The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-09-29 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

BEAUTIES OF ARCIIITECTURE.—UnIess we are mista-
ken, it appears to us that the Greeks imitated nature
in her most perfect and abstract forms of beauty : and that
they, with their successors the Romans, or rather the
later Greeks, sought for beautiful objects as adapted to ar-
chitectural ornacrient, wherever they could find them.
They were not prevented by any traditional or conven-
tional proprieties from imitating and using the beautiful
and the natural wherever they may exist : all the varied
forms of nature would have come right to them had they
been willing. They seem, however, not to have taken so
wide a range as we should have expected ; or else their
works that -have come down to us are so few in number
that their choice seenis to have been rather restricted.
The middle age architects also took a wide or rather a free
range in the forms of the vegetable and animal world : but
they worked with barbarous eyes arid stiff hands; nor till
the twelfth century do they seem to have arrived at that
artist cal freedom and correctness which are requisite to
interpret and to imitate the multiplex forms of the natural
world. As for the human figure, they confined themselves
principally to draperied forms; and they embued these
with considerable elegance; neverthelt sA, through all
their operations, we trace a want of anatomical knowledge,
which not all their ready invention can conceal, and which
is scarcely compensated by the value of their sculpture, as
a contemporaneous illustration of medixval history. Her-
aldry seems always to have been a mystic and a mythic
art ; and hence heraldic forms have a certain privilege of
caricature and distortion from which it is in vain to try
to emancipate them. Such being the case, it becomes a
question—how should modern ornament be coo posed ?
In the classic style, are we always to adhere to foreign fo.
liege, forehn animals, and mytholigical figures : and in
the Gothic style, are we always to preserve the same rigi-
dity and distortion which prevailed so long as those styles
were in actual practice? We apprehend the true rule of
aesthetics in this case to be that for restorations or exact
facsimiles of buildings, whether classical or mediaeval, the
very form as well as the spirit of the ornament contempo-
raneously used in such buildings should be most strictly
adopted. An imitation, unless it is an exact one, is good
for nothing, as far as architecture is concerned. But
should we prevail on ourselves either to depart from these
styles, or to carry out their main principles, so as to form
a national style of our own—not a fixed one, but a style
varying through d fferent ages. suiting itself to the social
requirements of each—then we should be prepared. not
only to call in the aid of natural beauty to the fullest ex-
tent, but also to avail ourselves of all that rich fund of
form which results from the extensive use of scientific
knowledge, and the investigation of physical curves.
There is no reason why such a style, or succession of
styles, should riot be formed, if the great prirttiples of
science and utility be taken as the superstructure on which
imagination may afterwards raise its enrichment; and, if
ever it come into existence, we have the unlimited expanse
of the universe to range through in search of beauty and
harmony. It is impossible to say what changes the intro-
duction of new mathematical forms may not produce, and
produce with good effect: thus the beautiful curve of the
catena would not have been known, but for the introduc-
tion of suspension bridges. The application of the cycloid
is comparatively modern, though the curve itself is an-
cient; and the grand effect of the horizontal line was not
fully known—despite of Greece and Rome—till our inter-
minable lines of railroad had stretched their lengths across
the land. In the same way, our more extended and mere
intimate knowledge of the animal and vegetable kingdom
ought to furnish us with an immense variety of new and
beautiful forms of ornament—we do not mean of mythic
or fanciful ornament, but of the highest and best kinds of
decoration, absolute. and yet partial imitation of nature.
Thus, for example, have we a blank space, extending ho-
rizontally to a long di,tance, which we desire to cover
with enrichments. We have our choice, either in mathe-
matical forms and combination of forms, such as medim-
val architects might have applied. or else we may throw
along it wreaths and branches of foliage, peopled with in-
sect life, or enlivened by birds and animals. A succession
of simple oak branches or laurel-leaves, or the shoots of
any other common plants, faithfully imitated, and cut into
mimic life, from the inanimate stone. wou d firm an or-
nament of the most effective kind, and would constitute a
work of art, being an intelligent and poetical interpreta-
tion of natural beauty. In the building of our houses, why
should the straight line and sections of the circle be the
only lines admissible for doors, windows, and roofs ? Why
should the Greek and Roman °volt), cevetto, and square,
be the only combination that we know of in our common
moul sings? How much richer were the architects of the
thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, whn drew with " free
hands," and gave us such exquisite effects of light and
shade! We are firmly persuaded, that an architect,
deeply imbued with the scientific principles of his profes-
sion, and endowed, at the same time, with the hand and
the eve of a skilful artist, may cause a most happy and
useful reformation of our national architecture.—Blackw.

