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LONDON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 1845.

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length of speaking of free trade with respect ! Yes,
he had positively expressed himself—the monster !
not unfavourably disposed towards the experiment
These were his very words :—" The doctrine of free
trade is the doctrine of common sense." "It might
be SO," added Sir CHARLES KNIGHTLEY, "but the
agriculturists had not as yet sense enough to under-
stand it." The speaker is right. The agriculturists have
not sense enough fully to appreciate the advantages of
free trade; and GOD only knows when they will have,
for intelligence crawls among them quite at a snail's
pace, notwithstanding the indefatigable exertions of
the Anti-Corn-law League, who for years past have
been doing all they can to illumine them on the sub-
ject of their true interests. Poor Sir CHARLES
KNIGHTLEet ! He must he in a grievous state of
tribulation and perplexity, for nothing that Minis-
ters say or do, seems to give him the slightest plea-
sure. Nothing is right, but everything is wrong in
the political world. Society is turned quite topsy-
turvy, and men scarcely know whether they are stand-
ing on their heads or their heels. As for the present
Parliament, it is but a " compact of saints and sin-
ners—such a shoal of New England, and scarcely a
representative of Old England among them !" As
we are far too polite to venture seriously to differ
with the Hon. Member for Northamptonshire,- we
will allow that there is some justice in his descrip•
tion of the House of Commons. It is really and
truly a " compact of saints and sinners"—the latter
preponderating—nevertheless, like another illustrious
personage, it is not so black as it is painted, but con-
tains within itself not a few of the seeds of good,
which, under favourable auspices, will, we trust,
bring forth fruit in due season.

of the coalition. In fact, if these intriguers had
not England to talk about, and especially " one
PRITCHARD," who from a quiet, inoffensive mis-
sionary, has been transformed into the "lion of the
day," they might give up business. Yet the occasion
is not so barren of subjects. Why not talk about
other countries as well as England? Why do these
patrons of democracy—these friends of the people,
and these ardent advocates of liberal institutions—
not pass the Pyrenees, and see what Frenchmen have
done for liberty in Spain ? In that devoted country
they could find ample scope for the expression of
patriotic feeling (for France cannot see despotism in
Spain without thiaking of her own fate) ; they
would see the Constitution trampled upon by a mer-
cenary army—trial by jury, and even the ordinary
forms of justice, which are observed in absolute states,
set at defiance—hundreds of Spaniards who resisted
NARVAEZ and an abandoned woman shot like mad dogs,
and the only men who could raise their voice in the
Cortes against such atrocities, either thrown into
prison or banished like felons to penal colonies. But
perhaps we do M. THIERS injustice. He had not
finished his speech when the post left Paris on Tues-
day ; he may have asserted the principles which
brought him first into notice as a politician ; but the
chances are small, when we hook at the utter silence
of the Opposition press, and, above all, the silence of
his own journal on every topic that ought to exercise
the mind of liberal statesman. The following brief
extract from his speech will show that Morocco, Ota-
heite, and PRITCHARD are the great grievances of
which he complains. The speaker, after lamenting
that neither Marshal BUGEAUD nor the Prince DB
JOIN VILLE had sufficient forces under their com-
mand to vindicate the claims of France, says—" It was
not in consequence of the difficulties offered by the
season that the treaty had been so hastily concluded ;
it was owing to the apprehension of new complications
with England. France had made England the judge
of her grievances, which the latter had pronounced
to be well-founded, and it appeared, even by the
documents seized after the victory of Isly, that she
recommended the EMPEROR to satisfy them. France
was consequently, at the time, in a favourable condi-
tion to obtain an advantageous peace. But then she
was engaged in one of the most serious compli-
cations with England ; the young diplomatist
who represented her in Londan, described in
terms of great emotion the dangers of the position,
and insisted on speedy satisfaction being given by
France. The Ministry in their alarm had then seen
the necessity of throwing the heavy baggage over-
board, and on the 29th and 30th of August, within
an interval of 24 hours, satisfaction was granted to
Lord ABERDEEN for the treatment of Mr. PRIT-
CHARD at Otaheite, and directions were forwarded to
its negotiators at Cadiz to insist only on the redress
of the four grievances which France complained of
previous to the commencement of hostilities, and to
conclude peace at any price. All these concessions,
lie maintained, had been made under the impression
caused by the complication of Otaheite, and the inte-
rests of France in Morocco had been sacrificed to
that consideration."

