The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-10-31 00:00:00

THE HUNTING SEASON.

Nowadays the hunting of both hare and fox with
one packs of hounds, like the Trilissick, is reckoned
quite a hybrid sort of amusement. Yet nearly every
pack that is lauded for its "fashion, form, and fling,"
and boasts an interrupted existence since the last
century, or even some way into the present one, had
its origin in hounds whose great merit was, not that
they were marvellously steady to fox, but that they
would hunt anything. Lately some very laudable
but entirely speculative endeavours have been made
to trace the growth of the foxhound from what he
was to what he is. Whether he was originally a
sheepdog, as some say, or whether, unlike policemen
and cabs on a wet day, he was always at hand when
wanted, matters not. It is sufficient to say that a
hound of some sort has always been available, and
has always been in use. Notwithstanding, however,
the ancient treatises of Mr. Twici and his friends,
hunting in all its glory as we see it now, is not a
very old institution. It is probable (says the Field)
that, in the last century, men went out to hunt a fox
with but little more pomp and ceremony than boys
now sally forth to hunt rats. If not exactly a "beast
of stinking flight" 100 years ago, the fox had not, at
any rate, been promoted to the proud position he now
holds among beasts of the chase. It is also more than
probable that our great grandfathers were more easily
contented than we are in this go-ahead age, and that,
though accounts of.fabulous runs are preserved to us,
it is not unlikely that the journalistic art was, even
then, equal to snaking the best of everything, and that
the hunting correspondent of the period painted
things in the most rosy colours. If we search old
records carefully, we shall have good grounds for
coming to the conclusion that it was not until
shortly before the accession of William IV. to the
throne that hunting first had a gaudy side to it.
About that period it became a common practice to
keep hounds to one scent; to give increased prices
for hounds and horses; and to make hunting the ex-
pensive amusement we now find it. Whether, since
1834, when "Nimrod" wrote his Quarterly Review
article, hounds have become faster and horsemanship
more brilliant are still moot points with some people.
" Where," they ask, "can you now find accounts of
such deeds of daring as formerly took place? Where
do you find the man who cries, 'a fig for the Whis-
sendine,' or whatever the local bete noire in the shape
of a brook may be, or who take such fences as used
to be jumped ? " If the question is to be settled by
the existence or non-existence of printed acccunts,
the laudator temporis aeti has, no doubt, some plat-
form to stand upon, but then it may be remembered
that, despite the dozens of hunting correspondents now
found, it is no longer the fashion to write down the say-
ings of anyone who, carried away by the ardour of the
chase, was now and then guilty of slightly sententious
utterances. Where such a chronicler as " Nimrcd "
among us now, it is not improbable that epigrams
would be as plentiful, sayings as quaint, and
wit as racy as in the time gone by—if stories that
go the round of all hunts have' any foundation in
truth. Do men ride as hard now as they used to?
Were there any means of proving the question one
way or the other, we think that the answer would be
in the affirmative. For we would argue, there is no
reason to believe that a horse could jump any higher
in 1820 or 1830 than he can now. We have still men
who for hunting's sake are content to lead ascetic
lives for five months in the year, in order that
nothing may interfere with the business of their
lives ; while we cannot help thinking that our fellow
elector, the agricultural labourer, now builds up
stiffer ramparts to fence in his master's cattle, than
his less privileged ancestor was ever called upon to
do. Many of the terrible bulfinches that used to
come in so handily in story have disappeared, it is
true; but what remains of them, when skilfully laid,
and masked by a ditch in the making of which time
appears to be of no object, forms an obstacle
that, if less imposing when viewed from a distance,
is just as likely to find occupation for the local
medico, as the more unkempt affair that it is steadily
replacing. "Shaking off the cocktails" is no easier
now than when Aiken limned his picture; and if
any of the herces of a bygone age could beat the
best performers of our day, then all that can be said
is, they must have been giants indeed. On the past
we can dwell with pleasure; what the future, in
the shape of the now opening season, will bring
forth, we can only hope and anticipate. There
are not wanting those who would have us believe
that the spirit of sport so long conspicuous in
Englishmen—that spirit, for instance, that led the
officers and men of our transport ships to get up a,
regatta in the Red Sea—is dying out, and that hunt-
ing will in due course follow suit. Against this
pessimist view our hunting tables furnish, to a
certain extent, an argument. There are two or three
more packs than laJ year; while in those countries
for which new masters were required promises of
support, and the aspect of affairs generally,
.have been
promising enough to make it worth the while of the
requisite number of gentlemen to come forward and
fill the several vacancies. At the same time, we have
never concealed our belief that the worst enemiea of
fox-hunting are a section of those who take part in
it. It is in comparatively few hunts that anything
in the shape of a recognition is made to farmers for
their unselfishness in preserving foxes and permitting
hunting over their land. Ninety-nine farmers out
of every hundred would be the last men in the
world to ask for a quid pro quo. They have been
brought up to see hounds round them in the winter,
and in their inmost hearts they would be sorry to see
them given up; but, like other men, they would
appreciate any acknowledgment of their efforts to
show sport that the followers of any hunt might see
fit to make.