GENERAL MISCELLANY.

The import duty on wheat has fallen to Os. per quarter.
The sum subscribed for the testimonial to Mr. John
Bright only amounts to £l.OOO.
The salaries paid to English consuls abroad vary from
-£25 to £l.BOO per annum.
The Lte Mr. J. Ashton, of Hyde, has left his residuary
personal estate to the sinking fund for the reduction of
the National debt. It is expected to amount to £150,000.
The Nottingham Journal says that both the Baptist and
Independent ministers of Belper have resolved to seek
ordination in the Established Church.

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A coach proprietor from Leeds drove the horses of one
of his coacht s so unmercifully on the Leger day, that be-
fore he returned to Leeds in the evening two of them died.

At the te•ision of the Meryl. bone tints of parliamentary
voters the Conservatives sustained no fewer than 552 ob-
jections, and failed in or withdrew 57 only. A pretty re-
gister this must have been to begin with !
The Seventh Hussars (Queen's Own) commanded by
Lieut.-col. White, have been removed from Hounslow to
Ireland, in consequence, it is supposed, of the of
the inhabitants arising out of the late case of flogging.
MUNIFICENT STIPEND.—A clerical correspondent of
the Times writes that he has been offered the chaplaincy
of the union-workhouse belonging to six parishes by the
local board. The temptation held out is £l3 per annum.
At the Central Criminal Court, on Friday, Wiliam
Clare, engine driver on the Eastern Counties Railway,
was acquitted on a charge of having caused the death of
Richard Hind by the late concussion on that line.
At the Court of the Ancient Corporation of the Poor of
Bristol, it was resolved to oppose the auditing of the ac-
counts by the representative of the Poor Law Commis-
sioners. _ _ _

In two or three days last week there arrived four ves-
sels from Lisbon and Rotterdam, having on board no
fewer than 2,819 large boxes and 1,550 half-boxes of to-

reign grapes.
It is estimated that no less than seven millions sterling
of the public revenue are intercrpted by the servants of
the crown, and disposed of without any account being
rendered to the public.
The public are cautioned against counterfeit half-sove-
reigns, with which the metropolis is at this moment inun-
dated. They are electrotyped, and so admirably executed
that it is very difficult to detect them.
The Dissenters of Plymouth have passed a resolution
pledging themselves to support, at the next election, those
candidates only who will undertake to oppose the endow-
ment of the Roman Catholic priesthood.
MILDNESS OF THE WEATHER.—There is a second
course of b!ossona on many wall fruit trees, strawberries,
and other small fruit bushes in this neighbourhood. Some
of the winter flowering shrubs are also in flower, of which
the lauristinus is paricularly ricb.—Perthshi,e Courier.
At the Central Criminal Court, on Wednesday, a post-
office clerk named Thomas Jones was found guilty of
stealing a letter containing half-a-sovereign, and sen-
tenced to ten years' transportation.

In the town of Sheffield there are stated to be 3,330
persons employed in the various processes of the manu-
facture of pocket-knives. In this number are included
2.400 setters-in ; 430 pen blade grinders; 150 pocket
blade grinders : 270 blade forgers; and 110 scale forgers.
Four men have been committed for tri ,I at York a-sizes,
for an atrocious rape at Pocklington. upon Mary O'Llan-
lon, the wife of a besont-maker of that town. The wife
of one of the prisontrs stood quietly by, and witnessed the
Lffence.

SPORTING MADE EASY.—A. birdcatcher in the vi-
cinity of the Seven Dials announces that he will, on rea-
sonable terms, supply sportsmen with birds, powder and
shot, dog and gun, which he will convey to any " required
distance."

On Tuesday, a young man, while in a state of intoxica-
tion, fell against the palings of the police station-house,
Woolwich, which are studded with nails. One of these
nails entered his left eye, and the wound caused his death
within a few hours.

