The Staffordshire and Potteries Examiner. — 1880-07-24 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

THE IRON TRADE.  WOLVERRAMPTON, WOlilleadfly.—The improvement of last week is more than continued. Prices which would have been accepted then were refused thi. afternoon. Consumers of finished iron desire to buy again at last quotations • others who have bought iron yet to be delivered wish to double their purchase on the same terms. In scarcely any instance do makers close with the offers. A rise of from 2s. 6d. to ss. and 70. 6,1. is demanded. Few pigs of good quality would to-day be bought at under a rise on the week of from de. 6,1. to ss. Hematites are mostly firm at the greater advance. Coal and coke and ironstone are firmer, Morrison's coke was quoted strong at 16s. BIRMINGHAM, Thursday.—The market this anon; , noon was fairly-well attended, and merchants and consumers evinced a greater disposition to bay than has been customary for some mouths past. As the market continued to strengthen buyers came forward and sought to pl..ce orders at the low rates formerly prevaiiiug. In this expectation, howevers they were dist.ppointed, for manufacturers and smelters alike refused to accept orders except at an advance of half a crown or five shillings a ton upon last week's rates. Pig iron of local make was in good request at Us. Gd. and 455. a tin for common forge qualities, this being from 10s. to 12s. a ton advance upon the quotations of a month ago. The better qualities of metal were not in much inquiry. Unmarked iron was in active requirement, common bars realising about £6 10s. a ton ; medium. class bars from £7 to £7 ss. a ton, being about 255. a ton dearer than at the latter end of Jane. Although the demand for coal and other fuel is augmenting, the supply is still largely in excess of the requirements, and competition continues keen.  Early next month three hundred Roman Catboat* from Oldham will join in a pilgrimage to Knock. The number of strangers and provincials visiting Paris for the national fete has been calculated at 600,000.  The Ciii,ra states thnt the applicants now waiting for vacancies in the City of London School numbef 336.  The electric light will probably Boon be tried as an illuminating agent in 'several parts of the city of London.  Amateur acrobats have a brilliant future before them in France. There is some talk of the creation of a club of clowns.  Three tourists, one named the Baroness Laroche, presumably a French lady, have been drowned in the Lake of Lugano. The new Scottish Club in Dover Street, Piccadilly, London, is now in working order, and open for the reception of members.  For the offence of selling intoxicating liquor, without a license a penalty of £3O has been imposed by the Clorkenwell police magistrates. The Executive Committee of the Plymouth Liberal Association have decided not to present a petition against the return of Mr. Clarke.  Mr Vernon, a young gentleman attending Clifton college, Bristol, has been drowned in the swimming bath att.mhed to the establishment.  It is stated that M. Rochefort, in the first number of his new journal, the bib...B4Front, declares bitter aal against the supporters of M. Gambetta. The funeral of the late Mr. Tom Taylor took place m Friday, at Brompton Cemetery. Many literary and artistic celebrities were present.  The Portuguese explorers, Capelto and Ivens, are to visit London this month, to submit the result of their labours to the Royal Geographical Society. A bill to remove doubts RS to the meaning of expressions relative to timo occurring in Acts of Para liament, deuds, and other legal instruments has been printed.  At Halifax, Mary Whiteside, weaver, Who wi ander recognisances for attempting to drown herself, Ims committed suicide by jumping into the Bobble  The remaimi of a lacustrine village, rich in flint implolnents and other relics of the age of stone, have been discovered near Gerlafingen, on the Lake of Nenultatel.  In the competition for the Charles Lucas silver mcdal (for composing a given work), at the Royal Academy of Music, the medal was awarded to Arthur U. Thomas.  The first international exhibition of food prodacts and processes of growth, tnanufaoture, and cooking is to take place at the Agricultural Hall, Islington, in October next.  Alexander Cochrane, in the service of the Mersey Dock Bawd, Liverpool, whilst asleep opened his bed. r aim window and jumped to the foot-walk. He diol from tit% injuries.  lady living in the Walton Road, Liverpool, Mg en unpleasant smell in her servant's bedopened her box and found the body of a child. The girl confessed it was hero.  At the Liverpool Police Court, three sailors have been remanded on a charge of piracy, assault, and attempted murder on the high seas. The Treasury is prosevuting. Mr. W. T. Wrighton, the well-known compose! ot •‘ lier bright smile haunts me still," and other papsdar songs and ballads, has died at Tunbridg• Wells, in his 64th year. Er.m Male, sailor, has been committed for trial by' tie Liverpool coroner on the charge of the wilful ' murder of Matthew Foulkes, an oningeman, on the vening of the 12th of July.  The Nem York Sers estimates that there are over 1,0.000 Sunday schools in the world, that 1,600,000 5. :tubers arc engaged in them, and that they are attended by 10,000,000 scholars.  (;nlonel C. M. MacGregor is to receive the honour (4 knighthood in recognition of his servh 4'5 in the Il'xbul expedition with which he has served as chief id the staff to Major-Oeneral Sir Frauds Roberta.