The Sun.
London, England, 1824-12-14 00:00:00

CHRISTMAS CAVFLE MIES% t.

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Cittcottvita.,:•DEc I.—ne great tut titet.in of .I.lnl
ket, termed the-Christmas,Cattle thew ilarket, eatuctl sacri
assemblage of •.atuatettrA graziers, farmers, &c. in this city,
as nearly amounted to an ovetHovi. The CoMpetitien ..rivver,,7r-
getic for almost every priZe, and the aWards. of the -umpires
were-Universally. satisfacttiry. This is us.it should bc. !Lit of
experience, why are disinterested, ought to be the inapt on
these occasions. The spirit of jealousy is by their ti.tt
thered In its infancy, and a zealous and • lautluble' aim rt
eminence properly excited and !Ostend... The prizes war. ati
judg4l-in the following order
CLAss.-1. A. silver cup, value lOgs.. the gift. ni
gin Orace the Duke of Richmond, for the best fat ox—DOk.c. of
Richmond. - 2
3, A silver cup, value 6gs. for the second best fin ox.--.le:.
Sepli thtdrkan, Esq. . •
, • 3. A silver cup, .value I.og/i. given by the, Alemhers for the
City, for the best fat runt—Alr. Neale, cf
4. A silver cup, value ligs. for the second best fat run:---31r.
W. Upton, of Colworth.
• 6. it silver cup, value 6gs. for the best fat steer—Mr. Henry
Bparkes,.rof,hierstor?.
SECOND CLASS.-6. A silver cup, value figs,' for the best
fat cow or heifer-Messrs. Ilayllar, of New FiShbottrne.
7. A silver cup, velure Ogs. the gill of his tirace the Duke or
Itiehmond,for the second best cow or heifer-Mi . George Ficirl,
! of New Fishbournc..

Tilt up Cr. ass.-8. sA silver cup, value lOgs. the gift of Lani
Selsea, • , for the ten .best fat six-tooth or full-mouthol South
Down wethers—Mr. G. Copis, of Seism.
9. A 'silver cup, value llgs. for the ten best fat• four4tioth
South Down wethers—Mr: C,Sparltes, of South •A 1 iindhain.
10. A silver cup , voluc Ns. forthe ten hest tat South Down
ewes—Mr. C. Itellinghurst, of Yupton.
11. A silver cup, value flga. for the ten second best fist iiinse6
'Down ewes—Mr. Cooke, of Climping. . . .
• 12. A silver' cup, 'value figs. for the .ten best fat ewes Of any
description-.411r. !'.Collins, of Aldingliourtie.
• After the Shaw .s.'niost respectable company, amounting to
189 persons, assembled in the Market Room at the Swim Iva).
and partook of an excellent ordinary, at,which laird .T. G. Lcr.-
pox, for this City, the Mayor, and many' Gentlemen of tie o leAlv
corporate,''' and several other respected' individuals took eto•ir
seats, entering Mast warmly into the'busincss of dn.!, chi y.. T..-
Ruc.c.coful tinulidates idled their prize-cups with " the gen'er:,,.
wine,". rind they were eriiPtled with the' hearty wishes, of ri,:-
eoktileAnY' towards' the,Prosperity of their, respective ownstres—
The. other Inns and houses of entertainment experienced a day
of business,
.and a subscription for the year ensuing is rilreadv•
'clotiNenced,'Whlclipromisek to ensure, a cent in i ounce of brnoli;..
tioit.- 4n the general beast "minket Omne:wit:o sloe k was ex-
, hibited, and - prime be:if fptched from Is io ;i., i....rste.r.e i
best mutton was current at Iditcr lb. The corn trA(Ls is •briirls.,
and. the averagiis Of the Cori trispector are us rol!ow :__V,lteit,,
4ifis bil ;•-.Aarlayr4oll • lid; Oats, 16s; and tkallb:4ls per
quarter

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ARUNDEL CATTIX SHEW.
The :phew of Cattle, on' Tnesday last, fully -meintc.ined
the justly acquired fame of this.market. • The stock tea of the
finest description, and almost entirely tliiptiscri of at goOd
Prices. The premiums were distributed as under—(hls Grace
the Duke of Norfolk, with a liberality worthy of that tlistin.
guished Nobleman, haying waived
.his right to the Cap for the
best Sussex bred cow :)-
1. The Mayor's tankard, value 101., to Mr. Stoker; of Thrd,
for the best fht Sus.sex.bred, ox-2.. The Duke of Norfolk's
tankard, value 101., to Mr. Joseph Come, of Climping, for
the best fat Sussex steer-3. The Members' tankard, value
101., to Mr. William Newland,' of Tostington, fbr the best fat
ox of any description-4. A cup, vulue 61., to Me Neal, of
•Hardham; for the • best let Welch runt—h. A cap, vi' ue 61.,
to Mr. William Elliott, of liyminster, for the boot littScotch
runt-6.' A cup, value M.,. to '.lllesiirt. Watkins.alut Putiand,
of Calcetto, for the best fat Sussex cow-7..A cup, value Al.,
to Mr. Hugh Tenfold, for .the best fat Sussex' heifer-8. A.
cup *Aiwa to W.Thutwick, Esq., of Ham, Alt a pen of
ten l'at Southdown wethers-9. A cup, value 6/., to Jr.A Thos.
coneris, of 4ltlingbourn, for a pen of tenfat.Southdown ewes.
The.pablic thanks are.. due to the Judgei,,, Mr. Harmer and
Mr. 13rettle,'Of Brighton, and Mr. Bennet, of Alta::, for the
disinterested manner in which the prizes were.adjudged. Their
award gave universal satisfaction. Two hundred and sixteen
head of fat stock were exhibited. Mr. Budd, of MooeStoke,
Dents, was the purchaser of the Sussex ox. •An excillent
dinner was,provided-for the occasion, in Nawrrtates best, style,
At the Norfolk Arms Hotel; nearly. 260 persons partook of it.
—The proceedings of the day 'were judiciously arranged by the
Ste Wards, It. Watkins, Esq. R.-linty, Esq., and T. Chat.
field, Esq.; and the most liberal subscriptions were entered
into for the ensuing year.

