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tardy in their coming, they were as certain to fall
upon its guilty head as the Day of ludgment.o

of an independent People by a previous agreement
among the leading Powers of Christendom. The
Bavarian Prince who, thirty years ago, was pre,

His second class is one to which he shows no
mercy, but to which a well known writer from
Liverpool, and we are sorry to add the influential

sented to Greece as her Sovereign—whom Greece
was really then constrained to receive as such, with
the best grace possible under the circumstances,
from the chief Powers of Europe in Coalition—
this Bavarian Prince, we say, in his foreign-made
capacity as OTHO, King of GREECE, after being
just barely tolerated for thirty years as such
by the Greeks themselves, has been recently
driven from that land in which he has all this
while been living and reigning as an alien—King
OTHO has been drivn thence, at last, we say, as
an occupant of the throne, really and truly no
longer to be tolerated.

ournal in which he writes, is lenient almost to
,audation. Their true character, at least, is veiled
in all kinds of euphemisms, and when nothing else

will do, the provoking errors of the North are in-

yoked to make these men appear half virtuous in

our indignation with their assailants.

This

class consists of all those " owners,
breeders, users, buyers and sellers of
slaves, who will—until the bloody chapter has a
bloody end, own, breed, use, buy, and sell them at

_ .
all hazards. Mr. DICKENS, twenty years ago,
could see that such was the temper of the men
directly interested in American slavery, that the
system would never die a natural death. That it
was one which would go on increasingly corrupting

Whatever decision may now eventually be
arrived at, in regard to the selection of a successor
to the ex-King OTHO, it is most earnestly to be
hoped that, in making that selection, the Greek
people may be left absolutely to themselves.
Already they have—as plainly as a people could—
evidenced their preference for his Royal Highness
Prince ALFRED of England, as their future Con-
stitutional Sovereign. England, herself, has de-
clined to yield (at this stage) to a demand, in
itself, of course, eminently complimentary to her
Royal Family, to her national repute and to her
system of Government. France has manifested a
decided reluctance to accede without demur to the
wish of the population. Russia distinctly avows her
ineradicable repugnance to a choice so directly
opposed to her own cherished ambition. Instead of
Prince ALFRED—it is suggested to Greece that the
country would do well at once in putting aside that
preference,and in accepting in lieu of Prince ALFRED
the ex-King Consort of Portugal, another Prince
of Coburg blood, his Majesty Dom FERDINAND.
As a wonderful inducement to the Greek people

HALL v. SEMPLE.

its advocates till it ended—in some way—in blood

These are men, he says, who "doggedly deny the

horror of the system, in the teeth of such a mass of

evidence as was never brought to bear on any other
subject, who would, at this, or any other moment,
gladly involve America in a war, civil or foreign,
provided that it had for its sole end and object the as-
sertion of their right to perpetuate slavery, and to
whip, and work, and torture slaves, unquestioned by

any human authority, and unassisted by any human

Power; who, when they speak of freedom,
mean freedom to oppress their kind, and to be
savage, merciless, and cruel, and of whom every
man on his own ground, in Republican America, is
a more exacting and a sterner and a less responsible
despot, than the Caliph HAROUN ALRASCHID in his
angry robe of scarlet.
We may again ask our readers whether Mr.
DICKENS was not only describing but prophesying.
Strong as his feelings were, and clear as was his
prevision, even he probably at the time hardly
thought of an attempt within twenty years to found

a republic, of which the avowed distinction should
be slavery. Which should proclaim itself for that
reason, as the latest improvement in human go-
vernment, being founded on the great physical
truth of the subordination of the black race
to the white. Which rested, therefore,
on a Divine principle—namely, that the
inferior races were created for the use of the
higher races; which should reverse the principle of
of the great Apostle, that superior enlightenment
only rendered the superiors debtors to the inferiors,
and which, in language of unheard of blasphemy,
declared by the lips of one of its highest authorities,
its Vice-President—that in making much-abused
slavery the basis of their republic, " the stone which
the builders rejected the same was become the
Head of the corner !!" That slavery, in a word,
was the Divine Messiah of the South. We see the
truth of the charge that they were ready for civil
war on behalf of slavery—but they are ready for
foreign war also. The Democrats (the Conserva-
tives, as the Times terms them of America) have
just held a large public meeting, and at this—and
it is only what they have often said before—it was
openly urged that the North and the South should
reunite, that full protection to slavery should be
the basis of the reunion, and that then both should
ratify their union by turning their joint armies
against Canada and England. Will our great con-
temporary continue to pat on the back such pre-
cious Conservatives as these ?
Mr. DICKENS third class—mutata mutandis—

