The Sun.
London, England, 1849-05-10 00:00:00

YORK, MAT 8.

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STOCK EXCHANGE —The busniesi transacted to-day was as PA'
lows :—Great Northern, 101. Os. 3d.—York, Newcastle, and Berwick
(Newcastle Extension), 14%—Ditto (G. N. E. Purchase), 4%.
GLASGOW, MAT S.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The business done in the Stock Exchange to-
day has been as follows :—Clydesdale Junction, 613—Glasgow.
Kilmarnock, and Ayr, Halves (No. 2), 6% —North British, Prefer.
ence, 225,

GENERAL GILBERT..—This officer, to whose energy
and skill is attributed the recent victory in India, is the
same General Gilbert who was examined and personally
interested in the great horse cause tried some two or
three years since in Bristol. The General was a great
steeple-chase and racing man.—Bristol Times.—[This
is correct. The General who has so gloriously distin-
guished himself in bringing to a close the late memorable
campaign in India, is indeed the same individual who
rode his own horse at the Taunton and Exeter races,
about nine years ago. At Hardown he was beaten by
only halt a neck.—Taunton Courier.]
A HINT FOR CONSUMERS OF " POLONIES."--"Tb.
Liverpool Mercury says, on Tuesday an application was
made to Mr. Rushton, the circumstances of which, if
proved, would produce rather a distate for an article of
food usually looktd upon as a dainty, and commonly
known as the German sausage or polony. Inspector
Jones, of St. Martin's Market, said he had good grounds
for supposing that a certain polony manufacturer in
Dr)th.u-street was in the habit of making up such
articles from horse-flesh, which he procured from the
knackers' yards. The polonies were made by the person
alluded to in his own dwelling-house, the horse flesh
being chopped up with a machine, then mixed with
bread, and seasoned, to make it savoury. He (the in-
spector) wished to know if he could have a warrant to
go and search the premises. He knew the horse flesh
was taken there, but it was speedily disposed of, and
nothing could then be found except the sausages.—Mr.
Rushton: Have you obtained any of the polonies?
In-
spector: We got a sausage maker to compare thew
with others, but they are so spiced it is difficult to fords
any idea as to the composition after being made up.—Mr.
Rushton: If they are bad, I should think the parties who
make them may he proceeded against for selling what is
unwholesome food? Inspector: They are so peppered
and spiced we cannot decide as to the quality.—Mr.
Rushton: Then they are good sausages, I suppose. In-
spector: I should not say so when it is known from what
they are made.— Rushton: We have no power to
interrere, it people like to eat horse flesh in sausages; the
Act of Parliament does not prevent them making sausages
of horse flesh; but if they expose that which is unfit for
human food they may be brought up under the Act. In•
Spector:
'I here is about five cwt. a week of horse flesh
got from the knackers' yards at Vauxhall-road and Kirk-
dale: it is made into sausages. and supplied in twenty or
thirty shops in Liverpool and other parts of the country'.
—Mr. Rushton: This exposure will damage the polony
trade. Inspector; They pay a farthing a pound for the
horseflesh, and get a large shoulder for 15d., weighing
about 701bs. They are thus enabled to sell the sausages
at a cheap rate; they have purchased it for years from
the knackers' yards, and the sellers were given to under-
stand it was taken to the boarding houses resorted to by
captains, to feed dogs.—Mr. Rushton: You can only deal
with it as unwholesome food. Inspector: It cannot be
recognised; I have had a person in the trade to examine
it, and he could not say the polonies were unwholesome.
—Mr. Rushton: All you can do is to be on the alert; you
cannot, under present circumstances, enter upon the pre-
mises; but if you Snd anything which is unwholesome
as food, the Act may be brought to operate. The in-
spector then lett the court.
PROTECTIONIST PETIT ION•M A XING. —A corre-
spondent of the Brighton Guardian states that in the
neighbourhood of Piecom be several signatures—or rather
cro>ses—were obtained last week by representing the
prayer of a petition to be in favour of a repeal of the
malt duty, whereas the petition also prayed for the re-
storation of a protective duty on corn.
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a Bad Leg of Sixty Years' duration by Holloway's Ointment
and Pills.—Mr. Barker, of 6, Graham's-place, Drypool, at the
age of 18, had a breaking out on one of his legs, which ulti•
mately formed into an ulcerous sore, and increased in severity
until he was &CI years old, when it entirely took away his
power of walking; at last, after seeking relief in vain for so
many years, he had recourse to Holloway's Ointment and
Pills, and these invaluable Medicines have cured him so coo,
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