Lord Chatham defines politeness as benevolence
in trifles or the preference of others to ourselves
in little daily, hourly occurrences in the commerce
of life.
It is possible to teach the laws of etiquette because
these are conventional; but the laws of politeness
cannot be taught—they spring from the heart.
Do not marry without love. A marriage of con-
venience is detestable, but it is hardly worse than a
marriage of reason—a coolly calculated affair, in
which the light and life of true affection are wholly
wanting.
A visit, to a newly-married couple is not a visit of
oondolence. Be brisk in your manner, therefore; wear
a smile on your lip, and if there be a feeling of pity
at your heart, do your utmost to prevent its outwara
manifestation.

SATURDAY, OCT. 31, 1585.

A gentler, named Teemer, from Pittsburg, ddea -'
Megan, the Canadian sculler, in a hard race which era.
Towed on Saturday.
.A confirmation is to be held in St. Paul's Cathedra '
On Saturday Dr. Danford Thomas held an inquest at by the Bishop of London on Tuesday, November 24, at
her Majesty's Prison, Coldbath-fields, on the body of 11.30 a.m. '
John Ward, aged 32 years, who expired while under- The police on Saturday night made a further selearo
going a term of one month's imprisonment for of goods at Dover, in connection with the robber,' of ,
stealing a shawl from the shop of a linendraper in military stores there,
Regent-street. The deceased was committed at A detachment of convicts have been bronght to
Marlborc ugh-street on the 24th ult., put on the tread- Dover for employment on the new harbour works, and
wheel until the 15th inst., and the next day was placed have been lodged in the convict prison to the eastof ,
in the infirmary, where he died on the 21st from the town.
pneumonia or lung disease. The hard labour lasts Colonel Henry Russell, of Boston, has been appointed .
seven and a half hours, viz., 15 minutes on the wheel, vice-president, and Mr. John Gilmer Speed, of Nett •
with an interval of five minutes off, and when locked York, secretary, of the American Exhibition in London,
up for the night at five p.m. each prisoner had one to be opened next Ma'y.
pound of tarred rope to pick before bedtime. While James Chittender, manager in a large draper, ,
resting in the wheel house Ward caught a violent cold, establishment at Maidstone,was sentenced on Saturday
which settled on his lungs. and ended fatally. The to 18 months' imprisonment for wholesale robbery and ,
jury returned a verdict if "Death from natural for misappropriating £4OO.
causes." A section of the Indian Viceroy's council hes sent a
Prince Albert of Prussia has formally accepted the 1 strong protest to the Secretery of State for India
rainier of Reeent-of the Duchy of Brunswick. against the proposal to charge the Indian revenues with •
In the Notch-Western London Hospital on Saturday the whole cost of the increased military expenditure in
the Lord Mayor unveiled a memorial window which India.
had been erected in honour of two ladies named Lear- It is reported that the Dutch Government intenda
mouth, who lost their lives through their zealous to ask for a grant of 25,000 florins for the next expedir
attendance upon the sick poor in the hospital during tion to New Guinea, planned by the Geographical '
an epidemic of typhoid fever two years ago. Society. An Amsterdam banker promises 10,000
A Canterbury correspondent says that several East florins if the Chamber sanctions the expedition. ..
Kent farms. after being vacant a long time, have been The Board of Trade have issued tables relating fa
let at a great reduction of rent. Ong has been taken life salvage on the coasts of the United Kingdom
for £350 instead of £5OO, and another for £3OO instead during the year ending June 30 last, showing that 121
of £4OO. lives were saved by means of the rocket apparatus, .
