The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-05-29 00:00:00

year into

from any of the standard ilockS; rndt=ed, these magnates
generally decline to divide their lots at all. On the out-
skirts of the fair will be found small, mixed, and inferior

wuc,e sue uuyer may nave hagglincr, for Id. a head to
his heart's content. The settling at Falkirk is as pecu-
liar as the dealing.

No man brmgs money, i. e. currency, with him to Fal-

aportion of the m

lase, a

❑nnunces it.

the British Linen Company,' the Commercial

oanking company north of Tweed
appear there also by similar wooden representatives. The
purchasers come to the fair provided with letters of credit,
and stepping into the tabernacle to which they are accre-
dited, bring out in large notes the amount required ; these
' to the vendor in an ad; -T booth, and are

'ery other

probably within a very few minutes at his credit with ihe
issuer or with one of his rivals ; for a Scotch man, dealing
with a banker who is very reasonable in his charges, and
who is to be found in every village in the land; always
throws on him the responsibility of keeping :his money.
The bankers in the aggregate carry from the ground the
same notes which they brought in the morning. a few

ly.astheother proceedin

tearing of tt
s of the day

aeu, unaer the superintendence of the best herds and do
best dogs in existence, the immense fleecy mass moves off,
--:"- almost military precision, on its southern and eastern

journey

What shall we say of the gathering of the morrow ?
Every isle and holm which opposes its rugged crags to the
fury of the Western Ocean between Islay and the Ork-
mainland glen from the Mull of Cantyre to
ars in its pigmy droves, slangy

Wrat h

ar relieved only, as to colour, by a sprinkling of reds, and
of duns graduating from mouse to cream colour. From
Northern and Eastern Sutherland, Caithness, It)ss, and
Inverness, they come in longer on the leg, smooth, and
vulgar. From central Argyle, Perth, and frpm some of
the islands. come the carefully-bred West Highlanders ;
these are the flower of the show, engage every one's talk,
and attract every one's attention; every individual of
them is a delight to the eye of a connoiseur. Aberdeen
and Forfar send in droves of large and bony, but useful
bullocks. A few Ayrshire cows and heifers for the dairy.
some miscellaneous lots, and a few Irish, make up the
account. We do not know the numbers ; we have heard
of 30,000, and again of 60,000. The October show is the
most imposing. The almost universal colour is black ;
the moor is in appearance one black mass. You may be
accommodated with every size, from that of a Newfound-
land dog to a bullock of 100 stones. The cattle are mostly
in the hands of dealers, having been bought up at the
northern and western markets; many, however, of the
best West Highlanders are brought to the tryst by their
breeders, and you may see a kilted laird from the Hebrides
standing, like Rob Roy, at the tails of his own bonny shots
and queys. * * * The proceedings are as orderly,
and the dealings on as large a scale as those of the preced-
ing day. A few small lots of a score each may be found,
but they generally run from 50 to 300 and upwards. A
purchaser of less than the whole of one of these large lots
gets his number, not by a selection, but buy a cut : a
drover passes through the black mass, and cuts off by
estimation the number; they are then counted and made
up to the required figure by alternate selections on the
part of the buyer and seller. A third day inllows, but it
is not of much account. The cattle are for the most part
miscellaneous lots, and what a Seotchman calls his shots,
and an Englishman his culls. We have been somewhat
minute in describing these proceedings, because they are
on a scale of magnitude quite unknown to southern agri-
culturists. We can assure our readers that the men who
carry them on are quite equal to the occasion. We al-
ways considered our annual intercourse with them to be
both a privilege and a pleasure
furnish more hire."' meno-

No trading class can

.- an the Scotch stock farmers,
perhaps, indeed, than the Scotch agriculturists generally ;
teen well educated, of courteous and simple manners, of

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intormation. enter-
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The next visit of the Royal Agricultural Society will be
held at Norwich on the 16th July.
The Lowther concert and dancing rooms, London, are
about to be converted into a Roman Catholic chapel
A man has been taken into custody at Knottingley,
Wakefield. for being concerned in the murder of a f(

On Tuesday last, the wife of Mr. John Taylor, Nelson-
square, Bradford, presented her lord with three fine girls
at one birth.

A son of Sir Thomas Tancred, Bart. was drowned on
Sunday week, through falling into a tank, whilst at play
with his brother.

kt the Duke of Portland's rent day, held at Morpeth on
'ay, his Grace liberally returned 224- per cent. on

A woman named Hornsby, living near Morpetb, has
been committed to gaol charged with poisoning her hus-
h.nd

The extent of the debts of the faseinatine Countess of
Blessington, who is gone to Paris, may be judged by her
owing H. and J., the milliners, upwards of £B.OOO.
Miss Ellen Price, aged 13, of Bristol, died last week in
consequence of stupor produced by alarm at the thunder
of the previous Frida]
THE FEMALE M.P

—We have seen the most conclusive
rt which was inserted in our paper
week, on the authority of the Edinburgh News, in
reference to the late Mr. Miller, of Craigintinny.
The Norfolk Chronicle relates that, on Thursday morn-
ing, upwards of thirty martins and swallows were picked
up dead, supposed by naturalists to have been occasioned
by the coldness of the weather.
As Dr. Candlish was descending the stair in his house
in Charlotte-street, Edinburgh, on Saturday, he unfortu-
nately missed his footing and fell, by which he sustained
a severe fracture in one of his arms, and received other
injuries.

Bills were posted in town last night, with the statement
that 4000 of one class are idle, and that the number of

their dependents, added to their own, is 14,000. The
latter part of the statement is probably exaggerated; but
a vast number of one class of operatives are out on strike.
Glasgow Mail.

WILFUL MARTYRDOP6t.—Mr. Shore's committee have
advertised the receipt of about £2OO for the payment of
the costs for which he is imprisoned; and a second list of
subscriptions, for his family, of about £lOO. Mr. Shore,
however, refuses to obtain his release from prison by the
payment of the costs of his suit.

A few days since, as a woman was passing the church-
yard at Weymouth, in the dusk of the evening, a dng be-
longing to a person living close by, suddenly jumped
through the rails. She was so frightened that she went
home, and on the same evening had seven fits. She died
on the day following.