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London, England, 1846-09-01 00:00:00

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Shs.fflelds, and Hudfliftlithiclinalfsiliclititeil are in favOlifcwhile-151.
Great Norths are well worth attention for safe and profitable
ment. The sales are—East Lancashire, 9% • p.—lluddersfield and
Manchester, 2% c. p.—Ditto, Extensions, 9s. p.—lluddersfleld and
Sheffield, 7% c. p.—Leeds and Bradford, 43% p.—Leeds and Dews •
bury, 4,4 c p.—Ditto, Branches, I% p.—Loeds and Thirslc, 314 c.
dis.—Manchester and Leeds Extensions, 2% p.—Neveca and Iler- T
wick, 14 p.—North British, Carlisle Branch, 655.-oXford, Wen:
caster. acid Wolverhampton, 63a. 6d. s. p.—York, East and West -
Riding, 2 p.—Ambergate, Nottingham, and Boaton..l3s._s,
ton, Stamford;and Birminghain,lls. 6d. dis.—Buckingliamsaire, ail is,
—Clither.oe•Judiction,lss. dis.—East and West Yorkshire, 28s. dia.,
—Grand Union, 13s. dis.—Lancashire and North Yorkshire, 12s.
dis.—Lancashire, Yorkshire, and North Eastern, Iki
Wakefield, and Midland, 14s. 6d. dis.—Leicester, Tatcwosih,: Co- 7 1
ventry, &c., ss. dis. —Liverpool, Ormekirk, and Preston. 3.14,
London and York, 6s. di& s.—.Maiton and Drifileld Junction,4s. /I; .1,7
s.—Manchester, Matlotk, and 'Midland, 1% p,---North .
Western, 7s. 6d. p. —Sheffield, Rotherhmn, and Goole; 16s.
Shropshire Union, Bs. Ms.—West Riding Union, 594 s.

HULL. AUGVBT 29. ,
STOCK Excniusc.z.-,.The. sales. arc—Hull and Selby, Halves, 5052
—North PriCsh, Half Shares, IN Carlisle, 4X s.—Amber-
gate, Nottingham, Boston, &c., 2—East Lincolnshire !IL—Fleet-
wood, Preston, and West Riding, 4s. 6d.—.Glasgow, Lincolnshire,
and
Carlisle, 33—Ureat Northern, 2 —Leicester and Tamworth, 37s.—
North Western, Bs. p: Armagh, Coleraine, and' Portrush, 14s.—
Grand Union, 14s. 9d.

