The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-01-07 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

THE NEW HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT.—The foundation
walls of the new houses of parliament are nearly completed,
and it is expected the first stone will be laid by her Majesty
early in the spring.
It is known everywhere on the Continent, in all courts,
great and small, I hat the three Cobourgs, father and two
sons, are to arrive about the 20th of January, and that the
marriage is to take place on the Bth of February.--Corre-
.spondent of the Brighton Gazette.
HONESTY REWARDED.-011 Friday morning the son of
Mr. James Haslam, waste dealer, of Bnry-street, Little
Bolton, lost a £3O note. A poor old man shortly presented,
himself with the note, when, as a reward for his honesty, the
boy's mother :generously offered him sixpence, which.he in-
dignantly refused.
An innkeeper in Maidstone had a cod-fish sent him last
week, which when open was found to contain 30 star-fish, 2
gallons of sea-weed, 4 dabs, and 6 large whitings.
We have had great pleasure in hearing that her Majesty
has been pleased to lend to the National Exhibition, about to
open, two of the most distinguished paintings of Wilkie,
" The Guerilla Council of War," and " The Maid of Sara-
gossa."—Ministerial paper.
A strong force of the metropolitan police is to be immedi-
ately sent down to Monmouth, consisting of picked officers.
This step has been taken in consequence of the apprehensions
of the inhabitants of that town. Some of them have left town
this morning by the Gloucester day mail.—Globe.
Sometime since a party from the neighbourhood of Staple-
hurst having left their nal ive home and settled in America,
wrote to the friends they had left behind, with this address,
" Old England, Staplehurst, Kent, near Maidstone." The
postmaster was puzzled, but after sundry conjectures and
consultations, with a little peeping and prying, the letter
found its right owner.
THE CATHEDRAL IN CALCUTTA.—A few days since we
stated that the Bishop of Calcutta had given £20,000 towards
the erection of a cathedral in his diocese. It may now be
added that the whole expense, including the endowment, is
estimated at £60,000. We have great pleasure in stating
tbat the subscriptions promised in Calcutta to the 12th of
October were £15,300, that the Christian Knowledge Society
has voted £5OOO, and the Society for the Propagation of the
Gospel has promised to endow a prebendal stall, which is
equivalent to £3ooo.—Courier.
On Saturday morning a pedestrian match came off between
Clark, the celebrated Staffordshire runner, and Freers, groom
to Captain"Lauens, of the Guards, for 100 sovereigns, to run
(each in a contrary direction) round the outside of Hyde Park
and Kensington Gardens, starting from Tyburn-gate. Freers
ran along the Uxbridge-road, through Kensington-lane,
Kensington, Knightsbridge, Piccadilly, and Park-lane, into
Oxford-street, to Tyburn-gate, a distance of four miles and a
half, in 23 minutes and 45 seconds, beating Clark by upwards
of a quarter of a mile.—Standard.

