... Birmingham, Thursday. Large attendance of manufacturers and consumers on 'Change to-day, and a brisk demand for most kinds of finished iron. Rates continue stronger in every department, and especially for sheets, for which some of the first-class firms are declining orders below £18 per ton, and merchants, rule, insist on binding their customers to special quotations, except for limited ...

... glass in the window the shop Fish Street, occupied by John Thomson, lodginghouse-keeper, on Wednesday night. pleaded not guilty, was found guilty on evidence, and w&j fined It* Gel or seven days in prison.—Thomas Batchelor, moulder, wa* charged with disoiderly conduct at the door of the house in Union Street, Forebank, occupied by Peter Bisset, and also with maliciously breaking a pane glass ...

... THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 1873. When we hear of a band of Englishmen, and we suppose women, starting on pilgrimage to a religious shrine, we have some reason for concluding that the ages of faith have not wholly passed away. A' year or so ago, crowds French peasants produced some excitement by their appearance pilgrims in one of the provinces of their country, and by their uniting on that occasion ...

... Mr Gm.dstojte has stuck by Mr Ayrton under somewhat trying circumstances, and in so doing he may be said to have equalled the reputation of Lord Palmerston in his chivalrous defence of subordinates. But surely it is a singular fate, the transformation of the Chief Commissioner of Works into Judge Advocate-General. Whether it was his fault or not, Mr Ayrton had become next to intolerable in the ...

... not changed during'the' last years ; wnile marriages among the upper classes have been gradually losing the domestic and private character which formerly attached to them. To-day, as years ago, the working man or the small tradesmen goes in a gredt carriage, specially reserved for such occasions, to the church where the religious service is to performed. A visitor to any of the large livery ...

... THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1873. It will be seen that the people of Blairgowrie and Rattray entertained Mr Yeaman, M. P., to dinner yesterday at the former place. The men of Blairgowrie and of Rattray, of which latter place Mr Yeaman is a native, may well feel proud of their gufest of last night—a shrewd, hard-headed man of business, who has given his fellow-townsmen of Dundee such proof of native ...

... Courier & SATURDAY, APRIL 1873. Should the report of the death of the intrepid Sir Samuel Baker and his heroic wife turn out to be well founded, the tidings must be regarded most mournful. The history of their battle with wild men and wild beasts, and with a trying climato, form one' of the most deeply interesting records to be found in the annals of adventure and heroism, arrayed in the ...

... Friday. The market continues very quiet, and there is little disposition to do more than supply pressing requirements. Flax, Tow, and Codilla.—No improvement can be reported in the demand for goods ex warehouse, and prices have still a downward tendency. On contract there has been little or nothing done last report. JUTB. —Telegrams from Calcutta report the market quieter and little doing, ...

... T he clustering hamlets that dot the beautiful Cleveland district, some of which lie at the foot of the range of hills of that name, and others that nestle between them and the river Tees, are at this moment under the excitement of a trade dispute. The district is a charming one, and such as delights the eye of tourist or other casual visitor to the locality. There are Roseberry Topping, ...

... ARRIVALS AT DUNDEE. CA*PERDOWN DOCK.. May —Anglia (a.), Speedy, Loudon, good.-*: Messina (3.), Logie, Sunderland, coals. EARL OREY'S DOCK. May 2. Pladla (s.), Gloak, Newcastle, goods; Nero («.), Morgan, Riga, flax. KINO WILLIAM'S DO;K. May 2.—Lancaster, Lee, Holyisland, lime. DEPARTURES FROM DUNDEE. May 2.—White Star, Funnit, Shields, ballast; Pollux, Thorsen, Tayport, light ; 0. F. Waernts, ...

... ROMISH TEACHING THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND. The Archbishops of Canterbury and York have just issued their reply to the memorial received by them some time ago, with over 60,000 signatures attached, against Romish teaching in the Church of England. The reply states that the danger, in the opinion of the Archbishops, is a real one ; in proof of which they point out that 400 clergymen, since the ...

... •We have been favoured with an early copy, by the kindness of Mr J. W. Barclay, M.P., of his estimate of the annual Value of the agricultural produce of Aberdeenshire, and of the cost of producing it. The document most elaborate and carefully prepared, .md presents very clearly the state of agriculture in the county of Aberdeen. give the following extracts The areas under crops and the numbers ...