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London, England, 1859-05-02 00:00:00

LITERATURE.

Chiefs of Parties, Past and Present, with Ort:qina,
Anecdotes. By Daniel Owen Maddyn, Esq.
author of " The Age of Pitt and Fox. 2 vols,
Skeet.

These entertaining and animated volumes give
us glimpses of some of the chief actors in the poli-
tical world during the last half century. The
author having been prevented from completing his
work on " The Age of Pitt and Fox," has accepted
a suggestion made to him, and has occupied himself
in illustrating the careers and characters of the
principal statsmen of the last sixty years. Some
political pieces, formerly published, have been in-
corporated with these sketches, and the work is
not devoid of a higher value than mere entertain-
ment, as it traces the progress of political history
and party warfare during a succession of eventful
epochs. Commencing with an introductory essay
on the " Use of Party," he gives us " A Day with
Fox," and "A Day with Pitt," contrasting their
characters and powers with some ability. He then
devotes a chapter to " The Grenvilles," and another
to Lord Castlereagh. His observations on " The
Eve of the Reform Era," and on " The Cabinet
of 1831-2-3-4" are well worthy of perusal, and show
some insight into political character, and a ready
appreciation of the difficulties of the time. His
series of portraits of the members of the Reform
Cabinet are sketched with vigour, and the Want of
congeniality in its component parts strongly insisted
on. Sir Robert Peel, although his great abilities
are readily acknowledged, is not a favou-
rite with the author, as may be -gathered
from his entitling the portion devoted to.
his career, " Peel, or the, great Ambiguity."
;le accords high praise to some epochs of his Par-
' liamentary career, and pays a tribute to his many
noble qualities as a man when he differs from him
as a' statesman. The author is a shrewd observer,
and his penetration frequently detects characteristic
qualities or peculiarities of intellect that would
escape superficial critics. His sketch of Lord
Macaulay, though scarcely doing justice to the great
essayist's varied abilities, contains much truth. He
remarks that he occasionally relies on rhetoric to do
the work of logic. The following passage gives a
summary of his criticism. He has been alluding to
some contradictory passages in Lord Macaulay's
writings :
" The truth we take to be is, that on these and equally
momentous subjects, Lord Macaulay has been accustomed
to think merely like an orator. He looks only at the ex-
ternal aspects of institutions and systems, and considers
them from a painter's and not a philosopher's point of view.
To portray what appears to him .rather than to prove and
ascertain the positiveness of an idea or principle, is the na-
tural functions of his ultra-pictorial mind. Goethe looked
on the men around him and on the phases of life with the
perceptions of an artistic dramatist. Lord Macaulay re-
gards society, and thinks upon the world's sublime and
mysterious history, not as an investigator or an archwolo-
gist, but with the sentiments of a picturesque essayist.
Effect—effect—effect--is the perpetual and almost the sole
obiect of his aim. For his originality we must look to his
style, not his spirit—to his utterance, and not to his medi-
tation.' He is unrivalled in literature in placing in a strik-
ing way what has been known before. Thus when there is
;only talent in his thoughts, we see genius in his vivid
'words and suggestive diction. Assimilation and illustra-
tion are the main resources which he employs. Faded
commonplaces he retouches with exquisite art, and the
haggard wrinkles of senile Widggery he rejuvenises with
his literary pearl powder and rhetorician's.rouge. A great
master of language, he so writes, and often speaks, that
while' understood by his esoterical admirers who are ini-
tiated' in his manner, he does not raise a murmur from the
unsuspicious •crowd, who have not. sense to decipher his
enigmatical 'ambiguities, and who credulously revere his
high-sounding rhetorical heroics for revelations of the pro-
foundest philosophical importance 1"
,His sketch of Mr. Wilson Croker, unenviably im-
mortalised as "Rigby," is wely worthy of perusal.
The following remarks apply to a nuinerous class :
" Of All kinds of 'writers none are so unwearied in their
vocation as political scribes. Habituated to controversy,
fhey exult in disputation. They asperse where they can •
not confute; • they deride where they cannot overdome.
After re number of years they become callous even to the
most hostile • criticism. Never smarting under defeat, to
combat. and •to conquer appear to them identical. Re-
boiniding from every overthrow with untiring nerves and
audacious front, they taunt 'their conqueror, and again
challenge him to the fray. They resolve never to acknow-
ledge a:defeat, so long as they can employ a woman's mise-
rable privilege of having the last word." •
Mr. Croker • distinguished himself by- his vigorous
'opposition to the Reform Bill of 1832. His speech
on the third reading was one Of his most effective.
He described a foreigner walking through London
seeking the windows of Apsley House broken, a
merchant prince's house attacked, and several other
incidents of the day, with much point and success.
On another. of his attacks on refOrm lie encountered
a formidable adversary in the present. Premier :
" On' one occasion during the Reform Bill debates, Mr.
Croker had considerable success as an alarmist by the use
ho made of the facts of Charles the First's feign. He rea-
