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A prize of one htindred guineas has been offered by
the Sydney Morning Herald for the beat poem on the Sydney
International Exhibition. Al! Drift& subjects are allowed
to compete.

It is announced from. Ottawa that the Canadiala
BinaUpe Minister has submitted to Parliamenz an entirely
new, tariff which imposes new duties and increases the exist
ing ones on woollen and cotton manufactures, iron steel,
and other metals and manufactures, liquor's, 'Wines.
groceries, ctn. The bulk of the changes made affect importa-
tions from the United States.

The Syndicate of silk manufacturers and merchants
of Lyons have placed themselves at the head of the Free-
trade party, foreseeing that the Protectionist system would
be ruinous for the Lyons factories. They have, moreover
resolved to cause subscription lists to be circulated. The
money thus obtained will be employed for sending delegates
throughout France and for holding meetings in favour of
Free trade.
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The annual Governmental Report shows a falling off
of about two per cent In the duty paid for game licenses, the
amount received in the year ended 81st March, 1878, being
£190,522, against £194,275 in the preceding year. Gun
licenses show very little change, the amount received being
£76,452, against £77,204 in the preceding year.

The barque Earl Derby sailed from Gravesend on
Saturday (15th), having on board, as emigrants bound for
Brisbane, 70 married people, 106 single men, 104 single
wemen, 52 children between the ages of 12 and 1, and five
infants, making a total of 337 souls.
The Frankfurter Zeitung mentions the "Iron
Wedding," or the 70th anniversary, of the marriage of an ex-
Rabbi at, Vletz, near Berlin, named Silberstein, who is in his
93rd year. He has 145 descendants, 69 of whom attended the
celebratien.

According to a short telegram received on Saturday
evening, and read to the congregation on Sanday.morningt n
the Metropolitan Tabernacle by the officiating clergyman,
the Rev. Charles Lovell, of Victoria-park, it appears that the
bracing air of Mentone, where Mr. Spurgeon has been
sojourning for some seven weeks, has acted most beneficially
on the rev, gentleman's health and spirits.

In accordance with a suggestion recently made to
him by a deputation, t,e Home Secretary has decided to
classify as far as possible the long•termed convicts professing
the Presbyterian religion, so that they may be enabled to
enjoy the services of a chaplain.

The first lev4e of the season was held on Monday by
the Prince of Wales at St. James's Palace. Amongst those
kreaent were the Crown Prince of Germany, the Duke of
Edingburgh, Prince William of Prussia, Prince Frederick
Charles, the Duke of Cambridge, and Prince Christian.
There were 27 British and foreign wrecks -reported
during the past week, making a total of 452 for the present
year, or an increase of 120, as compared with the correspond-
ing period of last )ear. The approximate value of property
lost was £.310,000, including British 000,000.

A society is being formed of American authors,
especially novelists, to urge upon the Governments both of
the United States and of Great 'Britain the necessity for
establishing international copyright, on the ground that it is
impossible for even the best American literature at the pre-
stmt time to compete with cheap piracies from England.

Her Majesty; accompanied by Princess Beatrice,
and attended by General H. F. Ponsonby and suite is,
according to the most recent arrangements, expected to
leave Windsor Castle about the 25th or 27th inst., for Italy,
and the nec,s.ary prepanottinni are now being made for the
Royal journey.
' The Russian G-iiverntnent proposes to erect a monu-
ment in commemoration of the late Russo-Turkish war.
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will consist of a pyramid, on the top of which the Russian
eagle holds down with Its claws the Crescent and the Turkish
war ensigns. On the four sides important events of the cam-
paign will be represented in basso-relievo.

An Hungarian veterinary inspector of cattle pro-
poses to inocdate healthy animals with rinderpast in much
the same manner as children are inoculated for small-pox
The course of the disease in inoculated animals appears to
be, as a rule, very mild, and the number of deaths to be in-
significant.

At Lyons, the other day, 150 artisans repaired to the
Town-hall and sent ten of their number to the prefect to
solicit work or relief. The prefect told them that any demon-
stration or disorder would only aggravate their distress, and
the men (Aspersed.

On the 16th of April and three following days there
will be fetes at Cannes in celebration 01 the 100th anniversary
of the birth of Lord Brougham, to whem the prosperity of
the town is so largely due. They are announced as under the
patronage of the senators and deputies of the Alpes-
Maritimes and other local dignitaries. There will be a
horticultural and att exhibition, an international regatta. a
Venetian fete, horse and velocipede races, displays of fire-
works, illuminations, a ball, &c., and on the afternoon of
the last day the statue of Brougham will be unveiled.
A. curious old Sedan chair, declared to have been
used frequently by Napoleon 1., has been sold in Paris.. The
sedan was built at Avignon in 1761 for the De Jonas family,
who were intimate friends of Napoleon when he was in
garrison at Nimes. The panels are beautifully painted, the
pictures being a view on the banks of the RhOne, a nymph
'representing the Saone, Narcissus surprised by Echo, and
the triumph of Amphytrite ; while the metal work and the
poles which support the chair are most delicately ex,nuted.
On Monday the goods guards employed upon the
Bristol district of the Great Western Railway held meeting
to consider the directors' notice of extended hours, and
unanimously passed reeolutions agreeing to 86 hours per
week, or 60 hours running time, so long as depression of
trade should last, upon the understanding that when trade
revived the directors would adhere to the agreement of
572.

The Sportsman publishes a letter from Weston, the
pedestrian, challenging Charles Rowell, the winner of the
championship of the world belt in the match concluded in
New York on Saturday, to enter into a contest with him for
It, Rowell to name the time and place.
An instance of the Queen's consideration and
kindly interest in those arouud her occurred at Windsor
Castle, on Tuesday afternoon. About three o'clock, Private
Stone, 2nd Battalion Coldstream Guards, who was doing
sentry duty at the. Victoria Tower on the east terrace,
where the apartments of the Royal family are situated,
was suddenly taken ill. The Queen, noticing the condition
of the soldier, immediately sent for one of the Royal sur-
geons and the sergeant of theirnard, when some cushions
were placed in a cab, and in this Private Stone was removed
to the regimental hospital.
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A momument erected to the memory of soldiers who
fell at the battle of Novara will be unveiled at Novara on
the 23rd Inst. Representatives of the Indian army will be
}•••••avu. 0.10 v‘a.nv.y,l tut Tatupoava vl AUCLtI eas
appointed Colonel Von Kell to represent the Austrian armv
on the occasion. •

"The Americans are certain lg an eccentric people,
and manage to find amusement out of strange material. The
charm of their humour is its oddness, as the following ad-
vertisement in a New York paper will go a good way to
prove. The advertiser is the manager of a new hotel, and
the advertisement sets forth its merits. They include proxi-
mity to nearly everything that is desirable, and especially to
a large railway-station. The coffee-room windows look
straight out on the doors of the booking-room office, so that
visitors breakfasting in the hotel can see the faces of the
people who have arrived late for their train."—May fair.

