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" And I v . ill war , at least in words , _( _Ani—should my chance so happen—deeds ) , "With all who war with Thought 2 " * * ' I think I hear a little _Inrd , who sings The people hy and hy vaU he fhe stronger . _"—BraON . It is now sometime since we addressed our readers on Foreign Affairs . The multiplicity of home questions wliich require io be weekly canvassed leavesus no room in onr usual editorial department for the discussion of foreign questions . Yet events are of daily occnrrencc in other nations which are not only interesting from their nature , but most of them of Tital importance to the genera ] interests of the human race , in which interests the people of tliis great
nation must necessarily have a _lai-ge sliare . On tlie European continent , in nearly eveiy nation , questions arci being agitated , or events are continually transpiring which deserve the serious consideration of the people of this country . For instance , the anti-Anglican war feeling - so industriously fomented in France—with the strength , hopes , and designs of the _Sepsblican party , are matters wliich must concern the people of England . The destinies of Spain , where liberty first betrayed by Espaktero , and then strangled hy the woody hand of _sSabxaez , tne tool of Christina and Louis Philippe , must he _jui o _' uject of solicitude to all good democrats . Nor can the hearings of _loveJy fallen Italy , -writhing under the _hnives of her priestly and kingly
executioners , be regarded without emotion hy the advocates of liberty in this island . The important straggle now going on In Switzerland , and the threatened intervention of foreign governments iu the affaire of the Cantons , are subjects demanding the solemn consideration of the English people . The moral warfare for _polincal and religions freedom in Germany ; lhe demand for democratic r eform in Sweden ; the fate of new-born Greece ; the ambitious designs of Russia ; and the coming day of awakening for Poland , and the vengeance she will claim ; are all subjects which should be clearly understood by thepeople of this country , so that when the propaganda of Democracy again marches over Europe—and march it _iviU—Englishmen may be prepared to play their part In the war against kings * " and tyrants of every deseriniion "
And on the American continent the subjects to be found are not few , whieh may be profitably _disenssed Anti-Rentism , Agrarianism , and Abolitionism , are aU questions , the facts of which thousands arc too little acquainted with ; while the Texas and Oregon questions , daily becoming more complicated , and threatening serious results to this country , should by all means he made plain and easy of comprehension . Eaters of fraud and tyranny * we will expose and assail with relentless hostility the crimes of the enemies of man ' s rights throughout the world . From ihe imscreant of Muscovy _tothelesser devil of Buenos Ayres , all persecutors of their Mow-creatures shall
be held up to the scorn and hatred ofthe world : while from Italy to Spain , from Poland to Cireassia , the cause of liberty shall have onr hearty support . Too long have the nations been divided ; too long Lis brotherhood been but a worth , and fraternity a -fiction ; too long have profitniongers , priests , and kings _Jtept the people of Europe ia that bondage , which only allowed them the liberty of loosened wild oeaste—tlie liberty to tear each other's throats . We woald , therefore , fain do sometliing towards making at least tiie people of England , whom our words may reach , believers in . and practisers of the sublime principle of
Paixe" The world is my country 2 To do good my religion 2 " Our readers will infer from the above what we mean to do . A word as to the mode of doing it . Our mode , onr one mode , will be the enunc-iatiflji of the ruth . Possibly we may open up questions and advance sentiments which may alarm the prejudices of those who have not yet dared to think for themselves bnt even if so , we do not despair that the cause of truth and right will advance nevertheless . We shall be happy when our observations please all who may honour us with their attention ; but as we shall write rather to inform than to please , we shall act on the advice of Be Foe , " neither to give nor to take Quarter : " but
" Seize on the truth wherever found , " and proclaim it fearless of consequences . With this exordium we commence with our first
subject—THE HOLT COAT AI TREVES—IDE "SEW REFORMAHOX . One of the most wanarkable attempts in modem limes to revive the Papal power over tlie minds of its ¦ votaries , was _fui-nished by the exhibition , lately , at Treves , in Germany , of a garment which the exhibitors with daring effrontery pretended was the seamless vesture worn by Jesus Cubist , and for the possession of which , we are told , the soldiers cast lots at his _crucifision . The priests declare ihat the eoat ¦ works miracles ; and thousands ofthe ignorant and deluded people , having faiih hi the fraud , have been making pilgrimages from great distances to worship at its shrine . Our introductory remarks to the _artido * intended to appear under the head of " _ForeignMotanents " having extended to a length not ori _^ nafiy .. intended , we are necessitated to confine ourselves for this week to the following extract from an article in _AuvsworOCs Magazine for February , resetting comment for a future occasion : —
ThegreateventoftheRoman Catholic world , intiie year that has just passed , was the exhibition at Treves ofthe holiest _reUc of which the repertory of Rome can boast To counterac t , if possible , tlie influence of those opinions in Germany , whieh are so decidedly opposed to the doctrines of the Romish Church , and to aid the cause which the Jesuits are everywhere so diligently labouring to sus t ain , it was resolved to have recourse to the bold expedient of endeavouring to impress die multitude by the very means which were employed to hold it in thrall tefore thelight of Hie Reformation shone upon the darkened world . No part of Europe could have been better selected for such an experiment than the city of Trevesths cap ita ] , in fact , if not in name , of a district , whose entire population are hlindly submissive to the will of tlie
clergy , and whose credulity and superstition are equal to any demand tliat may he made upon them . The cathedral of Treves liad moreover enjoyed , for faH fifteen hundred years , the reputation of Queen of the Cisalpine churches , and spite , of her diminished splendour , contained within her bosom votaries as ardent and as willing to propagate the tenets of the Roman Catholic faith as in thepalmiest days of her history . The relic which she possessed was looked upon as the most precious object of religious adoration—miraculous properties of the highest order were ascribed to it , and every facility existed for trailing it to account . * * It was one of those mornings towards the end of -September , when the heavy fogs which cover the Alosello , aud all the adjacent valleys , at that season of the year , are hut the precursors of hrilliant days , that I proceeded on my pilgrimage . * * Oar course lay along the left bank of tlie Moselle * and about an hour after passing tlie Roman monument at _I g el , we came in si ght of the _iowei-s and spires of Treves ,
