The Sun.
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THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 5, 1847.

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of the provisions of the Bill which he has framed for
the encouragement of railways in Ireland.
This assembly was convened in consequence of the
anxiety of the Irish party, on the one hand, to acqta:nt
anmselves, as early as possible, with the outlines and
details of the scheme of the Member for Lynn; and
of the equal anxiety of his Lordship, on the other,
that the Irish proprietary should lose no time in can
vassing over among themselves the merits of his plan,
in order that the discussion of the subject, which will
be this evening entered upon in the House of Com-
mons, might advantageously serve to elicit the
deliberate views of those who, by property and local
associations, are most deeply interested in the future

welfare of Ireland. An additional inducement to an

early and close attention being devoted to the ques-
tion of establishing, with promptitude, railways in
Ireland, was, and is, that, supposing the Legis-
lature should be disposed to sanction their im-
mediate formation upon a comprehensive scalee
some of the measures of the Government, which are
identical in their object—viz., the remunerative em-
ployment of the labouring poor—might be altogether
dispensed with, or certainly would hereby be rendered
unnecessary to be carried out to the large extent at
present contemplated. It is gratifying, in the outset,
to know that the Government are by no means hos-
tile to the view of alleviating the severe misery of the
Irish by the development of a well-organised system
of railways; that, on the contrary, Lord J. RussElL
has already assured the House of Commons that the
subject has been for some time under the anxious
consideration of his Cabinet; and that the Premier
took the earliest opportunity of intimating to Lord
G. BENTINCIC his readiness to weigh, and, if possible,
to co-operate in favour of any measure of inland
communication by steam, calculated to minister to the
social requirements of Ireland. Herein we have a
satisfactory proof of the wisdom and provident fore-
sight of the Government, and which is not to be the
less favourably regarded, seeing, that on account of
the magnitude of the question, and of their peculiar
responsibility for everything that emanates offi-
cially from them, they have been careful not
to act with undue precipitation. The Go-
vernment are, no doubt, aware that if they take
the initiative in facilitating transit by railroads in
Ireland, it must, to be effectual in dealing with the
dire emergencies of that country, be undertaken upon
a most extended scale. Nothing has contributed to
furnish a more striking proof of the general and
bitter destitution of the Irish, than the painful ano-
maly which was recently exhibited, when the hun-
gered classes violently interfered to obstruct the pro-
gress of public works, undertaken with the sole and
charitable view of enabling their starving fellow-
countrymen to earn a temporary livelihood. Here
we had nature bursting the very bonds of reason.

Such conduct, whatever may have been said, could
not have resulted from the absence of all benevolent
feelings, though it was apparently open to such a
censure ; but it was dictated by the very intensity of
their sufferings, and was indulged in from the rude,
but not altogether unnatural, supposition, that the
authorities of the State would not allow them to
starve in a Ind y, and would therefore be driven to
find employment for all or none. The same
difficulty, we have no doubt, would present
itself to the Government unless (if they de•
terminc upon rendering the public resources available
for the construction of railways) they open, those
channels of employment with a width and depth pro-
portionate to the surplus labour of Ireland that will
remain over what may be absorbed by the other
concurrent measures of the Government.
Considered in the abstract, railroads are works of
the most reproductive character ; for we already
know by experience how fruitful are their every
contingency for the advancement of civilisation.
Wherever a railroad has been laid down, it seemed
as if the earth had been struck by a wand, so magi-
cally, as it were, has plenty gladdened the face of
the adjacent lands, where sterility alone had previ-
ously prevailed. In Ireland, in particular, the effects
of such a system would be of the most inspiriting
kind ; for, let us but once furnish the masses of the
able-bodied peasantry with the means of permanently
acquiring fair remunerative wages—and to so desirable
an end railway employment would most essentially
contribute,—and a home market in Ireland would be
speedily constituted for the consumption of the
wholesome and nutritious grains which the hardy
Irish now raise from their native soil, only j

