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No. 36

This is a Duplicate
of No. 35 sent thro'
Messrs. Buckles with the Wool Accounts

Carrick on Shannon 18th Decr. 1843

My dear Brothers,

I have very recently sent to you thro'
St. James Street, and the Post a packet of Letters No. 35.
containing accounts of wool sales &c. and I now forward to
you a Copy of a Letter which I yesterday received from
Messrs Buckles "We are in the receipt of your favor of the
18th Inst. handing us your Draft for £240.13.10 being
the Amount due to us for Insurance & Wool Bagging for
which we are obliged. We are pleased to hear that your own
accounts from the Colony are not of the same alarming
Character as those received by Commercial Houses generally
by the last arrivals. Much importance is attached and deser
-vedly so we think to the recent discovery that by boiling
down the Carcases of Sheep a sufficient quantity of Tallow
may be obtained to establish a future increased value
of seven Shillings a head for Sheep and from informations
which we have received from an experienced Tallow Broker
we are inclined to think that the calculations by means
of which that result has been arrived at are well
founded. At a time when large Flocks had been selling
at a Shilling and in some cases at Sixpence a head
this cannot but be of immense benefit to the Colonists
at large commercially as well as agriculturally in as