An important geographical discovery is announced
from India. The course of the Sanpu, or great river of Tibet,
has been surveyed by one of the native explorers attached to
the Indian Survey for a distance of 200 miles eastward of
Chetang, the furthest point to which it had hitherto been
traced in that direction. It then turned southward into
some hills which the explorer was unable to penetrate.
This settles a vezata qucvstio which has long exercised the
minds of geographers as to the identity of the Sanpu and the
Brahmaputra.

"The cotton trade in India appears to be affected
by the depression tinder which it is suffering throughout
Europe. From the annual report of the Bombay Mill.
owners' Association ea learn that the adoption of short
time last year failed to clear off the accumulated stock of
goods on their hands, and that the depression became so
severe as the year drew to a close that a proposal was made
by the committee of the association to reduce wages 10 per
cent. The proposal was not adopted, and the committee
urge that matters are going from bad to worse. Nor is
there any hope of improvement while food continues so
dear "--14'rom " Trade and Finance" in the Pall Malt
Gazette. .
In answer to a, deputation, • introduced by Mr,
Palmer, M P, which psked that a Committee of the House
of Commons should be nominated to inquire into the com-
mercial treaties with foreign countries, more especially with
Spain, Sir Stafford Northcoto said that the Clovernment ad-
mitted that the present state ot the wine duties was less
favourable to Spain, among other' countries, than to France,
but they did not yet see how it could he altered without a
considerable loss of revenue. That loss of revenue eould
not be made unless the advantages they were to receive
from Spain and Portugal in return were more clearly set
forth than at present. He thought the wine duties shoild
not be dealt with alone, but that an endeavour should be
made to bring about generally a bettor state of relations.