and , crossing the bridge , which is still supported on its Soman foundations , we entered the city . "We advanced hut slowly ; a long procession , headed h y priests , with ¦ banne rs floating and choristers chanting , issuing at that moment from the city gates to repair to one of the xaanv ianetifieil spots that abound in ilie environs ot Treves . Xor , when these had passed , was our progress much quieter , owing to the crowds assembled in the streets , and the obstructions offered hy tlie double line of _booths set out with the memorials of the Holy Tunic , of every size ami form . Some were painted on silk and satin , richly hordered with gold and crimson , —others , of humbler pretensions , were only lithographs or woodcuts , —ana others again aspired to the honours of Una engraving ; some were stamped on linen for handkerchiefs ; others were formed in wax ; and medals of silver or plated ware , hearing tlie image of the sacred rohe , glittered on every _staU and in every shop window . These m ** c 2 ls were the universal ornament of men , women , and
children : they were worn suspended from the neck by a narrow , li g ht-blue riband . On the obverse was the rohe surrounded hy rays , and this legend in German , "Theholv coat of our Saviour , Treves , 1 SA 4 . " On the reverse an image of the Virg in , s t andin g on a globe , trampling down the serpent , with the rays of light issuingfrom her hands . The legends ran thus : "Mary tonceived without sin : pray for us . In thee we take our _refii- 'e . ' The date on this side was 1 S 30 . As we got fieai _^ r the centre of the city , the plot seemed to thicken ; and comhining tliis appearance with all we had heard , we began to fear that we should have some difficulty in _Ending house-room . The large marketplace , and every avenue leading to it , appeared like one large lair ; here was a stall groaning beneath the and cooked rovisionsof
weig ht of sausages , r y e b r ead , p an lands ; beside it another , piled with ripe fru . _tpeaches . _-gkpes , and sunny apricots then came ofliers Swtthlo _« and _trintets , combs , brushes , _loolong-SseZbooW , bead s , crucifixes , dolls for children . smart _ISes for grown-up g irls , and rosaries for fliose of _mSSr age . _^ _-eryihin-J that could please tbe taste or SS to the _phyricalVessMcs of _^ _ytomerwas herespreadout Butitwasm _tbeFreihoflight to muhtl * streamed without _^ tmission mto _ttie Mldiiyr They were all admitted throug h the _nght-Sfdoor , Store which was a wooden bamer which was _occasionally lowered _^ the _^^ i _^ bo regulated the movements Ofthe processions , ™ orderto _Pre
vent too many from entering _atoice B _f thein * _srurtion was scarcely perceptible ; , for sun the crowd kept moving on , and « it _disappeai-ed at the portal , it was _constat * recruited by the numbers * ftat amved every _moment from the market-p lace . The men _presented _Stle that was remarkable , either in dress « r counte aim **; tat _** _-llnoiicraMefrom thef _^^ chanted the _Aveilariaand Credo-the _^ _V _** _™™ _*? alternately taldng up the strain . Some of these _chons-^ i were so zealous in this good work , that . they struck m , their orisons the moment they crossed their _cwri thresholds , on _tidr journey to Treves , nor mter-SS , Sre for food or rest ; so that ITtheir houses were fer 0 $ they -must have sung enoug hon this ex . _peaifion to last them for the rest of their days They _£ emed well enough content with aU tliey had to encounter , and waited for their turn to enter the cathe-
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ural with a patience that appeared inexhaustible . It was alread y the sixth week of the processions ; and we are assured tliat no less than thirteen miraculous cures had been effected . But the convalescents were _Angularly modest—tliey invariably disappeared from Treves as soon as the healing process was completed—doubtless , in order to spread the fame of the Holy Tunic abroad and make room for others . The appearance ofthe interior of the building was , t o say t he least of it , extremel y imposing . On either side of the central aisle were the richly sculptured tombs of the former electors of Treves ; above tliem waved the many-coloured banners of the City guides ; and in tlie midst , moving with slow pace , came the thronging multitude between the harriers erected for the purpose . At tlie foot of the last flight of
s t eps , the two living streams united , and depositing there the first oblations , ascended in sin gle file te pass before the shrine . The relic was contained iu a large , upright cruciform glass-case , and was hung up with the sleeves extended , before a ground of white silk , being supported b y a thin pole which ran across . Rich cords and tassels of crimson and gold depended from a , canopy of gorgeous drapery , whieh surmounted the case ; and in front of it was a square platform , piled high with the offerings of the pious , theproduce of each day ' s ceremony . Seated with their faces towards tlie relic , but leaving a space before it for the procession to pass , appeared the Bishop of Treves , thecoadjutwof tlie ArclMshop of Cologne , and several other prelates , arrayed in their pontifical robes ; and on each side of the altar stood a priest , receiving the various objects whicli the people brought for consecration by contact with the Hol y Tunic . These were hastily thrust into the apertures at the bottom of the case , and then
returned to the owners moyeniumt , of course , an additional piece of money . Almost every one brought sometliing to be blessed - _^ _bMgs _, medals , erucifixes , rosaries , books , prints , and _imagfes of the Virg in , and tlie officiating priests had their hands quite fuU . A few words will he necessary to describe the colour and texture of the relic . It is of a dark reddish brown hue , resembling , as an old writer says , who saw it a long time ago , " unprepared cinnabar . " At a little distance it has a wrinkled appearanee , like cracked leather ; but , examined closely , one sees that it is evidently a garment woven from some fine substance , perhaps a peculiar hind of Aax . It is very thick , and hangs in many stiff folds , and has an air of great antiquity ; how old can only he revealed hy the monk who first suggested its existence;—in all probability , in the ninth century , when , after the moral darkness whieh succeeded the death of Charlemagne , the great traffic in relics first had birth .
Next week we shall give the celebrated letter ot Joh . v _Roxge , Catholic priest , exposing and denouncing this " piousfraud " together with some particulars of the New Reformation of which this modern Luther is the originator .
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_HELB-GABDEN OPERATIONS , For the Week ending Monday , March llth , 1844 . [ Extracted from a Diary of actual operations on a number of small farms in Sussex , and Yorkshire , published by Mr . John Nowell of Farnley Tyas , near Huddersfield , Yorkshire , as a guide to other possessors of field-garden farms to the labours which ought to be taken on their own lands . The farms selected as models , are— -First . That of the Willing don scliool , five acres in extent , conducted by 6 . Cruttenden . Second . The Eastdean school , also five acres , near Beachy Head , conducted by John Harris .