In consequence of the high prices of meat and bread, inclusive of 10 lives saved by the surf lifeboat and life '
and the comparatively low value of wheat and stock in lines at Fair Isle. There are altogether 297 rocket
South Devon, the farmers of the South Ham district apparatus stations.
have resolved to grind their own corn and kill their own The death is announced, in his 64th year, of Baron -
cattle, and retail direct to consumers. Leopold von Hofmann, Director-General of the .
Mr. T. D. Fitzgerald, resident magistrate of county Imperial Come Theatres in Vienna, and formerly
Down, has died suddenly at his residence the Terrace, Finance Minister of the Austrian Empire. He was a
Downpatrick. The deceased only arrived home from very amiable man, a great favourite in society, and he
the Continent a few days ago, where he had been in took the chief part in promoting and equipping the
search of health. Mr. Fitzgerald was a native of expedition of Dr. Oscar Lenz, which is now on its way ,
Carlow. to explore the 'Upper Congo. ~
About six o'clock on Saturday morning an accident A serious fire oce,urred on Monday afternoon in '
occurred at Southall Station, on the Great Western Wood-street, Old Brompton, on the premises known as
Railway. While a goods train was being shunted, four the Shepherd and Shepherdess public-house and the
trucks laden with Bath stone left the rails, two of Army and Navy Music-hall, in the midst of a thickly-. .
them turning over and blocking the up and down relief populated neighbourhood and in clo-e proximity to her
lines. A breakdown gang was sent from Paddington majesty's dockyard at Chatham. After three hours the
with a crane to clear the lines. fire was got under. Both the public-house and the
For stealing a diamond pin from the person of Mr. music-hall were completely destroyed, and considerable
George Russell, M.P., when leaving a political meeting : damage was done to the surrounding property, the
at Islington last week, a groom named Cole was at the tenants of which in many instances lost all their
Clerkenwell Police-court on Saturday sentenced to six furniture.
months' imprisonment with hard labour. While a platelayer in the employ of the Great ,
John Dunkin was charged at the Thames Police- Northern Railway Company was walking up the line •
court on Saturday with causing the death of a woman between Bowes Park and Palmer's-green on Saturday
named Jackson, who had passed as his wife. It was night, he discovered the dead body of a respectably
-
alleged that the prisoner had, when drunk on the pre- dressed young woman lying between the metals. It
vious day, kicked and otherwise ill-treated the deceased. was afterwards identified as Nellie Harvey, aged 20
lie was remanded for a week. years, who left her home at Hadleigh, Suffolk, to pro- :
Five baskets full of ripe strawberries grown in the oeed by train to Wood-green, where she had obtained
open air were picked at Warsash, near Portsmouth, on a situation in a gentleman's family as domestic servant.
Friday. At the Cambridge Town Hall on Saturday evening a
The "Galveston News" states that a five years' con- Church defence meeting for members of the University ,
tract has been concluded with an English syndicate for was held under the presidency of the Vice-Chancellor. •
the delivery of 3000 carcases of frozen Texas beef Mr. Beresford Hope, M.P., moved a resolution protest
every fortnight on the wharf at Galveston. ing against the clisestablishment and disendowment of -
The death is announced of Madame Cordier, who was the Church of England as unjust in itself and detri-
a daughter of the banker Laffitte, and the first wife of mental to the best interests of the nation; and Mr. '
M. Emile Erlanger. After her divorce Madame Cecil Raikes, M.P., moved a resolution pledging the ,
Erlanger married again, and was well known during meeting to "resist by all lawful and constitutional
the Empire as La Belle Madame Cordier. means any attempt to carry out the scheme of the so- '
At the Monaghan Quarter Sessions, before the called Liberationists."