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A prize of one hundred guineas has been offered by
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'IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT respecting
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, Spain, and moved the appointment eta Select Committee to TH E ZULU WAR. - SMELFUNGUS 011 FEMALE SUFFRAGE* TNE VICTORIA CROSS.
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.. inquire into the subject. • • ..- - .....,..M.1.1,..
(In answer tO est inquiring Frieni I . - - .. _St International Exhibition. All Dritish subjects are allowed
'he HOUSE 07 LORDS, March 17, the Earl of Redesdale Mr. Bourke stated that the Government would be diipOsed .• -' ' -
(From lifonday's Daily Telegraph.) The Sta. _ ,
' resolution declaring that before two bills authoris- to grant the proposed Commi __ ,
ttee but he su gested the tist saYs :-A-"--part fro-ra the 'gaieties of trade, a Yes,''Sir, Ido think the House did well toiling out. h • sl
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withdrawal of the resolution tint e a consu te with the which relate to the movement of oods and theaetivity the Ladies' Bill.
'onstruction of narrow-gnage railways in Ireland Reconcile OP THE COLOURS OP THE 24T11. • • intention to confer the decoration of the Victoria o'oo Elnanise Minister has submitted to Parliament an entirely
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seded with it was exped en a t e oar o Chancellor of the Erchequer as to the term aof reference to
MAMMA, March 15. of transactions, there ice ,a quesfon as to improving '
No, Sir, I don't object to Female Suffrage. sit 1&11,.
the Committee IfracTittid7plievaaldnfo
6atingnottynnheeera. -to
oUCaptain John Cook, -of the Bengal Staff Cozpsiefor a new. tariff
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... 7.- -,. . 'ltlintlithetheLe4nckueenn ga2etaa beente
which imposes-new duties and increases the exist
, report on the subject. After a discussion, in • .
Under the date of Feb. 4, a Special Correspon en on e
d t th tone in the markets of tie couitry which requires Quite the reverse. But I hate half measures. „Mr. • 1 t f 1 t the action of the Peiwar Kotal
signa Fte 0 va our a . ing ones on woollen arid cotton manufactiires iron steel
mthoen thCeanSysdi
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stion was opposed by both the Duke of Rich- After a discussion, the Chancellor of the Exchequer ad-
u frontier writes as follows :-
Zul examination. Everything • red, i Courtney's Bill was a half measure,
is peva or prepar ng, Sir. It left out . • , - aud other metals and manufactures, liquor's, Wines,
ord Chancellor, their lordships divided, and mitted that the izquiry was desirable, and promised to con- for a revival of cheerfulniss, of • d • h t the married women ; the better half of Mankind. on the 2nd of Dece , .
mbar 1878 in leaving, curing a . $ _ c
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. . grocerie , . e of the changes made affect importa-
`o 28. sult with Mr. Cartwright as to the terms of the reference. " A party went from our little camp at Rorke's Drift, con- prices, an ,ins or , very heavy fire, charged out of the entrenchments tions from the United States.
of tr d •
a e , money is chea •
' the 38-ton gun in the turret of the The motion was, upon this understanding, withdrawn. stating of Major Black, of the 2-24th Regiment ; the Rev. Pe wages are low, the hours of Yes, Sir ; and the better half of womankind, too-I with such impetuosity that the enemy broke and fled, T Sd•t - f 'lk -
he yn ma e o si manufacturers and merchants
b ht b f r th H th 1
arought before the House by the Duke Mr. Delahunty next roug eo e
.e ouse e neon- George Smith, Chaplain of the Forces ; Captain Harford, labour are extended, stock are reduced, and prices in mean for electoral purposes.
when, perceiving at the close of the melee, the danger of Lyons have placed themselves at the
nineteen men the Commandant of Lonsdale's Corps Captain the wholesale markets head of the F e
elained that the report of the Com- veniences of a restricted circulation, which, by the alterna- ae down to what appears No, Sir ; not because married women are at all of Major Galbraith, Assistant-Adjutant-General, trade party, foreseeing that the Protectionist system wcfieild
Charles Raw !fo f t Nti M t d 'tin be • •
rf nr o he ah:e a oun_eh con gent, to a minimum range, It may, perhaps, reason- better qualified to vote then single by greater (aped- K
1 was not in accordance with the tions of expansion and contraction it entailed, was re-
and Brickhill the uram Corumn Field Force who was in personal con- be ruinous for the Lyons factories. They have, moreover
House to consider what would be sponsible, he contended, for much of the depression of trade. nalgrpreter to tf at I. Ta downward ably be hoped also that lie -effects ef failures and ence and knowledge of affairs-though they ought to •
fliet ith a Af ha lcrer ' C t • Cook distracted resolved to cause subscription lists to be circulated. Tha '
w n g ii so i , ap . .
'rmoil of an engagement if such He moved a Resolution setting forth the opinion of the House of the Buff
course
ina river was o wed n 1 a crossing of bankrupt competition wel no longer be so strongly be. But, Sir, because protected by the ballot, a great oney thus obtained will be employed for sending delegates
were possible. that a free circulation of paper currency, together with a place at an a ost impassable drift was reached, where many d t
his attention to himself, and, aiming a swor cu m
felt as of late in t
many radee Uneler such circum- many of them would vote in contrariety to their hus- throughout France and for holding meetings in favour of
full and adequate circulation of paper convertible into of our brave fellows, after the carnage of Isandhlwana Camp, which the Durani avoided sprang noon him and,
a competent committee of stances we may lo k f • 1 f n 1 t" • b d D t M C 1 1 8' ffir th tth ' - e ' ' Free trade. '
the whole question of hstval specie on deman ,
d is essential for the promotion and d d
essaye to pass an perished in the attempt. o or a revive o spec a ion in an s. oes no r. ar ye, ir, a m a e grasping his throat, grappled with him. They both ,
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development of manufactures an ra e.
dt d " The route was strewn with dead bodies, those of the various markets, which. shun erentually spread to people of this country are mostly fools ? If, as such, groun . e urane a most power u
fell to the d Th D • f 1 The annual Governmental Report shows a falling off
The Chancellor of the Exchequer expressed a general con- natives composing the majority, these being either members ,
all and re lace th r v •
p e p e siting depression by hope the men generally vote for the wrong caddiciate, their man. still endeavoured to use his rifle, seized Captain of about two per cent in the duty paid for game licenses, the i '
maple evidence that when of the Natal Native contingent or loyal natives who believed and activity. Here and ther dd3l t M h, 1878 b
amount received in the year en e s arc , aing ,
currence in the principles of the Resolution, but reserved eve do actually find wives, voting for the other side, would vote for the .
'ere was no means of in th a Cook's arm in his teeth, until the struggle was ended din
£190,522, against £194,275 in the prece g year. Gun
his opinion with regard to any practical proposition which e upreme power of the Government or the magical evidence of the growing speculaive power referred right one.
on had not gone off. effect of the boundary line, even to the last. bv the man beine shot through the head, licenses show very little change, the amount received being .
Mr. Delahunty might propose to found upon it-viz., abolish. , to. In the corn, the iron ad tin, the cotton Yes, to be sure, Sir, although no wiser than their e e , ,