We felt it to be our duty, some time ago, on an-
nouncing the vacancy which had occurred by the
death of the late ILTID NICHOLL, Esq., in the office
of her Ma.JsisTy's Proctor, to exhibit some glimpses
of that unlimited nepotism which has, for so long a
course of years, appropriated all the lucrative offices
connected with the Courts of Doctors' Commons in
the two families of the NICHOLLS and the JENNERS,
and their nearest kinsmen. We showed how this line
of hereditary office-bearers, virtute nominis, was con-
tinued, by links of a " golden chain," like that which
the poets fabled as binding this globe to the footstool
of JOVE'S "empyreal throne"—from the supreme
judge in the ecclesiastical and spiritual jurisdictions,
down to their inferior officers. We demonstrated
that the rule of office-appropriation, in that somewhat
obscure region of the law, was so strictly exclusive,
that all the possessors of appointments within the gift
of the Dean of the Arches, or the vicarious patronage
of the Archbishop, are but varying phases of the
Jenner-Nicholl, Nicholl-Jenner, Jenner-Dyneley,
Dyke-Jenner combination, which overrules and
overrides the whole of these judicial and official
establishments. In conclusion, we did venture to ex-
press an earnest hope that on the occasion of filling
this vacancy in the office of QUEEN'S Proctor, the
chain of nepotism would be broken, and that room
would be made for the induction of the most ex-
perienced and best qualified practitioner among the
proctor-candidates into this appointment. It gave us
great pain to name one of those candidates, Mr. F.
Haler DYKE, as one of the "family compact," be.
cause we knew how highly and justly respected he
was for his probity and business-like habits. But he
stood in a degree of relationship to the judge which
made the several appointments already held by him
4istinctions provoking much invidious commentary,
especially when his pretensions were opposed to those
of men of much higher pretensions on the score of
seniority, experience, and legal knowledge, as well as
knowledge of mere technical practice in the courts
and registries of the civil law and maritime courts.
This gentleman (if we mistake not the junior of
the several candidates) has been appointed her MA-
JESTY'S Proctor. It is painful to find so little sense
of decorum operating with those who control such an
appointment. These are not the days in which family
favouritism in public affairs—and this is one of that
class—can be safely persisted in. The public opinion
has been loudly and emphatically expressed against
class-legislation. The motive of this hostility is a
generous desire to see the law devised and ad-
ministered for the benefit of all, not of the few. But
family office-jobbing is a sin against the good sense,
as well as the good feeling of the public. They will
not endure that the example of the Roman Pontiffs in
elevating to all points of honour and emolument, not
the worthiest candidates for them, but those most
nearly allied by blood or by family connexions to
themselves, should be imitated, though on a micro-
scopic scale, in the genial atmosphere of Doctors'
Commons. It may be very true that, as one of our
Contemporaries has stated, the gentleman appointed
her MAJESTY'S Proctor is the Proctor employed by
Sir ROBEET PEEL. This fact does not help the
matter. It cannot purge the transaction of the taint
of outrageous favouritism. But it may be productive
of one good effect, in common with most of the
indiscretions committed by the Premier—it may tend
ultimately to advantageous results never contemplated
by him.
For the last twenty years, at least, there have been
impending over that classic ground of the canon and
civil law, of spiritual tribunal and civil forums, threats
more or less formidable of inquiries into antiquated
customs and modern abuses, snug sinecures, &c., &c.
By dint of some clever management and wheedling
on the part of Hon. and Learned, or of Right Hon.
Members, attached to them in divers capacities, the
discussion of the expediency of going into such
matters is always tided over till the fast outs unning
current of the session leaves it stranded, high and
dry, among the dropped orders of the session, where
it is clear it must remain till the " springs" of the
following year, when, in the shape of new or renewed
notices of motion, it may float off again upon the
surface of the business periodically brought before
the Legislature. Terrible things have been talked of;
some of them but reasonable propositions ; others,
unfair in themselves and calculated to produce ruinous
consequences. It has been endeavoured to open the
advocates' bar to barristers—to allow attorneys to
practise as proctors—to reduce all fees—to reform the
whole scheme of appeal courts, &c. The peril has
from time to time subsided ; the storm has blown over.
But most assuredly the spirit of indifference which
this last appointment manifests for public opinion (so
decidedly intimated as that has been through the
public press against the continuance of all family
monopolies of office), is the sort of challenge best
calculated to provoke in the House of Commons a
searching, uncompromising, and severe scrutiny into
" the way in which they manage these matters" south
of St. Paul's Churchyard.

