The Sun.
London, England, 1867-01-01 00:00:00

Reopening of Cattle Markets.

Yesterday, there was a lengthened sittting of tht
justices of Buckinghamshire, at the quarter sessions
at Aylesbury, under the presidency of Lord Caring-
ton, there being also present, amongst others, till
Duke of Grafton, the Right Hon. the Chancellor of
the Exchequer, Sir H. Verney, M.P., Major Han-
mer, Sir T. F. Fremantle, &c. Amongst the many
subjects under consideration, the report of the cattle
plague finance committee was presented, showing
that there had been already expended by the county

on account of the cattle plague a sum of not less
than £25,000, which would in all probability be
raised to £30,000, when all the bills were received'
and paid. The report was adopted.
The vexata questio of the reopening of the cattle
markets was also mooted. It appeared that the
clerk of the peace, Mr. Tindal, had received applica-
tions from the inhabitants of Winslow, Stony Strat-
ford, Wolverton, &c., to sign the licences for the
holding of cattle markets at those places, and this
has been delayed on account of the clerk of the
peace not considering that the order in council
placed that responsibility on his shoulders, especially
as a letter from Col. Harness to Mr. Neale, of Wins-
low, stated that applications for licences were to be
made only by clerks of the peace, under the direc-
tion of the local authorities, the divisional commit-
tees, or the mayors of boroughs.
Mr. DuNcAN said he must enter his protest
against the reopening of markets at present. He be-
lieved most farmers—indeed, all whom he had con-
sulted--desired them to remain closed ; and it was
only the dealers and public-house keepers who
wished the contrary. The country was free from
the disease, and he hoped the Court would not
make it run the risk of having to spend another
£25,000.
The Rev. Dr. BOOTH said as they had gone to
the cost of nearly £30,000 in order to suppress the
disease, and as the experience of twelve months
proved that medical science throughout Europe
had not made a single step in advance towards ob-
taining anything like a cure of the disease, and the
only mode of suppressing it was by what is called
stamping it out, the court would be acting reck-
lessly were they now to reopen the markets. Hav-
ing got rid of the disease,as they hoped, they should
give some further time to test whether it was actu-
ally suppressed or whether it was, as it were, only
smouldering in the county. He seconded Mr. Dun-
can's motion for the markets being closed.
Major HANMER said there were only six cases of
rinderpest in the kingdom last week. lie did not
see why, under certain restrictions, the markets
could not be reopened. At Leighton Buzzard,
which was just outside of Bucks, the farmers wanted
the markets reopened.

Mr. CARSON reminded the court that the disease
as still very bad in Holland, and he firmly believed

that if the markets were reopened the drovers wuuld
bring in foreign stock, and with it the disease.
The
_Rev. G. PIIILLIMORE thought the Court

would be exercising a very grave responsibility if
they permitted that risk. The county had already
had painful experience, and what it did should be
done in caution. If the stringent measures which
were put in force had been adopted earlier, the
cattle plague would have been almost unknown iu
this county. It was the dealers, and not the far-
mers, who wanted the re-opening of the markets.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER explained
,hat the requirement of the signatures of clerks of
;he peace to the applications, and the reference to

the courts of quarter session for their observations
on the :desirability or otherwise of reopening the
markets, was a course taken by the Privy Council
by way of precaution. It was done merely "to
check a weak cause," and in accordance with that
spirit of precaution which had characterised the
operations of the authorities.
The question, after some further discussion, was

put, with this result :—For the reopening of the
markets, two (Major Hamer and Sir H. Verney,
M.P.); against the reopening, 17.

The decision was announced amidst evident signs
of satisfaction from several agriculturists who were
present in the court.

The Eastern Question.