Few persons perhaps are aware that £lOO,OOO were left to
the University of Oxford by Michael Angelo Taylor, to build
a picture gallery and lecture rooms connected with science
and arts. A dispute having arisen between his relatives and.
the trustees respecting the will, the latter, rather than risk
a suit in Chancery, have agreed to take £75,000, and have
begun clearing the foundation for the building. They have
removed the old houses at the corner of Beaumont-street,
St. Giles's, nearly opposite St. John's College, which is the
most centrical they could meet with.
CABINET WHIGMALERIES.—In imitation of the seven
wise men of Greece, seven of the wise men of Downing-street
have assumed certain "sayings" as their maxims. We have
been favoured with the following copy, which we believe to be
correct :—Lord Melbourne—" Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis
folly to be wise"—and " trial by jury." The Lord Chan-
cellor—" luck's all." Lord Normanby—" yes and no " and
"Matilda." Lord J. Russell—" parvum parva decent" and
" a Frost, a killing Frost." Cupid—" least said is soonest
mended," " the main chance," and " Psyche." Lord Hol-
land—" the gray mare is the better horse." Mr. Macauley
—" Windsor castle." The:noble lords, &c. who form the
petticoat ministry, have been thinking of " maxims," but
have not yet quite decided. Lord Miiato has nearly made up
his mind in favor of" the blind leading the blind ; " the
Chancellor of the Exchequer does not know what to say about
" penny postage ; " Lord Duncannon inclines I o adopt—
" tis Dan preserves the sheep, and shepherd too ;" and Lord
Morpeth has almost reconciled himself to " live upon al/f-
-ire/40e still."—John Bull.
DEATH OF MRS. BROUGHAM, THE MOTHER OF LORD
BROUGHAM.—Died, on the 31st December, at the hour of
ten in the morning, at Brougham Hall, Westmorland, in the
87th year of her age, Mrs. Brougham, widow of the late
Henry Brougham, Esq., and mother of Lord Brougham.
She was a lady of the most amiable disposition, and was
universally respected and esteemed, almost adored, by those
who had the honour of her acquaintance. No lady in the
north of England was more refined in her manners and beha-
haviour, and no one was more endeared to high and low, rich
and poor. Above all, she was truly a religious character ;
and the consolations which Christianity affords enabled her
to bear -with fortitude and resignation the bereavements
which it was her lot to suffer. Reposing with confidence in
the all-wise disposals of Providence, she felt her sorrows as
a mother, who lamented the death of her children ; but she
bore her sorrows with the resignation of a Christian, who
hopes and expects to meet those who died in the Lord, and
whom she so much loved, in another and a happier world,
where there shall be no more sorrow, but where tears shall
be wiped from all eyes, through Him who washed us in his
own blood. Mrs. Brougham was the friend of the poor
"and the fatherless, and of him that had none to help him.
The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon her,
and she caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. She was
eyes to the blind, and feet was she to the lame." Her me-
mory will be long held in reverence and esteem, and will go
down to posterity with that of her highly-gifted son.
We are happy to understand that the gentlemen of Glasgow
and the neighbourhood intend,. in a few days, to call a public
meeting, to consider the propriety of erecting a pillar in this
city commemorative of the military virtues of his Grace the
Duke of Wellington. We have no doubt that this announce-
ment will be received with approbation by all classes of our
fellow-citizens, and that they will consider it right that the
name of the first soldier of his own, and one of the most
remarkable men of any age, should be duly honoured in a
city which can already boast of monuments to Nelson,
Moore, and Watt.—Glasgow Courier.
We have heard that when Mr. Shell took up his appoint-
ment at Greenwich Hospital, as one of the Commissioners,
(almost a sinecure office,) he found the apartments allotted
him were not sufficiently capacious to hold the whole of his
establishment, which he had then increased by the addition
of his son-in-law, Mr. Power, a gentleman with an annual
income of £5OOO. So he had influence enough to procure
the expulsion of 17 or 19 of the pensioners, and their quarters
to be added to his already magnificent apartments ; in so
doing, not only perverting the original object of that noble
institution, but actually injuring, to a very great extent, the
massive structure of the hospital by such a conversion.—
Brighton Gazette.
At this moment there are three Roman Catholic churches
in course of erection, the extent and splendour of which will
be understood when we state that of one of them, situated in
St. George's Fields, the estimated cost is £Bo,ooo,—and of a
second, situated at Birmingham, no less than £150,000. The
third, at Derby, is also a very splendid edifice ; but its. esti-
mated cost we have not learned. With the knowledge of such
facts before us, we again ask, will not the Protestant feeling,
of Great Britain be roused? Happily, we now have it in our
power to supply the answer with regard to one district of this
county at least. A petition is in course of signature in va-
rious parts of the Rape of Bramber ; and we trust that it will
be immediately followed up throughout Sussex, praying the
House of Commons to discontinue the grant to Maynooth
College. Outraged as it is by the indecent and unprece-
dented alliance between a Papist and a Jew, the Rape has
done well to set the example ; but this is a matter which
concerns all Protestants.—Brighton Gazette.
The following extraordinary story is related by the Meg-
sager:—About 20 years ago a girl in one of the departments,
although not 15 years of age, was delivered of a male child,
which she placed in the foundling hospital of the place, after
having first made an indelible mark on its arm. She then
came to Paris, and entered into service. Having after some
years accumulated about 4,000 f., her thoughts were turned
towards her child, hut when she inquired for him he had left
the hospital, and no tidings could be obtained of him. A
young soldier, attracted probably by her little fortune, re-
cently paid his addresses to her, ,and a few days ago they
were married. On retiring to the nuptial chamber she dis-
covered on the arm of her husband the mark which she had
made upon the arm of her child 20 years ago. This dis-
covery led to an immediate defacto divorce, and a demand of
nullity of marriage between mother and son has been pre-
sented to the tribunals.