Third . Ihat of Jesse Piper , consisting of four acres , at Cruttenden . Fourth . That of John Dumbrell , a farm of six acres , at Jevington , near Beachy Head . Fifth . An Industrial school farm at Slaithwaite , near Huddersfield . Sixth and Seventh . Two small model farms at the same place , occupied on the estate of the Earl of Dartmouth , by Charles _Varlejr and John Bamford . The consecutive operations in these reports will enable the curious reader to compare the climate and agricultural value of the south with the north of England . The _Djtaht is aided by * ' Notes and Observations " from the pen of Mr . Nowell , calculated for the time and season , whieh we subjoin . ]
SUSSES . Monday—* WiUingdon School . Wet weather , boys in school . Eastdean School . Wet day , hoys platting , and at their multiplieatioB . tables , and writing Piper . Cleaning and top-dressing lucerne , —do the same to yonr wheat , for now is the time . Dundnrcll Rainy day . Tuesdat—WiUingdon School . Boys turning manure heap . Eastdean School . Boys digging , carrying manure for potatoes , mending the clover , picking roots and stones . Pip > er . Cleaning lucerne , — manure it well , either witli solid or liquid manure and mould . Dumbrell . "Planting cabbages , drilling tares , and digging . Wednesday—Willingdon School . Boys carrying out manure , for top-dressing wheat . Eastdean School .
Boys emptying the tank , carrying its contents to the ground intended for mangel _wnracl and carrots , sowing tares . Piper . Weeding wheat , —if you hoe - it , and the ground be loose , let the plant be firm at bottom . Dumbrell . Planting cabbages , drilling tares , drilling oate , digging , and applying tank liquid to wheat . _Thursdat—WiUingdon School . Boys rolling and treading wheat . * Eastdean Scliool . Boys digging , gathering roots for tho mixon , cleaning oats , and sorting pig potatoes . Piper . Weeding wheat , it will want no top-dressing , it was well dressed at the bottom when sown . Dunwrell . Drilling oate .
FniDAT— Willingdon School . Boys rolling and treading wheat . Eastdean School . Boys digging , rolling and mending tares , getting in turnips and mangel wurzel , for the cows . Piper . Mending wheat , not often too strong near Beachy Head , and if so , a crop without manure will cure it . Dumbrell . Drilling oats . _Satubuat—Willingdon School . Boys carrying tank liquid for the intended carrot crop . Eastdean School , Boys cleaning . out piggery , replacing the turf where mould forthe mixen was got , clearing up . _Pijter . Emptying the tank . Dumbrell . Drilling oats , sowing onions in the garden , planting cabbasres .
YORKSHIRE . Slaitlnvaite Tenants . John Bamford , in a note appended to his return , says , " Nothing has heen done with the exception of turning some dung . The weather has been of so stormy a character , attended with frost and snow , that general farm labour has been out of question . I got the tare seed ready a fortnight ago , but as -yet there has not been an opportunity to sow any of it . " Cow-Feedixo . — WiUingdon School . Cows fed with clover , hay , and turnips . DumbrelFs . One cow fed in the stall with mangel wurzel , carrots , and straw . One cow and heifer fed with turnips , carrots , and straw .
NOTES AND _OBSERVATIONS . Oats . —[ Seed sown in Sussex seven bushels , in Yorkshire six bushels , to the acre . ] Sow oats early ; for early sowing gives weight to the grain , while late sowing gives weight of straw . Choose your seed fi-om a poorer soil , adopting the _variety to your , soil adopting the variety to your soil and climate , but let the seed be good and heavy , and from the fens if possible . The Eastbourne field-gardeners sow from the beginning to the end of March , in drills , at six inches distance , using about three bushels of mould manure to the rod . In the north , oate are always sown broadcast , commonly on fresh broken up pasture land , without manure . On fresh broken up peaty moorland , a dressing of quick lime adds greatly to the produce .
Steep _ron Seed Oats . —Take 24 lbs . of common salt ; dissolve it in twelve pails full of water ; steep six bushels of seed in the solution for twelve hours , _* remove the seed , let it drain for one hour ; it will easily divide , and sow , -broadcast , on one acre . This method has long been pratised by an individual , and has yielded , according to his estimate , an addition to his crop of one pack of meal per acre , and he states that the corn ripens ten days earlier than usual . Sprixg WllEAT . — 'Seedsown , three bushels , value 21 s . —Dibbled , one bushel , value 7 s . per acre . —Expense of dibbling , Hs . —Sowing in seed , 14 s . —besides horse and man ' s labour . Actual experiment . ] Dibble , drill , or sow spring wheat : but after , reading the motto , I think , certainly , you will dibble . In general , a moderate liming on either winter or spring wheat answers well , where it is not the custom to manure the crop .
In dibbling , steep your seed in urine ; use a little ? uick lime , and plenty of rape dust to moke it part . _« t your rows he six inches apart ; strike four holes at a time , six inches distance , three inches deep . Place as near as you can _miess three seeds in each hole . Cover up immediately , and tread the seed in as yon go on . If your wheat crop folloiv potatoes or tnruips , a good liming in most cases would be well ; and in all eases a dressing of home made or domestic guano would he beneficial to your corn ; or about li cwt . to the acre of natural guano , well pounded , and intimately mixed , passing it tlirough a sieve repeatedly , with moist ash charcoal , burnt clay compost , of coal ashes ; or drill with the seed about six or eight bushels of rape dust per acre . The springsown wheat is manured at Eastbourne with five hushels of mould manure to the rod .
Beaxs . —[ Seed dibbled , two and a half to three hushels per acre . J—Do not delay now to dibble in your beans . Beans ought to be sown in February . As this crop fellows com that has been well manured , no manure will be required . Place them in rows eighteen inches apart and three inches asunder , and cover in well _tlu-ee inches deep . Dibble a table bean between each one of your potatoc sets .
