The Sun.
London, England, 1866-06-06 00:00:00

BOROUGH. HOP.

The plantation accounts are somewhat unfavourable,
and the hop trade is firm, with an upward tendency in
prices.

WIIITECIIAPEL.

Moderate supplies of meat are on offer. The trade is
slow at tho annexed quotations :

Beef, from 2s 10d to 4s 6d; mutton, 3s 10d to.ss 6d; lamb,
5s 8d to Gs 8d; veal, 4s 01 to 5$ 2d; and pork, 38 10d to
5s Od per Sibs by the carcase.

Liverpool Cotton Market. —ll is Day.

The market opens quiet at easier prices. Sales
6,000 or 8,000 bales.

Mr. LOWE rushing off—without even taking time
to gather his robes about him—lest he should be called on
for a vote to save the British constitution (says the Star,
facetiously), was a strange and wondrous spectacle—
Without a vote? That's sudden. Spare it ! spare it !
It eught not so to die I

THE LATE GORDON CUMMING'S COLLECTION.-
Gordon Cumming, the renowned African traveller and in-
trepid lion-hunter, having quitted this world, his extensive
collection, which was exhibited some years since, has passed
through the auction-rooms of Messrs. Stevens, in King-
street, and it may be consolatory to the spirit of the
mighty hunter to know that the skins, tusks, and bones
which have so long kept company together are not now dis-
persed. They have passed, in fact, into the possession of•
another mighty hunter, tkoLgh of a different game, and have
been; knocked down to the equally intrepid and no less
renowned P. T. Barnum, of Now York, in the United
States of America and elsewhere. At the sale which took
place on Saturday last, Mr. Barnum's agents, Messrs. Wells
and Ninimo, silenced all opposition by the decided charac-
ter of their biddings, and secured not only the grand pano-
rama, which brought so vividly before the spectator the
scenes and adventures through which the"traveller passed,
but all the great gems of the collection. A large skull of
an elephant and the great ivory tusks realised 100 guineas,
while lions' skulls and other osteological specimens pro-
duced large SUMS'. The skins were secured in a lot for
Mr. Barnum, who since the destruction of his museum at
New York has, we are told, despatched agents to the nt- ,
termost ends of the earth to secure attractions for the new
collection he is about to submit to the n otiee of a discrimi-
nating public.

THE SUPPOSED " WELCHERS" AT EPSOM._ YeS-
terday at the Surrey Sessions, before Mr. Thomas
Tilsen, deputy-chairman, Thomas Hodson, of Ilolbeck,
ne al- Leeds, Lcroemnidneerrecdi a l
totake traveller,te
of highly-respectable
appearance,his trial for stealing the
sum of £7 Os. Gd. from the person of James Hartley, other-
wise Hargreaves, a betting man and alleged " welcher,"
on the Darby-day, on Epsom racecourse. The circum-
stances have been repeatedly mado known, and must there-
fore be familiar to all who take an interest in the case. The
evidence clearly proved that the prosecutor was set upon
and ill-treated, and that his pockets were rifled by men
who imagined that Hartley did not intend to pay the bets
he had made. In the prisoner's hand - were found a con-
siderable amount which he had helped himself to during
the onslaught. Evidence to character was given, and the
jury, after consulting for about 20 minutes, returned a
verdict of guilty, at the same time recommending him to
the mercy of the court. The deputy-chairman said that
the court could not take the part of the betting men or any
of those concerned in that illegal act, but if a man's book
was taken from him as the prosecutor's was, how was he
to know whom he had to settle with. The court was ex-
ceedingly sorry to seo so respectable a person in such a
position, but perhaps ho thought he was entitled to use
Lynch law on the racecourse. Ho had no right to do that,
as the law of the country was open to him as well as any
other of the public. Under all the circumstances he should
not inflict a severe punishment on him, but sentence him
to one month's imprisonment, without hard labour, in the
county gaol. The prisoner, who seemed to feel his posi-
tion deeply, was then removed to the cells below.
The directors of the Madras Irrigation and Canal
Company have issued their half-yearly report, and
also a statement respecting the proposed loan of
£600,000 by the Secretary of State in Council to
the company for the prosecution of their works,
and an alternative to purchase the undertaking.