THE ALLOTMENT SYSTEM.-At the anniversary of the
East Somerset Labourer's Friend Society, held last week in
Bath, Mr. Ludlow Bruges, in advocating the objects of the
society said, in 1830, he had first become acquainted with
this institution. At that period it was well known the agri-
cultural population was in great distress. Labour was scarce,
and wages consequently so low, that he saw clearly that, in
the parish of Wiltshire, in which he resided. the working
men must be supported out of the poors' rate. He then
saw that there was no better plan for their permanent and
adequate relief than letting out land to them. Fortunately,
he had a farm which became vacant, and from that farm,
before it was let again, he reserved a sufficient allotment of
land, for the distressed and unemployed poor. The result
had been, that not one amongst them had, from that day to
this, received one shilling out of the poors' rate—not one
bad been charged with any offence against the lawsand not
one single shilling of their rent remained unpaid. Nor was
that all. It was not merely that they were punctual in pay-
ing their rent ; not merely that they were well-conducted,
but their external appearance in every respect indicated an
increase of domestic and personal comfort. Their posses-
sion of pigs and other animals indicated improved circum-
stances. He was therefore fully justified in asserting that,
through the means of land allotments, those men, who
would certainly have been burthensome to the poors' rate, and
possibly offenders against the laws, had not only avoided-
these evils, but had been greatly improved in their condition.

SECOND AND MOST EXTRA
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BOG NEAR KANTURK.—Kanturk, Dec. 26.—0 n Saturday
last this hitherto peaceable town was thrown into the greatest
state of excitement. Dense crowds of people were observed
I_ hastening on the Boherbuee-road, which was crowded for
about three miles. Public consternation was at its height,
when descending the valley between Derrygallon and Ballyt
holahan, was seen a dark mass rapidly approaching, with
dispelled,
something like pikes elevated in the air. As the body moved
ibwureinittehnaaltichorheavinserrapidity of a steam-engine, doubt was soon
and it appeared that about 200 acres of Colonel Jongfield's
bog, at Farradoyle, had, truant-like, gambolled through the
country, a distance of four 'miles, and was about paying a
Christmas visit to the Kanturk folks. The scene was ter-
rific, nay, grand (if grandeur and bogs could be associated
together) and impressive beyond description. Onward moved
the mighty and overwhelming mass, carrying utter destruc-
tion in its course, and conveying to the mind of the beholder
an idea of one of those catastrophes which geologists inform
us have from time to time changed the surface of the earth.
Occasionally it moved in a compact body ; sometimes, on
meeting obstructions, it rose in angry surges like the ungo-
vernable sea, elevating enormous pieces of hogwood (which
caused the mistake about the pikes.) The course of the
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and who narrowly escaped being lost. He saw the impetus
commence in the centre—in fact, the entire of the centre of
the bog moved at once to the side until it forced the higher
part here into a neighbouring declivity, and went off before
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that a cow, belonging to a farmer named Flannery,
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mould to the height of 20 or 30 feet,
belonging

The library of the late Dr. Butler, Bishop of Lichfield, is
said to have cost him nearly £30,000.
On Christmas-day, a turtle, weighing two cwt., was found
alive on the beach near Christchurch-head. Salisbury
Journal.

James Smith, Esq., the author of " Rejected Addresses,"
expired last Tuesday morning, at his house, in Craven-street,
London.

CAUSE AND EFFECT.—Perhaps there are no two words
which more distinctly point out cause and consequence than
these—gin and bitters !
Horses consume in England the produce of seven million
acres ; there are one million horses for labour, and two hun-
dred thousand used for pleasure in England.'
In the lowland neighbourhood, eastward of Wakefield,
there are large quantities of potatoes perishing in the ground,
in consequence of the wet season.

The Rev. H. Pepys, brother of the lord chancellor, has
received the appointment to the see of Sodor and Man, va-
cant by the translation of Dr. Bowstead.—Ministerial paper.
LARGE MUSHROOM.—Last week, Mr. Benjamin Hartley,
stone-mason, got a mushroom 19 inches in circumference, in
a field belonging to Thomas Ashton, Esq., of Park House.—
Preston Pilot.