Ccurdy Court judge, a young lad, named Francis Sir R. N. Fowler, the Lord Mayor of London, makeS °
Hughes, pleaded guilty to the charge of stealing £54 an appeal to the public on behalf of one of our largest
from the shop of a merchant in the town, and was national charities, the London Orphan Asylum at Wat-
sentenced by his Honour to twelve months' imprison- ford, which has maintained and educated since its
ment with hard labour in the county gaol. foundation in the year 1813 nearly 5000 fatherless chile :
Tasmanian hops are being sold to brewers in me dren, selected from all parts of her Majesty's dominions.
country at 50s. to 525. per cwt. The cost of carriage
Owing to want of funds, not more than 40 children can
from Tasmania is about is. 6d. per cwt., while the be received at the half-yearly admission in Janus/ ,
cost of convering hops from Kent to the Borough is next, while there are 100 vacancies and nearly double
is. Pd. that number of applicants, so that, with the existing :
Among the children confirmed by Bishop Titcombe staff and accommodation, the benefits of the charity -
at Carlsrube, on the 21st instant, according to the rites might be enormously increased at a comparative', -
of the English Church, was a daughter of the Prince of
small additional outlay. An old and generous friend to .'
Waldeck, a sister of the Duchess of Albany. the institution has offered to contribute the muniaceut
The coming of age festivities of the eldest son of
Lord Lathom, continued over three days, were marked sum of £lOOO towards increased admissions if a similar
sum can be raised in the form of annual aubscriptionS
on Tuesday by a grand banquet at Lathom Hall, rear
of half-a-guinea and upwards.
Ormskirk, which was attended by 400 guests. Lord
Two extensive burglaries were committed at Fever-
Derby, proposing the toast of the day, said in these
sham on Monday night, and both were at private reg.
days England was enforcing the rule more and more
deuces in the heart of the town. The burglars entered -
that from him to whom much was given much would
the premises with false keys. From one house they
be expected, and the life of a peer, the present or
took jewellery to the value of £BO, and £5 in cash' and
prosnective owner of large estates, was far from being
they robbed the other house of jewellery and plate of
free from the responsibilities and difficulties that beset
t •
men in other stations, though they might not be of the the value of £2O, and e 8 10s. in gold. The police hare
no clue to the perpetrators of the robberies.
same kind. The Minnie pit of Podmore Hall Colliery, one of the
Sir Charles Tupper, High Commissioner for Canada
largest in Staffordshire, was formally opened on Men'
in London, sailed from Q,uebsc for England on Sature
day in the presence of a large company. The pit in ,
day.
While Mary Ann Reid, aged 46 years, and her question, on which no less a sum than £50,000 has been
spent, is the property of Mr. W. Craig, M.P., and
, '
daughter, aged 19 years, residing at 100, Palmerston- partners, and possesses two splendid seams of coal each
road, Kilburn-rise, were retiring to bed, the paraffin
8f t. thick. ,
lamp exploded, setting fire to the daughter's night-
At the Scarborough Quarter Sessions, before Mr. Its -
dress. The mother attempted to put the flames out,
W. Simpson, recorder, Maria Bennett, 53, charwoman,
but the daughter was burnt to death. The mother
and Mary Power, 42, hawker, were charged with steal' -
was conveyed to the St. Mary's Hospital.
The Earl of Northbrook presided on Tuesday morn-
ing 2s. 6d. from a shop till on the 10th ult. Power was ,
discharged, but Bennett, being an old offender, Iva
ing at a public breakfast, given to Mr. James Dear, at 1
sent to penal servitude for five years. Henry Colley:
the Guildhall, Winchester, the day being the opening
31, labourer, was also sentenced to five years' pen"
day of the last season that veteran sportsman will hunt
servitude for stealing a ham and a pair of boots front
his harriers. There was a gathering of about 300 ladies
two Scarborough tradesmen. A fishmonger, named
and gentlemen present to do honour to Mr. Dear, in- -
Joseph Macnamara, was sentenced to six months' int-
chiding Lord Baring, M.P., and Lady Emma Baring,
Mr. A. Loftus Tottenham
prisonment for aggravated assault on an Irish waiter -
named Michael Neville.
candidate for the city), Mr: MT. (the Conservatite
Beach, M.P. (master of the
A National Convention was held at Athenry ell •
Vine Hounds), Mr. Walter Long (master of the
Monday to select candidates for county Galway. In
nambledon), Sir Charles Frederick, Bart., Sze. The
the course of the di,,eun3ion the platform gave way)
toast of the day was proposed by the chairman, and
and Messrs. Parnell, O'Kelly, Sexton, and others were
Mr. Dear made a happy response. Subsequently the
thrown down, but escaped injury. Mr. Parnell car,
company repaired to Harestock, where the houndsmet,
gratulated the meeting on its unanimity. They believed
and the result was a capital day's sport.
