COUNTRY CATTLE AND MEAT MARKETS, &c. Norwich Castle Meadow, Jan. 14.-Our market to-day, was well supplied with fat Cattle, and the sale very dull; price of the best of those sold at 8s. 3d. per stone of 14 lbs. The supply of store stock was but small, and the sale quite stagnant; a few Scots sold at 4s. to 4s. 6d. per stone, when fat. Pigs cheaper than any thing else. Horncastle, Jan. 14.-Beef, 7s. to 8s. per stone of 14 lbs.; Mutton, 6d. to 7d.; Pork, 6d. to 7d.; and Veal, 8d. to 9d. per lb. Manchester, Jan. 11.-To this day's market we had a short supply of Cattle and Sheep, which met with a brisk sale at advanced prices.-Beef, 5d. to 7d.; Mutton, 6d. to 8d.; Veal, 7d.to 84d.; and Pork, 5d. to 7d. per lb., sinking offal. At Morpeth market, on Wednesday, there was a good supply of Cattle and Sheep; there being many buyers, fat sold readily, the former at a little advance in price.-Beef, from 6s. 6d. to 7s. 9d.; and Mutton, 6s. 6d. to 7s. 9d. per stone, sinking offal. CAVERAGE PRICE OF CORN, sold in the Maritime Counties of England and Wales, for the Week ended January 7, 1826. Wheat. Barley. Oats. 0....38 11....29 11 .61 7....38 2....26 6 .59 5....37 9....25 5 0....38 10....26 0 .35 1. 28 L 7....37 9. Norfolk 0 Lincolnshire 0 Yorkshire Durham Northumberland Cumberland Westmoreland Lancashire.. Devonshire.. Cornwall.. Dorsetshire .57 9....34 10....27 .59 9... .37 3.. .22 6 .62 3....41 4....26 6 0....44 5....24 10 2....27 8 .61 6....37 4....27 0 ..59 0....37 0....25 0 ..60 9. .40 10....21 5 The London Average is always that of the Week preceding. TO THE READERS OF THE REGISTER, MY FRIENDS, Kensington, 25th January, 1826. "Now's the time for mirth and glee; I WISH you could now all come out to Long Island, I sent off a and help me laugh. I have re- man with a light wagon and pair lated, that, when the English news- of horses, to New York (about 20 papers, containing an account of miles) to bring up my son James the passing of PEEL'S BILL, came" to help me laugh." I despaired I Printed and Pablished by WILLIAM COBBETT, No. 183, Fleet-streek [ENTERED AT STATIONERS' HALL] of beating it into the heads of my" investigation into the accounts Yankee neighbours, who, besides," of the Edinburgh firm must recared very little about the matter," move all doubts, should any reand used to wonder why I could" main, respecting the real author care so much about it; and I" of the Waverley novels." could not bear to enjoy so much "But," say you, “why laugh pleasure without having partici- at this?" Not because Mr. CoNpators; and, therefore, I sent for STABLE and his partners have my Son, though my horses were failed; and, mind, this may be a wanted very much in the fields. lie, as great as that which this Now, thank God, I have plenty same paper put forth about my around me to help me laugh; but having turned my front parlour, still, I could not see the following here, into a "butcher's shop," paragraph, in the OLD TIMES which lie was scrupulously copied newspaper, of the 23d instant, by all the vagabond "best public without regretting, that all of you, instructers" in England, Scotland, my steady and sensible readers, Ireland and America. No; not were not assembled, on some because ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE smooth down, and I, on a plat- and Co. have failed; not because form, in the midst of you, giving they may have failed; but because the signal for repeated shouts of their shop has, for the last twentyunanimous laughter. five years, or thereabouts, been the centre, from which have emanated those tenebrous political "Letters received on Satur"day from Edinburgh, state the failure of the house of A. Con- rays, which have shed worse than " stable and Co. booksellers, un-a pestilence on this Scotch-ridden "derstood to be largely connected kingdom. From this shop has "with a leading London house, issued those dark and deep heaps "which has recently stopped pay-of rubbish called the "EDIN"ment. It is surmised that an BURGH REVIEW," which has been one of the great causes of" he crushes, by his ponderous?! the fatal progress of the paper-weight, whomsoever he falls money bubble, and which, if the "upon; and, what is worse, drags above news be true, has, I dare" to cureless RUIN WHATEVER say, been one of the principal "CAUSE HE LAYS HIS HANDS. causes of the "failure!" This " impudent work; this prime piece UPON TO SUPPORT." NOW, conceited JEFFREY and of Scotch humbug, in its Number BROUGHAM, and MACKINTOSH; for May, 1823, said of ME, that and the rest of you, leaving ANI ruined every cause that I en- TEUS aside for the present; NOW deavoured to support. It will be who is the "staggerer;" now who: best to take the whole passage; "is blind; or one-eyed;" now and thus I, with a pair of scissors, who has "run upon posts or pitcut it out of the dark-and-deep, falls"? And, as to “ruin" in and stick it in here. "Of the flicted on that which we touch, "WEEKLY JOURNALISTS, Cobbett let poor Mr. CONSTABLE speak! "stands first in power and popu- How stands the case with us, larity. Certainly he has earned NOW? You have had the sup"the latter: would that he abused port of a great body of nobility "the former less! We once tried and gentry, for whom, in fact, you wrote; you have had the half of > about four hundred periodical pubs lications to abet you; you are a... numerous band of men; you have had, to favour you, the prejudices "to cast this ANTEUS to the "ground; but the EARTH-BORN "rose again, and still STAGGERS ON, BLIND OF ONE-EYED, to his “REMORSELESS, RESTLESS pur have been single-handed, with all": against me, all the pose, sometimes running upon of a vast mass of the people. It “FOSTS and PITFALLS Sometimes "shaking a country to its centre, "It is best to say little about him, powerful and the base Press "and keep out of his way; for the prejudices opulent, and all: and follies of all men of all parties, except, solely of this sort of understanding, these except, the sensible men who men never possessed one single became my partisans from a grain. How should they? They conviction of the truth of my are, in general, if not wholly, doctrines. And, there you now men who really know nothing but are the objects of laughter, of that which is to be learned, first, in scorn and contempt, while I not only hold my ground, but have, from the very cause that has sunk you, doubled and tripled its extent. What have these reviewers been at for the last twenty years? Committing all the blunders, and doing all the mischief within the a preparatory school; next, under some castigating pedagogue; next, under some special pleader; and, lastly, at the crawling bar of the most crawling courts on earth. What do they, or can they, know of the world, except its chicaneries and rogueries? What of mankind, except the worst side? Mere fox-hunters are not much, to be sure; but they are more than mere book-venders, and more fit to govern men, for they know something of them. range of their power, and, owing to the circumstances above stated, that range has been very wide. They have, as I once said in a Long-Island Register, never, even by accident, been right on any subject connected with what are called politics. And, how venturers, who mean to get on by But the worst of it, with regard to these Reviewers, is, they are ad means of their writings; and then all this race of Scotch adventurers look upon the mass of the people should they? To string sentences together; to deal in sarcasm; to sit in judgment on books, where there is nobody to call you to ac-as cattle, to be used for the becount; to do these is one thing, and nefit of some master, with whom to understand the great affairs the adventurers constantly enof nations, is another thing; and deavour come in for a share |