The estate of the Cregeans, lately sold by auction, has
been purchased for £l7 (MO by Joseph Ewart, Esq. At
the NII.Ina Agricultural Society meeting, last week, the
silver cup for the best cultivated farm above 50 acres, was
awarded to the proprietor of this estate.
A great many Indian Rupees are in circulation in the
city, arid from a similarity of resemblance, readily pass

for'ilalf-erowns; the real value, however, is less t

3an 2s

One tradesman in Farriogdonlatreet took three in one
day.

Barkitt, a native of Titmarsh, Northampton_
shire, who had lived in the s,,rvire of Mrs. Gray and her
son Edward, at Bushmead, ab-ut ten weeks, having made
a full confession of having set fire to the premises on the
Ist instant, has been committed for trial.
Mr. Anderson, the professor of elocution. lately an-
nounced two of his Shaksperian readings at Tunbridge
Wills. One auditor attended in the morning, three in
the evening. Tom Thumb, in the same room, had 1500

visitors. •
On Tuesday, at half-past two o'clock, the tide of the
Thames rose to an extraordinary height, in consequence
of which great damage was effected to the whorls and
dwelling.hou'es along the Thames, particularly at Batter-
sea, Wandsworth, &c.
Mr. G. W. Johnston has published a pamphlet to make
known a remedy fyr the potato disease. He says—" The
remedy is very simple. and, as is usually the case, is pre-
ventive rather than curative, viz , plant at the close of
Septemhtr, or in the first week in October."
At Ma ylebone police-court on Saturday, William
Bardwell, an architect, was fined £4 for having wilfully
damaged one of the baths at the Public Baths in George.
street, New-road, by pouring some strong acid on the
enamel, wh ch caused it to peel off.

GOOD SPORT.—Thirty•th-ree grayling and one trout,
weighing thirty-two pounds, exclusive of small fry, were
taken at Leintwardine with the fly and grasshopper in the
space of five hours, on Monday last, by a member of that
club. The same rod in three days killed one hundred and
eight pounds.—Shropshire Journal.
Last Saturday an elderly fartntr, named John Baker,
from Horsford, was swindled out of £5O in Norwich Cat-
tle Market. by some strange's who pretended to be horse.
dealers. They adopted the old trick of persuading him
to purchase a horse which one pretended he wanted, but
could not buy of the other. As soon as the parties bad
secured the money they all disappeared.

In the parish of Hambledon, Buckinghamshire, there
lives a venerable female, whose age is 103 years, and who
is in the perfect enjoyment of her health and facuiities.
The good old dame stated, a few days since, her perfect
recollection that eighty years since the same disease ex-
isted in the potat J crop for three successive years, after
which it affected the turnips equally as bad.
SUDDEN DEATH IN A RAILWAY TRAIN.—On Wed-
nesday, Daniel Trinder, E.g., land-agent to the Earl of
Sr. Germans, left Cirencester by the mail train for Port
Eliot, where he was expected to hold the Annual Court.
He was apparently in perfect health when he left Ciren-
cester, but on opening the carriage at Swindon he was
found a corpse.
DISEASE IN THE CELERY PLANTS.—The leaves of the
celery plants are stated to be withering, and on dividing
the two coats of the diseased leaves, it will be found that
there are a number of small green insects between th,gm,
which are rapidly destroying the inner parts of the leaves.
The disease is quite new to us, and seems likely to be fatal
to much of the celery.

An inquest was held at Lewes, on the body of a pri-
soner said to have died of starvation in the House of Cor-
rection at Lewes. The jury, after deliberating some time,
returned a verdict, "That the rig aur of the sentence be-
ing fully carried into effect, and the insufficiency of the
food, destroyed the constitution of deceased, in conse-
quence of which he died."
At the late musical festival at Birmingham, Benedict,
the composer, at the performance of Mendelssohn's Elijah,
without having heard a note previously, toak down in
notation on his programme the motif of every piece—
its key, its time, its form and construction—a most mar-
vellous exercise for the ear, when it is added he did not
make a single mistake.
On Wednesday, John Banister Faulkner surrendered
at the Central Criminal Court, to take his trial for forgery
of railway scrip. His late partner, Bentham Fabian, did
not appear. The first wi'ness examined, a clerk in their
office, stated, after a short examination, that Mr. Faulk-
ner was not aware beforehand of the transaction respecting
the shares, and on this the case was abandoned, and Mr.
Faulkner was discharged.
THE DAGENHAM MURDER.—On Tuesday, the in-
quiry into the murder of Police Constable George Clarke
was resumed for the sixth time. The room was crowded
by the resident gentry of the neighbourhood. The addi-
tional evidence was not very material. The Coroner
summed up, and after consulting for upwards of one hour,
the jury agreed to a verdict of Wilful Murder against
some person or persons unknown.

