The Sun.
London, England, 1856-07-14 00:00:00

TIER SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVE.Z,iI3, JULY l4, 1856.

LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS.

MARNFT NEWS.—(This

THE LATE DIVISION AND THE
FAM: IL [ES.

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this .

CORN EXCHANGE.

Only limited supplies of wheat were ou sale in tho lead•
ing country markets held on Saturday. Most kinds sold

(Prom a Correspondent of the Morning Advertiser.)
It shows strongly the great influence of the funnies,
that Lord Palmerston should have been led to make
such an unfortunate compromise, and give his watchful
rival, Lord John Russell, such a triumph on Thursday
night. Happily, a division among themselves, and the
desire of L rd John not to remain longer in obscurity,
has defeated the attempt of the peers to dictate to the
other po•% ers in the Constitution, and to subject the
Cr wn, in one of its most useful prerogatives, to the
House of Lords. Originally consisting of life peers
alone, that house has fallen into the prejudice of heir-
ship, as some one calls it, that it denies the right of the
Crown to summon to a place in its councils, either for a
session or a lifetime, any one who may deserve it.
How destructive of the power of national self-govern-
ment by the people it is, that a Premier, so powerfully
backed by the popular choice, should have to submit to
such aristocratic influence, acting in an underhand way,
and, as the event proves, providentially defeated when it
is challenged to an open division ! How often has Lord
Palmerston been forewarned of this danger in these
columns, and exhorted to rely more upon the people and
upon intelligent public opinion ! He would not then
be exposed to defeats by such comparatively unpractical
and inefficient leaders as Lord John Russell and Mr.
Gladstone.
The division of Thursday night exemplifies a combina-
tion of the old Bedford Whigs with the Peelites and
the extreme Liberal party against the Minister, with
his personal friends and Government following, and
backed by the Tories and the House of Lords party. The
number of honourables and e!dest sons of peers on the
Government side is very significant. Thus we have, on
the Ministerial side, sons of the Dukes of Richmond,
Marlborough, 'Montrose, and Cleveland—no less than
three sons of the Marquis of Anglesey, who certainly is
well represented in the Lower House—sons of the Mar-
qnises of Norinanby, Aylesbury, Abercorn, and Head-
Fort—sons of the Earls of Povitis, Radnor, Belmore,
Cowper, Camperdown, Crawford and Balcarres,
Bradford, Cado,fan, Manvers, Mayo, and Ennis-
killen—sons of Lords Dacre, Forrester, Ravens-
worth, Hatherton, and Mostyn ; besides several Irish
peers, and relatives, or near connexions by marriage, of
almost every nobleman in the peerage. Such, indeed,
is the composition of the House of Commons at pre-
sent, that at least one-half of its members are so en-
tangled ; and if it were not for the hopes of a pure
Whig Cabinet, and that a share of the power of Govern-
ment would again fall to certain influential Whig
families, it is certain that the Commons would never
have asserted themselves to the extent they have.
The influence of the peers over the small rotten
boroughs in England is strikingly exemplified in this
critical division. There are a number of small decaying
places in England of no political significance, and mostly
in the hands of noblemen who have seats near them, or
else carried by lavish expenditure of money. Of these,
in the division of Thursday night, the peerage was able
to command 26 votes, while the other parties united,
with even the old Whig aristocracy, had only 12 votes
from this source.

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N. W.3r
L.&N.W.
Call don...
E. Un. &
E. C...
Nrt .

steadily, and fine parcels were rather dearer. In spring
corn and flour vary little change took place.
Our ad vices from New York state that rather large sup
plies of wheat and flour continued to arrive from the inte-
rior. For shipment to England, some important purchases
had been effected. The Continental markets have become
less active.

95 - 100
100 105

12 -- 14
135 139
4 ... 4i

E. Count.
CAlftln,

Up to our market, last week, the receipts of home-grown
produce were very moderate. From abroad, we received
G,..95 quarters of wheat, 757 barley, 7,395 oats, 2,50 J
beans, 3,853 peas, 100 tares, 4,717 linseed, 1,666 rapeseed,
6,7t)0 Indian corn, 81 sacks and 16,075 barrels of flour.
For the time of year about an average supply of English
wheat was received fresh up to-day, coastwise and by land
carriage, and the show of samples of both red and'white
was tolerably good. For most kinds, especially for the
finest qualities, we had a moderate demand, at prices equal
to those paid on Monday last.
The weather to day is by no means favourable, and we
learn that harvest work will be commenced a week or ten
days later than last year.

