The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-07-26 00:00:00

SHEEP.

Cheviot Wedders
Ditto Ewes 13s. 6d. to 20s. Od.
Ditto Lambs. Bs. Od. to Ils. 3d.
Blackfaced Wedders 16s. Od. to 245. Od.
Ditto Ewes 7s. 6d. to 12s. 6d.
Ditto Lambs.
WOOL.
Cheviot, per stone of 241bs. 18s. Od. to 20s. Oct.
Cross, do. do. (washed) 14s. Od. to 16s. ()d.
Ditto do. do. (unwashed) 12s. Od. to 14s. Od.
Blackfaced, per stone of 481bs 20s. Od. to 225.
One fine lot of Cheviot wool, smeared with olive oil, fetched
265. 6d. ; one ditto of the same stock, prepared in the usual
manner, 19s. 6d. The Sutherland contract for smearing ma-
terials was taken by Bailie Anderson, of Edinburgh, at the
rate of £4O per ton for grease hotter. We could not learn that
there was any agreement as to the price of tar, which is at
present scarce.
The attendance at the market was greater than has been wit-
nessed for many years ; and Mr. Wilson's ordinary, of course,
shared in the general overflow. On Thursday, Major Forbos
Mackenzie, of Fodderty; presided; and on Friday, Mr. Horne,
of Langwell. In addition to nearly all our Highland wool
growers and respectable agriculturists, the following gentlemen
attended from the south :—Mr. Sutcliffe, Mr. Lockwood, and
Mr. Eastwood, staplers, from Huddersfield : Mr. Maxwell, Mr.
Watson, Mr. Ronald, Mr. Macleod, Morrison and Co., from
Liverpool; Mr. Hadden, from Aberdeen; and Bailie Anderson,
from Edinburgh, commission agents : Mr. Pagan, from Moffat;
Mr. Lamb, from Longtown ; Mr. Wilson, from Carlisle ; and
Mr. Cameron, from Chorrichoily, sheep-dealers.

Caops, &c.—Our sheep and wool fair afforded us opportunities
of conversing with gentlemen from all parts of Scotland and the
North of England, and of learning the present appearance of
the crops. The report is generally favourable. On all good
dry bottomed land there is the prospect of a full average return
of wheat, oats, and barley; but on inferior soils, owing to the
cold wet spring, the produce will be slight. From th same
cause, the turnip crop has suffered considerably. In Dum-
fries-shire, Roxburglishire, and the Lothians, the turnip. fields
look poorly, and they also wear an unhealthy complexion in
Cumberland, the fly having injured them much in all these dis-
tricts. In the border counties the crops look abundant, both
wheat and oats, and are well forward; but on entering Strathmore,
though this is generally one of the finest and most fertile districts
in Scotland, there is a marked deficiency. This has, no doubt,
been mainly caused by the unfavourableness of the spring,
which prevented sowing in time. In the neighbourhood of
Aberdeen, some spots look better, and proceeding northwards,
the prospect improves. Potatoes will be an average crop in the
south; but we are sorry to say that they have failed to a great
extent in the West Highlands. In Skye, the oats and barley
look well, the turnips are in a healthy state, and the pasture un-
usually luxuriant. Generally, there will be a deficiency in hay.
There was an appearance of great abundance of grass in May ;
but the late cold weather checked its growth; and, accordingly,
in the midland counties—in Lincoln, Cambridge, and North-
ampton, the hay is very light. In the pastoral districts stock
was never in a better condition. Owing, perhaps, to the defici-
ency in hay, the cattle markets are represented as being
generally dull. There have been several fairs lately in the
south and midland counties of England, and cattle could hardly
be sold at any price. Lambs are at present fetching high
prices in Norfolk. Even under the disadvantageous appear-
ance of the turnip crop shee are not likely to fall in price, on
account of their scarcity in England and of the great commer-
cial prosperity of the kingdom. blether mutton is scarce in
Liverpool and Manchester markets, and maintains fully 61-d.
per lb., sinking offal. This is in the clipt state of the sheep, and
considering the high value of wool, it is fully equivalent to the
prices obtained in March and April, a circumstance very rate
and indicative of the prosperity of the country.—lnverness
Courier.

DISAPPOINTED LOVE.—A young man, aged 19, lately paid his
addresses to a young lady, aged 22, residing, as well as himself,
at Chambly (Oise.) They repeatedly applied to their parents
for their consent to marry, and, on.their meeting with a positive
refusal, determined upon dying together. With this determina-
tion they left their respective homes, on Saturday last, after
having intimated to their friends that they would soon be found
tied together in the Oise. The threat was only laughed at ; but,
on Sunday morning, the corpses of the two lovers were effective-
ly found in the Oise, near Money, tied together in each other's
arms.—Galignani's Messenger.
The following is interesting, as involving a serious, and we
believe, a new question:—" In the Arches' Court, on the 9th
instant, Sit John Nichol' gave sentence in the suit Swift
against Swift, for restitution of conjugal rights. Mr. Swift
became acquainted with Miss Kelly, aged 19, and possessed
of considerable fortune, at Florence ; and his proposals of mar-
riage having net with a refusal from her mother, he obtained a
faculty authorising a priest to marry them clandestinely, on their
abjuring Protestantism and becoming members of the Catholic
Church. He contrived to get Miss Kelly into his apartment,
and in a quarter of an hour she was made a good Catholic and
a wife. The Learned Judge said, to make the marriacre valid
by the law of Rome, the parties must become real Uatholics
and not merely pietended to be so; and there was not the
slightest evidence of a real conversion, but on the contrary
it appeared more probable that the young lady believed the
ceremony to be merely a promise to marry him when she came
of age. He believed also that Mr. Swift's allegation of inter.
course after marriage, and the Chevalier de Sodra's evidence
of intercourse before the ceremony, were entirely false. The
Court, therefore, pronounced the marriage void, and directed
that Mr. Swift should pay the costs.—The parties are all Irish.
Au appeal to the Privy Council is talked of."