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Mobile register and journal., 1845-01-07

NOTICE-A monthly meeting of the Board of School Commis missioners will be held at the COnr House on Tuesday next, 7th Jan, at o'clock PM.
 ian3 H. STICKNEY, Secretary. IIERISSoN--If Mr. HERISON, who is ssp- N "A posed to reside on the Winchester Road, three or four leagues fiom Mobile, will call on Dr GATES he will obtain papers of advantage to him.
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 DRAFTS GINS-These most highly celebrated H. and popular GIns, in the three varieties, which areimanuactured by Messrs Daniel Pratt Co, will be sold either for cash accommodating terms, deliverable on the Alabama, Warrior or Tembeckbee rivers, or in lhs city by
 ians 29K GEO. G. HENRY, ST Commerce st INSURANCE AGAINST FlRE-fhe subscri- A bers, agents for the ConirIbui ionshp Insurance Company of New York. continue to take risks on Buildings, Merchandize. &c.; as also River risks a reasonable rates ol premium. This is an old estab-
 shed Company, worth S300, ,OOO capital paid in, and a large surplus to meet losses.
 jans HUNTINGTON & CLEVELAND. DIAPER WAREHOUSE-A Paper Warehouse, I where Merchants and Printers of middle and south Alabama can at all times, summer and winter
 find writing, printing and enyeloping Papers of eye rv description, has long been desideralum in the commercial operations of Mobile, The subscriber has made such arrangements with paper manulaclu- rers and others as will enable him to keep up full supply of all qualities of Letter, Cap and Enyslopng Papers, and all sizes of good Printing Popers, and hs fatters himself thai his prices will prove so low as to give universal satisfaction. His stock is now large, to which the attention of purchasers Is pecfuly invited
 Writing and Printing Inks, Qullls and Steel Pens, are also offered extremely low at wholesale. Terms uniformly cash. lIan4 30l F. H. BROOKS.
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lErEREsTiSs FROM HAYTI.-The Marian Gage Capt. Collins, arrived yesterday from St. Domingo
 Among the passengers in the Marian, are Joseph Bllin and Dr. Caminaro, commissioners from the spanish part of fhe Island to the United States.- This section has been declared independent of the Haytien Government, and has been recognized as a separate Republic.
 These commissioners have visited America 10 open trade between their Republic, called the "Repub- lea Dominica" and the United States. They seek a recoe ntion by our government, of their and wish to negotiate a treaty of amity sud psass wih ns.-{y. Y. HerAA-
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REMARKABLE OU1RAaE.-1ncredible as it may seem, New York was yesterday the scene oi de. l,beraie attempt 10 burn woman and her two chil- dren 10 death. The victms were the wife, son and infant child of an Irish aborer named Haulan, living in small building or shanty, between the First and Second Avenues, in Fifteenth street. Mir. Hanlan had in some triairg way given offence 10 Klein, a German the occupant of neishboring shaniY; on Sunday he threw stones at her, while she about the door, and yesterday morning he undertook and almost effected her murder and that of her children. after Il manner of incredible barbarity. Hanlan, the husband, had gone early to work, leaving his wife and child yet in bed. Mrs Hanlin was walked by a noise of hammer ing at the door and perceived that the room WAS becoming full of smoke. Starting up, and rushing to the door, she found it Esen- ed from the outside. klem had nailed it up, and piling straw and other comluslbles against it, to which he had set fire In terror she to the win- dow and succeeded in pushing through it the boy, about twelve years old, but in her attempt to follow him, with the infant, she was encountered by Klem, who "jobbed' al her with sort of lance which he had made by atachng sharpened file to pole, and in several places. By this time of the neigh- bors had perceived the fire and come up to assist On their approach klem retreated to his own dwell ling, where he fastened himself .. The door of the burning shanty was forced open. and the W, man cued with the infant; both almost dead from sufoca- ton, and the mother considerably burned. They were conveyed to the hospital.
 Justice Taylor and some officers on the sprt. soon after and effected the arrest of kem not with out difficulty and danger, he was we'll armed and made desperate resistance. The deposition of Mrs. HanlaH was taken at the hospital and Ken commit ted for trial.-tNew York Commerciul.
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Per ship John Dunlap from BOston-J Hooper, John Phillips; k Warner Bowen Barron Mead & co.
 Per schr Alabama i'm Bosion-T Miller & COS Vim Il Redwoodi F P ROvesies Warner; Phillipsi Peck X shackeford; Campbell, Owen & coi M 5 Stetson; ] E T0uimn; l. Merchant w il Bunnell & co.
 Per steamboat Fashion, from New Wilson & May; J Sands & COS Fry, Bliss co; T Masser.
 Per steam schr Lion from New-Orleans-smiih, Dab ney & co; Waring Fosdick & ChArlUck; Martin; C W D0rrancej Marshall, Rowe & co; n BuHnei & co; Gsge & Post; Wood Brewer; E Darling; Riysa, Bat tie q
 Per steamboat MontsIuma from ,sw- Orleans-Bar- ron, Mead q COS Wilson A May; G Johnson; C A Gil- bert x BrOj Carr; Waring; Marshall, Rowe X 0; J BYrnsi J Aateri Campbell, Owen & co.
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Our cltiz.ns were treated with a rare sFectacle e yesterday, in ;he procession of some 20 large WA gons through all the principal streels led by large car containing full band of musicians, and drawn by two noble elephants. These monstrous beasts harnessed tandem, and moved along with as much docility as pair of well broke oxen. Both of the elephants of the largest size, oi them with pair of tusks apparently two feet long. The mens- gere is composed of an extens i've collection of wild b,nsts, birds, etc., forming altogether one of the largest and most valuable exhibitions which has ever visited our city.
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r WORKS or H. $. LEGARE.-We are gratfed to see it announced that the works of the late Hugh 5. Lesare are to be collected and published in Charleston. The work will consist oi his oratens, legislative speeches, portions of hrs diplomatic cor rs,pondence, n biographical sketch of his life, Ac By far the most important of his labors. however, and on which his fiends may most securely rest his fame, are his writings in the Southern Review, a periodical projected By hmsel and mainly indebted to his genius for the very high character which it atiainsd-some of its best numbers being made uP almost exclusively of contributions from Ais sineis Eeo.
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From tho N, o. Merchants Trapscript.