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Y. &
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S. Bute.

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117 - 121

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Stelr ton. &
DArlingt.
Midland . •

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There was only a moderate show of foreign wheat. The
demand was by no means active, and the sales were mostly
in retail. Importers, however, were firm, and the quota-
tions were well supported.

'En. Conn.
E. Count
Do

57 - b 9

The Paris market on Saturday was dull for flour, a
drooping prices.

r.& N.W
Do

In floating cargoes of grain very little was doing.
The few samples of barley in the market were taken at
very full prices.

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Lancash &
Yorksh.
T. Brassey
I M. MCloan
9tockt, &
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21 d

Malt was slow in sale, and prices were nominally 53 to Gs
per quarter lower. .

The supply of oats was very modarate, and the oat trade
ruled steady, at full quotations.
Beans were in short supply and fair request at late rates.
Owing to a large import from Canada, peas were dull,
and rather lower to purchase.
The flour trade was steady,
the turn higher.
cUßiti-;NCY PER n
iVheat—Essex Kent,
Red .• •• new 69sio 803
Ditto.. . old —s —5
Ditto, White new 69s 83s
Ditt0........ old —ll —s
Norfolk and Lin-
coln, Red, old -s -3
Ditto new •• •• 67$ 77;
Ey,—Old ........•• •• —s
Sew ......., 40s —3l
13a-icy—Grinding .•• •• 36$ 393
.salting .•• •• 41; 435
4
433
5s
Nor-
folk .......... •• 68s 748
60, 695
KincstorandWare 68 758

33 34
92 96

IGltWeltn.

and Norfolk qualities were

PERIAL MEASURE.

(oislt—Chovallor .... 75i to 76
Oats Yorkshire and

Liacolnsk., Feed 25s 278
ratato
Youghal and Cork
Black. • • 223 25
Cork, White ... •. 248 27s
Scotch, Feed. .• • • 273 30s
Beans—Tick .•••. •• •. 37s 40s

Pigeons. •• • 42 45.
Peas—Grey ..•• •• •• •• 38s 40=
5i5p1e..........• 42s 4is

White. •• •• •• .• 44s 49

Boilers ••••• •• 44s 49
Flour—Town-made... 64s 67s
Suffolk ........ . 51s 52s
41tooktn Norfolk 51s 52s

METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET.

For the time of year, moderate supplies of foreign stock
arrived in the port of London last week—the total import
being 7 629 head. In the corresponding week in 1855 wo
received 4,710 ; in 1854, 5,788 ; in 1853, 9,306 ; in 1852,
7,071; iu 1851, 7,189 ; and iu 1850, 4,481.

Thus, we have the Tory lords, the Earls of Ala
bury, Bathurst, Sandwich, Po wis, and S niters, repre-
sented in another form by their rotten-borough influ-
ence, at Christchurch, Cirencester, Huntingdon, Lud-
low, and Reigate, and making the members for those
places vote for what they please. This is only a small
sample of the way in which those wretched pretences
of electoral bodies are used to keep the Commons in
cheek. Of those 80 votes in Parliament, public opi-
nion has indeed a very small hold ; and although the
evil is in some degree balanced by the divisions be-
tween the grandees as to the manner of using this
influence, and by the Bedford family, for instance,
bringing the close borough of Tavistock to weigh
against 'Woodstock or Cricklade, still the justice,
which the rightful owner is said to get when unjust
appropriators fall out, is proverbially precarious, and
not exactly that which it suits the dignity of a
free people who pretend to self-government to submit
to and be satisfied with. The farce of giving the nation
only the benefit of the scraps which fall to the ground
when the aristocratical factions are quarrelling about
the possession, is surely to end soon ; and it will not be
long of doing so when the general body of readers under-
stand that in the division lists published in the papers,
they are to read, for the name of the hon. member who
votes, tbat of the noble marquis or duke oehind the
scenes who makes his nominee vote as he pleases.
There is no one who is not pleased to see Sir W.
Williams in Parliament ; but to see him there as
the nominee of a Whig marquis is not so pleasant to
intelligent Englishmen. Submitting to enter by a fiction
as a representative of the twelve dozen electors who
never vote for the marquis's borough of Calne, who can
tell how much or hew little of fiction or sham may be
forced into his votes and views ? Thus are the very best
things we have, and the best men, corrupted and made
comparatively useless to their country by the system
followed. Hardly anything in Parliament means what
it pretends to mean, and plain honest men, who have
not deeply studied the subject, are lost in a sea of shams
when they attempt to understand tile general working of
Parliament, and conduct of legislation.

