... large breadths of corn having been badly laid by the heavy rains and high winds experienced in July. It Is yet too early to speak positively as to the extent of the defi- ciency; but from all we have hitherto been enabled to collect, we are of opinion that ...

... respecting the wheat crop do not improve, and from those districts where cutting has made the greatest progress, the accounts speak most positively of the inj ur' which has been done by mildew, blight, Sac.; indeed coin- plaints have become so general as ...

... least, it does 'i not, as was predicted, inaugurate a retrograde 1 movement. Mr. Hardy, who is always in I good form, when he speaks for his party, chose c to discuss the religious phase of the question, ( and carried with him the sympathies of the I House ...

... T numerically and comparatively contemptible. Few pause w to think what is the actual magnitade of a million. We sometimes speak of a man dying worth his millins, bat when once the mind embarks in a contemplation of how lb much a million is, it finds itself ...

... MR. ECROYD, M.P., ON MUNICIPAL AND ITRADE QUESTIONS. Speaking at a large Coiservative meeting at Oswald. twistle on Thursday evening, Mr. W. F. Earoyd, M.P. for Preston, said they had just heard the results of the municipal elections. It was a source ...

... one representative of the cotton, worsted, flax, silk, and. woollen trades should speak at the depu- tation, and this plan was now adopted. Mr Richard Haworth, speaking on behalf of the cotton trade, said that thfe question affected up- wards of 840,000 ...

... any reduction; and they have good promises of support. But then their body is not like thai of the weavers; com- paratively speaking it is small, and whilst they may be able to stand out for months the weavers, through the vastneae.of their body, may be ...

... prevailed during the time wheat was in bloom, the yield will prove short; most of the reports from the agrlcul. tural districts speaking of at miss in the ea. There are besides, rumours of blight and maggot; and after making due allowance for some exaggeration ...

... price. In worsted yarns there is the same flatness. The demand for pieces still continues quiet. Plain goods are, generally speaking, slow of sale, and makers of fancy goods are far from being busy, and receive few fresh orders. Prices are softening. IRON ...

... YESTERDAY'S MARKETS. MAfnuxasTme CoTToN.-Sales have been restrieted and at slightly easier prices. Generally speaking pr ices show no alteration since Taesday, except in isolated cases where producers have not for a long time secured business. Demand ...

... Septemher-Oetober, 5 41-74. ILONDON Hops.-.'here is a moderata business doing, at V rather lower priens. Plantation repoits speak of an in- ti creame of fly, but in most districts the new plant has a Ipromising appearance. Kents £13 to £18, Sussex £12 to ...

... 50s. -,J. for last three months. BOROUGH HOP. - Sales progreom s6owlv in all kinds f hops; nevertheless prices, generally speaking, were firm. T' e appearance of the plantations has greatly improved during I ze last few days. Mlid and East IRents, 130s ...