soned' §kilfully upon moderation passing into violence,'
peaceftil innovation terminating in social revolutiong Pyms
and Thimpdens ending with Ludlows, Cromwells, &c. He
worked' up his matter well, and produced great effect, but
it was'slaort-lived. While he was speaking, Mr. Stanley,
the Chief Secretary for Ireland, sent to • the Library for
Hume's History of England, and he presented to the hohse
another view of the reign of Charles the First from that
drawn by Mr. Croker. Appealing to the Tory historian as
an authority, 'Mr. Stanley showed how Charles broke the
law arid brought his ruin upon himself; some of Mr:
Croker's facts he overturned, while from others he drew
differeht inferences, and he confuted the• Quarterly Re-
viewer 'with 'a dazzling display of 'extemporaneous argu-
ment, that delighted the house by its surprising readiness.
Few speeches'ever made in Parliament were so 'successful
as thatreply by Mr. Stanley."
Viscount Palmerston, Lord Clarendon, and Lord J.
Russell are all treated of with ability and imparti-
ality: • A lively picture of "ilie gay and affable
viscount," 'still Secretary-at-War under five sue-
cessiVe Ministers, is introduced in the career of the
former. On Mr. Disraeli the author gives no ori-
ginal comments, except to acknOvlcdge his abilities
and well-earned position. There are. large quota-
tions; however, from an interesting paper
on Mr. Disraeli's career which appeared some
years since in the Press newspaper, on the publica-
tion of a "literary and political biography." It
was, it is said, from the pen of one whose opportu-
nities enabled him to speak with authority. He
remarks— '
" If a fairy had accumulated upon the cradle of a child
every.spell which Would blast success in life, it would seem
that she need only have collected the' accessories of the life
of-the.hero of this literary and political biography. He
was the child of a recluse student 'Without a friend or a
connection : he was born of a race which was then consi-
dered infamous : he had not what rife esteemed the advan-
tages of a conventional education : he was destined to a
laborious and obscure profession. 'Out of this he comes
forth a Minister of State, a transcendant orator, a writer of
unexampled grace, a varied and accomplished scholar, and
with a greaterpersonal following than any man of the day."
The concluding portion is curious, considering the
changes that have occurred since its publication :
"If the object of the Literary and Political Biography,'
and the sermons simultanously preached from its texts by
the various Puseyite organs, be to detach the Conservative
party 'from Mr. Disraeli, we predict an overwhehning
failure. There are certain politicians who are, no doubt,
in a false pillion; and who would pothaps• hot be grieved
to resume one more natural to them ; but they,will not be
permilfed to do so by preparing the way for the sacrifice of
Mr. D.fsraeli by systematic libels. 'He will ()alive their
spite, Or they. Will only be remembered in connection with
him like the heroes of The Dunciad.' the career of the
late Chancellor of the Exchequer is hot °Wed ; we believe
its brightest portion is in the future. We have watched its
wonderful vicissitudes with a deep interest since our college
days, When we read for the first time Contarini Fleming'
with si glowing heart and a kindling Cheek: 'lts author was
decried. as a writer, and he is new mid of the most popular,
as he will certainly be the most enduring, author of the day:
he was coughed down in the House of Commons in his
maiden speech, and ho lived to prOduce oratorical effects
in 'the 'same 'assembly which have hever been equalled in
our time, and which we must doubt whether' the eighteenth
century ever'surpassed. He 'has only been driven from
power. by a coalition against him by every Irian of talent of
every party in the house except his own, and that coalition
already is nauseous to the nation. We lare invariably ob-
served that, whenever Disraeli has received a check, it has
only. lieen the herald of a great ady'ahco ; and that, when
the world hari believed him beaten, 'he has always been on
the eve'of his greatest victories."
The characters of Sir James Graham and Mr. Glad-
stone-are drawn with considerable .skill ; that of
the latter shows considerable analysis of character.
He says of him : •
" Of his dazzling talents and accomplishments the world
has net.a second opinion. His aptitude for sustained rea-
soning,. his Ciceronian flow of choice language, and the
supple Adroitness with which he can wind through the
mazes. of a complicated question, haye often won admira-
tion.
.His gladiatorial feats of intellect could not fail to
gratify those fond of following acute. argumentation, sup-
ported. by academic eloquence ; but an attentive view of his
career enables us to see how grave are the defects in a man
whose.character wants stamina."
happily, to apolitical Erasmus,
He compares him,
who Cltll sap one side more easily than he can
strengthen the other. Speaking of the right hon.
baronet the, member for Carlisle, he satirically sup-
po • ses that in future years, doubts might be enter-
tained,of his identity :
t'Thus, in looking at Sir James Graham's extraordinary
course; we see that he has been a'candidate for contradic-
tory honours: • There is no faction which'at times he has
not vehemently supported, aid afterwards violently o P
posed. ' A century hence, philosophic historians might
doubt 'whether there were not three or four different ' Sir
J. Grahams' in Parliament, during 'the reigns of George
IV., King William, and Queen Victoria.• They might
conjecture that 110 single statestuart could. Ie