to accept Dom FERDINAND as their new Sovereign,
England offers, it is said, forthwith to cede the
lonian Islands bodily to the Greeks, to be incorpo-
rated at once with the Greek kingdom.
It will probably occur, however, upon the instant,
to the astute statesmen of Greece, to the members of
the Provisional Government now in power at Athens,
to the leaders of the newly-elected Chamber of Re-
presentatives, that in either case Greece would be
now secure of having the lonian Islands handed over
to her authority by England, whether the choice of
the Greeks were to fall upon Prince ALFRED or
upon Dom FERDINAND. By refusing to accept
DoM FERDINAND as her future King, by insisting
upon still demanding Prince ALFRED as her new
Sovereign, Greece would in no way, Greece could
in no way, diminish the likelihood of retaining pos-
session of the lonian Islands as part and parcel of
her own dominions. Whatever may be the preju-
dices or the predilections of the three Great Powers,
to the Greeks alone belongs in simple truth by
right the inalienable prerogative of selecting their
own future Sovereign. To their own wisdom, to
their own discretion, to their own instinct let that
choice be left. The voice of the Greek people must
decide, and that voice alone, who it is that ought to
be raised to that still vacant throne—whether it
shall be King ALFRED or King FERDINANIr.

will find plenty of exemplars also, we strongly sus-
pect, in all the snobbism, aristocratic, and plebeian
of England—it is composed "of all that delicate gen-
tility" which cannot bear a superior and cannot
brook an equal ; of that class whose Republicanism
means—l will not tolerate a man above me, and of
those below, none must approach too near—whose
pride in a land where voluntary servitude is shunned
as a disgrace, must be ministered to by slaves, and
whose inalienable rights can only have their
growth in negro wrongs." How much of the lean-
ing towards the South apparent in so many of our
aristocracy, and adopted by so many of the middle
classes, is due to the " delicate gentility" which is
jealous of Yankee power and greatness ? That Yan-
kee Republicans should be so strong as to compel
other nations to deal warily with them is itself an
offence ; it does not need the aggrava-
tion of Yankee bluster and vanity to
make it more so. The mingled descendants of the
felonry and the Cavaliers of the STUART period,
are in conflict with the descendants of the Puritans
and Republicans of the same period. Hence, the
" delicate gentility" of England, continue to burke
the recollection of the atrocious crime the former
are fighting for, and in Lord DUNDREARY tones
and accents, curse the Yankees, and hope the dear
South will win.

It is time that all this should come to an end,
The North may continue to mortify us in many
things, and not permit us to sustain its cause with-
out qualification. But the South is still that South,
merely skirting the Border States of which filled
the honest soul of a DICKENS with a disgust and
indignation he felt that ho dare not conceal. It is
worse, rather than better, than when he saw it. His
worst predictions are now realised. And shall it
be said that the countrymen of CHARLES DICKENS
turned their backs on the men who are fighting to
limit and extinguish slavery, and gave their coun-
tenance to those who worship it as their Messiah.

