The Sun.
London, England, 1867-04-04 00:00:00

MARKE TS. T Ids day.

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METROPOLITAN CATTLE..
There was a very moderate supply of beasts on sale in
our market to-day. Prime Scots, &c., were in fair request,
but all other breeds were a dull inquiry, at barely stationary
prices. The top figures were 5s to 5s 2d per 81bs. The
show of sheep was by no means extensive ; nevertheless,
sales progressed slowly, at Monday's decline in the quot a-
tions. The best Downs in the wool sold at 6s, out of the
wool 5s per 81bs. The lamb trade was inactive, at late
rates—viz., from 7s 4d to 8s per Blbs. Calves moved off
steadily, at previous currencies. Pigs commanded very
little attention. Prices, however, were supported.
Per Blb to sink the offal.
s ds d s dsd
Cron & inf. beasts... 3 4 3 6 Pme crs-wool sheep 5 4 5 8
Second quality do ..3 8 4 4 Prime n'thdown .i 0.5 10 6 0
Prime large oxen ..4 6 4 10 La. ge coarse calves. 4 6 4 10
Prime Scuts, &c.... 5 05 2 Prime small do 50 5 6
Crse. and int. stieep.3 8 4 0 Large hugs
B:cond quality do ..4 2 5 0 ,
maP. porkers 3 6 3 lo
Lamb.. • .08 Od to 0 Od.
Suckling calves, 20s to 2:5 ; and quarter-old store pigs, 22s
to 255 each.

Head of stock on sale.
Total supply.
Foreign supply.
8ea5t5,,,,,,,,, .....• • 4561 Beasts 212
Cows.... . Sheep end 1amb5....,, 1,5 Cows _
Calves:o Sheep and 1 .mbs I 2 0
Pigs
130 Ca ves .
190 Pigs 2,
MEAT.
NEW (}ATE AND LEADENHALL. —The supplies of meat are
tolerably fair, and trade is slow as follows : Beef,
,3s Od to 4s 6d •, mutton 3s 4d to 4s 8d ; veal, 4s Od to
5s 2d; pork, 2s 10d to 3.;10(1 per Blbs by the carcase.
HAY.
£4 Os to
SMITHPIELD.—Meadow hay, £3 Os to £4 lOs ; clover,
45 10s ; and straw, £2 Os to .£2 6s per load
Trade inactive.
CUMBERLAND.—Meadow hay, £3 Os to £4 lOs ; clover,
£4 Os to £5 lOs Od; and straw, £1 18s to £2 4s per load. A fair demand.
WILITECHAPEL.—Iteadow hay, £3 Os to £4 108 ; cloves,£4
mod Os to £5 10i Od; and straw, £2 Os to £2 4s per load. A.moderate demand.

BETWEEN YOU AND ME AND THE POST-OFFICE.
—A Test Letter—IL—Fun.
BRITISH JURORS FOR THE PARIS EXHIBITION.—
We are requested to state that the jurors of classes met
yesterday to commence work. The Imperial Commission
insists on the completion of this branch of the work by
the 15th of April. British jurors and associate jurors of
classes are therefore requested to arrange for one or the
other to go at once to Paris.
NATIONAL PRIZE TRIAL OF SPORTING DOGS.—
The committee of management under the presidency of the
Earl of Lichfield have definitively decided that the public
trials of pointers and setters in the field shall come off on
the 24th of April, and be continued on the s übsequent
days until the ties are disposed of. The dogs will be hunted
on partridges, and the Earl of Shrewsbary has given per-
mission for the prize trials to take place over his well
stocked manor, near Stafford. Provision is made for the
competition of 160 dogs, and money prizes to the amount
of .£365 will be awarded for the beet dogs, and cups to tha
value of £3O are also added. Most of the celebrated ken-
nels of sporting dogs in all counties will be represented,
and the affair will be conducted under very distinguished
patronage.

THE BUILDING TRADE.—The strike for an ad-
vance of wages and a reduction in the hours of labour, at
Barnsley, is assuming greater proportions, both wasters
and men being equally determined not to give way. In
addition to the joiners and quarrymen the masons have
also given notice for the reduction of the hours of labour
on Saturdays viz., to cease work at one o'clock instead of
four, and another advance of wages. The notice expires
at the close of the present month ; but it is fully antici-
pated that they will be compelled to give up work long
before that time, in consequence of the quarrymen being
out, there being not more,than a week or ten days of stone
beforehand: Should no arrangement be come to there will
shortly be weal hundred MO and boys out of wort

Seizure of the Queen Victoria by a Spanish
Crutsei.

