The Sun.
London, England, 1860-07-03 00:00:00

T LIE POISONING CASE AT LIY ...4:l2P°°L.

THE PRICE OF BUTCHERS' MEAT.

A second open-air meeting of working men was
held on Brandon-hill, Bristol, on Saturday evening,
to reconsider the high price of butchers' meat. The
attendance was not so large as on the former occa-
sion. The chairman and speakers were the same, and
but little progress seemed to have been made in ar-
riving at the cause of the present high price of
meat. A good share of the speeches was devoted to
abuse of the writers in the metropolitan and provin-
cial press who have taken the trouble to point out the
fallacies in which the working men indulged at
their first meeting, and the idea of providing them
with better education was ridiculed as a promise
which was always being made to the poorer classes
but never performed. While it was admittedthat,
to some extent, the present high prices were caused
by scarcity, it was insisted that they were mainly
owing to monopoly, one of the orators citing as an
illustration an instance in which a grazier who had
purchased stock to the extent of £lOO was on his
way to Bristol market when he met a dealer who
gave him £l2O for his beasts, the argument being
that the price was thereby increased £2O,
which was paid by the consumers. Another
speaker who professed to know a good deal
about agriculture, having worked at it in his
younger days, asserted that, taking the average
of seasons, the present was not so adverse as had been
represented ; 'ale truth was that fodder was kept
back. He knew a farmer :in the Marsh, beyond
Westbury, who had several mows of hay which he
refused to sell until the price reached £7 per ton.
Resolutions were passed declaring the intention of
the meeting to continue in the abstinence from but-
chers'meat until the prices were reduced ; and gra-
tification was expressed that the movement had
extended to other towns, and that " navvies" in the
north and other parts of the kingdom had shown
themselves to be as ignorant as those of the west
had been declared to be. At a preliminary meet-
ing of the delegates by whom this assembly was
convened one of the speakers stated that since he
had abstained from meat he had lost 71b. in weight,
and that his wife had got so thin that her cloth es
hung quite loose upon her body.

L OUNTRY MARKETS.

COLCHESTER-Juxu 30.

A moderate supply of wheat, but millers and merchants
still not inclined to purchase. Piices at barely last week's
quotations. Spring corn also at late rates, with little busi•
ness doing.

Wheat, white 6os to 66s Beans, Mazagan..374 to 40$
red 56s to 604 Middle & small 404 to 44s
Barley 36s to 50s White peas 384 to 40e
Oats 2os to 28s Grey.. 3B. to 40e

CHELMSFO
A fair supply of wheat ; tI
rency of last week. Very lit
prices unchanged.
Wheat. white 445 to 61s Pea', Partridge ..424 to 41s
red 44s to 558 White 42s to 44.
Barley 38s to 485 Boiling 424 to 45s
Chevalier ....428 to 52s Dun 37e to 40s
Grinding 325 to 375 Beans, Tick ....42. to 46s
Malt 61s to 678 Harrow Tick, 39s to 498
Chevalier 64. to 698 Mazagan 37s to 426
Oats 325 to 414

,D-JuNz 29.

Le trade ralei slow, at the cur-
Ale doing in spring corn, with

YORK—,
Farmers brought a small su
morning, and the rates of the '
ported,
Wheat, red .52s to 54s Oats . 27s to 3011
"White do .56s to 60s Beans 46s to 48s
Barley .34s to 44s Peas ....—s to —5
Malt, 68s to 708 per qr. ; rye, 345 per qr. ; flour, 39s to
40s per sack.

JUNE 30.

tpply of wheat to market this
previous week were fully sup-