The Journal des Debuts, and indeed most of the
papers, assert that nothing can be gained by talk.
There is but one question which occupies every mind
—" Shall the Ministry be overthrown by the coali-
tion ?" That is the entire affair. As long as the co-
alition shall not have appeared at the tribune, there
will be words but no action, and it is action alone
which gives importance to words. Well, the coalition
has appeared in the person of M. TUIERS, and still
there are only words, because there are no facts ; the
vote is everything. The following remarks of the
Presse on this point display judgment, though we re-
gret to say, the latter paragraph contains assertions
which destroy much of their effect, because the writer
must have known that he states what is contrary to
facts. England was deserted by France, when it
suited her purpose, both as regards the affairs of
Spain and the East :
°We gave good advice to the adversaries and to the
friends of Ministers, but neither followed it. The ad-
vice we gave them was to pass over the general dis..
eussion, and to arrive at once at the paragraph upon
which the existence of the Cabinet ought to turn. To
what purpose are all those preliminaries except to ener-
vate the debate ? The sitting of Monday will not have
changed our views on that subject. Five orators were
heard, and still the question did not advance one step.
Why not at once enter on the affairs pending ? Our
foreign and domestic policy have been in turns
brought before the public in the reply to the
Speech from the Throne. Every opinion, therefore,
those which are favourable to the policy of Minis-
ters, and those which are opposed to it, might declare
themselves on the speeial debate on each paragraph. The
general debate is only calculated to lose time, and to
drown facts in an ocean of common-place phrases. It
was certainly to this cause which must be attributed the
little interest with which most of the orators were
listened to. Some of them made sensible speeches,
which merited more attention. Messrs. de Tocqueville
and de Beaumont, for example, were happy in their defi_
nition of the attitude which France ought to assume in
her relations with foreign Powers. The systemrof an
exclusive, permanent, and absolute alliance with Eng-
land, found in them convinced and enlightened adver-
saries, who indicated without passion the general and
particular reasons which ought to lead France to seek
assistance in other points of Europe. In their minds no
more than in ours, that did not mean that we should
hastily break off from England, prefer misunderstanding
to good accord, or seek pretexts for collision or war.
Such conduct would be insane. It simply means, that
whilst living in peace we ought to reserve our liberty
and our independence, and not devote ourselves exelu •
sively to a Power whose assistance, ever interested, and
for that reason capricious, has already abandontod us in
the most decisive circumstances."

The following are miscellaneous extracts from the
papers:—

" We learn from the Cherbourg journal that a com-
pany of infantry, which has been embarked at that port
in the Prevoyante, for Brest, is to proceed to Otaheite.
A company of grenadiers will be taken on board at
Brest for the Marquesas Islands.
"A letter from Oran, of the 10th, states that the
officer of the Emperor of Morocco, who is charged with
General Delarue to fix the limits of the frontiers, had
arrived at Ouchda, and that the Emperor appeared to
be sincerely desirous of fulfilling all his engagements
with France, but that his power over his subjects was
becoming every day less. The same letter states that
Abd-el-Kader had succeeded, notwithstanding all the
precautions that had been taken, in getting together
nearly 1,000 men, at the head of whom he was waiting
for some turn in his fortunes.
" The France publishes the following letter from St.
Petersburgh, dated the Bth. It shows that the report
from Berlin of the illness of the Emperor and Empress
of Russia was wholly without foundation:---' Last Satur-
day the Emperor held a grand review of the garrison.
The troops were drawn up in the square of the Admi-
ralty. His Majesty was on horsback, accompanied by
the Hereditary Grand Duke Alexander and a numer-
ous suite. :The Emperor wore a geueral's uniform.
The troops were two hours in defiling before him.
On the 6th, the festival of Christmas, according to
the Russian calendar, was celebrated. A high mass in
music was performed in the chapel of the imperial
palace. The Emperor, the Empress, and all their fa-
mily were present, in deep mourning. It is the day on
which, in all the churches of Russia, a public prayer is
offered up, thanking God for having repulsed the inva-
sion of 1812. After the mass, there was a grand recep-
tion in the outer palace of the civil and military autho-
rities and the nobility. The Duke de Leuchtenberg is
expected here the day after to-morrow, to be present
with all the Court at the celebration of the Russian New
Year."