Mr: Fisher, the Unitarian minister at Lincoln, com-
mitted suicide on Wednesday evening by takicg diluted
prussic acid after he had retired to his bed-room, where
he was found dead next morning. The cause of the act
is attributed to an apprehension on the part of the de-
ceased of imputa•ions upon his moral character which
would prevent him from having a congregation. He was
25 years old, and had formerly been an attorney.
It is but a few weeks since the grave closed upon the
remains of Charlotte Elizabeth—one of the very first
among our female writers ; and already we have to record
the loss of another equally eminent Christian woman, the
author of " The Listener." Mrs Wilson, perhaps better
remembered by her former name of " Caroline Fry," was
taken to her rest, on Thursday last, at Tunbridge Wells,
after a short and sharp attack of pulmonary disease.
Mr. Musbet, jun.. of Dark Hill, near Coleford, iron
master, writing in the Mining Journal, says that he is in
possession of a plan by which two tons of pig iron may be
produced for every ton of coal used. At present it takes
two tons of coal to make one ton of pig iron. He also as-
serts that he knows of an immense supply of iron hitherto
unused and unsuspected, though at the manufacturer's
feet ; but the secret he is Being to keep to himself until he
finds it worth while to sell it.

At littwick village, Northumberland, on the 14th in-
stant, in her 100th year, Margery, widow of Mr. Thomas
Duncan, died. She was the last of three sisters, whose
united ages at the time of their death amounted to 278
years. Their father, Richard Moore, died at Howick in
his 100th year, and neither he nor his father, who also
lived nearly a century, had ever slept a night out of the
Howick domains during the whole of their patriarchal
lives.

W. Hayter, a gamekeeper, at Warleigh, Devon, gra
been committed for trial at the next Exeter Assizes, for
firing at and wounding a girl of sixteen years old, named
Maria Hicks, who was plucking blackberries. The plan-
tation in which the offence was committed, adjoined a
garden occupied by the girl's father; there was no fence
or other partition ; and no design of meddling with game
seems to have been i rputed to the sufferer, who tetired
on the first notice, and was twice fired at while retracing
her steps, two shots taking effect on the second dischar:e.
At Bow-street Police-office, George Kurnot, a man who
has kept a chemist's shop at Raleigh, in Essex, for twenty
years, was charged with abstracting a £5 note from a let-
ter which passed through the postoffice at Raleigh, of
which he was the keeper. The note was sent in a letter
to Mrs. Chambers from her husband, in March last; the
absence of the money was notified to the prisoner ; about
H fortnight since he prt'd a linendraper of Aldersgate- street
for some goods with the identical note, giving his address,
" Brown, it aleigh." The prisoner was remanded.
SINGULAR FRAUD ON THE RAGGED SCHOOLS.—An
ingenious fraud, practised at the Ragged Schools in
Broadway. Wes•minster, brings to light the eagerness
with which admission is sought by some of the children
For whose reception these institutions are provided. They
incurred the expense and trouble of printing admission
cards. and forging the signature, being a fac simile of
those issued by the superintendent. These were bought
by others for a halfpenny each, and gained admission till
the forgery was detected.
EXTRAORDIN ARY PRESERVATION.—A man nearly
seventy years of age, of the name of Walker, of Winslow,
a pensioner, got into a tree in that parish, on Thursday,
for the purpose of getting rotten wood. He slipped, and
one of his feet caught between two branches, whence he
was suspended with his head downwards. He was in
this state for twenty-two hours. When found the blo td
was flowing from his mouth and ears. It is believed that
he would have been dead in a short time, but it is thought
he will recover. He was about fifteen feet from the
ground.
SINGULAR DTSCOVERY.—On Tuesday one of the crew
of the Emerald Gravesend s earner observed a brown pa-
per parcel in the cabin, and as no one applied for or
claimed it, he took it to the booking-office, Graves-end.
Therrbeing no name or addr.,ss upon the parcel, after a
short delay, it was considered advisable to open it and see
what it contained, when, to the utter surprise of till, the
body of a newly born female infant pr, sentrd itself. It
ii about two years since a similar parcel was lett on the
seat of a Gravesend steamer, containing an infant in a
state of decomposition.

