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

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 Blbs.
Pigs and milch cows were very dull, at barely late rates.

Per Blbs. to sink the offal.

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

s. d. s. d.
Primecra-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 $ 4
Large hogs 3 3 3 6
Small porkers

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

TOTAL SUPPLY.

FOREIGN SUPPLY.
Beasts
Sheep 6,122 I Sheep
Cafes6oo
110 Calves
300 i Pigs
Pigs
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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
is: of his powers as an uncultivated country s 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 the shape of some sleek, blooming, fussy,
ecclesiastic ? There ought to be a Sir James in
every county and borough, and he would keep al
up to their work. The new generation has too
short a.memory, and has an unwise contempt for
what it thinks to be small things. Sir Jam(
despises nothing, and does his work thoroughl.
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 correspondence'
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 'Caylisle,
how ought' ordinary people to bestir themselves
for their counties anti 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 Beershela
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 his
been achieved—it matters libt much who it is,
but he occupies ' a very large and honourable
place in Sir James's mind, and need not la-
ment the fate which has associated hisi name
with that 'of Sir James Graham. Carlisle, too,
_may be reasonably proud of returning a man
who_ endows it with 'ten tidies its fair proportion
of public si,,o-nificance. One reads in works of to-
pography that 'once on a time a. Parliament was
held at Such a place; ' how with scant remains or
token of Parliamentaxy•iinportance ; 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-honse Assenibly-rOom some
of the topics which..will tery early engage the at- •
tion of Parliament, or at least ought to do so. 'Have •
our Ministers been: dedeivere or deceived aboiit the
Gallo-rreneh convention ? . Is France or Austrier
the more to blame for the War, which will desolaii
one of the fairest regions of the earth, and take it
half a century to get over, even if it spread ho
further? Then we.may be sure of a good searching_
debate into the corrupt influences employed At'
Berwick, at. Doter and in the West of Ireland. LAt • " --
a quarter of a million a-year we have a perf6etly;
regular and trustworthy packet and postal service
with America. .Over and above this, and, to its de-:
triment, Lord Derby has now promised -X70,006 • •
a-year to anew company for doing ,What is other, •
wise 'provided for, and has . obtained some Iriab.
vdes.by, this outlay of half a million. Sir James's •
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 a.k 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 anything
else is that he finds Lord Derby stealing his
thunder. The worthy baronet has always bem 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, Iwhether, they be Protestant or Papist.
In Ireland he has,dropped more than hints that he
would be ready to give a charter to a Catholic
University. " Why,' says, or at least implies, Sir
James, " this is the very thing 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 ought to be his. He has a right to the
itself
sh
Sir James
agt
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reaping
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iameotnTruf communionidhraleeeyyltof
ihianifesji
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audaciouslywusiwhichetsaehrgitteasr
emsoetasoe:nuanwillhbanda.
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a3csmwLitit findshonsaoberylnehimself
wDtbghreheeeyri
abolcetnhy
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 LibTal cause, and
no friendly.pen may discriminate between the for-
gotten original and the famous copy. It is not in
our power to set this injustice right. It is not,
indeed, our business to court fame, ana we cannot
pretend to distribute it. Sir Jaines graham must
take refuge in an approving conscience, and leave
Lord Derby to make virtues themselves vices by
taking them up jxst to suit his purpose, and no
further.—limes.

