Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1840-1842, 1842-11-12
FROM LATE LONDON PAPERS.

| PIeKise UP UsKFuL KsowLEpGE.-At Guild
hall Me Vsnables, q butcher ia Neveatc market
having given evidence charge, Sir Il. Lauti,
s,iJ he vas glad to get information from practice
men. lie wished TO know WHISTLER the importa
ton OF foreign cattle was decreasing or increasing
| Mr. Veoables said Il vas increasing. There were
| some very ine Spanish cattle in Smthield msrke
on Monday. The price paid in Spain was very
| low, ard the importers had msds 4 good ptoh;.-
Sir T.. Laurie asked if an importation from Spain
had Teen expected Mr. Vensbles said certainly
not. on seeoun, o, the length Of the voyage. but
they came IN good condition for killing No lore ga
| meat however, was equal to our own. Sir p. L,u
| re "a d be had reeently visited Belgium and Hol
land, and TO him the cattle thereshout seemed 10
be in excellent condition. MIR Venables said wha,
he had received from that quarter was certainly
very fine, but they put ten beasts to graz, on a
| plot that would be given TO three in England. An
acre Of land would only support one beast and a
| sheep. SIR Peter asked what reduc ion had been
effected IN the price OF meatf Mr. venabes replied
again above the present level, and il was clear they
must 80 lower IN year or eighteen months Large
quantities OF American salt pork were coming in.
IL was very superior article, and the sale would
be extensive. AT the Barnet fair Just closed no
cattle could be sold bu, at a reduction Of Is ahead
on the last years prices. On the last day OF the
lair $4,000 cattle remsined unsod, while on the
same day OF the fair last year one head remain
cd unsod as carly as Two o'clock. Sir Peter a.ked
what would become OF the unsold beasis1 MIR Ve-
nab'es said they would be driven about 10 olher
lars, and sold at the same reduction OF c3 ahe tad
The graz ers were suffering now, but al nately the
landlords mus, bear the loss. Sir Peter thanked
him foe the Information he had derived.-Ersaiinsr
q Hen Uitntss.-Two men were lately appre
hended 10 Stanford market on suspicion OF having
stolen IL hens and chickens Handouts were is
sued TO ind the owners; and on Monday MIR Peake,
OF Holme, having had nine chickens s;oep came 10
Stami'ra' bringing with hun the hen which hai
reared tie brood; she was down in the room with
the other hens aud the chickens, and the moment
she gave one ehirp. the whole of the chickens flew
10 her. Upon this Of the thieves confessed that
the FOWL, and chickens were stolen on that nish hit.
lie was fully committed for irial.-(SlAmfcId Mer.
cury.
THE GENTLEMEN OF rus LAw.-Thc number
OF persons who have risen by the law from ow for
tunes to the very h.hes; places in the Suite is ex.
iraordinGry:
The present Attorney General of England (Sir
r. PoIockl - the son of sai6ler. The shop
(snorn 10 sporting caaIscters) at Charins Cross.
now kept by the Messrs. Cuff belong ID 10 Pollock
psre, uao disposed Of his business TO il, presen,
broprietors. Sir J. Williams tof the Queens
Bench in Ensland) is the CT Il Yorkshire horse
dealer. The Chauce,lor OF Iceland (Sugden) is the
son oil barber; It is only fair TO say that this pro.
iound lawyer Z otics IN his origin. Al the Cam
oridse election, when Lord MonteAg'e beat him by
majority OF %, Sir Edward was assailcd, while
speaking from the hustinss, with cry from wbig
OF Ot of, you BARRIERS son!n Sir Edward not
AZ all disconcertco, said at once "The difference be-
tween the person who thus assais me and myself is
SIMPLY this: Had he been born the son o: a bar
Der he would have remained in the same condition
during oil his life; was horn one. ami have risen
from that humble sphere" The father Of Mr.
tau, The Queens counsel, ooe Of the mos: eminent
oil ths English common law bar, was a clerk TO the
late Lord + l:nboTouga. Baron Gurney's mother
Kept q small shup for political pamphlets. Mr.
fetersdor's father was furrier. Lord Kenyon.
who was successfully Attorney General, Master Of
the Rolls, and Lo;d Chief Justice, and who died
worn t3OO.0 600, was clerk to an attorney Lord
hsrd"icke, who was Attorney General IN his thir
ty-iourth year. was son OF an attorney at Dover.
VINO, according to some persons, was hanged for
forgery. Lord Eldon son OF coal filter at
n swcas;ie-on-T Tyne, and his brother tafierwards
Lord StowelD borrowed -f40 in order TO enable
him to go his FIRST circuit. Lord Tcnderdens father
~asa barber at Canterbury. LORD Langdale wa,
formerly an sccoucheur. Lord Campbell and Ser. |
geani Spankis were themselves f9rmerly reporter,
on The Chronicle. Mr. Bodkin, the W ell known Cd
bahey oarrlser, Recorder Of Dover, and Conserya |
i've Nd Z Tor Rochester was formerly an AUCTION
eeri aud MIR Clarkson, the learned Recorder of IA
vef'ham, and leading advocate in the criminal
courts on the home circuit, we believe, was a VIZ.
ting clerk m the ofics Of law-stationer
Inese arc some other very renisrka Die case, but
these may suffice at present. Courier.