The Sun.
London, England, 1865-09-25 00:00:00

S.UDS.

Good and fine mustard seed continues firni, but in infe-
rior qualities little is doing., Tares are dull. Linseed and
rapeseed rule firm. Cakes are in moderate demand at late
rates.

TALLOW.
The tallow trade is firmer to-day on rather higher terms.
New P.Y.C. is quoted at 46s to 4Gs 3d per cwt. on the
spot, 46s to 46s 3d for October to December, and 47s Gd
for January to March delivery. Town tallow is selling at
46s 3d net cash. Rough fat commands 2s 4d per Blbs.

Particulars. 1862. 1863. 1864. 1865.
Stock this day 37,373 42,755 40,955 33,046
Price of Y.C. S-18s 6d to 44s 3d 41s Od 46s Od to
****** '** 't —s —s Od —s Od 46s 3d
Delivery last week 1,611 1,787 1,705 2,216
Ditto from June 1 24,904 18,493 20,690 28,658
Arrival last week
Ditto from June 1 23,965 23,503 16,624 28,221
Price of Town

STATEMENT OP TALLOIV.SHIPPED AT ST. PETERSBURG.
1865. 1864. 1863.
Casks. Casks. Casks.
Tallow despatched from Cron-
stadt to Aug. 30, 0. S 23,516 10,068 31,146
In ships loading and lighters 17,552 11,975 9,754

Loaded off from St. Petersburg
Sept. 1, 0. S.
Loaded off from St. Petersburg
after this date — 36,313 33,044

Total at close of navigation

58,356 75,944

London
Liverpool...
Bristol "•
Other English ports
Ireland
Scotland . . .
Germany
France.

19,650
268
789

7,565

20,421
120

838
1,741
280

Total..