THE NEW SUGAR DUTY.-In the following ar tcle, winch we extract from Wilmer & Smiths Times, it appears that an import of "slave-grown sugars" from Venezuela into Great Britain has been admitted at inc reduced duty. under the ''most favor ed nation" article of treaty. This decision is Impor- tant to our State, as Sugar produced in Louisiana being presented under similar circumstances, must be admitted al the same rate of dnty. The matter however. will soon be tested practically as we under stand that several experiment. shipments are now making from this port.
 ''The attention of the daily presses continues to be fixed upon the termination of the treaty with Braz tine retalaiory process of that country and the con. sequences involved in it. While thus engaged, case has arisen relative to the admission of slave grown sugars, which coupled wIth the decision of the British government, has produced startling effect. vessel recently arrived al this port from Venezuela Ia. where siauery esists with few bags of sugar, which were entered al the Custom House, as coming under the act of last session. The officers properly refused to acknowledge the sugar as the pro- duct of a country uncontamDated with slavery, but the owners, thinking, perhaps. that faw in lhe act would favor tlleml-Or an eminent lawyer declared that he could drive coach-and six through any act of Parlament-peit itioned the Board of Gus toms The affair was brought before the law officers of the Crown, and the result s-astounding as it may sound-that the sugar has been admitted at the low rate of duty! The ground of the admission is that
 the Venezuela treaty contains what Is called the 'most favored nation article" The Morning Chronicle de- scrlbes this the bursting of the ministerial bubble. "A piece of humbug, says that journal ''al once the most clumsy and ibe most audacious ever attempted to be practised upon the humane sympathies of people, is about 10 be exposed to the laughter and contempt of ibe world. There is no room for any more shufflinR Slave sugar is coming into England nt reduced duty. It is coming in according to law according to the law introduced by Sir Robert Peel and MT. Gladstone last summer, and it cannot be kept out"
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 He is in frequent communication with the British government, and he will wait, most probably, until be receives instructions from home respecting further negotiations The general impression is, that during the ensuing session of parliament, the sugar duties will undergo another revision, and before Brazil finally dvorces herself from England. terms will be offered her the most favorable which ministers, hampered they by the tactics they pursued on the oppo- sition, bench can concede. It is tolerably clear, from this Venezuela case, that consistency will not close the door agaInst concession, for, to admit the sugar of Louisiana is equally legitimate, under the circumstances. ss to admit that of Venezuela"
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PASaEN<sE FRS,