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Da . Bucklaxd os Guano . —There was another kind of manure which he wished particularly to impress npon the fannere' attention—he alluded to guano . It was as they knew the droppings of sea Fowl , accumulated for ages npon the coast of Africa and America , and on many islands in the Pacific ocean . Since its first importation , four years only ago , guano had heen used with the greatest success in various parts of the country . Itwas notorious that experiments made with it during 3844 had almost universally failed ; and their failure exemplified those chemical principles npon which guano was applied , shewing that it ought never to be applied as a top
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dressing , except in rainy weather , and when the plant is in a state of active " growth . There were many advantages attending the use of guano , not the least ofwhich were its portability , and its powers of retaining its properties for many years , if kept dry and excluded from the air . It was much cheaper now than on its introduction into this country , and next year the supply would be such as to reduce its price to half of that charged last year . He knew that no less than COO ships had left _Liverpool alone in the present veartoget guano , and they would ' . bring back at least 60 , 000 tons . Three years ago the price was £ 15 per ton , last year it was £ 10 , and this year it has been £ 1 or £ & . The Professor repeated his strongest recommendation of guano . If he possessed 500 or
low acres in the neighbourhood , he wonld himsell send for a shipload , and land it at Axmouth harbour . He would store it in his coach-house , or cellars , if * they were dry—for it wonld keep extremely well in a dry place—and sell it even in half-crown worths to the farmers for experiments , and he was 'quite sure that the result of these experiments would induce them all to come th £ following year and expend many pounds on this precious manure . Some ofthe guano sold in tins country was adulterated by art and some by nature , but a little precaution on the part ofthe , buyer would prevent his being imposed upon . Hei had only to put a ieaspoonft . _1 into a tumbler full of i
warm water and to wash and rinse it , whirling it round briskly , when the sand ( if any were mixed with it ) might be detected at the bottom . He would particularly caution them againstapplj'ingguanoin dry weather , because during a few weeks exposure on the surface most of its fertilizing properties would be evaporated . Farmers often lose their labour from disregarding the time and circumstances proper for applying guano , and instead of blaming themselves , found fault with the manure . If the weather were dry , the wiser course would be , instead of wasting the guano , to keep _iiior another year . —Dr . Buckland ' s speech at the Meeting of the East Devon cud Dorset Agricultural Society .
Cumivation . —The great object of all cultivation is to introduce into plants those substances which are adapted to the food of man . In their natural state they receive , from the air and the soil , merely food enough for their own support , the elements required to form the blood of man are contained in them in very small quantities . It must always be borne in mind by the farmer , that eidtivated crops are in a state as much unlike that intended by nature as the stall-fed ox , wliich lias been made to attain an enormous development of fat by excessive supplies of the most nutritious food , or unlike the cow which is obliged to seek its nourishment over an extensive range of scanty mountain pasture . Transplanted by
man from their native soil , and collected , for his convenience , around liis dwelling , there has been produced by art a forced and unnatural development of all their parts , but especially of their seeds , and to maintain this forced development the utmoBt care of the farmer is required- for should he trust his fields to nature , his crops would again return to their natural state , or perhaps entirely disappear . It is well known that the produce of an acre of the wild potato in Chili , its native country , would _scarcely suffice for the daily consumption of an Irish family yet the wild plant and the cultivated are equally exposed to the influence of the atmosphere ; the difference in their value as food must therefore depend entirely upon the amount of nourishment supplied by the soil .- "
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Northern Expedition *—It is now definitively arranged that a Northern expedient shall be fitted out , to sail about the 1 st of May . Sir J . Franklin will have the command ; and we are informed that the Erebus and Terror will be provided with the most approved Archimedian screw propellers . Fossil Remains . —Cromer . —The late high tides have partly uncovered the lignite beds along the base of the cliffs , and among the fossil remains of that stratum have been found a fine specimen of the lower jaw of a rhinoceros , with the seven molar teeth , in good preservation ; together with molars of the elephant , hippopotamus , and beaver . One of those rare implements the celt , supposed to have been in use among the aboriginal Britons , has also been found
on the beach . They are all in the collection of Mr . Simons , at the Bath-house . —Cambridge Advertiser . Waterproof Ammunition . —The Washington correspondent ofthe AW York Journal of Commerce has the following , under date the 31 st ultimo : — " In the house Mr . Tibhatts , by unamimous consent , submitted a joint resolution that the law of 1808 , appropriating annually 200 , 000 dollars for arming and equipping the militia of the United States and territories , ne so modified that one-fourth of the amount shall be applied to the purchase of Colt ' s waterproof ammunition . The resolution was read twice , and referred to the committee of the whole on the state of the
Union . A lug-lily favourable report from army , navy , and militia officers accompanied the hill , setting forth that Colt ' s cartridges can be preserved any length of time without deterioration of the powder ; that no fire is left in the gun , after a discharge , to cause premature explosion on reloading * , that the tune required for sponging , pricking , and tending vent ( being one-third of the whole time required in loading a gun ) is saved ,- that the cartridges are spark and waterproof ; and that troops using them can march in storms of rain , can ford rivers without risk to their ammunition , and bring on an action under circumstances where cartridges of common construction would be destroyed .
Electric Clocks . —The following extract of a letter from Mr . Finlaison , of Loughton Hall , appeal's in the Polytechnic Review : — "Mr . Bam has succeeded to admiration in working electric clocks by the currents of the earth . On the 28 th of August he set up a small clock in my drawing-room , the pendulum of whicli is in the hall and botli instruments in a voltaic circuit as follows : —On the N . E . side of my llOUSe tWO Zinc plates , a foot square , are sunk in a hole , and suspended to a wire : this is passed through the liouse , to the pendulum first , and then the clock . On the S . E . side ofthe house , at a
distance of about 4 . 0 yards , aholewas dugfbiM _fcetdeij-p , and two sacks of common coke burned in it ; among the coke another wire was secured , and passed in at the drawing-room window , and joined to the former wire at the clock . The ball ot * the pendulum weighs nine pounds , but it was moved energetically , and has ever since continued to do so with the , self-same energy . The time is to perfection , and the cost of the motive power was only 7 s . 6 d . There are but tlu-ee little wheels in the clock , and neither weights nor springs ; so there is nothing to be wound up . "
Progress of Steam Power . —A new machine for the purpose of _^ superseding manual labour in lithographic printing by steam power , has latel y been _patented , and brought into considerable operation in England . Hitherto the printer , after inking the drawing , was himself obliged to dragthe stone through the press , and this expenditure of valuable tune greatly increased the costliness of the proeess . The new invention relieves the pressman from this labour , * and by accelerating the process will render lithographic prints much cheaper than they have hitherto been . The impressions , too , arc sure to he uniform , and as the higher " pressure afforded by the steampress permits the use of undamped paper and a better quality of ink , thus preventing the distortions resulting from the unequal stretchings ofthe damp paper , they will be much superior to those produced by the mere manual process .
