The Sun.
London, England, 1853-08-01 00:00:00

WOOL.

The public sales of colonial wool have been fairly at-
tended by buyers during the past week. Up to the pre-
sent time, 31,000 bales have changed hands. In prices,
we have no further change to notice. Those obtained
since our last have been as follows :—Port Philip : Clean
sheep's, is 6d to 2s 4d ; damaged do., is 3d to is lOid ;
grease, lld to is 6d ; pieces, is to is 5d ; locks, 10d to is
4d ; lambs', is 6d to 2s 4d ; clothing, is 9d to 2s ; skin,
is 3d to is 6cl. ; combing, is 8d to 2s ; scoured, is 8d to
2s Bd.—Sydney : Clean sheep's, is 6d to is 10d ; damaged,
is 4d to is 8d ; broken, is 4d to is 7d ; clothing, is 10d.
to 2s ; combing, is 8d to 2sr; hoggett, is 8d to 2s ; locks,
is 2d to is 6d.—Adelaide : Clean sheep's, is 4d to is 8d ;
lambs', 15,63 to is 10d ; Hobart Town : Cleansheep's is 6d
to is 8d ; combing, is 6d to is 9d ; hard washed, is 4cl to
is Bd.—Cape : Clean sheep's, is 2d to is 8d ; grease, 10d,
to is ld ; lamb's, is 3d to is Bd.—Launceston : Clean sheep s,
is 4d to is 8d ; other qualities, 10d. to is 3d. A few fine
foreign have produced 2s 4d per lb. In the private contract
market, very little is doing on former terms. The imports,
Ham-
burgh,
from
last week, wore 140 bales from Trieste, 150 fromamOstar
adn,d9lslfrformomLNegahpolrens,. 5 from Elsinore,
6b6
42 fondriAlerx

SEEDS.
Linseed Continues in good request, at extreme quotations.
Black Sea on the spot is worth 49s 6d, and afloat 48s 6d
per quarter. Rape scarce ; and the best Calcutta is pro-
ducing 50s per quarter. Cakes support the late advance,
Tarnip,White, per bush. 98 to 1 lrif
Swede 10s 128
!dastard, 8r0wn...... 78 98
White, new...... 7s ed 9s
Tares, Winter, new.... Os Od Os Od
Spring ••-. • ..... 4s 6d 58 6d
Canary, per quarter .. 408 44s
Rye Vass ..........••
Clover, Red Ens . (cwt.) 44s 64s
white .. 48s 658
Foreign Red ** " 44s 62s
28s 34s
White.... 51s 65s
Trefoil, new.......... 213 28s,
TALLOW.
•• - -

Carraway .... •••• • • • • 46s 48s
Coriander" • • .... •• • • lls 14s
Ilempseed, per quarter 388 42s
Linseed, Eng.iowing.. 56s COs
Crushing •• •• •• • • 498 51s
Baluo •••••••••• 47s 50s
Odessa •• •• .• •• • • 48s 508
Linseed Cake, pr. ton—
, English .. . 81 Os 9 , lOs
Foreign,per ton 7110 s 91 lOs
Rape Cakes, pr ton 4115 s 51 5s
IRaPeseed, New, pr Ist 24108 27108

Since our last report, the demand for all kinds of tallow
has ruled very inactive, and, in some instances, the quota-
tions have had a downward tendency. To-day P.Y.C. on
the spot is quoted at 51s, and for delivery during the last
three months 50s 3d per cwt. Town tallow is 50s 6d net
cash ; rough fat, 2a 10Ad per Blbs.

I 1849. I 1850.

1851.

1852. I 1853

....
tnsoB3(cl4 356L(if•61ctio ,3011:140d0Ao
Stock this day ...... 23,707 1 25,061 32153 1 42,538
.18.072
Price of Y. C...
Delivery last week •• 1,251 1,254 1,559 982 1,184
Ditto from June 1.... , 10,534 10,221 11,628 8,037 12,256
.3.37Bss9Ocrlto3Bosos3odd
Arrivals last week ..1 918 98$ 323 217 1,113
Dittofrom June 1.... 8,768 9,658 7,748 9,947 7,613
Elko of Town .... • •1 402 Od 38s Od 39s 6d 398 6d 52s 9d

