The Express.
London, England, 1865-11-15 00:00:00

A WORD WITH MARROWBOARS AND
CLRAVRRS.
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(From Punch.)
0, mantled with oelestial blue,
Arrayed as children of the sky ;
Say, there are none who can but you,
What makes the pries of meet so high!
Thou, Butcher, with a nimble gismo,
Whetting bright blade on trusty steel ;
Now tell me, how you can, with face,
Ask fifteen pence a pound for Veal
The Steak that shares a homely name
With Parliament renowned of yore,
Coast thou, without a wise of shame,
Put coolly down at one and four!
That humbler steak, named simply beef,
Less soft of substance end more dense,
Wilt thou impose on our belief
As fairly worth a dozen pence!
The price of joints from woolly flock,
That grazed opal the Southern hills,
Convulses us with fearful shock
Whens'er we scan our weekly bills.
For Mutton's cost cent thou pretend
To date a reasonable ground ;
0 thou that legs and loins dost vend
High as Coe shillingboth per pound !
No scarcity of sheep and kin.,
No martian bath so heavy made
Those hieroglyphic bills of thin*,
Thank importation through Fres Trade
Besides, beneath thy poll-sze fall
Reads which thou limited bat to some.
Behold abundance large is all
The shambles—obeli I say, thou knave!
" Best shorthorns beef," by wholesale bought,
loth but five shillings cast, the stone,
The offal sunk ; ye Butchers ought
To thrive full well on that alone.
Namely, horse, tallow, hide and skin,
Whence ye derive • profit clear ;
But though you get the offal is,
Tbe meat ye sell is awful—dear.
Ah ! shout not, " What d'ye buy, buy, buy f
Until your charges you abate.
Soon will our antiwar to your cry,
B. " Nothing at the present rate."
But now eat is, adventurous Blade,
Tby way to carve out fortune's plain ;
As honest Butcher start in trade ;
Mach custom will insure great gain.

MUTH OF • VELTMAN Joratir.th.nrr.—We regret to
notice the death, on Sunday 'Heaping, of Mr. William enth-
rall, of Streathstu, who was, for many years previous to the
formation of the Anti-Corn-Law League, as well as during
the struggle, joist proprietor and editor of the Manchester
Times, with the late Mr. Archibald Prentice, and in several
ways contributed most efficiently to the growth
north aod
of to the
final triumph of she Free Trade party in the Eng-
land. It was in Mr. Cethrrdl's paper, and with the advan-
tage of his counsel and encouragement, that Mr. Cobden
began to discuss political questions some thirty years ego.
Latterly Mr. enthrall bas resided in Landes, used has been
engaged in several literary undertakings, besides conducting,
at one time, the Standard of Freedom. published by the
late Mr. John Cassell. Though generally attached to
the
economic school of social and political reformers, Mr. e-
rall wee a strenuous advocate of the Ten Hours Factory
Bill, and • warm friend of popular educatioo, as
study tad
of every
other benevolent object. H. bestowed much
thought upon the working of our institutions of local self-
government, and was engaged, at the time of his death, in
preparing the first number of the "Municipal Corporations
Directory. The deceased, who was • widower, and in h
is is
seventy-wood year, will be lamented by • large circle
I
Meads.
esti COMMlnmon 81wsits. —At the meeting
of the City Commission of Sewers, yesterday, Mr. H.
Lowman Taylor briniest forward • motion that the iron
pavement that has for some time bean placed in the
Poultry, and which has proved to be:so dangerous and in-
ouvenient to the trtffic, should be taken up and replaced '
by granite. The motion was somoded by Mr. Burroughs,
madeaftr • short debate, was agreed to. Dr. Lesheby
a report, by which it appeared that dusts, the weth
49 births and 49 deaths bad been registered is the City of
I Collor. The latter was much below the usual rats of mor-
tality (58). Of the 49, 10 were pewee over misty yeers of
age ; 9 were above 70 ; 4 was above 90; sad 1 was 102
years of age. He also reported as to the pa supplied by
the different companies, that although it was quite equal
in illuminating power to the rieleirehthete of the eel of
parliament, it contaieed • great excess
the ulpgahur, to
moth as 20 paths to the 100 cubic fus, sad of s sup-
plied by the Chartered Compsay wee also uncharged with
sausamis.