Star.
London, England, 1828-11-15 00:00:00

SOCIETY OF DRUGUISTS, &c.

Yesterday a numetons and highly respectable meet.
ing, composed of Gentlemen engaged in the Drug.
Drysalting, &c. Trades, was held at the London Coffee
House—Sir CHARLES PRICE, liars. in the Chair. _

The CHAIRMAN stated, that the present meeting had
been called to consider what means should be adopted
effectually to remedy and di feat a system of domestic
depredation, which had been carrying on to an alarm-
ing amount, the nature of the valuable articles employed
in the trades referred to eluding detection.
Mr. RAWLINS said, the dealers in drugs were not
merely sufferers by the robberies, but the trade was de-
preciated by the low prices at which the stolen chug,
were sold, the receivers of stolen drugs being general
dealers, who, although they knew the good% offered for
sale by travellers were stolen, still purchased them. lie
concluded by moving, that a reward be offered for the
conviction of offender:.

On the amount to be offered a long d;scussion arose;
was settled at 501.

Mr. HERRING suggested, that by having a police
officer as an accredited servaid of the Society, would
tend to prevent a defeat of the ends of justice—by colt
lision between the officer and robber. The late robbery
at Apothecaries flail was discovered at seven in the
morning. What followed? The workmen went to
breakfast; whereas, if an officer bad been employed, lie
would not have allowed one to have left the premises ;
and there could be no doubt but that if the necessary
steps had been adopted, the robbers would hive been
detected.

A Gentleman suggested that persons in business
should not leave their premises unprotected at night.
and on Sundays.
A Resolution was passed authorising the Committee
to arrange with two officers, so that they may he at-
tached a► the Society. to render assistance in case of
need.—Thanks were returned to the Chairman, and the
Meeting separated.

EDINBURGH, Nov. IS.
ALIA-lALLOW FAIR.

Our great annual market fnr beeves, &c. which is the
last of the season, commenced on Tuesday, in a field on the farm
of Myreside, to the we .t of the city, and bas been not the least
brisk of the late very brisk fairs. The show on this occasion was
not se great as no some preceding years, being only between 9,000
and 10,000 head of cattle, but they were generally in better con-
dition. A variety of circumstances conspired to raise the eapecta.
tions of the dealers. The very abundant crop this year has made
fodder, and every other description of bestial provehder, unusually
plentiful, which the farmer. In order to turn to proper account, re-
quires mouths to eat—the high prices obtained at all the late fairs
showed that the demand was not partial, but general—and the ex-
cellent condition of almost every description of cattle—many
of them being already neatly ready for the knife—these. to-
gether with some other accessory circumstances, all of which
the buyers, as well as the dealers, being of course aware
of, induced the latter to assume a rather high tone. In this
state of matters the sellers had a decided advantage over their
friends the buyers, who, it, order to consume their superfluous
meat, had no alternative but to obey the dictum of the stockhenkra.
Accordingly, in the early part of the day on Tuesday, c pa-
ratively few sales were effected, the sellers standing out for the
prices obtained at the late trysts and fairs, sod the purchasers
very loath to buy at such a premium. Towards noun, how
ever, sales became very general. at prices little, if any thing,
inferior to those of the late Falkirk tryst. Two year old West
Highlanders, according to their size and condition, sold from Zs ss.
to £3 ss. Three year olds from £4 es. to £7 7s. Three year old
Fife and Angus cattle brought from £8 Bs. to £l2 ins. Four year
olds from £lO 10s. to £l5 15s. A few superior beasts brought
prices a shade higher. Milk cows, of which there were a great
show, sold readily, those in calf at from £9 9s. to £l2 12s. and
were mostly all di.poserl of. The show of fat cattle was not very
large, and prices were much the same as for sonic weeks past, viz. Gs.
to Gs. 9d. per stone. As evening neared, the demand again becalms
flat, purchasers being shy and imagining dr it the sellers would lower
their tone on Wednesday—and at sight a great number remained
unsold. Yesterday morning business 1.V.11 again resumed, and sales
were readily effected at a shade lower than on the preceding
day, and at nightfall all the heavy lots were sold di, there
still remaining, however, a considvrabk number of inferior beasts
unsold, from the holders standing out for prices,—There was a
great show of horses in the Grassinarket on Tuesday afternoon
and yesterday. Superior ones for draugfit brought from £2O to
I'4o. Good saddle horses from £l5 to £4O. The weather, boils
days. was peculiarly favourable for market operations—a brilliant
aun shone with a clear unclouded sky. There were a greater num-
ber of tents on the ground than we ever before remember to have
witnessed, occupying a considerable angle of the field, which, to.
whet with a variety of slows, and a host of nondescript gamblers
in a small way, appeared to reap a rich h of grain, the result,
no doubt, of the good prices that were going.

The workshop of Mr. ackson, a silversmith, in
Greenhill's-tents, Cow-cross, was broken into at an
early hour on Thursday morning. and robbed of pro-
pertetty, consisting of sil.•er tea. coif e, and milk puts,
to the amount of 2001. Tire robbers effected their en-
trance into the shop by passing through an empty house
adjoining.
Wednesday the body of a female, ab rut twenty years
of age, was found in a packing case, in the Yorkshire.
man steam packet, from Hull, while unloading at the
Tower Stairs. The body was discovered in cons .quence
of the corner of the case having split, which partly
showed its contents. It was directed to a surgical in-
strument maker, in Giltspur-street, and by whom it
was sent for on the morning it was discovered ; but it
was, by direction of the Lord Mayor, deposited in the
vault of Allhallows Church. An inquest was yesterday
held on the body, and the following verdict returned :
.4 That the body of the deceased was found in a box on
board the Yorkshireman steam packet, from Hull; but
how it came in such a situation there was no evidence
to prove to the Jury."
Yesterday an Inquest was held on the body of John
Sanson, whose death was supposed to have been pro-
duced in consequence of violence used towards him by
a man named Fisher. The Jury, however, returned the
following verdict 44 That the deceased's death was
occasioned by a fracture and dislocation of the neck by
a fall, but whether from accident or design no positive
evidence appears to the Jury."
Yesterday an Inquest was held at the Grapes, Wal-
worth, on the body of Mary Squires, about 18 years of
age, servant of Mr. Thomas Holt, who was unfortunately
run over by a horse and cart during the fog on Wed-
nesday afternoon, as she was crossing the road to her
master's bodge. The driver and owner of the cart, and
two other witnesses, proved that her death was acci.
dental, and the Jury returned a verdict accordingly.
Wednesday evening, about dusk, a dreadful accident
occurred to a young man, a butcher, at Pimlico, named
Thomas Folkes, who, from the density of the fog, slip-
ped off the curb stone, and fell with considerable vio-
lence on his left side ; a butcher's knife, unsheathed,
slung in a belt, hung loosely round his waist, the blade
of the knife entered through his ribs, just below the
heart. On lifting him op he was found,weltering in his
blood, and the knife sticking in his side up to the han-
dle. It was drawn out, and the poor fellow was con-
veyed to Westminster Infirmary, where every attention
was paid him, but from the dreadful nature of the
wound, the surgeons have not the slighest boper of bis
recovery.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF KING'S BF.NCII, Wassimma, Nov. 14.