INHUMANITY AT WIGAN ELECTION.—On Tuesday
afternoon an inquest was held at the Town-hall,olyLgrn:
before Mr. Birchall, deputy-coroner, on the body of Wm.
Topping, who died on the previous Tuesday
the deceased had been for a down years troubled
reo _ ~_
Margaret Rowlands, the first witness swornprledthat
asth-
ma, to
and had been bedfast for five weeks P_,vhillseignanis
death with the disease. On the morning In
election, Saturday, the 30th of April,
ill when ho left the house
sent for to vote. He was verynthe deceased was
more exhausted when ho
in
returned themorn, dying about four o'clock
never again left his William Simm, chief constable,
moirnnitnhge'eanvednihneg.was-He'-rewas at once put to bed, and
.7t.heund his armpits, pushed him for-
polling booth on the day of elec-
tion,deceite.geHd
obsrloiupgvhedt
firnombythhie
sarsomnis o;'.hhoi's
donepoTsuedesdthaTit mbeoinrngimnafao
he old man .
clasping t
deceased was 1
ocnroVit
the
thenfloor ewilotsnedessw aroundl
n an extremely feeble condition,
dc)encee:ihYe floor, and the son, who was advanced
hoidedssacwar the
11
his;
ma rill liquor, and unodri:fhefleein whilst uponth
the
imma.n
was
se
person stretch his arm from the outside of the group and
ift bins up by the hair. He afterwards saw the deceased
witness
sest houganhdt hep put
was
tobed dea.d.
on the floor near the White Lion. public-house ; his eyes
waswere glazed,requimotevedinto tanhed public-house
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
altozether free from blame. Manchester Examiner.
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 ark
who has given the greatest satisfaction by the mnanortatsm
which he has performed his own duties. The general
the appoint-
office of governor, and that he wouldor i
meeniittee of aldermen.
im-
pression was that this gentleman was weelvlofitted
ment. It appears, however, that
ofe the different candi-
appointed to investigate theclaims. for the
ndidates selected by them, from,
of his age; and the ca Jones was ineligible, on .ac-
Countare three in number--
whom the fine
dates have repel
crt:odieteh_v,at
Mr. Cartwright, and Mr. Hillyard, the
Captain Finney,
Maidstone Gaol. The election is expected
late governor of AIM]: made,
to take place on Tuesdaymext.

For several dayi two French steamships of war
have been lying-to outside Plymouth, and it is re-
ported that there are two others outside Falmouth.
Yesterday a corvette of about 18 guns, with painted
ports, and a schooner of 12 guns, all black, were
observed for five hours four miles S.S.E. of the
Eddystone, in the run of the homeward bound ships.
The schooner when hailed by a pilot boat declared
her nation, but declined answering any other
questions.
Admiral Bowles, commander-in-chief at Ports-
mouth, has officially- inspected Sir Thomas Grant's
cooking and distilling galley, while under full
operation iu baking, boiling, stewing, and provid-
ing hot water for sick bay purpos-Js, and distilling
pure water for the use of a crew comprising 450
officers and men The admiral complimented Mr.
J. Mille, the conductor. Ten such steam gallies
would amply supply an army of 20,000 men.
The Aboukir was taken into dock yesterday.
The Asia, 84, sailing two-decker, was taken down
the harbour of Portsmouth yesterday, and placed
alongside the Bellerophon, hulk.
The Bloodhound and Prometheus steam vessels
are ordered to be got ready at Woolwich for com-
mission with all possible dispatch.
The Cadmus, 20, screw corvette, Capt. H. S.
Hillyar, C. 8., is reported to be ready for sea. She
proceeds for Sheerness to-morrow ; it is expected
that she will take part in the review at Spithead.
The Cressy, 80, screw, Captain Hon. C. G. J. B.
Elliott, C. 8., was inspected yesterday by the admi-
ral of the port at Sheerness ; she leaves to-day.
Her complement of men is 830.
The Doris. Captain Heathcote, is alongside the
Portsmouth Dockyard jetty to receive her altered
screw for further experiments.
The Eurydice, 26, which has been fitted for
seagoing ship for a
training naval cadets, is com-
pleted ; she is waiting for orders to proceed to
Portsmouth : now she is rigged, she is a splendid
frigate ; she is moored alongside the Tartar frigate
opposite Chatham dockyard.
Her Majesty's paddlewheel steam sloop Gorgon,
Com. Pym, recently commissioned, was to sail from
Woolwich this morning for Shields, to embark a
large number of volunteers (500), already enrolled
as men-of-war's men. About 200 applicants pre-
sented themselves at the Fisgard's office at Wool-
wich yesterday, a great number of whom, rising 5
ft. 4 in., and exhibiting the appearance of robust
growing lads, were rejected as under the standard
required.
The steam transport Dee, Master-Corn. Pullen,
yesterday left Woolwich, laden with steam gear,
for Portsmouth.
The Etna, screw transport, Capt. Hockley, em-
barked yesterday alongside her Majesty's dockyard,
Portsmouth, the following officers and troops for
conveyance to Malta :-2d battalion 22d Foot, Lieut-
Col. Anderson (in military command) Majors Bow-
den and Neville, Capts. Molony, L'Estrange, Ccuch,
Walker, Davern, Little, De Laney, and Lutman ;
Lieuts. Proctor, Chichester, Watkins, Armstrong,
Gardiner, Mather, Hardinge, Busfield, Plunkett,
andDolmage ; Ensigns Dillon, French, Carey, Foll,
Neville, Oliver, Pilsworth, and Thomas ; Paymaster
Davidson, Instructor of Musketry Turner, Adjt.
Patton, Quartermaster Wohlman, Surg. Fairburn,
Assist.-Surgs. Preston and Clarke, 5 officers' wives,
6 officers' children, 4 female servants, 794 non-com-
missioned officers and men, 51 women, 61 children,
and 3 horses; Royal Engineers, Capt. Bland, Lieuts.
Lewin and Lambert, 2 officers' wives, 7 children,
and 2 feraaleservants,l34 non-commissioned officers
and men, 8 women, 16 children ; Royal Artillery,
Major Boothby, Capt. Joyce, Lieuts. Cruikshank
and Sladen, 1 lady, 2 children, 1 female servant,
127 non-commissioned officers and linen, 9 women,
21 children; 4th battalion Rifle Brigade, Ensign
Boyle, 101 non-commissioned officers and men, 1
woman ; battalion 15th Foot, Capt. Smythe, 40
non-commissioned officers and men, 4 women, 4
children. In addition to the above the Etna had
previously embarked at Liverpool-1 battalion 21st
Regiment, 5 officers, 32 non-commissioned officers
and men, and 4 women-; 2d battalion 3d Foot, 3
officers and 21 noncommissioned officers and men ;
forming a grand total of 53 officers, 8 officers'
wives, 15 children, and 7 female servants, 1,249
non-commissioned officers and men, 77 soldiers'
wives, 148 children, and 3 horses. The Etna will
sail from Portsmouth for Malta at daylight this
morning.