appeared in ;uch a political monopolylogue. Sir James
Graham's votes and speeches make one think of the
Wolffian hypothesis on the Homeric) Poems. Imitating
the critical reasoning followed by the German commenta-
tor, we might, with references to Hansard and contem-
porary history, affect to show that there had been two Sir
James Grahams in the age of Queen Victoria. and that
further historical discoveries would probably reveal that
there were not less than three. We could pretend to great
nicety of discrimination between ' Sir James,' popularly
called the Cumberland Yeoman'—Sir James, the great
Conservative statesman—and a third Sir James, attacked
by the Edinburgh Review for his vehement support of the
friends of Cardinal Wiseman. It would seem to take
' three single gentlemen' to roll into one Sir J. R. G.
Graham. First, a ' Cumberland Yeoman,' wanting to
knock down the Funded Interest ; then a lacerator of Privy
Councillors, out-Cobbetting Cobbett in his tirades; next, a
defender of the Irish Protestant Church, in 1835, warning
the House of Commons (vide Hansard) 'that Whig prin-
ciples consisted in jealousy of Popery, as an instrument of
power,' and aftewards panegyrising the religion of Rome
in 1851, as 'the faith of Fenelon, and the creed of Sir Thos.
More, which touched as with fire from Heaven the tongue
of Pascal;' &c., an advocate for secret investigation when
he was himself charged with opening letters; then a de-
nouncer of Inquisitors,' in 1855, though he told the House
of Commons not to offend the Emperor of the French (a
privilege, it would seem, he had reserved for himself) ;
figuring foremost in the counsels of the Carlton Club, and
noisiest of all at the orgies of the Reform Club—toadying a
British Admiral one month, and all but slandering him the
next ; pouring forth jeremiads at one time—but we must
stop. Chapters would- be required to recite the contradic-
tions of this vera itile and able, but most inconsistent public
man, whose changes are stampted in hii constituencies,
Cockermouth, Carlisle, Cumberland, Penrhyn, Dorchester,
Ripon, and Carlisle again I"

The concluding chapter of these volumes treats of
" Reform and the Two Public Minds." After exa.
mining the political and social views of the ques•
tion, the writer observes, with some truth,—" II

has been the fault of the Conservative party not to
think sufficiently about the political mind ; it has
been the error of the Liberal party not to regard
sufficiently the national and personal prejudices of
the British social mind." In discoursing upon
these rival " chiefs of parties," the author displays
considerable impartiality and absence of bitterness.
He accords to all a share of praise ; and where he
censures, it is usually where the opinion of the
public has expressed the same Nterdict. We com-
mend his agreeable volumes to the reader who is
interested in our Parliamentary histo.ry, and trust
that the favourable rpception accorded to this work
will induce the author to add the volume promised
in his preface, containing the likenesses of those
statesmen who are omitted from this gallery of
national portraits.