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LONDON . Metropolitan District Council . —Mr . -J . F . Linden in the chair . —Reports were received from several localities in favour of the sixpenny levy in support of the Executive . The following resolution , on the motion of Messrs . Stallwood and Simpson , was unanimously adopted : — " That the question relative to the Convention be adjourned until Sunday next , March . 9 th . " ; Mr . Lewellyn , late of Pontypool , one of the compatriots ef John Frost , who lost his all at the time of the Newport outbreak , addressed the Council at considerable length . In the course of his speech he complained of the unequal distribution of the monies subscribed for those who had unfortunately fallen victims to their devotion to the glorious _
principles contained in the People ' s Charter ; and suggested that for the future , should victims be made , thatthe funds subscribed should be equally divided , although the sum might not amount to more than one farthing each . ( Cheers . ) On the motion of Mr . Stallwood , seconded by Mr . John Arnott , the followlowing resolution was carried unanimously * . — " Inat the best thanks of this Council arc due , and are hereby given to Mr . Philip M'Grath , for his able and argumentative letter in replv to the foul aspersions cast on the Chartist body by _' William Lovett . " , Mr . Blackmorc , of Plymouth , then addressed the Council , shewing the great progress of Chartism in Devon and Cornwall , and the great desire expressed by the Chartists in those counties to receive a visit from Mr . O'Connor . The Council then adjourned .
_. _BEinNAL-CREEN . —Whittington and Cat , Churchrow . —At a meeting of the members of this locality on Sunday last , a vote of thanks was given to Mr . M'Grath , for his reply to the malicious and anti-Chartist letter of Mr . Lovett . The levy of sixpence was unanimously carried . Mr . Davis was nominated as a candidate to represent the Hamlets in the ensuing Convention . Post-office Espionage . —A public meeting was held at the Cheshire Cheese TavernGrosvcnor-row ,
, Chelsea , on Sunday evening , March 2 nd , . 1845 , to consider the above subject . Air . Sturge was unanimously called to the chair , Mr . * G . J . Harney gave a lucid exposition of the system of espionage carried on at the General Post-office , under the direction of the Home and Foreign Secretaries . Mr . H . concluded by moving the following resolution : — " That _thetha-nksofthis meeting are due , and are hereby given to that noble champion of democracy , T . S . UKncombe , Esq ., for his able exposures of the Post-
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office espionage—a practice subversive of all public morality , mimical to tlie liberties of nations , and _calculated to disgrace our country in the eyes of mankind . a i , lueet - &* highly approving of the exertions made by Mr . Duncombe , to put an end to these odious practices , callnponhim to continue these efforts , until , backed by thepeople , he shaUhave succeeded in annihilating a system so repugnant to the feelings , and so destructive of the rights ofthe community . " The resolution was ably seconded by Mr . J , Bowling , supported by Mr . W . Matthews , and carried unani-• mo ? sy r- _^ sP"r * ted collection was then entered into on behalf of the Duncombe Testimonial , which , with previous sums , makes £ 14 collected in Chelsea for the same object . The meeting then broke up .
City Locality . —Ata meeting of this locality , held at the Hall , f urnagain-lane , on the 18 th ult . the foUowing resolution was adopted . - — "Tliat in the opinion of this meeting the recent decision ofthe Association , with respect to the future appointment of the Executive , fully proves that the country was not faithfully represented at the last Conference . Wc therefore call upon the various districts about to send delegates to the ensuing Convention to elect men from their own ranks , who will honestly represent their wishes , and hold them responsible " for the trust reposed in them . " _Ihsa of Prussia , _ToolbwiIREet . —At the usual weekly meeting of the St . John's and St . Olave's locality , delegates were elected to attend on the Metropolitan District Council for Sunday next .
ISLE OF WIGHT . _jNewport . —At our usual weekly meeting held on Tuesday evening , at the King ' s Head Inn , -Newport , Isle ot Wight , the" following resolution was unanimously adopted : — " That after considering the recent accusations against Mr . O'Connor ' s conduct , we beg to express our unshaken confidence in hhn , and to assure him that so long as he continues in the straightforward couvse he has hitherto pursued , he will merit and receive the best thanks and confidence ofthe working classes . " PLYMOUTH . At the usual weekly meeting , held on Sunday evening last , the following gentlemen were put in nomination as candidates forthe future Executive :-r Thomas Clark , Christopher Doyle , Philip M'Gratli , Feargus O'Connor , and Thomas M . Wheeler ; and the sum of £ 1 was ordered to be sent to the Executive as a portion of the levy . "
MANCHESTER , A Lecture was delivered in the Carpenters' Hall , Garret-road , on Sunday evening last , by that sterling advocate of Democracy , Mr . John West , of Macclesfield . The assembly was numerous , aud the talented lecturer gave - universal satisfaction . HALIFAX . Mr . Doyle , ofthe Executive Committee , delivered two eloquent and impressive lectures on Sunday last , in the Working Man ' s Hall , to numerous and attentive audiences . Subject : "The Wrongs and Rights of Labour . " A unanimous vote of thanks was given to Mr . Doyle at the close of the lceture , and th e meeting separated higlily gratified .
