The Express.
London, England, 1861-09-04 00:00:00

4 GROSS CASE OF DOG-STRALLYG.

(From Punch.)
Bood4treet, September, IRA.
Mr. Pnocb,—Notwithstanding the expense and
pains which I have been at to procure for the masters of
dogs protection from the Mush; of those vagabonds who are
constantly lurking about with the intent to inveigle or
snatch away from us our faithful four-footed servants, all
England—nod I may say Europa—has just witnessed as
gnus a case of dog-stealing, I will undertake to say, as ever
was heard of. . . .

That well-known'gentleman,Mr.Jol. n Bull,was once blessed
with an equally well-known dog, of the rough terrier species
—a dog invaluable of his Iritnl, for giving the alarm when-
ever them was anything wrong in the house, and barking
furiously at all suspicious strangers.
This dog hu now belonged to Mr. Bull for many years,
and his fidelity was unquestioned until bitely, when he was
seen fawning in an extraordinary manner upon an ill-looking
foreigner named Francis Joseph Kaiser, who belongs to the
Spread Eagle. Some say that this fellow contrived to de-
ceive the auimil by putting ou a pair of top-boots resembling
Mr. Bull's, which the old dog, whose nose is not so good as
it used to be, beg:in forthwith to lick, not knowing the
difference. . . . . . .

ljbeheve, however, the truth to be that the dog had
been coaxed over by the fascinations of some member of
the swell mob, with whom the fellow is associated,who has
patted him on the head, and taken him tip at table, which
he bad as opportunity of doing a little while ago, when the
dog is known to have visited the Spread Eagle.
I have positive information that the fellow in question
was seen the other day making off with a little dog, whose
description corresponds exactly to that of :(r. Bull's terrier.
under his arm. Should say of your readers catch sight of
this party. whom they cannot mistake. they are requested
to stop him., awl make him deliver up the dog to be restored
to the owner. There will be no difficulty in identifying
the animal : a Sheffield terrier, awl answers to the name of
Tearem.—l am, lc., THU BISHOP OF BOND-STRUT.

BARNET' (BEM) GUILT Boom, CATTLY., AMI
Rilari' FAIN.—TUESDAT, SEPT. 3.—For more than a week
poet large droves of store beasts have been depastured iu
the gram fields in and around Baruet, end on each side of
Barnet•hill, as far as could be seen with the naked eye,
consisting of Welsh (North nod South), .retch sod Irish
black cattle, short-horns, home-lords. Devon, Hereford,
Durham, and Yorkshire breeds. During that period the
most discordant din of human WA." has beau heard in
Oaelie, or provincial Celtic, the north country brogue,
mid ilia "west eountree" dialects from the men having
the charge of the droves of boosts for sale at the f.dr.
The sheep fair I. this year on Barnet Common. near to
the Black Hone, where were penned the famed Sussex,
Hants, and Wilts pure Southdown sheep, Dorset. Somer-
set, awl Wilts hornet Soils, with many Leicesteis, Lin-
coins, and half-breds. For several miles around, as well as
in the town of Barnet, were immense steins of carriage,
hunting, ordinary riding, and driving horses, cobs, ponies
of every description, quality, site, and shape, not only
from the north counties of England, but from
North and South Wales, Shetland, and Ireland,
with many hoary dray sod cart kinds from Sulotk.
Norfolk, Yorkshire, and other famed breeding
tricts. There were purchasers of beasts from the ..ruang
districts of Middlesex, Essex, Kent, Suffolk, Norfolk,' Cam-
bridgeshire, Lincolnshire, and other counties ; also of horse.,
the well-known commission dealers of London, as wed as
from Bristol, Norwich, and Birmingham ; others from
France, Belgium, Rus.ia, cud other parts of the Continent ;
mud of sheep, from neatly every grazing county in Englund,
so that much business wan dune, although at a redaction
of fully 10 per cert. for bests and sheep—homes alone re.
Whit% their full prime. Many were sold, lenriug still a
vast number for to-morrow's fair.
THE STRIKE IN T:IE IRON TRADE.—The ext.-n-
-oire strike among the puddler in the north of England baa
not becu armngld. At the monthly meeting of tier iron.
masters, he at 31iddleshorough oa Tuesday, it
was determined not to allow the men to go in
unless at the full ten per cent. reduction. About
seven thousand men ere out In one concern nose
tliu Consett and Derwent Ironworks. At Consett the re-
duction proposed in the case of peddlers is at the rate of rel.
per too, cud in theca,* of rollers 10 per cent. In Wales
the wages are lower than in this district, and in Scotland
the men have submitted to the redaction without demur.
In consequeuce of the proceedings taken by the creditors of
the Northumberland and Durham District Bank, the share-
holders of the Iron Compauy, who were shareholders in the
brink, are culled upon to make good a large payment in
October ; and owing to the depressed state of the iron trade
they asked for an extension of time, which has been refused.
It is quite possible that the works will have to be closed,
awl the strike, by preventing the company completing their
orders, may reader suet' a result still more probable.—
Weirenkampron Chronicle.