A paragraph, copied from the Herts Guardian,
has been going the round of the newspapers, and
got copied into our issue of Saturday, as to the
Crown Solicitorship in Bankruptcy in London, held
by Mr. ALDRIDGE, alleging that his fees during
twelve months have amounted to the enormous
sum of £16,000, wrung out of the pockets of the tax-
payers of this country, and that he is the son-in-law
of the Lord Chancellor, from whom he received his
appointment; and in the Solicitors' Journal of last
Saturday, a correspondent, alluding to the subject,
states that Mr. ALDRIDGE's fees are, by an order of
the Lord Chancellor, fixed for each bankruptcy in
London in forma pauperis, or under an adjudica-
tion by a Registrar against a prison debtor, at £3,
exclusive of payments made for copies of proc(ed-
ings, and 5 per cent. on such assets as may be re-
covered; and, in the event of their being no assets,
7
or not sufficient
to satisfy the fees and payments,
then that the amount thereof, or the deficiency,''-be
paid out of the Chief Registrar's account.
A reference to the peerage will at once show that
neither of the Lord Chancellor's daughters is mar-
ried to Mr. ALDRIDGE ; information on this point
being so easily accessible, it is most reprehensible
that in an article on such a subject, the false asser-
tion that Mr. ALDRIDGE was the Lord Chancellor's
son-in-law should have been made ; the rest of the
article seems to be equally devoid of truth, because
even if the whole of the fees of £3 for each bank-
ruptcy in London in forma pauperis, or under an
adjudication by a Registrar against a prison debtor,
have been paid out of the Chief Registrar's account,
there must have been over 96 of such bankruptcies
per week to have made the fees amount to £15,000
for the last 12 months; but on reference to the week's
list of bankrupts, published in the same number of
the Solicitors' Journal which contains the letter
on the subject, it will be found there are only eight
such bankruptcies in that list, at which rate the
fees would amount for a whole year to only £1,248.
In such bankruptcies it is not likely there would be
any estate either for payment of the fees, or on
which the Crown Solicitor could charge his com-
mission of 5 per cent.
The article in the Berts Guardian states that
several complaints have been made as to the manner
in which the duties of Mr. ALDRIDGE'S office have
been performed. We have made inquiry on the sub-
ject, and are informed that Mr. ALDRIDGE has per-
formed the duties most satisfactorily.
The article, however, is evidently not directed at
Mr. ALDRIDGE, but rather at the Lord Chancellor;
if Mr. ALDRIDGE had been the Lord Chancellor's
son-in-law, even then there would have been no cause
for cavil, but quite the contrary, if he were a fit
and proper person to fill the office, especially as at
the time of the appointment it was not considered
in the legal profession to have been at all a desir-
able one, and many persons, we are informed, ex-
pressed surprise that Mr. ALDRIDGE, who was in
good practice, should have taken it. The present
Lord
eha charged
eChancellor,
with
n e lep 0 ti as snit . of
It a ni
sy
woenl
le , dkneoswe rivi eteh
at ot
lib::
has selected most fit men fer the
ments which have b.::. .".arious appoint-
in his gift; and it was only
last mor'
_.,.. that he gave great satisfaction to both
oranches of the legal profession) by conferring a
valuable appointment tplatt a ion of a Chief Clerk
of one of the equity Judges, simply on account of
the son's fitness for the appointment, and
tide long and meritorious public services of
the father, who, except in his official capa-
city, was, we believe) totally' unknown, to the
Chancellor. Indeed, so fully is the Lord Chan-
cellor's determination, as far as he can, to put
the right man in the right place known to bis
colleagues, that he was requested by one of them,
who had a lucrative legal appointment in his gift,
to fill it up, which the Chancellor did, and the
gentleman nominated was found and admitted to
be most fitted for the office. 'The writer in the
Solicitors' Journal complains that there are errors
in the Lord Chancellor's Bankruptcy Act, 1861.
It certainly requires amendment in some details,
hut the necessity for such is not properly attribut-
able to the Lord Chancellor, but is rather due to
the rejection, in its entirety,
of hie bank-

That Greece will accept the lonian Islands from
England there can be no doubt. Whether they
will consent to receive King FERDINAND as their
new Sovereign is another question entirely.
Nationalities in these later times are particularly
chary as to '‘'.nything like dictation upon a point of
such exceeding delicacy in relation to their inde-
pendence. It was in consequence of the obdurate
non-recognition of this " point of honour," as it
may justly be called, in respect to France, the abso-
lute non-recognition of this on the part of the Con-
tinental Powers, that resulted, as we all know, in
Revolution after Revolution. Because the elder
branch of the House of Bourbon was twice thrust
back upon the throne of France by the banded
armies of the Allied Sovereigns—France would
have none of it. Louis XVIII. was fairly
frightened away by a Charivari in the March of
1815—and had but time to gather up his Horace,
to wipe his unctuous lips after his last banquet, and
.
to scramble, as quickly as his unweildy fr”--
.ue would
let him, into his State travelli-
-dg carriage before
the noise of NAPOLEOI"' -
. s approach was heralded by
the EmperP-'
s avant courriers. CHARLES X. dis-
eipeareci with something more like a 81.;:,-yi of dig-
nity than his brother the fat epicurean. The pear
was particularly ripe then, however, for the fina
disappearance of the elder branch of that ancient
race of Kings--and it was only by a clever stock-
jobbing
device that the younger branch was insi-
nuated into the vacant seat. As a signal evidence,
however, of the re
p
ciitawteidil wbeith
remembered, was
ntdhiation of the race altogether
tbeThstrrOenete
ofs of
Parisin in 1848,
during the height of the February Revolution. Nay,
the vacancy at t
of Greece is as signal an evidence
as could well
have been afforded of the utter futility of forcing
any Prince, no matter whom, upon the keeeptanos

