Star.
London, England, 1805-07-30 00:00:00

LEW.IsS WOOL FAIR.

On Friday lag, the Annual Fair for the Pale of
wool was held at Levres,_in'SulTex, and was well at-
tended by numheis of the molt refpeCtable wool-
-Rapiers flora London and elfewhere, and by the
Cocipal farmers of the F.,aftcrn Divifionof the count
A.T. An excellent dinner was, providedat the prin.
etpal inn, at Which Lord. Sjairrirt,D, the %firth),
founder of this Var. prefided. Soon after the cloth
was withdrawn, Lord SIIIMILD rofe and Hated to
the meeting that,heisid been at confiderable pains
to coital the molt recent and authentic information
on the prefint fupplj. demand, and prices of wool
in different parts ofthe kingdom, and recommended
a Deputation of twelve of the molt conGderable
wool grower,:s pr fent, to be named by the company,
'WIN) &fluid retire to an adjoining room, to infpeit
and confider the information above attended to, and
report their opinion of what ought in fahmefs to be
the prices that day Other:l'6y the wool growers for
ibeir wool; the deputitiOn being named, and coon
after they had retired, Lord SNIEVIRD proceeded
to make feveral conseaunications to /lie company re.
I"pelling the growth' Of.fine wool in England ; he ob.
fkived•thht it wst now well known that tbe fleeces of
Spanifb or Mexico meep were snot dcbafed in
joality by the Entlifis climate, as had been very fa-
ttsfaelorily ProSiedlby Dr.,Parcy and Mr. Toilet ;
that the importation of,Spaoitla wool was become un-
certain, and the price greadY enhanced ; that the
quantity imported in the year !800 was upwards of
11,800,000 lbs.; inlBo3,lthaddlelinedto4,rosooolbs.
but had again Wen in 1804 to: upwards. of
7,oco,coolbs. ; and in the contr.& of the piefent year
the importation has been comparatively fhirt. of the
lad in the correfpontling months, to a very confider.
able amount. It might, therefore. his Lordfhip ob.
feared, anfwer to the wool growers to crofs their
South Down ewes with Spaniflu rams, efpccially as
the &ape of thofe introduced by his Majefty from
Spain were fo furserior to the blarinos which had
been brought by individuals into this country about
twenty years ago,. that his Majelly, for the fake of
improving the wool of this kingdom, had ordered a
certain number of his Spanifls (beep of the pure tin-
/114a Marino breed to be fold off on the t sth of
next month ; and that the fame praitice Should be
continued in future )y ears. That Mr. Toilet, who
had Sheep from his Majefty's flock, had fold the wool
thereof at 6s. 4d. per lb. and that he had fold his
fleeces entire at 4s. 6d. per lb. His Lordfhip added,
that, in a political point of view, it was highly de-
lis/tide to lave the large Awns which were paid to
foreigners for wool.; on an average for three years
Taft paft, the value of Spanids wool, rated at the
Cullom Houle, price of 3s. W. per lb. amounted to
upwards of 620,0001. ! and he concluded by obferv.
ing, that the increafed price which had taken place ,
within a few years had greatly promoted the im-
provements of the quality of the Englifh wool, and
aedreffing hilted( to the wool Rapiers, Paid, " that
nothing but h good rice could make it worth the
whiled the grower to attend to the quality rather
than to the quantity of the wool."
'The deputation having returned, Lord S F V Fit LT)
read their report, which Rated the price at 3s. 6d. to
per lb. and his Lordfhip remarked, that the
greater part or there prices were below what South-
aown wool had tild for out of the country r—that
. even in force diftant parrs of England, where there
was no woollen soanufatiory carried ou, it had fold
for as. 7d. to as. B{d. per lb. that at the late wool
fair. at Thetford, where much bufinefs was done, and
very rapidly, Southdown and Norfolk wool, which
undoubtedly was of iliferior quality to the lots of
wool now to be offered for fate, fold at as. 60. per
lb. he added. that it was fuppofed that South-down
wool *mid be worth this year 2s. Bd. at the leaft.
'The felling then commenced; and much bufinels was
done at as. 61 to 2S. Bd. Lord SHIFFIRLD,WhOie
wool is very heavy this year, fold very readily at
as. 6d. Mr. ELDINAN expeas to make as. 8d of Lisl
wool.
'After dinner, Mr. Sultan propofed the health of
the founder of the meeting which bad proved to ad-
varoOgeons to the growers, and fo convenient to the
dealer gin wool." Lord Sheffield ;" whole health was
drank with' three times' three, and loud plaudits.—
The health: of thole diflioguithed friends of their,
cOnntry, the Duke of 13 sot den, ;he Earls of Eon t-
omtit- and CHICKSITSII, and Sir Jos are BANKS, were
ultii'dnank With iNIACISINt marks of Klima.
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Yelerday,the Doke of BEDTORD, Lord SKI rpm,'
(Prefideni of the Board of Agriculture), and a laiie'
patty of liiinguithed breeders and agriculturills,
were to meet by appointment on the farm of Mr.
John Eliman, of Glyntl, near Lewes, to infreft his
famous Hock of South Down iheep, and other articles,
upon his well managed farm.
Tomorrow, the annual (hew of cattle at Lewes is
to take place, add is espeaed to draw together from
Brighton, and the other watering places'on that coal},
a very large allemblage of agriculturifis, and men of
great landed property.

