The Sun.
London, England, 1848-11-24 00:00:00

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Second's

REPTON FAlR.—This fair was well supplied with all
kinds of stock. Fut beef made 5d per lb; mutton, 6d to
bid, and many sheep went away unsold. Barren cows
were much in request. Fat pigs fetched 93 per score.
There were but few store pigs in the fair. The show of
horses was small, and of an inferior kind.

SHAFTESBURY (BEASTS AND HORSES) FAIR, Nov. 23.
—Beasts—There were more than usual of lean cattle,
from the western and surrounding counties, as well as
out of North and South Wales ; trade for all sorts of
large beasts ran slack and much lower. Dealers declare
they never knew so great a fall in so short a time as
they have experienced since the beginning of
last October, many of their largest Devons and
Short Horns being worth less by 31. per head now
than what was given for them then : there were
some sold, yet many left without changing masters.
Fine three-years old oxen sold at 111 to 121 each, others
at from 91 to 101 ditto; neat black cattle, at from 61 to
71 ditto; fine heifers, near calving, at 12/ditto; some as
low as 101 ditto. Cows in calf with their third at 141
to 151 ditto; 6 months calves, at 31 to 41; 1 month, 20s
ditto. Horses—Although the show of good warranted
horses was a small one, there were many second rate and
inferior animals; yet to sell even the twat great reduc-
tions had to be submitted to. Fine five and six years old
carriage, coach, or hunting horses, sixteen hands or
more, were not worth so much by 101 each as they would
have made two months since; and as for second rate
aged and inferior, their real present value we could not
ascertain. Strong cart and dray horses were also offered
at reduced prices. - The Salisbury and Yeovil line con-
nected with the South-Western Railway being suspended
has thrown a great number of strong horses out of work,
and forced the contractors to sell at a great reduction;
some this day, which cost within the last twelve months
from 351 to 401 each, were offered at from 221 to 251
ditto, and thtn they did not find purchasers.
ROMSEY (HANTS) FORTNIGHTLY LARGE FAT CAT,
TLE MARKET, Nov. 23.—Best fat beef sold at 103 to
lOs 3d per score; moderate ditto, 9s 6d to 9s 9d ditto;
best calves, 103 6d to 10s 9d ditto; others at 103 to 10s

3d ditto. Best pens of down wethers reached 4s 8d to
4s 10d per stone; large half-bred sheep, 4s 4d to 4s 6d
ditto; r.mall dairy-fed porkers, lOs 6d to lOs 9d per score;
large Hampshire bacon hogs, weighing from 1201bs to
1601bs each, 10s to lOs 3d ditto. Lean stock sold slowly.
Cows and heifers in poor. demand. Stock sheep sold
about the prices given at fairs last week. Best store hogs
2s each lower.

CROYDON CATTLE MARKET, NOP. 23.—There was
rather more business done at this market yesterday than
for several weeks past, but with very little improvement
in prices. The supply being large from the lower parts
of Surrey and Sussex, conveyed by the Brighton Rail-
way, trade was exceedingly heavy. Sheep, good south-
down, 4s to 4s 6d per stone of 8 lbs; the inferior of all
other descriptions sold slowly from 3s to 3s 6d ditto;
veal, prime small, 3s 10d to 4s 2d ditto; large coarse, 3s
to 3a 4d ditto; pigs of about ten stone weight, 4s 6d to
5a per stone; large ditto, 3s Gd to 4s; strong stores, 25s
to 30s per head; small pigs from the sow, 9s to 12s each.
CORK, Nov. 22.—Flour—First quality, 17s to 18s;
second ditto, 16s to 164 6d ; household, 128 to 15s ;
third ditto, 95 to lls per:cwt. Oatmeal, 12s 6:1 to 13s per
cwt. Indian corn, 91 to 9155; Indian meal, 9/ 128 to
91 15s per ton. Bran, 415, to 515 s per ton. Hay—
Farmers', 403 to 455; average, —s ; retailers', 46s to
48s per ton; old hay, 45s to 60s per ton. Straw—Far-
mere', 19s to 255; average, —5; retailers', —s to —s
per ton. Whiskey, at the Distillery, 25 over proof,
6s 6d per imperial gallon. Bread, 60 to 8d per 41bs.
Fresh butter, 10d to lid per lb. Beef, 3d to 6d; mut-
ton, aid to 5d ; veal, 32d to 41d; pork, bid to 7d ;
bacon, 61d to 9d; saus.iges, 5d per lb. Coals—New-
port, 17s; -Lydney, 183. Culm, 16s per ton. Potatoes,
white, 12d; Minions, 14d. Hides—Market ditto, Ils
to 17s; salted ditto, 12s to 17s per cwt; market skins,
2d to 21t1; calf ditto, 2d to 21d; veal skins, 3d to 30
per lb.. Tar—Archangel, 18s per bl. Timber—Quebec
red pine, 31 15s; yellow ditto, 31; deal, 171 to 20/ per
hundred ; Bangor Queens, 3/ 2s 6d per ton. Scotch
herrings,2os to 21s per barrel; Norway ditto, —s. New-
foundland dry cod fish, 11/ to 121 IN per ton. Tallow,
4Ss. Wool, 103 to 12s per stone.

TilE WEATHER.
RURAL AFFAIRS IN SCOTLAND.