The Wife' and the Ward, or A Life's _Error.
By Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Money, author
of " Twelve Months with the ashi-Bazouks."

Routledge.
This is an interesting story that is related in a
spirited style, and contains descriptions of Indian
life and manners that cannot fail to attract atten-
tion. The first part of the story relates to the
adventures that befel some officers of a regiment
and their friends, which are amusingly imparted
to us ; but the• latter portion is devoted to the fear-
ful details of the Mutiny of 1857, to which, amid
all the horrors of history, we can scarcely find a
parallel. The part of the struggle to which this
refers is the sad tale of the massaci.e of Cawnpore,-
and, painful as the perusal undoubtedly is, there
are many who may desire to obtain a nearer insight
into the calamities that befel their countrymen.
Those who study the sad details, and contemplate
the awful position here chronicled, will not -hesi-
tate in agreeing with the assertion made, that
" truly history's page presents no more dreadful
situation than theirs." The following lines con-
tain a just tribute to the memory of the departed
sufferers :

" Great admiration and sympathy have been accorded to
the surviving members of the Lucknow garrison, after the
brilliant and unparalleled feat of arms they went through ;
and none can doubt they deserved it,—nay, that their
heroism has not up to this day been sufficiently rewarded.
But let us not, in the midst of ,the glowing applause their
deeds, and others of a like nature, call forth,—in the midst
of our rejoicings o'er the quieting aspect of India, forget to
pay a tribute of heartfelt admiration to the heroic Cawn-
pore garrison and their leader. Let us not forget to drop
a tear in remembrance of the many heroic spirits of whom
it was composed, who, during the comparatively short
time they fought and bled, suffered much more than any
other besieged body in India. Were it only from the want of
shelter which the defenders of the Cawnpore intrenchments
were subject to, their position was infinitely worse than that
of the Lucknow garrison, or, indeed, than any other body
of the many sore-tried sufferers at that awful time. Who
knows India, and dreads not an Indian sun ? Who, having
felt the fiery blasts of June on Hindostan's burning plains,
can fail to appreciate the dire sufferings, from this cause
alone, endured by the gallant body whose deeds we paint ?
Oh 1 Englishmen, side with us I Let not the nations say
heroism such as theirs passed by unhonoured in the British
isles ? The Cawnpore garrison (alas I they have nearly,
very nearly all none to their last home), who fought with-
out hope, who freely bled in their country's cause, under
hardships which pen cannot depict, which tongue cannot
tell, deserve a monument at England's hands, set up in
England's mighty capital, worthy to hand down their deeds
to posterity, and vie with Fame, who already, on a loud
trumpet, has achievea immortality for their names 1"

TVYLD'S GREAT GLOBE.