YORKSHIRE . The Dewsbury District _Meetino was held on Sunday last , when delegates were present from the following places ' . —Wakefield , Thomas Shaekelton ; Dewsbury , James Fox and Samuel Fogg , * Littletown , William Schofield and John Rathery ; Birstall , Frederick William Sucksmith . The following resolutions were passed : — "That the secretary be authorised to comply with the address ef the Executive ofthe 22 nd ot March , by transmitting sixpence per member to Mr . Wheeler forthwith . " " That each ; delegate bring the levy to the next delegate meeting . " "That the thanks of tliis meeting arc due to C . Doyle , for his able and straightforward advocacy of the rights ofthe millions . " Littletown . — On Wednesday evening , Feb . 26 , Mr . C . Doyle visited this place , and delivered a lecture to a veiy attentive audience in the Association Room . Mr . Doyle spoke upwards of an hour and a
halt . At the conclusion of . his lecture , tho toliowing resolutions were put to the meeting , and carried unanimously : —Moved by William Lacy , seconded by Abraham Schofield , " That we , the Chartists of this locality , in public meeting assembled , having seen in the Northern Star the charges preferred by Dr . M'Douall against Feargus O'Connor , Esq ., and the refusal of Dr . M'Douall to attend before the Council in Manchester , to substantiate those charges , do consider such conduct anti-Democratic ; and that Dr . M'Douall is no more worthy of our confidence . " Moved by Ebonezer Clegg , seconded by a friend , " That the best thanks of tliis meeting are due , and are hereby given , to the Manchester Council , for the honourable and praiseworthy manner in which they conducted the inquiry . " After Mr . Doyle had disposed of about nineteen ofthe Executive hand-books , and enrolled several new members , the meeting broke up . "
CORNWALL . . Penzance . —Glorious Progress ov Chartism . — At a special meeting of the Chartists of this locality , numerously attended , Mr . -Alexander Davis in the chair , it was proposed by W . J . Guscott , and seconded by Mi ' . Locker , " That the confidence ofour body __ be presented to _Feav _^ R O ' Connor , Esq ., Messrs . Philip M'Grath , Christopher Doyle , Thomas Clark , and T . M . Wheeler , to whicli we deein them justly entitled , for their untiring exertions in the promotion of our sacred principles . " It was further proposed by P . J . O'Brien , and seconded by Richard Gendall ,
Ihat the abovenamed five are fit and proper persons to be nominated for the new Executive . " Both these propositions were earned unanimously . We are happy to inform you that tiie local war for municipal officers commenced on Saturday with crowning success . The four assessors and two auditors elected are the men of our own choice . We are determined to contest every inch with the enemy , and have hopes that we shall be able on the 25 th inst . to elect overseers , poor law guardians , and board of highways . The town-councillors elected by the people are doing theu- duty nobly . —Correspondent .
TILLICOULTRY . _Tue Demise of Mr . John Duncan , of EdinnuRGn . —With feelings of deep regret the Chartist Association here heard of the event . We fear the cause of patriotism and philanthropy has lost one of her noblest and brightest ornaments ; one that will not soon be replaced . Arrayed , as Mr . Duncan was , in the integrity of the principles he professed—determined to leave the world better than he found it—he threw his whole talents and energy into the movement of the working classes , and laboured with zeal and determination for many years , equalto any , and surpassed by none . By his calm and rational mode of procedure he made friends of all , and enemies of few . * but , alas ! by his over-exertions he lost his health , and for a long time the total use of his reason . He has left behind him a virtuous wife and
family to lament his loss , with few or none to befriend them in the time of need . Shall we , therefore , the Chartists of Scotland , have the ingratitude to forget those so near and dear to one that we are so much indebted to ? We look for better things , and if we are what we profess to be , our works -will bear witness ; for " words are but wind , actions speak the mind . " Will the men of Edinburgh and Dundee , where Duncan laboured so long and so faithfully , not bestir themselves ? and by subscriptions raise ' Airs . Duncan from her very straitened circumstances to those of comfort and respectability ? The task is easy . Let the friends of Edinburgh form a committee . Let us vie with each other in the work which is already begun , and which wo hope will soon be finished . Tillicoultry has begun the work ; Alva likewise . Shame upon us if we leave Mrs . Duncan and family unprovided for !
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The _Spatields _UuriaIi Ground . —IxTEiiFEnEXCE of the Home Secretary . —The repeated complaints and representations of the committee of the _inhabitants of Clerkenwell have at length attracted the attention of the Home Secretary to the nuisance and practices so long prevalent in the * neighbourhood of Exmonth-street , _Spafields . A communication was made by Sir James Graham to the police commissioners on Saturday , and Captain Hay , the assistant commissioner , on that dav inspected the Spatields burial ground , accompanied by Mr . Watt , the chairman , Mr . Clarke , the secretary , and several other respectable householders . The stench arising from decomposed human bodies was declared by Captain Hay to be insufferable , and the committee were directed to forward such information as they could collect ( reduced into writing ) for the guidance
of __ an- James Graham . A meeting of the committee took place on Sunday , and examinations were taken and forwarded to the Home Office . A meeting of the parish officers has likewise been held at the workhouse in Coppice-row , and Mr . Wakeling , the vestry clerk , lias , it is stated , opened a correspondence with the Secretary of State on the subject . The manner in which this extraordinary and revolting work of demolition was first discovered is this .- —Reuben Room , a grave-digger at the burial-ground , had a child interred sometime since , and upon his discharge he insisted on removing the body , asserting that he well knew after he left that the coffin would be burnt , the body and limbs severed , and deposited elsewhere . Police constables Henry Webb , G 100 , and Martin , 144 , were called in to prevent Room openinethe grave .
upon which he took the two officers to an outhouse , where they saw the lids of several coffins consuming over a fierce fire , and pieces of "human flesh" ( to use _ the officers' own words ) were attached to the coffins the size of their hands . The written examinations sent to Sir James Graham are seven in number . The statements arc revolting in the extreme , andalmost exceed belief ; yet it is right that the public , as weU as the Home Secretary , should be aware of what goes on at such places . We subjoin two of these _leyen depositions : —Reuben Room examined : Was inthe : employ of Mr . F . Greene as grave-digger in 1837 , and continued in liis employ for aboutsix years . Ourmode of working the ground was not commencing at one end and working tothe other , but digging wherever it was ordered , totally regardless whether the ground was full or not . For instance / to dig a grave seven feet deep , at a particular spot , I have
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often disturbed and mutilated seven or cightbodiesthat is , I have severed heads , arms , legs , or whatever came in my way , with a crowbar , pickaxe , chopper , and saw . Some of them were quite fresh , and some decomposed ! 1 have had as much as one hundred weight and a half of human flesh Oil what we term the "beef board , " at the foot of the grave at one time . I have often put a rope round the neck of the corpse to drag it out of tlie coffin , fastening one end of the rope to s tombstone , so as to keep the corpse upright to gdw , t the coffin from underneath , to make room forthe flesh of other bodies . The coffins were taken away and burnt , with pieces of decomposed flesh adhering thereto . Ihave taken up half a ton of wood out of one grave , because I had to take out two tiers of coffins , some of which were
quite fresh , and we used to cut them up for struts , used for shoring up the graves . Wc liad as many as fifty and sixty sides of coffins always in use to keep the ground from falling in when digging . Wo have buried as many as forty-five bodies in one day , besides still-borns . I and Tom Smith kept an account one year . We buried 2017 bodies , besides still-borns , which are generally enclosed in deal coffins . We have taken them up when they have been in the ground only two days , and used them to light fires with . I liave been up to my knees in human flesh , by jumping on the bodies so as to cram _thein-into the least possible space at the bottom of the graves in which fresh bodies were afterwards placed . We covered over the flesh at the bottom by a small layer of mould . I have ruptured myself in dragging a heavy corpse out of the coffin . It was a very heavy one . It slipped from my hold lifting it
by the shoulders . The corpse was quite fresh . — William Penny , inspector of tho G division ; In December , 1843 , a petition was presented to the magistrates at Clerkenwell Police Court , signed by about 150 inhabitants . Tho magistrate gave me the petition and desired me to see to it . 1 did so , and went immediately to a one-story erection inthe burial ground called a "bone-house" where I found a large fire un the floor and in the grate . The fire consisted of coffin-boards of full-grown people and children broken up ; some were quite sound with pieces of black cloth and handles and plates , and pieces of shrouds were flying about . The smell was indescribable . I have visited the ground many times since , and have found it in the same state . Have repeated experience in my nightly rounds of ihe horrible stench from the burial ground . —Great excitement continues to prevail throughout the parish , audit is understood that an inquiry will be forthwith instituted .