SHEFFIELD, Ancioar 29.
STOCK EXICSIANGE,-.The •salei arc-East Lancashire, 8h p.-
Grimsby and Sheffield, 2% dis.-Ditto, Extension, 13s. 41.5.-Ditto,
Quarter Shares, 7s. 6d. dis.-Ditto, Railway and Dock, IN dis.-Hud-
dersfleld and Sheffield, 7 p.-Leeds, Wakefield, and Midland, 15s.
dis.-Manchester, Midland, and Great Grimsby, 20s. dis. -Man-
ehester and Lincoln Union and Canal, IN. dis.-North Western,
6s. 64 p. -Sheffield and Lincolnshire, dis.-Ditto, Extension, 14s.
' tbs.-Sheffield, Buxton, Leek kotter:es, and Crewe, 9s. Gd
NEWCASTLE-UPON -1' Y N E, AUGUST 29.
STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Caledonian, New, 1 die -Lan-
cashire and North Yorkshire, 13s. dls.-Liverpsol, Onnskirk, and t
Preston, 3 5-16 p.-Newcastle and Carlisle 1051 s =Newcastle at.d I
Darlington, Extensions, 104 p. -South Midland, 14s. 3d. p. -West
Riding Union, 3 p.
YORK, AUGUST 29.
STOCK:EXCIIANGE.-The sales are - Clitheroc Junction, 1/. 16s. Gd. -
Direct Northern, I/. 18s. 64.-Eastern Counties, York Extension, 2%
-Grand Union (Nottingham and Lynn), 135.-Leicester anti Bed-
ford, 135.-London and York, 2 4 -Manchester, Buxton, _Matlock,
and Midland, 31. 9s. W.-Newcastle and Berwick, 28 4 - ewcastie
and 'DarlingtOn, New, 1114 -North British, Carlisle Extension, 4ai
-North Western, It. 95.-Sheffield, Rotherham, Wakefield, Barnsley,
Huddersfield, and Goole, 1%-West Riding Union, 5 4-York and
North Midland (East and West Riding Extension), 1334.
EDLNBURGH, AUGUST 28.
Sroca ExcHANGE.-The sales are-Aberdeen, Si. I 2s. 6d.-Aber-
devil, Banff, and Elgin, 1/.-Airdrie and Bathgate, 31. 17s. Gd.-
Arbroath and Forfar, 281.-Ditto, Half Shares, 151. IN.-Armagh and
Portrush, 14s. 6d.-Ayr and Galloway, 11. 7s. 6d.-Belfast and
County Down, Bs.-British and Irish Union, 21. 2s. W.-Caledonian,
151. 7s. fa-Ditto, New, If. 10s.-Caledonian Extension, IL 135.-
Caledonian and Dumbarton, 1/.25.-Clydesdale Junction, 24/.- Corn-
wall and Devon Central, 1/. 75.-Deeside Railway, 21. 7s. 6d.-
Direct NO them, 11. 13s. 64.-Dublin and Enniskillen, 31. 155.-Dun-
dee and Arbroath, 371.-Dltto, New, 231. 10s.-Dundee and Perth, 241.
7s. 6d.-East Indian Railway, 158.-East of Fife, I/. Is.-Edin-
burgh and Bathgatc, 2/. 145.-Edinburgh att .1 Glasgow, ;W.-Ditto,
Half Shares, 171. 155.-Ditto, Quarters, 17'. 10s. -Ditto, ditto, New,
W.-Edinburgh, Leith, and tiraqton, 181.-Ditte, Preference, 211.
155.-Edinburgh an 1 Northern, 10/.--Dittc, ewport, 19s. 9d.-
Edinburgh and Perth, 21. 10s.-Forth ,end Clyde Junction, 1/. 16s.
-Glasgow and Ayrshire, 731.-Ditto, New Stack, 371. 55.-Ditto,
Quarter Shares, la/. 10s.-Glasgow and Belfast Union, 21. 88.-s-Glas- -
gow, Dunifries, and Carlisle, 11. 145.-chisgow and Dundee June- _
Lion, 11. 135.-Glasgow and Garukirk, 401.-Glasgow General Ter-
minus, 81. lOs -Glasgow and Greenock, 16/. 10s.-Ditto, New Stock,
St. 155.-Ditto, Preference, 1/. 155.-Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and
Ardrossan, 11. 1 Os.- Glasgow, Strathaven, and Lesmaltagow, 21. 19s.
-Granton Junction, 10s.-Great North of Scotland, 14s. W.-Inver-
ness And Elgin, 17s. 64.-Lanark and Lothians, 21. 55.-Larne, Bel-
fast, and Ballymena, 95.-London, Bristol, and South Wales, 1/.
3s: 6d. -Loudon and York, 21.-Ditto, Half Shares, 1/. 155.-Mid-
land and Eastern Counties: IN.-Newcastle and Berwick, 271. 155.-
311. 155.:111,tt0, Halves, 161. Ds.- Ditto, Extension to
41.--7a.Carlisle, fal.-Ditto, Fifths, 71. 15s.- North Staffonishire, 51.
145.-N.orth-Wines Mineral, 161 155.-Ditto, New, 9/. 17s. fid.-
Perth and Inverness, 11. Ifs: 6d.--Scottisti Central, 191. 7s.
Ditto, New, 9/. 2s. 6d.-Scottish Central "and -Caledonian Junction,
11.: 108.-Scottish Grand Junction, 12s.- Scottish Midland, 71. 103.-
Scottish,tiapthun, if.. 175.-Shrewsbury and Hereford, 78.- Shrews-
bury, Oswesiry,:and Chester, 51. 10s.-South Midland; 2/. 15s. 6d:--
' Stirling and Dunfermline, it. 6s. 6d.--Stirling and Midland, 21. 165.-
Stratheru Junction, '21.-Wlshaw and Coltness. 471. 58.

POTATO FAILURE IN DORSET-

SHIRE.
YEOVIL, AUG. 26.--Otisinquiry into this alarming
disease brought us to YcOvil, a large and important
place of business, with a considerable market twice each
week: Here we found the potatoes for sale full three-
fourths infected, some of the early ones even more; the
country growers around bringieg them in for sale in
prodigious quantities, many not half grown nor ripe,
selling them for what they can get, rather than take
them home again. The only potatoes apparently sound
are the round reds, many of which arc grown in this
county, yet such is the fear of the cuttagers that they
are digging them up before they are halt' grown, fearing
the disease will also spread to those; no where can be
seen a plot but what has all the leaves dead, and the
stalks dying fast, leaving the most abominable stench.
The turnips along here are also much diseased, and
dilly spreading, the tops pierca with innumerable punc-
tures or holes,, then turning of a sickly yellow, after
which the roet. becomes rotten 'through. The carrots
and parsnips are also much diseased, the tops dying
away, and the lower part of the roots rotting. The
onions, of which there are many acres growing here, are
.also more than half destroyed; we proceeded on to
• SHgnuontir, five miles from Yeovil, and through se-
veral villages right and left leading thereto, where we
heard the general complaint, " that all their potatoes
were diseased; that in a month or two, if the disease
continued to spread as rapidly as it has done for the
last month, they will not have a sound potato to eat."
Here we found several plots of rough reds not at all in-
fected, which we heard the growers had been strongly
advised to let remain in the ground, and to preserve
them with great care, which they (it is said) have pro-
mised to do. The kidneys called " Wimborne," are
dreadfully infected, to the extent of more than two-
thirds, though fine in size, yet rotten to the core or
heart ; the red nosed kidneys are also much diseased,
though not yet tit to dig. The chief dependence for
the poor's subsistence during the winter around this pall
is on the potato, and those this year are nearly all
stroyed. The poor agricultural labourers and their fami-
lies are almost frantic with despair and grief, exclaiming
" What shall we do this next winter?" as many farmers
around here last winter w. re not giving more than 7s.
u.er_week, and they have expressed their determination
already to give Ito more We. Some asserting that only
6s. will be their price after harvest—that they will not
be enabled to give more. If so, famine must be the re-
sult, and that in its most dreadful form, as many, no
doubt, will be driven to eat this poisonous diseased escu-
lent, which the medical gentlemen pronounce as likely
to produce fever of the most malignant nature. At
STURMINSTER, twelve miles from Yeovil, and four or
five villages on the way, we are informed also of the
direful effects of this pestilential disease, and the dread-
ful effects likely to follow the fast decaying and the
principal food here of the poor. Already sickness sits
upon the now half-famished labourers and their families.
What must follow the total destruction of their winter's
food no one can foretel, and many shrink here from con-
templating or discussing this heart•rending topic.
Gardens most of the poor have; but what are they
now to them (the occupiers), covered with disease, in-
stead of yielding sustenance, as in other years, such as
to carry them through the long and dreary approaching
winter? It is not only that their potatoes are rotting,
but their carrots, onions, apples, &c., are also fast de-
caying, and also the greens are scarce, from the long
hot weather destroying many early planted. The tur-
nips, too, of which so many were allowed to gather and
partly live thereon last winter, are this year also
tainted to a great extent in this county. We here saw
several pieces of the rough reds still sound, though the
haums were dying prematurely this summer, full two
months before this time. At