',assisted in restoring £76,452, against 477,204 in the preceding year. 4 el
ing one-pound notes or otherwise. ' When the steep path leading down the precipitous rocks markets, this first sign of reviving trade is apparent. husbands.
absence of recoil ' • •
to the river wag reached scouts were posted.
vdraulic rammer ' Sir J. MOKenna and Mr. Biggar spoke, and the Resolution We believe that the weather has a great deal to do No, Sir ; Female Suffrage would not necessarily CUTTINGS FROM AMERICAN PAPERS. The barque Earl Derby sailed from Gravesend on
'reit that the first was then agreed-to. " A descent was mede down nearl hlf Saturday (15th), having on board, as e gr
mi ants bound for e
1 Ihenbicellteffs or/Id 'ut t M 31 a a with the improvement, a narked hcrea,se of shipping lead to Universal Suffrage, Legislation is seldom • -
hip detailed a Mr. Sclater-Booth, in introdueing the County Govern- mile from the river, ay e an pville and Brisbane 70 married people, 106 single men, 104 single
activity being in consequeice of he better weather, logical. But the enfranchisement of all women should A Ohi
n o paper contains an advertisement of an • b t th ages ot 12 and 1, and five
take with a ment Bill, after referring to the history of last year's Bill, Lieutenant Coghill. dce tlj i
b ettewelzil leainn lienrre t' Candhser. women 52 children e ween e .
added that . indicated the chief points in which this year's measure vice was performed y c p . a enan log in's reported from Hull and oher ports ; and as regards be included in that of all men. 4 enterprising tradesman, who, at the end of it, announces :- ' t 1 f 337 la.
infants, making a to a o sou ss
the whole differed from it. In the first place, he said it had been ring, Adjutant Melville's spurs, and other articles be onging to inland tad th b k - - Y S'
r e, e rea ep of -tee long andesevere es, ir ; the reasons that bold for Female Suffrage " Ministers supplied with goods at cost price, if they agree
The Frankfurter Zeitung mentions the " Iron ,
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the brave fellows beteg car stilly taken charge of by their frost has been followed mention the fact o their con a ations "
by o marked activity in bend- hold for Universal Suffrage. toe. If none had votes to t gr e .
determined to give up the complete fusion of the Quarter W dding " or the 70th anniversary, of the marriage of an ex-
'or this Sessions with the new Boards then proposed. The maglia comrades. ing and agricultural oPerstions, iron, Wood, tools, but those -who had sense and knowledge enough to A. justice of peace at New Hartford married a RI ' i his in hie
bi at Vietz, near Berlin, named Silberste n, w o
trates would continue to perform their police functions, "The Path thence to the river was strewn with dead Zulus machinery, materials, laboir, all being immediately make a wise use of them, the constituencies would be couple the other day, and the bridegroom asked him his 93rd year He has 145 descendants, 69 of whom attended the
-ad- and they would issue a precept for the necessary expend!. and various paraphermtlia of savage warfare. Arrived at the in request to make up for wean. A slight impulse small. You would have an oligarchy, Sir, composed !?igles,caolteer theewsknmote N:witio tide; jars" ,
1 Yiell'Th" ealend',:tiXtejazgrtoloelea; celebratien. ;,4 -
,c 1 ture to the County Board, with which would rest the levy river the dead horses, saddles, stirrups, spurs, leggings, of this kind coming upo h
V t e easy state of money of persons like you and myself. The next best thing
' and assessment of the county rate. Owing to the Bills • charms, and articles of native dress, accidentally or purposely said. " there's a dollar ; that will make you three." According to a short telegram received on Saturday
matters and u n
DO th 1 d • to that would be the ler t •bl titu •
gee possi e cons ency, in evening, and read to the congregation on Sandaymorningl n
which had been introduced this' year the new Boards east off, lying by the roaring stream, foaming over huge . i . ee eow state of stooks an prices
Strangers visiting Augusta, Me., while the snow is
would not be charged with the functions of river con. boulders, and paasing between precipitous cliffs covered with which prevails in neaelY ell trades, is sufficient to which the majority, incapable of voting with intelli-
, in the streets, are particularly cautioned net to kick any the Metkopolitan Tabernacle by the officiating clergyman,
,rvancy nor election of coroners ; but they would have hush and aloes, showed the spot where the rushing- torrent put an indefinite spring into the commercial organism. gence, would be subdivided into the greatest Possible old hats they may notice in their path, as several citizens the Rev. Charles Lovell, of Victoria-park, it appears that the .
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administration of the Highways Act, the management and savage foe alike overwhelmed many bras a men. It is quite according to teory and experience that number of parties and persons. Then, Sir, its nume- have had their heads seriously braised in this way before bracing air of Mentone, where Mr. Spurgeon has been o,
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sojourning for some seven weeks, has acted most beneficially
ridges and their approaches, the revision of work- " About 600 yards below, at the crossing place Mr. there should be small ani isolated beginnings, but roue conflicting elements, their votes being dictated by they were dug out.
on the rev. gentleman's health and spirits. 4
accommodation, and the provision of accommoda- Harbour, of Commandant Lonsdale's Corps suceeded in the improvement will spriad, a oat owerful acting their opposite passions and prejudices, could politically An American paper says that a new way of fasten-
imbeciles and idiots wbo were not fitting objects finding the Queen's colours of the 1-24th, with 'the pole com- cause beine the desire to ' - in
plc" dto hold nullif one another. Sir, the Tories refrain from ing on ladies' hats is to bore the tops of their- ears, put in
'go into stoc an _ . y In accordance with a suggestion recently made to
minty Asylums. The Boards would be constituted plete, injured by the action of the rapid stream, but other- , - . him by a deputation, tse Home Secretary has decided to
ei magistrates and two-thirds guardians, elected wise untouched, the gilt Lion and Crown surmounting the stocEs o.f g wnen pricetehow a tendency to rise. voting for Female Suffrage only because they are biding gold hoops, and have the hat strings tied through them. classify as far as possible the long•termed convicts professing
iians, and the electoral area would be settled by pole, and the colour case were found by two other of their time to dish the Liberals by conceding Universal athwa to e fectiou and
Thus, step by step we tread the p y p r ,
ere the darkness of death envelopes all the world, man will the Presbyterian religion, so that they may be enabled to
,s in Quarter Sessions. The election would be Lousdale's men a few yards lower down. . Suffrage to Democracy. in the meanwhile, Sir, have utilized his no i h ld' hi tal
se n o ing up a pan oons or puu-
- enjoy the services of a chaplain.
'rs, and the term of offioe would be for three hooray for Female Political Emancipation.-Punch. lag on his boots. The first levee of the season was held on Monday by .
"These colon's% were borne back at the head of the little A TEMPERAICE MISSION. the Prince of Wales at St James's Palace Amongst those
cavalcade in triumph, and when Rorke's Drift was reached The authoress of Loving and Being Loved compares • •
A desultory conversation which followed, •-___. 'resent were the Crown Prince of Germany, the Duke of
the soldiers left their dinners or whatever occupation they a man to a silk umbrella, in these terms : " A good man is
