... Trade and Mlonen Matters. EDINBURGH HARE LIST SATURDAY, JULY 9, 1853 Divi Wten Deseription of Stock. Share. Paid. Price. dend, Payable. CE Railways. cent. £4 Th Stk. lov o> “ 0 46 Mav& Nov. Stk loo 9s 0 Mareh Do. Preterence.. 25 31 Do eee Arbroath & Fortar 15 ei St Do. Halves 12) Mareh Jo. Quarters af St Caledonian oe Stk. lou a St Do. & Sep. Do. Preference Stk. lov 1s ' wee Do, Clydesdale ...

... We are indebted to the Courier and Inverness vertiser, both of which papers published extras on Satur- day, for the following account of this important mar- ket :-— Our annual market commenced, as usual, on Thursday Last —the second Thursday of July. Its importance to the whole northern counties is well known, for it includes the disposal of our staple products—sheep and wool; and sales of the ...

... Mlarhets. GRAIN & SEED MARKETS, &c. LONDON CORN MARKET—July 22, Fresh up to our market to-day, the arrivals of English wheat were on a very limited scale, and the show of samples of both red and white was consequently small. For all kinds of wheat of home pro- duce the demand ruled steady, and in some instances Monday's prices were exceeded for fine qnalities. A fair average business was doing ...

... Viterature. TAIT’S MAGAZINE, A considerable improvement is observable in the number of Tait for Jaly—an improvement which the Magazine in the present hands is well able to bear. It opens with an excel- lent article by a French lady on the remarkable book by Gervinus, which has already attracted so much attention in this country—not less on account of its liberal and enlarged views, than the ...

... STATE OF TRADE, ees has been a dull market, and very little in- quiry for goods, yet full prices have been given for what has been sold, These last three weeks the manufacturers have raised the wages of the power loom weavers and pi the former 124 and the lat- ter 10 per cent. In some of the mills, where the higher wages had not been paid, the hands turned out, but they returned to work un- ...

... The Council met on Tuesday—the Lord Provost im the chair. MEMBERS OF PAROCHIAL BOARD. Messrs Gray, Shepherd, Ridpath, and Stott were re- elected members to represent the Council in the City Pa- rochial Board. SCOTTISH RIGHTS ASSOCTATION, A letter addressed to the Lord Provost from Mr Frederick H. Carter, secretary of “ the National Association for the Vin- dication of Scottish Rights,” was ...

... SEQUESTRATION. Charles Hill, Esq., of Luthrie, lately residing at Luthrie House. in the ith of Creich, and county of ife, now deceased—Creditors meet in Buist’s Hotel, Cupar Fife, 22d July, twelve o'clock. EXAMINATION. M and Elizabeth Davidson, now or lately carrying on busi- ness as lodging-house keepers in Edinburgh—to be examined in the Sheriff's Office there, Ist August, twelve o'clock. ...

... watch over the progress of the An- nuity-tax bill, the second reading of which comes on in the House of Commons to-day. They were joined on Wednes- day by Bailie Morrison, who was unavoidably prevented from accompanying them. The deputation have taken charge of the petition from the inhabitants in favour of the bill, which has received altogether nearly 7000 signatures ; and they will, we ...

... CROWN-OFFICE, Jtxt 29 MEMBER RETURN ED TO SERVE IN THE PRESENT PARLIAMENT, Borough of Stre Horsman, Esq., in the room of Henry John Moreton, common ly called Lord Moreton, now Earl of Ducie, summoned to the House of Peers. WAR-OFFICE, July 1. 10th Regiment of Light Dragoons—Cornet Dundas Rein- hardt Gill to be Li eutenant, by purchase, vice Clements, who retires ; Cornet Henry Baring, from the ...

... COUNTY OF EDINBURGH ‘ommissioners of Supply, Road A general meeting of the € Peace for the County of Edin- and Justices of the burgh, was held in ¢ he County Rooms on Tuesday—Mr ‘Trot- the Convener, presiding. | ter of Mortonhall, ORDNANCE SURVEY. The reported that the General Committee had considered he communication which was referred to it from the Treasury, relative to the seale on which ...

... FAITRS. YETHOLM Lamb and Wool Fair was held on Monday last ; there was an average show of hogs and wedders, aud prices were fully 3s to 4s a-head higher than last year. Cheviot wedder hogs, rough, fetched from 25s to ewe hogs, rough, from 21s to 27s—half- bred and twice crossed hogs, rough, from 30s to 30s 6d—Cheviot hogs, clipped, from 23s to 27s Gd, one very superior lot bringing about ...

... Sreland. Mrs T. F. Meagher left by the steam-ship Arctic on Thurs- day, to join her husband in America. The Journal states that the petition against the return of Mr Sadleir for Sligo has been transmitted for pre- sentation. Rerresestation or Cork (Crry.)—There will probably be a hot contest for the seac vacated by the appointment of Mr Serjeant Murphy to the Commissionership of the London ...