SIIOCKING CASE OF STARVATION:,--UO 111011(lay
last an Inquest Wl* held before. Mr. Baoox, the Coroner,
on the body of Peter Fieldhouse, poor man, who lately oc-
' copied a Anserable cottage on East Moor, near Wak4icid,
but who belonged to the township of Oulton.- There appear-
ing to
.have been great negligence on the part of the overseer
of the' township to which he belonged, the Inquest wos ad-
journed to the following day, to give an opportunity for; more
complete in'vestigatinn of the business. It them appeared that
the poor man, who was a widower, with three small childreo,
had been ill and unable to do any work fur five or six weeks.
.During this time the overseer, as he himself &prised,' had
called upon him about a month before his death, and given
him five shillings, and the next day sent the town apothecary
to him, who also left him five shillings more. From this time
he bad no further relief from him till the Friday before his death,
when he again sent him five shillings. On the previous Tues-
day, at the instigation of a gentleman by whom the poor marl
had been relieved, Air. Dunn, the apothecary to the Wakefield
Dispensary, visited him. This flentlemAn stated to the Coro-
ner and his Jury, that he found the deceased very ill,. in a
I most miserable: and .filthy situation' laid. on something which
;could not with any propriety be called a bed, and without any
covering but a dirty sack. Be saw him, too, on the Wednesday
and Friday-following, and administered to him such meditlines
as he,thought his case required, giving him also money which
he received for his relief. The poor man, in the course of his
conversation with him, said he had been so ill treated by the
overseer, that he would starve before, he would apply to hint
again. This gentleman expressed his belief, that if proper atten-
tion had been paid to the poor man by the overseer, sad proper
relief afforded hlm, he would have been alive then (at std time
of the Inquest). The wretchedness of the poor man'a situation,
and the ,neglect .he had experienced, wereconfirmed by the
lei:Moony of some of his neighbours. Thp Jury, after a short
deliberation, gave the following verdict That the deceimed
came to his death in his cottage at East•moor, from the wilful
neglect of the overseers of the poor of Oulton ; and the said
jurors father find and declare a deodand of N. to be Paid
by Mr. William Parrer, the overseer of Oulton, to the Lrd
of the manor of Virakefield, but recommeded by the Jury to be
4 ven up to the Wakefield Dispensary." The poor Taiwan..
years of age, and his dead body exhibited a singularapeci.
men of misery, being almost literally nothing but, skin, sod
bone.—( Wakefield Paper.)

it.few evenings since, a lire balloon wits let °lr . ,
at St. Stephen's, near Canterbury, by some young rum ""
alighted on a hay-stuck belonging to Mr. Henry Colll4,rds
Ol
Gore-street, a few miles from --hence, and ignited the thatch,
The damage done was very considerable.

