The Sun.
London, England, 1853-05-30 00:00:00

Lambs. Calves. Pigs
... 94

- •.. -
49 ...
12 ... -

738 ... 95 ... 422 ... 19

28

T0ta1.... 636 ... 1,847 ... 137 ... 483
The yearly comparison of weekly imports is as under :
Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs
1852 470 ... 1,723 ... 94 ... 382 ... 34
1851 72 ... 596 ... 106 ... 301 ... 93
1850 325 ... 1,262 6 ... 333 ...
1849 334 ... 1,483 26 ... 274
1848 499 ... 2,276 19 ... 451
We were again seasonably well supplied with foreign
stock, in good saleable condition. The whole changed
hands, though rather slowly, at last week's prices.
The show of house-fed beasts on offer was by no means so
extensive as on Monday last ; nevertheless, as the attend-
ance of country buyers was less numerous than for some
weeks past, it proved quite equal to the wants of the
butchers. The primest Scots and short horns were in
moderate request, at last week's prices—the general top
quotation for beof being 4s 4d per Blbs., at which figure a
few Scots were sold by weight ; but all other breeds moved
off slowly, and late rates were barely supported.
From Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire, we
received 2,500 Scots and short-horns; from other parts of
England, 500 Herefords, runts, Devons, &c. ; and, from
Scotland, chiefly per railway, 550 horned and polled Scots.
There was a considerable increase in the supply of sheep ;
but its general weight, from a large portion of it being
composed of tigs, was by no means heavy. The primest
Downs and half-breds sold at full quotations—the highest
figure for the former being 4s 8d per 81bs ; otherwise, the
mutton trade was dull, and prices had a downward tendency.
The arrivals of lambs—amongst which were 350 head
from the Isle of Wight—were good ' • yet the lamb trade
ruled steady, at full currencies, viz., 5s to Os 4d per 81bs.
We were rather scantily supplied with calves, the de-
mand for which was tolerably firm, at from 4s to 5s per 61bs.

SPIRIT OF

JOURNALS.

OXFORD HONOURS.
(From the Times.)

In ordinary cases a list of honorary degrees at either
of the universities is about as dull an affair as the cata-
logue of ships in "Homer." Every now and then, no
doubt, the name of some worthy, illustrious in peace or
war, in thought or achievement, is included in the batch
of brevet lawyers, and commands general respect. This
name sheds, as it were, a halo around those of his com-
panions, every one of hom was at least converted into a
D.C.L. at the same time as a great man. But, if we
look at the ordinary practice in such cases, we find either
that persons are selected for the dignity who, from their
social position, may add a certain degree of lustre to the
universities, or that they are men to whom the universi-
ties willingly show honour, because in honouring them
they honour themselves. We need not quote in detail
the names of the royal personages and great philosophers
and literary men who have received the freedom of the
Isis or the Cam at the hands of our university authori-
ties ; the fact, as we state it, is one of general notoriety.
It was reserved for the University of Oxford to put the
matter on an entirely different footing, and to convert
what has hitherto, and with reason, been esteemed an
honourable distinction into a mere political by-blow.
Lord Derby is the Dagon of the hour, and Lord
Derby's followers are duly converted into little
Dagons, that the Oxford Dons may humour the
great man even in his whims. It is intelligible
enough that Lord Derby should have been selected for
the post, because during his tenure of political power
death had removed from the scene the old Chancellor—
alas ! how different a man 1 We will say nothing of the
motives which might have induced such a choice, but
will rather accept the selection as a graceful compliment
to the office rather than to the Premier. But, even if
Lord Derby were to be chosen Chancellor of Oxford
when he was First Minister of the Crown, does it follow
that all his colleagues are to be selected for university
distinctions when they have ceased to occupy the lower
places in the Ministry ? We are urging no captious
objection against the addition of one or two colleagues
of Lord Derby to the list of eminent men who might
with propriety have been selected for an honourable dis-
tinction. Our complaint is, that all have been taken
and that the University of Oxford has thus degraded
itself to the level of a political club—and what a club !
When everybody else had thrown them off, the Oxford
Dons have taken the Protectionists in. They have
afforded a refuge to a faction which had long since been
rejected by every important interest in the country
and which had ended its political career by re-
nouncing the principles upon which its existence
as a party was based throughout. Certainly we
have no wish to renew the acrimony of past controver-
sies, and, had the adherents of Lord Derby been content
to retire for a time into a decent obscurity, we would
not have been the first to disturb the even tenour of
their reflections and regrets. But here we find our old
friends, who beyond all question have made the greatest
political fiasco of modern times, flaunting about in all
the dignity of fallen greatness, and, what is worse, the
University of Oxford abetting them in the monstrous