Per steamboat Charlotte i'm Wetumpka-Mrs Barnes Mrs Lowrie, Miss Robns M-ssrs Lowrie, Ware, Fisher McGtaw, Austin, Twiiiey, Saussermnn Strinser Dean Simpson.
 Per steamboat Marengo i'm Montgomery-Dr Beckley lady and children; w Davis lady and childreni DI, Smyley Baldwin, Msssrs Harrison, Murray. Brown, Beck, Bowe, Fanbro, Foster. sherro, AdrJge, Moore McKeen, Thompson Cook Hill. Jordan, Crooni, Stone Seaman, sutton, Kelly, Gay, Lockwood, Ormsby, MaI- ming, Forrey, Johnson Shaw.
 Per steamboat Eliza fm Demopolis-Mrs James and children, Mrs Curtis, Miss James, Col Kdd Messrs Fay Tor, Watls iger Traber, Plout, Davis smtA, Brens ter. James, Fiuke, Csmpbe Parent, Mccall. Rain, Il Krause. James.
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We learn from the correspondence of the Ba''i- mora American, that on the morning of the 27lh an op'non was given in the Supreme Court in the case of Thos. W. Dorr vs. Rhode Island The Court decided that they have power to grant the habeas corpus lraleh for through Ms counsel,
Mobile register and journal., 1845-01-07
CHEMISTRY OF PLANTS, by Dr, Draper OtFor sale by

A treatise on the forces which produced the organ ization of PIanis with appendix containing ral memoirs on Capillary Attraction. Electricity, and the Chemical Action of Light, ty John Wm. Draper, M. D Professor of Chemistry, in tho Uai- versty of New York. l vol quarto.
 Boyd's Elements of Rhetoric and Literary Criti- cism, with copious practical exercises and sxam- ples for the use of common schools and acad mics, including succnct history ot the English Ianguags, liss, ss the Prsssat nnss. ta5
Mobile register and journal., 1845-01-07

THE ENGLISH DRAMA IN FRAFcE.-Pars pa- pers state that Macready, Miss Helen Faucet, and the English company, were expected to commence their performance on the End Decembe with othello. to be followed by the principal Shaksperean trage- dies, and then Werner, the Lady of Lyons. &c. Letters from Macready were lying for Miss Cusll- man, the American actress, her arrival, and is surnised by some that she will join the company. Louis Philippe has taken box for the whole of the performances, and going to the theatre in state. Afier visiting the principal towns of Francs It IS PetersburQb,
Mobile register and journal., 1845-01-07

THEArRE.-Juvenils Nigh Tins being the last night Of the magnificent spectacle of fCherry And Fair Star, it will be performed the first piece, io order to allow families an opportunity ofviewing it and tiring early.
 The drama of Miller and his Mpa. ilh all the or. glna music, songs, gees etc., will conclude the eve- ning's entertainments.
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r NEW ENGLAND mUTUAI INs