160
8,204
1,509

23,516 10,068 31,146

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

THE "SPECTATOR" ON LORD PALMERSTON AND
MR. BRIGHT.—Mr. Bright's letter to Glasgow, de-
clining to speak there on Reform, expresses with his
old force the intensity of Mr. Bright's antipathy to
our aged Premier, the depth of silent wrath with
which his whole nature is shaken 'when the image
of Lord Palmerston crosses his ardent political
dreams. " When the present Prime Minister leaves
office," he writes, " no Ministry will be possible of
the Liberal party which will not deal with the Re-
form question. I am not anxious that it should be
dealt with during his official life, for lie is the only
man connected with the Liberal party who is at
once both able and willing to betray it. One sen-
tence from his lips would have passed the bill of
1860, and that sentence he refused to utter. His col-
leagues preferred their places to their honour as
public men, and they consented to the greatest poli-
tical fraud of our times rather than leave the Treasury
bench even for a season. Happily, the question does
not depend on the Prime Minister. he has never
promoted its growth, and he cannot prevent its suc-
cess." And before concluding, he again speaks
passionately of the ' degradation" of sitting as a
supporter of an administration which " repudiates
and has betrayed the first and greatest question or
cause on which the whole policy of the Liberal party
is founded." Lord Palmerston probably repays
this " robust" political hatred with something of the
flavour of artistocratic contempt. He told Mr.
Cobden to "stick to his last," not to attempt general
politics, especially the care of the navy ; and he no
doubt feels towards Mr. Bright something of the
hauteur of a Nicias towards a Cleon. Yet to the poli-
tical historian of our time both these men will be
characteristic figures, full of meaning and vigour,
as different indeed in attitude and expression as can
well be, but by no means engaged in that internecine
conflict with each' other in which Mr. Bright's ar-
dent and graphic imagination always represents
them whenever the shadow. of Lord Palmerston
touches his shuddering mind. There are some men
whose fancies always run on a duel—intellectual,
social, or otherwise —with some one haunting enemy
whose existence mars their peace. And yet it does
not really follow that they may not be, though
working from totally different motives, working in
great measure-,to the same result with their fancied
antagonists. Mr. Bright is always fighting such a
duel in his mind with Lord Palmerston. It
is always a routrance ; he never fires his pistol in
the air. As he rehearses the future in his
speeches or writings, the first thing of which he
fiercely disencumbers the present is the political pre-
sence of Lord Palmerston. Yet though they have
little or nothing in common, there is almost as little
of pure opposition in the objects for which Lord
• Palmerston and Mr. Bright have struggled. In
genius, in unity of expression, in strength of feeling,
in force of passion, in all that fits a man for a
characteristic political portrait--to represent im-
pressively, that is, a single element in the political
life of a nation—Mr. Bright has vastly the advan-
tage of his greater antagonist. He is himself essen-
tially all that he represents, while Lord Palmerston,
who represents much more than Mr. Bright, for
the most part only represents it, and has not, could
not have, lived it. Mr. Bright represents what little
of the genius of true democracy there is now in
England, as Lord Strafford .represented the genius
most opposed to it during the time of Charles
I. A Vandyke would paint of Mr. Bright
an histoiical picture never to be forgotten—the
broad Saxon face asserting its plebeianism as a pri-
vilege in spite of the clear light of genius, the
smouldering fire just restrained sufficiently for the
thinker to calculate the blow, the homely imagina-
tion disdaining subtleties .but vivid with a sort of
domestic light, the solid and heavy attitude planted
as it were on the earth; but yet an attitude that
suggests less resistance than aggression, the hand
lifted to give weight to deeply meditated wrath,
o class,
from
a ss and
common hbme
the lips formed to slow but weighty articulation,
and sending forth their words like cannon balls—
everything representative of the hostility to a do-
minantiofty of that sort of hostility which
springs feeling profoundly the superi-
life, laborious in-
dustry, and domestic affections, over the
shallower, less concentrated, less solidly rooted,
more indolent, laxer, and more worldy wisdom,
which he attributes to the aristocratic society sup-
plying the greater number of our rulers. Lord
Palmerston is no doubt a great contrast to, but in
no respect the antithesis Of, Mr. Bright. You see
at once indeed what is in him which concentrates on
him so vividly the great democrat's wrath. In the
first place, as we said, he has strongly marked that
essential charatteristic of a man of the world—the
power of recognizing and =king his easy bow to
much which has no particular value to him, much
which perhaps he.may even dislike or despise. Cha-
racters like Mr. I3right's haye a keen hatred to this
knack of getting all the advantage, as it were, of re-
spect and admiration without feeling it. They call it
levity, and no doubt `to some Extent it does indicate
the absence of 'any strong 'discrimination between
good and evil, right and wrong. Then there is
in Lord Palmerston, alSo conspicuous to discern,
not only the pliancy of a man of the world, but the
complacency of a man at the of top the world ; and
that, too, is insufferable to Mr. Bright. Then there
is the strong common-place conventional manner,
the habit of taking up hackneyed phrases that are
in every one's mouth, and which have no impress of
his own experience upon them, and this Mr. Bright
regards as buckram. Finally, there is the powerful
will, the strong jaw with its vivid lines, the
ambitions,dis-
ogni all expressing the force
recognises and yearns to defeat.
not the strongly marked
Lord
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character and genius of Mr. Bright. He would
scarcely be Prime Minister if he had. An English
Minister, above all an English Minister who has
passed through so many phases of government as Lord
Palmerston, must have much of the flexibility of
the reed as well as its tenacious roots. He must be
Pe respect in political life much that
he respect in his own heart. Ile must not
well tempered
es
identify himself too passionately with any political
cause, or he will narrow his influence and perhaps
also wear himself out. He must be shrewd and
take
ething lo things
ng
easily,
a without wanting strength. Lord
Palmerston go expressed his contempt for the
belief entertained by the stiff Tories " that the
firm and steady determination of a few men in
power could bear down the opinions of the inany,
and stifle the feelings of mankind," and he has
certainly always been on his guard against that
error bowing quite as cheerfully " to the
opinions of the many" when (as recently) they
appeared opposed to reform, as he did more than
thirty years ago when they were in favour of it.
Something of flavourlessness, something of indif-
ference to personal convictions, must mark a man
who can represent a composite public opinion like
that of England, and represent it in the most dif-
ferent phases of political feeling. It is the privi-
lege—if it be a privilege, and'in some sense it is—
of representing only a strong and homogeneous but
rather narrow class feeling, as does 44r. Bright,

