The Sun. — 1865-08-31 (London, England)

METROPOLITAN CATTLE.  The supply of beasts on sale at our market to-day was only moderate, whilst the quality of the stock was very middling. Good and prime breeds consequently changed hands at the extreme rates of Monday, viz., from 5s to 5s 6d per 81bs. ; otherwise the beef trade ruled quiet, at Monday's currency. The market was moderately supplied with sheep, the trade for which was firm, at full prices. The general top figure was 6s 8d per 81bs. The few lambs on offer sold at about late rates. The trade for veal was steady, at full quotations. Pork ruled firm, and prime small porkers were rather dearer than on Monday.  Per 81b to sink the offal.  s de d Crse. & inf. beasts... 3 0 4 0 Second quality do ..4 2 4 10 Prime large oxen ..5 0 5 2 Prime Scuts, &c.... 5 4 5 6 Crse. and inf. sheep. 4 6 5 0 Second quality do ..5 2 5 8  s ds d Pmecrs-wool sheep 5 10 6 2 Prime s'thdowd d 0.6 4 6 8 La,ge coarse calves. 4 4 4 10 Prime small d0......5 0 5 4 Large hogs .4 0 4 6 Small porkers 4 8 5 2  Lambe....6s Od to 7s Od. Suckling calves, 19a to 23s ; and quarter-old store pigs, 25a to 3Ca each.  Head of stock on sale. Total supply. Foreign supply. Beasts 1,03) Beasts 6lO Cows l3O Cows. Sheep and lambs B,l t.O Sheep and lambs Calves 520 Ca yes 303 rigs 3:10 Pigs .. ........ _  The Attempted Murder and Suicide in  Westminster.  At three o'clock this afternoon, the man Shaunessey, under the care of the surgeons at 'Westminster Hospital, was going on very favourably. The wound in the throat, although there is much inflammation, is not likely to prove fatal. The female also is going on so well that a fatal result in her case is not now anticipated.  Detector's Revelations of Quacks and Quackery.  Having driven the nail well home by his " Revelations," Detector, otherwise Mr. F. B. Courtenay, has here effectually clinched it in his Second Edition, with an " Addenda." He had already hurled the vagabonds down, so to speak, into the gutter bordering the public highroad : and he now contents himself with fairly smothering them in the mire of their own dirty facts and cases, of their own nefarious practices and disgusting publications. It required some pluck to have anything at all to do with such a set of rogues, even in the way of meting out to them the deadliest punishment  of all, meaning thereby the punishment of exposure. But Detector has done his work, here, bravely and well—he has spoken right out—he has entered from the first uncompromisingly upon the untemptingJand unsavoury task which he had, with so signal a self-abnegation, set himself to accomplish ! Setting himself about its accomplishment, in effect, not only with a determination to call a spade a spade, but with a determination also to use it resolutely, wheresoever it might be deemed needful, in the effectual cleansing out, namely, of those fouler Cloaca, the haunts of Quacks and Quackery ! Before Detector began his raid against the evil-doers and against the evil system which they had set on foot and were encouraging with such fearful success to themselves and with such pernicious consequences to many members of the general community—the atrocity he has since laid bare was already notorious. It stank in the public nostrils. It was blatantly audible and brazenly visible, to the right hand and to the left. There was no gainsaying the fact of its existence. And yet—granting all this—Until Detector put a sharp point to his pen and dipped it into that searing ink of his of a gall and bitterness doubly distilled—Until he had fairly written the Quacks down, lower even than Dogberry wanted to be written down by the Sexton, namely, not only as Asses, of a densely illiterate stupidity, but as Sneaks and Bullies to boot, as Swindlers and Extortioners of the most degraded character imaginable—Until Detector had done all this the Quacks were virtually undenounced, they were certainly in no way formally charged with their iniquities ! Quackery until then, in fact, drove its villanous trade triumphantly in the very midst of us. For what he has done, therefore, actually done, in his capacity as DetectorGeneral of Quacks and Quackery, we take Mr. Courtenay to be nothing less than a Public Benefactor. His exposure of the rascals has been complete and most effectual. lle has stripped them not simply of a mask or a domino, but of the whole of their disguises : and, afterwards, taking into his " honest hand" a " Whip" like that apostrophised by Emelia in the play, he has relieved his own overwrought feelings and those we arc sure of very many others besides, by " lashing the rascals naked through the world," through our own noisy, babbling world, that is, of Vanity Fair ! The additional Facts and Cases he has here brought together in the form of the " Addenda," appended to this Second Edition of his " Revelations," are as telling, as pungent, as acrid we might even say, as any with which the vagabonds were, some months ago, pelted by him in the original Revelations themselves. The Pamphlet as it now stands—in its entirety—consisting as it now does, that is to say, of Revelations and Addenda combined—is for all the world like the application to a most foul and loathsome ulcer, now of the knife, now of the cautery !