The Sun.
London, England, 1859-05-12 00:00:00

AQUATICS.

LONDON ROWING CLUB—THE DISPUTED
PRIZE.
In our impression of Tuesday last we detailed the great
race for two prizes, liberally given by Mr. Clifford, to be
contended for by second-rate scullers, belonging to this
club, the second of which it will be remembered remained
in abeyance, in consequence of a foul between Mr. Iles,
who came in first, and Mr. Foster, who was a short dis-
tance astern ; the first prize was at once awarded to Mr.
Foster on his claiming the foul, and the committee have
since decided that Mr. Iles is entitled to the second.

• WELLINGTON YACHT CLUB.
The entries for the first race of the season of this club
have just closed, and are as follows :
Yachts. Tons. Owners.
Cremorne
Saucy Lass
Spray
Magnolia
Clara
The race will take place on Thursday next, the 19th
inst., over the above-bridge sailing course, between Bat-
tersea and ' Wandsworth. The prize is a very handsoMe
silver cup.

TILIS DAY'S MARKETS.

CORN EXCHANGE.

IUPERIAL WEEKLY AVERAGES. WlLeat,744s 10d;
barley, 32s sd; oats, 24s 2d ; rye, 32s 8d ; beans, 42s
8d; :and peas, 39s Ild.

THE SIX WEEKS' AVERAGES. - Wheat, 41s lid
.;'
barley, 33s 3d ; oats, 23s 5d ; rye, 31s 7d ; beans, 41s 4d;
peas, 39s

ENGLISH GRAIN SOLD LAST `JERK.--Wheat, 97,20
barley, 17,322; oats, 7,199; rye, 61; beaus, 2,048; peas,
174 quarters.

METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET.

About an average supply of beasts, in but middling con-
dition, was on offer in to-day's market. All breeds met a
slow inquiry at Monday's currency. We were fairly sup-
plied with sheep, which met a very inactive demand. In
prices, however, no change took place. Lambs, the show
of which was good, were dull, but not cheaper. We had a
dull inquiry for calves, and prices gave way 2d per 81bs.
Pigs and milch cows were very dull, at barely late rates.

Per Blbs. to sink Ow offal.

s. d. s. d.
Crse. &inf. beasts 3 2 3 6
Second quality do. 3 8 4 0
Prime large oxen 4 2 4 4
Prime Scots, &c. 4 6 4 8
Crse. & inf. sheep 3 6 4 0
Second quality do. 4 2 4 4

s. d. s. d.
Primecrs-wool do. 4 6 4 8
Pme. S'thdowndo. 4 10 5 0
Large crse. calves 3 8 4 6
Prime small do 4 8 5 4
Large hogs 3 0 3 6
Small porkers

Lambs, 5s 2d to 6s 4d.
Suckling calves, 18s to 228; and quarter-old store pigs,
lBs to 225.

TOTAL SUPPLY.

FOREIGN SUPPLY.
Beasts
Sheep 6,1221 Sheep
Calves
Pigs

SIR JAMES GRAHAM AT CARLISLE.

Sir James Graham is the model electioneer. He
does it with the zest of a partisan, with the in-
dustry of a hustings clerk, and the ability of a
statesman. One feels that he would make a better
speech, draw up a better placard, and arrange
matters in case of a difficulty better than any other
man. He finds his vocation so thoroughly in the
present system that it is as necessary to the dis-
play of his poweis as an uncultivated country is to
a lover of wild sport. What would he do without
a division to be analysed, some flagrant bits of cor-
ruption to be exposed, and a good butt for his
jokes in the shape of some sleek, blooming, fussy,
ecclesiastic ? There ought to be a Sir James in
every county and borough, aid he would keep all
up to their work. The new generation has too
short a memory, and has an unwise contempt for
what it thinly to be small things. Sir Jame
despises nothing, and does his work thoroughly
He turns everything to account. The weak and
ambiguous tone of the Government with regard to •
the reported understanding of France and Russia
he converts into good election capital, and all the
topics which people often carelessly leave to their
opponents he takes under his protection and
claims for his auxiliaries. Touched by his
master-hand, the most ordinary gossip rises into
an affair of State. A valued friend becomes
a historical personage; a neighbour shines
with reflected light, and the corr4sponclence
of a Roman Catholic Bishop or some zealous
convert, contributes to our State Papers. This
is as it should be and is a standing reproach to our
shilly-shally, milk-and-water age. As the critic
said of the poet, Sir James Graham would handle
a dung•fork with the air of a hero. " Whatever
thou takest in hand," says the wise man, "do it
with all thy might." Don't sit still and expect the
votes to fly in at your window. Don't trust to
truth, justice, and good sense making themselves,,
heard and carrying the day. Don't think any
contest will go right of itself. The advice is excel- ,
lent, and, had it been attended to, Lord Derby
would not have to boast the accession of some
twenty supporters. If so great a man as Sir James
Graham bestows so much pains about his election
for a comparatively unimportant city like Carlisle,
how ought ordinary people to bestir themselves
for their counties and other vast constituencies ?
When a giant thinks it necessary to do his very
utmost, it ill behoves pigmies to take the matter
easy.