RURAL POLICE.—We understand that Captain Woodford,
the chief constable of the police force in Lancashire, has se-
lected Captiin Willis to be the assistant chief constable.—
Lancaster Gazette.

A prospectus has just been issued for the formation of a
joint stock company for the manufacture of worsted and yarns,
at the city of Durham. It is proposed that the capital shall
be £lO,OOO, in shares of 4:100 each.

A star set with diamonds, and a dressing case beautifully
mounted in gold, are ordered of Rundell and Bridge by the
Queen, as a present for Prince Albert. Their cost will be
about £1,500.

So rapid has been the spread of civilisation in the Sand-
wich Islands that morelhan 800 English and American set-
tlers already reside in the capital, Honololu, and have esta-
blished a theatre among their public amusements.
Mr. George Child, innkeeper, of Criggleston, near Wake-
field, has now a second crop of apples this year, amounting
to nearly a score, upon a tree in his garden, which are nearly
as large and as well flavoured as the first crop.—Leeds In-
telligencer.

The head keeper of the forest of Munderich, near Doun-
stetten, in Wurtemburgh, killed an enormous wolf a few days
ago. The animal measured 5 feet 7 inches from the point of
the nose to the tip of the tail, was 2 feet 7 in height, and
weighed 87 lb.

CALICO PRINTING IN ITALY.—One of the most extensive
engravers to calico printers in Manchester is now executing
thirty-eight 9-Bth engraved copper rollers for a calico print-
ing establishment iu Naples ! Messrs. M'Farlane and Briggs,
of Manchester, are making a three-coloured machine for the
same.

" Albert"—a name almost obsolete in this country—will
become not only fashionable but common after February
next; indeed, the ladies entertain the opinion that more Al-
berts will be registered in the course of next year than have
been chronicled for the last century.

We believe that the new commission of colonial lands and
emigration will consist of Colonel Torrens, who has hitherto
acted as chairman of the South Australian Board ; of Mr.
Elliot, the agent-general of emigration ; and of the Hon. Ed-
ward Villiers, the brother of Lord Clarendon.—Globe.
John Matthew Galway, Esq., of the county of Waterford,
has made an abatement of 30 per cent. in the rents of all his
tenants who were spirit-dealers at Dungarvon and Abbeyside,
in consequence of the progress of temperance in that quarter,
to the great detriment of their receipts! ! !
Lord Francis Egerton, M.P., has determined to erect a
splendid mansion on his estate in Lancashire, Worsley Hall,
his present residence, being neithei commodious for the
family nor agreeable to his lordship's taste. The new build-
ing into be in the Gothic style of architecture, and will be
commenced immediately, a gentleman having left town to
superintend its erection.
We regret to observe the ship Sackville, Captain Fiddes,
from Sierra Leone, with a valuable cargo of African timber,
for this port, consigned to Messrs. Garratt and Gibbon,
having arrived off Penzance-on the 19th instant, was blown
back, in the late easterly gales, as far as Scilly, became water-
logged, and sunk ; crew saved by a French vessel, and landed
at Falmouth.—Hampshire Telegraph.
REPORTED CHANGES.—It is whispered about among the
whigs that Lord Fortesque is to leave Ireland, and to take
the place of Lord Normanby at the home department. That
Lord Normanby is to go to Paris, and Lord Grenville to
India, whither Lord Normanby would have gone, but
that, "my lady" objected. The lord lieutenancy of Ireland,
it is said, will be accepted by the Duke of Devonshire.—
Morning paper.
PIGEONING A FORTUNE.—In 1834 a pigeon was shot on
the premises of Mr. Hughes, a cottage renter at Wotton,
Hants, in the crop of which a few grains of barley were found,
which Hughes sowed on his allotment. The produce was re-
sown four successive years, and in the last harvest has pro-
duced eight quarters and six bushels, which, at the present
price of malting barley, must be worth nearly £2O.
Two men, near Buxton, have been, by a fall of earth, shut
up in a cavern five days, and four nights, although miners,
quarrymen, and colliers from a distance of twenty miles flocked
to the place to render their assistance. When taken out the
men were found in a state of great exhaustion, but they are
fast recovering.

