The Sun.
London, England, 1867-12-13 00:00:00

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SMITHFIELD CATTLE SHOW.

THE PRIZE CATTLE.

speeA, addressel the meeting in support of the
movement, and observed that the shopkeepers were
too often induced foom an improper greed for gain
to keep open t.hei • shops without any regard to the
interests of the yolug people in their el.ployment ;
bat it was certain that those who had adopted the
early closing movement found an ample compensa-
tion in the refreshed energies of their assistants and
their greater willingness to do the work reTtired of
them.

The Ray. C. - STOVEY,T, ckliverA a sing,llarly
spirited and able Rpeech in favour of the mov.Anent,
and other ad lressei with the sam! object were sub-
sequently delivered by Captain Campbell, Mr. G.
Gowland, Mr. T. Wickham, and Mr. C. A. Ling.
The speaking wai very agreeably diversified by the
songs of the choir, who acquitted themselves very
creditably, under the direction of Mr. Benedict,
voluntarily rendered, whose kind services were
warmly acknowledged by the audience.

Yesterday the sales of the prize stock were con-
tinued with as much activity as the greatly decreased
number to be sold would permit. The Duke of
Beaufort's first prize shorthorned steer in Class 13
has been sold to Corbett, of Newgate-market ; Mr.
Wm. Taylor's Devon steer, third prize in Class 2,
has been sold to T. Reeve, New:street, Dorset-
!Van T-11r. Farquharson's third prize Devon steer
in Class 3 has been sold to Szarlett, Notting-hill ;
her Majesty the Queen's third prize Devon heifer in
Class 4, from the Prince Consortia NOs.vir farm,
has been sold to &Angler, of West Brompton-road ;
her Majesty the Queen's third class prize Hereford
heifer in Class
.9, from the Prince Consort's Flemish
farm, Windsor, has been sold to Cowell and Co., of
Knightsbridge; Mr. Grove's second prize Hereford
cow in Class 10 has been sold to Rogers, of Goswell-
street, Clerkenwell ; Mr. Stretton's first prize short-
horned heifer in Class 14 has been sold to J. Mason,
of Chelsea ; Lord Feversharn's second prize iu the
same class to Rogers, of Goswell-street, Clerken-
well ; and the Earl of Hardwicke's third prize in the
same class to Nash, of Bexley-heath ; Mr. Dugdale's
first prize shorthorned cow in Class 15 has been sold
to Wray, of London-road, Southwark ; Messrs. John
and Alfred Hearrnan's second prize Sussex steer in
Class 16 was sold to Harrison, of Vauxhall-cross;
Mr. Coote's third prize Sussex steer in Class 17 has
been sold to Harris, of Foubert's-place, Regent-
street ; Mr. Sewell's second prize Norfolk polled
steer in Class 20 has been sold to Bottrell, of
Rochester-row, 'Westminster ; W. Longmore's
second prize Scotch polled steer in Class 20 has been
sold to Helsdon, of King's-cross-road ; Capt. Platt's
second prize Welsh steer in Class 30 has been sold
to Johnson, of Bermondsey ; Mr. Burton's second
prize cross-bled steer in Class 32 has been sold to
Stephens, of North Audley-street ; Mr. Overman's
first prize steer in the cross or mixed breed, Class 33,
has been sold to Boulding, Sittingbourne, Kent ;
and Col. Loyd Lindsay's third prize in the same
class has bean sold to Glass, of Sydenham. The
additional sales iu the sheep classes are : —Mr•
Ilitchcock's first prize pen of fat Cotswolds in Class
37 has been sold to Radburn, of Peckham ; Mr.
Casswell's fat Lincoln wethers, the first prize in
Class 38, have been sold to Jeynes, of Marchinont-
street.