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Lo . _n-do . \ - Coitx ExciiA . vr . -n , Mosn . iY , * MJiicu o . —The arrivals of English wheat ' wci « ' ratliri _' ; I _« _fJSft" during the past week , tliose of barley only niOddVfite , but ol oats a fair supply came to hand not only from our own coast , but likewise , from Scotland' and Ireland . Of beans and peas there were no receipts of importance from any quarter . This _morningthere was but a moderate show of wheat by _land-carnagc'samples from the neighbouring counties , por was there much barlev or oats fresh up ,, whilst' the dis * play ot beans and peas on the Essex , Kent , anil' Suffolk ' stands was small . The weather was H _; cry fine during 'th ' e ' greater partof last week , "buf ' this"nioritiiig we have hea * y rain . The demand for . wheat was again very slow , * and sales were made ' with some difficuBV ' _oh'l-ast Monday ' s terms . Tiie transactions iii free foreign '
wheat were likewise on' a ' restricted scale , but the trifling business done was at former rates . In bond , nothing of interest transpired . Flour hung heavily on hand , and ship samples were ' the turn cheaper . Barley was held pretty firmly " at the currency of this da y se ' nnight , but maltsters' aiid distillers acted with extreme caution . Malt also moved off slowly . The oat trade remained in precisely the same position as during the past week , the principal . ' dealers holding off with a view of causing a further depression in prices ; tlie quantity sold was consequently unimportant , though factors generally submitted ko a decline of Cd . per qr . on last Monday ' s rates . Beans and
peas were in steady request , and maintained tlieir former value . The backward nature of spring has hitherto retarded the demand for clovci'secd , and there was very little doing in the article this morning ; prices of this as well as most other species of seeds remain nominally unaltered . The Mowing is the official statement ofthe stock of grain in bond in London for the month ending Feb . 5 : —Wheat 127 , _ulC , oats 17 , 000 , beans 3 C 9 , peas 1458 qrs .: flour 53 , 154 : cwt . Official statement of the stock of grain in bond in the United Kingdom for the month ending Feb . 5 : —Wheat 344 , 6 ( 38 , barley S 141 , oats 66 _,, ) S 1 , beans 2 * 786 , peas 6312 , ' qrs . ; flour 205 , 967 cwt .
CU 1 UU 3 NT PRICES OP GRAIN , _l'P . R IMPERIAL _( VUAKT EH—British , s 5 8 8 Wheat , Essex , & Kent , new is old red 42 48 White SO 5 t _Norfolk and Lincoln . ... do 4 ' - ) 46 Ditto 4 S 50 _Noitlium . and Scotch white 4 tl 4 G Fine 48 52 Irish red old 0 0 Red 4 L' 44 White 4 f > 48 Rye Old 31 32 New . 'IU 32 Brank 35 36 Barley Grinding .. 20 28 Distil . 29 30 Malt . 3136 ifalt Brown .... 54 5 G Pale 57 81 ' Ware 62 64 Items Ticks old & new 30 33 Harrow 32 37 Pigeon 38 40 Teas Grey 32 33 Jfaple * 13 34 White 36 38 Oats Lincohis it Yorkshire Feed 21 23 Poland 23 25 Scotch Angus 22 24 Potato 24 28 Irish White 20 22 Black 20 22 l _' er 2 S 01 b . net . s s 1 1 _' er - J 80 lb . net . s s Town-made Flour ... 42 44 | Norfolk & Stockton 83 34 Essex and Kent .... 34 So _( Irish 34 35 Fr « e . Bond
Foreign . s s s s Wheat , Dantsic , Konigslnirg , & c 52 08 36 3 S —i Marks , Mecklenburg 48 C 2 32 34 Danish , Holstein , and Frieslund red 44 4 fi 2 a 28 — : Russian , Hard 44 46 Soft ... 44 47 26 28 _—; Italian , Red . . 40 48 White ... 50 82 28 32 Spanish , Hard . 46 48 Soft .... 48 50 28 32 Rye , Baltic , Dried , ... 30 81 Undried . . 30 3 ' . ' 21 22 Barley , Grinding . 25 27 Malting . . 30 33 20 3 S Beans , Ticks . . 30 33 Egyptian . 81 32 24 28 Peas , White . . 36 38 Maple . . 32 34 28 30 Oats , Dutch , Brew and Thick 24 25 19 21 Russian feed , 21 22 U ic . Danish , Friesland feed 21 23 15 17 Flour , per barrel 24 26 18 20
_Losno . v Smithfield Cattle Market , Moxdav , March 3 . —Since this day se'nnight the imports of live stock from abroad for our market have been limited , compared with those of many preceding weeks , they not having exceeded forty-two oxen , five cows , and fourteen sheep , all from Holland . As the whole of the abovc importations were brought forward and disposed of wi Friday last , not a single head was exhibited to-day . This falling off in the receipts of foreign beasts and sheep must he chiefly attributed to the stringent regulations in Holland to prevent the spreading of the epidemic , which is raging with fearful violence amongst live stock in that country . The supply of beasts received from our own grazing districts was seasonably extensive , and of unusually prime quality , especially as relates to the Scots and homebreds from Norfolk ; indeed , we have seldom seen so fine and so even a collection of that description of stock as this morning . We regret to observe , however , that the beef trade was
in a veiy depressed state , and tho quotation ? in consequence suffered a decline of quite 2 d . per SI !) ., the very highest figure for the best Scots not e weeding 3 s . 10 d . per 81 o ., and yet a clearance was not effected . The bullock droves from Norfolk , Suffolk , Essex and Cambridgeshire comprised 2200 Soots and hoinebreds ; while from the northern counties we received only 200 shorthorns -. from the western and midland districts , 200 of various breeds ; from other parts of England , 300 of various breeds ; and from Scotland , 100 horned and polled Scots . The number of sheep was somewhat less than last week , yet it was sufhciently large . Prime old Downs commanded a steady but not to say brisk inquiry at full prices , while in most other breeds a fair amount of business was doing at late rates . The veal trade was rather heavy , yet tlie quotations were mostly supported . _Vrinwsmnfl porkers were quite as dear . In other kinds of pork very little was doing .