to be chiefly exported to other shores, their wretched
poverty denying them the blessing of purchasing for
themselves the envied stores of plenteousness.
Again, the Government are threatened with much
opposition to their commendable endeavours for ex-
tending the Irish Poor-law, arising from the appre-
hension that if the able-bodied indigent should be-
come entitled to relief under its provisions, the rental
of the country would be absorbed. Were the diffi-
culties, however, of forming railroads but judiciously
grasped, and mastered in a comprehensive spirit, we
believe that much of the apprehension we have alluded
to would be allayed, if not altogether removed from
the minds of the Irish proprietary. We have upon
former occasions dwelt upon the cardinal advantages
of a national character derivable from Irish railways
under the influences of public aid and private enter-
prise judiciously combined. To these we shall have
other opportunities of reverting.
Lord GEORGE BENTINCK'S proposition may be
briefly summed up. Twenty-four millions to be
raised; one-third by the shareholders of legally-
constituted companies, the remaining two-thirds to be
advanced by the Government, in a series of loans,
during a period of four years ; and to be repaid in
thirty years, at fixed periods. Other de tails were
enumerated, which we shall consider hereafter. The
scheme enunciated by Lord GEORGE BENTINCK
seemed to be well received by his auditory.

The good effects of the liberal and benevolent con-
tributions for the impoverished and destitute Irish are
becoming already manifest. The system that has
been taken as the groundwork of the Government
scheme for supplying the wants and providing for the
exigencies of the sufferers, through the medium of
soup kitchens and relief committees, has produced the
most beneficial change in every locality in which it

has been brought into operation. A. letter that
appeared in our columns on Tuesday detailed the
manifest advantages attendant on the working of the
soup kitchens. The writer, Mr. J. REDMOND BARRY,
is well known as a gentleman of great experience and
intelligence ; he has long superintended the fisheries
of the south coast of Ireland, and the district in
which he resides is that where destitution and misery
attained the most fearful height. It is enough. to say
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points out what a vast quantity of good can be
effected, and wretchedness averted, at a trifling outlay,
if the funds are judiciously expended. lie speaks
with the enthusiasm of one who has seen the almost
magical amelioration in the condition of the people
when he says, "If I was to name one word which
should convey my opinion of the most prompt, the
most efficient, and the most practicable means of
saving the lives of thousands, that word would be
soup—not food, but soup." In the village wire Mr.
BARRY resides 7,000 quarts of soup are disaributed
daily. Every description of edible is made available :
poor beef, unfed veal, bean-meal, bruised p eav, rice,
oatmeal, commissariat biscuit,—all are turned to good
account, the entire staff employed in the di stribu-
' tion costing less than two shillings a day, and the
total loss—selling it at such a moderate chary as to
bring it within the reach of the humblest—is but ten
shillings per diem. A wholesome and nutritious food is
thus placed within the reach of thousands who, a few
short weeks since, were suffering all the horrors of
famine, who were pining away in hopeless si.isery,
seeing their nearest and dearest friends daily perish-
ing before their eyes, and themselves reduced to such
a state that death had lost its terrors ; whose strength
was so greatly impaired and their energies prc st rated,
that they were unable to perform the tasks by which
they could have earned wages sufficient for ine sup-
port of themselves and families—all these are isestored
to health and strength, their depression remov'ed, and
happiness once more a visitant at their humble dwel-
lings—and all for ten shillings a day ! But let Mr.
BARRY speak for himself. lie says—

" The labourers going to the works take a p'.nt in the
morning and a pint on their return. They are 3o longer
staggering from weakness; their aspect is alr, Cady im-
proved, and their physical powers amazingly so—the

women and children in the neighbourhood all partici-
pate in the advantage; and any benevolent persons who
wish to give gratuitous relief, purchase tickets, which
have in place of copper become the relief circulating
medium."

