The Sun.
London, England, 1866-04-03 00:00:00

Liverpool Cotton Market. —TLis Day.

Tho Market opens quietly. Sales probably 4,000
or 5,000 bales.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. This Day.

LEY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPI3,

GRAYEsEsp, Tuesday Morning.
Arrived—John Henry, from Mazagan ; Napoleon, and
Furet, from Gravalines; Ocean Queen, from Calais.
Arrived, April 3.—Venetia, steamer, from Gibraltar.
DEAL, Tuesday Morning.

No arrivals.
Sailed—Brunello, for Quebec.
Passed—Navino, for the Cape of Good lope.

RECOLLECTIONS OF A LIFE OF ADVENTURE. By
William Stainer (Mark Tapley, Jun.)—" The two volumes
in which Mr. Stamer has recorded his adventures are of
deep and varied interest, and a career so remarkable as his
has seldom been described. The volumes are excessiiely
entertaining, and in all the varied scenes through which
the author conducts us he is always an intelligent guide
and a pleasant friend. We cheerfully recommend his ad-
ventures to all who read for amusement. There is, too,
much information of positive and practical value to be de-
rived from 14t$ work."—Sunday Times.

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HER MAJESTY•

WINDSOR CASTLE, Monday.
The Queen, with her Grand Ducal Highness the
Princess of Hohenlohe Langenbourg, drove in the
grounds yesterday afternoon, and went out this
morning, accompanied by their Royal Highnesses
Princess Louise and Prince Arthur.
The President and Secretary of the Royal Aca-
demy of Arts had the honour of an audience of her
Majesty to present their report on the proceedings
of the Academy during the past year.
Major-General Hood and Lieut.-Colonel Du Plat
have succeeded Major-General Seymour and Colonel
Ponsonby as Equerries in Waiting.

The Prince and Princess of Wales, accompanied
by her Royal Highness Princess Mary of Cambridge,
his Serene Highness Prince Hohenlohe-Langen-
bourg, and Prince Teck, and attended by the Hon.
Mrs. Stonor, Lieutenant-General Knollys, Major
Grey, and Major Teesdale, went to Brighton yes-
terday morning, and were present at the Review of
Volunteers.

Their Royal Highnesses partook of luncheon with
the Mayor of Brighton at the Pavilion, and after-
wards returned to Marlborough House.

His Majesty the King of the Belgians arrived at
Marlborough House on a visit to the Prince and
Princess of Wales. In attendance upon his Majesty
were Count de Moerkirke and M. Brewer. ,

Major Grey has succeeded Lieutenant-Colone
Keppel as Equerry in Waiting to the Prince of
W ales.

Butchers' Meat and the Jews.

(Front the Scotsman.)

Probably few people in Edinburgh are aware that there
is living amongst them a class of persons who will not eat
a single morsel of meat killed by a butcher. They would
rather eschew beef altogether than cook any portion of the
carcases which are now so liberally, under the operation of
the Cattle Diseases Act, sent into the city from the coun-
try. All animal food partaken by them must have had life
taken by the sacrificial knife of their priest alone, and only
his warrant is accepted as a guarantee for its soundness.
Twice a week, in the Edinburgh slaughter-houses—on
Monday and Wednesday—the Jewish priest kills, as did
Aaron of old, the bullocks and sheep which serve for the
food for the 18 or 20 Jewish families in Edinburgh over
whom he is spiritual ruler. These animals are not slaugh-
tered in the ordinary way—that is, they are not felled by a
pole-axe before they are bled. Having been tied up by the
neck to a ring in the side of the wall, the fore legs of the
victim are shackled by the priest. The hind legs are then
tied firmly together by a rope, which is long enough to

pass from the hind legs round the shackle on the front
and back again. This rope is then pulled with strength
sufficient to draw the fore legs close together, when the
animal of coarse tumbles. The rope round the neck is
then removed, the beast lying helplessly bound upon the
ground. The priest now commences his slaying operations
—and as he appeared in his character of butcher on Wed-
nesday, he certainly was as unlike the popular ideal of a
spiritual adviser as could possibly be imagined. Dressed in
what is called his " killing clothes"—a long coat, greasy
and glazed with age and dirt, as ever any son of Abraham
wore, so tattered and torn that it would have taken as
many patches as Joseph's coat had colours to have mended
it, and a black skull-cap on—the priest entered the booth
smoking a cutty pipe. When the bullock had been thrown
down in the manner described, he brought out a long-
bladed ivory-handled knife, in size something like that with
which ham is cut in grocers' shops. The blade would be
about 15 or 16 inches long, and from 1 to 2in. broad, thick
on the back, but with an edge sharp as a razor. No Gen-
tile fingers are permitted to pollute by their touch this con-
secrated weapon, the priest having always to sharpen it
himself. This he does in a very dexterous manlier, a know-
ledge of this, as well as of butchering, forming a necessary
part of the priestly education. Having satisfied himself by
drawing his thumb two or three times up and down the
edge that the knife is sharp enough, the priest has the head
of the beast about to be killed so bent back as to force its
throat prominently forward, when, with one cut he lays it
open from ear to ear. The death struggles of the animal are
agonising to witness. The beast being quite dead, the
ordinary butchers proceed to skin it in the usual manner.
An incision is made under the breast, into which the priest
thrusts his hand to examine the internal organs. If the
lungs should be in the slightest degree attached to the sides