T NEW ENGLAND MUTUAL INsU- RANGE co, BostOn.--By an annual report of the Directors the affairs of this Company represent cd as being in very healthy and prosperous condtuD The number of Policies granted for the year (being the nrst of the Company 343, amounting ss46 I1O- out of which there have been sustsn-d the Company has augmented s capital nearly Afy per cent within the year.
 The profits or the Company invested in Stocks and Bond and Mortgage of good security.
 DEXTER & ABBOTT, Agents, isu7
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We requested to call the attention ot the trade to the cargo sale of Wines, Rasins, and other Ma lasa Fruit, imported direct in the Spanish schooner Del Carmen. The articles are fresh and of superior quality. The sale will take place this morning at To S'clock-weather permitting.
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MARINE LIST.
PORT OF MoBILE-JANUARY 2.

CLEARED. Ship Ccrdovs, Morse, for Maj seilles by Barnewsll Wanroy.
 ARRIVED. pr ship Brilliant, Burr, fin Demarara 10 Jas Reid CO Br ship Jas Moran, Morrison, i'm Dcnarura, tn bslasl 10 Reid a
 ship Rappshannock, Drummond, from Nsw-York, 10 master.
 Ship John Dunlap, Choate, fin Boston, to master. ship Epaminondns, Lambert, from Portsmouth, to master.
 Bark Lucretia, Rae, i'm Providence, to master. Brig Taiiey rand, Tripe, i'm Havana, 10 master. Schr PnilHnihropist. i'm 5t Thomas, to master. schr Alabama. Whilmore fun Boston, to master. SleAm schr Lion, Trainer, from New Oresns. Steamboat Fashion, Fullerton, tim New-OrleHns. Steamboat Moniezuna, Baker, fin New Orleans. Steamboat Efiss, Roberts, from Demopols. with l96 bales cotton. steamboat Marsngo, Adams, fun Montgomery, with s6e baien cotton.
 Steamboat Charlotte, Lothrop, from Wssumpka, with 3i4 bates cotton.
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MOBILE
Tuesday Morning, January ,, 1s45.

There was total failure yesterday of the eastern mail-the Stockton boat not having arrived up 10 the closing of our paper last night.
Mobile register and journal., 1845-01-07

1CARD-The Managers ofthe Catholic Orphan Asp iun take much pleasure in laying before The Public the very gratifying result or the uts Orphans Fair the Waverly result greatly enhunced by the unusual ps- cuniAry endorsements under which our community suffers al present.
 Total receipts at the Fair 50 Expenses Incurred fer same ............... l,l46 27
 Nett proceeds. s................--......S S3,li5 2S
 In The amount 0f receipts, Hbove, are included check W nliy dollars presented M The Fair by J. W Le- cesne besides hls other liberal patronage and thirty dol lars from two gentlemen through Mrs. B. Mesier.
 lfs not matter of form, but in all sincerity that the Ladies who got up the Fair, beg eHve o the public that words Nt their command adequately express their gratitude the generous people of Mobile who have thus furnished them for the sixth Iime in many successive years, with the most ample sustaining in competence and comfort the large family committed to their hy Divine Providence con sisting Of over go children.
 While the deepest gratitude Is entertained for all bene- acors the Managers cannot help thanking, in special manner Mr. Lecesne for his liberal donation; Mrs Sch for the beautiful valuable Painting, fa work of her hands) presented to the Fair which brought 2O and Masterson for their splendid present. which added 10 the rsceipts HOO.
 Nor the Managers withhold expression of their thankuness tu Messrs C. X a. Cullum, and Mr. Holt the Franklin for having furnished alternately during the three nights the very appropriate and pro1abe beverage by which S200 were realized. The Gas Company, too, will please accept the grateful Of the Ladies for the free of their light during the Far and last though not east the thanks of the Managers most respectfully rendered the Press ct Mobile, well for the kind notice they have taken of the Fair for tho advertisements relating il, which they have all grau ously published. In behalf of the Managers,
 jan7K ELIZA HURTEL, President
Mobile register and journal., 1845-01-07

