... LODO, Wednesday. Short loans were rather wanted, and quoted at 21 to 3 per cent. Discount business, on the other hand, was quiet, and the rate for three months' bills was not strong at 2 per cent. Farther shipment of £ 100,000 in gold is reported from New York, and the exchange slightly recovered. All the gold arriving now goes into the Bank, thereby steadily improving the position of that ...

... WOLVERHAMPTON, Wednesday.—Orders for finished iron.were refused to-day. Masters are letting their works partially stand rather than accept profitless prices. They have given notice for a reconsideration of the present wages. Sheets: Doubles, £ 7 12s 6d lattens, £ 8 12s 6*1; galvanised corrugated sheets, 1212 5s delivered. Liverpool plates w:re dull; tank sorts, S7 10s; boiler qualities, ES 10s ...

... [REUTER'S TELEGRAM. J BERLIN, Monday.—Prussia has proposed, in the Federal Council, the prolongation of the anti- socialist law for two years. At the opening of the Reichstag, next Thursday, Herr Von Boetticher, Secretary of State, will represent the Emperor. It is understood that in a speech from the throne special stress will be laid upon the importance of legislation connected with social ...

... DISTRIBUTION OF AWARDS BY THE PRINCESS OF WALES. On Monday her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales personally presented to two coxswains of the National Lifeboat Institution rewards for their gallant services in saving life. The cere- mony took place at Marlborough House, in the presence of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, attended by Lord Colvillo of Culross, Colonel Stanley Clarke, ...

... tyj'tsr to claimant has written a long 3r'-Ii hg .r Quartermaine East, iu the course of «o-v in r1;Vl,un>tes that he will not consent to his release unless absolutely !'° st>> nor will he allow himself to be y wa-y for the purpose of fieccing liard- hn-Sn °ut °f their hard-eamcd money. for t':3 of ilia children, ^3ift his c'r,s i. ...

... SERIOUS ALLEGATIONS AGATTSRT irunTr, 011 his patient a visit on Monday, did not go down to Coombe Warren, but at the same time forwarded strict injunctions that every carc should be exercised, and that on no account should any risk be run by outdoor exercise until he had again seen Mr Gladstone. On the strength of Mr Seymour's report Earl Granville drove to Coombe Warren in the afternoon, ...

... ROYAL COMMISSION A HE HOUSING THE POOR. ft>*>QiiRs'Ti'r!X^ ^ews undersiands that the Royal B e'p npvi0? on housing of the poor will occupy 0j Aew sittings by taking the evidence of H^'ernmn permanent ffijials of the Local t* chief ^0l,r^> among vhem Dr. Bnchanan, Medical officer. This department is in thp° •muc'1 vaJuble information bearing ^Uutry ait'san s ^we-Hings throughout ...

... LONDON GOVERNMENT BILL. At a meeting of the London Mumopal Reform League, on Saturday afternoon, Earl Dalhousie presiding, a letter was read from Mr Gladstone, acknowledging the receipt of the resolutions ^mating to tho London Government Bill, and saving he did not think any object would be gained by having assigned such prominence to the ■f&easure in. the Queen s, Speech. Her Majesty's ...

... LIVERPOOL TIN-PLATE MARKET. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] LIVERPOOL, Saturday.—There is not much change to report from here this week. Prices are practically un- changed in charcoal, tin, and terne plates, as well as in steels (coke finish). It is only in the latter that there has been any movement as regards an increase of busi- ness. A good many orders for these have been placed quite ...

... A strange case was investigated by a coroner's jury at Penycae, Denbighshire, on Saturday. About a fortnight since a youth named Hughes, aged 15, threw a small poker at Elizabeth Jone°, aged eight, who was teasing and laughing at him. The sharp end of the poker entered the child's head, partly penetrating the temporal bone, and she died last Tuesday. The jury found that death was due to the ...

... FOB Wedding and Keeper Rings, go to George Best, Watchmaker and Jeweller, 16, St. Mary-street and 24, Royal Arcade, Cardiff. 65699 ...

... OPERATIONS IN TONQUIN. REQUEST FOR MEDIATION. [REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] PARIS. Saturday.—Mr Waddington is reported to have telegraphed from London to the French Government that the Marquess Tseng has re- quested Earl Granville's mediation between Franee and China. A Cabinet Council was held this morning, at which the position of aSairs in Tonquin was dis- cussed. General Millot is believed to have ...