludes another
which ought to be combined with it. Of course the
worth of the whole conception is is the caricature.
and in that alone. But it is wonderfully subtle
caricature, in which almost every movement of the
muscles of the face, every tone of the voice, and
every grotesque discontinuity of thought, contri-
butes something to the effect.
Of course the mere p twer of caricature is by no
means rare in comic actors, but the powers of
subtle intel'ectued caricature such as Mr. Sothern
shows in this character, we take it, excPeclingly
rate. It is a caricature, for instance, which even
Mr. Dickens—au ac3umplibhcd actor, we believe,
as well as a writer of c Inc attire—could scarcely
have executed. The whole conception is grafted
on the social condition in which Lord ])undreary is
supposed to have been brought up, and with all his
rudeness and eccentricity the notion of an aristo-
cratic substratum of manner?' as well as of pride and
indolence, is always perfectly conveyed. It is all
subtle caricature, though it is caricature of the
most extreme and doubly-distilled character.