A seaman on hoard of the ship Nile was killed on Saturday, by bale of cotton falling from the deck into the hold. His name is Wm. Jones, and he be- longed to PbiladelphiH- aged about 25 years.
Mobile register and journal., 1845-01-07

MARRlED-ln this city, on the lst inst. by Rev. Mir. Bazin, Mir PHILIP DUvAL of Mobile to Miss MATILDA CARD of Pensacola.
 IT The Pensacola Gazette will please copy.
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Ngw ORLEANS CUSTOM HoUsB-We have been po- ely favored with tho ulo wing abstract of the compar- ativs value of the Exports for the last three Seas from the port Of NewOrleans and the amount of Import dd- lies collected during the same period.-lPicns uno
 StatemsHf of Goods Exported during hs ysars le42
 mad
Mobile register and journal., 1845-01-07

' We understand that the State, from the necessity of taking it in payment ofa bank debt, owns the Tusoumbn and Decatur Railroad. Tins road is for tyfye miles long, and constructed by private company head the Muscle Shoals, which imReded the navigation of the Tennessee river. From the up. per terminus of the road, there is good navigaton Gunters Landing, ihe proposed terminus Of the Coo, sa and Tennessee Railroad By completing the lat ter, a continuous line of communicat Ion from W's Creek on the Coosa, to Rome in Georgia, and from thence the Atlantic. will be opened, and thus render the Decatur Railroad productive of the links connecting the Mississippi valley with Savannah and Char areaIon
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We learn from Ihe Picayune that Mir. HUBBARD he agent Hppointed by the Stale of Massachusets to test lhe laws of Louisiana respecting free negroes that came within the State, has arrived in New Or leans and has expressed his determination to remain there until the legislature assemblies. The egisla- tnre was to have met yesterday. We shall proba- bly hear more of the matter in day two.
 Since writing the above, we learn by passenger from New Orleans, that Saturday night the indig- nation of the citizens became so apparent, Mir Hub bard took advantage at once of vessel on the point of sailing for Boston. and hastily turned his back up on tine abors which had been assigned him by the arrogant authorities of Massachusetts.
 Two PER CENT FUND.-By act of congress, September 4, 1S4l two per cent the sale of pub
 lie lands in Alabama was renquished 10 the State, he used exclusively for the construction oft line of internal improvement from West Point, in the di- rcction of ofJackson. Mississippi, and also a line con- meeting the Tennessee liver with the waters of Mo bile Bay. The fund accepted by tho legislature in lS4l, on the terms prescribed. We believe the fund is about s220 900, now on speca deposte, sub ject o the action of the General Assembly bIil is now before the legslatuie, authorizing the Montgo- mery and West Point Railroad Company to borrow one half of this fund, and tine Coosa and Tennessee Railroad Company the other half
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 BANK OF MoBrts-The annual election for Directors the part of the stockhoders of this Institution took place yesterday The old directory wth exceptions reelected Mr. Pratt zoe. in in place ot wln. Austin. The Executive appointments for Directors the part of the State has aso been received Three of the for mer board res pponled, with two members-P. T. Harris and j. E. Scott in place of ] K. Collins and O. Beers. The following list of the new directory
 ON THE PART
 w. R. Halleu James Magee,
 J. Emanuel, E. L. Andrews
 B. Tardy, Joe E. Matthew's
 G. Westieldt, w. II. Pratt
 THE PART OF
 Wm. Jones, Jr., R. A. Baker,
 J. U. Saunders, P. T. Harris,
 James E. Scott.
 MOBILE ASSURANCES CoMrASY-The annual eleclion for Directors held yesteriay The following Is .I of the new board J. Enamel. II, 0. Brewer,
 H. A. Schroeder, H. Barney,
 J. BioodgOod, w. w. Allen,
 R Desha, l.. Mauldn,
 G. Wesileldt, l. Bell, Jr,
 J. A. M. Ballie II. Myers,
