The Sun.
London, England, 1863-06-04 00:00:00

IN RE FISHER

This bankrupt was a chemist at Leyton, and came up
and obtained his discharge en accounts by Mr. Boyd,
Al-
dermanbury. The estate will pay about 10s. in the pound.

ale.

THE TORTURES OF AN ORRERY !

My memory presents a birthday when 0.3 mpia
and 1 were taken by an unfeeling relative—some
cruel uncle, or the like—to the slow torture called
at Orrery. The terrible instrument was set up at
the local theatre, and I had expressed a profane
wish in the morning that it was a Play ; for which
a serious aunt had probed my canscience deep, and
my pocket deeper, by reclaiming a bestowed half.
crown. It was a venerable and a shabby Orrery,
at least one thousand stars and twenty-five comets
behind the age. Neveetheless, it was awful. When
the low-spirited gentleman with the wand said,
" Ladies and gentlemen (meaning particularly
Olympia and me), the lights are about to be put
out, but there is not the slightest cause for alarm,"
it was very alarming. Then the planets and stars
began. Sometimes they wouldn't come on, some-
times they wouldn't go off, sometimes they had holes
in thin, and mostly they didn't seem to be good
likenesses. Ali this time the gentleman with the
wand was going on in the dark (tapping away at
the heavenly bodies between whiles, like a weari-
some woodpecker) about a sphere revolving on its
own axis eight hundred and ninety-seven thousand
millions of times—or miles—in two hundred and
sixty-three thousand five hundred and twenty-four
millions of something elses, until I thought if this
was a birthday it were better never to have been
born. Olympia also became much depressed, and
we both slumbered and woke cross, and still the gen-
tleman was going on in the dark—whether up in the
stars, or down on the stage, it would have been hard
to make out, if it had been worth trying—cyphering
away about planes of orbits, to yuchan infamcui ex •
tent that Olympia, stung to madness, actually kicked
A pretty birthday spectacle when the lights
were turned up again, and all the schools in the town
(including_ the National, who had come in for
nothing, and serve them right, for they were always
throwing stones) were discovered with exhausted
countenances, screwing their knuckles into their
eyes, or clutching their heads of hair. A pretty
birthday speech when Doctor Sleek of the City-Free
bobbed up his powdered head in the stage-box, and
said that before this assembly dispersed he really
must beg to express his entire approval of a lecture
as improving, as informing, as devoid of anything
that could call a blush into the cheek of youth, es
any it had ever been his lot to hear delivered. A
pretty birthday altogether, when Astronomy
couldn't leave poor small Olympia Sqaires and me
atone, but must put an end to our loves! For, we
never got over it; the threadbare Orrery out-
.,ore our mutual tenderness; the man with the
wand was too mach for the boa' with the bow."—
Charles Dickens, in "All the Yeur Round."

Reminiscences of " Stonewall" Jackson.

The following is from a correspondent of the New

ork Tinzes;—

In the course of my journeying; as a correspondent, I
have met with many old classmates and acquaintances of
the late rebel Genetal Jackson, from whose lips I have
heard much about him; and, as everything pertaining to
this remarkable man seems to interest the public, I will
set down two or three anecdotes which have not yet found
their way into the public prints. Jackson, you know, was
a graduate of West Point in the elites of 1846, considered
the most remarkable class that ever graduated from the
Acadmy. M'Clellan, Couch, Foster, Leno, Seymour,
Stoneman, and others equally or less distinguished
belonged to it. While at West Point, he 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. He was of a retiring
and tactiturn disposition, but whenever he spoke his face
would light up with a pleasant smile. At this period he
used to fancy he had consumption, and was wont to sit
bolt upright at his meals. Illustrative of the difficulty
he had in learning anything, I remember an anecdote
of General Seymour's. Seymour was, at that time,
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 mouths on the first bar of " Love Net,"
and then gave it up in despair. The story of his behaviour
st Chepullepec, I have seen given, but incorrectly. It is
thus—Jackson was a lieutenant in command of Magruder's
Battery. The 15 h regular infantry was ordered to charge
up the road, but the fire was heavy, and the men seemed
disinclined to advance. Perceiving this, Jackson stepped
out on the road, amid a shower of missiles, exclaiming—
" You see, my men, there is no danger, follow me I"
whereupon they immediately rnslaed forward to the
charge. At various periods of his life he was afflicted
with different forms of hypochondria, One of his manias
was to believe that everythihg he ate went down and
lodged in his left leg I At another time he would never
eat except hy the watch, at the precise moment; and he
would take out his watch, lay it on the table, and eat at
'hat moment. If the meal was behindhand, he would
not eat at all Probably camp life Lured him of these eccen-
tricities. Current reports have stated that Jackson was
slovenly and rough in dress ; in action or on the march not
distinghishable from the common soldier. Th s, at least
lately, since he came into high command, seems to be in-
correct. In the tnaunscript diary of a rebel engineer officer
—which we found at the Chancellor House on our arrival,
arid now in my hands—among entries of the greatest inte-
rest and importance, extending over several months, I find
the following portrait of " Stodewall" Jackson. It is, as
you will observe, a mere silhouette, but the picture is almost
Carlyean in its tuoch:—March 25. .. About dinner time
" Stonewall" Jackson came over to make a visit to the
General. I went out to ride, and met hint going as. ay in the
road between headquarters and: tl r. Ganaett's. He was sweep-
log along at an easy gallop on a handsome bay. Passed so
quickly tbat I had not time to disti.nguish his features
nothing in him to recall the caricatures which popular vene-
ration has delighted to make of the popular hero; hand-
somely dressed in full general's uniforms—a jaunty cap, a
full black beard and a fine horse ; altogether a rather daz-
zling vision for one used to our slovenly headquarters."
Jackson's mode of attack was peculiar, oven in the tactical
formation of his troops, and it was his own. Ile always
threw his men in in column of battalions, about a two com-
pany front, without skirmishers, resting on their colours,
ant' with a yell peculiar to his men. Ete 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 per-
sonal loss to the rebel cause is immenso ; but he has trained
many able division commanders such as Early and the two
Hills. _