Yesterday a return of the correspondence on this
subject was presented to Parliament. The follow-
ing is the last despatch of Lord Stanley to Sir J.
Crampton, our Ambassador at Madrid :
FOREIGN OFFICE, March 30.
" Sir,—l have received from Mr. Consul Dunlop
a copy of his report to you of the 19th of Feb., on
the case of the Queen Victoria, and, having again
consulted the law officers of the Crown, I am at
length in a position to instruct you as to the reply
which you should make, on behalf of her Majesty's
Government, to General Calonge's letter of the 9th
of Jan. last, of which a copy was inclosed in your
despatch of the 11th of that month.
"The Queen Victoria was seized so long ago as
the 15th of January, 1866, by a Spanish guarda-
costa, on the high seas, an 1 not within Spanish
waters, while on her voyage from Gibraltar to La-
raiche, her crew being first terrified into submission ;
she was taken to Cadiz, where her crew were dis-
persed, money being given to enable them to depart
from Cadiz, and threats of violence being used if
they should remain in the place. The master of the
vessel was for a time placed under restraint, and his
papers were taken from him ; the name of the vessel
was defaced from the stern, and on the second morn-
ing after her arrival at Cadiz she was reported as
having been found derelict off Itota, at the mouth of
Cadiz harbour. This allegation, however, was after-
wards abandoned, and in the following March, with-
out any intimation of legal proceedings being pend-
ing against her having been given to her Majesty's
consul, who was in constant communication with
the Spanish authorities with a view to her release,
the vessel was condemned, for having been found
landing contraband goods found on board her sold
under a public advertisement.
" I do not think it necessary to recapitulate at
length the proceedings at Cadiz, as reported by her
Majesty's consul, or the ineffectual remonstrances
which, under instructions from her Majesty's Go-
vernment, you made at Madrid, when demanding
redress for the outrage which had been committed
on a British vessel on the high seas.
"It is enough to refer'to the assurances verbally'
given to you by the Spanish Minister for Foreign
Affairs, as reported in your despatch of the 7th of
June, that he greatly regretted that her Majesty's
Government should have supposed that the delay in
replying to his representations regarding the Queen
Victoria had proceeded from disinclination on the
part of the Spanish Government to do justice to that
of Great Britain, and that the matter was in the
hands of the Finance Minister with a view to the
institution of a most searching inquiry into the facts
of the case, which he agreed with her Majesty's Go-
.

vernment in considering to be of a serious nature.

" In his letter of the 24th of May, enclosed in
your despatch of the 24th, the Spanish Minister for
Foreign Affairs had previously assured you that he
had earnestly impressed on the Minister of Finance
the necessity of hastening as much as possible the
proceedings in order not to delay the satisfaction
due to her Majesty's Government, either of well-
founded explanations or of the punishment of those
who had infringed the law in a manner correspond-
ing to their offence, if, in fact, the result should
prove such infraction.'

" Up to the 6th of November last, however, no
such solution had taken place, and it was only on
the 9th of January of the present year that, in reply
to your letter of the 6th of November, expressing,
by my direction, the surprise of her Majesty's Go-
vernment at a satisfactory reply having been so long
delayed, the Spanish Minister for Foreign Affairs
announced to you that the Finance Minister and
the Council of State had discovered that the
nature of the matter in question did not, and does
not, admit of the action of the Executive, as it is
solely in the province of the Spanish tribunal to
decide upon the legality or illegality of the capture
of the Queen Victoria, the cargo of which consist-
ing, as it almost entirely did, of tobacco, could not
but excite suspicion concerning the true destination
of the vessel.'

" General Calonge, in his letter of Jan. 9, goes
on to say that, in view of the non-intervention of
the British consul and of the parties interested in
the inquiries set on foot at Cadiz, and although
they made no reclamation at the proper time, con-
fiscation decreed against this ship would be declared
void in equity, thus leaving open the road for the
said consul, and the other persons whom it may
concern, to present themselves and defend their

interests before the tribunal which takes cognisance
of the matter, and to claim what they may conceive
to be due to them by right ;' and further, that if
in the final result of the trial, the British Govern-
ment should consider that there be notorious injustice
committed to the detriment of the defendants, there
would then be a fitting opportunity for treating by
diplomacy.'