that you can take the whole of its natural creed into
your heart of hearts, till it kindles the thoughts,
passions, and sentiments into one white glow of con-
viction. No such privilege—so far as it is a privi-
lege—can be enjoyed by a popular Prime Minister
who has shared for two complete generations in the
Government of England.
THE " EXAMINER'S" PANEGYRIC ONMR. DISRAELI.
—What is Mr. Disraeli about? Is he stripping him-
self of his Toryism, and about to return to the
Radicalism of his lounger days, as the French say
we do to our first loves ? Certainly never was any-
thing less Conservative than his speech at the meet-
ing of the Bucks Agrienitural Association. lie began
with a sort of defianco, for what else is it to tell a
meeting of farmers the harvest is a fair one? In such
company there is never a good harvest, and it is insult
to speak of such a thing. Since the beginning of things
did ever mortal fartnei• satisfy the desires of his heart
in respect of crops? Is there not always something
to complain of; some pestilent fly in the pot of oint-
ment? If the crops be abundant, prices are low in
consequence, and it is hardly worth while to gather
in the crops. If they be scanty, high prices will
never compensate the deficiency in quantity. So, like
a blow to the face of the meeting was Mr. Disraeli's
assertion that the harvest is a fair harvest. " Hear,
hear," cried the farmers in astonishment and anger,
and " No, no." They expected the usual condolence,
and they were offered congratulation ! But Mr. Dis-
raeli was nothing daunted. He stuck to it that the
harvest was fair, and took his stand upon the wheat
stacked while the weather was fine. But not to go
too far at once, he made a little concession as to bar-
ley, and adorned it in 'this fashion of the finest word
painting, " I admit that the brightness of our bar-
ley was tarnished by the gusts and showers. That
was a misfortune ;" and then he proceeded, in this
provoking language, to show that the misfortune of
tarnished brightness of barley was compensated by
thegood done to theroot crops. Now the agricultural
mind abhors the saying about ill winds doing good, for
what farmer is to be reconciled to an ill wind " tar-
nishing the brightness of his barley" by reflecting on
what it may be doing for root crops. Sufficient for
the wind is the evil thereof, and it is a condition of
the agricultural mind to refuse comfort. It dwells
upon its disappointments and griefs, and will not
look beyond them. Or if it casts its eyes upon its
roots, it says, " What avails it that these roots are
refreshed and invigorated by gusts and showers, if
those gusts and showers have tarnished the bright-
ness of barley." And upon this thought the agri-
cultural mind sobs aloud. Having affronted the
meeting, as we have said, Mr. Disraeli proceeded to
reproach Bucks with its backwardness just as if pro-
gress was to be preached by the Conservative leader.
The Royal Bucks Association was the oldest agricul-
tural society, but it had never grown, never expanded,
and was in its infancy in its old age. "It worked
well in its generation," says Mr. Disraeli, but it has
not kept pace with the age, and has contented itself
with pottering over small local concerns, giving
leather breeches to labourers who have reared a
score of children without parochial aid, and such
encouragements to virtue, rather than to cultiVation.
But it was when he came to the virtues of competi-
tion that Mr. Disraeli threw off all disguise, and
broke all terms with the meeting by expounding
the great free-trade principle. Look, abroad, he
says, enlarge your views, see what others are doing,
and profit by the example and rivalry. All this is
the A B Cof the free-trade lesson, and as Bucks
is to Britain so is Britain to all the rest of the world,
from unrestricted intercourse and competition with
which it derives its immense advantages. Mr. Dis-
raeli wisely deprecates drawing conclusions from a
contracted area of observation, and still more to be
deprecated is drawing supplies fiom a limited field,
which the protective system proposed. What Cob-
den taught 30 years back Mr. Disraeli teaches now
in Bucks, but beginning at the beginning, as is
necessary with such pupils, for whose weak diges-
tions strong meats are not fitted. Commencing.
however, with the transcendent virtues of competi-
tion, which Mr. Disraeli so well recommends, all
the" rest comes easily. Altogether Mr. Disraeli
made an extremely good speech, sensible through-
out, and candid.