ed that the alterations of the Bill were A week's temperance missiaa took place at Sheffield 011 LOSING AND FINDING IN PARIS. Edingburgh, Prince William of Prussia, Prince Frederick
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were engaged upon, overjoyed at the sight of their lost like a strong silk umbrella-trustworthy, and a shelter wheu Charles, the Duke of Cambridge, and Prince Christian. .
d predicted for it a strenuous oppo- colours regained, and gave their heartiest cheers for the old Sunday by the preaching ot 95 temperance sermons, and on o_______ the storms ot life pour down upon us ; a mere walking-stick •
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ort. Mr. Rathbone, Lord E. Fitz- flag and for Major Black and the volunteers who bad re. Monday there was a Conferetce iu the afternoon, and a It might have been expected that the Exhibition when tte sun shines-a friena in misfortune. There were 27 British and foreign wrecks -reported
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c . Whitbread, Mr. Hibbert, and covered them. meeting at night. Both Mr. loebuck, M.P., and Mr. Mun- during the past week, making a total of 452 for the present i
year i
'n Paris would be a rich one for the finders of lost A Chicago paper says :-" Snow fell here yesterday - •
the same sense ; while Mr. della. M.P., had been communcated with to take the chair. year, or an increase of 120, as compared with the correspond-
" The major, in a few well-chosen words, then handed the articles, and the returns just issued by the Prefect a foot deep." Let a St. Louis editor see that, and he will tell
tiowyer, and Mr. Hicks entirely Mr. Roebuck wrote as follows :- hag period of last sear. The approximate value of property
i aLatm. 1...v0 "ran thosa sty.). celoess to Colonel 01Tia amidst loucl huzzah., saidthe colonel. of Police fully bear out this anticipation. It must you that if the snow was a Chicago-woman's foot deep, second-
with heartfelt emotion, on behalf ot himself and hia regi- " Were I ten years youeeer than I am I would lost waa £.310,000, including British £300,000.
's read a first time. be observed that the list issued by the bureau makes storey windows were a mighty handy thing for people who
t, thanked the little band for the noble work they had cheerfully accede to your request tO preside at the A society is being formed of American authors, i Ik .
wanted to go out of doors.
'sod of, and the House ad- vreortintarlly undertaken and succesafully performed." o mention of those case's where the articles lost have especially novelists, to urge upon the Governments both of
a. proposed Conference • but lam now physically incap- n
been stolen or have fallen into the hands of thieves, The following anecdote was told by an American the United States and of Great 'Britain the necessity for , 1 •
. able of fulfilling the duties irepoied upon the chairman fe
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although we may be pretty sure the great ma- preacher for a'sfact :-He was praying, and in his prayer he
o establish's, g international copyright, on the ground that it is
19, Mr. Vans Agnew The Daily Hews publishes a letter from the Cape, of which of such a meeting. Men will meet with strong feelings , . . , said, " I pray that the power of the devil may be curtailed. impossible for even the best American literature at the pre-
thee Abolition (Scot- the following is an extract :- to which they Will be inclined to give expression in Jority ot the property dropped or mislaid sharea Just then an old darkey in the congregation cried out, sent time to compete with cheap piracies from England.
h Lord Elcho (who "PoET ELIZABETH, Feb. 14. strong language. To preserve order and ood tem er will -
g P this unlucky fate. Excluding, however, the whole is yea ; amen. Bless me 1 Cat him tail right smack, move ,
"iscount Macduff, "We are thankful but exceedingly puzzled to know why need great firmness and strength, which latter would of this category, and counting only those things oft.' Her Majesty; accompanied by Princess Beatrice, .
Balfour, Sir W. the enemy has remained quiescent. One shudders at what fel d I
i me, an s o
huldb hll bi
e e ? ess in the o sterous which were brought to the deceits and retained there Strange there are men occupying high positions in and attended by General H. F. Ponsonby and suite is,
ding to the most recent' arrangements expected to ,
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ay, Mr. Bellies the result might have been, and may yet be ere reinforce- to be claimed, we have still a list .of most astonnding business and society in this city, not knowing how to read. "cora ' d C 1 b e° ' .
eak part, and meiats from home arrive. There are only 10,000 whites, men surge of conflicting opinions. rou must, therefore, be e. . 11,_ leave iin sor ast e a out the 25th or -r th Mat., for Italy,
- the second, women, and children, in Natal, and if 20,000 or. 30,0,6 good enoug ons and of most het
h to excuse me when I meet your request "itnenalt•--- - oaf • erogeneous critents. The This remark is suggested by seeing the number of inte
gent-looking men unable to decipher the mystic legend, ..., . ,
and the -nec,s.sry propagations are now being made for the
savages, skilled in military movements, and now effectively with a negative. The subject to be discussed is very amonn of act money in gold and silver and bronze
. ee "Please shut the door ! "-Buffalo Reasoner. 'Loyal journey. ~ , ..., . .. -..-
, second armed with the best that a Britiah general's captured camp important and very difficult, reeuiring for its solution ' paid in to the office amounts to soma. , ,
eso 000 francs
ei A Yankee. patent medicine man. warrants that, if ' The Russian Gee-erne:met proposes to erect a moms- .
could yield, had come down flashed with victory, they could large experience and much keonled f ankind. I '
ge o m and the value? of the notese bonds, • shares, an
taken in time, his conat smile would have " suspended ment in commemoration of the late Russo-Turkish war.
, ad- have devastated the land most thoroughly. Natal was sincerel h that th t
e glees ein may be tree e
t d securities for money, to no less than the extra- mahomet., to e• ... .7 . will consist of a pyramid, on the top of which the Russian
and, at the time this is written, is completely at the mercy ll Y ope ordinary - total of 984,747 francs. Gold and silver eagle holds deem with Its claws the Crescent and the Turkish .
of the Zulus, and its only safety is that its enemies do not na In y, in a wise and generoes spirit, and in a temper
orn ents and jewellery sufficient to furnish forth a 'Tis glorious to stand at the back windqw and view war ensigns. On the four sides important events of the cam-
know their power. Sympathy of a substantial sort is shown that may lead to wise and useful conclusions.-I am, a . the resplendent satirise vaulting o'er the eastern leafless
h h b t d tth ffi
large jeweller ss op eve een s ore a eo ce paign will be represented in basso-relievo.
by the other South African Colonies towards their sister yours very truly, J. A. ROEBOcIt." forest, to mark the' deepening glow of the god of day as he
for montine and of watches there were alone found An Hungarian veterinary inspector of cattle pro-
State in this crisis. Her Majesty's regular forces are now, toils away with kis little kerosene can and tools around with
Mr. Mundella wrote, excusing his non ttend c n tha
- and brought to the police no less than 500, almost the ash sifter, and the beauty ef it all la that You are too far poses to inocelate healthy animals with rinderpest in much
Ito speak, sucked out of every garrison in South Africa -a an eo f
hi
ground of his Parliamentary duties, and in the coarse o s exactly half of which were gold and the. other half away to hear his wife shout from under the bedclothes, the same manner as children are inoculated for small-pox I
