The Sun.
London, England, 1867-02-21 00:00:00

METROPOLITAN CATTLE.

Only a limited supply of beasts was on sale here to-day.
The best breeds were in moderato request, at full prices;
but inferior stock was somewhat heavy, on former terms.
The top figure was 3s 2d per 81bs. Athough the show of
sheep was very moderate, sales progressed slowly at Mon-
day's decline in the quotations. The best Downs and
half-breds wore disposed of at Os 10d to 6s per 81bs. Calves
sold slowly, but at full prices, viz., from 4s 8d to 5s 8d per
Blbs. Pigs were very dull, at previous rates.

Per 81b to sink the offal.

s ds d
Crse dg inf. beasts... 3 6 3 8
Second quality do ..3 10 4 4
Prime large oxen ..4 6 4 10
Prime Scats, dr.c....5 0 5 2
Crse. and int. sheep. 3 8 4 0
Second quality do ..4 2 4 10

sdsd
Proem-wool sheep 5 2 5 8
Prime ,'thdown (10.5 10 6 0
Large coarse calves. 4 8 5 2
Prone smAll d0......5 4 5 8
Large hogs 3 2 3 6
Smal! porkers 3 8 4 0

Lamb....os Od to Os Od

Suckling calves, 20s to 228 ; and quarter-old store pigs, 22s
to 2z,s each.

Head of stock on sale.
Total supply. Foreign supply.
Beast■ .... 612 I Beasts

Cows
Sheep and lambs 3,040 Sheep sad 1 mbs
Calves Ol Ca'g'es... 8)
t'igs 126 iria'S lO

HER MAJESTY, &c•

OSBORNE, Feb. 20.
The Queen and Princess Beatrice rode on ponies
yesterday afternoon, attended by the Duchess of
Roxburghe ; and her Majesty walked in the grounds
this morning, accompanied by Princess Louise.
The other members of the royal family walked
out.

Her Majesty received this morning the gratifying
intelligence of the safe confinement of the Princess
of Wales and the birth of a princess.
Dr. Macleod left Osborne this morning.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge
honoured the Marquis and Marchioness of Clanricarde by
his presence at dinner last evening at their residence iu
Stratton-street. The Duke of Cambridge arrived at eight
o'clock, attended by Colonel the Hon. James Macdonald.
There were present to meet his Royal Highness the Earl
and Countess Stanhope and Lady Mary Stanhope, Lord
Colville, Lord .Dunkellin, Lord Dufferin, Lady Frances
Gordon, the Right Hon. the Speaker, Mr. and Lady Mar-
garet Beaumont, Mr. Bernal Osborne, M.P., the Right Hon.
Robert Lowe, M.P., and Mrs. Lowe, and Mr. Tomline.

The Duke of Newcastle arrived in town last
evening from Lincoln. The duchess has gone to Paris on
a visit to her mother.

The Duke and Duchess of Somerset have arrived
at Brown's Hotel for the season.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury en-
tertained his Excellency Count Apponyi, the Earl of Clan-
william, Lord Rodesdale, Lord Stanley, the Right Hon.
General and Lady Alice Peel, the Right Hon. Sir Hugh
and Lady Cairns, Sir Alexander Bannerman. the Hon.
Mrs. Rose, Sze., at dinner last evening at their residence in
Arlington-street.

The Approaching Fashionable Season.

(Front the Court Journal.)

There are some few things which may be pre-
dicted of it with certainty. In the first place, if
politics go on smoothly, it will not be a short season
or interfered with materially by the Paris Exhibi-
tion. It is calculated that it will be June before
all the treasures are fully displayed in Paris, which
are to be brought from a distance, unpacked, and
shown in due and attractive order. By that time
life in London is always at the zenith, and not to
be interrupted on any account, by order of mam-
mas who have daughters to marry, and by the wish
of daughters and youths who desire to be happy, by
politicians who are searching after place or fame, or
by the.thousands of the upp..-er world who aro seeking
pleasure in its varied and difficult found sources.
We know that the Prince of Wales as well AS
numerous great people have been invited over to ,

Paris by the Emperor, but the stay of the Prince
cannot be for very long. His Royal Highness, if
we are rightly informed, is bound with the Princess
of Wales to pay a visit to Copenhagen, to assist at
the Courtly doings consequent upon the celebra-
tion of the "silver wedding" of the King and Queen
of Denmark, and it is very prob.ble that their
Majesties will return with the Prince and Princess
to England. The great personages who will visit
Paris—the Sultan, tho Pasha of Egypt, the King
of Prussia, &c.—will all cross the water to London,
and add of course to the general gaiety. It is
asked if the Queen will this year enter more into
public life ? There seems little chance of that
being the case, and an early date is already
spoken of for a visit to Balmoral. There will
be numerous parties and balls given by the Princ•
and Princess on her Majesty's behalf, and in that
way the Courtly gaieties will be kept up. Gossip
says that an extra allowance will be asked for the
Prince of Wales, but gossip has said that every
year, and originates in the good-natured feeling
that the Prince is called upon to make large sacrifices
for that which, if it is a pleasure to himself, it is also
assuredly pleasing to society, and of inestimable ad-
vantage to the numerous classes that are dependent
on the rolling ball of fashion. We have seen some
statements that there will be a change of costume at-
tempted this year. We should presume there would
be ; ladies do occasionally change their costume,
but whether it means higher or lower dresses,
or more or less crinoline, all the West-end oracles

are at present at a loss to say. They are particu-
larly dumb. We have, however, heard of a lively
on dit. Wo should be inclined to fancy that it was
canard if it were less precisely vouched for. It is
this, that small silver bells are to be introduced into
the trimmings of ladies' dresses. We know not
where or on what sacred or mysterious spots. The
idea is a little wild India and squaw fashion, but
there may be something pleasing in it ; and in it
dance it may keep a sleepy partner vivacious if the
belle ever and anon shakes her bells by way of keep-
ing up the excitement and her partner awake.

