... NOTES FEOM THE EXCHANGE. All is not Gold that Glitters. Dear Sir, Capel Court, April 21, 1894. Another strong Bank return has shown the extraordinary proportion of over 63 per cent, of reserve to liabilities. The most noteworthy feature of the figures was the decrease of over half a million in Other Securities, which means, of course, that the market has been repaying its loans. Trade is bad ...

... NOTES EROM THE EXCHANGE. All is not Gold that Glitters Dear Sib, Capel Court, Oct. 28, 1893. Discount rates have been firm all the week in consequence of the demand for gold on Continental account and the fear of the metal being required for export to the United States. The Bank return is not very reassuring, but for the moment there does not seem much chance of an increase in the official ...

... . All is not Gold that Glitters. Dear Sir, Capel Court, Aug. 3, 1894. As the Stock Exchange closes to-morrow, I am compelled to write to you a day earlier than usual this week. For all the solid business it has done, the House might have been closed most of the week, though the gamble in Allsopps and the making of markets for third and fourth rate debenture issues at monstrous prices have ...

... . All is not Gold that Glitters. Dfar Sir, Capel Court, Aug. 12, 1893. All eyes have this week been turned on President Cleveland and his message to the Congress of the United States of America, specially summoned to deal with the silver question. From the Gold Bags' point of view, there is no doubt that the position which Mr. Cleveland has taken up is satisfactory. Whether or not the ...

... Dear Sir,-- As your Leeds Correspondent, I should be glad to know from what source Mr. G. M. Polini derived the information that the paragraph he mentions emanated from me. It would lie well for Mr. Polini to le quite sure of his facts before giving publicity to them in so widely read a journal as yours. Mr. Polini ought to know me'lettcr than to father a paragraph upon me which is calculated ...

... . Dkah Sir, I am unaware from whom your Leeds corre spondent has derived his information, but his paragraph last week has caused me endless work, in answering letters of condolence, from all quarters, consequent on his statement that Mr. Wilson Barrett's business management had been offered elsewhere, on account of my continued indisposition, or words to that effect tl did not see the ...

... . SIR,-- We have delayed offering any observations on the articles appearing weekly in your paper, in the expectation that others who have been more years engaged in the agency business than we have months would have taken up the cudgels in defence of the entire body. We can, of course, know but little of the ways of gome of the numerous so-called agents, who seem to live and thrive by some ...

... . HER FIRST APPEARANCE-- A COMPLAINT. Sir, -In justice to Miss Cora Stuart and myself I hope you will allow me a little, space to contradict the report, of your Liverpool correspondent on the lirst pioductiou of the monologue. Her tirst Appearance. A critic, to be a ciitic at all, must have his own opinions, and 1 should be the last, to complain of them; but 1 do complain that in the face of ...

... . NEW SHAKESPEARE READING IN GERMANY. Dka ft Sir,-- In justice to the ladv whoso representation of Portia called forth the well-merited rebuke contained in my letter which appears in your issue of the 14th inst. under th heading of New 8hake*pesre Reading in Germany, I beg you to allow me now to give her a word of equally well merited praise. This lady, hy name KrUulein Doppel, played last ...

... . 3 our notice of this theatre la-t week vnn as Ph edU'bvBM n0e,,°', Mr- Waltcr Andrew, h£ ^ar Plaved ?r to ate that it was al by yours truly, HARRY DAWSON. Comedy Theatre, Manchester, January 25, 1890. ...

... NOVELTY THEATRE. DSAR Sm,-- As it appears tnai my name m since the opening night of fast Lrnne under Miss Beatrice i Strafford as musical director at the Novelty, I V>eK to say only entered the house with my oum band ot sixteen on Satur j dav 1th January, and on Monday, the 6th, the theatre waJ closed through indisposition of Miss Strafford. I a i anxious that it should bo known I hid nothing ...

... . bin, l trust that the members of the dramatic pro fession are duly grateful to you for the thoroughly practical way in which you wield the cudgels on their behalf. On the subject of agents, I am sure you will publish opinions for as well as against. In my humble opinion, a dramatic agency, conducted on thoroughly honest principles towards employer and employed, should be a very useful ...