... A FLOIVER AMARKET 'FLOWER-SELLING is a very prosaic process in England. There is a severe air of business about even our best nursery-grounds and conservatories. And the people who vend these fairest productions of Nature about the streets of our towns-what wretched beings they are! Even in London you see none of the gaily-dressed ?? that Paris brings forth like butterflies-notably in the ...

... MANY changes have taken place both in the external structure and the internal economy of the Bank of England since the day of its first opening as the national establish- ment.. Founc'e I in 1694 by Paterson, the promoter of the Isthmus of Darien scheme, and first installed in Merce-s' Hall for a few months, and afterwards occupying one large room in Grocers' Hall, in a remote court in the ...

... ITS IN completion of our Bank sketches, we this week fur- nish designs of the Accountants' Bank Note Office, its off-shoot the Bank Note Store Office, and the Weigh- ing Office. The return of the Bank notes gives rise to a very im- portant service, which is carried on in the large room shown by our artist-a combination, in fact, of three rooms formerly distinct-and in which x25 persons ...

... THE OLD CLOTHES MARKFT CAMP FIELD, MANCHESTER THE Old Clothes Market, or ' Rag Fair, as it is sol. times called, which is held every Monday and a on Camp Field, in Manchester, is a singularly interi scene, crowded with curious features, which stw Y illustrate the humblest phases of industrial life in -great northeri ncity. In dress, manners, and spce. people who frequent that Rag Fair, ...

... THE ATE W FRENCH BANK NO TES YHatEN the recent Franco-German War broke out, the Frecicl Government, finding its finances might f'ail, instlituted a r the currency of bank notes, anthorising the Bank to issue thelt tot amount of ?? and afterwards to 96,coo0l \or these notes- were for smaller sums than coft Whei, ho' ever, the first instalments of the war indemnity had to be ps and what is more, ...

... MONE Y TO LEND MAODERN life involves a highly complicated struggle, in which the proportionof prizes to competitors is ever ?? less, and in which wealth is the most important aid. In this struggle the rule is not, as in the primal one for physical life, the survival of the fittest, but the survival of the most cunning. As it proceeds with constantly increasing severity, those beasts of prey ...

... GOING A MARYETING WE had barely emerged from the sombre railway station at the Elephant and Castle, and satisfied ourselves as to our where- abouts when we became aware of a man and his wife walking on before us, discussing the topics which are generally uppermost with the working classes on Christmas Eve, such as the Christmas dinner and the dearness of meat. But that was not what at- tracted ...

... TiiOUGH salmon fishing or gudgeon fishing means fishing for salmon or gudgeon, punt fishing obviously does not signify fishing for punts, but, according to common parlance, or the deficiencies of our language, just as we like to view it, fishing frow a punt and for any kind of fish which can be taken by a fisherman, using a punt as the basis of his operations. There is no river in the United ...

... NO THE EASTERN QUESTION-THE STOCK EX- CHANGE, CONSTANTINOPLE TURKISH Stocks have long been the favourite sport of the bulls and bears of the Stock Exchanges of all nations, but the Bourse at Galata, the fountain-head of the innumerable rumours which produce such startling effects on these highlysensitivesecuri- ties, may be said to be the headquarters of the gamblers in Otto- man Bonds. ...

... THE fashion of head adornment adopted by ladies has lately undergone considerable modification. False tresses are now worn on a much more limited scale than formerly, the evident disposi- tion being to return to the plainer, but, perhaps, more admirable plan of making the best of Nature's gift without artificial supple- ment. This, some reader may be tempted to exclaim, means simply that ...

... A BANK.ER&'S NOTES III. SCOTCH thrift and Scotch banking react favourably on each other. The proverbially thrifty people have long ago discovered that, despite exceptional smashes, there is no safer place for their money than the bank. And the banks in their turn put every facility in the way of the poor as well as the rich by offering interest on all sums received, small or large, for ...

... HI R.AL sOTES ,, Z; ?? ?? H ENGLISH GRAIN PRICES.-The present week's average rates for wheat are 40s. 8d. on 42,230 qrs., for barley 33s. on 23,I27 qrs., for oats 20S. 8d. on 4,417 qrs. English wheat is slightly advancing in value through supplies falling off, while foreign sorts are a little cheaper from opposite causes. STORE CATTLE, kept through the late long and inclement winter, and at a ...