 *rhos. c. Brown
 "New-in place of A. Pope.
 This Company declared a semi annual dividend tho 4th per cent, pss able 9h nsi NEw-ORLBANs MARKRr--Th The Picay uue reports cotton quiet s.turday-sales 25OO bales; Prices fully 4c lower than before the foreign news.
 Nothing of any consequence done in the Sugar market; prices range from 2t Sc according quality. Moasses is firm at Is to 17Ac per gallon, according to quality and condition Of ihe barrels.
 There is no change in the Flour market; transactions, chiefly to consumers al s4s for Ohio; Missouri aad si Louis S4i to Sj! per bbi Tor very choice brands. moderate business is doing in Provisions former pr ces, but owing 10 light receipts the market gsttng rather bare. There good demand yesterday for Fnroln Ex- changes. We quote Sterling St to per cent premium; Francs So 10 s2i. New York 6 days II oa pr cent disci sight checks to i per cent disc. The New Orleans Price Current has beeI furnished with the annexed statement Of Receipts and xports via Ponchartrain Rail Road, from Sept Dei. 3l. lslI. The total receipts Of Cotton from Mobile are 1899 bale agreeable to balance being received by way Of the new basin
 RECEIPTS OF COTTON, Via the Pontchartrain Rail load, from september Is to
 December 2lst, l644. From Mobile Florida, &c............... 900 bales. From fearing,on, covington, &c.-..........l35o I"
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IT.
 0f Soc iete Fra ancaise de eBIenfaisance.-Le local de h pope No. netan pas dispossibe pour LuN- DI, 6 Janvier, Ia reunion est remse lendemain
 Aux ermes de Particle des reglements organique de Ia sociee, Il est entendu que les rouvent pas en nombre. lassemblee renyoyee LuNpI I2 Janyier sans autres advertisements que lc present.
 Jan4 3UM Dp Sr CYR
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SsHIRTJ = l0 eases fas Linen and Cotton Shirt. ~ for sale by uaa7J slAIIJSNks.
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I'VE STUFFs-20 bbls Coperas; 5 do Mad D der; 800 lbs Indigo; 5 bbls Chip Logwood; 2 do Camwood, just received and for sale by
 HAVILAND, CLARKE & CO.,, jan7 45 and 47 Water-st
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$J,3S0 IT From the fast statement made it will appear. that the liabilities of the Institution exceed its available means, by $3,5s0 TT. This statement is based up- on the suppositon, that all the debts due the Peni- tenllary are collected, and all the 6nished work on hand sold during the ensuing year. In the ordi- nary course of things, however, not than two thirds of the debts can be reasonably expected 10 be realized during the year, and is probable ihe fn ished work will be sold at prices below ,le estimate above given.
 In any appropriation made for the support of the Institution the present year, we hope the excess of liabilities above shown W Il not be oveooksd. As n guiIe to the Legislature in it's acton on this subject, the following estimates for the ensuing year, are submitted:
 For the pay fOficers, Guards and Foreman of shops, will be required the of. 0n Rations for convicts now iu prison, and the pro- bable increase, which is supposed W i'll not ox- ceed .......................... 2847 co Tools and materials necessary 10 bo provd e200 % Fuel and Hospital stores. $50 OU Clothing and bedding. ...................... $50 %
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CONSTABLE'S NOTICE.

 Jesse Peoples a% lWimasERsEFAs's RE sy;, sy 'ss 1t Flat Boat John Duncan. seizure issued from the office of J. Wilkins, Esq, Justice of the Peace in and for Mobile county, have seized on the Flat Boat called the JOHN DUNCAN, her tackle, ap- parel and furniture All persons hereby notified to appear the office of said Justice, on the l4th day of January, 1s45, there to intervene for their interests if any they have.
 jan7K H. w. FELL, Constable.
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DRANDY-Hennesey and Pale Brandiss, just ID received and for sale by
 jan7 JOHN O'REILLY co.