Lord Emly, Vice-Chancellor of the Royal University he said, that without the right of making their °wa
laws upon Irish soil all Land Acts, all Labourers' A.etot
g
of Ireland, speaking at the ceremony of conferring
and all extensions of the franchise were useless, ant:
degrees, said the University had prospered beyond ex-
that the desolation and poverty of the country IWO'
pectation, the number of candidates examined this year '
continue, its people diminish, and its towns decay. the
being 2900. Thanks to the Lord Lieutenant for his An interesting exhibition in connection with Led:
presence having been voted, Lord Caruarvon ,7
,said
trades concerned in the supply of refreshments
.3'
theology was conspicuously absent from the curriculum.
Indeed, from the nature of the University—the absence opened en Monday at the Agricultural Hall. It Is t°
be continued during the whole of the week.
of professional teaching—theology could not find a place
Walter Novell, described as a. member
in it. He had, nevertheless, always held that theology of t—be.
Salvation Army, was sentenced to three montekof
should form an essential part of the teaching of the imprisonment at the Marylebone Police-court
g_t;
people. Monday for stealing £7 10s„ the money of a builac
In the Dublin Bankruptcy Court on Tuesday, Judge .
residing at Kentish Town.
Boyd, refusing to confirm the sale of a farm near Tralee The Eastern and Midlands Railway Company's ne
at less than half what the purchaser had previously Lynn loop line, by which a direct communication Will
offered when the sale was annulled as fraudulent, said be formed with the Great Northern and lifidlaea
he would not facilitate the sacrifice of property, or Companies at South Lynn for the exchange of traffic;
allow his Court to be dictated to by any organisation,
has been inspected and passed by Major Gen"
notwithstanding that the National Bank, wishing to
Hutchinson on behalf of the Board of Trade, and it nt
stand well with the people in the country, might accept proposed to open the same for goods and mineral Va66°
the offer. The solicitor having observed that the on Monday, the 2nd of November.
creditors would then get nothing, Judge Boyd rejoined
At a meeting of the Board of Guardians at underland
that it was better for a loss to fall upon one estate than. , S_ _
to consider the question of providing empleyment !ft
upon fifty. destitute working men, it was decided to confer With
Her Majesty's ship Swallow, the large et gun-vessel the Highways Committee of the Corporation with
, . 7.
ever built for the navy, was successfully launched at view to the latter taking charge of stonebreaking PY_
Sheerness on Tuesday, in the presence of a large men in distress, and that the men should have the
number of spectators. The Swallow is the first of a e! .
ordinary price paid by the Corporation to thee'
new class of fast heavy armed gun vessels, and will be workmen.
equipped with eight 5-inch steel breech-loading guns, The British ship Millwall, Captain Anderson, whiell
eight machine guns, and spar torpedoes. ' arrived at Queenstown from San Francisco, reports the_ ,
At the Oxford Assizes George Boddington was cone when off Cape Horn the chief mate, Duncan Di‘Gregoir! -
victed of the murder of William Beckley, gamekeeper fell from aloft to the deck, and was killed. In latiturr. ,
to the Duke' of Marlborough, in Blenheim Park, on 44 north longitude 30 west the Millwall passed a d !,re°o ,
August 12th. The prisoner was sentenced to death, lict barque, painted black, and with white ports.
but the judge promised to forward to the proper had lost all her running gear, and her stern and poet' ,
quarter a recommendation to mercy which the jury were stove in. She had apparently been in collisions._ ,
appended to their verdict. ' The recent visit of American mining engineer
.vve
The Hon. Victoria McDonald, late Lady-in-Waiting Nova Scotia is expected to do much towards induclett
to the Queen, whilst driving in a pony-trap near Ash. American capitalists to develope the great raine,r4;
ford, Kent, was attacked by an infuriated bull. She resources of the province. It was pointed out ia tte
was thrown out, and sustained serious injuries to her course of the proceedings that it is since 1853 that the
head and body. The pony was disembowelled, and the coal deposits of the province have commenced too!:
trap was smashed to pieces. ' developed. So rich is the province in coal, thatt.g:,
The North-Eastern Railway Company, in view of the sidering its depth, there is, it is estimated, three linv
depressed state of the Northern ironmaking industry, as much coal in Nova Scotia. for its area, as is'
have conceded to the Cleveland pig iron trade a rebate other country of the world.
off the carriage rates upon ironstone, coke, and lime-
stone of 1 per cent, for each is. per ton fall in the price THE MARKETS.
of pig iron, besides allowing the minimum sliding scale
rate to be 31s. instead of 355., as formerly. The advan-
tage to the makers in one case is a rebateßK Nof 3 per MA LAE.