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ruptcy amendment, which was to consolidate, in
one act, all enactments on the subject not intended
to be repealed, together with the new enactments.
The Legislature, however, preferred leaving very
many of the old enactments unrepealed, and hence
the necessity for most, if not all, of the amend-
ments,

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR,—My attention has been cllled to an error
of some consequence in your report of the case of
Hall v. Semple. Your reporter has attributed a
considerable portion of the evidence given by Mr.
Guy to myself. Will you allow ne to correct the
blunder by stating that my evidence was entirely
confined to the medical aspects of the case, and to
the professional interview I had Nrith the plaintiff
on the 27th of September.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
FRANCIS C. WEBB,
M.D., M.R.C.P., Physician to the Great
Northern Hospital.
Dec. 13, 1862.

ATLAX7IC TELEGRAPH COMPANY.

TO THE EDITOR OF TEE SUN.

SIR,—I do not desire to encumber your columns
with any reply to the transparent absurdities of
your anonymous correspondent " Geographer," but
I wish, in accordar.ce with your usual fairness, to
to be allowed to ask of him two favours, which will
at once put him and the company upon a proper
footing wherever to ascertain truth.
Firstly, that he will sign his communication with
his own name, as I do, in order that we may know
with what rival interest we are contending; and,
secondly, to make good (which I thus publicly
challenge him to do) his statement that the first
electricians of the day are at variance with the fol-
lowing fact, founded on experience, namely, that a
cable from Ireland to Newfoundland can easily be
worked at the rate of ten words per minute. I
challenge him to producs the signature of any emi-
nent, or even respectable, electrician in contradic-
tion of this great and important truth.
GEORGE SAWARD, Secretary.
Atlantic Telegraph Company, 22, Old Broad-
street, London, 13th Dec., 1862.

Mr. William Henry Gladstone, eldest son of the
Chancellor of Exchequer, took his degree at Oxford on
Thursday, having obtained, after leaving Eton, a student-
ship of Christ Church, a first class in moderations; and for
his degree, a second in classics, and a third in law and mo-
dern history. His father took a double first as a student of
Christ Church.

SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY, EXETER-HALL.-
The usual annual Christmas performance of Hander's
" Messiah" takes place on Friday evening next, the nth
instant.

According to the last accounts in relation to the'
seizure by General Huller at New Orleans of the plated
spoons and forks and few articles of silver ware which had
been shipped by some private families to consignees in
Europe on board the Prussian merchant sh'p Essex, under
the previous sanction of officers appointed by Gen. Butler
himself, it appears that the Federal Government justify
the act. Mr. Seward, in replying to the reclamations of
Baron von Gerold, the Prussian Minister, on the subject,
admits that the conduct of Major Gen. Butler was marked
by some symptoms of irritability, but it is added in expla-
nation that the Prussian Consul and the Prussian master
of the Essex committed the offence of being pertinacious in
representing what they considered to be the rights of the
case to that personage. The Government, however, now
that their object has been accomplished, intimate that rather
than offend Prussia they will hold themselves open, if it be
wished, to reconsider the question at any future period.
PENALTY FOR SMITOGLING.—Notice has been
issued at Washington that ladies desirous of going to their
friends and families in the South must obtain leave from
the Federal Government, and that no one must take more
than one package of female wearing apparel, not weighing
above 1001 b., and subject to inspection. "If any contra-
band property is found, the party will be subject to impri-
sonment during the war."