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SUICIDE AND ATTEMPT AT MURDER.—EarIy on
Thursday evening a woman, named Cloppenham, threw
herself, together with her daughter, a club about four
years old, from the Sun Pier, at Chatham, into the Med-
way. A son of Mr. Robertson, surgeon, wt-o witnessed
the circumstance, flew to their rescue, and by his heroic
conduct was the means of preventing their being carriA
away by the tide. On the bodies tieing brought ashore,
every means were used for their recovery, which, in the
case of the child, fortunately succeeded, but the mother
died about two o'clock on Friday morning. Family dif-
ferences are said to have led to the rash act.
PREVENTION OF DISEASE IN POTATOES.—TVVO agri-
cultural labourers living near Petworth, and occupying
what is called in Sussex a double cottage, with each a
small garden attached to his dwelling, both planted their
gardet.s last season with potatoes. The planting took
place by both on the same day, with seed taken pi o ist;u-
ously from the same parcel. One took no precaution to
guard against the disease, and the potatoes entirely failed;
the other, previous to planting, placed a layer of sawdust
in the drill, on which the seed was plac• d ; this has pro-
duced him as fine a crop of potatoes as net d be, with
scarcaly a single defect. Sea sand made use of in the
same manner, is said t) be equally beneficial.
THE POTATO CROP.—Perhaps it may be said, with
strict regard to truth, that the accounts last received, from
Ireland and all other parts of the United Kingdom, would
seem to concur in intimating, rather than directly stating,
that the presto crop has ni.t, of late, forth• r proceedyd
from bad to worse. And we believe that such an infe-
rence may be fairly drawn of the virulence of the disease
having passed its height, and that reasonable hopes may
now b-e enterta;ned of a considerable proportion of the
clop being yet preserved, which, whilst the tubers will
not be affected in quality, they may still be expect, d to be'
less in size, and not so prolific in We have
made numerous it quiries of potat-i growers, and on their
answers feel warranted in making the feregoing statement.
BATTLE OF THE INSECTS.—During the afternoon of
Thursday, the 18th instant, a respec ab'e farmer in 'he
neighbourhood was on the famed Twyri Barlwm, Risca,
watching his finks, when suddenly a humming noise in
the air attracted his attention. On looking up, he saw
countless numbers of bees gathering from all directions,
and on meeti .g ju-t by whet e he stood, they engaged in
a cottfl,ct which listed till the slain lay in many thousand.
about the spot. The news of so extraordinary a ei,eurn-
stance soon spread, and the, seem, of the combat has this
week been visited by hundreds of persons, who all agree
in regarding it as a most mysterious circumstance. The
insects are of a dark glossy colour, short and thick, and
resemble the well-known wild honey or earth-bee, so
common during the summer months.

THE BILL AGAINST CAPTAIN RICHARDSON IGNORED.
—The grand jury have ignored the bill, ehareing Captain
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grand jury examined a great numb-r of wiin-sses, arid it
was understood that they stated as their rens n fir ignor-
ing the bill, that after looking at the whole of the evidence
which Ivid been laid bet re th, To, the maj,,rily of them
were of opinion that the words " ten you da" had never
been written in the cheque, and, therefore, no fi rgery had

riati•fied that

been rffected. They were at the same time
Captain Richardson had, by some means, 4
signatures of his two co-tt asters to a blink the