Gen. Garibaldi has addressed the following letter
upon the Eastern question to a friend near London :
" Caprera, Dec. 18, 1866.
" That I love. England with the affection of a son
you cannot doubt, and that it is ever the desire of A MARTYR WANTED.—The following very comica
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my heart to see her in the first rank among nations
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is equally certain, but to caress the errors of her Fenian organisation :—" New York, Nov. 30, 18G6.
Ministers—to that I cannot lend myself. I repeat, Robert Bloss Lynch, Esq., Toronto Gaol.—Sir,—Your
therefore, to your statesmen that which I have letter requesting me to send to Washington affidavits of
stated to our own—Do well, and you will receive your non-military connection with the Irish Republican
praise ; but to lavish praise on those who do evil is army has been received and the request complied with, in
CaptainsubF.itzratrlick, atndthlt willil writeth tot General
servile adulation, and I never flatter. In the war of O'Neilcareof on the
giants waged by England against the First Empe- not going to be hajnged. Seogrgereat a crimeYu upona 3areaare
non-
ror, I search in the pages of those histories of your combatant like yourself would make every Irishman tu
country which narrate it for one single expression of America a Fenian, and furnish our exchequer with the
condemnation at the expenditure of millions of lives necessary means to clear Canada of English authority in
and millions of money:sacrificed to combat one de- short order—a consummation devoutly to be wished—
and, therefore, I say I regret that you will not be hanged.
spotism, indeed, but certainly to sustain another R would be a glorious death for you ; and a life
not less exacting. Who, however, on the other that would otherwise pass away unknown, in a few
hand, will not confess, with me, that the services years, at most, would become an honoured portion of the
rendered by England to the cause of human progress history of our race and of the times. But whatever be
have been immense ? And lin particular bear tes- your fate, pray God that you will act a brave, dauntless
timony to the benefits received from you by Italy part to the last. Remember that you not alone represent
wcountry i n a
in 1860, without which we should not now be ex- your ow
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ulting in the embrace of every member of the Italian much I regret that you are in the power of blood-thirsty
family. But when I see the Government of this my foes, I still trust and hope that, under any and all circum-
adopted country allied with Austria and with Tur- stances, you will make your countrymen proud of you, aid
key, I must tell you the truth—namely, that I inhale your name honoured.—l remain, yours sincerely, W. R.
the fumes of a charnel-house, which all the national ROBERTS, President F. B." The match of this production
vitality may be unable to dispel, if Great Britain friend
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places herself in contact with these dead corpses. not to be hanged, and coolly giving as a reason for this
I would rather see her using her power and her in- regret that his execution would bring a pile of money into
fluence to support those oppressed nationalities the Fenian exchequer. It reminds one of Artemus Ward's
at present going to decay in the putrid atmo- patriotism during the late war, in determining to shed the
sphere of despotism, but who, remaining constant blood of all his wife's able-bodied male relationsGlb before he
to their desire of elevating themselves, must certainly woll:o7ye3tihoeuljsn yonu'RthNtlArLstistislf)."—l'9 r
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rise one day or another to their natural places in the first started, the squibs of briefless barristers were often
fraternity of free nations. attributed to Bulwer. Readers of " Pendennis " will re-
" Let us leave Austria, whose Emperor ought to member the reputed parentage of some of Captain Shan-
receive the fate of his brother Emperor of Mexico, don's articles in the Pall Mall Gasette. Mr. Lewes himself,
and which exists only through the dissensions of the 1 in his " Life of Goethe," tells us that in the lioren, the
nationalities checkmating each other's efforts to- ' periodical started by Goethe and Schiller, articles by the
wards emancipation. poorest writers were attributed to the greatest. Now, we
would ask Mr. Lewes what would have been the result if
" Let us travel to Turkey, cosmopolitan as I am, , these articles had been signed by the real names of their
'
and a believer in that God who desires not factions authors ? The mystery would have been at an end, and
and discords, but, on the contrary, that men should with the mystery the interest would have departed.
love each other as brethren (which fraternisation LATEST PEASE OF RITUALISM. —The more ad-
can only be possible, however, when we send the vanced section of the Ritualistic party have lately
Dervish to the spade and the Romish priest to I introduced amongst themselves two very
Ox-
the the mattock). Believing fully all this, I can make fordties in
auth,7A.Ennghlcaishh Cmhiussrac4h;,
which They publishingacroehtahathe at
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, the Communiong Service, without any portion of the
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Tartary and my countrymen born on the sunny hills , Liturgy, and is illuminated as well as divided into parts,
of Rome. lin exact imitation of the Roman Catholic Missal. Nor is

