The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-09-26 00:00:00

FAIRS AND MARKETS.

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The rand parade exh.bitrd this ,Isy a 'err INIFI4P.
rlinly picture of the state of the country ; it wet liter•
ally covered with cattle, distrwined for It•n•.
were sold so low as 411 s. per duzrn —Cows hum
to 41. each.—(cork Chrttn. Sept. 16 )

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Oar first Cliffe fair, oa Saturday lest pre.vntm
large shew of sheep and lambs, not lets than 4,111,1
being penned. The attendance was also large, bet It
was, nevertheless. considered an estr•roely dull
It is calculated that not wire than half the na2.11/1
permed was sold. The prices were fur ewe.,
I4s. to 20s.—IAmbs 7.. to 14.. 61. 4,,,„,int d
about 10s. Such as remained unsold, will no sio:4
he again exhibited at the old fair op the 24 of Oct.—e
(Swerez Paper.)
Itsrnstaple fair commented on Thirslay
show of cattle was by far the largest Shat has 6.0
witnessed for many years; but the .al* was *sew,
ingly limited, sent drat at very lox pri.e%; at" ye..,
.1,1 steers were geseralq veld at 6!. per brad, t.aw
year.old at 4/. and fat bullock. fis. per .cote.

The shew of cattle at Tavistock (sir. on the tr‘l,
insant, was considerable, hat the number 5,,1.•,,,
sot great, and those were disposed rf at a f rjr. I
rate, nether under the low prices lately obia.ad
other parts of Devon and Cornwall.
The 'beep fair at North-hill, this week, wig el
abundantly supplied ; but the demand was e,".„ be 'ow
the supply, and the few that were sold broug'it wet,
low prices.
Worcester great annual fair was held on Tion-sd.v,
and was abundantly supplied with every lescrip:La
commodity, but what business sets dare was s; „a
terms ruinously low. and the complaint was crew%
that a dialer fair has not been experieaced for sou.'
years. The unusual onniber of 4.300 pocke•s of hes.l
were pitched, the new of a qua ity setpas,rJ by f•w
seasons. Of these, 3,722 pockets were sol:l, merle.
ieg 365. to 668. ; where the sample was prime
was in same instances obtained, and we heard of v.*
iot fetching 70s. The number of *beep peased was
great ; where sales were made, those fit far the
butcher averaged from 3J to U.: stores weresetre.te
P.ile,ble at any price; there were bat few Isnilu—sf-
ticient, however, fur the buyers. The show of neat
stock was large; fat found a dull sale at 3jJ. to ;
the quantity of store was not great. bat few wereek.l4
except upon very depressed terms, and of this de.rtl.
'ion of stock, as well as sheep, by far the greater pra-
portion was driven away for want of purchasers. le
the swine and horse fair so business was Jour %sub
mention.

On Friday last, a beyof the name of JO4 Ewers,
while 'nising himself by playing with the tole:Jim-re
at Mr. W. Hirst'', mill, in Leeds, got entangled
of the straps, and was killed upon the .pot. The t -
ironer's jarv, n Web sat in the afternoos, Irturac3
verdict of *. Accidental death," accompaniedhrs..-
commendation, which they wish to hive made walk;
namely. the all proprietors of mills "lipoid pre6iiiit
the children and nu in manufactori .s fee a sir,-
ing with any part of the machinery, while at wort.
under the penalty of a heavy .fine.• to be heti..
ably levied oat of the wages of the *treader, us th.
tectios.
On Filially last, two young men of the rime of
Rutherford. by trade masons, diming the din, er Leto,
went down to the sea, at Coldingham Sands, for the
purpose of bathing. James, who *as the ol lest of
the brothers, had come out of the water styl pot no
his clothes, when he heard his brother li,he(t
out fir help, as be was In danger of drowning. Jos-.
forgetting that lie could not "wins, and regard..., .f
the large, which was so great as to prevest tee hot
from putting off to their assistance, threw on' ~is e,).:
and vest, and taking a stick from one of the
standees. rustled into the sea ; he was swept
feet, and drowned in • few minutes. The (oh,: 1..
ther, who was a good swimmer. but whose str•iorts
was now quite exhausted, shared the same f.te i.e
situation of their old and infirm parents is tro:y
pitiable, having now only one son to whom 11111 can
look up, and upon whose arm they coo leaf is kr-
'eroding the hill of life. The brothers were laid is
one grave on Monday ; and, what renders the acre-.
reties still more afilictiog, On the very day when it..
oldest was to have been married to a fine young so.
man in the neighbourhood, who, by this awful es,st
is involved in the deepest die .—(Kelso .1f4:1)
Cooox a it's I NQUlSTS.—lnqnisi dons were yesterday
taken before Thomas Higgs, E q. Deputy Co .1..hil
11. Bell, Esq. Coroner for Westminster, at the S.
public-house in Castle•lane, on the bodies of I.fte
Bishop, a middle aged womaa, and Theresa atri.
aged 13 years, killed on Monday by the fail of
scaffold poles, in the Broadway, Westminster. S. r. r.l
witnesses who saw the accident were heard, and the
Jury, after a consultation of about ten minutes, le-
turned their verdict—That the deceased Mite f.l lbw
deaths through the accidental falling of the sr .4.-1
pole*: and a deodattd of 20s. was ordered t,. he it %.ed
upon the same.
On Tuesday evening, the body of Thom,' Been.
one of the three unfortunate bookbinders, who stele
drowned on the preceding Tuesday evening. an Ike
Bed lions.. at Batterma, on their return from Kee,
was found at low water on the Surrey side of the
river, Slicing the Tower. The body was carried to •
neighbouring public-house for the Coroner's laws*.
The same evening the body of Thomas Dothan, an,-
thee of the unfortunate men, was found floating."
kW water mark facing the King's Arms, at Chelsea.
where the body now lit• for the Coroner's Inquest.

MARRIED.
Yesterday. at Mary-le-bone church. Francis G. Camp-
bell, Emu of Troup. in the county of Banff. and Glroi)on.
In the county of Perth, to Maria, only daighter of t►e U 4
Major General Duff, of Cantonsle, lu the county of Bad'

DIED.
On Saturdsy, the gist lost. at Windsor, Mr. John Oliver,
of
Canal place, heat road, aged 67.
On Slondsy. the 2341 inst. Benj. Yates, Esq. of hlarlbo-
rough-pine.. Wslworth, aged 641.
On Mowiay, the 23d last. Illecuriotta, the wife of Thomas
Farrar, E.g. of Meekleuburgb-square.
Oa Tuesday morning. the ddtb lest, et her house in Ches-
terfield-street, Mrs. Harriet Milieu, in the 63th year of her
ode, sole surviving daughter of the Rev. Dr. Milles, Ice
Doan of Exeter.

Leaden r Edited. Printed. and Published at the 011ie* of
"'tie STATESUAN" and "'4`lt. CONS/ITVTION"
Paper. No. AM Bused. LI R. WentliLL, LLB.
to
who. 411 as lilisiairsations, *des. lie. an re pressed to
be farmed.

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