Hear this all ye who, without abridging a single
comfort, or depriving yourselves of a single luxury,
could spare many times ten slillings per diem ! who
waste in useless follies more than enough to afford
such comforts and advantages to thousands of your
fellow-creatures ! Consider whether you would not de-
rive more real gratification in promoting such objects
than in the temporary pleasure of useless expendi-
ture. To philanthropists it may be worthy of con-
sideration, whether the system may not be more
generally adopted, whether they are not acquainted
with localities into which it might be introduced with
the most favourable results. How many of the
casual poor, in want of a single meal, might be re-
lieved.in such a manner? A ticket, entitling the bearer
to a loaf of bread, or a quart of soup, would be a less
objectionable mode of administering charity than in
money, which might be misapplied or wasted. The
charitable societies that abound in this country may
engraft the system on that already in use. It is de-
serving of a trial, and if it should not be found to
answer their expectations, it would at least have this
advantage, that the cost of the experiment would
be very trifling indeed.

brinnagjsouMrnalaltas to the 16th, and Athens
papers to the 22d, Con-
staTnhtienoLpelveaannt mdsail
Smyrna
journals to the 20th. The Porte is justly indignant at
the haughty answer which M. GUISOT has returned to
its note of remonstrance on the subject of the reception
given by the French Government to the Bey of Tuxes.
The Ottoman Cabinet has returned a very proper and a
very dignified reply, in which, after alluding to the in-
trigues which for years past France has been carrying
on in Africa, the Turkish Minister calls upon M. GIIIZOT
to retract his note, and desist from his attempts to
detach the Bey of TUNIS from his allegiance, if not out
of a sense of what he owes to a faithful ally,
at least out of respect to the sacredness of international
laws, and reminds the French Government that the mea-
sure it has adopted in declaring a subject independent of
his sovereign will recoil upon itself whenever an oppor-
tunity may occur to enable a seeming friend, but a
secret enemy, to follow against France the example of ,
the French Government. From the bold tone of this
note it is conjectured that the Turkish Government
must have received assurances of support from England,
Austria, and Russia.

The SULTAN has issued an order that the streets of
Constantinople shall be lighted at night. The news of
the annexation of Cracow had produced an intense sen-
sation throughout the Ottoman empire.
There is no news of importance from either Athens
or Malta.

wily French Monarch an excuse for arming the fortifi-
cations of Paris—and shutting up its inhabitants in the
trap in which they suffered themselves to be caught
seven years ago.

It is stated that orders have been sent to the com-
manders of the several military divisions to call in all
the soldiers who are absent on the usual six months'
furloughs.
The Three per Cents. chyisol on the Paris Bourse on
Tuesday at 77f. 90c. •, the Five per Cents., 118 f. sc. •
the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,228 f. 75c. ; Rouen, 878 f.
75c. ; Havre,6B7f. 50c. ; Great Northern, 608 E 75c ; Avignon,
827 f. 50c. ; Vierzon, 5671. 50c. ; Bourdeaax, 5371. 50c.;
Boulogne, 410 f. ; Basle, 202 f. 50c. ; Paris and Strasburg,
4681. 75c.; Tours and Nantes, 4671. 50e.; Paris and Lyons,
488 f. 75c.; Lyons and Avignon, 4801. ; Cette, 448 f. 75c.;
Belgian Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 54; Spanish Three per
Cents., 34*
MARSIILLLS, JAN. 28.- Marseilles and Avignon, 835 f.;
Northern, 613 f. 75c. ; Paris and Lyons, 495 f.

- -
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, FEBRUARY 3.
Boulogne and Amiens, 144 —Dutch Rhenish, 44—Luxembourg,
2—Northern of France, 12—Rouen and Havre, 26.

. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
(From the Sun of last Night.)
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 4,500
bales, including 2,500 American on speculation. There were
4,000 bales American sold at 61/d. to 73,4 d.; 2CO Surat at
414 d. to 434 d. ; and 200 Egyptian at 7d. to 7 d. per lb.
This is a decline of 1/Bd. per lb. on American, and other
kinds were flat. Shares were rather firmer.
The Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport Shares are in de-
mand, from a rumour that the Manchester and Leeds Com-
pany are about to take the line on lease.
There are not any late arrivals announced in the City
this morning from the colonies. The accounts by the
Overland Mail from the East Indies, brought by Mr. Wag-
horn's route via Trieste, are considered as very satisfactory.
Trade, we are assured, has improved in most departments
as respects British manufactured goods.
A recent paper received from New York thus comments
upon the state of ship-building in that port in the year
1846 :