A MINISTERIAL MEETING.—CoIoneI Taylor hart
issued the following circular to the supporters of tho Go-
vernment in the House of Commons:—" I am desired by
Lord Derby to request that you will do him the favour of
meeting him at No. 10, Downing-street, at 2 o'clink, on
Monday, the 25th of February."

The first dinner of the Cobden Club this year will
take place at Willis's-rooms, 28, King-street, St. James's/
on Saturday, the 2d of March ; Lord Houghton in the
chair.

The Archbishop of Canterbury has presented the
Rev. Anthony Wilson Thorold, of Queen's College, Oxford,
late Rector of St. Giles'-in-the-Fields, to the vicarage of
Eastry, near Sandwich, Kent.
TUE NATIONAL CHORAL SOClETY.—Mendels-
solm's " Hymn of Praise (Lobgesang)" and Rossini's
" Stabat Mater" will be performed by the National Choral
Society at Exeter-hall on Wednesday, the 27th. The banal
which will include the most eminent instrumentalists, and
chorus, will number 700 performers ; conductor, Mr. G. `Y•
Martin.

NEW JUDGES.—The bill laid before the House of
Lords by the Lord Chancellor provides that, on the nest
vacancy in the office of Judge of the Admiralty Court, the
present Judge of the Probate Court shall become the first
Chief Justice of the Admiralty, Divorce, and Probate
Courts, and two puisne judges of these courts are also to be
appointed. The Chief Justice is to have rank next after the
Lords Justices of Appeal ; the two puisno judges with the
other puisne judges. The salaries are to bo £6,000 a yeAr
for a Chief Justice, and £5,000 for a puisne judge ; the re-
tiring pensions £3,750 and £3, 500. An appeal is to lie to the
Privy Council in an Admiralty cause, and to the House of
Lords in a divorce or probate cause. Any of these judges
may, at the request of the Lord Chancellor, sit in any of the
superior courts of law or equity with any judge or judges
thereof. The Archbishop of Canterbury may appoint one
or more of these judges to execute the office of Dean of the
Arches, for which there is to be no remuneration othor
than the fees, if any.
TILE ADULLAMITES have been invited to the
meeting at Mr. Gladstone's, says the Owl.
REVISION OF THE LICENSING SYSTEM.—A meet;
ing of vice-presidents of the recent conference, and
other gentlemen, took place on Saturday afternoon at the
Earl of Shaftesbury's residence in Grosvenor-square, with
a view of determining what further steps should be taken
with reference to this important subject. The meetieg,
was attended by the following noblemen and gentleniel'.:
—The Earls of Shaftesbury and Lichfield, Lords Lyttei
ton and Eliot, M.P., Mr. W. E. Forster, M.P., Mr. AYrt°l3:
M.P., Mr. Morrison, M.P., Mr. Eykyn, M.P., Col. SYl°.a7.
M.P., Mr. Fordyce, M.P., Rev. Dr. Manning, Sir J•
Shuttleworth, Sir John Bowring, the Rev. S. Hansard, J.
golly, and W. Russell, Mr. S. Solly, F.R.S., and Mr. 0.00
Ribton-Turner (the secretary). The question as to
desirability of holding an adjourned meeting of the .
ference was discussed, and it was decided that, consider.
ing the pressure of business before Parliament, it i 6 of
pedicut to postpone the further public cousideratioao
the subject for the present. An executive committee Iv

appointed.
MR. AND MRS. KEAN'S ENGAGEMENT AT Til°
THEATRE ROYAL, EDI-NM:ROM—Mr. and Mrs. 1;-03D, cl2:l°
1
tame their engagement with the greatest success. 111 ,
dition to " Wolsey" he has now played " n-
" Louis the Eleventh," and to-night ho is .to Pors'9nlit t
" Hamlet." Mr. Keau's " Louis" has always drawn
b of
houses here. A large number of the elite and fasbioa
the city, Ivho are never tempted to go to the theatres el
cept when the Keans or Miss Faucit are in Ediulldd
crowded the boxes to see Mr. Kean in his great pal* L'or
gave a most enthusiastic reception to the illustrious oc
and his accomplished lady. —North Briton.
MADAME TUSSAUD's.—The Napoleon Rooras
the celebrated Wax-work Exhibition, in Baker-street, e°,,,
tiuue to afford the greatest satisfaction possible to ev
ee'rJ,
visitor who may feel interested in beholding the inn
goon
able relics of the Great Napoleon, and which can bo
sies,
only at Madame Tussaud's truly magnificent gallegroo
Life-size models of Emperors, Kings, as also most °'uoie
renowned Statesmen of Europe, are of themselves aor
well worth inspection by all who desire to possess ,sl'l2
ledge of history. •