Mr. Wyla's last addition to the Great Globe, in
Leicester-square, will be, perhaps, the most attrac-
tive of all. The scenery of the Rhine, depicted, we
believe by a German artist, abounding at least in
touches which we have hardly ever seen, except in
tableaux from the "father land" itself, is a subject
to attract every lover of the beautiful and the
romantic. We need hardly say that the Rhine,
and its banks; furnishes both in abundance. Not
fewer than forty-four large and well-selected
tableaux exhibit to us here in dingy London, and
almost level Middlesex, the sunlit prospects and
frequently imposing mountain scenes which border
the great river. We start with the steamer, be-
tween the level shores of Holland; but, after passing
multitudes of feudal castles, perched on lofty rocks,
and quaint, and pretty towns, and cathedrals, and
bridges of boats, and beautiful scenes, we eni
where no steamer could take us, in the lower Alps,
among the snowy mountains, where the Rhine has
its source. To attempt description were super-
fluous. The tourist will here, at his ease, refresh
his recollections of what he would surely like to re-
tain in vivid and distinct remembrance, and will be
able to describe to home friends, who behold it with
him, with fresh interest. The intending tourist,
while advised by the lecturer to look out for him-
self views and scenes .unmentioned by guidebooks,
will yet learn one important lesson before he starts,
what, namely, to look for. But, above all, the
thousands who cannot afford the time, and the tens
of thousands who cannot afford the money for a
trip on the Rhine, may here have, so far as
gratification of the eyes and the imagina-
tion go, the next best thing to it, the
means of forming clear pleasing conceptions
of what more favoured eyes can behold in all its
grand, sublime, or beautiful reality.
We know not whether adepfate attention has
been drawn to the instructive character of Mr.
Wyld's whole exhibition. There is in it so much
of the pleasing and the entertaining that the more
serious advantage is perhaps forgotten. We for-
get, when we leave, how much more definite ideas
we form of so much that we have seen. Our atten-
tion was called to this circumstance by the
youngest of four children whom we took with us,
one not more than nine years old, and of the most
merry and playful temper, exclaiming, while we
were talking to him of the diversion, "Yes, and I
am sure we came out much wiser than we went in
—to know so much about all these places—and
those images, too, 'of the people of different coun-
tries—and the Globe. I never thought England
was so little before." Of course we did not tail in
the duties of Dominie, after such a hint; but it was
a just one. We never ourselves.had half so just a
conception of the proportions of continents and coun-
tries, and land and water, to each other as from
seeing the Great Globe, nor of the real form of the
great masses of land, and the mountain chains, and
the great river valleys of the earth. A map, of
.course, is necessarily distorted, a convex globe al-
lows you to see but a part at a time, but a concave
globe, though it seems wrong, in truth, gives you
a More accurate conception of the properties
and relations adverted to than any other
representation. The &mind on your fancy is
really very small. With regard to the splendil
views on the Rhine ; the twenty-six, almost equally
good, of China, from:Hong Kong and Canton with
its river, along the coast, to the river and city of
Oude
Pekin ;
(two the f
of crty views of Southern India, Bengal'
Lucknow), Upper India, including
Cawnpore, and one of Delhi, till country in the Himalayasthe view weof quit the
,
Nagasaki
in Japan, all these speak for themselves. So also do
the Orientals in native, many of them really native
dresses, and the plans of Sebastopol, &e., by no
means antiquated yet, and other curiosities. We
certainly had not reflected, before taking children
with us, how much knowledge was acquired, with-
out toil, by what the eye could not but gaze on,
within Mr. Wyld's unique building ; and all for so
small a sum ! Parents, teachers, superintendents of
Sunday schools, perhaps even liberal and enlight-
ened employers of numerous young persons, would
do well not to overlook so easy a method of at once
amusing, and of expanding and informing their
minds. Lecturers well acquainted with what, is be-
fore them describe everything to the audience, and in
a peripatetic lecture on the numerous groups of
Orientals we noticed some appropriate illustrations
of Scripture usages, having certainly none of the
dryness of the notes of learned commentators. The
lecturer on the Globe itself was, appropriately, a
nephew of Dr. Livingstone ; he has of course his
uncle's great expeditions prettyplainlydelineated
or an Africa of such a size as is seen in no other
representation, and did not fail to give us the out-
lines of those wonderfnl journeys, Visitors will cer-
tainly repay themselves in giving Mr. Wyld the
uneouraoement his enterprise deserves.

THIS DAYS MARKETS.

CORN EXCHANGE.

The country markets held on Saturday were but mode-
rately supplied with wheat, and all kinds moved off briskly
at considerably enhanced rates. There was an improvea
inquiry for barley, oats, beans, peas, and the tuotations
were on the advance.

Throughout the Continent wheat has sold briskly, and
prices have rapidly improved. Spring corn has sold readily
at is to 2s per quarter more money. In France extensive
sales of flour have been effected for shipment to this.,
country. The American markets continue high for bow
wheat and flour.
The arrivals wf English produce up to our market last
week were rather limited. From abroad we received 12,482
qrs. of wheat, 10,356 of barley, 43,491 oats, 40 beans, 16
peas, 19 tares, 240 maize, 110 sundry seeds, and 2,337 sacks
of flour.
The quantity of English wheat received fresh up to-dayr
coastwise and by land carriage, was very moderate, arta
the show of samples was rather limited. The commence-
ment of hostilities in Sardinia produced considerable ex-
citement in the trade. The bulk of the supply was cleared
off at an advance in the quotations realised on Monday last
of fully 10s. to 12s. per quarter, and the whole of the
supply passed into millers' hands.
Holders of foreign wheat, for the most part, demanded
very high rates, although the show of samples was good.
Prices may be called Bs. to 10s. per quarter higher than on
this day se'nnight, and some large parcels were taken on
speculation.
k Floating cargoes of wheat were held at lOs advance.
We had a good demand for both English and foreign
barley, at 2s to 3s per quarter more money.
Malt moved off steadily, and prices had an upward
tendency.
Although the show of oats was good, the oat trade was
brisk, and the quotations advanced 2s to 3s per quarter.
Beans moved off briskly, at 3s to 4s more money.
Grey peas were 3s to 4s, white ditto, 8s to lOs per quer'
ter dearer, with a brisk sale.
Flour was active. Town-made sold as high as 545, and
country marks were 4s per 2801bs dearer. American and
other qualities were higher.

CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE.
Wheat—Essex and Kent, red, new sos to 599
Ditto, old
Ditto, white, new sss 669
Ditto. old
—8 —8
Norfolk and Lincoln, red, old —s —8
Ditto, new 478 589
Rye—Old —9 —5
-New
BarleY—Grinding...., 269 295
Malting .37s 389
Chevalier 3Bs 438
Malt—Suffolk and Norfolk .. s2s 66s
Brown
. .... .. ..... 60s 62a
Kingston and Ware 62s 649
Chevalier ' 64s 669
Oats— 22
Yorkshire and Lincolnsh., Feeding e 276
Potato 29s- 338
Youghal and Cork, black ... 239 269
Cork, white
Scotch, Feeding
Beans—Tick
Pigeons
Peas—Grey .
Maple
White
Boilers
Flour—Town-made
Suffolk
Stockton and Norfolk a
... 44 04244
22
34443
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METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET.
The total imports of foreign stock into London last week
were 2,876 head. In the corresponding week in 185$ Ws.
received 1,362 ; in 1857, 1,456 ; in 1856, 742 ; in 1805,
1,266; in 1854, 1,122; in 1853, 3,474; and in 1852.,
head.

IMPORTS INTO LONDON LAST WEEK.
From. Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pie*
Rotterdam
Hamburgh 79 .. 2,262 .. —..—.. .
Harlingen
Ostend l6 ..
Boulogne —

- • . -- • •
23 . . -- • e

""-. • •

7
• • .

-
Total l6l 2,675 3 37 • •
The yearly comparison of weekly imports is as followe:'
Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. rig.
1858 lB3 .. 1,000 .. 3 .. 176 .. • "-;
1857 428 .. 874 .. 5 .. 147
1856 293 .. 367 .. 4 .. 78 .. •
1855 691 265 .. 5 .. 305 ..
1854 309 .. 566 .. 3 .. 232 ..
1853 854 .. 2,100 2 .. 518 .. -
To-day's market was very moderately supplied with each
kind of foreign stock, and the general quality was by ep
means first-rate.
The arrivals of beasts, fresh up from our own greOlg,..,
districts, were on the increase, and their general qualm
was good. Although the attendance of butchers was toler‘
ably numerous, the beef trade ruled very inactive,
_and, 11./,
some instances, prices were a shade lov;•er than on Monde"
last. The top price for beef was 4s 8d per 81bs. • '
From Norfolt, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire, "
received 2,220 Scots, short horns, and crosses ; from other
parts of England, 450 of various breeds • from Scothelda
300 Scots and crosses; and from Ireland, 120 oxen an
heifers.
• • 'ed
We were tolerably well, but not to say heavily', supPli
with most breeds of sheep, fully two thirds of which.were
out of the wool. On the whole the mutton trade rule'
active • nevertheless, very little change took plies in p":
compared with Monday last. The top price for Downs,
the wool, was 5s 8d per 81bs.
There was a moderate inquiry for lambs, at last week's
currency, viz., 5s 4d to 6s 4d per 81bs. About 250 came
hand from the Isle of Wight.
We had a fair sale for calves, •at full quotations. Fie'
sold slowly, but at full prices.
Per 81bs.
s. d. s. d.
Crse. &inf. beasts 3 4 3 8
Second qualitydo. 3 10 4 0
Prime large oxen 4 2 4 6
Prime Scots, &c. 4 6 4 8
Crse..& inf. sheep 3 10 4 4
Second quality do. 4 6 4 8
Lambs, 5s
Suckling calves, 18s to 21s
19s to 225.