The Falcon, 17, screw steam corvette, was yester-
day taken out of Portsmouth harbour to Spithead
to test her machinery, &c., Captain G. T. Gordon,
commanding steam reserve, and Mr. Murdoch, in-
spector of machinery, superintending the trial. At
the conclusion she was turned over from the steam
reserve department to Commander Fitzroy,
The Leveret, screw steam gunboat, sailed from
Portsmouth yesterday for Southampton water, with
the Arrogant's spare sails.
The Avon, paddlewheel steam storeship, arrived
at Portsmouth yesterday from Devonport.
The Doris, 32, screw steam frigate, shipped her
screw yesterday at Portsmouth, and afterwards
proceeded to Spithead.
The Serpent, target vessel to the Excellent, gun-
nery ship in Portsmouth harbour, has had a quan-
tity of 4-inch oak plank bolted on her side for the
purpose of testing a new system in the making up
of grapeshot.

The Undaunted is also preparing in the ship basin
to have a huge target fixed to her side, to be like-
-wise experimentalised upon by the Excellent.
The screw steamship Royal George, 102, Mr. H.
G. Raynes, master in charge, from Sheerness,
arrived on Tuesday morning at Plymouth, where
she will be fitted and stored for the first-class steam
service, The crew are men from the Cressy and
steam reserve ; they will be sent back in the Virago.
The screw steamship Revenge, 91, from Milford,
in charge of Mr. Biddlecombe, Master Attendant
at Keyham, and in tow of the paddlewheel steam-
sloop Virago, 6, Commander M. B. Dunn, arrived
in Plymouth Sound on Tuesday afternoon, and was
immediately placed in tow of two tugs to go up
harbour for the purpose of being stripped.
The mortar steam vessel Forth was undocked at
Devonport on Tuesday afternoon, and placed at her

moorings. The gunboats Seagull and Porcupine
were docked the same day. ,
The screw steam frigate Orlando, 50, shipped her
propeller at Keyham on Tuesday.
The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :
Commander—Thomas Lysaght to the Formidable, vice
IVilsOn, to the Athol].