delusion. One would as soon have expected to meet
one of those Magdalens whom Correggio knew so well
how to paint en debardeur at a masked ball, and receiv-
ing countenance in her irregularities from an elderly and
respectable divine.
Let us look for a moment at the names. There is the

Duke of Richmond. Well, the Duke of Richmond occu-
pies, no doubt, a high social position in the country.
Then there are the two Marquises of Chandos and
Blandford—amiable men, enough, we believe, in their
way, and noblemen to boot, so let Oxford take them in
also without question. Then we have the Derby Chan-
cellor, Lord St. Leonards ; the Derby Chancellor of the
Exchequer, Mr. Disraeli ; the Derby Foreign Secretary,
Lord Malmesbury ; the Derby Colonial Secretary, Sir
John Pakington ; the Derby Home Secretary, Mr.
Walpole ; the Derby President of the Board of Trade,
Mr. Henley ; the Derby Vice-President of the
Board of Trade, Paymaster-General of the Forces, and
Treasurer of the Navy, Lord Colchester ; the Derby
Postmaster-General, Lord Hardwicke ; the Derby Lord-
Lieutenant, Lord Eglinton ; one of the Derby Joint-
Secretaries to the Treasury, Mr. G. A. Hamilton (the
other would have beers "too bad") ; the Derby Attorney-

General for Ireland, Mr. Napier ; the Derby Under-
Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Lord Stanley. Besides these
there is Sir E. B. Lytton, a distinguished literary man,
no doubt, but who in the present instance, we suspect,
owes his red gown rather to the fact that he wrote a
very silly pamphlet about Protection than that he
is the author of Pelham,. Then there is Sir Archi-
bald Alison, the Tory historian of revolutionary
Europe. Against the last two names we raise no ob-
jection. The suspicion, such as it is, that rests upon
them arises from their political associations. Politics
apart, they are fairly entitled to University distinctions.
The same thing may of course be said of Mr. Disraeli,
and, in a lesser degree, of Lord Redesdale. There is
one name, indeed, which we heartily rejoice to see in
the list,—it is that of Sir Harry Smith, although the old
warrior must be somewhat puzzled at his approaching
honours. It seems, however, agreed on all sides that
this mark of conventional distinction is to be accorded
tam, Marti quam Mercurio, and, if it is to be assigned at
all to military gallantry, there can be no more gallant
D.C.L. than Sir Harry Smith.
It was impossible to form a list of this kind without
including in it the names of some men distinguished in
literature and science, or by the honours of their pre-
vious University career. It would have been too inde-

cent to exclude altogether the persons for whom the
honours contemplated were originally intended. Mr.
Macaulay and Sir Roderick Murchison, and Dr. C.
Wordsworth and Professor Aytoun, therefore have been
induced to march through Oxford with this ragged regi-
ment of doctors. They, together with the three literary
politicians above named, constitute the ha'porth of
bread to this intolerable quantity of sack. Dr. Forbes
Winslow, hitherto eminent among lunatics, will hence-
forth be eminent among Oxonians, and Mr. Samuel
Warren appropriately closes the procession.
Are these indeed our great men ? If we ever form
our national Pantheon, will it be filled exclusively with
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the busts of the Derby Doctors ? Shall we see On one

side the bust of Malmesbury, musing upon the Canadian

cod fisheries—on the other, that of 'Walpole, devising
his militia qualification for the county voters