There must be a reality somewhere, and Sir
James finds it on the hustings,. in a good party of
adherents, and in a good majority over a respect-
able antagonist. Let nobody say that he has
searched the land from Dan to Beershel a
and found it all barren, for, though he may
be disappointed in Dover, he will find what he
wants at Carlisle. There a real victory has
been achieved—it matters not much who it is,
but he occupies a very large and honourable ,
place in Sir James's mind, and need not la-
molt the fate which has associated his name
with that of Sir James. Graham. Carlisle. too,
may be reasonably proud of returning a man
who endows it with ten times its fair proportion
of public significance. One reads in works of to-
pography that once on a time a Parliament was
held at such a place, now with scant remains or
token of Parliamentary importance ; but Sir James,
after a fashion, has held a Parliament at Carlisle.
He has opened the session there, and told us from
his chair at the Coffee-house Assembly-room some
of the topics which will very early engage the at
tion of Parliainent, or at least-ought to do so. Have
our Ministers been deceivers or deceived about the.:
Gallo-French convention ? Ts France or, Aiistritcsi
the more to blame for the war, which will desolate,.
one of the fairest regions of the earth, and take
half a century to get over, even if it spread no,
further? Then we may be sure of a good searching.,_
debate into the corrupt influences employed at..
Berwick, at Dover, and in the West of Ireland. At.,,
a quarter of a million a-year we have a perfectly,,
regular and trustworthy packet and postal service:,
with America. Over and above this, and to,its de
triment, Lord Derby has now promised £70,000',
a-sear to a new company for doing what is Other-.:
wise Trovided for, and has obtained some Irish..,

votes by this outlay of half a million. Sir James'*
economical mind suggests that the thing might
have been done cheaper by granting £lOO,OOO for
the direct purchase of votes. But take a hint,-.
new members, who wish to flesh your maiden
tongues. Get up your Cunard. Get up, also,
the Channel packet contracts. Get up the barrack
system. Sir James throws the spear and proclaims
the fight. These old Borderers can smell a battle,
and have a second sight as to the veriest particu-
lars. When the debate comes, people will ask them-
selves whether they have not heard it all before,
and they will remember that it was at Carlisle.
But what frets Sir James more than anythipg
else is that he finds Lord Derby stealing his
thunder. The worthy baronet has always gem a
conscientious and hearty advocate of religious
equality. That is his particular line, and he
flattered himself he could beat anybody in reason-
able concessions:to the Roman Catholics. But Lord
Derby has invaded this special province, and done
it in the night, as it were, on the sly, and by those
private negotiations which Roman Catholics delight
in. He has allowed it to transpire to the hierarchy
of that Church that he intends to put the gaol
and workhouse chaplains in England on the same
footing, whether they be Protestant or Papist.
In Ireland he has dropped more than hints that he

would be ready to itye a charter to a Catholic
.
University. " Why," says, or at least implies,
James, " this is the very think. I have always been
quite ready to do." It might be answered,
" Why did you not, then, do it ?" No doubt, satis-
factory answers can be given, too satisfactory, as
proving the old story that we get more from the
Tories than from the Whigs. But the complaint
is prophetic. We are to have a race of Liberalism.