THE REFORM LEAGUE.—The executive committee
of the above League met at their rooms, 8, Adel
phi-terrace, Strand, on Friday evening last, Edmond
Beale, Esq., president, in the chair. The minutes of the
previous meeting having been confirmed, together with
the weekly accounts of income and expenditure, the secre-
tary read correspondence from Glasgow, Halifax, Newark,
Nottingham, and other places. Reports of meetings were
then given as follows :—Mr. Baxter Langley reported the
meeting hold in Cubitt Town, isle of Dogs, in which lo-
cality the reform element seems very strong and enthusi-
astic. The Secretary reported the opening of a new branch
at Hoxton, and the probability of great success in that lo-
cality from tho earnestness and intelligence of its prom tors
The President and Mr. George Odger reported the success
of their mission to Grantham, and the earnestness of
the men in that district. The; secretary also reported
the opening of a new branch in Halifax, with most
favourable prospects for a thoroughly successful winter's
campaign. Some remarks having been made in reference
to Mr. Bright's letter to the reformers of Glasgow; the
council deprecated the delay advised in that letter, such
policy had already produced injurious results to the Reform
cause, and it was humiliating to the country to make a
national cause dependent upon the caprice of Lord Palmer-
ston, or any other individual. The programnie of the con-
ference was then submitted for reconsideration, and, after
some further revision, adjourned till next meeting. Captain
Dresser Rogers, and Messrs. John R. Taylor and De
Gruyther were added to the financial committee. After
some further business the meeting separated.

AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY.—A frightful crime was
committed at Hartshorn's Tavern, near Dedham Court-
house, Boston, on the Ist inst. The Boston Ilerald thus
describes the tragedy :—" The victims were Dr. Carlos
Marston and Cora Marston, his daughter, and the mur-
deress was Mrs. Susannah Marston, his wife. For several
years Mrs. Ma rston had been in feeble health, and some
five weeks since she recovered from an attack of the
measles, which apparently left her in a more prostrate
mental condition than before. On Wednesday she was
much prostrated and absent-minded—did not appear to
know where she was, and indulged in strange incohe-
rent utterances. On Thursday she appeared better, but
presented a wild and haggard look. About three days
previously she manifested a desire to possess her husband's
revolver, and it was feared she might destroy her own
life. Hence the doctor placed the weapon in his trunk, hav-
ing first drawn the charges. Miss May, an invalid resident
in the house, states that on Thursday night Mrs. Marston
came to her room late about a disturbance which a cat be-
low stairs was creating, and that she (Mrs. M.) said some-
thing about ' killing him before morning.' This remark
so alarmed Miss May that when the doctor visited her
to leave her medicine or instructions still later at
night, she told him of his wife's remark, and he
replied he was going to bed and would lock his
door. Whether he did this or not is not known, as no one
now living saw him alive subsequently. Miss May now
dropped asleep. About 2 o'clock she says she was awakened
by a noise which seemed to her like scuffling, and a fall
overhead. She presently heard the report of a pistol, and
comprehending the position of affairs at once she iunne-
diatel arose, and crossing one or two apartments passed to
the foot of the stairs in the front entry. Here, being afraid
to go upstairs, she called loudly two or three times to the
doctor, but from him she received no response, for at
that time he was probably still in death. Mrs. Marston,
however, appeared at the head of the stairs without a light,
and in a firm calm tone ordered Miss May to go to her
room and remain quiet under the penalty of having her
brains blown out. The frightened girl, after hastily
throwing on her clothing, went out in quest of help. She
first met a Mrs. Hartshorn,who resided in the other part of
the house, and who had also heard the noise, and they
together went after some of the neighbours. Before they
left the house two additional shots were heard, and
ere they returned two others, accompanied with groans.
Having procured the assistance of two or three men, they
returned to the house. The party went upstairs and first
visited Dr. Marston's chamber. On the bed lay the doctor
upon his back; and restsng upon one arm, which was par-
tial!) round her neck, while her head reclined upon his
shoulder, lay the body of Mrs. Marston. Both were dead ;
and the revolver was found in the bed. The room of Cora,
the daughter, was next visited. Cora lay upon the door
near her bed, her face turned downwards, her clothing
saturated with blood, and her face discoloured with it. A
very strong odour of chloroform pervaded the house, and a
3oz. bottle, nearly empty, was found. It was clear that the
murderess had used it to stupify her victims before finally
taking their lives. The doctor had received one shot
through the lungs, Mrs. "rston ono through the :chest,
and one through the heart, and the little girl one in the
back and one iu the head."

