The Sun.
London, England, 1831-11-21 00:00:00

SMITHFIELD MARKET

This day's supply of Beasts was rather great; of Sheep, fat
Calves, am! Porkers, rather limited. The trade was very dull
throughout, with Beef at a depression of full 2d. per stone; with
Mutton, 'Vol, and Pork, at barely Friday's quotations.
PRICES PER STONE OF HLES• TO SINE THE OFFALS.
a. d. los. d. a, d. toe. d.
Inferior Beasts 2 0 2 Large Lambs
Second quality ditto 2 6 210 Prime small ditto 0 0 0 0
Prime large Oten.,. 3 6 3 8 Large coarse Calves 3 6 4 0
Prime Scots, 3 6 310 Prime small ditto 4 8 5 0
Inferior Sheep 2 6 2 8 Large flogs 4 0 4 2
Second quality ditto 3 0 3 2 Small Porkers 4 8 5 2
Coarse_woollEdditto3 8 4 0 Suckling Calves 12s to 44. each.
SlutlidownWethers 4 6 4 8 Quarter old Pigs 12s to 188. each.

SUPPLE, AS EER CLERK'S STATEMENT.
Beasts. 'Sheep and Lambe.' Calves. Pigs.
2,900 I 17,11,0 132 170
About 1400 of the beasts came up the St. Alban's Road ; about
SOO up the other northern roads; about SOO (including Irish)
from the western and midland districts ; about 250 from Nor-
folk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire ; about 30 from Kent
and Sussex ; and most of the remainder front the marshes, &c
in the neighbourhood of London.

NENVGATE AND LEADENHALL MARKETS.
At per stone, by the Carcass.
a. d. to a. d. s. d.toi.
d.
Beet Q 2 3 2 Veal
Slutton...• 2lO 4 0 Pork 3 8 5 0

Lord GAGE is one of the noblemen who have
entered into a competition with the poachers in the sale of
game, with a view to beat them out of the market. On
Monday his Lordship supplied one vender at Lewes with
ten brace of pheasants and several hares.

CHOLERA AT SUNDERLAND.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sist,—The intelligence we have received from Sunder-
land this day is the most alarming we have had since the
cholera made its appearance there. There are seven new
cases and five deaths of malignant cholera. There have
been before five deaths in one day, and seven new cases in
another, but they have never occurred before together._..
The following is a copy of Dr. Daun's official report :
Sunderland, Nov. 18.
DAILY REPORT OF DIARRHOEA AND CIIIAIIRA

CASES,

REFUSAL OF THE SHERIFF OF- ESSEX;

TO CALL A MEETING.

(From the Morning Advertiser.)
The Reformers of Essex have long been anxious to ex-
press their un filtered sentiments on the " great question,"
and on Friday a requisition, couched in the following
terms, was presented to William Davis, Esq., of Leyton-
stone, the High Sheriff:—
" We, the undersigned, request you to call a meeting of the
freeholders and inhabitants of the county, to take into considera-
tion the state of public affairs at this important juncture, and to
express our sentiments thereon to both Houses of Parliament,
and to consider of an address to his Majesty, expressive of our
devoted loyalty and affection to his person and Government,
and of our gratitude for his gracious assurance of his unaltered
desire to prosecute the settlement of the great question of Re-
form," &c.

The requisition was signed by the Earl of Essex, Lord
Petre, Lord Dacre, Sir T. B. Lennard, Sir F. Vincent,
M.P., the Hon. W. L. 'Wellesley, M.P., C. C. Western,
M.P., T.B. Lennard, M.P., D. W. Harvey, M.P., John
Disney, Esq., about a dozen Magistrates, and thirty
Noblemen and Gentlemen.

On Saturday evening the Sheriff's reply, which had
been the previous evening sent to Lord Petre, was for-
warded to each of the requisitionists. After a few prefa-
tory remarks, he says—
" Since I have been Sheriff' I have convened two county meet-
ings upon these subjects, or upon points intimately connected
with them, and there has also been a general election, and a se-
vere contest for six days, upon all of which occasions the free-
holders and inhabitants of the county have, by petition and
otherwise, unequivocally expressed their sentiments. I, there-
fore, cannot feel the propriety of giving my sanction to another
county meeting, especially at this moment of peculiar excite.
ment. I have given the most anxious consideration to the re-
quisition, and in declining to comply with the request it contains,
I assure your Lordship my humble judgment tells me that I shall
thereby properly exercise the discretion which is given me, and
promote the peace and best interests of the county."
Previous to this refusal being made known, another re-
quisition hail been in course of signature amongst the free-
holders. On Saturday evening upwards of one thousand
names had been signed, and it was determined to present
it to the Sheriff, to show him that some of the county
was, at any rate, opposed to his decision.
The Reformers are determined to have a meeting, and
if, upon the presentation of the second requisition, the
Sheriff should still refuse, the Magistrates will call one
themselves.

