The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1849-12-18 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

CHEAP MARKETS—WHO ENJOYS THEM ?—While the 1 cholera has been frightful in some parts of the State of price of prime cattle in the Dublin markets is not more t Mexico. . than 2d. per lb. weight, or one-third that vs hich it was 1 A Dr. Coolidge, of' the State of Maine, was some time - some time ago, the retail price to the public is within 1 ago condemned for murder. To avoid an ignominious one-third of what it was at the dearest period alluded to. ; death, he committed suicide, and his body was buried. The following letter from a grazier to the editor of SaunPrivate letters state that he has since been seen working ders's News-Letter, puts the case clearly. Speaking of , at the gold diggings in California. This, if true, has an the " extortion of the Dublin butchers," the writer goes I important bearing on the question now stirred in this on to say—" It has been alleged that the cause rests with i country for the substitution of private execution for a the salesmen and butchers. Now, I maintain the former 1 public one. The escape of Coolidge must have been con- have nothing to say to it ;it is all a conspiracy on the i /lived at by the authorities. part of the latter gentry, who, while they are realising Lieutenant Lynch, who commanded the late " Dead the profits at the rate of 300 per cent., are mulcting the Sea Exploring Expedition," has volunteered to head a graziers and the public in that exact ratio. A fortnight party, in the spring, in search of Sir John Franklin, if ago I sold ten cows to a Dublin butcher, the price for the United States' Government will sanction it. The which was, as near as could possibly be calculated, 2d. per cholera has again appeared at St. Louis and the rivers. lb., sinking offal. Wishing to test the quality of my own Eighteen death_ occurred in one steamer. feeding, I sent for a roasting and boiling piece, for which The news from Canada is unimportant. The manifesto I paid 64 per lb. for a shoulder of mutton. Some check against annexation with the United States, at Toronto, must be put to a system nothing short of actual robbery. had already received 4,000 signatures. The charges by rail are so high housekeepers cannot avail themselves of the prices which in Limerick and Tipperary Passports are to be discontiued in France. are about half." The bill (says the editor) is from one of Letters from Canada state that Sir Allan M`Nab was the most respectable victuallers in Dublin. Mark, when -lying very ill at Toronto. prime beef cost Gd. the pound as it stood in Smithfield The debuts of Madame Grisi and Signor Mario, at St. market, the retail price did not exceed Bd. and 9d. Now Petershurgh, have been triumphantly successful. ' that it is hut 2d., the retail price is 61d., while mutton is Mr. Robert Stephenson figures, amongst other engi- 7d. here, and but 4d. in the country towns. veering celebrities, in the Paris Moniteur as Chevalier of _______„,e---the Legion of Honour. Two suicides were committed in Paris on Wednesday— one by a law student, who shot himself through love ; the second by a broker, who hung himself. The Orangemen of England recently forwarded to Lord Kossuth's furniture has been sold by an-tion at Pesth. Roden and to the Messrs. Beers, excellent addresses on The plainness of it was remarkable. His family have recent occurrences. The following is a copy of that been liberated, and they intend to join him in Turkey. The Committee of the Episcopal American Domestic "TO