"D. BUREAN,

this part of the Anglican Prayer-book ever spoken of by
the Ritualists as other than " the Mass." " I have been
to high mass," or " I am going to hear low mass," is now
as common a way of speaking amongst the worshippers of
St. Mary Magdalene, Munster-square ; St. Alban's, Bald-
win's-gardens: or St. Matthias, Stoke Now:ngton, as it is
with the members of any congregation that is under Dr.
Manning's jurisdiction. Another curious fashion some of
the Ritualists have adopted is that of speaking to or of the
clergymen who adopt these views as " Father John,"
" Father James," or whatever the reverend clergyman's
Christian name may be, instead of calling him Mr. Smith,
Brown, or Jones. •
A MUNIFICENT GIFT.—Wo are informed that a
member of the legal profession has set aside .£2;),000 for
the benefit of London hospitals. The name of this muni-
ficent donor is known to us, but, in accordance with his
wish, it is not to appear in print. The circumstances which
led to this gift aro said to be as follows :—The gentleman
in question is a member of the legal profession, and suc-
ceeded recently in recovering a sum of £150,000 for a pen-
sioner of the metropolitan police. He made it a condition
that, in case of success, his client should set apart £25,000
for his poor relations, and that he should place in his hands
£25,000 for distribution to hospitals. Both conditions, we
understand, are being realised ; and, remembering how
often fortunes thus suddenly acquired have been squan-
dered in such a manner as to prove a curse rather than a
blessing, there is very great reason to admire the prudence
and the nobility of the proviso."—Solicitors' Journal.

" But have you any idea what this despotism of
the Turks protested against by you really is? I will
give you an example.
" One day, in the port of Olivieri, in the island
of Mitylene, I inquired of a Greek peasant the rea-
son why he did not gather up the olives, instead of
permitting them to perish on the ground. Be-
cause,' he answered, ' the Pasha buys up all the
olives, and we are compelled to deliver them to him
at such a low price that it would not pay the ex-
pense of gathering them in.'
" Behold how the interest of this poor remnant of
Christians is neglected in temporal matters ; and for
the rest, and for all that concerns the prostitution
of the body and of the soul, how am I to relate it
to you, who have so kind a heart and who have a
sou and daughters? It is most horrible. And if I
do not speak of it, oh ! forgive me.; it is for the sake
of decency, and from the respect which I owe you,
that I cannot detail to you such brutalities.
" Well, now I have laid before you the condition
of the Christians under Islam, and Britain—the
classic ground of human rights, the protectress of
the oppressed, the emancipatress of the slave—per
sists in upholding these fruits of a despotism the
most inhuman and the most monstrous.

"In 1827 England, France, and Russia, in one
of those outbursts of generosity which God some-
times excites in great minds, accomplished one of
those facts which in the history of nations are fol-
lowed by universal gratitude. Let them complete
the sublime task, let them spare to humanity a fresh
torrent of blood, and they will receive from her a
thousand benedictions.

HARROW SCROOL.—Harrovians will be interested
to learn that valuable prizesof £3O a year for the encourage-
ment of the study of Modern Historyand English Literature
have reclmtly been founded by John Edward Bourchier,
who was head of the school in 1862-3. Ile died of consump-
tion at Bournemouth, on the 23d inst., aged '22 years.
The Morning Herald announces, with regret,
that the new Conservative weekly paper, the Monitor,
which was to have appeared with the Now Year, is un-
avoidably postponed for the present.

" G. GARIBALDI."