By way of enlivening the members of the North.
amptonshire Agricultural Protection Society, who
held their first anniversary dinner yesterday, at North-
ampton, Sir CffARLES Ksnourr.Er, one of the repre-
sentatives for the county, indulged them with a
lernewhat lengthy speech, which was filled, like one
Cassandra's prophecies, with all sorts of horrors.
jonsidering3bat this speech was a post-prandial one,
we are surprised at its gloomy tone, for, generally
speaking, a good dinner works a most cheering rero-
:".eation in a man's spirits, and he is never so ready to
:arget or make light of his troubles as when, like
31askspearews Justice, "his belly is with fat capon lined,"
tind lavishly baptised with the generous juice of the
gap,. When once " impletur veteris Bacchi pinguisque
lerim e," away go his grievances, whether public or
-priea6, and all that is lively and hopeful in his nature
sprouts into leaf. But such was not the case with
Sir C. NSIGIITLEY at the Northampton dinner. The
szaocl things on the table seem to have had no enliven-
:hag influence on his spirits, and he addressed the
tx)7lpany in as triste and morose a tone as if he had
aeco dieting himself on crab apples and vinegar. The
:agriculturists, he said, had been shamefully used by
.Ministers, who had trampled on these injured info-
just as if they were so much dirt beneath
their .reet. There was first the Corn Bill, then
the Ca.eada Corn Bill, then the Tariff—all these
niquitouss measures had been passed by Govern-
.nent without the slightest regard to the delicate
sonsibilllties of the monopolists, and there was not
xte of them but' was fraught with the deepest in-
ue.,:r to their pecuniary interests. But the Tariff was
.be great nuisance--the knock-down blow to the
egricalturrists. They might hare stood up against the
wo Corn Efflis, but the Tariff had fairly floored them,
and he, the' speaker, very much doubted whether they
would ever be able to get upon their legs again.
bloat which, in the good old times of monopoly, was
Tzpeus:e and upwards per pound, was now only four-
ienc eXialfpenny—a reduction not to be thought of
with out dismay ! True, the country at large gained
y sac& reduction—more especially the poorer
lass ble,`, what of that ? The agricultu-
ists. stiffereal
by it, and what are the into-
'ftts of the >x' any compared to those of the few ?
Ilft not conte,nt with inflicting this prodigious amount
an fit, e meek, unoffending monopolists,
si" 'stony-kftrte 4 .Premier had actually gone the

The Madrid Gazette of the 15th inst. contains the
new regulations for the management of municipal cor-
porations throughout the country, the great object of
which is to place them as much as possible under the
control of the Central Government. The debate on
the Clergy Dotation Bill was still going on in the
Chamber of Deputies. Her Majesty the QUEEN..
MOTHER. had announced to the Committee on the Es-
timates her marriage:with MuNoz, for the purpose, we
suppose, of obtaining a pension suited to his new rank
and dignity as a grandee of Spain. The intelligence
from Morocco, by way of Gibraltar, is not favourable.
anarchy was said to prevail in the interior, and the
authority of the EMPEROR had been much weakened
by the peace with France. Some accounts even infer
that ABD-EL-KADNR is plotting against him.
The Three per Cents. closed at 32f for cash,
and 33 at 60 days ; tilt Five per Cents. at 23i for
cash, and 24 at 60 days ; the Coupons at 27i for
the 15th of February next ; and the Floating Debt
at 80 at 60 days.

We learn from Zurich that the Swiss Vorort has re-
solved to convoke an extraordinary Federal Diet for the
end of January.
The Universal German Gazette states that the Aus-
trian Government, in order that France may not assume
to herself the exclusive Protectorate of the Christians in
the Holy Land, has appointed a Commission charged
with that duty on the part of Austria.
TIIE BOURSE--TUESDAY, JAN. 21.