" The spirit of enterprise which has always marked the
character of the American merchants, and which has done so
much towards the welfare and prosperity of the country, we
are gratified to perceive is still in, the ascendant, notwith •
standing the innumerable restrictions which operate against
commerce, growing out of national dissensions, and which
seem to have affected but little that indomitable spirit of
energy and perseverance so peculiar to the nature of our
people generally.
" This most important branch of trade, in which the New
York ship-builders are so justly celebrated, not only for the
fleet and beautifully-modelled vessels they have sent out to
every habitable portion of the world, but also for the largest,
the most durable, and withal the most convenient ships that
float upon the bosoms of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, is
yet, we are happy to state, keeping pace with the rapid and
onward march of this age of enterprise and improvements.
In our annual report of the amount of tonnage built at this
port during the past year, we find that no less than 37,945
tons have been completed, and are now in course of com-
pletion.
" Twenty-five thousand nine hundred and forty of that
amount is now engaged in its legitimate element, the re-
mainder is yet on the stocks, and will be completed in the
course of one month.

" In addition to the above list of the vessels launched and
on the stocks in the various yards within the precincts of
our city, we may mention that the keels of six splendid
steam-ships will be laid in the coming month. Messrs.
Westervelt and M'Kay will, • next week, put upon the
ways the keel of a steamer of 1,750 tons, the second in
the line of Government mail-shipt, between this port,
Bremen, and Havre, under the superintendence of
Mr. Mills. The Washington, which is the first
in this line, is nearly ready to be launched. Mr.W. H. Webb
has completed negotiations with Mr. C. H. Marshall, for the
four steam-ships of 1,400 tons each, each intended for the
New Orleans and New York line. The keel of the Pioneer
will be laid immediately. Mr. W; 11. Brown will commence
without delay the second in the line of Charleston steamers
for Messrs. Spofford, Tileston, and Co. She is to run in con-
junction with the famous Southerner, but will be 200 tons
larger.
" Our scientific and enterprising builders continue to re-
ceive the encouragement their taste and skill so deservedly
merit."

The Stock markets are pretty firm this morning. The
purchases of the Government Brokers on account of the
Sinking Fund and for the Savings'-banks, have given
strength to the operations of the speculators for a rise. For
the nextsettlement Consols have fluctuated bitt from 91 to
911/s, while for money the,value has just been increased from
901% to 9114. The Three per .Cent. Reduced Annuities
have improved to 91%, and the New Three-and-a Quarter
per Cents. to 931/.• India Stock.opened at 249, and has rallied
to 251. Bank Stock is at 203%. In Exchequer-bills the
transactions have been very few, and at 4s. to 6s. premium.
There is little to notice in the transactions in the Foreign
Funds this morning. The quotations of the Brazilian are
85 ; of Mexican, 22%; of the Old Portuguese, 83 ; of the
Three per Cents. for Account, 341 ; of Venezuela Two per
Cents., 38%; of the' Belgian Four-and-a-Half per Cents.,
9414 ; of the Dutch Two-and-a-Half pet Cents., 58 ; and of
the Four per Cents. Certificates, 92 to 9214.
Many inquiries have been made to us relative to the
causes of the long delay that has occurred in winding up the
affairs of the Enniskillen and Sligo projected Railway. A
very small first dividend has as yet only been declared, not-
withstanding the sum paid upon each share was 21. 12s. 6cl.
Surely the Noble Chairman of this projected line ought to
look to the matter, and see a speedy return of the balances
in hand, fair expenses being allowed to the holders of the
scrip. In the Share market things look rather better this
morning.
BRITISH FUNDS.

ONE CLOSING
O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Bank Stock .. .. .. .. .. .. • . 203% 203%
Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. .. 91% 91 91% 91
Three per Cent. Consols Annuities .. .. 91% 90% 911,4 91
Three per Cent. Annuities, 1726 .. .. 89% 89%
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Antis. 93% 92% 93L 93!,6
Long Annuities, Expire •lan. 5, 1860 .. 9 9-16 9%
Ditto. 30 years, Oct. 10, 1859 .. 9i,
Ditto, 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 .. .. 9 5-16
India Stock .. .. . .. .. ... .. 249 251 251

Consols for .Account _ .... .. 91% 91 91' 91%
Exchequer Bills. 1 lid. 1%,.1.
1,0001... .. .... 4 6 pm. 6
5001. -. .. .. •• 6—.— pm. 6
Ditto, Small .... 4 7 pm. 7