i drawn towards this scene of immediate danger. The letter he said :- The course of the disease in inoculated animals appears to ,
they leave have to be filled by the volunteer forces, and , silver. The record at any rate is highly to the credit "Abet you got that fire lighted yet, Sol r ~
ny instances the individuals of the latter have for- " Much of the distress and privation of present and of public honesty in Paris, although it would have be, as a rule, very mild, and the number ot deaths to be in-
significant.
nsiness, families, and homes to do garrison duty past years would have been averted had we been a been interesting, could that have Nen possible, to " • - .
el At Lyons, the other day, 150 artieans repaired to the
'al months where it may be required. More temperate and thrifty people We can never become) oropere it with a list of articles lost and never heard 1 -
_A .
1 PITOME OF NEWS ,
every male civilian between the ages ot 18 truly happy, prosperous, and free as a nation till we c - •
of again. An enormous number of the things re- _ • Town-hall and sent ten of their number to the prefect to '
now enrolled 'as a member ot a burgher become sober and self•denyitg. The waste of money d ' h • ' d BRITISH AND FOREIGN. solicit work or relief. The prefect told them that any demon- .
1, if need be, the towns and villages which may covered were foun by cabmen in t eir carriages, an stration or disorder would only aggravate their distress, and
caused by intemperance is fearful and prodigious ; but i
volunteers, by the latter being sent to the it seems that the French practice of publicly signalis• the men dispersed.
yay, by money subscriptions and by gym- the material injury is trifling compared with the injury big the driver's honesty under the name of an " act of The total number of pictures now contained in the e.:=l t.,
substantial interest is shown in the mis- which intemperance inflicts on the moral, religious, probity "is not without its effect upon the character public rooms of the National Gallery is 1,008 On the 16th of April and three following days there
in be fetes at Cannes in celebration of the 100th anniversary - rj
;
sir colony. Doubtless a community of and intellectual life of the nation. To endeavour of the dass. Probably the most astounding part of the A Parliamentary Return shows that on the 4th sovi the birth of Lord B h to h -
roug am, w em the prosperity of , ,
or some of this action, but it will not effectually to remedy an evil which is at once a national hl t • h tht h'h • th
woe re urn is, owever, a wic gives e propor- January last there were " dividends due and not demanded " the town is so largely due. They are announced as under the -
however, affect the relations of the at the Bank .of England te the amount of not less than ' .
curse and disgrace is the duty of every honest patriot • • patronage of the senators and deputies ot the Alpes-
sci we may possibly see, dependent • l 1 • d h 1 • d I
bon of artic es c mine to t ose unc aime . t appears £861,901. •
sparture in policy date from the and true Christian." that of the whole number of about 22,000 articles Maritimes and other local dignitaries. There will be a , ~
The Manatee which has now been at the Royal horticultural and art exhibition, an international regatta. a , 1 ~
• found, only about 12,000 were ever called for, so that A ri ,Yr t 'but I n rl ni m th di d 1 t Venetian fete horse and veloci de races dis lays of fire-
er, or ea y ne on s, e as
as a rule, not more than a very small percentage of s auuard auymmo me ainmg. works, ill inations, a ball, &cp.', and. on ,thepafternoon of
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laelnisford was published MONEY ORDERS BY POST eARDS- the persons who lose an article in the streets ever take Th heir-apparent to the Persian throne has set out the last day the statue of Brougham will be unveiled. .
-I.on Gazette on Saturday. the trouble to go to the police to make any inquiries f e - - •
or St. Petersburg. . A curious old Sedan chair, declared to have been
the proceedings of the The transmission ef .th hth P t Offi
money roug e oe ce at all about it. The world is after all more honest , . • used frequently by Napoleon I. has been sold in Paris. The
Her Majesty s ship Osborne, which has been placed
lisaster at Isandula. than the people of the world suppose.-Globe. ' 6 f h D
sedan was built at Avignon in 17 1 or t e e Jonas family, '
has become so much a necessit f th th t
y o e age a any- at the disposal of the Duke and Duchess of Connaught by the ,
eret that more evi- who were inTtimate friends of Napoleon when he was in le
thing which can be done to render it more easy and 'Prince of Wales for strip to the Mediterranean, will, accord-
`Estes that he has ing to present arrangemebts, leave . with the Duke and garrison at Mmes. The panels are beautifulty painted, the ,
expeditious deserves the best consideration. A . RAPID FIRING AND HEATED pictures being a view on the banks et the RhOne, a nymph
Duchess on the 24th inst. She is expected to be away nine
.who escaped great step has been made lately in this direction -representing the Saone, Narcissus surprised by Echo, and ,
eon the occur- by the institution of registered envelopes, and the BARRELS. weeks. .
the triumph of Amphytrite ; while the metal work and the '. 4,
i upon for a e
liseerty now perraiteed to the public to send coin The Times of Monday published the following letter :- More than 2,000 file•cutters and forgers met at poles which support the chair are most delicately execoted.
aiford says .bv means of them. There ie, however, even in Sir,-I note in your columns an interesting die- Sheffield on Monday evening and resolved to resist a pro-
posed reduction of wa - " On Monday the goods guards employed upon the
ges, the meeting pledging its members i ',.
,ed from - ,
this method of transmitting small debts, a good cussion going on in reference to the Isandula affair, as to abstain from seeking employment for one month, This Bristol district of the Great Western Railway held ~ meeting I 1.
and he deal of necessary waste when the postage fees to the feasibility of grasping the musket barrel after amounts practically to a strike in the file trade. The to consider the directors' notice of extended hours, and
sfficers -, i•
m come to be added to the price of registration ; and rapid firing for the purpose of using the bayonet. meeting was the largest held ainco the gathering prior to the unanimously passed resolutions agreeing to 86 hours per
great strike of 1860. week, or 60 hours running time, so long as depression of
Um' on sums which have to bo made up wholly or princi- Let me contribute a fact in evidence. In the re-
The o ulation of Berlii "
pally of silver coin this tax becomes a serious item. It cent Civil War in the United States, at the battle of P P iis given at 1,052,900, and trade should last, upon the understanding that when trade
the return for the week ended on Februar 29 aho revived the directors would adhere t th t t
o e agreemen o
seems unfortunate that the charges for small sums Perryville, in Kentucky, October 8, 1862, I took into 1' - "1" 1872.
marriages, 472 deaths, and 844 births, of which 12 per cent. I
should have been raised lately to & higher figure than action a company of 51 men, 21 of whom I lost in the were illegitimate ; also an immigration of 1,616 against an The Siortsman publishes a letter from Weston, the l
they had once attained, and the expediency of such a engagement. We were armed with the old-fashioned, emigration of 1,052. pedestrian, challenging Charles Rowell, the winner of the
',mega from a public point of view is far from smooth-bore, muzzle•loading, Springfield musket, On Monday Lord George Hamilton distributed the championship of the world belt in the match concluded in ,