Letters from' Italy state that Venice has suffered dreadfully
from the rains and consequent inundations, which covered the
streets and squares with water, the waves injuring the palaces.
The sinking of the water has left the streets covered with pu-
trid matter;` the shops'and depiits have had their contents
spoiled, and the desolation is universal.
The Sardiniau government, with a view to repress the
practice of duelling as much as possible, has denounced in the
penarcode just' promulgated, a heavy ponalty upon the survi-
vor in a fatal meeting, but made it reducible in proportion to
the provocation given, and the nature of the circumstances
attending the fight.
The action brought by. Lady Lytton Bulwer's solicitors
against the proprietors of the Court Journal for a libel, con-
• tamped in his number of October 19, giving an account of an
alleged scene at Lady Almer's soiree, in Paris, between Lady
Lytton Bulwer and Mr. Henry Bulwer, but which never
took place, has been stopped, owing to a notice from Sir
Edward Lytton Bulwer to his wife's legal advisers not to
proceed in his name.
NEW HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT. —The embanking wall
which is to enclose the terrace on the river front of this
magnificent structure, is now considerably above the level
of high water. We understand the delay, or rather stoppage,
which took place in the works was occasioned by the defici-
ency in the supply of the granite which was being used in
the structure ; but this difficulty has been now removed by
the importation of large quantities of granite from the quar-
ries in the neighbourhood of Dalkey, a town on the southern
shore of the bay of Dublin.

At this moment we are in a state of War with China ;
and the loss to the British Exchequer in 1841, consequent
upon this state of things, will be no less than FOUR MIL-
LIONS STERLING ! There can be no doubt but that Govern-
ment have taken some measures to restore the trade with
China. What those measures are, we do not, of course,
pretend to be acquainted with, and must patiently abide the
time when her Majesty's ministers may deem it proper to
communicate the facts to the British public. Lancashire,
Yorkshire, Devonshire. and Scotland have severally lost a
good and profitable customer in China; and this loss, so
long as the intercourse is suspended, will continue to be felt
with increasing severity daily. Birmingham too, will neces-
sarily suffer greatly by this event.—Commercial Gazette.
Our merchants have much cause to complain of what is
doing at Buenos Ayres, if the news thence received be cor-
rect. It appears that owing to the blockade carried on by
the French, British property to a vast amount is locked up
and has been locked up for nearly two years. Why is this
permitted? We have known when it would not have been
endured. By the last accounts, the French had lauded a
body of men and taken complete possession of Monte
Video. Yet our ships of war, if present at all, are bade to
look quietly on. These things remind us of Dr. Croly's
celebrated Preface. When the government of England
leads to Papacy, or even connives at it, reverses, indignities,
and national degradations invariably follow. We must ex-
pect it.—Lancaster Gazette.

HUNT EXTRAORDINARY.-011 Friday, as the :deer
belonging to Colonel Brown, of the 2d rifles, quartered in
Windsor, and whose military exploits have before been re-
corded, was accompanying the regiment up to relieve guard
at the castle, he incautiously quitted the ranks, which being
observed by a large Newfoundland dog, named Baby, belong-
ing to the proprietor of the White Hart Hotel, he gave chase,
and was led, at a killing pace, along High-street to Sheet-
street, where as a bold soldier, the deer wheeled about, and
faced his pursuer, and Baby not being altogether thorough-
bred, and intimidated by the fierce position of the animal,
turned tail, but afterwards renewed the chase, at a respectful
distance, to the barrack gates, where the noble animal sought
and received protection in its own quarters.
THE SEASON.—The proverbial fickleness of our clifnate
has been strikingly illustrated this season, and indeed this
week. On Saturday last a friend called and informed us
that there was at that time a pear tree, on the estate of Mr.
Simpson, in Quernmore, which was then in blossom and was
also bearing fruit which had acquired tolerable shape. This
for such a remote and hilly neighbourhood, and at such a
time of year, is remarkable, as manifesting the mildness of
the season. Last week also primroses were blooming in the
garden. On Sunday, however, a sharp and nipping frost set
in, so that the canal in many parts was coated thinly with ice.
On Monday morning the temperature was very low, but with
indications of approaching wet, and accordingly about noon
rain set in and continued to fall heavily till night. On
Tuesday we Were again enjoying the mildness of autumn.—
Lancaster Gazette.