On Saturday Catlin's-valley was once more the scene
of one of those sham fights which are rapidly winning
for it quite a reputation in its way. If the Field of the
Cloth of Gold is still remembered, and poets by mere
description can give celebrity to spots where imaginary
battles have been fought, surely the Chobham campaign
will make this valley famous.
The division turned out at 11 o'clock, and concen-
trated in the hollow in front of the camp of the Ist and
2d brigades. Here they remained for some time, drawn
up in masses of battalions, Sir Richard England's bri-
gade in front, behind it that of Lockyer ' • the Guards in
the rear on the left, and the cavalry and Horse Artillery
also behind, on the right. The enemy had taken up a
position on the Common in a north-westerly direction,
its right extending towards the heights which close
in the valley in that direction, while its left rested
upon an enclosed space which here juts into the
heath. Suddenly the Ist and 2d brigades and
a portion of the cavalry took ground to the left,
and, advancing up some sloping ground which effec-
tually concealed their movements, formed in masses of
battalions in a sheltered situation, whence they prepared
to assail and turn the enemy's right. This was a very skil-
fully executed manoeuvre, revealed only to the opposing
force, when the men of the 7th poured over the height
upon them, throwing out skirmishers and deploying into
line, which opened a vigorous fire. The artillery sup-
ported the attack on either flank, and while the
attention of the enemy was thus pre-occupied, the
whole division was formed into a splendid line, which,
following the undulations of the valley, had an exceed-
ingly picturesque effect. The 7th having retired, a heavy.
discharge of musketry commenced, and the left of the
division having been thrown forward, the most strenuous
efforts were made to drive back the enemy's right
and centre. These, however, proved ineffectual, and
the troops been withdrawn into shelter, the bat-
teries took up the attack, and the field for some time
presented a striking picture of the manner in which
that arm of the service is brought to bear in gene-
ral actions. After a tremendous cannonade, the guns at
length mastered the high ground on which the enemy's
right rested, and the whole division, quickly advancing
and throwing out skirmishers, compelled Col. Vicars
and his determined little band to retreat. The Guards
were now upon the right, Lockyer's brigade in the
centre, beyond this Sir Richard England's brigade,
while the cavalry and Horse Artillery were on the ex-
treme left of the line, which gradually changed its front
as the enemy's right fell back. The division having
gained the shelter of the enclosure wall, and deployed
into line behind it, resumed file-firing them, but failed to
make any further impression on the enemy, and the
advance was at once converted into a precipate retreat,
covered by the cavalry. The Duke of Cambridge had
great difficulties to contend with in the nature of the
ground, but, nevertheless, he did his work well, making
one brilliant charge, which the enemy repulsed by their
Lilliputian squares. His squadrons threw out skir-
mishers, and otherwise showed the facilities which
cavalry possess for checking the advance of an opposing
force. Several of the men were unhorsed in these ma-
noeuvres, which did not terminate till the Guards were
encountered drawn up in line of battalions and covering
the retreat of the division. It may be remembered that
towards the east front of the Camp the lower part of
Catlin's valley becomes swampy, and that a bridge has
been thrown accross, which, when the first division was
under canvass, was made subservient to a very brilliant
field-day. Then the object was to throw the troops
across the bridge, the low grounds being supposed
impassable, and to withdraw them again to the
south side when in retreat, making the marsh itself
a strong line of defence against the further advance
of the enemy. The last manoeuvre was repeated
with the new division on Saturday, and, ILS on the
previous occasion, was exceedingly effective. Before
the enemy, checked in its advance by the cavalry, had
reached that part of the valley where the Guards were
drawn up, Sir Richard England's and Lockyer's brigades,
diminishing their fronts, had already passed over the
morass, the south side of' which they lined, ready to
cover the retreat of the division. The artillery also,
crowning the heights on the same side, opened a tre-
mendous cannonade, and as the cavalry retired across
the marsh, the Guards, by battallions extended in line
and skirmishing, stoutly held the enemy at bay. The
coup (Tail of this manoeuvre is certainly finer than any-
thing else of the kind witnessed by us during the en-
campment. Its novelty of effect was somewhat marred
by repetition on Saturday, and we missed here, as else-
where, the Rifles, who did their work so appropriately
and well in the old division ; but still there was the same
brilliant military condensation and the same amphi-
theatric effect. As the Guards slowly withdrew from
the north side of the marsh, the two other foot brigades
from the south side deployed into line and opened upon
the enemy a tremendous flanking fire. The artillery
blazed away from the heights, and the eastern end of
the valley was wrapped in smoke. At length the whole
of the division had safely passed over, and established
itself in overpowering strength immediately below the
head-quarters. Had Colonel Vicars persevered, he might
have captured Lord Seaton, and stormed "the Magnet,"
but he satisfied himself with his success so far, and, not
seeking to provoke fortune more, the evolutions termi-
nated, each regiment 'gallantly took its way back to
camp, with its band playing ; and shortly afterwards
the crowds of spectators who had assembled to witness
the operations were returning to town again, highly
gratified by all that they had seen.
One consideration that must strike all visitors to
Chobham is the effectual deathblow there dealt to al
those notions of personal heroism which, from the time
of Homer downwards, have constituted the romance o
war. Modern history has not neglected to point out
this great change, but we who never see military evolu-
tions on a great scale have some difficulty in realising
the truth that even the shield of Achilles would now be
no protection, that brigadiers and generals in command
do not meet in hand-to-hand encounters, and that the
days when individual prowess could earn distinction in
the field are over. The camp will at least undeceive
those to whose heated imaginations battles are a suc-
cession of single combats such as we see fought at the
Surrey against desperate odds for the sake of some dis-
tressed petticoat. Minie rifles extinguish warriorship,
' and we find in reality, as we have often been told, that
an army is made up of soldiers as solidly, regularly, and
substantially as a house is made up of bricks. In truth,
nothing can be conceived more cold, systematic, or-
derly, and mechanical than that gigantic power to which
not only the rights and the interests, but even the pas-

