The Stockton Examiner, and South Durham and North Yorkshire Herald. — 1879-03-22 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

THE COEN TRADE.—The Mork Lane Exprm says : After a few bright spring like days at the coenmencen.ent of last week, cold and dull weather has returned. Very little rain, however, has fallen, and high shying winds ha-re wrought great improvement in the cond,. tion of the land. Spring tillage has been actively commenced throoghout the kingdsm, and, no far, few complaints are heard as to the aspect of growing wheat. Notwithstanding the in,reased dryness of the atmo sphere, there are but few signs g improvtliamt in the condition of wheat, and business has been restri,tml owing to the large proportion of inferior grain offeTed. The atronger tone which ban pre-railed both in London and the provincial exchanges)]. etill further developed dming the week, each day's budiness having been marked by gradually imptovirg price.. All sound quarties of home 3rown wheat have steadily advanced, and values must o3ain be quoted Is per qr higher. Imports of foreign wheat into London, which on Monday night were large, amounted up to I :Way last to only 16,00C'qra The ahortness of supplies to the large continental demand a:tould certainly enhance values. Maize, however, Las steadily declined, having now reached unexceptionally low quotation. Barley remains steady.  The inquest On twert7-one victims of the explosion at Deep Drop, near Wakefield, has terminated, after occupying three days. The jury returned a verdict of "Accidental death," addmg an expression of opinion that there had been laxity in the management.  The South Kensingicn Museum Era, says the Aradway, acquired a line oxample of Italian decorative sculpture, 'Wadi is atibuted to Donatello. It is a sarcophagus of grey done, carved at each end with the figure of an angel, while at the top ice lifesized recumbent female tigu,.  At the meetings of the Metropolitan Board of Works it was decided to continue the experiments with the electric light on the Victoria Embankment for an additional peried of three months, upon the reduced terms which had been offered by the Societe Generale d'Electricite.  The Her. Edward Henry rmnwne, senior fellow and tutor, brother of the Dean of Peterborough, has been elected member of Corpus Christi College-Cambridge. lie gratuated in 1850, when he was senior classic. He was a Whitehall preaches two years, and Ilubean lecturer in 1866.  The Church of England Teintierance Society proposes to hold an anniversary fe4ival service in St. Paul's Cathedral on the 9th of May, when Canon Ellison will preach. Simultateous temperarme sermons will be preached on the 11th in 110 of the KO churches in London And the subt.rbs.  The Independence Pelge says that a committee of French and Tunisian officials has been appoitted to investigate the case of the French 3tud in Tunis, and every satisfaction will be given t, the claims of M. de Sancy, who, moreiner, will be granted a daisy of one year to fulfil his engagements. An inquest has been held at Bur:, St. Edmunds, on the body of John Lockwood, a drapers' assistant, aged 26, who threw himself lown swell, ninety feet deep, at his lodgings, in the ,norning. This was the second suicide at Bury during last week. John Spalding„ aged 61, having thrown himself before a train, which decapitated him. 1 The Archbishop of Canterbury hss conferred the , degree of Doctor of Law upon Mr. Wm, Fredk. Haynes Smith, the Attorneys General of British Guiana, and Uhatt-ellor of the dicoese of Guiana and the degree of Bachelor in Divinity on the Rev. Thomas Futhergill Li4htfoot, Missionary Coasts of the Cathedral of St. George in Cape Town.  Great efforts are being made to raise semi-tropical fruit in South California. Oranges are growing so abundantly that the marliets will by-and-bye be overstocked, and cultivstion will be unremunerative. It is expected that pines will flourish ere long, 90 that there will be plenty of figs, almonds, olives, pines, lemons, and oranges in the Golden State.  Mr. George Hadfield, formerly member for Sheffield, is ill beyond all hopes of recovery; and his death is hourly expected. Mr. Hadficld, who is over eighty years of age, was connected with mary of the Reform movements of the present century. and he talks now unconsciously of Mr. Bright, Mr. Roebuck, and other public men with whom he used to be associated with. At the Dublin Police Court, Spencer M'Carthv, a j law clerk in the Landed Estates Curt, has been Com' mated for trial on the charge of haring mused the death of his child, Martha WCarthy, aged eight years, by withholding from her proper care and sustenance, and also with having neglected to provide proper care and sustenance for three other of his children.  It haa just been discovered, according to the .Ifaidatone Journal, that Mr. Boyce a principal warder at , St. Mary's Convict Prison, who resides at New The Times Philadelphia correspondent telegraphed I Brompton, is entitled to from £BO,