Pusi.tc Enrricts—Every man who has a proper
feet of the grandeur of this great country, mull be
pleated to hear, that it is at fall refolved to make
our Honks of Parliament, in their external appear-
ance at lean more worthy of the fira people and the
greaten Affemblies in the world. But the details, we
believe, are not yet entirely Eyed.
Two plans were fubmitted by his Majenes Ar-
chited, a few years back. In both of them, it was
of courfe propofed to remove all thofe flabby buil-
dings which disfigure the front of Weßminfier Hall,
&c. and to throw the fpaee fo gained into the
open greet, and to ere& a grand Gothic facade to-
wards Old Palace-yard, the centre of which was to
be formed by the reamed front of the Hall, the
nobleß room in Europe. The Houfe of Lords was
to be rebuilt, in the Grecian or Roman Ryle of ar-
chiteaurre ; and the Law Courts to be removed
from the Hall to the fides of it. By the grandeß
defign, it was propofed to ereEt a fuperb Grecian
front, of feveral hundred yards in length, towards
the River, with a noble terrace, and an afcent by
flights of Reps from the Thames. This left grand
feature of the defign was given up, and the iuferior
plan adopted, which has been partly carded into
execution, by the recent alterations of the Houle of
the SPEAKER. It confins limply in repairing or re-
building the Offices towards the River in an irre-
gular Gothic manner, and finifhing them in plainer.
In this way, they are now refloring and ornamenting
the Fill end of saint Stephen's Chapel, in continua-
tion of the work. We. believe the intention of com-
pletely rebtulding the
_Houfe of Lords is not aban-
doned : but it will be rather a hazardous talk to
finifh this part in the Gothic mode, with fo magni
ficent a fpeetacle as Henry the Seventh's Chapel, and
the Abbey, immediately in view. No fmall part of
the effect of tittle antient edifices on the mind Of the
Spedator is produced by the atociation of ideas. Their
age, and the rocolleiflions their age infpires, add
wonderfully to the imprelfions they produce; and
modern imitations will fcarcely Rand a comparifon
with them or gr2upe With them in one impreinve
and venerable inure.
It is highly worthy of praife to pull down the houfes
that now intervene between St. Margaret's church and
Mareret-nreet i and in what little has been done, an
idea is given of the magnificence that would be the
' rerult Of it. It is not very probable, however, that
the line of buildings between Bridge-greet and Palace
yard wRI is taken down. The worn obit ration in
that Varier is the old offices on the EaR fide of Old
Palace-yard, which fhould by all means be removed,
and then the River and the perfpeiaive of Weliminfter
Bridge would be opened, which, with the other al-
-1 teretions, would create a piece of fcenery, combining
a variety of fine objeas, not, perhaps, to be exceeded
in the mon boalled capitals of Europe.
On Sunday afternoon, a fine boy, ten years of age,
was unfortunately drowned in the Thames, at the
end of Surry-fireet, by flipping into the water by ac-
cident as he and Tome other lads were at play. On
the alarm being given, feveral watermen made dili-
gent fearch for the body which lay near an hour in
the water before it was difcovered. The body was
much injured from the hooks in dragging for it, it
was they carried to its parents, who refide in Bull-
i nn-court, 'Strand.

Muaosa.—A moll atrocious murder was early on
Wednefday morning perpetrated on the body of Mr.
William Stables, an eminent clothier; at Horsforth,
near Leeds, a man univerfally refpeaed. The details
of this horrid event, as contained in the following
liatement, may be relied upon—
Mr. Stables and his family, confining of a young
man (his nephew) and an elderly woman, his houfe-
keeper, retired to reit on the evening previous to the
murder, between ten and eleven o'clock, after a fa
tiguing day fpent in the hay-field; the nephew flept
in a bed in his uncle's room, and the houfekeeper in
an adjoining chamber; about an hour after midnight
the hater was awakened by the groans of a perfon
In pain, which fhe fuppofed to proceed from the ne-
phew, but upon calling upon him, be anfwered, " it
is not I but my uncle ;" he then role and wont to his
uncle's bed, but receiving no anfwer to his enquiry
refpeiting his health, he became alarmed, and pro-
cured a light, which difcovered to him the horrid
fight of his uncle weltering in his blood. The
neighbourhood was innantly alarmed, and a furgeon
fent for, who, upon examining the wound, found a
large cut or rathei bruife, on the right fide of the
head, apparently made by two blows from a hammer
or a dull axe, the fkull being dreadfully fraftured
and beat in upon the brain. Mr. Stables feemed,
however, in poireffion of his maims, until the moment
of his death, but could give no account of the per-
fon who committed the murder; to a queflion on this
fubjeft, he anfwered, " I cannot tell." A fhort time
betore his death, be exprefled his concern at the for-
lorn fituation of his nephew, on the point of lofing
one, who bad fulfilled towards him the office of a
Gather, by this fhort exclamation, " Poor Tom !"
About five o'clock in the morning he expired, leav•
ing bis friends and neighbours deeply affdled at the
dreadful event.

It is fuppofed that the perfoa or perfons who com-
mitted the murder, entered the houfe by the cellar
windows which were filled op with Rraw, and which
in the Morning :vas friend to have been removed.—
It is alto worthy of particular obfervation, that no
article of property ip the houfc appeared to be mit.
iin&, and this eircomßance teems to afford a clue
which may lead to Ihe dote Lion of the wretches
implicated either directly or indirealy in this dia-
bolical tranfaCtion. On Wednefday three perfons
were apprehended on fufpicion of being conceroeffin
the murder; and on Thurfday Mr. Edward Brooke,
of Wakaficl:, affembled a very refpeitable Jury,
including two profefflonal Gentlemen. when after an
invefligation continued for eleven hours, a verditi
Wilful Murder was returned againfl James Townend,
of Finrsford, ihoemaker. who was committed to
York Cattle, to take his trial at the Macs.