I
cent. on the carriage of minerals. A quiet business was passing at Mark-lane t,-day- rre-li
4 , sot
The formal ceremony of confirming the election of crriva a were about the average, aud were suffiiQu'4.tie
the Rev. John Wordsworth, Canon of Rochester, to requirementsietTsaef
England
the See of Salisbury took place on Tuesday at the vas poafi river
season
wngeraenfLran,973mqi
sa 1. gersnogwadinnurshiwt lig:92t2tile6sl:e;grsi:-;
church of St. Mary-le-Bow, Cheapside, London. i the average bong 319 against 33s per qr. The SaLZ of
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean barley were 539,559_ agLindstof62osets3o
sriFs4ar3it an. avtraost
reading of the barometer last week was 29.56 in.; the 3ca lid against 3 ld -
being 19s' id against 19, '3l perrilru.s 't.gliiies
highest reading was 29-99 in. on Sunday at noon, and .°
averagetwhnc,itmet a quiet sal.) at late rates. Foreign whoa' gest
the lowest 29.02 in. on Saturday morning. The sold slowly, and has been rather weak than othersl'?-88_:, to
mean temperature of air was 45-1, and 5.1 below mucli was passing in flour. The value of wheat
_awno!'.ufatif
the average in the corresponding week of the 20 years same. Fine malting barley
ewasi request,
gatias .3."—eases
ending 1868. The mean was considerably below the aasijewaerk"craisasr(3;lrgritricTleyr o dull.
n formeGr-r t.(rin'L . ii,
average on each day of the week, the deficienoy
without change in value, the deluabd being qniet• ivy"
ranging from 6'3 on Tuesday to 44 on Friday. Rain were is dearer, and the udvan ni
ce checked inisesS.
.i.
fell on four days of the week, to the aggregate amount were steady at full prices.
of 0.94 of an inch. The duration of registered bright -- lIBTROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET.
sunshine in the week was 5'6 hours, against 9'l hours
at Glynde Place, Lewes. s The total imports of foreign stock into London lagtderisseet
I The
to 15,581 head. lu the corresponding P°111,219;
In London 2572 births and 1458 deaths were reels- year we received 21,650; in 1683, 13,18) ;in larte e ill
tered last week. Allowing for increase of population, in 1881, 14,695 ; in121882?,h1e1a,,T.75 ;AtnlS7 9, 17,w663 .L,,iv.
were rov—and
the births were 173, and the deaths 127, below 1881j2ilatra iaiB77'
from lios,t7on, 303 beasts Liverpoolfrom Baltintir
the average numbers in the corresponding weeks of
374 beas•s and 261 sheep from Montreal; and
110
from the last ten years. The annual death-rate per 1000 rtrapton 8 beasts from Jersoy and Guernsey, auod,, Wia.,tt?
from all causes, which had increased in the from Oporto. Heaviness was 'he characteristsiec_
et !--ii• vre:
four preceding weeks from 138 to 17.2, further trade.
of beasts
efartohmerouris
owarin grazing tli,ll s
tri
ell
sr
t are 5011
stws
rose last week to 18.6. During the first three arrivalstnefame as usual, but the general quality and oou eor
weeks of the current quarter the death-rate averaged
17.5 per 1000 against 193, the mean rate in the corre- left room for improvement. A sluggish iuquirY ri! essa
rienced throughout, and prices wer.) not altogt °._, Ss ti
spending periods of the nine years 1876-84. The 1458 mainta, ned. The best
nSct.etasstrdwecrros.So3f eeaiair siziyvr,frao
deaths included 27 from measles, 18 from scarlet 5s 2d
fever, 18 from diphtheria, 31 from whooping-cough, quiet per qi!eBsitb,.at barely late rates. enline sheep Plot ill
fairly rween. filled, and the supplies wsre afnplB,l una
11 from enteric fever, 21 from diarrhoea and dysentery,
requirements. The trade wits, in fact, extremelyro,7;ol,3B
and not one from small-pox, typhus, or any ill-defined prices were weak. The best Downs an-1 half-.1),.8"00,
form of continued ,fever. Thus, 126 deaths were re- bs 2d to 5s 4d per
.81bel. Calves and pigs were. clin_e_yoci crualiV,
ferred to these diseases, being 104 below the corrected
1 teiipriti: ' Coarse
43 and
Gd ; 1
prime large
3es Soleto 4iss, gr 5041,',
average.