First Highest Lowest Last
__ . _

Price. Price. Price. Price.
French Five per Cents— •• 121 95 .. 122 05 .. 121 95 .. 122 05
Three per Cents..... 84 95 .. 45 10 .. 84 95 .. *5 10
Bank of France ..•....3262 50 —3262 50 —3262 50 —3262 50
tiouhillank, I,ooof. Shares••lo97 50 ..1100 , ..1097 50 —llOO
Belgian Fives, 1440. . 104. X .. 104ati .. 1044 •• 104'
1842 •••••• •• 10634 .. 1063:2 .. 1063.; ..
Spanish Threes.•
Active •••• . • •
Passive .. .. 634 .. 6:4e
New Deferrecl.• •.• • 16 .. 16 .. 16 .• 16
Portuguese Five per Cents.. 594 • . 591,4 .. 594( • . 594
NeaPolitan •• .. . 98 75 .. 98 75 .. 98 73 .. 98 75
V.oinan • ••••••• 105 .. 105.34 .. 105 .. 10534
RAILWAY 811ARRS.
St. Germain lOO2 50 —lOO2 50 —lOO2 50 ..1002 50
Vcr"1114".11•8•" ...... •••• 495 .. 498 75 .. '495 .. 493 75
L.B. ..... 377 50 .. 382 50 .. 380 .. 382 50
Rotten..
Rouen to Liavre............ 822 50 .. 422 50 . 822 .. 822 50
Orleans ••
Strasburg to Bale• ••••••• •• 301 25 .. 303 75 .. 301 25 . 903 75
Avignon to Marsellles•—• 927 50 . 930 .. 927 50 .. 927 53
RAILWAYS FOR THE ACCOUNT. JAN. 31.
—lOlO ..1010 ..1010
: .130!;2
7575 1830:5:3
5795 1803258585
5()
75
Orleans
Versailles, B.B.•••• •• ••• • • • 495 • • 500 495 .. 500
L.B. •
• • •
>Zouen to •. :8031225827' 50 .
25
55:
.. 88i
..1132 50 ..1127 50 ..1127 50
Strasburg to 301 25 .. 303 75 301 25 —302 50
925 .. 930 .. 925 930
Avignon to Marseilles

The debate in the French Chamber of Deputies,
if such an exhibition can be so called, was resumed on
Friday ; and as M. TIIIERS, who is supposed to be the
prime mover in the intrigue against his friend M.
GUI OT, was to speak, some interest was excited to-
hear his denunciations against the Ministry; but mi-
serable must have been the disappointment, judging
from the first part of his speech. It contained abso-
lutely nothing except what had been said and written
fifty times about Morocco and Otaheite, the Eng•
lish alliance, and the visit to Windsor Castle. We
never remember any similar occasion when the French
orators were in such difficulty for a theme. Un-
luckily there is no passion of the day to play upon—
every foreign grievance is worn out ; the right of
search is an old almanac, and no fictitious story has
been got up, to give it life, about tho capture of fair
traders on the coast of Africa, and the brutal4Of Eng
lish sailors. This is a grievous oversight on the part

The table of the mortality in the metropolis for the
week ending January 18, shows a decrease in the
number of deaths as compared with the preceding
week, the total, except from violence, in the week end-
ing January 18 being 1,001, while in the week ending
January 11 it was 1,098. By far the larger number
of deaths during the past week have been from dis-
eases of the lu s and organs of respiration, the

SIJN, LONDON, TRUR,SDAY EVENING, JANUARY 23, 1845

number of deaths attributed to this cause being 325,
including no less than 146 cases of consumption. The
total number of deaths, including deaths from vio-
lence, during the past week, in the metropolitan dis-
trict, is 1,010. The total number of births in the
metropolitan district during the same period is 1,33] .
During the week three males have died, of the re-
spective ages of ninety, ninety-two, and ninety-four
years, and one female died at Kennington at the age
of a hundred and five years.

tutor called his attention to the two boys, and having
told him that he thought they had stolen some bacon, he
seized them, and found the bacon in their po‘se:sion.
The prisoner Murphy said that he bought the bacon
from a boy in a naval cap, whom he met in the street.
The prisoner Thomas said he was with Murphy, and
saw him buy it.—Committed to take their trial.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
(THIS DAY.)

One of the Italian mendicants, about 18 years of age,
was charged by Wm. Horsford, one of the constables
belonging to the Mendicity Society, under the following
circumstances :
Between five and six o'clock last evening the prisoner
had placed himself on the foot pavement in Oxford-
street, and was exciting charity by pretending that he
was in great pain. Knowing him to be au impostor, the
constable took him into custody, and on searching him
found in his pockets Is. 10d. in silver and copper, and in
a small bag concealed in the lining of his trousers there
were 16 sixpences and 13 fuurpenny-pieces.
He was committed for one month.

THIS DAY'S NEWS•

VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.)
(Before Sir J. K. BRucE.)