Northumberland, indeed, may not be there, with ducal

condescension " offering his arm" to Commodore Sey-
mour ' • and a squeamish delicacy may exclude Beres-
ford addressing the Essex " rabble," or Stafford, as
he presided at that memorable dinner of Admiralty
contingencies. Let us at least have Beresford with
Colonel Fox and Forbes Mackenzie habited as

the three witches in Macbeth, and represented as asking
each other " When shall we three meet again ?"—not
on the weird heath, but in the recesses of the Tory Club.
Let us have Brown, of the Carlton, in the act of with-

drawing the Norwich petition. Let us have the "man
in drab." Above all, at the head of the proud Gallery

of Illustration, let the chivalrous Derby himself be re-
presented in the act of giving up the principle of protec-
tion, and at the lower end let Warren be seen as he

appeared when writing the last lines of the Lily and the
Bee. Let the seat of this Pantheon be the University
of Oxford, and let the ancient University henceforth be

styled the Derby Arms !

AFFAIRS OF THE EAST.
(From the Morning Post.)
Prince Menschikoff has left Constantinople, and diplo-
matic relations are definitively broken off between the
Czar and the Sultan. This is a matter of serious mo-
ment to Europe, and of infinite discredit to Russia, now
menacing with warlike aggression a friendly state, whose
only offence is the possession of what her neighbour
covets.
Of the course of England, and of France, in this emer-
gency there can be no doubt. Their professions will
not be found empty, nor their actions treacherous.
There is but one feeling in this country. And there is
no voice, save one that speaks under Russian influence,
that does not re-echo the sentiments expressed by all
parties in the British Parliament. The Opposition has
challenged the Government to carry out a bold and
English policy, and her Majesty's advisers have replied
that their policy was "to maintain inviolate the faith
of treaties and the independence and integrity of
Turkey."
The first step of that bold and united action, resulting
from the identity of interests and cordiality of agree-
ment of the two great Western Powers, will be the sail-
ing of a combined fleet for the Dardanelles, to carry into
effect our guarantee of the treaty of 1841.
An honourable issue from the labyrinth of contradic-
tions in which Russia has involved herself in her Eastern
policy will now be difficult. But we still think that,
however the honour of Russia may suffer the peace of
Europe at large will not be hopelessly endangered.
Turkey is strong of herself, and, with France and Eng-
land to back her, she must prove more than a match for
the Czar, who is too discreet and too sensible to plunge
into active war with the whole of Europe, for all the in
great Powers would assuredly resist any attempt to
overthrow by arms the Ottoman empire. 20
Russia has imagined hitherto that " there are insuper- 20
able obstacles to common and united action between 20
England and France," and it has been under this im- 20
pression that she has acted. When the Czar finds out 20
his mistake he will probably halt in his ambitious course, 20
which he has failed to advance by intrigue, and cannot 5
carry out by arms. For though treaties may be shirked, 2/:1° 20
and Cabinets may be tricked, the arguments of Dundas
and Lasnsse are likely to be so effective in aspect as to 6
excite no desire to provoke their force.

ELECTION OF CHAMBERLAIN. Ibo
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STATE OF THE POLL, SIXTH DAY (MAY 28). 32-3
Sir John Key 2729 20
Mr. Benjamin Scott 2658 20

Majority for Key 7l
Five hundred and forty-nine liverymen polled to-day.
Of these there were three hundred and eight who voted
for Sir John Key, and two hundred and forty-one for
Mr. Scott. Total number since the commencement of
the contest, 5,387.
Sir John bad from the proceeds of the former polling,
when the business of to-day began, a majority of 14 votes
in hand. In the course of the first half hour Mr. Scott's
friends reduced that number by one, and in the next
half hour by six. Subsequently, however, Sir John's
supporters flocked to the poll, so that by one o'clock the
worthy baronet's majority reached 76. This was reduced
by two o'clock to 71, where it remained during the next
hour stationary, the polling being equal.
The announcement of the state of the poll was received
with the most enthusiastic cheering.
Both of the candidates briefly thanked their friends,
when the proceedings of the day were adjourned until
Monday (this day).
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