Carlisle Patriot December 27th, 1844 Baron of Beef for the Royal Table &c

Baron of Beef for the Royal Table &c

Carlisle Patriot - December 27th, 1844

THE BARON OF BEEF FOR THE ROYAL TABLE ON CHRISTMAS DAY.         The splendid Baron of Beef, which formed the chief  dish at the Royal banquet table, at Windsor Castle, on Christmas Day, was a  portion of a extraordinary Scotch ox, fed by his Grace the Archbishop of York,  at Nuneham, Oxfordshire. It was of the enormous weight of 179 pounds, and  measured 3 feet 6 inches in length and 2 feet 11 inches in width.   *************************   DRAYTON MANOR.       The Right Hon. Sir Robert PEEL, Bart., gave an  entertainment at the Manor on Monday last to a party of about forty of his  principal tenants, mostly in the occupation of large farms on his estate.       Dr. BUCKLAND, Br. PLAYFAIR, and Mr. SMITH, the well  known Scotch agriculturist, who were on  a visit to the Right Hon. Baronet,  after dinner, addressed the company. Dr. PLAYFAIR delivered an excellent  discourse on different descriptions of manure, and the most approved systems of  manuring land, to which the assembled farmers seemed to devote the greatest  attention.       It was after eleven when the circle broke up, the  tenants retiring with expressions of their high sense of their esteemed  landlord's hospitality.     **********************   THE WEATHER.       The change from thaw to frost was so rapid last  week that our paragraph was some what contradictory in its terms. Since then we  have had a black frost of no great intensity, but seemingly inclined to be of  considerable duration.       The wind still remains in the east, and until there  is a change in that aspect, there will be no great alteration in the weather.  The following are the indications of Mr. ATKINSON's thermometer during the past  week: -                                    Lowest.        Highest. Dec.  20,                    25 deg.         34 deg    "       21,                   20                 38            22,                    22                  37           23,                    21                 38            24,                    22                 32            25,                    26                  33            26,                    27                  36   *****************************

 

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