The anti-corn law men are labouring hard in their efforts
to bring about a repeal. Agitation of every description is
resorted to "; hired lecturers are traversing from town to
town ; the radical press.is teeming with articles against the
landed interest ; the working classes are called upon to de-
mand cheap bread ; and nothing is left undone which can in
any manner bring about the repeal of these laws, and the
consequent ruin of the landed interest. It therefore behoves
all who feel interested in this momentous question, on which
the very stability 'of the country depends, to be on the alert,
making preparations for contesting with the repealers this
great question in the next session of parliament. Petitions
should be prepared from every town and village in the king-
dom, public meetings should be held, the humbler classes of
society should be exhorted to co-operate in defending the
corn laws as the only means of maintaining for them a fair
remuneration for their labour.—Leeds
THE BRANDY AND SALT UNIVERSAL PANACEA.—We
have had several communications on this subject, and at the
request of many of our correspondents we repeat the recipe.
For the wonderful properties of the medicine, we refer our
readers to our paper of December sth. Method of making
the remedy a bottle three-quarters full of brandy,
after which add as much salt as will fill the bottle for corking;
shake it together for ten minutes before it is used ; let the
salt settle to the bottom, and be particularly careful to use it
when clear—the clearer the better. Many persons have made
a great mistake in shakine it before it is used. The efficacy
is not near so good, and to open Sores the application is much
more painful, from the particles of salt which are not dissolved
in the brandy • but the salt and brandy should remain to-
gether, and when all the brandy is used off, more may be
added to the salt. Though it is ready for use in twenty
minutes after it is put together,•it is good at any time after,
and it is a perfect medicine, as it has the rare quality of being
greatly efficacious for either internal or external application.
SUICIDE.—The family of Mr. Parke, bookseller, were on
Monday morning shocked by the discovery that one of Mr.
Parke's apprentices, about fifteen years of age, and of the
name of Arthur Kenneth Hay, had committed suicide in the
course of the previous evening. The unfortunate youth took
tea with the family as usual on Sunday, and went out a short
time afterwards, with the intention, it was supposed, of going
to a place of worship.' At supper time he was absent, and
did not make his appsarance in the house afterwards. The
body was found quits stiff, in a small room at the top of Mr.
Parke's printing office, used merely as a lumber-room, about
eight o'clock the next morning, and a phial bottle was disco-
vered near, which had contained prussic acid, no doubt the
cause of death. The' mind of the deceased had latterly
seemed to be much unsettled by the reading of socialist pub-
lications, which he had' procured without Mr. Parke's know-
ledge, and appeared to have studied with much attention.
The deceased, who was a youth of considerable promikt, was
son of Mr. • Thomas Hay, of Shrewsbury, and nephew of
Mr. W. Hay, silversmith, of this town.—WolverhaMpton
Chronicle.

TIDE TABLE.
Days. Mrn. Evn. Height. X Sundays, Holydays, 6v.
IT. T. IT. M. Y. I.
Tuesday 7 0 35 0 56 17 1 •
Wednes. 8 1 16 1 28 16 10 Length of day 71i 42m.
Thursday g 1 1 51 2 16 16 7
Friday .. 10 11 2 38 3 49 15 10
Saturday 11 3 11 3 42 i 14 9 Hilary Term begins.
Sunday 12 4 2 4 30 13 11 Ist Sunday after Epiphany.
Monday 'l3 5 5 5 30 13 0 Camb. Lent Term begins.

LIVERPOOL CATTLE • MARKET, JAN. 6.
The number of Beast( at market to-day was a little larger than
last week; the show M as by no means good, there being a great
scarcity of prime Beef ; the demand was good for the best quality
at an advance of from I,os to 15s per head, but second and inferior
Beasts were sold without : alteration from our last quotation. Prime
Beef dad to dad, second quality sid to 6d, interim* Id to sad. The
show of Sheep was muck the same as last week. Prime Vethers
in demand at 7d to lid ; 1 nferior and Es es 6d to 61d. Beasts, :45s ;
Sheep, 4112.
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