IMPORTS INTO LONDON LAST WEEK.

From
Ostend
Amsterdam lB
Tonning 99
Harlingen
Calais
Rotterdam... 151
Dordt
Antwerp „•
Oporto 204
Hamburgh 626 1,761 ...

Beasts.

Sheep.

Lambs. Calves. Pigs

869 ... 187 ... 180 ... 20

926 ... 23 ... 270 ..: 548

775 ... 205 ::: 818 ::: 59
4 ... 109 ... 6 ... -

... 70

T0ta1.... 482 2,993 ... 800 ... 818 ... 546
The yearly comparison of weekly imports is as follows :--

- -
- - ..
Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pies
1855 775 ... 2,939 ... 355 ... 286 ... 355
1854 BB3 ... 3,300 ... 319 ... 746 ... 540
1853 1,294 ... 5,756 ... 821 ... 903 ... 529
1852 B4O ... 4,647 ... 622 ... 649 ... 313
1851 1,297 ... 4,303 ... 858 ... 5 1 ... 190
To-day's market was moderately well supplied with most
kinds of foreign stock, the quality of which was by no
means prime. _

There wag a fair arrival of beasts fresh up to-day from
our own grazing districts. The quality of most breeds
was tolerably good. Although the beef trade was steady,
the advance in the quotations of 2d per Ms reported on
Friday last was not supported, but most of the stock found
buyers at last Monday's currency. The best lots realised
5s per 81bs.
From Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire we
received 1,000 Scots and short-horns ; from the Northern
counties, 900 short-horns ; from other parts of England,
600 of various breeds ; from Ireland, 140 oxen ; and from
Scotland, 230 Scots.
We had a considerable increase in the numbers of sheep
compared with Monday last, but their general quality was
inferior. The mutton trade ruled heavy, and prices were
4d per 81bs lower than on this day se'nuight. The top
figure for the best Downs was 5s 4d per 81bs. About 1,200
Irish sheep were in the market.
The show of lambs was good, and all breeds moved off
slowly at 4d per Blbs less money compared with Monday
last. The highest figure was 5s 8d por 81bs.
Calves were in moderate supply and fair request, at full
prices, viz., 3s 10.1 to 5s 2d for Blbs.
We had a slow inquiry for pigs, at last week's currency.
Per Sibs to sink the offaig.

TFIE COLLISION ON THE MERSEY.

s. d. s. d. a. d. , d.
Inferior 8e5.5t5....3 6to 3- 10PrimeSonthdown 5 0 5 4
Second quality... 3 0 4 2 Large crse. calves 310 4 8
Prime large oxen 4 4 4 B{Prime small d 0... 410 5 2
Prime Scots, dm. 410 5 OiLarge hogs 3 4 4 0
Inferior Sheep ...3 10 4 01Small porkers ... 4 4 410
Second quality ...4 2 4 6,Suckling calves-13 0 30
Prime crse.-wlled.4 8 410 Quarter old pigs.2l 0 18 0
Lamb, 4s 8d to 5s Bd.
TOTAL SUPPLY. I FOREIGN 8111TLT.
Beasts ...• -..... ..... •• • 3,509 1 Beasts— ....... ........ . 690
Sheep and lambs •• .... • .25,170 Sheep and lambs .. . ........ 1,500
car,,,,
~ ........ •••• • • .. 350 Ca1ve5....... ~.. 240
..,.
A. statement and comparison of the supplies and prices of fat
stock exhibited and sold in the Great Metropolitan Cattle
Mark, t, on 11onday, July 16, 1855, and this day, Monday,
July 14, 1856.

'LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY.

• The investigation into the causes of the collision be-
tween the Mail and the Excelsior was resumed this morn-
ing before Mr. Wm. Statham, the deputy coroner (Mr.
P. F. Curry, coroner, being indisposed), at the Crown
Court, St. George's-hall.
Martin Garvey, Thomas Corley, and Wm. Redding-
ton, Irish labourers, and passengers on board the Mail
steamer on the morning of the collision, were the first
witnesses examined; their evidence, however, related
chiefly to their own proceedirgs after the collision, and
threw little or no light on the causes of the catastrophe.
They and other of the passengers got on board the
Excelsior after the collision, but were not allowed to
remain, the sailors declaring that whether " kilt" or
not, they must go on board their own boat. Laughter.)
Thomas Gurney White, mate of the Mail steamer, was
next called. His evidence throughout was substanti-
ally the same as that given by the captain of the vessel.
After the collision, he (a itness) having got blue lights
and rockets ready, went forward, and seeing a person
whom he took to be the captain of the Excelsior, he said
to him, "This is a bad job, captain." Ho said, "It is
not my fault." Witness said, "It is a very bad job ;
what could you be thinking of ?" He said, " The pilot
was in charge." The lights of the Mail had been
trimmed that night. He observed before the collision
they were right. He noticed them every time he went
forward. If any of them bad been out, he would have
observed them. Two seamen and the carpenter were
with him forward oa the look out. If it had not been
for the Excelsior starboarding there would not have been
any danger of collision, notwithstanding the large num-
ber of small craft lying about the Cheshire shore.
The witness was interrogated at considerable length
by Mr. Aspinall, Mr. Brenner, and Mr. Blair. On the
conclusion of his examination, Capt. Cook, superinten-
deet of pilots, directed the witness's attention to the
chart, and elicited his opinion in correction of his evi-
deuce, that at the time of the accident the Mail was bet-
ter than a quarter of a mile from the Cheshire shore.
By the Jury—Before the collision he thought the pas-
sengers would be safe, as ho did not know that any et
the passengers had got so close to the bow. He did not
anticipate such a heavy collision. The captain was per-
fectly sober. Had the passengers been searfaring people
they would have had time to escape before the collision
took place.
The court then adjourned till the 23d inst.

_
Per Sibs, to sink the offals.
July 16, 1855. 'July 14, 1856
s. d. s. d. s. d.
Coarse and inferior beasts 3 6to 3 Bi 3 6to 3 10
Second quality ditto 310 4 2i4 0 4 2
Prime large oxen 4 4 4 64 4 4 8
Prime Scots, &c 4 8 4 10,4 10 5 0
Coarse and inferior sheep 3 4 3 613 10 4 0
Second quality ditto 3 8 4 2 1 2 4 6
Primo coarse woolled ditto 4 4 4 8 4 8 410
Primo Southdown ditto 410 5 015 0 5 4
Lambs i 8 6 614 8 5 8
Large coarse calves 4 2 4 83 10 4 8
Prime small ditto 410 5 2t4 10 5 2
Large hogs ... 3 4 3 813 4 4 0
!feat small porkers 4 0 4 4T4 4 410
Beasts... •
.„ 3,310 3,170
1 ••• 25,240 25,170
... 2 0 310
Pigs ... 755 450
SUPPLIRS ON Sava, July 17, 1854.—Beasts, 4,599 ; shoo,
and lambs, 28,500; calves, 551; pigs, 420.
July IS, 1853. —Beasts, ; sheep and lambs, 25,470 ;
calves, 378 ; pigs, 410.