-big been fully made out. As the facie United States Army pattern, rifled for our use. This pi.i„s which had been won by the students of the South _New York on Saturday, to enter into a contest with him for
it Rowell to name the time and place.
afforded by the Englisn PdBt Office are piece is of wide calibre and carries a'large charge of Kensington Schools of Art in tne local and national competi- ' ,
eill decidedly imperfrct, it is possible that powder. My men carried each 60rounds of ammunition. tion of 1878. The ceremony took place in the theatre of the An instance of the Queen's consideration and
'vantage may be taken of a hint frbm the During the conrse of about an hour we repulsed South Kensington Museum. The noble lord congratulated kindly interest in those arouud her occurred at Windsor .
-
•d the pupils upon the success which had been achieved daring Castle, on Tuesday afternoon. About three o'clock, Private r
estmaater. In France there has been hi three several assaults of the enemy, and our rapi
the past year, and stated that the British exhibits at the late Stone. 2nd Battalion Coldatream Guards, who was doing . ,
' the Ist of March, a new regulation by firing was, therefore, divided by two intervals. During Paris Exhibition contradicted the beliet which prevailed sentry duty at the. Victoria Tower on the east terrace,
et economy both in time and expense is the repulse of the third charge the pieces became al- abroad, and to some extent at home, that we were a dull, where the apartments of the Royal family are situated.
lenders of money. A supply of mandat- most unmanageable by the heating of the barrels. The unimaginative race. was suddenly taken ill. The Queen, noticing the condition .
`orwarded to many of the local offices' men could neither hold nor load the most of them, At a meeting of George Heriot'i Hospital, Edin- ot the soldier, immediately sent for one of the Royal sur-
nto the public, the use of which is and I managed to hold my line only by using the pieces burgh, a provisional order whereby the hospital funds are eons and the sergeant of theornard when some cushions
vere placed in a cab, and in this Privale Stone was removed
than anything we are acquainted of the dead and wounded at our feet. By 'doing some opened up for tile secondary education of the poorer classes 1
of Edinburgh was approved and it was decided to petition to the regimental hospital.
-, The transmitter writes upon of the pieces times alternately, they would cool off 4. e .._ , . . , A menument erected to the memory of soldiers who <
n nome Secretary to sanction it. The George Heriot a i
of the sum to be sent, and enough for moderate use. As the men expended in hospital Trust is the wealthiest institution of the kind in fell at the battle of Novara will be unveiled at Novara on i ,
thing to do but to hand in the this action all of the cartridges of their fallen comrades Scotland, and at present provides primary education for the 23rd inst. Representatives of the Lndian army will be , ,
• clerk, and pay the money, as well as their own, there were more than 60 rounds over 5,000 children residenC m Eainehrga. }......p..... .. 1,11,1 ~a v LAay., , a.a. Ma Ilt.upoava vi EtUattla, 1a....
I
appointed Colonel Von Keil to represent the Austrian arnav
as a fee. There Is thus no fired per man. In my judgment it does not take many In a letter on the subject of "Steel for War Pur- on the occasion. • ,
ck any paper, or to for- shots of very rapid firing to render a musket inefficient poses," Mr Henry Bessemer remarks "that prior to my in- ii -
. The Americans are certainle? a t •
n eccen ric people,
ent of the money. The for comfortable use, although that, again, may depend I/entice:l,a cast-steel bar of the weight of an ordi,pary rail and manage to fled amusement out of strange material. The . *C.i
•
'l the subsequent steps somewhat on the calibre of ttsp piece arid the conse- could not be pur chased in Sheffield tor less price than £l5 charm of their humour is its oddness, as the following ad- ,
Ile or no chance of quent quantity of powder built. • e •• ' • ' per ton. But by the Bessemer process several thousand
tons of castrsteel rails are at the present moment in course vertisement in a New York paper will go a good way to 1
'ite well worth con- W. W. NEVIN, late Captain I.T. S. V. ot manufacture in She an
ffield at prices below 45 per ton, d prove. The advertiser is the manager of a new hotel, and, I
'ready partially American Exchange, 449, Strand, London, March 11. I believe the lowest quotation has reached £4125." the advertisement sets forth its merits. They include proxi-
-t Office orders, ratty to nearly everything that is desirable, and especially to
-ance, to pup, . Sir Richard Wallace (Galignani says) has given ten a large railway-station. The coffee-room windows look .
THE AIR OF LARGE TOWNS. new fountains to the city ot Paris, which are to be erected straight out on the doors of the booking-room office, so that
agaiest the walls in different parts of the capital. They are visitors breakfasting in the hotel can see the faces of the 0
1
of cast-iron, and on the same pattern throughout, like those people who have arrived late for their train."-Mayfair.
In London, a paper has been read at the Society of now seen in the streets. A constant supply of filtered water •
An im t -
por ant geographical discovery is announced
IN Arts by Mr. William Thompson, F.R.S E., F.C.S. will thus be at the command of the poorer inhabitants in ~
from India. The course of the Sanpu, or great river of Tibet, •
the vicinity °reach.
"On the Injurious Effects of the Air of Large Towns has been surveyed by one of the native explorers attached to .
on Animal and Vegetable Life, and on Methods Pro- Experiments with an electric light apparatus fitted the Indian Survey for a distance of 200 miles eastward of
a posed for Securing Salubrious Air." A great variety on board the turret ship Dreadnought took plaee at Ports- Chetang, the furthest point to which it had hitherto been '
1
, of chemical facts and valuable statistics were brought mouth on iforlay
ancihgfht. Tfhe system employed was Mr. traced in that direction. It then turned southward into .
forward, mainly on the authority of Dr. Angus Smith. ewvaisi dde s,
r' iveann byt ae ,;li)-horsneerpYo woerr t,see:ieerea twi nit
eta
we
"e 17ietttreiVLyi I,cifiase .he .lilise s wah i crehzattl: qe x psig:7 rwi7i set Lnsalile to peuetrate.
to show that not only is the air of our large tonne much the hold. The light was so contrived as to be capable of minds of geographers as to the identity of tolineg
seaxnepruc ma en dd tt
ee ,
.
ntaminated, but that these contaminations are very concentration upon objects at a short distance, or of diffu- Brahmaputra. J
'How to the health, happiness, and longevity of the skin over a large area. The experiments were considered "The cotton trade in India appears to be affected
'e who breathe it. The best scheme as yet proposed very satisfactory. by the depression under which it is suffering throughout
abatement of this evil, Mr. Thompson thought, Overtime in the Chatham Dockyard, except in Europe. From the annual report of the Bombay Mill-
`, proposed by the well-known manufacturing special cases is now to be discontinued. owners' Association we learn that the adoption of short
time last year failed to clear off the accumulated stock oi
Air. Peter Spence, F.C.S., of Manchester, Yokohama, Japan, now boasts a cricket club, a goods on their hands, and that the depression became so
iit practicable te build a chimney 600 ft. racing club, and a boating club, a splendid athletic club, severe as the year drew to a close that a proposal was made
eternal diameter at the bottom, and 100 ft. with a fine track of 144 yards; also a football club, and by the committee of the association to reduce wages 10 per