LAMBETH.—(THIS DAY.)
John Pearce, a young urchin of 12 years of age, was
charged with robbing his mother of 3s. in silver. The
father and mother of the lad stated that they had a
large family, and the prisoner was their second child ;
he was continually robbing them, and they had tried
all means of reformation, but in vain. The
father was a bookbiider, and there was plenty of work,
but the prisoner did not choose to do it. He had got
his sen two or three excellent situations, but he never
kept them. The father added that he had even
gone so far as to keep him for a fortnight locked in a
back room without his clothes, but it was all to no
purpose.
Mr. NORTON (with the approbation of the father) di-
rected that Cook, the gaoler, should take the prisoner
into one of the cells, and administer to him a severe
whipping with the cat-o'-nine-tails, and then bring him
again into Court.
In compliance with the Magistrate's order the castiga-
tion was immediately administered. The youthful cul-
prit afterwards received a severe admonition from the
worthy Magistrate, and was delivered up to his parents
with a caution as to his future conduct.

CLERKENWELL.—(THIS DAY.)
An elderly gentleman, dressed as a clergyman, and
who described himself on the police-sheet as the Rev.
Thomas Hanhury, of Leicester, clergyman, was charged
with having been found drunk.
Police-constable E 165 deposed that, on the previous
night, he found the prisoner in Bernard-street, Russell-
square, drunk, and incapable of taking care of himself.
Mr. GREENWOOD asked the prisoner what he had to
say to the charge ? Prisoner-1 have nothing to say.
Mr. GREENWOOD—You are fined ss.

ALARMING EXPLOSION AND
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.

This morning (Thursday) an explosion of a fearful
character, and which resulted in a great destruction of
property, took place in the oil and colour stores in the
occupation of Mr. Bayliss, colourman, No. 149, White-
chapel-road, immediately facing the London Hospital.
From inquiries made upon the spot, it appears that two
lads in the employ of Mr. Bayliss were engaged between
eight and nine o'clock in drawing off a quantity of
naptha from a churn-shaped vessel. Whilst they were
so employed the light they held communicated with the
inflammable fluid. In an instant, and almost before the
lads could escape, the body of naptha took fire, and the
house from the bottom to the top was one mass of blaze.
One of the conductors of a Bow omnibus hastened to
Mr. Crookland, at the Jeffery-square station, and the
engine from that station, followed by others of the
brigade, was very speedily at the scene. By the
excrtionsof Mr. Braidwood, and his men the flames were
confined to the building in which they originated,
but the work of extinguishing the fire was one of no
ordinary difficulty, the limbs and lives of the firemen
being in constant jeopardy from the frequent explosions
which took place among the ruins, supposed to arise
from a quantity of gunpowder among the stock. Co-
pious supplies of water being furnished to the engines at
work, the ruins were cooled by half-past ten o'clock, but
every particle of property is destroyed, and the house,
which is completely burned through, and in a very tot-
tering state, must be taken down. One of the lads was
rather severely burned about the hands and face, but
having had his injuries dressed at the London Hospital,
he recovered so far as to be able to engage in business
again. Both the house and its contents are insured. The
adjoining premises, occupied severally by Mr. G. Was-
tropp, baker, and Mr. Sewin, corn-chandler, are par-
tially injured by fire and water.

MARKET NEWS.—(THIS DAY.)
HAY MARKETS.
SMITIIFIELII.—Coarse Meadow flay, 31 12s to 4/ 15s ;
Useful ditto, 4/ 16s to 51 4s ; fine Upland ditto, 5/ 35 to
5/ 10s; Clover Hay, 4/ lOs to 6/ ; Oat Straw, 1/ 12s to
1/ 14s ; Wheat Straw, 1/ 14s to 1/ 16s per load. Both
Hay and Straw sold slowly, at our quotations.
CUMBERLAND.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 31 lOs to 4/ 18s;
Useful ditto, 51 to 5/ 4s ; fine Upland ditto, 51 5s to
51 12s ; Clover Hay, 4/ lOs to 5/ 183; Oat Straw, 11 123
to 1/ 14s .; Wheat Straw, 11 14s to 11 16s per load.
A fair average supply, and a sluggish demand.
WUITEcIIAPEL.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 31 lOs to 4/155;
Useful ditto, 4/ Ms to Si 4s ; fine Upland ditto, Si 5s to
Si lOs ; Clover Hay, 41 10s to 6/ ; Oat Straw, 11 12s to
1/ 14s ; Wheat Straw, 1114 s to 11 Iss per load. Trade
on the whole, dull, but little variation in prices.