Mr. Burton's first prize pen of wethers, of Kentish
or llomneyMarsh breed, in Class 39, have been sold
to Page, of Hoxton street; Mr. Steele's first prize
pen of fat wether long- woolled in Class 40 has been
sold to Hearn, of Nutting-hill; Lord Braybrooke's
fat wether South Downs, the first prize pen in Class
42, have b..Tn sold to W. Betts, of Knightsbridge ;
Lord IValsinghatn's first prize pen among the fat
wether South D ,wus has been s.)1(.1 to DA-
well, of Twickenham ; Mr. Canning's first prize
pen in Class 44 has been sold to King, of Padding-
ton ; Mr. Nock's first prize pen in Class 3,5 has been
sold to Cross, of Islington-green ; Mr. Topp's fist
prize pen in class 48 has been sold to Rhodes and
Son, Upper Holloway; Mr. W. M'Combie's first
prize pen in Class 49 has been sold to Slater, of
Kensington; Mr. Overman's first prize pen in Class
51 has been sold to Board!, of Pimlico ; and Mr.
Overman's first prize pen in Class 52 has been sold
to Ilayr, of Richmond.

A CONSTITUTIONALIS7'S COMPLAINT.

Mr. Newdegate, M.P., responding to the toast in
honour of the members for North Warwickshire at
the Rugby and Dunchurch Conservative Associa-
tion yesterday, discarded the title Conservative,
since it nowadays involved he knew not what, and
styled himself a Constitutionalist. He was a Pittite,
too, and justified his vote in favour of the Reform
Act of last Session, because its best part—the dis-
franchisement of peccant boroughs—was bused upon
a principle laid down by Pitt and Chatham ; but he
complained that a reduction of the franchise in
boroughs to household suffrage was a sad falling
away from the principles of those two Constitutional
statesmen, especially because no compensation was
at the same time given to the upper and middle
classes for their loss of political influence. He re-
gretted that the Constitutional cause had lost a seat
by the defeat of Mr. Pell, and he regretted this the
more because the loss might have been prevented by
better management. Mr. Pell at first declared him-
self a supporter of Mr. Disraeli, and this told against
him, because a feeling prevailed in South Leicester-
shire that Lord Derby and Mr. Disraeli had dealt
very short measure to the counties. Then, when it
was too late, Mr. Pell announced that he was a
friend of the Church and a Protestant, but that he
also desired to seethe differences between Protestants
and Dissenters healed. That was a very proper
sentiment, but Mr. Pell should have published it
earlier with appropriate clearness, for " when a
man is in a fight the first thing he has to
do is to throw his hat into the ring, and then either
follow it up or tell his second to fling up the spunge."
If a candidate hoped to succeed he should not
offer himself merely as an adherent of one poli-
tician or another, but state his opinions clearly,
and stand by them. He had acted for nine or ten
years on the principle Mr. Pell had adopted, un-
fortunately, too late; during that time he had tried
to persuade Mr. Disraeli to endorse his proposal to
make church-rates into a charge upon property,
similar to the property-tax, and to place the pro-
duce at the disposal of the vestries ; but he com-
plained that Mr. Disraeli had always dis-
countenanced his proposals, and, although he did
not vote against him, he systematically cleared the
house when the matter was brought forward. The
concluding topic touched on by Mr. Newdegate
was Lord Russell's educational propositions, which
had " nearly paralysed the House of Lords," and
seemed to be put forth as the sequence of the great
revolutionary change introduced by the Reform
Act. Believing with Hooker that education was
one thing and instruction another, he objected to
Lord Russell's resolutions; he desired to ethic Its
the people by strengthening their intellectual and
moral faculties, while Lord Russell only sought to
give them tools wherewith to work. As a test of
the Irish system of national education, he ailed
how many Irish schoolmasters had been tried for
Fenianism, and declared that the Prussian school-
masters were the most active of the revolutionists
of 1848.

A BRAVE LAD.—During the recent hurricane
the brig Minerva, of and from Sunderland for Dieppe, was
wrecked. The master and five mon took to their boat,
but, unfortunately as it then seemed, they were unable to
bring off a lad named Thomas Dudgeon, an apprentice,
the rope attaching the boat to the vessel breaking and
carrying the frail craft into the roadstead. The brig
drifted into the broken water on the Scroby Sands, but
being in ballast she drove right over the dangerous
shoals, and Dudgeon, despite the fearful gale which raged,
contrived to loosen the foresail, and by constant perseve-
rance and unremitting attention he brought the brig safely
off the Texel