The Sun.
London, England, 1867-07-11 00:00:00

IRO\'III_•ISTERS' (QUARTERLY MEM ING.

•
WOLVERHAMPTON, July 10.
The usual quarterly assemblies of the ironinasters
of this district commenced in this town this after-
noon. The attendance was small, it was confined
almost exclusively to those connected with the trade
in the locality. The great exporting firms were al-
most altogether unrepresented, and scarcely any
business was done. Transactions are all reserved for
the meeting at Birmingham on
Thursday, but every-
body is prepared for a quiet quarter-day. On ac-
count of America the demand is comparatively small;
and there is no anticipation that any improvement
in that respect will tak..! place at present. In other
departments the foreign demand is below the ave-
rage, and home consumers are chary
about contract-
ing engagements for finished iron except for just
sufficient quantities to enttbl43l them to tiara* on the
moderate amount of business they are doing.
With respect to the actual condition of the trade
at this moment, there are half-a-dozen makers who
are doing pretty well, some of them from the almost
unvarying regularity of their trade ; others have
got a supply of what may be regarded as excep-
tional orders ; but the " rank and file" of the trade
have not on the average sufficient to keep their works
going more than three days in the week.
The market for pig-iron is reported quiet, but the
make has been so much reduced that last quarter-
day prices are maintailied.
This was also manufacturers', factors', and mer-
chants' quarter-day, and the bad state of trade, past
and present, was the subject of
general complaint
and comment.

KING THEODORE.--It will be interesting to the
fgeneral, to learn that Brigadier-General Coghlan's proposal
to j
the Cabinet olh
i i
men should be pre-
pared at Bombay ready to land in Abyssinia in October
retute prisoners
thato ner
a s force in
Abyssinia,
oyfssli On,loo and to the public in
0
next. Meanwhile an officer should be sent with full poli-
tical powers and a largo staff to Massowah, to make pre-
parations for the coming army, buying up food and cattle,
die. The hope is that K , ing '
beodore, seeing that we are
in earnest, will ba induced to surrender the prisoners into
our hands. In case of a refusal, we are informed that a
hostile movement would be the result.—The owl.
saPtneErcolleg—e aritlPeekia i Imperialan
KOlNu.ojen, it seems, op-
n
and the decree argues
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document.
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college,sumrA oTi
with him and disposes of his hostility. The memorial of
Ouojen says that " in a country so vast as China every
talent can be found. If astronomy and the other sciences
aro necessary, Chinese letters will be found by means of
which they can be taught." Thereupon the decree rejoins :
ct Let Ouojen, then, seek for the letters of which he speaks.
We hereby entrust him personally with the duty, and give
Lim authority to open a school, overwhich ho will preside
and teach the things taught in the Eurcpean school. Tho
examinations will show at a later time the relative merits
of the scholars of the two schools."
EA
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