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Newspaper
Nonconformist
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Apr 24, 1850
Page
11
Market notes from Monday April 22 describe English Wheat selling at last Monday's prices amid ample supply and steady demand. Flour trade slow. foreign barley, beans, and peas show limited activity. Oats trade improves with sales near prior prices. Linseed cake unchanged. cloverseed season regarded as ended with occasional speculative sales.
From the grazing districts arrivals of beasts up to day were higher than last Monday while demand remained steady at last week's prices. Scots topped at 3s 6d per 8lbs. Sheep supply slightly fell with good general quality and firm mutton with a 2d rise per 8lbs. Primest old Downs at 4s, in wool 37 10d per 8lbs. Lambs supplied well with firm demand and occasional upward drift. Calves limited but well supported prices. Pork trade sluggish at last week's prices.
Provisions in London show falling butter prices due to abundant supply and weak demand. Irish ham and bacon deviate little in value with selective buyers, while fresh butter remains struggle to sell. Dorset dairy prices soften. bread costs listed. Market notes cover seeds, vegetables, fruit, and wool with subdued activity and steady tallow pricing.
Market heavy with declines from the previous day. Prices listed per ton include Stewin's at 6d, Hartlepool 17s 3d, Kelloe 163 6d, Eden 6s 8d, Hartlepool J. 1éz 3d, and Tee 17s 3d. Fresh arrivals total 342, carried over 7, leaving 319 on hand.
The market opened dull with 8,700 Mauritius bags and 13,500 Ben ai bags offered, demand weaker. Prices declined on most Bengal descriptions, with Benares and grainy varieties hardest hit. white Benares and crystallized corte ranged 37s to 46s. Coralty, 700 ordinary Ceylon bags sold at 46s, 1,000 by private contract at 4s. Mecha bulk brought in at 60s.
A partial sale of 8 000 bags shows buyers and lower prices. Public sales of white Bengal and cassia lignaea mostly bought in by importers. Tin, pepper and cooton goods noted weak demand. overall produce markets opened dull with imports to London from Jan 1 to Apr 16 at 16 944 000 lbs versus 19 600 000 lbs in 1849. Honduras silver prices 33 6d to 48 2d.
An advertisement by William Hooper Halse promotes medical galvanism via electricity as a universal vitality fluid. It cites cholera links, references Dr. Arnott, and urges self-experimentation while criticizing the medical profession. The notice invites readers to obtain Halse’s pamphlet by mailing two postage stamps.
Excerpts from Mr Wesley’s works on electricity recount his 1747 1756 and 1765 journals describing experiments with electrical experiments curing paralytic disorders stomach ache and side pains. He argues electricity is a universal medicine with variable outcomes and defends the practice against critics.
Dr Walter de Roos claims a universal rupture cure free of trusses. The remedy is advertised as safe, painless, usable by all ages, with home delivery and instructions. Address 35 Ely-place Holborn Hill London for consultations and trial, stamps required.
The notice adverts superfine coats and various garments with prices from 12s to 75s and mentions silk skirt linings dress coats and vests. It notes made to order services clerical uniforms masculine and youth suits, working men jackets and trousers, on premises work and open books for customers. No Sunday labour and inspections from ten to four with prospectuses on application.
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