Dord Derby will not be beaten for want of a little
timely concession. He has seen too much of
that. He has gone a good way, and was pre-
pared to go further still iu Parliamentary Reform.
We see what he has done in the matter of the Jews
and some other questions, and now we find him
ready to treat with Roman Catholics on the most
favourable terms. He announces a high bid. Sir
James exclaims that he has bid more, and the ar-
ticle
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award honours to the rightful claimants. Columbus
did not even give his name to the bit of an island
on which he first landed, and after a time the New
World itself took its name from a third class adven-
turer, coming lazily in the wake of his betters. So,
for aught we know, Lord Derby will go down to
posterity at the head of a great Liberal cause, and
no friendly pen may discriminate between the for-
gotten original and the famous copy. It is not in
i
our power to set this injustice right. It is not,
our business to court fame, and we cannot
pretend to distribute it. Sir James Graham must
approvingvirtues conscience, and leave
themselves vices by
take Lord refuge
Derby in
to an
taking them up jast to suit his purpose, and. no
make
further.—Times.

INHUMANITY AT WIGAN ELECTION.—On Tuesday
afternoon an inquest was held at the Town-hall, Wigan,
before Mr. Birchall, deputy-coroner, on the body of Wm.
Topping, who died on the previous Tuesday morning.
Margaret Rowlands the first witness sworn, proved
with the deceased had been for a dozen 3 ears troubledevious to his
asth-
ma, and had been bedfast for five weeks
. ulo
that
the
'lithe deceased was
death with the disease. On the morn
election, Saturday, the 30thof April,
ill when he left the house
sent for to vote. He was very
nmorning of the Wigan
more exhausted when he
returned in the evening. ,
oia dying about four o'clock
in the morning, and he vas
il ee'-'ewas at once put to bed, and
sarsm: ofw
never again left his r°William Simm, chief constable,
on Tuesday morning.
deposed that being at the polling booth oth on the of elect
deposed
round his armpits, pushed him for
ward, the old
sod was in an extremely feeble condition,
ard. The decea r
ped
and Could scw b e .saw :a
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fromin bythine
d fell on the floor, and the son, who was advanced
son an The
in liquor, fell upon him. crowd then closed around
him, and whilst the man was on the floor witness saw a
person stretch his arm from the outside of the group and
lift him up by the hair. He afterwards saw the deceased
on the floor near the White Lion public-house ; his eyes
were quite glazed, and witness thought he was dead. He
was removed into the public-house and put to bed. Wit-
ness considered the conduct of the son calculated to hasten
the death of a person in the condition of the deceased. G.
Garfit, Esq., corroborated the statement of the last witness ;
and the Deputy-Coroner having addressed the jury, a ver-
dict was returned of died from natural causes, the jury
adding that, in their opinion, the son's conduct was not
altogether free from blame.—llfenehester Examiner. s
THE GOVERNORSHIP OF NEWGATE.—Mr. Wea-
therhead, the late governor_ of Newgate, who has been ap•
pointed to fill the same office in the City prison at Hollo-
way,
still continues to act as the Governor of Newgate, the
Court of Aldermen not having yet appointed a successor. •,
There were originally a considerable number of candidates,
and among them was Mr. Jones, who has for more than
twenty years filled the office of clerk of the papers in the
prison, a gentleman well acquainted with the duties re-
quired
of the governor of a gaol of this description, and
who has given the greatest satisfaction by the manner'.
which he has performed his own duties. Thep?'
for the
pression was that this gentleman was well fitted
the aoint-
office of governor, and that he would receive
ittes
of aldermen
ment. It appears, however, that thecomm
of the different
appointed to investigate the claims
ones
was
ineligible, on candi-
datesac-
count have reported that Mr. J
candidates selected by them, from
of his age; and the
ad re three in number
wbprrt the fisaL ciio .
lee will be n I e and'_,
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Cariwsrikhf, Mr: 11111yaid; Ve
• Captain FiAneA 14r-
Maidstone Gaol. The election is expected
late governor of
to take place on Tuesday next,