Selling off! Retiring from business!! Freeholds, leaseholds, reversionary interests, household effects and shares

Mr. W. E. Gladstone will sell by auction, at the Boer's Head Hotel ... the whole of the vast landed estates, goods, chattels and effects of John Bull, Esq., who is retiring from business on account of advancing age and ill-health, induced by recent losses in his Transvaal venture, comprising three kingdoms (United or otherwise), one empire, one dominion, forty-eight colonies and one suzerainty, ...