CLOSItit,
PRICEF,

ONE
FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent .. 85
Mexican Bonds, 1846, 5 per Cent ..
Ditto, for the Account .. 2231
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cent......
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent 83
Ditto, 4 per Cent .. • • .. • •
Ditto, for the Account .. 343{
Russian Bonds .. -
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent
Ditto, Three per Cent ..
Ditto, for the Account
Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent 38%
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Belgian Four-and-a-Half per Cent .. 9431
Dutch Two-and-a-Halt per Cent .. 58
Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 9214 92 b.
PRICES OF BUSINESS
CLOSINO
PAID. DONE AT
RAILWAY SHARES. ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Aberdeen.. .. .. 25 .... 223 234 ..,, 2314
Birmingham and Gloucester.. ..100 126 .. • • 126
Birmingham and Oxford Junction 5 .... 13%% • • • • . 13%
Birming., Wolver., and Dudley • . 425..... 534 p ..... 54 p
Boston, Stamford, & Birmingham 225. .... 3l p• • .... • . 31 p
Bristol and Exeter .. .. 75 .... ..........
Ditto, New .. .. 10 .... 12% • •
Bristol and Gloucester .. .. 32 .... 51 .
Buckinghamshire .. 848. p•• •• • • ..
Cornwall .. 5 .... 1% .
Ditto, Half Shares .. 2% %• • • -• ..
Eastern Counties .. 20 21% %•••• • • • •
Ditto, New .. . .. 20 ....
Ditto, York Extension .. 4
East Lancashire .. 14 ... . • -
Ditto
Ditto, ditto New Scrip • • .. .... 231 ..... • .
East Lincolnshire .. .. 4 ..... 6,
Ely and Huntingdon 12% 14 14
Great Northern (London & York
Regd.) .. .. .... 2%% 2%
Great North of England . ..100 ....237 .. • • •• .. 237
Ditto, New .. .. 5 .... 5934 .......... 59 5i
Great Western .. 85 .. •-•• • • ..
Ditto, Half Shares .. .. 50 ... • • ........
Ditto, Quarter Shares .. 1231 .... 194 % ........
Ditto, Fifths .. 20 .... 2930 ...
Ditto, New .. .... 8% 9........
Lancaster and Carlisle .. .. 50 .... • • ..
Ditto New .. .. 5 .... .. • • ...... •8%
Leeds and Bradford .. .. 35 .... 814 31 • - 813
Leicester and Bedford .. 165. ••••• . • • . . 34 dis.
Leeds, Dewsbury, & Manchester 2731 • ......
Branch Half Shares • • 5 .... 10 • .
Leeds and Thirsk • .. 2231 .... 19% ..........

••• • -

19%

19%
. 4
55%
191

Ditto, Preference 6 per Cent... 3
Liverp., Mauch., & Newc. Junct. 254 .........
London, Brighton, and S Coast.. 50 . 55}4
London an North-Western . • • 100 ....192 190
Ditto, Quarters -. . 2
Ditto ditto, New Shares .. .. 2 ....
Ditto, 401. Shares M. &B. • • 40 .. • • 7316 • • ... • •
London and South-Western ..411. 65. 10d... 63
Ditto, Tenths .. ' •• • • 5 .... %
Lynn and Ely .. .. 20 .... 22
Lynn and Dereham .. 15 .... 16y 17
Manchester and Leeds .. 82 109 .... • •
Ditto, Fifths .. 5 .... 101,6

14%
73yz
61
22
16,34
109
103'

