The Sun.
London, England, 1869-12-07 00:00:00

rHE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 7, 1869.

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

THE CABINET.

Ministers are hastening back to town to consider
the very serious state of Ireland. A. Cabinet Council
is to be held to-day, another on Thursday, and
a third on Saturday, in order that measures may be
discussed for repressing sedition. The press is not
unlikely to come under revision ; and it is
probable that suppression may be resorted to, Cer-
tainly it is time that something was done to stop
the open preaching of treason.

rion ror eviction. It must nor-oe rorgotTen-tnar m
Ireland, in consequence of the absence of trades and
manufactures, a person who was turned out of his
holding- often had no choice between the workhouse
and starvation. This highly important and significant
discussion will be resumed.

and England and France must feel disagreeably
the consequences of such a catastrophe. The re-
sult, however, would widely differ from the British
Fraud Panic of 1866. That was the saturnalia of
prosperity and rascaldom, this would be the strug-
gling and painful effort of a nation to get back to
the firm ground from which it was forced by the
convulsions of a stupendous war, and the relief
would be instantly felt when the wrecks made had
been swept away, and the skeletons left had been
locked up in the cupboards. But can the United
States get back to the solid ground of specie pay-
ment without this panic ? Many Americans think
not, because men hold on so selfishly to all they can
get that none are willing voluntarily not only to
accept but i) anticipate the inevitable loss, coming
down in prices gradually with the fall in gold.
Could this be dote the change would be even and
unbroken along the line, whereas, by the sudden
fall in gold, and the tenacious maintenance of cur-
rency prices, the line is broken and unsettled, for
if one portion held suspended, while another is sunk,
the end must b 3 a shattering fall before the whole
can be again rectifi eil and al justed. Still many believe
that a cisis can be averted, at the same time that
specie payments are secured. If gold continues to
fall, prices, they say, will soon adjust themselves,
whether the sellers and buyers are satisfied or not.
The war, and the consequent inflation, made li v ing in
the United States the most expensive in the world,
whereas it ought to be the cheapest, as the country
produces all the great staples, has unbounded fer-
tile soil, and every necessary in overflowing abun-
dance. Hence it was impossible, except through the
most vicious legislation, that this unnatural state of
things could continue ; but it is not easy to work
a change which will ramify through the society of a
mighty community, and, when accomplished, it is
apt to be attended with painful results. While it
is undeniable that at Boston, Chicago, Louisville,
St. Louis, and Cincinnati there is a sharp pressure,
and all feel the impending change, in Wall-street
such dulness has not prevaile.l since 1860. Many
of the disheartened brokers have left the " Street"
to engage in other pursuits, and they have been
wise in at once taking this step. Still there is a
silver lining to the cloud. For if the West is in a
bad way, the South is in a good way ; and if corn
is going to the hogs, cotton is re-seating itself on
its throne. This is the advantage a great nation
possesses over a small community, for where one
interest is depressed another prospers ; where the
crop of a section fails, that of another is abundant ;
where the price of one staple leaves a loss to the
producer, the gain on another staple reimburses the
community. Yet it cannot be denied that a great
change is impending, and has already produced very
embarrassing results, and although it is generally
discussed few pretend to predict through what means
the desii able return to a specie basis will be accom-
plished, while the general belief is that the com-
mercial affairs of the nation are among the breakers
and passing over the bar of that change.