Master—U. N. Thomas (additional) to the Fisgard.
Payrna.-t,:;:—Timothy T. Jennings to the Cadmus.
Assistant 71);i:Inaster—.James 'Moore to the Cadmus.
Assistant-Sar,;cou—tiataucl Grose (acting) to the Cad•
Inns.

Commandant of the Camp, in place of Major-Gen.
Slade, recently promoted to a superior military ap-
pointment .at Guernsey), Lieut.-Col. Dixon, C. 8.,
Capt.-Adjt. Dunning, 9th depot battalion Lieut.-
Col. Street, C.B. ; Major Warry ; Major- West,
10th battalion; Brigade-Major Coot.) ; Captain
Stavely, Acting Aide-de Camp to Col. Bloomfield ;
Capt. Fender, sth Fusileers. A bani of pioneers,
equipped with spades, hatchets, and pickaxes, ac-
companied each battalion. The troops for about
two hours were put through a great variety of mili-
tary evolutions, which they executed with admir-
able skill and precision. The troops concluded by
giving the general salute, the bands played a slow
march, and the battalions marched back to camp
about one o'clock. At the close of the inspection
Lieut.-Gen. Love expressed to Col. Bloomfield and
staff his entire • satisfaction at the discipline and
efficiency of the troops. We understand that orders
have been received at the camp to clear out some of
the huts for the reception of the City of Dublin
Militia Artillery, who are shortly expected .to
arrive, when the three batteries of artillery, con-
sisting of six 18-pounder guns, stationed at the
camp to prOtect the coast will be put in practice on
the Government farm, called Middlewick, a mile
from the camp. About 200 artillerymen are also
shortly expected to arrive to practise gunnery. On
theint of July, a draught of 700 men will leave the
camp for Indian service.
Capt. B. D. Wardlaw Ramsay, 75th Regiment,
has been appointed Deputy Assist.-Quartermaster-
General at headquarters, in the room of Capt. Fred.
Sayer. .
Instructions were yesterday received at Wool-
wich Arsenal notifying the dissolution of the Royal
Ordnance Select Committee, which is to be totally
reconstructed, and will henceforth consist of a small
body of officers, who are to dedicate their time and
attention exclusively to the functions of that de-
partment, and it is understood they will be salaried
accordingly; Col. St. George, R.A. is named as
President, and Capt. Sir Wm. S. Wiseman, R.N.,
Vice-President. The dissolution of the late com-
mittee, it is understood, emanated from a sugges-
tion of the members themselves, who, during the
successive wars in the Crimea, China, and India,
devoted a considerable portion of their time to the
business of the select committee which from time to
time was laid before them, and received no addi-
tional emolument. The pressure of the present
demands for equipments to secure the defence of
our home and foreign stations having augmented
the already overwhelming duties of the depart-
ments, it was resolved to propose the disunion of
the important office of the select committee. Major-
General Peel, in conforming to their proposition,
has acknowledged in the strongest terms the value
of the services they have for several years past ren-
dered to the public, and, through the medium of
Sir B. Hawes, in an official despatch communicates
his thanks for the time and labour they have de-
voted to those important duties.
On Tuesday four officers and 100 men of the Edin-
burgh City Artillery Militia, lately re-embodied,
left Edinburgh to occupy Dumbarton Castle, on the
Clyde, which has been for some time left ungarri-
soned. A detachment, consisting of an officer and
30 men, left Edinburgh on Monday for Fort Matilda,
on the Clyde, to replace a similar detachment of
the Waterford Militia. The remaining portion of
the regiment, for some time billetted on the town,
Are now to occupy the Castle of Edinburgh, thus
relieving a detachment of four officers and 100 men
of the Waterford Militia, who are on their way to
join headquarters at Portsmouth.
The Fifeshire Artillery Militia, consisting of 16
officers, and 400 men, at present billetted on the
town of Cupar-Fife, are under orders to proceed to
Devonport in a few days.
The Forfarshire Artillery Militia, at present
quartered at Kinsale and elsewhere, will leave Ire-
land on Monday for Sheerness.