The Sun.
London, England, 1868-04-20 00:00:00

METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET.

Tho market this morning was shortly supplied with
beasts, and in consequence of the gced reports from the
dead meat markets, rates are very firm, tending against
buyers, whilst of lambs and sheep there was a good num-
ber at market, and a slow demand.
COTTON.

LIVERPOOL, April 20.--Market firm, advancing I to I
higher. Sales probably 15,000 bales.
WOOL.

The markets for both English and Colonial are firm,
with moderate transactions. The next public sales of the
latter aro expected to commence about the 14th of May,
and to offer something like 200,000 bales.
BOROUGH HOP.

Messrs. Henry Turnbull report the market quiet, with a
limited demand for home grown samples. Bavarians and
Belgian hops still engage attention at late values. Conti-
nental advises report firmness in the various markets. At
Worcester last Saturday both the supply and demand was
of a limited character, and prices nominal.
TALLOW.

The market is quiet, but stes.dy. Y. C. on the spot,
44s 6d ; April to June, 44s 6d ; June, lls 9d: last three
months, 455.
Stock, 22,528 casks; delivered last week, 721 casks
arrived last week, 701 casks.
NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL.

MEAT—The supply of beef this morning was short, and
prices advanced 2d per stone. Mutton rather plentiful and
no dearer, with dull trade. Veal, pork, and lamb
steady. The quotations were—Beef, 3s 4d to 4s 4d .
mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 2d ; veal, 4s 4d to 5s ; west country;
3s 4d to 3s 8d ; pork, 4s to 4s 8d ; lamb, 5s to 6s 2d per
stone of 81bs by tho carcase.
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POULTRY.— Supplies moderate, and markets fairly
cleared before a late hour, prices ruling steady. Fowls,
common, 2s 6d to 3s 6d ; Surrey chickena, 4s to 5s ; fowls
6s to 8s ; ducklings, 7s to 8s ; goslings, 9s to lOs ; pigeons,
9d to lld ; rabbits, tame, is 6d ; wild, is to is 2d ; quails,
is 6d each.

EGGS.—English, 8s; French, 6s per 120; plovers, 2s to
2s 6d per dozen.

CABINET COUNClL.—Summovses have been issued
for a Cabinet Council on Wednesday next, to be held at
the First Lord of the Treasury's official residence in
Downing-street.

A NEW TENOR.—Report speaks highly of a new
tenor, Mr. Jess 6 Burleigh, who, under the auspices of Mr.
A. Chappell, is about to make his debut in London. His
voice is said to be remarkably fine. A tenor just now is
much needed, and we hope expectation will not be dis-
appointed.

P. T. BARNU3I ON THE WITNESS STAND.—The
great showman has recently been defendant in a suit
brought by a Mr. George Cooke, of Bridgeport, Connec-
ticut, to recover damages for encroaching on his mill pond,
Mr. Barnum having built an ice, house on the shore of the
pond, which, it was alleged, displaced water which would
have turned the water wheels of the mill for about three
minutes. In his defence he stat,d that the land on which
the ice house was built belonged to his wife, " Charity,"
and this brought on a warfare between himself and the
plaintiff's counsel, which is recorded as follows : Counsel
—Mr. Barnum, are you sure that the property was not
bought by your own money ? Barnum—l had no money
at that time; my wife had all there was in the family; I
was a subject of "charity." Judge (smiling)—Charity
suffereth long. Mr. Barnum—Without charity I was
nothing iu those days of Jerome clocks. Counsel—Mr.
Barnum, you are now worth a million of dollars ? Mr.
Barnum (gravely)—l am glad to hear it. Counsel—Are
you not worth it ? Mr. Barnum—You so inform me, sir.
Counsel—You are worth a million and a half ? Mr. Bar-
num—Better yet. Counsel—Is not this true ? Mr. Bar-
num—l shall tell you if the Court so directs. Judge—
What is the object of the inquiry? Counsel— I wish to
know how he has made $1,500,000 within a few years.
Mr. Barnum—I am not aware that lam obliged to give
the gentleman lessons in the art of money getting. Coun-
sel (to the judge) —Shall not the witness answer my ques-
tions. Judge—Mr. Barnum may do as he likes about it.
If he has no objection to telling you how he has made
money, he may do so. Mr. Barnum (taking a pencil and
a large sheet of law paper)_l certainly have not the
slightest objection (commencing to make figures rapidly),
but it will involve some little delay to the court. I shall
be obliged to figure up my profits on the " What is it,"
then the Gorilla, the Mermaid, and enter into some pretty
nice calculations regarding the net proceeds of the Woolly
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answer might be waived.

The Law Times has an article strongly commending the
conduct of Sir Roundell Palmer in- having absented him-
self from the division for going into committee on the
Irish Church. The substance of it is that the hon. and
learned gentleman kept his conscience clear and lost the
woolsack. It is, of course, obvious that unless Sir
Roundell can be properly " educated," he can never
form a member of a Cabinet which will be
called upon to devise the machinery for disestablishing
the Church in Ireland; It is not a case in which an
eminent lawyer may quarrel with his leader and trust to
time to brixig about a reconciliation. But, according to
present appearances, it is a difference of opinion which
would prevent Sir R,oundell from working with his party on
a great question of public policy. How quarrels are made
up was illustrated in the case of Lord Palmerston and the pre-
sent Lord Westbury. When the Liberals were in Opposition
in 1858, Lord Palmerston made his usual anti-ballot
speech, on the introduction of Mr. Berkeley's annual
motion. He had..no sooner sat down than up rose Sir
Richard Bethell, whom Lord Palmerston had made suc-
cessively Solicitor and Attorney-General, and madi a
trenchant attack upon his late chief. Yet within twelve
months Sir Richard was again Lord Palmerston's Attor-
ney-General, and two years afterwards he was Lord High
Chancellor in the Cabinet of the same Minister. Should Sir
RoundellTalmer not reconcile the destruction of the Irish
Church with the expressed convictions of a lifetime,
who, it is asked, will be Mr. Gladstone's Lord Chancellor?
Certainly not Lord Cranworth, in the 78th year of his
age, and no friend of legal reforms. Scaicely Lord West-
bury, after the events of 1865, and with the recollection
of his onslaughts upon Mr. Gladstone in the session
of 1857, when in charge of the Divorce Bill. Would
Sir Robert Collier receive the Great Seal by virtue
of necessity, or would be be content with a
judgeship so as to make way for Mr. Coleridge —a pro-
mothai without parallel since the ddys of Lord BroughanA
elevation ? It is obvious that unless Sir R. Palmer will
consent to act, the woolsack will be one of Mr. Gladstone's
difficulties, and it may safely be assumed that consider.
able pressure will be put upon the hon. and learned
member for Richmond to induce him to work with M.
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