BUDGET OF PERSONAL.—Parson Brownlow tells
visitors now that he ain't going to die" to let Johnson
and Etheridge administer his political estate.—Rev. Henry
Boehm is the oldest living Methodist itinerant preacher
His ago is 95, and for 69 years he has been in the ministry.
—Robert Lincoln has just become the father of Abraham
Lincoln's first grandchild.—President Fillmore is to ap-
point a delegation to attend the Russian Exposition of
1870 on behalf of the Louisville Commercial Convention.
He has already appointed two—Blanton Duncan, of
Kentucky, and Robert T. Sanders, of Tennessee.
The funeral of the late General Wool took place at Troy
on Saturday, Nov. 13, the Treasury Department being
closed during the ceremony. Many distinguished persons
attended, minute guns were fired, and business generally
was suspended.—The bar of the Supreme Court of the
United States, Reverdy Johnsen presiding, adopted re-
solutions expressive of their regret at the death of Robert
J. Walker. The remains cf Robert J. Walker were in-
terred in Georgetown on Saturday, Nov. 13.—The body
servant of Washington having become comparatively ex-
tin ct,the cook of Lafitte, the pirate, turns up in Now Orleans,
aged 118. There is also a man who saw Major Andre
executed still living at Hanover, Rock county, Wisconsin.—
Vinnie Ream, who made a statue of President Lincoln in
one of the rooms of the Capitol at Washington, has gone
to Rome to finish her studies. She made busts, in Pavia,
of Mrs. Fremont and Gustave Dorf, and the latter is said
to have taken a great interest in her.—lt is reported that
ex-Senator Lafayette S. Foster, of Cincinnati, is to be one
of the new United States Circuit Judges.—Professor
Wolfe has collected one hundred and thirty varieties of
shells, and eighty of fossils, in Fulton county, Illinois.—
Steven C. Stevens, formerly Justics of the Supreme
Court of ludiana, has recently died at the ago of
seventy-six, a l auper, end in the insane asylum.—
Rear-Admiral William B. Short ielc is now the oldest offi-
cer in either the army or navy, having entered the service
iu 1806. The al lest cnnunission in the army is that of
General Sylvanus Thayor, of Braintree, Massachusetts,
who entered the army in 1808.—At the time of his death
it is said by a Now York paper that the late Robert J.
Walker was engaged on a work to prove that iu time New
York would surpass London as a commercial centre.—
O'Baldwin, the Irish pugilist, was sentenced, Nov. 15, at
Lawrence, Massachusetts, to 18 months' imprisonment in
the House of Correction for participating in a prize-fight
at Lynnfield, Massachusetts, some time since.—General
Wool left property valued at $610,000, which will be
divided principally between his nephews and nieces.
Among the benefactions were $15,000 to the Rensselaer
Polytechnic, and $3,000 to the Troy Episcopal Orphan
Asylum. He added a codicil to his will, a few days before
his death, setting aside $50,000 for a monument to his wife
and himself.—The will of the late Amos Kendall, just ad-
mitted to probate, is dated May, 1868. After bequeathing
to a grandson $lO,OOO and his lands in Arkansas, he makes
bequests to several of the children, and directs that his
personal property be divided between his four daughters,
and gives the executors full power to dispose of his real
estate, which is worth $300,000, to be divided among his
heirs.—The court-martial in the case of Lieutenant-
Commander Seeley, recently tried and sentenced for cruelty
to his subordinates, has reassembled at the Boston Navy-
yard.— Gen. A. Tate and his secretary, M. Moucelin, ar
rived at Now York in the steamer Port-au-Prince, from Port-
au-Prince, on Saturday, November 13. General Tate
is accredited from the Haytian Government as Envoy
Extraordinary and Minister plenipotentiary to Wash-
ington, and takes the place of M. Earisle Laroche, former
Minister and Charge d'Affaires of Hayti, resigned.—ln the
case of excMayor Ant horsy of Leavenworth, Ka,nsas,agaiust
General Thomas Ewing for false arrest, the jury, Nov. 13,
rendered a verdict for defendant. This was an action for
$20,000 damages, based on the arrest of Anthony while
mayor of that city during the war when General Ewing
commanded the district.—ln the matter of the petition of
Francois Perez, the alleged fugitive forger from Switzer-
land, for a writ of habeas corpus, and to be discharged
from custody, Judge Blatchford, after hearing testimony
and argument, has decided that the papers on which
the proceedings were taken were entirely insufficient, an
has discharged Fares.—Senator Sumner was at the Astor
House, New York, Nov. 17, and on the same day Governor
Hoffman left that city for Albany.—Since the trouble at
Salt Lake, Mr. Stenhouse, the editor of Salt Lake Tele-
graph, has taken one of Lis wives, probably No. 1, and
gone to San Francisco. Some people think he never will
go back.—Governor Palmer has appointed Mr. Johns, a
wealthy coloured citizen of Chicago, a notary public—the
first recognition of the political rights of nogroes in Illi-
nois.—Beechor's son, Henry Clay, has married Miss
Francis G. Snow, daughter of George M. Snow, former
commercial editor of the Tribune.—General Hazen, com-
manding the district of lower Kansas, thinks there may be
trouble with the Indians next spring, and that two regi-
ments will be needed in the district to preserve order.—
Mdlle. Sagrino recently fell from a trapeze in a St. Louis
Theatre. She pitched headforemost into the orchestra,
and broke both her arms and a music stand.—Anna
Bishop's singing astonishes New York. It is said to
ho wonderful, considering her age and her experiences.—
Mr. Geo. Peabody named in his will, as executors of his
estate, Charles W. Chandler, of Zanesville, Ohio, Single-
ton Peabody, of Rutland, Vermont, and George Peabody
Russell, of Danvers, Massachusetts. The first named
married a daughter of a deceased brother of Mr. Peabody,
the second is a son of a brother now living in Ohio, and
the third is the son of his sister, Mr. Russell still living in
Massachusetts. The body was embalmed preihous to
being deposited in Westminster Abbey by Dr. Pavy, of
Guy's Hospital.—Dr. A. C. Coxe, Bishop of Westen, New
York, will speak at a public meeting which will be at-
tended by the Bishops of Ely and Lincoln, Mr. A. J. B.
Bops, M.P., and other gentlemen, on Wednesday next, on
the subject of the (Ecumenical Council and Eastern Chris-
tianity.—The Prince of Wales honoured the performances
at the St. James's Theatre, on Thursday evening. After
the burlesque of "La Belle Sauvage" his Royal High-
ness sent for Mrs. Wood and congratulated her on her
success as actress and manageress.