Ditto Extension 425. .. 1144 p••.. • • 11a p
Manchester, Buxton, & Matlock 425. • • • • P• • • • • • • • • p
Manchester and Southampton .. 2 .... .. •• • •
Midland .. ..100 .. • 125 123.. .. .. • • 124
Ditto, New ~ .. 30 .... 35% ..... 3514
Ditto, New .. .. 2 .... ........ • • 5%
Ditto, Birmingham and Derby 108 .... 99
Newcastle and Berwick .. •• 20 .• • . 3214 324
NorthAps Counties Union .. 2%.... 14 • • ..... 11A
North British .. . 25 .• 3414 .......... 34%
Ditto, Half Shares .. • • 1214 •• • • 16% .......... 16%
Ditto, Thirds • • • • • • • • 1 •• " --" • • •
5
North Staffordshire .. • • •••• • • 814.
North Western • • .. • . .. • . 3
Oxford,Worcest.,& Wolverhmptn. 17
Reading, Guildford, and Reigate 5 .... ..........
Royston and Hitchin . • • • .. .... 2% .
Scottish Central - . .. 15
Scottish Midland .. 17%.... 2014. •
Shrewsbury and Birmingham .. 3 .... 4 .• ........
Ditto, Class B .. • • • • • • 1 4 .... 1% • .... ..... 1%
Shropshire Union .. 425..... dis. ••• • • • % dis.
South Devon .. 40 .... 33 33
South Eastern and Dovor .. 33% ..........
South Wales .. .. 10 .... ...... • •
South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and
Waterford and Kilkenny .. 11 .... 6 ..........
West Riding Union • . 4.8..... p
York and Newcastle .. 25
Ditto, New.. .. ,
Ditto, Preference .. .. 2 7% ..
York and North Midland .. 50 ....
Ditto, Half Shares • • .. .. 25 .... 4554
Ditto, Selby .. .. 50 .... 90 .... • .
Ditto. Preference • • .. .. 2 .... 121 A
Do. E. and W. Riding Exten... 5 •• •• 17
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens .. 18 ... • .... ••• • • •
Namur and Liege .. P. • • . • 8 •• • • 2% ••.•• • • • • •
Northern of France • • .. • • 8 ... 12
Paris and Lyons • • • • • • • • 8 •• • • 7% 1a •••• • • • •
Paris and Rouen .. .. 20 ....
Rouen and Havre. • .. 20 .... 26%
Tours and Nantes .. • • • • • • 5 •• • :3% ••••• • • • • •
JOINT-STOCK BANKS. •
Union of London ..
MINES..... 12%.• •

nys
3%
2%
2o 1A

53:3
p

12%
2%
12
7U
7%
26%
3%

Real del Monte, Unrentstered —3% ..

BANK OF ENGLAND.
CITY, THREE O'CLOCK.

The Court of Directors of the Bank of England have
just adjourned, without having ordered any increase in
the rate of discount, as was fully expected in most
quarters.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess de Montpensier
having on Saturday entered her sixteenth year, the Marquis
de Benalua, with the other gentlemen of the Spanish em-
bassy and several Spaniards resident in Paris, had the honour
of paying their respects to her and the Duke her husband.
FUNERAL of MR. W. CLOWES.—Yesterday the
remains of Mr. William Cloves, Parliamentary printer,
of Stamford-street, Blackfriars-road, were removed from the
deceased's residence, in Wimpole-street, for interment in the
Norwood Cemetery. On arriving at Norwood, the workmen
belonging to the establishment had assembled, where they
joined the funeral procession to the grave. On the occa-
sion the establishment of Messrs. Cloves and Sons was closed,
to enable the workmen to follow to the grave one of the
most respected masters by whom working men could be
employed.
READING FAIR, BERKS.—Reading cattle and
cheese fair was held on Tuesday. The supply of stock was
good, and the attendance of buyers was numerous. The sale
of oxen was at miller reduced prices. Well bred oxen for
stalling up went off at prices of 16 to 17 guineas ; steers and
heifers sold at 12/. to 14/. a head. There was a good demand
for mulch cows for cheese dairying, and young c•revs, with a
small calf by their side, fetched from 15 to 17 guineas. In
the horse field, good nags sold for 18 to 25 guineas each, and
prime young and sound cart-horses fetched 24 to 30 guineas.
There was a large supply of hogs, which were sold at very
low prices, which is attributable to the high price of meal and
pig food. Large bacon hogs fetched 3s. fid. per stone, and
small porkers 4s. per stone.
SUDDEN DEATH.—Yesterday morning Mr. Jona
than Ellerthorpe, a conve:•aneer, clerk bf the check to the
Queen's Yeoman Guard, and secretary to Earl Falkland,
died suddenly at kis house, No. 37, Colet-place, Commercial- I
road East.

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