as he was aueaorized b

•esululion of the ciimpanv to

heques, no fraud liadheencerronitted. 1' nte-rtaining,

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as the majority of the body did, this view
other course to adopt than to ignore the b:1
has since been set at liberty.
IRON TRADE.—There is no new feature to notice this
week. Orders pour in for every de.eript,on of iron, but
are now very generally refused, both from an inability to
execute them and the prevalent expectation of higher
prices. That a very large hu•ines has been done in Lon-
don, sacs Ai ia's Birmingham Gov Ile, and at improved
rues for all descriptions of iron, iniPcat.s that this exo'r-
tation is not confined to the makers, and vsill doub less
bring merchants freely into the market for surplirs at
quarter day. Several large contracts for railroad re quire-
ments having however Lady hi en taken in this neighbour-
hood at lower ligui es than tight have been ex kected, and
the fact that many large manufacturvrs are so lull of
orders that they could not for a considerable time partici-
pate in the advantages, has gi;en rise to a report that all
their influence will be used to prevent an advanee.:—
Glea-
pow. Sept. 18.—The market has been dull again this seek,
and prices are more in fa-'our of buyers than last. Prunes
quoted are 725. for No. 3, 745. to 755. for mixed Nos.,
and 765. to 785., all No. 1., cash, f.o.b.

About 700 or 800 Irish reapers, being delayed over
night at Ardrossan, by a fog, which prevented the sailing
of the Londonderry steamer, commenced a riot, for the
sake of fun, to the great alarm of the peaceable inhabitants.
With the view of terrifying the Irishmen, they were threa-
tened with a volley from a seven gun battery, which had
been erected by the Earl of Eglinton ; but no sooner was
this hinted, than about 700 of them charged up the hil
upon which the guns are mounted, and captured the bat-
tery. Military assistance was sent for, and the steamer
shortly afterwards sailing, their services were not re-

quired.
A " TAKING" AFFAIR.—One of our contemporaries
last week de,cribed a theft committed by a lad in Kiik-
gate in the following terms :—" The prisoner came up,
coolly took down a coat that took his fancy, and then
look to his heels. Hurst took after him, and, being the
better runner, soon overlook him, gave him into custody
of Inspector Hepworth, who look him to the station-
house, and the mayor, deciding the taking to have been
a felonious one, ordered his mittimus to be made out. so
that he may take his trial a! the next se,sions." This
would, most assuredly, bother a foreigner studying
English.
THE LATE ROBBERY OF £BOO AT EDINBURGH.—
Among the many measures adopted by the superintendent
of police to recover the money of which a gentleman was
lately robbed in a close in High-street, he transmitted a
description of the bank notes and other missing property
to Liverpool, Hull, and other large maritime towns. The
result has already proved effectual, for on Tuesday in-
formation was received from the authorities in Liverpool,
stating that two of the Bank of England notes for £5O
had been changed there, and that the original possessor
bad been discovered to be a young man about twenty-six
years of age, adding a minute description of his person.
The criminal officer at once knew the man, and within an
hour after the receipt of the information he was appre-
hended and secured. On being examined, he admitted
having been in Liverpool, and disposed of the notes, but
could give no account how he obtained possession of them,
further than he got them from a gentleman in Edinburgh.
On his person was found £lB. He is well known to the
police, having for several years been a reputed house-
breaker. The total number of men and women who have
been taken in;o custody, under suspicion of being impli-
cated in this extensive and daring robbery, is fourteen,
but six of them have since been liberated.—Witness.

EARL SPENCER'S STOCK.—A sale of part of the stock
of the late Earl Spencer took place last week. The cows
and heifers realised £3,727 10s. giving an average of £37
ss. 6d. The bulls realised £1,556 24.. presenting an
average of £74 2s. The total amount of the sale was
£4,283 12. For lot eight, was contested by Lord Duncie
and Count St. Marie, on behalf of the King of the French,
but his lordship ultimately became the purchaser. For
lot twenty-seven, there was also a smart encounter, but
Count St. Marie proved the victor. For lot thirty-eight,
a most spirited bidding was kept up, but the animal was
ultimately "run out" to the Earl of Zetland. For lot
fifty-eight, also, there was a severe race, but Lord Ducie
was the lucky purchaser. For the hull, Exquisite, only
thirteen months old, there was the most spirited contest,
which terminated in the unprecedented sum of three hun-
dred and seventy guineas. The next contest was between
Viscount Milton and Count St. Marie, for the bull, Tin-
ker, little more than nine months old, which was finally
" run out" to the Count at two hundred and fifty-five
guineas. The last spirited bidding was for Liroast r, a
calf, calved March 30th, 1846, consequently little more
than five months old. This was between Count St. Ma-
ri, and Viscount Milton, but the representative of Lou;s
Philippe was the ultimate purchaser at one hundred and
fifty guineas.