American base ball club, a Swiss rifle club, and a ladies'
-ter at the top, at a cost of about cent. The proposal was not adopted, and the committee
lawn tennis club. urge that matters are going from bad to worse. Nor is
sviding for the perfect combustion of
A petroleum spring, one boring of which has yielded there any hope of improvement while food conttnues ea
'n Manchester. It was understood
2,000 kiioe. in 21 hours, has been discovered at ?char, in dear "--14`rom " Trade and Finance" in the Pall Malt
estem, propounded more than 20
Austrian Poland. • Gcrzette. ; .
dopted succesefully at the Man- The six days' contest for the Long-distance Pedes- In answer to a deputatien, • introduced by Mr.
end was to be applied to the Wan Championship of the World was finished at ten Palmer, It P , which asked that a Committee of the House '
ion. The first great advan• o'clock on Saturday evening in last week, at Giimore's Gar- of Commons should-be nominated to inquire into the com- •
Aking the liquid and gaseous dens, New York, hi the presencs of an Immense assemblage. mercial treaties with fpreign countries, more especially with
' neutralize each other. Charles Rowell, of Cambridge, Eng!, lid, proved victorious, Spain, Sir Stafford Northcoto said that the Government ad-
sntilate the sewers ; and, having travelled 500 miles; John 10, is, of Chicago, was mitted that the present state ot the wine duties waa less
1p to solve the liquid 'or Bnods lohna v ilgi reg,"lslite yin
d 475 miles ; and Charles A. Harriman favourable to S ain amon other' countrie than to France
g placed 450 miles to hls credit' P ' g s'
'
but they did not yet see how it could he altered without a
ned in detail. The Daniel o..e.eary, the late champion, retired on Wednesday considerable loss of revenue. That loss of revenue could
hsd to all our large afternoon, having travelled 2151 miles. not be made unless the advantages they were to receive
sneys in each block The fishermen of Cherbourg have addressed a pet'. from Spain and Portugal in return were more clearly set
g them with one tion to the Cherbourg Chamber of Commerce, praying for forth than at present. He thought the wine duties should
an increase of 5 francs per 100 kilogrammee in the present not be dealt with alone, hut that an endeavour should be
' duty upon iish, to protect the French fish markets from the made to bring about generally a better state of relations.
importation of English fish, the present rate of duty not . i.
IRSE. being considered sufficient.
.
Signor Sciaparelli, the famous astronomer of Milan THE MA.RKETSt ,
.
eY have has just published a map of Mars, which shows configure-
grand tions on the surface of trust planet corresponding in every . li
f an particular to those of our own world. Thus Mars has like- MARK-LANE.-Mormair.
,nf wise its north and south poles, thick with ice fields as the Quietness prevalled in the grain trade-at Mark-lane. The
a'.. poles of our own planet. It has also continents and oceans
'' as we have, and the map shows in what direction the greater t dso •
cold weather had no appreciable effectin the f of a weaker
a e arrivals English wheat came rather sparingl
rivers fiow-at least at their mouths-the points of their dia. r . yto
charge into the ocean being distinctly visible. hand. Factors were not eager to force sales, nor were ,
millers free buyers, hence not much was done. Fine samples
An English newspaper is now being published at were held for full prices, but other sorts were irregular.
' Musjid. It would appear that the slst F'oot have a regi- Foreign wheat, of which a fair supply was on offer, sold ,
'al paper, rejoicing in the title of The Bugle; and, in quietly, at about late ratea. The barley trade was not so
st being on active service, they issued a number on the strong, but the value oi grinding and malting produce was
It contains the following :-" We believe that this without change. Malt sold at previoua currencies, Oats
t newspaper published in English in Afghanistan. were in quiet request, at about late rates, Maize was dull
has a larger circulation than any other paper in of sale at previous quotations. Beans and peas were quiet,
when our Afghan friends have been sufficiently and without alteration, The flour ma k
r et was much iu the
he Martini-Henry, it will doubtless be largely same position.
nes who live on the hill-tops, and cultivate
t corn and friendly relations." METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET.-MoNnev.
'respondent of Mt Times says that at A rather better tone prevails in the cattle trade. Supplies ,
sntary soiree on Friday evening Trince were not so large, andithe weather was cooler. From our
seital of bleating anecdotes by denying own grazing districts the receipts of beasts were less nume-
'to hinivefdissolving the Reiolistag. rous, and the quality and condition were about the same.
More steadiness was observed in the demand. Occasio 11 '
edy been subscribed in aid of the best Scots and crosses realised 5s 4d but 6s 2dn. a y
the men qf the 24th Regiment 81b. must be accepted as the general to*p quotation.* FrPomer
, and Major-General Fo Wode- Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and carpbrldgeshire we received
and Colonel A. Macpherson, about 1,500, from other parts of England about 500, from Scot- . ,
hnve formed a committee to land 60, and from Ireland 200 head. The foreign side of the
'hen the fund was opened market was less freely supplied chiefly with Danish and Spanish
seds entirely to the 24th, stock, for which the trade was firmer at hardening prices. I
eansideration to extend In the sheep pens there waste fair display, and a consider.
Atish soldiers who fell able proportion of the supply was clipped. The position of
- the trade was much about the same, with a slight accession „
of wire-binding of steadiness. The shortloans and half-breds with wool ..
A States, where realised Os 6d. to 6s. Bd., and ditto clipped, ss. 6d. to 55. 81
sat bound with pee 81b. Calves and pigs sold quietly at about rates. At -
It has been Deptford there were about 9,000 sheep. Quotations :-In- - _
ferior beasts, 4s. to 4s. 6d. • second qu litv 4a 64 t 4 8d •
oots through prime large Oxen, 4s Bd. ' a -.- . 0 1. • . ..
sy piece of to ss. • prime Scots 5s to 55 2d. •
interior sheep, is. to 53 6d • ' ' * . '
•ig to the , second quality, ss. 6d. to 6s. ;
prima coarse-woolled, *tis
'WS and - . to 6a. 61 • prime Southdowns,
6s. 4 i to 61. Bd. ; large coarse calves, '6s. to 6s. ; prime small
ditto, 6s to 6s. 4d. ; large hogs, 35. 6d. to 4s ,• small porkers.
tric 4s. to 4s. 41 ; lambs, 8e to 9s. per Bib. to sink the offal. .
'sh
s METROPOLITAN MEAT MARKET.-iioripier,
With cooler weather and less meat offering the trade was ,
somewhat better. Prices were as follows :-Inierior beef,
e.sei. to 3s. 2d ; middling ditto, 3s, 4d. to 3s. 101 : Prime
oe ditto, 4s. 2d. to 4s. Bd. ; prime small ditto, 4s 6d. to
Od. ; veal, ss. Bd. to eis. ; interior mutton, 3s. to 3s. 4d. ;
'ing ditto, 35. Bd. to 45. 6d. • prime ditto, ss. to Os.;
srk, 35. 6d. to 3s. 10d. • small ditto, 45. to 4s. 6d. ;,
' 83...10 !it!. Bd. per 8110., by the carcase. ,
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' ' TOTATOES. .
toes sell steadily, and prices are fairey sup-
npplies are moderate. Regents, 955. to 120 s. ;
o ; champions, Ms. to 955. ; and Victories
, 1355. per ton.
HOPS.
smains very 'Slow, and prices rule in
exceptionally low prices prevailing
of importance ; and as consumers
v to seize the favoarable oppor-
ng their stocks no very cheerful
1 of elie immediate future of
s are, however, scarce, and
siding., £2 Ns. to 137 ; Mid,
' of Kent, £2 6s. to Zi ;
-s, £4 to Z 5 16s. • Farne
• Bavarians, £2' 6a. to,
9, £2 75. to £4 ; Arne-
to 51, s pastors .•
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I•,,ad, ;., Surrey .
ll' `e Pigeons,
as. to 51. • ,
-14. Bd. tO .
to 2s. ,
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