!ink the offal.

a. d. s• 41;
Primecrs-wool do. 4 10 6
Pme. S'thdowndo. 5 6 5
Large crse. calves 3 10 4
Prime small do 4 10 6 6
Large hogs 3 0 3 .;
sm.]] porkers 3 8 4 "
4d to 6s 4d.

; and quarter-old store pigh

TOTAL SUPPLY. FOREIGN SUPPLY. ....
Beasts 3,920 Beasts - 13u
Sheep 21,550 Sheep
69
Calves
Piga. 5OO , Pigs ......
A. statement and comparison of the supplies and prices of
~..
fat stock exhibited and sold in the Great Metropolil'""
Cattle Market, on Monday, May 3, 1858, and this daft
Monday, May 2, 1859.
Per 81bs, to sink the offals.
May 3, 1858. May 2, 195?*
a d. s. d. s. d. a. ua'
Coarse and inferior beasts . .
Second quality ditto 3 6 3 B'3 10 4 "
Prime large oxen 3lO 4 2i4 2
4 6
Prime Scots, &c. .• • • •4 2 4 414 6 4 4
Coarse and inferior sheep . . 3 4 3 613 10 4 8
Second quality ditto . •.3 10 4 2'4 6 4 4
Prime coarse-woolled ditto . . 4 4 4 84 10 5
Prime Southdown ditto . . . 5 0 5 2,5 6 6 "
Lambs .. . 6 4

_ ...
Large coarse calves ..... 6 0 7 0 5 4 , 5
. . . . 4 4 4103 10 1 6
Prime small ditto ..... 5 0 5 64 10 0 6
Large hogs ....... 3 2 4 0 3 0 a, 2
Beasts
Neat small porkers . . . . 4 2 4 4 3 8 4an
t-'
50v
Sheeps 9 1
and lambs . • 20,840 .--) 63
Calve
145 500
Pigs
SUPPLIES ON SALE, May 4, 1857.---Beasts, 3,73°,
sheep and lambs, 22,360; calves, 134; pigs, 210. ...
March 5, 1856.—Beasts, 4,185; sheep and lambs, 23,170
calves, 91; pigs, 320.

NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL.
The supplies of country-killed meat are moderate,.
• and
the show slaughtered in the metropolis is rather
Generally speaking the demand continues steady, at full
prices.

Per Blbs. by the Carcass.
s. d. s. d. I s. d. °d•
• Inferior Beef 3 4to 3 6 f Tar. A 0
r. Mutton. 36 to 4 Mid. d 0..... 38to 3 10 Mid. do .. •.42t04 A. 10
Pm.largedo. 4 oto 4 2 Prime do. .. 4 6to ; Do. small do. 4 4to 4 6(f
Veal, ... . . 4 2to
Large pork.. 3 2to 3 8 Small poric .. 3 10 to 4 2
Lamb, 48 4d to 5s Bd. _

BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS.
Since our last report about average time-of-year supPlill,
of potatoes have come to hand, coastwise and by land
a:'
riage. From abroad, the imports have been only 192 Mi
from Calais. Good and sound qualities move off somovi,S;
briskly, at enhanced quotations ; but other
kinds iu"-
ruled heavy, at late currencies.
;200
York Regents, 90s to 105 s •, do. Flukes, 95s to 1
,'
Essex and Kent, 805 to 100 s; Scotch, 60s to
75sr Do.
40s to 70s; Lincolns, 70s to 90s; Foreign, 408 to 50s I--
Ibn.

BOROUGH HOP.
Nearly all new hops are still In fair request, at very i&
prices.- Yearlings are quite as dear as last week.
In 4)^
parcels only a limited business is doing.
Mid and East Kent pockets B4B to 147 s per cwt.
Weald of Kent do 66s to 84s ~
Sussex do 63s to 75s ~ •

WOOL MARKET.
Owing to the near approach of the Colonial wool el
and the warlike news at hand from the Continent, all of wool are very dull in sale, and, in some instances, price-
rule the turn in favour of buyers. The import, last W
was only 6 bales from the Cape.