The Shropshire Examiner and all round the Wrekin advertiser. — 1874-11-21 (Wenlock, Shropshire, England)

LONDON PRODUCE, MONDAY.—Srmar dull, a floating cargo of Bahia sold at 22.. for port in the United Kingdom. Refined sugar 30e cal. to 31s. 6d. for brown lumps to good litters; pieces, 2.15. to 275. for low and et.: quality. Coffee steady rates. Cotton, saltpetre. and jute on altered. A cargo of Rangoon rice sold for Continent at Se. 3d LONDON POTATO, Monnar.—The arrivals of potat-,ea are on a moderate scale. For sound qaalities the trade id steady at full prices ; bat otherwise the demand rules quiet. Larger supplies of toreign kidney potatoes are on offer. The quality and condition of the English supplies vary considerably. Regents are quoted at 60s. to 1008.; rocks, 60s. to ?Os.; Victoria., 808. to 110 s.; and flukes, 100 s. to 120 s. per ton. Foreign petat-v.: The imports inte London last week amounted to 1% hag. from Ratterctan. r,O TTeirP.nven, 8 Hamburgh, 4 Dordt, 190 Dunkirk, :461 Boulogne, 7:-; Amsterdam, and 18 S7O from Antwerp.  The monument to the author of 'The Star. spangled Banner," provided for under the will of. James tick, is to be placed on a hill in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. The Metropolitan Beard of Works have unanimously elected Colonel Sir James Hogg, M.P., chairman for the fifth time, at a salary of £l5OO a year. Tho Zurich authorities have discovered that a number of Poles residing in that town, have been engaged in the fabrication of English, Austrian, and Russian bank notes, but the evilence was not sufficient to werrant a prosecution.  The town of S.-19.1.011.311, in New York State, is judicially deerded to be situated on an Indian reservation, in consequence of which, says the Wor'd, distress for rent is a moral sentiment rather than a legal remedy for landlords. A writer in Beritmer's Montl4 thinks that the much-used expression, "Excuse my glove," when offering the Land, is an absurd and altogether mistaken form of politeness. It would be just as reasonable to say, "Excuse my boots." A return from the Veterinary Department of the Privy Council states that during the month of October four sheep were landed at Hull from Rotterdam suffering from foot and mouth disease. They were slaughtered at the place of landing. The Rev. Thomas Harding, who has been for forty-one years vicar of Bexley, died last week at the age of 68. The deceased clergyman was the twin brother of the Rev. Dr. Harding, late Bial,p of Bombay, who died about ten months ago. Field-Marshal Sir Wm. Gomm, who, with Lady Gomm, has taken up his residence at Brighton for the winter, has just entered upon his 91et year. The venerable field-marshal is in the enjoyment of the best of health.  William Hill, of Coombe Cottages, Drayton, who attempted to murder his wife a fortnight ago, by stabbing her beneath the heart, was brought up on Saturd iy before the local Bench for final examination. He was committed for trial.  At Chichester, on Monday, Lord Henry Lennox defended Mr. Disraeli from a charge made in the Times that he enunc;ated no policy at the Manaion House dinner. L)rd Henry remarked that at that time the Cabinet had not even met.  The man found dead in a railway carriage at the Waverley Station, Edinburgh, on the arrival of the train from Newcasle, has been ascertained to be Jams Patterson, living in Union street, Jarrow. He was seeking work. We (Leeds &Fre.) hear that a Kidderminster carpet-making firm has purchased some mills in Bu:ley,Pds, where the manufacture of carpets will be carried on. This will be another trade added to the numerous manufactures of Leeds. Ne.. York has three business firms whose entire trade consists in the importation and sale of caneri,s and otber feathered songsters. The whole number of birds imported during a single season amounts to about 150,000, valued at 450,000 dole.  The Su,nner Memorial Committee has offered three prizes of 500 dole. each for the three best designs for a portrait statue of the deceased statesman. The statue to be a sitting figure, in bronze or mar.,le, and to be plac..d on open public gro..nd.  "ITr Honour," said a prisoner to a Paris judge. "my ;:twyr is Oct here, and I reyiest a de:ay of the case for eight days." " lint," said the judge, you were caught in the act of theft; wh,t can your lawyer say for you ?" "That's just what I should like to hear," said the prisoner.