STALBRIDGE, twelve miles also from Sherborne, and
through other hamlets, the complaints were not quite so
general, though the tops were found dying. There ap-
pears to be another hardy potato similar to the rough
red grown here, through the skin of which the disease
has not as yet penetrated ; many ar s pulling up the tops
and leaving the roots in the ground, which appears in
seine instances to stop the spreading of this direful
plague. It appears difficult to make the country people
believe it as being wiser to let the potatoes remain in the
ground than to dig them up now. There is a chance
for the potato when covered over with the earth they
grow in, and none when they become exposed to atmos-
pheric influence. At
REDBRICK, four miles from Sturminster, many hardy
rough reds and others are grown, which as yet have not
much suffered from this distemper. The white shams
and yellow lemons, with the early walnut and ash leaf,
are more touched than the later sorts, about one third
having been found unfit for human food. The poor
about here will not give them even to their pigs, as se-
veral have found that their swine became sick and
wasted away after their eating them for a week or two.
One farmer had three pigs died, which he attributes to
their having been fed with diseased potatoes. At
CERNE ABBAS, and within a few miles around, the
disease has, within the last three weeks, extended most
alarmingly ; it is with the greatest difficulty sound po-
tatoes can be purchased at any price. We heard of Gs.
per bushel having been given by the master of a gentle-
men's boarding-school here, and the half of those were
not fit for food in three days. We were shown a five-
acre field of potatoes, that three weeks previously pro-
mised to be the best crop around—now, upon digging
three rows, each twelve yards in length, one gallon of
sound ones would not be picked out. We were shown
plums, much diseased, just picked from the trees ; scar-
lot runners not fit for food, onions three parts rotten ;
turnips dying away in the fields more than one-half
daily increased in putridity ; apples, the very few there
are, decaying within a few days after they are gathered.
At

MILBURN PORT the very atmosphere is impregnated
with impurity and disease ; the air there breathed ope-
rating injuriously on the human frame—every field and
garden being in a state of putrescency—no vegetables
being found wholesome or fit for human food. Fruit
also withering, falling oil', and rotting. The fields co-
vered with diseased potatoes, turnips, &c. The poor
almost heart-broken and spiritless, dreading the ap-
proaching winter, and every face appearing with traces
of grief and misery. Returning to Stalbridge brought
us to

HENGRIDGE, which we would not pass by without
making a few observations and inquiries ; finding two
or three plots of ground with potatoes in a much more
healthy state and appearance than in any other part,
during this our inquiry. We were there shown the rough
reds, large and free from blemish, speck, or apparent
disease, though it must be confessea they have not as
yet grown to their usu tily naturid size ; the tops are
still green, the haulm sound, and apparently in a grow-
ing state. Other potatoes are diseased, some in the same
fields more than half rotten—the walnut-leaf shaws and
reds particularly and extensively so. In our next report
we purpose going through the other parts of this county,
hoping, as we proceed further, we may find many fields
of the old rough reds having escaped this disease.

FUNERAL OF LADY SHELLEY.—The remains of Lady
Shelley, who died at Elcott House, Berks, were removed for
interment in the ancient family chancel at Horsham. The
funeral took place on F:iday, August 28, and the procession
was accompanied by a great concourse of the inhabitants.
The same tribute of respect as observed at the funeral of Sir
Timothy Shelley, Bart., was paid to her memory, all the
shops being closed. For her charity to the poor, fo-rhi.:r kind
services wherever they could be useful, and for her friend-
ship with the families seated in the neighbourhood, the re-
membrance of Lady Shelley will be long held in they highest
esteem.