By the quantities ot 811 ) ., sinking the oftal . s . A . _s . d Inferior coarse beasts ... 2 4 2 S Second quaUty * . . . . 2 10 ;! S Prime large oxen , . . ' 8 4 H fi rrime Scot ? , ice 3 8 3 10 Coarse inferior sheep ... 2830 Second quality .... 3 2 3 4 1 _'riine coarse woolled ... 3640 Prime Southdown .... 4 2 4 4 Large coarse calves . . , , . " 10 4 6 Prime small . . " . . . 4 8-50 Suckling calves , each . . . 18 0 SO 0 Large hogs 3 0 3 8 _^ eat small porkers . . . a 10 4 4 Quarter-old store pigs , each . . 16 0 20 0
nEAD OF CATTLE ON SALE . ( From the Books ofthe Clerk of the Market . ) Beiuns , 3 , 137-Sheep , 24 , 510-Calvei * _, 02—Figs * , 333 , _Smiiutisid Uix M . \ _-ft-RT . ts . —Corse meadow hay , £ 3 10 s . to £ 4 10 s . ; useful ditto , £ i 12 s . to £ 1 18 s . ; fine upland ditto , £ 5 to £ 5 5 s . , * clover hay , £ 4 10 s . to £ 5 los . ; oat straw , £ 1 IGs . to £ 1 ISs .: wheat straw , £ 118 s . to £ 2 per load . A fair average supply , and a sluggish demand . Liverpool Corx Market , _Moxdat , March 3 . —¦ Wc have again to report a liberal weekly supply of flour , with fair quantities of wheat , oats , and oatmeal from Ireland . Since Tuesday last there has been rather . a better feeling in the trade as respects wheat ; the millers have not bought more freely , but at last Friday ' s market two or three parcels of Irish
new were taken on speculation , and in some instances at a little advance on previous rates . Foreign has continued to be neglected . The demand for Flour has been on a limited scale , and oatmeal has -sold slowly at the quotations of this day se ' nnight . Two or three parcels of mealing oats have found buyers at 2 s . lOd . to 2 s . lid . per 451 bs . There has been little passing in either barley , beans , or peas . Maxchestkr Corn Market . _Satumuv , March 1 . —Our market during the week has presented no new feature , the same want el-activity inthe demand or all articles , especially for flour , having , been experienced as Ave have so frequently had occasion to report of late ; and , although in some few instances it has been lVecessarv to accent rather lower rates for
flour of middling and inferior quality , we cannot note any material variation from the previous currency . At our market this morning holders of wheat evinced rather a firmer feeling , but the business transacted was only to a limited extent . A very languid demand was also apparent for flour . Both oats and oatmeal met a moderate _s-aic without alteration in value ; and beans continued in limited request , but cannot be quoted cheaper . Livbrvool _Cattl-e Market , Monday . March 3 . —The supply of cattle at market to-day was not quite so large as last week , but prices wove about the same . Beefoid . to Cd ., mutton _£ id . to 7 d per lb . Cattle imported into Liverpool , from the _2-ith Feb . to the 3 rd March : —717 cows , 0 calves . 2588 sheep , 97 lambs , 7075 pigs , 31 horses .
Leeds Cloth Markets . —There has been a decided improvement in the warehouses during the piutweek , but very little . ; business has been done at the Cloth Halls , and manufacturers complain that they cannot obtain remunerating profits since ' the late iise in the price of wool . . . Leeds Corx Market ; Tuesday , Makcu * 4 . —We have had a veiy large arrival of wheat for this day ' s market , but the supplies of spring corn do not materially exceed the wants of the trade . Having a better attendance of millers than for some . weeks past , the demand for wheat lias been to a fair extent , and fine dry qualities have well sustained Che prices of last week ; damp and secondary qualities must be quoted rather lower in some instances . Barley is slow , but no change takes place in its value ., ' Oats rather lower . Beans and other articles without variation . - : ¦
THE AVERAGE PRICES OF CORN , FOR THE WEEK . __ ' _EN'DISO MARCH 4 , 184 d . _lVheat . Barley . Oats . Rye : ' Beans . Peas-Qrs . ¦ Qrs . Qrs . Qrs ; ' Qrs . Qrs . 5124 1144 330 - _*" ' il'S 'H " £ s . d . £ s . d . £ s . d . £ _s . d . £ s . d , 2 _CU 112 5 1 3 4 - 146 HI ' 10 t ) _J 7 York CoRN _. MAnKEi ,-March 1 . —The large sup-j plies we have had reason fo note of late , are kept up , ' but the dull accounts from Wakefield have not had any effeet in reducing prices here . Wheat and data are SEdeable , at last week ' s , prices ; and really prime samples of barley , from their scarcity , are the turn dearer . Beans , 6 d . to Is . per qr . lower . *•
Mamon . Cobs Market , March 1 . *—We have only a short supply of grain offering to this day ' s market j " wheat dull sale , i ; at rather lower , prices ; in . barley _andioats we ; make no alteration . _•) _,, Wheat , red new , 44 s . to : 47 s .: ; : white do ., , 48 s . to _^ 50 s . ; . red do . V . old . ' 49 s ; to 50 s . -, white do .,, 60 s . ' to 54 s . per qr . . of 40 stones .- Barley , ; 2 * 38 ;; to ; v 308 r .. per . iqr . _\ of , _fflrstoaes , Oats , 9 jd . to lOJd . per stone .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), March 8, 1845, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns4_08031845/page/7/
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