The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-12-21 00:00:00

Vie Township of F.vertos

Lanatfer, will be held, in t
A_lOlkrDAY, the 3d day of Jann

said Church

'clock in tlie,P6enoon

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LE LENT on PLATHES, JEWEL-
LERY, SILKS, VELLENS, and every
description of Manchester an WOOLods,at Half the Paws-
brokers' Rate of Interest.
Apply at 66. S

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!ta<two doorsfrom Back Colquitt-street.

IE CHRISTMAS MARKETS.

Although we have alrea
e " Ct

entered upon what is called

the butchers, grocers, and pro-
vision dealers' shops have not yet assumed that aspect of
bountiful splendour which always marks the season.
The " show," indeed, is not likely to commence until to-
morrow, although active preparations for the occasion
have, we understand, been for some days in progress
? I In St. John's Market first-rate -

stmas week,

found;
current

fis always to be
luantity and quality of that reserved for the
it week is said to be of a superior order to any ex-
for some time past. Large English oxen, from
pasture, have been brought to the axe, to

e stall at

eep up the

aputatton of John Bull for roast beef ; and
a considerable number of fine young Scots were in the
market yesterday, and found ready purchasers at good
Mutton is rarely regarded as Christmas cheer ;
out, nevertheless, it has its admirers at that as well as all
other seasons, and the number disposed of at yesterday's
cattle market will shew that the supply is likely to be
more than ordinarily liberal. At the same time we are
assured that it will be of more than average size and de-
licacy, from the richness of the grass lands and other food
consequent upon the absence of frost.

The state of the poultry market already shows an ex-
traordinary supply, at very moderate prices. Turkeys,
geese, large fat capons, and fowl, of almost all sizes and
denominations, throng the stalls and shop windows of the
dealers : while hares, rabbits, pheasants, and a profusion
of wild fowl offer their temptations to the epicure in every
thoroughfare.

Vegetables, though there is a fair supply for the season,
em, as yet, less plentiful than might have been antici-

season when the demand was certain to he
great; and that which has been brought to market is mostly
of inferior quality. The price, however, has been fully
maintained, on account of the shortness of supply. The. e
is, nevertheless, an excellent show of fruit, fresh and de-
licious-looking, and of a quality, we have no doubt, to
form a capital dessert for the seniors as well as the juniors
of the household, when assembled round the domestic
hearth, heaped with the hereditary " yule clog," their
countenances brightening with hopes of a happy New
Year.

pated at a

The grocers' shops should perhaps have been excepted
from our remark that the Christmas show had not com-
menced. The windows of these were filled with raisins
and currants, with figs, French plums, almonds, candied
lemon, spices of every variety, and sugar of all qualities,
on Saturday last ; and their stocks appear to have
been increased instead of diminished since. The best
time, however, for a stroll to witness both the catering of
the shopkeepers, and the bustling anxiety of housewives
to be hospitable, will be on Thursday and Friday next.
BIRKENHEAD.—Our neighbours on the Cheshire side
seem likely to fare quite as well as their friends in Liver-
pool. Their oxen, heifers, and sheep ; their turkeys,
geese, and inferior poultry ; their game and other pro-
visions may fairly vie with anything likely to be shown
here. And they have an extraordinary young " porker,"
fed by Mr. Wm. Fullard, butcher, of Birkenhead mar-
ket. This animal has been fattened to an obesity which
might almost render the existence of legs and feet a
matter of doubt to persons unlearned in porcine natural
history. This gluttonous subject is but 3 months and 21
days old, and weighs no less than eight score pounds—a
fact which bears clear testimony to his " fast" propensi-
ties, and proves that be has been " going the whole hog"
In other articles, vegetables, fruit, Christmas
evergreens, and the usual accompaniments of the festive
season, Birkenhead exhibits a liberal supply.

at feeding