Disappearance of some old customs once more
honoured among us in the observance than the
breach. There is no disguising the matter, says the Queen,
that this is a very fast and material age, and that many things
are gradually disappearing which some would have willingly
preserved. How many sqrires keep Christmas now in the
manner so admirably described by the author of "Brace-
bridge Hall." WhO burns the yule log now ? In how many
halls of our gentry is the contre-dance danced ? How many
young ladies are there who would not shriek at mention
of the mistletoe? Who " takes wine together" now
—that old, old custom, which afforded to many an
adversary in a hot quarrel the opportunity of grace-
fully holding forth the olive branch of peace ? Alack, the
day ! These and many other grand old customs have
disappeared, or are fast disappearing, like the costumes,
into the limbo of the past ! The last blow to those who
aro Conservatively-minded with regard to these old
bulwarks of nationality, these symptoms of *na-
tional peculiarities, was perhaps the dreadful
announcement which has now become so common, of "no
cards." Well might our valued correspondent It. B. ask,
wittily and pungently, "What next ? • NO .cards ! No
wedding cake ! no wedding! no nothing!"

The Supposed Murder of a Young Lady

by her Lover•

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAini

SALISBURY, Monday.

There was no evidence offered before the magistrates
this morning against Storer, the young man charged with
having poisoned the young lady, the prosecution relying
on the verdict of manslaughter by the coroner's jury. The
charge against him was consequently dismissed.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE,—This Day,

BOW-STREET.

Frederick Rogers, a well-dressed, respectable-looking
young man, was paced at the bar on remand charged with
uttering counterfeit coin.
At about twelve o'clock on Thursday night the pri-
soner entered the Sir John Falstaff in Brydges-street,
Covent-garden, and ordered a glass of ale, in payment of
which he tendered a bad halfcrown. Mr. Roberts, the land-
lord, at once detected it. The prisoner said he had taken it
with other change at Chatham. He paid for the ale with a
good halferown and Mr. Roberts detained the bad one.
When he left Mr.e-Roberts followed and watched him, ac-
companied by Hines, a constable in plain clothes, whom he
met in Drury-lane. They saw the prisoner go up to a lamp
in Castle-street, Long-acre, and examine his money, after
which he went to the Eagle beer• shop in Endell-street,
where ho tendered another bad half- crown; but Mr. Payne,
the landlord, being forewarned by Mr. Roberts and Hine,
detained the coin and gave him in custody. At the station-
house he described himself as a tailor, and said he lived at
Chatham.
The prisoner was fully committed for trial.