" Her Majesty's Government regret to say that

they can attach no weight to these tardy assurances
extracted from the Spanish Government after the

lapse of nearly a year from the time that the wrong
was done, and of more than half a year since a
prompt settlement' of the question was formally
recommended to the Spanish Minister of Finance
by the Minister for Foreign Affairs, as stated to
you by the latter in his letter of the 6th of June,
inclosed in your despatch of the 10th of that month.
Her Majesty's Government must observe, in
noticing that part of the statement of General
Calonge in which he asserts that the British consul
ar.d parties interested omitted to intervene and
make reclamation, that General Calonge has been
misinformed on this subject. From the moment
that the news of the seizure of the Queen Victoria
came to the knowledge of the British consul, he
made incessant and urgent demands for the delivery
up of the vessel and cargo—demands which her
Majesty's Government regret to state were wholly
ineffectual to prevent the unlawful proceedings of
those who persisted in condemning and confiscating
the property seized.

g, The original capture, then, was a lawless and
wholly unjustifiable act; justice, though frequently
demanded, has been denied ; the sale of the cargo
and of the vessel was illegal ; and all the proceed-
ings taken against the vessel were not only contrary
to justice, and therefore void, but they must have
been taken with a full conviction of their illegality,
and were adopted, as her slajesty's Government are
constrained to believe, for the purpose, or in aid of
the purpose, of covering or concealing the original
lawless act of the captain and crew of the Spanish
guarda-costa.

" In this state of things her Majesty's Govern-
ment must decline to accept the conclusion set forth
iu Gen. Calouge's letter of January 9, that the con-
fiscation decreed against the Queen Victoria shall
be declared void, so as to open the road for the con-
sul and other persons interested to present them-
selves and defend their interests before the proper
tribunal. On the contrary, her Majesty's Govern-
ment must at once insist on the immediate restora-
tion of the ship and cargo, or their full value, and
a proper pecuniary indemnity to her captain and
crew, accompanied by an expression of regret ad-
dressed to her Majesty's Government for the out-
rage committed on the British flag.
" You will furnish Gen. Calonge with a copy of
this despatch, which is the reply of her Majesty's
Government to his letter of January 9, and you will
express the earnest hope of her Majesty's Govern-
ment that the Government of her Catholic Majesty
will not allow this matter to as.3ume the proportion
of a serious difference between Great Britain and
Spaiu.—l ant, &c. (Signed) " STANLEY."

SINGULAR N ERIFICATION OF A PRESENTIMENT.—
On Tuesday, at the Leeds Assizes, Matthias Carr was in-
dicted for the manslaughter of Esther Robinson, at Ingle-
ton, on the 2d of February last. The deceased woman,
Esther Robinson, was about 70 years of age, and appears
frequently to have expressed a presentiment that she should
come to her death by fire-arms. The prisoner is a lad of
about 17, who was on friendly terms with the deceased,
although he and other lads of the village were fond of
practising upon her-well-4nown and often-expressed fears.
On the evening of the day in question the prisoner took
up an old gun, and presenting it to the deceased said, " I'll
shoot thee." The deceased, in groat alarm, caught hold of
the gun, and in the struggle which ensued it accidentally
went off acid killed her on the spot, thus verifying the
singular presentiment in a most unexpected teanner. The
facts of the cane having been made clear to the jury a ver-
dict of Not Guilty was returned.

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HER MAJESTY, dm.

WINDSOR CASTLE, April 3.
The Queen, accompanied by their Royal High-
nesses Prince Louise and Princess Beatrice, drove
out yesterday afternoon in a carriage and four, at-
tended by Lady Churchill.
Their Royal Highnesses Prince and Princess
Christian also went out driving.
Her Majesty walked and drove this morning, at-
tended by Lady Churchill.

Prince and Princess Christian went out walking.
Princess Louise, attended by the Hon. Emily
Cathcart, also walked out.

Prince Leopold took a drive, attended by Dlr•
Legg.

Princess Beatrice rode in the Home Park.

The Prussian Ambassador and Countess de Bern-
storff arrived at the Castle yesterday, and had the
honour of dining with the Queen and royal family.
Captain Von Schroetter had also the honour of
being invited.