POPER.Y.-THE ETOILE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SlR—Partly through occupation, and partly
Through the hope that the subject would be,
touched by an abler pen, I have omitted to no-
tice a few more remarks of my worthy old friend
the Editor of the Etoile, who seems to think that
lie best replies to my last letter by pouring the
most indiscriminate and rancorous abuse on the
English Church and Nation. lam happy, Sir,
to say, that the subject has not been entirely un-
noticed ; and a friend of mine, who is in all re-
spects far better qualified to undertake the task
than myself, at present contemplates strew-
ing up the ignorant bigots of the Etoile,
for reasoning from the superstition of the
Shiloh people, and the ignorance of the Me-
thodists, to the state of the English Church.
From this part of the Work, then, I am happily
and honourably absolved. 1 do not write this
with the hope of prodneing any conviction on
the Conductors of the Polk, who have long since
lost sight of sense and reason ; but it is right that
the English people should know that the spirit of
Popery remains unchanged by time and 'place, anti
that the objects of the " Catholic Association,"
though winked at here, are well understood and
untlisguisedly published on the Continent.
.Not only is this nation, according to the Etoile,
the most intolerant on earth, but it is the most
superstitious. And for all this superstition eve
are, of course, indebted to Protestantism, espe-
chilly 10 THE DESTRUCTION OF CONFESsIONALS
The only way in which this assertion deserves to'
be met, is by a direct assertion to the contrary :
however, there is certainly much superstition in
England, as in all other countries, among the un-
educated !classes, although, by the blessings of
diffused education, it is rapidly decreasing. But
there is this difference between the superstitions
of England and those of Popish countries---that
in the former case they exist by toleration only,
while, in the latter, they are ithisted on by the
Government as a matter of necessary belief, and
those who do not conform to them may think
themselves happy if they escape only with a few
hard words from a priestly newspaper. Members
of the English Church ridicule Joanna and be-
nfAst lights as much as the Etoile can ; but the
highest Dignitaries of the Itomish believe the mi-
racles of Prince Hohenlolie. Superstition, then,
which, like all opinions, is tolerated In this
•country, is not ceutriennnced either by the Go-
vernment or the Church, while it forms one of
the essentials of Popery. Our Lady of Loretto,
.imacea, and relics in general, the liquified b 1 god
of Januarius, the string of superstitious nonsense
put together by Patoritti, infinitely surpass the
Southcote fanaticism : yet alt these are firmly be-
Peved by the enlightened Conductors of the
Emile, and are the popular belief of his far more
enlightened countrymen. The miracle which is
daily transacting before their eyes, the transub-
stantiation of the mass, is in itself a piece of folly
•far transcending nil the grossest superstition of
Pagan idolatry. That man would ever have be.
litved such monstrous and impious absurdity
might have at one time seemed impossible to
conceive ; yet, by one of those coincidences
• which hear sometimes almost the form of pro-
phecy, Cicero has actually condemned this very
superstition (De Nat. Deor. Lib. iii. cap. 16.)
it Quiem fruges Cererem, vinurn Liberurn, dici-
" mus, genere nos quidem sermonis utimur

" usitato: SED EEQUEM TAM AMENTEM ESSE PIJTAS,
" QUI I LLU D, QUO YEW tTUR, DRUM CUED AT
cc ESIIE?" What a Pagan idolator found too gross
.for his credulity, is the leading article of the
Ramis)) Church!
Another complaint of the Eloile against us Is
that the English Clergy are too much occupied
with their wives and children to attend to their
spiritual duties. St. l'aul is not, of course, much
authority with men who hold infallibility to be
resident in themselves ; however, St. Paul 5875,
that" A bishop mint be THE HUSBAND OF ONE
" WIPE, one that ruleth well his own house, hav-
" ing his CHILDREN in subjection with all gravity;
" FOR IF A MAN 1140 W NOT HOW TO RULE HIS

" OWN HOUSE, HOW SHALL. IRE TAKE CARE OF Tar.
" cHUILCII OF (ion ?" (1 Tinl. iii. 1. 4. 5.) In

fact, the government of a family is of all things
the heat calculated to leach the practical dis-
charge of pastoral duties ; and I defy the Etude
to Show me any ten parishes in France, promis-
- clumsily selected, which shall exhibit the real re-
information, and good conduct, which 1
find him in any ten English parishes promis-
cuously selected, the capital being always ex-
clotted.

The readers of the'Eroile are congratulated on
the numbers who support. the Popish confederacy
in this kingdom, and who are complimented with
the title of 4' Mai as do not consider the decrees

"of a libertine tyrant binding on their con-
" sciences." Does the Emile mean to say that
we believe in the infallibility of Henry VIII.?

he does, hr has committed another of the
thousand bltuaders into which he is every day
falling. We refer to the Articles of our Church
for the standard of our belief, and we do so be.

cause, and only because, we feel convinced they
nuy be proved "r by sure.warra ills of Scat PTUfi E."
But he DOES iYereVe4fr the INFALLIBILIT not: of
orw, but .er b hesft. of libertines and tyrants, " who.

gi opposed and exalted themselves above all that
" is called Goo, or that is worshipped ; so that
" they, as God, sat in the temple of God, show.
" ing themselves that they were Gods."—
(2 Theis. ii. 4.)
Such is Popery, and suck its-manner of deal-
ing. And if .the people of England do not see
the danger in wide,' they stand from Popish -As,:
soeiationsobey must fall unpitii.d. Again I call
upon the 'Moue, who has never answered the
question., would a,PitoTtiSTANT Assoct APION he
tolerated tin -hour in his land of universal religious
liberty ? At ft ,receut, meeting of one of these
osiemblies, a Mr. Law less, to whom we might
s,iy, as Ovid said to Carus, " Quint es vetA,
vocaris," expressed himself surprised that it
hhould be considered necessary that their agent
• should be a religious man What, then, are the,
of the Association ? Certainly nut reli-

gions by this admission. PEOPLI OF ENGLAND !
the Etoile knows better than you!
I write in the greatest haste, but I trust that
those who have more leisure and ability► will not
be silent on a subject" of such magnitude and
importance. I am, Sir,
Your obedient servant,
BRITANNUS.