MARKETS—This Day.

MARK LANE.

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IMPERIAL WEEKLY AVERAGES. —Wheat,
37516 s 5 •
barley, 33s 8,1 ; oats, 22s 8d ; rye, 40a 2d ; beans, 38s lld ;
and peas, 35s 9d.
THE Six WEEKS' AVERAGES. -- Wheat, 46s 3d;
barley, 34s 4d ; oats, 22s ld ; rye, 33s 3d; beans,lldd
peas, 35s 6d,
ENGLISH GRAIN 501,13 LAST WEEK.—Wheat, 84,946;
barley, 3,145 ; oats, 7,063; rye, 13 ; beans, 2,692 ; peas,
236 qrs.

. All breeds moved
well supplied with
beasts,Our m
MET ROPOLITAN CATTLE.
botharkeats ttot; day,nhm number
on
rs
andreascivaabl :try
off slowly, and Monday's prices were barely supported.
The extreme value for Scots was 4s 10c1 per 81bs. Sheep—
the hupply of which was moderate—were a dull inquiry,
and, in some instances, the currencies had a drooping ten-
dency. However, tha best Downs realised 4s 10d per Blbs.
Lambs were very dull, and inferior breeds were in favour
of buyers. Prices ranged from 5s 4d to 6s ld per Blbs.
From the Isle of Wight, 150 head came to hand. Calves
were in large supply, nnd heavy request, at barely stationary
prices. Pigs and mulch cows were very dull.
Per 81b. to sink the offal.
s. d. s. d.
Crse. &inf. beasts 3 4 3 6
Second quality do. 3 8 4 4
Prime large oxen 4 6 4 8
Prime Scots, &c. 4 8 4 10
Crse. & inf. sheep 3 6 3 1°
Second quality do. 4 0 4 4

s. d. s. d.
Primeers-wool d 0.4 6 4 8
Pme- S' thdowndo.4 8 4
Large crse. calves 4 0 4 6
Prirue small d 0... 4 8 5 0
Large hogs.... 3 4 4 0
Small porkers 4 24 6

Lambs, 5s 4d to 6's B—cl.

12s to 20s ; and quarter-old store pigs
18s8utock2l8ins.g calves,

ME AT MARKETS.

NENVGATE AND LEADENHALL.—The suprpkli,es3Bof
meat
only modera, and the trade is inactive, as follows '—
Beef, from 2s fid to 4s 4d, mutton, 38 6d to 4s 6d ; lamb,
4s to
6 84dd
ptoer6BBlobds?
bvyetahl,e4csarOcdatsoe. 45 8d ; and pork,
SOUTHALL, June 3.—The surplice of stock were reason-
ably good, and the trade generally ruled heavy, as fol-
lows :—Beef, from 3s 4d to 48 8d; mutton, 3s 60 to 4s 10d ;
lamb, 5s 4d to 6.5 8d ; veal, 4s Oh to 4s 8d; and pork, 36 6d
to 4s 6d per Ms, to sink the offal.
ROMFORD7 June 3.—A1l kinds of stock moved off slowly,
at the annexed quotations :—Becf, from 3s 6d to 4s 8d;
mutton, 36 8d to 48 10d ; lamb, 5s 84 to 6s 8d , veal, 4s Od
to 4s Sd ; pork, 3s 6d to 4s 6d per,.Blbs ; suckling calves,
12s to 20s; quarter-old store pigs, 20i to 28s; and milch
cows, £l4 to £lB each.