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HARD TIMES IN ENGLAND
GREAT SHRTNkAGE IN TRADE.
REVIEW OF THE LONDON TINES.
NORTH AND SOUTH IN 1915.
RECoECliiATI0NAT THE CENTENNIAL
DEATH OF I'M. Ii. ASTOR.
EXPULSION OF COLLEGE STUDENTS.
HARD TIMES IN ENGLAND
GREAT SHRNkAGE IN TRADE.
REVIEW OF THE LONDON TINES.
North AND SOUTH IN 1916.
RECoECliiATIoNaT THE CENTENNIAL
DEATH OF I'M. B. Aston.
EXPULSION OF COLLEGE STUDENTS
FOREIGN NEWS.
Shrfnkage of business iu Great Brif.

FOREIGN NEWS.
Shrfnkage of business An Great Brit.
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NEW YORK, Nov. 2I.-The London TiReso
November ?, In It's city article, says: Returns
OF oCr export aud import trade for the month
OF October are more marked than ever in tn
indications they give that business is under
eolng cor siderable shrnkage. While we are
sending considerably less out of the country
and getting smaller prices for what we do
send, We are at the same time buying more
largely, SO that were the balance of pay
ments dependent upon our trade figures
alone II would soon be seriously against us
When we reviewed the September returns
lne altered position OF trade was much less
stTlklug than now. Then, imports were
largely up 10 the level OF those of September
loti, ana The exports had fallen OFF onlys
Per cent Tor the month, and less for the year.
The october returns, however, showed fall
lDg OF OF 15-I per cent. and on the ten months
a. per cent. The imports, on the other haud
whlle sun barely up TO the figures OF last
Year on the ten months, show an increase on
the month of 4 Z per cent, the figures being
Exports, october, 1874, 81 9I9. eco: Octobar
1915, rs, E50oO; imports, t27 200 900 for Octo-
Der, la, and t29.l96,0oO for October, Uses
Wheat has been imported in an increased
value Of AL per cent. and the value of the
living animals imported is is per cent
salt meat, seeds. &c They an show
increases of greater or less amount
in quantity. il not always in value.
But I'm manufacturing staples there
Is no such Increase il we except tax which
shows an increase of g per cent. on the
month. but "a falling OFF of "A per cent. on the
10 months. In the case of raw cotton there
Is an increasing tendency towards decline.
The value OF the imports for the mouth being
Il per cent. less than in 1874, while the de-
crease IN the 10 months is about 10 \ per cent.
Altogether, there is little or nothing on tue
import side Of the account that can be looked
uroD as encouraging. In some cases where
there IS an Increase, 1t can hardly be looked
upon as more than Temporary, VIII lie The
general current OF trade is apparently as
steadily contracting. AT the same time, we
should say the figures give evidence that
rome trade is much more vigorous
at the moment than at the state Of
export manufacturing trade would lead US
10 suppose. Articles OF luxury are coming
IN In smaller quantities, tobacco showing y
dlstlnct falling of. Imports OF sugar. both
refined aud raw, show some falling Off, but
IL Is OF little significance. Much attea ton
is now being directed 10 the state o. coal and
iron industries OF TINS country, and il Is al
legged that serious crisis is by no means
improbable this winter, as the export trade
In both Il and iron has been comparative
~ small Tor nearly three years; now 70 IL 10
the state OF the home demand that we must
look chiefly for the origin OF decline should
1t come. IL would, however, have been some
might be avoided did the export figures
show that the foreign demand was
again springing up. But there is
tity of coal and coke exported as larger last
month than for October, 1873, but smaller by
4-3 per cent. than for 1874. while the value
has shrunk y per cent. Values have, how
ever. probably reached their lowest, and that
may be taken as some consolation. Vita
iron ii Is much the same. The falling OF on
the month is in quantity 1913 per cent, and
in value 80 per cent. While on the 10 months
there is no augmentation in quantity. In-
deed, slight diminution and a fall of Ia
per cent. in value. Here, again, values may
est point, because they seem TO be almost
stationary, but their doing so has brought
no revival demand rather than reverse,
Manufactured goods are much in the same
position. There is in almost every
quantity and value in the compsri-
son OF single months and ten months,
compared almost as uniformly shows that
position OF trade IL not worse, at all events
is not better now than it was earlier in the
year. Cotton manufactures show a falling
Off on the month of nearly Ii per cent. in
quantity and of Is per cent. in value, while
on the ten months the decrease is only 30 per
cent. In quantity and 3.S per cent. in value
Wooden and worstei yarn show a falling of
OF 26k per cent. both in quantity and value
on the month, which is greater than the de-
crease Oh the ten months, and wooden manu-
features show a falling of of 1912 per cent. i'm
quantity and 80 in value, against % per
cent. IN quantity and AZ per cent. in value on
however a small decreass on the mouth and
an increase in the ten months in both guam
tity and value. Linen yarn is rising in value
but falling in quantity. 1t must, therefore,
the country has distinctly declined,
and that taken generally the decline
is on the Increase. Nor is there any
timing on the import side OF the account
TO warrant the hope that il will Immediately
revive, but good deal on both sides 10 show
Tie contrary; yet il would not be wise 10
mare 100 much OF this. IL should not Dc
forgotten that last month has been one of so
tempestuous character as 10 effect seriously
the course OF trade, and We shall have 10
see the year out perhaps before we can be
conVlnced that the worst has not yet come,
as values have now, i'm most cases, about
gouched their lowest point. Trade that Is
doing may be looked upon as In general
sounder than IL was when merchants had 10
sell always on falling market.
The Prince Of Wales.
LONDON, Nov. 24-The Times special from
Bombay says: 1.-The Prince of Wales and his
suite returned here from Baroda this morn.
ing. All are well. The Prince at once went
oh board the Scraps and will leave on that
vessel for Ceylon." The Pos says the Right
Hon. George Ward Hunt win resign his DO
sition as first Lord of the Admiralty, and
will probably be succeeded by Right Hon
Lord Henry @. {. Gordon Lennox. al present
member OF Parliament for Chichester and
hrst commissioner Of works.
Rise I'm COnsOIs.
LONDON, Nov. 2i.-The price of cousols at
the stock exchange to-day has been higher
than at any other time since the LIST Of Janu-
ary, 1900.
NEW YORK, Nov. A-Mr. Jones, whose
brewery was burned last evening, gives his
loss AZ $3.50 900; insurance, SIS 900. The loss
by the destruction Of tenements is $4,000.
Two nremen were injured--one by falling
M ~ U.s. ana the other by the engine at which
Expulsiea q staAenss frem Prince.