On Thursday and Friday last frost recurred with a
severity which enwruathed the low grounds in their win-
ter livery, and capped rather thickly elevations where-
ever considerable, in all directions. But however stiff
the ground and slippery the public roads, ploughing
went forward after the breakfast hour, at least over the
freer soils of Nithsdale, easily as we can fancy retarda-
tion in all back settlement, and low-lying situations. On
Saturday a moderate thaw supervened, which continued
throughout Sunday ; and on both occasions the moun-
tains changed colours so fast, that they are now merely
diversified by patches saddened in clefts—positions not
easily affected by the suns vertical rays. Yesterday
morning, however, cranreuch was again abundant, and
strgnant water frozen; and, while we write, every one
feels the cold increasing, apart from the more accurate
information derived from thermometers outside the win-
dow. The barometer, on the other hand, forms so far a
puzzle of which we know not well what to make. For
nearly a week it has clung to the highest figure in the
scale, and although there may be at present a fractional
tendency to yielding, it is too slight to justify prognosti-
cation as to what will happen next. For the last ten
days the wind was never lower in our recollection ; in-
land hardly a breath to ripple the surface of streams,
whatever may he the state of matters on the coast. This
of itself is a fortunate circumstance, so great is the dif-
ference, as regards temperature, between stillness
and agitation in the air; and, altogether, we have no
reason as yet to complain of the weather.

Favourable as were the opportunities last week, very
little manure was removed from the heaps to the open
fields, partly from use and wont, and more from the ab-
sence of pressing necessity in the second week of No-
vember. One department of labour, however, was dili-
gently plied—topping and storing turnips for stall-
feeding; and thus preparing bolms, perfectly free from
weeds, for receiving winter wheat seed—gentle stirrings
with the plough and harrows being the only light dress-
ing required. Turnip-led sheep have " taken on" re-
markably well of late, one of the advantages of a dry bed
at night--a greater essential in the case of white stock
tha❑ black, from the nature of the fleece and its ten-
dency to become draggled by rain and mud. Around
town the bulbs in some fields are entirely eaten down ;
in others a half, a third, and so on; and if the present
weather hold a week or two longer, grain cropping will
be in progress where turnips grew in the course of a
very few days. Altogether, there is every prospect at
present of a much greater breadth of winter wheat being
harrowed in before Christmas than was found possible
last year, and of consequence, proportionally less falling
back on spring.

From a friend who attended professionally the last
Dunne market, we learn that, large as the numbers
wt•re, the prices current at the preceding Falkirk were
with ease maintained, if not a little more—a remark as
applicable to cattle as sheep. Would that we could say
the same of St. Faith's, which, whether in its beginning,
middle, or end, sadly disappointed the expectations of
dealers; and perhaps left them, after all their trouble,
losers rather than gainers on the whole; although, we trust,
not to any damaging extent. The Hemptons commence
on the 20th curt.; and, for the drovers' sakes, as well
as those they buy from, the issues, we fondly hope,
will be more favourable. Dumfries and Galloway
Courier.

ttAILWA SHARE MARKETS.
4 BRISTOL, Nov. 23.
STOCK ExcRANOE.—The sales are—Great Western, Quar-
ters, 4:1/1 dis.—Ditto, New 171. Shares, 34 dis.—Eastern
Counties, 11 11-16.
LIVERPOOL, Nov. 23.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—We have had a fair demand for good
stock, and en the whole prices are well supported. The sales
are—Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction, 311.
Shares, 9% dis.— Caledonian, Preference, IA e. dis.— Lanca-
shire and Yorkshire (late Manchester and Birmingham),
Fifths, 414 dis. London and North-Western, Quarters,
c. p.—Ditto, Quarters (A and B), % p.—Midland Stock,
79—Ditto, 'New Halves, DOA—North Staffordshire, c.
dis.—South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4, Thirds,
BIRMINGHAM, Nov. 23.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—Business was very limited to-day.
The sales are—Midland (Bristol and Birmingham), 11514—
North Staffordshire, 6L 13s. 9d. dis.
YORK, Nov. 22.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The business transacted is-day was
as follows : Great Northern, 61A—York, Newcastle, and
Berwick (Extension), No. 1, IVA—Ditto (G. N. E. Pur-
chase), 6/, Ils. 3d.

NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, Nov. 23.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The only sales_were—Newcastle and
Carlisle, 97—North British, 15%.
GLASGOW, Nov. 20.
STOCK EXCITANGE.—The sales are—Clydesdale Junction,
55—Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, Halves, No. 1,49 g.—
Ditto, Halves, No. 2, 478.—Scottish Central, 35—Scottish
Grand Junction, 3s.—Scottish Midland Junction, 14%.

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BIRTH&
On the 18th inst., at Florence-house, Brixton, the lady of
F. Parbury, Esq., of a daughter.
On the 18th inst., at Abbey-place, St. John's-wood, the
wife of W. E. Knobel, Esq., of a son.
On the 19th inst., at Clareville, county Galway, the lady
of Major Martin, late of the Ist Dragoon Guards, of a son.
On the 20th inst., at Brunswick-square, the lady of H. E.
Kendall, jun., Esq., of a son.
On the 21st inst., the wife of A. Murray, Esq., Southsea,
Portsmouth, of a son.

On the 21st inst., at Southampton, the lady of William
Stephens, Esq., of a son.
On the 21st inst., at Fiddington-house, near Devizes, the
wife of W. C. Hood, Esq., M.D., of a daughter,
On the 21st inst., at Pavement, Finsbury, Mrs. J. H.
Taylor, of a daughter.