The Sun.
London, England, 1865-02-02 00:00:00

fits of farming, the loss would have ultimately fallen,
not upon the farmers, but upon the landlords ; and
yet the farmers allowed themselves to be mule the
principal agents in an agitation founded on grounds
which turned out to be false, but which, if true,
interested them very little. It is quite enough to
have been once beguiled in this manner ; no class
can afford to commit so capital an error twice in the
same generation.

DAILY NEWS.—A most meritorious though unas-
suming institution was brought before the public on
Monday, under circumstances which at first threat-
ened to impair its usefulness by obscuring its good
name. The Boys' Home, in the EuSton-road, is an
institution for the reception of boys who have been
previously vagrant and disorderly, but have never
been convicted of crime, and it has been very success-
ful. The boys have been selected from numerous ap-
plications as being destitute, and in danger of lapsing
into crime. Fifty are lodged, fed, clothed, and
receive instruction in various trades in the Euston-
road Home, and a branch of the school has been
established on a farm at Barnet, where the boys
acquire some practical knowledge of dairy farming.
The boys are made to assist in some measure for
their own maintenance, yet a large expenditure,
chiefly caused by the extreme youth of many of them,
is necessary to enable the managers to continue their
useful exertions. Sergeant Rayment, the master at
the Euston-road Home, appeared before Mr. Barker,
at *the Clerkenwell Police-court, on Monday, to
answer a summons charging him with unlawfully as-
saulting and beating George Ivey, one of the in-
mates. The prosecutor, we regret to state, was the
Marquis Townshend, a philanthropic nobleman, by
whose means the boy Ivey was introduced to the
Home. The boy was taken into the institution off
the streets. He was perfectly destitute when ad-
mitted, his parents being unable to provide him
with shoes or stockings, although the appearance of
his father in court in a state which forbad his
examination as a witness showed that they had
money to spend in drink. At the Home he was
clothed and fed, and set to work with other boys
at chopping wood and turning a wheel—labour
which he told the magistrate was too severe for
him, although he admitted in court that he had
never complained of it while in the institution.
His story was that Sergeant Rayment had beaten
him upon the hands with a cane, cutting
his knuckles and laying open his thumb. The boy
was taken out of the Institution by his parents, and
there seems to have been a great deal of going
about, and fetching and carrying of notes. The
priest saw him, and then the chemist, although
neithd of them appeared in court ; his mother also
saw the Marquis several times on the subject, and
in the end this prosecution was brought. Mr.
Barker, after a patient investigation, said that he
saw no evidence of unnecessary violence in this
case, and that there were great contradictions be-
tween the statements of the mother and the son.
His impression was that the wound on the thumb
was caused by the chopping of wood, and not by
blows from a cane. The charge had not been
proved, and the summons must be dismissed. An-
other summons against the foreman of the Home,
arising out of the same case, was also dismissed.
Happily the charge so inconsiderately brought
has wholly failed, and no doubt the Marquis
Townshend is well pleased with the result. We
shall be glad if this most useful and deserving in-
stitution should receive advantage from the atten-
tion which has thus been unexpectedly called to it,
and if the gentlemen who conduct its affairs find
themselves placed, by the kindness of the public,
in possession of increased means of usefulness as
some compensation for the annoyance to which
they have been unjustly exposed.

MARKETS—This Day.

MARK-LANE.

Imrmum. 'WEEKLY AVERAGES.—Wheat, 38s Gd ; barley,
29s Od ; oats, 19s 3d; rye, —s to —s ; beans, —s —d ;

peas, —s —d.
ENGLISH GRAIN SOLD LAST WEEK.—Wheat, 72,510 ;
barley, 71,913; oats, 7,,804 qrs.

METROPOLITAN CATTLE.

To-day's market was but moderately supplied with beasts,
both as to number and quality. Nearly all breeds moved
off slowly, at Monday's currency. The general top figure
was 5s 4d per 81bs. The show of sheep was limited, never-
theless sales yrogressed slowly at present quotations. The
best Downs in the wool realised 6s 2d per 81bs. We were
scantily supplied with calves, which met with a dull in-
quiry at late rates, viz., from 4s 4d to 5s 6d per 81bs. Pigs
and milch cows were very dull, but not cheaper.
Per 81b to sink the offal.
s ds d oda d
Crse. & inf. beasts... 3 6 4 2 Pme crs-wool sheep 5 6 5 10
Second quality do .. t 4 4 10 Prime b'thciowii u 0.6 0 G 2
Prime large oxen ..5 0 5 2 Large coarse calvcs.4 4 5 0
Prime Sects, ke....5 2 5 4 Pr me small do .....5 2 5 6
Urse. and inf. sueep.4 4 4 10 Large hs,ga .3 4 3 10
Eecond quality do ..5 0 5 4 small porkers. 4 0 1
Lambs....oB td to 0, Od.

Suckling calves, 17s to 22s ; and quarter-old store pigs, 20s
to 25s each

Head of stock on sale.
Total supply. Foreign supply.
Beasts
Cows . 120 Cows
Sheep ...
Calves l2O Caves no
Pigs 32) Pigs