INTERMITTENT FEVERS.—The Societe d'Accli-
matation has just received a letter from India, accompanied
with a box containing a quantity of seeds of the Ceosalpina
Bonducella, a plant which, according to Mr. Hayes, the
writer of the letter, is much used there as a specific for in-
termittent fevers. The Bengalee for this plant is Natha ;
it is a small creeper, producing a nut, the kernel of which
is exceedingly bitter, and possesses the quality of Jesuits'
bark in an eminent degree, with this exception, that it is
aperient rather than the contrary, a valuable property in a
tropical climate where the bilious system is so generally
affected. One of these seeds reduced to a paste, with three

or four pepper-corns, and taken three, four, or five times a
day with the adjunction of Cherettah• tea (Gentiana the •
rayita), is generally found so infallible in its effects that
many European physicians in India have adopted it, and
will probably in a few years abandon bark entirely. Che-
rettah is a kind of gentian which grows on the mountains
skirting the course of the Ganges, and may be got at all
the bazaars of Bengal; it is a stronger febrifuge than the
Gentiana lutes of Europe. Native physicians employ
Natha also as a powerful tonic; they administer it in pow-
der mixed with spices and castor-oil ; externally the seed is
applied in cases of hydrocele. At Amboyna it is adminis-
tered as a vermifruge ; the roots are used as a tonic in dys-
pepsia. In Cochin-China the plant is considered deob-
struent, and the oil extracted from the leaves is found use
ful in paralysis. In Egypt the women make necklaces and
amulets with the seeds. The latter are often carried to
great distances by the sea, as, for instance, to the coast of
Scotland, where they are known as Molucca beans. It is
singular that the remarkable s irtues of this plant should
have remained so long unnoticed, offering as it does a cheap
and powerful substitute for Jesuits' bark, which, as every-
one knows, commands a high price. As this plant thrives
in Egypt, Mr. Hayes thinks that it must prosper in Algeria,
and even'in the south of France.