Mr. Justice Kay, sitting in the Chancery Division, ' ditto, Scots, &c., 5s 03 to 5s 2dg; coarse and inferior. trot)
4s Od to 48 ed ,• second quality ditto, 4s 6d to 58_2 'ditto)
gave judgment on Tuesday in the action of Bidder V. coarse-woolled ditto, 5s to 5s 2d; prime 50uthsdo7; proefal
Brydges, which raised the question of the rights of en- 5s 2d to Ss 4d; large coarse calves, 3a 6d to
2s ;',l to 38 Olfgh
closure over portions of Mitcham - common, near small ditto, 4s Oilto 4s 10d ; large hogs„
_ink the clo,
Croydon. He held that the plaintiffs had not small porkers, 3s led to 4s 6d per 81b. to
ir.
9400 ; wand
Total supply: Beasts, 3350; sheep and lambs, hop
...
made out their case, and gave judgment fur the
210; milch cows, 40. Foreign: Beasts, 300, a wertaYs-
defendants. lambs, 1710. From the midland, home,
The Exchequer receipts between the Ist April and the counties we received 2170 beasts; from ereleua re-
24th October, amounted to £43,137,888, as compares' Scotland, 80; and from Camada, 280 beasts.
with £43,660,024 in the corresponding period of last METROPOLITAN tintAT etaitlCßT- sere
year. The net expenditure amounted to £52,303,531, ,
as against £48,004,043. On Saturday there was a at
A large supply was offered. The trade_Wa_3 vessvf l'
the annexed rates :—lnferior beef, is id /ditto, 3,8, ii;)
balance in the Bank of England of £1,152,940, and in cuing ditto, 2s 4d to 2s 8d ; prime
to 4s ; P
Bank of Ireland to £872,529. rime small ditto, 4s 4d to 4s ed ,
tom a
The Eastbourne Working Men's Liberal Association "I—ditto, le, el
Ito 3s 4d Bto' 40 ed ; larglie: DY t"is
4s ;_sinfe.ri.or n.auttoi.2.. 2s to 2s d • middling
recently sent a resolution to the Bishop of Chichester !?, gs 1{.1.. 18=3 ditto,
48 24 to 48 6d per 8
protesting against the pulpits of the Eastbourne a1g"3.80. '
churches being used for electioneering purposes on
behalf of the Conservatives, and his lordship has just
replied to the remonstrance. He expresses the opinion
that according to a report of the sermon particularly
condemned, the preacher's arguments were stated with
fairness and moderation, and there was no allusion to
local politics either directly or indirectly. A clergyman
of the Church of England, the bishop continues, is
bound to instruct and inform his congregation, and if
he considers that the nation would suffer loss should
the Church of Engler-al be cast off by the State, and its
resources crippled, it is his duty to point out the, eon,
sequences of disestablishment.

FISH.
Cod, £6 10s to 21l per score; crimped ditto,
Sto 0 ea g
14s each; smelts, 2s to 3s per basket • bloaters, .79,s 6CI
per box; kippers, 5s to es 6d per pad'&l.
inackere,!:t,
Cs per score; lobsters, 13s to 320 per dozen; t_c-rf'rs,
to 13s each; whitings, 4s to 5s per score;ol'l oisto"
to 2s per dozen; plaice its to 22s per pad; ell
6s to its per 100.
POTATO.
There fa
sale, •
remains a good supply of potatoes 9 n ces:./
which the dem ind is dull, at the subjoic"gt, ;
0 0
31gnum bonums, 61's to 1000 ; regents, 60s to. vicko,
roses, 70s to 325; cLampions. 5Cs to 60s : o.llcl
60a to 70a pcz ton.