Star.
London, England, 1804-08-03 00:00:00

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Our annual&ril fair was well attinded WI Tlntrf-
day. by the London and ..ther ivool Rapiers, but as
ufual nn htirinelf was done before dinner'. Logo
Sit itii b LD, Wh prefided, having propofed the beak'
of Sir lists Baits, as 4 principal promoter of
thefe meet ins, eit tweed great toneern at hie abfencei
mentioned by a ft, of the gout, efpeciallv is there
-vies no man better informed on the hufinefe inolt in-
knelling tit th liorho were *trembled, and who could
ban communicated_inore complete information on
Out, part at the Nib& His Lordlinp then Rated
that he had not yet obtained very complete intelli
e refpedling the Rob fair, but that he bad lie-
Eetaired tome knees/edge of what had paired at the
fsrd fur, veich might he More interefling to
the meeting, as a confiderahle quantity of wool of
&
the nth Down breed was fold there. He obferved
that the price of fine wool was generally higher than
It was lid year ; the belt Wretordthire Is. per /tone
tif i silt,. advance. Little of the South Down eon'
had fold at Thetford fair at more than as. per pound,
foam not more than at sad. ; but if South Down
wool in Norfolk On Suffolk be worth as. per pound,
fnrely the wool of this neighbourhood, being in
greater pet feßion, was worth more ; and it was never
fuppofed we had fent nor nett wool fheep out of the
teuntrs. He laid he had great pleafure in obfcrv-
log. that it was now proved beyond a doubt, that
See could rails wool in England of the Spanifh kind,
as good as any that is uftsally imported; and, ad-
sireffinglimfelf to the wool Rapiers, added, that if
Oft would give an adequate peke, it might anfwer ,
to the farmer (which it had not hitherto done) to
cultivate the bed kind of wool ; and he learned with
much fa isfemom that a Staff ocifitire Gentleman, who
bad obtained lam; . f nos Majt..l v's SpAnith (beep, had
raifed the wn 4 io inch petheinn as in fell it at 6..
3d. per po •ntl. He remarked, that without taking
adviii.tege of the °motional diffii.ulty of obtaining
Spa-At iv -01, a moderate price for that article con-
Sacred, South D.ovn wool ought to produce at leaß
Is. 6d. per pound k that a few peace difference in the
pentad amonnted to very little on a yard of cloth ;
-4ind that it woad tiltinta.ely anfwe' belt to the ma
nofaeturer to give that twice, which would enc. -Image
the fanner to look to the quality rather than in the
quantity of the wool. None of thele liatement6 were
controverted. . •

In the evening a great deal of trainers wow dente
at advancer/ prices. Several lob. of wool were fold
at 645. per Todd of 3stb. or as. per pound, and we
bear Lord Smarr., I.D fold at 65u

RATIM Nisvoitr.—The fallowing article is
copied frills the ;sew Torh Daily ...41wirafir:" Bares
Herrium. who has been five years travelling
thrnuglf Yourh America. lays that among other
curious anima remains, he hat (and he is the
Ara that hie.) dire ,vered fveral fpecirorns of
the Mammoth, perfeetly distinguifhed by the pleat
Carnivore's' teeth. He hal found them as hr es
lat. 33 but always on the highell asonntains,
which the Baron takct. to be a fatisfattory proof that
this great unknown mall have been. as has been
generally foppoted, the inhabitant of a cold climate.
lin Nur h America none of there hones have ever
been fuond but in comparatively low &nations
this is to be espeaed of an animal, which in a cold
climate would inh itot the wallies and in a warm one
mould leek the en -1 ret of the mountains, be."
Twe Oars tcw.—The following is an extrAft of a
lets r in a New York Paper : The Oftrich which we
boottAitt, pit .61 May lafi, from on board the (hip
Silenu', lately arrived from the Cape of Good Hope,
Cried on the fill Callan .

This animal, whole fingular appetite prompts it to
(wallow indifcrimittately all lubllances which come
Within its reach, (wallowed, on the r9th ult. a Imall I
f'aw'n handkerchief, which it got ton far down its
flamer to be taken out again when it was perceived.
it daily (wallowed a quantity of gravel, pieces of
china, queen's ware, glair, broken nails, and all me-
tallic ruhfianee,, wqch i• could find in the yard in
which it was kept in the day time. I's common food
vs, bread. p natoe., corn, and grafs, which it con
tinted eating in great plenty durMg the firlt eight
days after having Perelowd the (Aid handkerchief;
but, in the heginning of the fecund week, it IP ft it-
oppetire. and we were obliged to cram it, keep it
abve.—Prefuming that the infpeetion of the interior
ersollru6tion of this osresordinary animal wonld be
interallirg to the lovers of natural hiflory, and the
gentlemen t f the medical line in general. we invite
several of them to be prefent at the opening of the
body, and were hotraured by the pretence ..1 1)r. D.
Howe, Dr. WRIONT POST, Mr WILLIAM Mocas,
and Dr. S. Bolt It wse, who, tin examination of the
tionssch, have found that it was quire-full, and dif-
landed by a quantity of partly &gelled graf.. mixed
with corn and potatoes undigelled, and with a great
qnantity of gravel, pieces .4 China,
lary, brats buttons, old nails, a piece of a (mall key,
kc. which gravel and metallic fulsnances Appear to
have undergone a (Iron fri.Fli,n, as if they had been
etiblaed or polithed with 4 file*.
The handkerchief was found unaltered on the top
edge contents of the gomach, and it is thonght that
it has enured an ;oX:re tina. which kerns tit have ac-
celerated •he death of the animals which, however,
urntild net have lived mush longer, on account of a
general inflammatinn which was dilcoeered on the
outride of the domach. on the Ismail, and on the
Mimp,occationed by former braifes received on board,
cr whe.t 'hipped.
We have mir.utely taken the dimenfinns of the (a
'oral parts, and limbs if rliii. bird, which will be Duf-
fed and set up in mint al pofitian. ft, &chum
will alto be made ten and riled. it, nomach, heast,
&c. are prefet red in spirits ; and the while, to-
ether with the liaetr-;er chief, nail., loafs: itc. found
in the flomach, sea: be placed in the cabinet for ea-
n. DILACCMITII AID CURLIAG.
4. h IS very generally raid. an.l believed. that the Oftrtch
idftvattra a treater d•gree than any usher animal, the power of di
I Vas Iris. Fran raan,ni..tiniiuf the nket of ban found in
I amplaelt. and avitarla had hero • wan..., d ngth of tine. it
114,41t•th t they e • rri, free al rra.km,,accpt What
way ~.. c, f., rt,lll ito flirt OD upt4i each other, ca.fiJ lay
the skidoo tithe tisk,. e..
• The imprrllion upot. tie mind. rt .he Ocattl-men prefent was.
that they I:nth-meta no util, Ounro than would have takes
lausia.sc.ftosausia,ot au wax a •147 ut cr 4111114.