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butts of 108 gallons each, of a most delightful mix- ture, which costs only 48/. per butt, at the very outside ; the expences being much more than paid in the value of the casks, (5/. 6s.) which has not before been taken into consideration, or deducted from the total amount, to lessen the cost per butt ; and in the course of a few days after the finings and Lamb's Blood have been put in, it is ready to be advertised as * Fine Pale Sherry of peculiar delicacy and flavor!' If bottled in 'fifteens? and (id. per dozen, be added for charge of corks, the cost price, per dozen, would be 18s. 2%d. if in the size of bottles termed * sixteens,' 16*. \.\\d. per dozen. As stated by our different advertisers and placarders, the prices for sale are 24s. ; 25*. (yd. ; 27*. ; 28*. Qd. ; and 30*.* per dozen ; and, without dwelling on the variety of inferences that may be drawn from this point, the following Scale, show- ing the cost prices, per dozen, of genuine Sherries, both Pale and Brown, in dock, duty paid, from the lowest qualities to the highe&t, and although pur- chased in the cheapest manner, if cleared home * It should be observed, that another mode these worthies have of increasing their profits, is by selling the same Wine; which is ad- verlised at so low a rate, for that for which a higher price is quoted, thus, in applying for a quantity of Wine at 30*. per dozen, you are supplied with identically the same Wine as is advertised, and sold, at 24*. per dozen. If yon apply for some, the price of which is stated as at 36*. or 42*. per dozen, you are served from that, which is occasionally sold as of tempting quality, at 30*. per dozen, and so on through their whole scale of prices.