... business has been done in all departmeats. In the house coal trade there has been an improvement in the demand, and generally speaking prices are firm During the lastfew daya large qukatity of blooms have been shipped here for the United States, and a fair ...

... given-thavt the money now asked for wciuld be distributed Aith more p~bspect of 1s0tihg usefiiness. Miss OCTAVIA HLSI, who speaks perhaps with more autliority on ftuei a topic than any other Englishwoman, expresses 3r gteat regret that a soeond appeal ...

... MR. BRYCE ON FOREIGN TRADE. ?? Speaking on Wednesday night at the annual wa dinner of the Staffordshire Chamber of Commerce at oh a Stroke-upoi-Tieut, Mr. Bryce, in responding to the bre toast of Our Foreign Trade, observed that the W8 Spanish Commercial ...

... were the first to offer us their sword against the enemy. With reference to the colonies generally, they had been able to speak for themselves this year. The Exhibition had made a pro- found impression, not only on the people of this country, but also ...

... the xailways which had control over canals ought to maintain them in good working condition; at present the dead-hand, so to speak, was on the canals. He was very anxious to push this Bill on, but the Crofters Bill must be dealt with first. He knewr that ...

... for dung those threc years they had managed to pay a diidend of lO per cent., and to carry 10,000t. to the reserve fund. In speaking of the co-operative character of the comeany, he remarked that b,266 of the shares were held by the company's ernployes: ...

... BusiNEcSS AcTIVITrY I.N OASA,.DA.-A Reuter's telegram drone Ottawa says The retorts from the in- V Iflustrial centres of Canada speak very fiavourablye o the i activity of business at the, present tinme. The railway thsreturns shao' that the rolling stock is ...

... MERCANTILE SHIPPING NEWIL e~~~ M~Oai LOYD'S, JULY20.) SPEAKING. - er Carrie Winslow, San Francisco to QueenstownJoul8 30, 81 N,, OB W. WRECKS AND CASUAlTIES. Ir ~asagent at Gibraltar telegraphs ?? that Kaiosar-1- Htind,B]ritish mail steamer, reports: ...

... havue just pstatdthernew wnorkhs at BfesltO andni s~tU ee bill eits bloom hpand ts nlt~ w~rldst consueras Piugh iorron maker speak of th~e~u:ti mo nsequeor3197 cfltaken119 ?? at the focusters . show7 caredctis on mtof, Iand per tagn epsrd wit 93aCtl# cago ...

... is only aty he npat tadeis quiet, und meL quantity of .ta,~dis no agbt storks at the docks ace being *ele tod. ak. eeally speaking trade ii quiet all es-5itO M ccit 27.-Coscumcrs of iron are clii- ?? .pe ote ?? advance of the quarterly meetings next ? ...

... The Anarchist who discharged five pistol-shots in the Bourso is not a Freuchrana, but a Pole. His name is Petrovicz, but he speaks French with such perfection that the police magistrate and the judge of instruction who examined him never suspected that ...

... Jinekease.of ronsumetutioll. IscYiELD, JUeN 6.--I some branches an Improvement is noigeable, -but it is only slight,:aid speaking enerally itlaust be Mid that the trade of the: town and immediate neighbour- hoed is of moderate bulk. Thera are more complaints ...