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immediately relieve, and, when properly taken, gradually
cure. The remedial power of these pills is not superficial
or temporary, but complete. They possess the inestimable
merit of never doing harm to the feohlebt frame.

TUE SMITHFIELD CAT? LE SHOW.

The following appeared in our Latest Edition of yesterday
,vening:—

The great annual show of the Smithfield Cattle
Club was held at the Agricultural-hall this day.
The number of beasts entered is greater than last
year, and they all appear to be in excellent con-
dition. The representatives of the press were not
confined to the galleries during the judging,
so that a better opportunity was presented of
noticing the peculiarities of the animals.
The Queen's contribution to class 1, and which has
taken the third prize, is a fine compact brown ox,
and the first prize in the same class is a much larger
animal, but to the uninitiated its superiority consists
merely in its size. Mr. C. Ham bro's ox, No. 16,
is a fine specimen of breeding ; and her Majesty's
prize in class 11 is a beast of the best description.
The sheep, as a whole, are remarkably fine ; and
the pigs, always a great attraction in the show, this
year exceed all former exhibitions. They are
gigantic cylinders of fat, and, as usual, they seem
totally incapacitated for locomotion.
His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, at-
tended by Gen. Knollys, Major Grey, and Gen.
Kingston, visited the hall, and after inspecting the
various classes of animals expressed his satisfaction
at the Show. There were an etiormous number
of agricultural machines on view, but, in the diffe-
rent galleries, and iu the vestibule, there was a fine
show of carriages, by Mr. Ashford, milk churns,
sausage machines, by all makers, ditto. sewing
machines, Smyth's umbrellas, and Roberts's won-
derfully cheap half-crown clocks. Messrs. Pyke,
of Thavies Inn, have erected a perfect El Dorado,
for the display of their glittering stock of
Abyssinian gold jewellery and watches, which at-
tracts universal admiration, owing to its cheapness
and beauty of manufactue. ' Mr. Myers exhibits a
clever night lamp, with a clock attached ; and Mr.
Topham shows his patent mincing machine. In
the Concert Hall, also a regular fancy fair is held,
which is rendered further attractive by a perform-
ance of instrumental music during the hours of
exhibition.

The following is a complete list of the awards :

DEVON CATTLE.

Class I—Devon Steers, not exceeding 2 years 6 months
old.—First prize of £2O to No 5, J. H. Buller of Crediton ;
second prize of ,£l5 to No. 2, W. G. Nixey, Slough ; third
prize of £lO to No. 4, the Queen.
Class 2—Devon Stters, not exceeding 3 years and 3
months old.—First prize of £3O to No. 10, 0. Mamba',
M.P., Blandford, Dorset; second prize of .£2O to N 0.2, C.
M•Niven, Godstone ; third prize of .£lO to No. 8, W. G.
Nixey, Slough.
Class 3—Devon Steers or Oxen, above 3 years and 3
months old.- --First prize of £3O to No. 23, W. Farthing,
Bridgwater; second prize of £2O to No, 19, John Far-
quharson, Blandford; third prize of £lO to No. 22, E.
Burton, Broadclyst. _

Class 4—Devon Heifers, not exceeding 4 years old.—
First prize of £25 to No. 29, W. G. Nixey, Slough ; second
prize of £l5 to No. 32, W. Farthing, Bridgwater; third
prize of £lO to No. 34, C Godstone.

Class s—Devon Cows, above 4 years old.—First prize
of .V 5 to No. 38, W. Farthing, Bridgwater; second prize
of £ 5 to No. 36, W. Smith, Exeter; third prize of £l.O to
No. 37, J. Hitchcock, South Molton.