NE \VGA.TE AND LEADENTIA.LI,
The supplies of meat on sale in these markets are slightly
on the increase compared with Monday last. The demand,
however, is steady, and prices are well supported.
Per 81bs by the carcase
a. d. s. d. a. d. s.
Beef, interior 3 2 3 4 Mutton Inferior 3 6 4 0
Do., middling 3 6 3 8 Do., middling 4 2 4 6
Do. prima large.. 3 10 4 0 Do., prime 4 8 5 0
De., do. small ....4 2 4 6 Veal 3 4 4 8
Park, large 3 6 4 2 Pork, small 4 4 4 8
Lamb, 4s 6d to 5s 4d.

BOROUGH HOP.
The late gales have caused some damage to the planta-
tions. There is rather more firmness in our market, and
prices are well supported. No imports took place from
abroad last week.
Mid and East Kent pockets, 3/ 12s to 6Z 103 per cwt ;
Weald of Kent, 315 s to 5/ 5s ; Sussex, 3/ 3s to Si.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(Tbis Day.)

LONDON, July 14.—Wind this day at noon, S.W. ;
light breeze and cloudy.
PORTSMOUTH, July 13.—Wind strong.—Ar-
rived.—George (tpt.), from. Balaklava ; Victoria (tpt.),
Balaklava, and sailed for Woolwich ; H M.S. Transit,
Balaklsva • Allies (s.s. tpt.), Constantinople. Sailed—
Northumberland, for New York. Off the port—Meteor,
from the Cape of Good Hope.
PLvuounr, July 13.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Victo-
ria, from Rio Giande; Odessa, Havana ; Louis°, Bel-
mont, and Princess Royal, Quebec.

(PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
PORTSMOUTH, July 14.
Arrived—H.M. stem-frigate Sidon, with tho 931 Regi-
ment, from the East; H.M. steam-sloop Driver and Onyx.
The steam gun-boats Nettle and Onyx are ordered to leave
to-day for the North American and West India station.
SOUTHAMPTON, Monday Morning.
Arrived—Brigand, from Hartlepool; William, Sun-
derland; Kithira, Jersey; Constance and Elidair, Con-
stantinople.
Sailed—Star, for Jersey; Surveyor, Swanage ; Jane,
Sunderland.

LIVERPOOL, Monday Morning.

Wind S.
Arrived—Creole, from Barbadoes ; Baltic and Idas-
New Orleans; Uncle Toby, New York; Pomona, St.
John's, New Brunswick; Sand Curlinj, Boston; Keach,
Quebeo ; Volitnt, Borbadoe.

The Morning Post states that the Duke of Cambridge
has been appointed Commander-in-Chief.
The Phare de la Loire announces that 14 artisans
belonging to the house of Coinee and Martin, at Sables,
have been arrested as members of a secret society.
SHREWSBURY WOOL FAIR.—The first fair for the pre-
sent season took place on Tuesday, under the Market
Hall. There was a good attendance of buyers and eel
lers, and quite an average business was done. Good wool
so'd at from 15,3 d. to 16d. per lb.
LORD DERBY AND THE TußF.—On the termination of
the races at Liverpool on Friday, the Earl of Derby in-
vited the race officials and the principal trainers and
jockeys to a supper at Knowsley. The repast was
furnished with the noble Earl's well known liberality,
and the guests enjoyed themselves to the "top of
their bent," and did' not separate until 4 o'clock in the
morning. Mr. John Scott, the celebrated trainer,
was the chairman, and Mr. E. W. Topham, the
clerk of the course at Liverpool and Chester, te wiled
the vine-chair. The usual loyal toasts were received
with acclamation, and the health of Lord Derby was
drunk with the utmost enthusiasm. ‘• The noblemen
and gentlemen of the turf.' " The trainer. of Englaed,"
aid tether appropriate toasts were also p-or e
Tee visitors at Knowsley during the race week incledett
Lord E..linten, Lord Annesley, Lord Bath, Lord Mait'e
stone, Lord-Glaegoet, Lord Canterbury, Lord Chester-
field, Lord Clifden, Lord Enfield, Lord Wilton, Sir J.,
Hawley, Gen. Peel, Admiral Rous, Hon. H. Curzon,
Hon. F. Curzon, lieu. R. Forrester, Mr. G. Fitzrop,
Mr. H. Fitzroy, Mr. Greville, Mr. G. Payno, and Mr.