Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-12-24 00:00:00

ST. JAMES'S MARKET.

This market ranks n-xt in importance to St. John's.
Th 9 occupiers of shops anti stalls have male extensive
preparations for Christmas, and appear' determined to
ma'ntain their character for business enterprise. There
is an abundant supply of meat and the other edibles in
demand at this season, the venders taxing their ing,,nuity
to the utmost in disp!aying their wares so as to render
them attractive to purchasers. Most of the shops are
decorated with evergreens, and at several of the green
a 'ails ornamental devices are nrmed, so as to give the
market a gay and animated appearance. Amongst those
who make a goodly display are Mcssrs. Fughes, Gilbert-
son, Outrun, Ellison, :Meson, Daft, Broomhead, Salacity,
and Lawson.

To some of the shops outside the market extensive
preparations are going on to meet the demand. One of

the most prominent is that of Mr. S. G. 13roomhead,
butcher, Great George-place. His stock inclules four
Scotch bullocks, a lot of prime four-year old bullocks,
selected from the stock of Mr. Mooney, Drogheda, Ireland;
a selection of Southdo rtn lambs, an excellent show of
sheep, white faced and black, of first-class quality ; some
prime pigs. One of them is a most extraordinary animal,
and its size may be judged of from the fact that the girth
round the body exceeds the entire length by nine inches.
In the neighbourhood of St. James's, there are several
other tradesmen who show a variety of things in season.
Amongst these may be mentioned Mr. l3rundrit, pork
butcher, Mill-street; Mr. Sortou, butcher, St. James's.
street; Mrs. Worrell, butcher, St. James's-place; Mr. J
Taylor, butcher, Mill-street; and Messrs. G. and W.
Paris, cheesefactors, &o.
ST. MARTIN'S MARKET

Shows an ample and well-selected stock of very prime
meat, and amongst the most prominent Stalk may be
mentioned Mr. John Braid wood, who shows a prime four-
year•old heifer, bred and fed by Mrs Gougerty, county
Meath, Ireland ; and some prime Cheviot sheep, bred and
fed by Lord Abercrombie, Athery, Stirlingshire, Scot-
land. In the shop of Mr. W. Lowcock we observed a
prime bullock, bred and fed by Mr. A. Stuart, Glasserton,
Kircudbright ; and a prime beast, bred and fed by Mr.
J. Walmsley, Everton. Messrs. Darlington, Rimmer,
Stubbs, Dickson, M'Cartney, Cartwright, &c., will ,also
sustain their reputation by a display of excellent stock.
Amongst the most prominent shops, outside the Mar-
kets, that attracted the greatest attention, are those of
Mr. Buckstone, London-road, and Mr. Madden, in the
same street, both of which show a large stock of the
finest beef, mutton, &c. The quality is much
admired by the best 3ulges. Mr. Nation, of Ciaannota-
tion-row, elan has a grand.stock on show. Messrs. Hall,
of Preesons-row, Georg(:'s Caurch, and Mr. Williams, of
Mersey-stae3t, show the largest pr:z 3 beasts of the
season.

Nixt to the fl?sh department of the market, or perhaps
before that portion, comes the great general staff of life._
bread, and on no occasion, great, as the exertions of Mr.
John Gibbons,' of London-road, has been, to please, end
gratify, and satisfy the public, has he ever produced any.
thing to equal the extent and variety of his oven of this
year. His famed Blair Athol, Balmoral, and Edinburgh
cakes, his celebrated phuntioake, his reiitawod

r for the tea table, with an endless variety of every sort of
fancy and household bread, surpasses anything ever seen
in Liverpool, and the best judges award him the palm in
his useful and important line, and pronounce him superior
to any house in London, and a visit to_the shop will prove
the fact.