the beast is condemned and another must be slaugh-
tered, as indeed there must also be if the cut in the-throat
is not sufficient to cause death. On one occasion, some
years ago, as many as 15 excellent animals had to be de-
stroyed before the priest got one to satisfy himself. Meat
condemned is designated " trifa," and that passing is called
"coshar." Only the fore quarters of the animal are eaten
by the Jews in Edinburgh, although we believe in London
the hind quarters are also used for food. Wherever there is
a vein in the flesh, it must bo carefully cut, or, as it is
technically termed, " purged" out by the priest, in ac-
cordance with the injunction in the seventeenth verso.of
the third chapter of Leviticus —" It shall be a perpetual
statute for your generations throughout all your dwell-
ings that ye eat neither fat nor blood ;" and in obedience to
the 15th verse of the same chapter the Jews refuse to touch
the kidneys or the suet upon them —" The two kidneys and
the fat that is upon them, which is by the flanks, and the
caul above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall be taken
away." The only fat made use of by the Jews is that
known as the skirts, which the uncircumcised dispose of to
the tallowchandler. When the beast has been dressed, and
the fore quarters cut off by the twelfth rib, the priest marks
the meat with a seal, upon which is engraved certain
Hebrew characters, and he likewise marks it with ink in
various places. These are guarantees to the faithful when
they go to the butcher that the beef is " coshar." When it
reaches the butcher the meat is cut up by him in pieces to
suit his Jewish customers, the priest having previously
"purged" every vein. The names given to the various
pieces of meat by the Jews differ from those commonly in
use. Thus, the thick end of the shoulder they designate
" bolls," the spare rib they call "prime rib," the coarse end
of the roast "chuck," the runner, " top rib" and "double
top rib," according to the cut. Meat, even when passed by
the priest, cannot be "coshar," or lean, for more than three
days after a beast has been slaughtered ; but it can be made
"coshar"again by being immersed in water. Before cooking
the Jews again " coshar" the meat at their own homes by
dipping it in a basin of clean water. They then place it
upon an ashet turned upside down, and sprinkle it with
salt, the effect of which treatment is to draw out all the
blood, which runs down the sides of the inverted dish.
After being once more steeped in pure water, it is ready
for the fire.

ONE OF SIR EDWIN LANDSEER'S BRONZE LIONS,
which is to adorn the base of Nelson's column in Trafalgar-
square has been recently completed, and was inspected by
her Majesty the other Saturday morning at Baron Maro-
chetti's studio,

THE INFLUENCE OF LIGHT ON PLANTS has been
noticed from the most remote times, but recently some ex-
periments were made in Paris enlarging our knowledge of
the influence in its less obvious phases. A climbing plant
placed in a dark place continued to grow, but not to twine
in the usual spiral convolutions, it grow straight up the
stick in the dark, but when again taken into the light it
recommenced to twine as usual. Tho experiment was
repeated several times, and always with the same results,
showing that light was essential to its power of twining.

THE SPITAL COIIIIEDIORATION. The Corpora-

tion of the City of London went yesterday afternoon in
state to Christ Church, Newgate-street, for the purpose of
taking part in the annual commemoration of the Royal
Hospital. In consequence of the unavoidable absence of
the Lord Mayor, Alderman Copeland acted as his locum
tertens. The Blue Coat Boys occupied the spacious gal-
leries. Prayers were read, and an appropriate sermon was
was preached by the Bishop of Rochester. This morning
the scholars of Christ's Hospital will, according to annual
custom, wait upon the Lord Mayor, at the Mansion-house,
when his lordship will give each boy a bun and a pecu-
niary gratuity in the shape of a new shilling. The Corpora-
tion will again proceed to Christ Church, where a sermon
will be preached by the Rev. Michael Gibbs, M.A., of
Gonville and Caius College Cambridge, prebendary of St.
Paul's, and chaplain to the Lord Mayor.
MR. PEABODY'S DONATIONS.--in a recent num-
ber of the Gartnulaube, a Leipzig paper, which •has

the largest circulation in the German press, there is an
article on " The Homeless Boys of London," by Karl
Blind, who was present at the night meeting in Great
Queen-street. In it the following passage occurs :
"Among the noblest virtues of Engand, whatever be
her shortcomings, her charity is to to be reckoned first
and foremost. There is a grim, hideous, misery, no
doubt, among the proletariat of her great cities ; but no
sooner is an appeal made for help in a special case than
gifts pour in at once. In this, as in her readiness to
make voluntary contributions for great public and political
objects, England excels all Europe, whilst the American
Republic may be said to surpass therein every nation of
the world. Numberless associations for public charity
have sprung up on British soil. But the double gift which
an American merchant, Mr. Peabody, who is a resident in
London, has made for such objects in England surpasses
everything that even Englishmen have done in that be-
half. He has devoted three millions of florins to the ame-
lioration of the condition of the working classes—a dona-
tion which would be under estimated if it were called
princely."