New-York tribune., 1877-03-13
COMMERCIAL NOTES.

Not one American vessel of any description
cleared for ports in England. ireland, or Scotland
from the harbOr of New-York during the month Of
February.
Memphis on the Mississippi is particularly
happy Speaking of the reyiying business OF the place.
and o ie rainbow in the commercial clouds generally.
end Of the rainbow apparently resting III Memphis.
Ibe Appcdi remarks enthusiastically thai memphis never
felt good commercially or otherwise as she does to-day
February was not bad month for exports
Of beef ana mutton from NewYork. OF the former the
cxpoltation 36O5000 pounAs, valued at S293,s3s;
uf the latter Al $50 pounds valued At $3.50. An item
Of export little less than KIN TO me above CONSISTED 9l
OF which II were sent 10 Glasgow 1rou TINS port
The losses of American ships have been so
great this Winter that the sbpyars of New-England
are loOsing forward to busy year, especially those
which bnd wooden vessels of the best class There is
no especial symptom Oh r an ihle"m = 90 IN tb
trade stin clngs 10 his wooden ship
Three new ports were opened to trade in
China in February. They WenChOw near FooCnow
WoOhoo the River Yanstse and chang on The Upper
Yangso 900 miles from the Sea. BY this act OF the
Government the commercial frontier is pushed 500 miles
further up river OF CHINA and INTO the heart OF
Il rich and pOpuOus region The new ports VIII sustain
large trade.
Writers in some of the English newspapers
express satisfaction with Pullman railroad cars The
great Midland Railroad Company them and finds
them to he profitable. They said to have earned
more in the latter half of 1876 per car per mile run than
IN any previous half year since their Introduction into
England They saved life and loss Of property IN four
baG accidents in 1876, and on the Whole the company
Uk.> t.eIn 80 well that ones have recently been
ordered ana nut upon the line, between London ana
IiyeruvO BiTmDg ham, and LC DIS. The Westinghouse
,ir-brkc is spoken Of with interest also Its WORKINGS
have been studied upon the Midland Scotch Railroad
and upSSp1ucrs other lines To adopt either that Oi
some OF her system which promises equal security
At Lisbon, the royal family has decided not
TO Give the usual fctes at the palace this year, but to
i've the money they would cost for the relief Of suffering
worinen In Germany, they have arrived at an opposite
decision which give ietes Ia order to supply work
10 TIE unemployed The Government AT Berlin is being
bsught to undertake public works also, in order to EN-
ploy suGeling woTkmcn. The situation in Germany
seems in fact rather scriOusOr the abOIing population
Tine great development o: industry in WeStphalia and
tnr west of Germany drew tithcr large mum
her uf the wul, OF other provinces as To leave the
raSt Of Germany suffering for want OF men to carry on
its agriculture properly. OF late owing 10 the falling Oh
of manufacture aud cXpOrtaiiOn t0sa DIS OF Workncn
Ia. 3. bcau forced leave the manufacturing cities OF the
west and 20 back thcir old homes Agriculture has
oroNed nv this S0inc il Impossible To employ al
fe idle aud almost ali who have retuIIiCd 10 the
stern. provinces without means OF existence ono
cansr Of the trouble with German industry at present -
thc incrca importation of American ana 0thcr goods
owing TO ther superiority TINS fact suggests the IN
urobabiiy Of the German manufacturers recovering
~ cir lost ground Immediately. ana the probability Oi AN
iucrea sed Immigration to the United states the coming