"Faithful to the pledge I made to Mr. Evans, I have
taken no part, directly, or indirectly, in the late contest,
Prior to Mr. Evans' acceptance of the Chiltern Hundreds.
I purposely went up to London to warn him of the state
of the state of feeling which I thought would be created in
the county by the nomination of his son. He regarded
me not. He has now been emphatically told by the elec-
tors themselves, that my surmises, expressed to him then,
were quite correct."
"First. Can Mr. Thornhill be said to have taken no
part, directly, or indirectly, in the late contest He
received the deputation ; accompanied them back to
Chesterfield, where they strove to induce Mr. T. W.
Evans to resign. Although he could not come openly
forward, he (Mr. Thornhill) allowed his friends to make
what use they thought proper of his name. He was
among his committee within an hour after his nomina-
tion. He has contributed, or is reported by his friends
to have contributed, largely to the expenses of his own
election. Running over these few facts, sufficiently no-
torious, we are at a loss to understand the precise mean-
ing which Mr. Thornhill affixes to the terms in which
he asserts his entire non-interference.
Secondly. What did Mr. Thornhill tell Mr. Evans
in London ? That a minority of the Whigs, coalescing
with the Tories, would unseat his son ? No such thing !
He wished Mr. Evans to believe on the authority of
"an anonymous person," that the majority of the Liberal
party would not be satisfied with his son, but would
prefer Mr. Thornhill. The result has proved exactly
the reverse of this suggestion. The great majority of
the Liberal party voted for Mr. T. W. Evans, and the
minority for Mr. Thornhill. Had not therefore Mr.
Evans the first claim to the candidature? And would
not the more honourable course have been for Mr.
Thornhill, who was supported by the smaller section of
the Liberal party, to have retired altogether, and to
have attempted to heal the breach instead of aggravating
it by lending his name to the opposition, and floating in
upon the tide of Toryism ? Though Mr. Evans did
" regard him not," when he assumed the "Sir Oracle "
and told him on anonymous authority that the Liberal
electors had a distaste for his son—the result has proved
that the Liberal electors had a greater distaste for Mr.
Thornhill, and it was the Conservatives only, who always
opposed Mr. Evans, who were united in Mr. Thornhill'e
support.
Mr. Thornhill proceeds to tell us that he is a Minis.
terialist so long as the Government will do equal justice
to all parties ; but, if not—what then ? " When they
cease to do that, I will cease to uphold them."
Mr. Thornhill is "alive to the necessity of a sound
moral and religious education to the people at large"—
"an extended suffrage," (hear that Mr. Morewood !)
" Parliamentary Reform at once liberal, wise, and
moderate 1"—" legal reform,"—" stringent economy in
the public expenditure,"—and "equal justice in taxa-
tion."
Then follows a courageous effort :

" As one who has ever supported freedom of trade for
those engaged in it, I have a right to demand freedom for
those connected with the land."