LETTERS FROM THE FEDERAL CAMP.—A Cana
dian, a Montrealer, writes on the 20th ult from " near Fort
Edith Allan, Virginia,"—" We left Maryland three weeks
ago, and marched through Washington for this State, where
we are now encamped in the midst of 80,000 men of all
branches ; artillery, cavalry, and engineers. We are under
marching orders, and on the qui vivo to move. Our duties
are pretty severe; day after day, from sunrise to sunset—
digging trenches, rifle pits, and building mud forts; and at
night picket and guard duty. I have not had my clothes
off for three months, lying on the bare ground with a
blanket and cloak, and the weather now is pretty cold. We
have had snow ten inches deep round our tents; and sick-
ness is pretty prevalent among the troops, in the shape of
jaundice, typhus fever, and dysentery. We have already
lost a good many men ; they do not stand the cold so well
as would be expected, considering they come from a
Northern climate; the fact is that most of the men left com-
fortable homes for fear of being draughted, and have not
been used to the night exposure. The dews are extremely
heavy, besides great falls of rain that we get here, with
boisterous winds. The other day I awoke with my tent on
the top of me, and nearly half a foot of water under me.
However, as yet I have been fortunate enough to escape
sickness. Our food at present is very indifferent, and short
allowance. 'We have as yet received no pay since enlistment,
and see no immediate prospect of getting any. The whole
system of carrying on the war has been shameful, and now
it appears that those in authority have been playing into
the hands of the rebels, assisting them with provisions and
clothing that properly belonged to our forces. The army
appears to be thorougly discontented, and desertions cons
tinually take plaee. I expect by the time the winter is
over, if something effectual does not take place, two-thirds
of the army will desert, or lay down their arms. lam writ-
ing this on my knee, so you must make allowances for its
deficiencies. The country about here looks fearfully deso-
late —all the timber laid waste, country places deserted, and
the soil running waste with vegetation."
REPRESENTATION OF EAST KENT.—Sir Nortor.
Knatchbull has issned the following address to the electors
of East Kent :—Gentlemen, you will be very shortly called
upon to exercise your privilege in choosing a representa-
tive in the House of Commons, in the place of our late
member and much-to-be-lamented friend, Mr. Deedes. I
have been solicited by a large number of your body to pre-
' sent myself as a candidate for the vacant seat, and I ven-
ture to ask you for your support and votes. My political
principles are, I do not hesitate to avow, precisely those
which you so clearly sanctioned by your long and continued
support of my late father. I am prepared to uphold our
Protestant religion as established in Church and Stai e,
to assert on all occasions the supremacy of the law, and
thus to protect the security of the throne, and the quiet and
happiness of the Sovereign who fills it. There are many
political cries to which it is unnecessary to pay attention.
I am attached to the principle of stability rather than to
the principle of change, because from the former we are sure
to receive improvements certain and durable ; from the latter
weak alterations attended by ephemeral results. lam too
old to be deceived by movements made for the purpose of
creating a feeling, and, I hope, too wise to offer undue re-
sistance to any strong national feeling from which a move-
ment may spring. I will only add that should I prove the
object of your choice, no efforts will be wanting on my part
to discharge faithfully and zealously the duties of one of
your representatives.
THE 4TH DRAGOON GUARDS.—Some couple of
months since we complained that Lieutenant Harran, who
had been removed from the adjutancy under circumstances
requiring no more particular reference, still held it nomi-
nally, though not really. Scarcely has our remonstrance
brought about his formal removal, when we find him again
adjutant—this time really, but not nominally. We must
confess to a feeling of surprise that Colonel Shute wouid
suffer this, no matter from what quarter the suggestion
came. 'We cannot but attribute it to the settled desire oft
the part of the authorities in Ireland, especially those
having the superintendence of the cavalry service, to run
counter to the Duke of Cambridge's decision, and as far as
possible sustain Lieutenant Harran against hisßoyalSigh.
Less. Along with this objection we must think it highly
impolitic to employ in a post of such influence and authority
an officer closely identified with a party in the regiment
whose bitterness is naturally not decreased by discomfiture.
—Army and Navy Gazette.
MADRAS COLLEGE.—Mr. Francis Stone Evans,
8.A,, demy of Magdalen College, Oxford, has been ap-
pointed by Sir Charles Wood, Secretary of State for India,
to the Professorship of Mathematics and Physics in the
Presidency College, Madras. Mr. Evans, who is an old
pupil of the Bristol Grammar School, obtained first-class
honours in mathematics and physics at the final examina-
tion in Easter Term last, and subsequently received a testi-
monial from the public examiner, the Rev, Bartholomew
Price, M.A., F.R.S., and Sedleian Professor of Natural
Philosophy.
THE SUPPLY OF SEAMEN.—We have an onzbarai
de riclsesses just now in the number of seamen in the diffe-
rent ports. With the ships now paying off and on their way
to England we shall have between 7,000 and 8,000 unem-
ployed seamen and marines. As to the latter, they will be
quietly marched off to their barracks, and their officers will
g!.7f3 a, good account of them ; as to the former, although not
all continuous service men, the number is already admitted
to be too formidable to bo received on board the ordinary
guard and receiving ships, and the various admirals and
captains superintendent have been ordered by the Admi-
ralty to survey certain ships and report upon their capabili-
ties to receive the men as they return from their leave. We
are not croakers, but we cannot help thinking that this plan
will be attended with much inconvenience. How ase the
men to be employed ? In fitting out the steam reserve t In
clearing out a store-house one day and filling it again the
following ? Who is to look after their discipline ? An old
lieutenant of the ordinary, backed up by a superannuated
gunner ? The question is one full of gravity, and if the
late Sir Charles Napier were here to speak for himself he
would remind us that he always foretold sooner or later
we should have to erect naval barracks, in which seamen
when not wanted afloat, could be received and placed nude;
the control of a regular staff of officers until again required
to go to sea.—Army and Navy Gazette,
THE DUK E OF BEDFORD's FAT STOCK.—The art-
/mat sale of Christmas stock at the Park farm, Woburn-
abbey, took place on Friday, the 12th Mr. Furls, as
usual, being the auctioneer. rhete was very large attend-
ance of buyers pre tit, including several leading salesmen
from the metropolis. The stock offered for sale consisted of
300 sheep of various breeds, 70 oxen and heifers, and about
60 pigs. Mr. Coleman, the bailiff, appeared to have taken
much pains to bring the animals up to the mark, and their
splendid condition when brought to the hammer testified to
the success of his 'management. The Shropshire sheep
were knocked down at prices varying from £2 17s. to £3
19s. each, and the Scotch wethers varied in value from £2
9s. to £3 2s. The Oxford downs realised £3 ss. to £t, and
the Southdowns Li 6s. to £5 35., while some very extraor-
dinary half breds were run up to £5 16s. ; the average price
of the 300 sheep, £3 7s. 10d. The Herefords sold rapidly,tc
the prices taking a range from £2l 10s. to £4O. The Scotch
oxen appeared to excite the greatest amount of interest;
the hiddiugs were spirited ; the highest sum obtained N
436,