The Sun.
London, England, 1863-06-08 00:00:00

METROPOLITAN CATTLE.

There was a full average supply of foreign stock on offer
in our market to-day, but its general condition was very
middling. Sales, however, progressed steadily at very full
ploys.
From our own grazing districts the receipts of beasts
fresh up this morning were moderately extensive, but, com-
pared with many previous weeks, their quality exhibited a
falling off. Good and prime stock commanded a steady in-
quiry at an advance in the quotations of 2d per 81b; other-
wise the beef trade ruled firm at full currencies. The best
Scots and crosses changed hands at 5s par 81b. There were
a few beasts on offer from Lincolnshire in but middling
condition.

The receipts from Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cam-
bridgeshire comprised 2,300 Scots, crosses, and shorthorns;
from other parts of England, including Lincolnshire, 550
various breeds; and from Scotland 140 Scots and crosses.

There was a lull average number of sheep in the pens in
fair condition. Nearly all breeds w. re in good request at
an improvement in the currencies of 2d per 81b. The gene-
ral top figure for Downs was 5s per Sib.
Lambs were in good supply and steady request at full
prices. The general currency ranged from 5s 4d to 6s 8d ;
but a few very superior lambs sold at 7s per 81b.
We have to report a slow sale for calves—the supply of
which was moderate—at late rates.
The pork trade was heavy on former terms.
Per Sib. to sink the offal.
s. d. s. d.
Crse. & inf. beasts 3 4 3 8
Second quality do. 3 10 4 4
Prime large oxen 4 6 4 8
Prime Scots, 6;:c. 4 10 5 0
Crse. & inf. sheep 3 8 4 0
Second quality do. 4 2 4

s. d. s. d.
Primecrs••wool d 0.4 8 4 IA
Pme. S'thdown d 0.4 10 5 0
Large erne. calves 4 0 4 6
Prime small do 4 8 5 0
Large hogs 3 4 4 0
Small porkers ... , 4 2 4 6

Lambs, 5s 4d to 6 Bd.

Suckling calves, 12s to 21s ; and quarter-old store pigs,
19s to 295.
TOTAL SUPPLY. FOREIGN SUPPLY.
Beasts • .
C0w5....... • ...... ISheep and lambs
Sheep and lambs .. 26,180 Calves
Calves ......... 325 Pigs .........
Pigs 3lO
A statement and comparison of the supplies and prices of
fat stock exhibited and sold in the great metropolitan
cattle market, on Monday, June 9, 1862, and this day,
Monday, June 8, 1863.
Per 81b. to sink tho offal.
June 9,
Coarse and inferior beasts.... 3 018t062.
3 2
Second quality do, 3 4 3 8
Prinie large oxen .. 310 4 4
Prime Scots, &c. ............ 4 6 4 8
Coarse and inferior sheep 3 8 310
Second quality do.
Prime coarse-woolled do ..... 4 6 4 8
Prime Southdown do. ...... 410 5 0
Lambs
Large coarse calves ........ 4 0 4 6
Prime small do.
Large hogs
Neat small porkers 4 6 6 0
Beasts ..
Sheep and lambs
Calves
Pigs..
SUPPLIES ON SALE, June 10, 1861.—8,
sheep and lambs, 26,490—calves, 279—pigs,
JUNE 11, 1860.—Beasts, 3,760—sheep and
—calves, 335—pigs, 410.
The total imparts of foreign stock into London, last week,
amounted to 5,772 head. In the corresponding week in
1862, we received 5,323—in 1861, 7,849—in 1860, 10,231
—in 1859, 3 111—in 1858, 3,605—in 1857, 4,369 head.
IMPORTS INTO LONI,u/s LAO WEER.
From Beasts. Sheep. Lambe. Calves. Pigs.
Rotterdam 291
Harlingen .... 136
Hamburg
Boulogne. • .
Dunkirk
Calais
NieweDiep — • •
Amsterdam — • • : • • • •
Antwerp. — • •
Ostend 30 .. .. 23
Bremen 4B 333 • •
Dordt. • • 4 235 .. 272 .. 6
G uernsey

June 8,
1863.
3 4to 3 8
310 4 4
46 4 8
410 5 0
38 4 0
42 4 6
4 8 410
410 5 3
54 6 8
40 4 6
48 5 0
34 4 0
42 4 6
4,190
25,040

beasts,',3,94o-
-

jambs, 29,570

•• -
.. ii• 26

Total .. .. 518 .. 3,272 ..1014 .. 945 ..
The yearly comparison of weekly imports is as follows :
Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs.
1862 483 , . 4,077 • • 277 .. 401 .. 85
1861 .. 478 .. 6,562 .. 592 .. 520 .. 607
1860 673 .. 7,922 .. 134
1859 l6O .. 1,901 . • 637 .. 502 .. 13
1858 202 .. 2,459 .. 481 459 .. 22

NEW GATE AND LEADENHALL.
Only moderate supplies of meat are on sale, and the
trade rules, firm. In some instances prices are rather
higher than on Monday last.
Per 81b. by the carcase.
stisd
inferior beef .. 3 0 3 4
Middling do. .. 3 6 3 8
Frime large do. 3 10 4 0
Do. small do. .. 4 2 4 4
Large pork .... 3 2 4 0
Inferior mutton. 3 4 3 8
BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS.