I have been informed that in several towns large bodies
of special constables have bee❑ sworn in. At Chelmsford
nearly 300 have been called upon to serve under the new
Act. This is supposed to be the work of Sir John Tyr-
rell (father of the Colonel) and a few Tory Magistrates.
These 300 have been selected from the most respectable
tradesmen and merchants of the town, most of whom are
favourable to Reform. I❑ case of a meeting, these, it is
expected, will be called upon duty, in order to prevent
them expressing their sense on the subject. But this will
not do, the people of Essex are too determined to be ma-
nacled by such contrivances.

Great indignation has been expressed in different parts
this day (Sunday), as the Sheriff's refusal became known.

THE COUNTY MEETING.

(From the Carlisle Journal.)
In another part of our paper we have inserted a very full
report of the proceedings of the county meeting, held at Wig.
ton, on Tuesday last. The meeting was probably the most
numerously attended of any held in Cumberland for many years;
and we certainly never saw such an array of the gentry of the
county as the hustings presented. One or more individuals
connected with almost every family of note or consequence in
Cumberland—of course excepting the Lowthers—were present ;
and most of those absent were prevented, by accidental circum.
stances, from attending. For some time past, the Tories have
been cackling about re-action in this county; and they were
fool-hardy enough, the other week, to insinuate that the meet-
ing was not called for by the freeholders. In addition to this,
they have been labouring, tooth and nail, to persuade the land.
owners that the Reform Bill was the mere forerunner of their
ruin. We need only refer them to the meeting of Tuesday for
their answer. If that do not satisfy them, we should despair
of teaching them wisdom by any thing short of blows.
One or two occurrences of Tuesday arc worthy of note, as
indicating the feeling and temper of the times. The conduct
of the Bishops appeared to have made an ineffaceable impres-
sion upon the minds of the freeholders, and every opportunity
was eagerly seized for testifying their dislike to the Judas Is-
cariots of the Bench. Another fact was also made manifest,
that no Tory Administration would ever again be tolerated;
for the slight compliment paid by Mr. P. H. Howard to the
financial measures of the Duke of Wellington's Administration,
was received with so much disapprobation, that it was with dif.
ficulty the speaker could afterwards proceed, although he had
been previously listened to with great attention, except while
endeavouring to vindicate the right of the Bishops to seats in
the Legislature.
For some time past the Tories have been labouring in their
vocation to raise a hue and cry against Mr. James and Mr. Bla-
mire, for the opinions the one is known to hold on the Corn Laws,
and for certain changes which they pretend to have discovered
in the sentiments of the other, on the same subject. It must
have been peculiarly mortifying to those who have taken so
much pains to sow dissension on this point to find not a single
voice raised in approbation of their much loved Corn Laws, ex.
cept that of a parson who had, by dint of hard drinking, screwed
his courage to the sticking place to cry " Corn Laws," as if he
wished to have an explanation from Mr. Blamire : but the fumes
of the liquor became too strong for his weak understanding, and
he was taken off or slunk off without uttering another word.
Another scheme of the Tories met with an equally signal defeat.
They have been endeavouring for some time to raise a cry
against the Truck System ; and the result of their labour ap-
pears to be the mustering of one " sweet voice" to demand an
explanation from Mr. Blamire of the vote he gave against Mr.
Littleton's Bill. The explanation appeared to be most satisfac-
tory to the meeting. As we have alluded to this subject, we
inay take this opportunity of saying that we perfectly agree
with Mr. Blamire on the impolicy of interfering with the labour
of the country. We may also observe that the Carlisle manu-
facturers have always paid their workmen in money. At War-
wick Bridge, near this city, we understand, in consequence of
its country situation, there is a store for the use of Messrs.
Dixon's cotton-spinners ; but the use is voluntary on the part
of the men ; and we believe it is extensively used by the sur-
rounding agricultural population, at the same prices charged
to the work-people.

ERRATUM.—Our article of Friday spoke of " the evils of
the Register of the Bill," which was nonsense. The " Rejec-
tion of the Bill " was what ought to have been printed.