What can this possibly mean ? Unless it be prophetic
of the abolition of rent, game laws, malt tax, tithes
and settlements, and a return of those halcyon days
"When wild in woods the noble savage ran,"

The addrsss closes with a metaphor of the country
placed on a pinnacle--an inconvenient, not to say pain-
ful position, in which we regret that 'Britannia should
have been left unprotected.

On Friday last the Daily News devoted an article to
the North Derbyshire Election, from which it would ap-
pear that an exuberant and virtuous sense of untram;
melled Liberalism has led to Mr. Thornhits return.
Alas ! our contemporary knew nothing of the Tory depu-
tation from Chesterfield which drew Mr. Thornhill from
his retirement—nothing of the tenantry brought up in
waggons to the poll by their Conservative landlords, as
if they were voting for a zealous Protectionist—nothing
of the use that was made by Mr. Thornhill's canvassers
of the names of the great Liberal landowners—nothing
of the demonstration of the Tory landowners which
greeted Mr. Thornhill's return on Friday last—nothing
of the marked absence of every leader of the Liberal
party on that occasion ! Our contemporary has been
wont under similar circumstances to speak plainly and
indignantly of coalitions like the one which-,has just
been successful ; and if he could refer to the poll book
of North Derbyshire he would probably subdue his con-
gratulations, and become eloquent in his regrets. A
moral may be drawn from the recent contest—but it is
not the one which our contemporary has pointed.
And now what is to be done by the great Liberal
party of North Derbyshire ? The circumstances of Mr.
Thornhill's return will undoubtedly prevent the Liberal
interest from placing in him that entire and cordial con-
fidence without which the relationship of member and
constituent cannot happily exist. Mr. Thornhill says
he shall " take his seat in Parliament untrammelled by
party ;" but that is exactly what the hero of every
coalition has said almost in the same words—this true
interpretation being, " You can never be sure of me !"
We would seriously and earnestly advise a meeting of
the leading Liberal electors from every district of the
division, to consult on the best measures that can be
adopted for healing the existing branch, and organizing
the Liberal party on a firmer basis for the future. Such a
meeting, we think, should originate from the districts which
at the late election, were most zealous on Mr.
Evans' behalf - and, as Glossop has always been
honestly devoted to the Liberal cause, as she re-
mained true during the last contest, and as among
the towns of Derbyshire she now ranks second
only to Derby in wealth, population and intelligence—
we would point to Glossop as the district in which the
movement should begin. The meeting, if arranged,
should be held at some central place—central in respect
of railway communication as well as merely geographi-
cal position ; and the objects of the meeting should be,
to consider the present state of the Liberal party, the
danger of the representation falling into the hands of the
Conservatives, the propriety of appointing a permanent
Liberal Committee for the division, the necessity of at-
tending year by year to the registration, and the best
means of introducing Liberal candidates to the electors,
as vacancies occur. A committee emanating from luck
a meeting, would soon have a recognised position anion
the party it represented ; and as it would spring from
the people, so it could only maintain its influence and
effect its object by consulting constantly the wishes,
feelings and opinions of the Liberal electors of North
Derbyshire.

RELIEF OF BRITISH VESSELS IN THE DANUBE.--.
Letters from Odessa state that the British Governrnert
has sent three steamers to tug the corn laden vesse ou
of the Sulina mouth of the Danube.

THE RAJAH BROOKE INQUIRY.—OUT BiDgapore cor-
respondent writes :----Sir James Brooke arrived here by
the last mail steamer from Europe, and has departed
for Sarawak and Bruri, for the purpose, it is said, of
getting up his defence for the commission of inquir
which Ministers have ordered into his conduct an
proceedings.
THE METROPOLITAN POLICE.—On Saturday after-
noon an adjourned meeting of the second and third-
class constables of the C division was held at b fLectur e
Hall, Denmark-street, Soho, for the purpose of consi-
dering the best course to be adopted by them, in order
to procure an advance in their present wages, which ar e
wholly inadequate, according to the price of provisions,
to their support. The pay of a second-class constable
is 18s. 74d., and of a third-class constable 16s. Bd.,
liable to deductions, which is not sufficient remunera-
tion for the duties they have to perform. After the
meeting bad been addressed by several of the officers,
it was resolved to present a memorial to the Secretary
of State. The memorial having been read over to the
meeting, it was subscribed by about 90 constables, afte
which the meeting brok up