sdsd
Middling mutton 3 10 4 2
Prime d 0....... 4 4 4 6
Vas/ .......... 3 8 4 4
Small pork .. 4 2 4 6
Lamb ........ 5 0 6 0

Old potatoes are in less active request, on easier terms.
The top price of Yorkshire flukes is 160 s per ton. Scotch
Regents at selling at 80s to 1008; and rocks 70s to 80s per
ton. New potatoes—the supply of which is moderately
large—command a steady sale, at 10s to 12s per cwt. Last
week's impor was 4,029 baskets from Dunkirk, 30 boxes
Oporto, 555 baskets Rotterdam, and 60 baskets from
Boulogne.
Yorkshire Regents 958 to 110 s per ton.
Do. Flukes
Do. Rockß
o. Seedlings
Kent and Essex Regents --s to --s ~
Scotch Regents
Do. Rocks 7os to 80s f 1
Do. Reds —s to —s ~
Foreign
BOROUGH HOP.

A fair average business has been transacted Whin Eng-
lish and foreign hops since we last wrote, and the quota-
tions have ruled firm. From the plantations we learn that
the hop plant made fair progress last week. The impost
since our last has amounted to 474 bales from Dunkirk, 57
Boulogne, 10 Rotterdam, 56 Hamburg, 22 Antwerp, and
341 bales from New York.
Mid and East Kents 7os to 190 s per cwt.
Weald of Kents
Sussex a . • 70s to 130 s ~
Bavarian
Belgian
American .. 70s to 95s ~

WOOL.
The trade for English wool is firm, and the prices current
for the new clip at 2d to 3d per lb, above those ruling at the

1859.

1860.

18G1.

1862.

Stock this day.... 1,227 26,940 65.693 37,567
Price of Y.C.
{ 5380.1 t0152s Oi to;51801 to
,46s 6d to
—s Od 52s 3d Od I—s Od
Deliver; last week 722 2,255 950 1,283
Ditto from June 1 1,235 2,975 1,426 1,•?8,8
Arrivals last week 1,391 2, 79 1,178 544
Ditto from June 1 1,425 )
2,861 1,562 614
Price of Town.... 54s 3d 53s 6d 52s 9d ' 46s 6d

37,338
4380 d to
OJs Od
656
a 6
251

25t
44s 31

Recollections of " Stonewall " Jackson,

A correspondent of the New York Times writes :
" While at 'West Point Jackson was regarded as decidedly
dull and slow; it took him three times as long to learn his
tasks as the average of the boys, but when he had them he
had them well. Illustrative of the difficulty he had in
learning anything, I remember an anecdote of General
Seymour's. Seymour was learning to play on the flute, •and
Jackson (they were young lieutenants together) took it into
his head that he also would learn. He went to the work
with his accustomed vigour and perseverance, but he could
not succeed in learning to play even the simplest air. He
blew six months on the first bar of Love not,' and then
gave it up in despair The story of his behaviour at Chepul-
tepee I have seen given, but incorrectly. It is thus :
J ackson was a lieutenant in command of Magruder's battery.
The 14th regular infantry was ordered to charge up the
road, but the fire was heavy, and the men seemed disin-
clined to advance. Perceiving this, Jackson stepped out on
the road, amid the shower of missiles, exclaiming, You see
my men, there is no danger, follow me I' 'Whereupon they
immediately rushed forward to the charge. At various
periods of his life he was afflicted with various forms of
hypochondria. One of his manias was to b lieve that every-
thing he ate went down and lodged in his left leg. A.
another time he would never eat except by the watch, at the
precise zoment ; and he would take out his watch and lay it
on the table, and eat at that moment. If the meal was be-
hindhand he would not eat at all. Probably camp life cured
him of these eccentricities. Current reports have stated that
Jackson was slovenly and rough in dress ; in action or on
the march not distinguishable from the common soldier.
This, at least lately, since he came into high command,
seems to be incorrect. In the manuscript diary of a rebel
engineer officer, which we found at the Chancellorhuuse on
our arrival, I find the following portrait of Stonewall'
Jackson : - March 25—About dinner time Stonewall'
Jackson came over to make a visit to the General. I went
out to ride and met him going away in the road between
headquarters and Mr. Garnett's. He was sweeping along at
an easy gallop on a large handsome bay. Passed so quickly
that I hdd not time to distinguish his features; nothing in
him to recal the caricatures which popular veneration has
delighted to make of the popular hero; handsomely dressed
in full general's uniform, a jaunty cap, a full black beard,
and a fine horse ; altogether a rather dazzling vision for one
used to our slovenly headquarters.' Jackson's mode of at-
tack was peculiar, even in the tactical formation of his
troops, and it was his own. He always threw his men in in
column of battalions, about a two-company front, without
skirmishers, resting on their colours, and with a yell peen •
liar to his men. He was a gallant foe, and I have heard
many an officer in the army declare he would like nothing
better, if we only had this affair settled up, than to follow
' Stonewall' Jackson into fight. His personal loss to the
rebel cause is immense; but he has trained many able divi-
sion commanders such as Early and the two Hills."