... yILE MIERCHANT TA YLORS' COMPANY AND SCHOOL. THIE COMPANY ANY ONE who considers how powerless to achieve any common *,1 individuals are until knit together into societies, will understand 'from the time whereof there is no memory the traders of LonIon have grouped themselves according to their different crafts iitl) guilds or companies. It is of the history of one of these, nAllmely, the ...

... THE LON DON STOCK EXCHANGE-W DfHAWN F ELL-KNOWN FACES 7ROM LIFE BY LOCKHART BOGLE IN THE CONSOL MARKET TRlE CONSOL MALRKETE IT is a fact not generally known, that the two great institutions which are opposite one another in Bartholomew Lane, the Bank of England and the Stock Exchange, stand in the relation of parent and child. The Bank created Bank Stock, and Bank Stock created dealers, who ...

... A godo fair THE METROPOZITAN CATTLE MARKET WHEN the Metropolitan Cattle Market is empty, its great area black with sheep pens, and its central pile of building topped by a clock tower, are not without dignity: filled with cattle, and with cattle coming and departing through the tall gate in the iron railings, the market is imposing: and, on Fridays, when the miscellaneous market is held, there ...

... -0 Nubgct 'Rigtt. BY HENRY W. LUCY CONSIDERING the imminence of the Easter Holidays and the rare splendour of the spring weather, Mr. Goschen had a fair audience for his Budget Speech on Monday night. But, by comparison with ordinary occasions, not to allude to historic ones, the aspect of the Chamber when it got into Committee of Ways and Means was a little depressing. The gaps were chiefly ...

... zargetvractlife at Act THE need for habituating the crew to gun-practice at a floating target is, of course, woell understood, but at the same time there are some people in the ship who scarcely look upon it with a favourable eye, and, while acknowledging its necessity, regard it as one of the ills to which naval flesh is heir. General quarters for action, with all that it entails, is ...

... It, [IC (gapsijilig of filt ?fficto rh HER CONSTRUCTION THE finding of the court-martial upon the surviving officers of the ill-fated flagship of the late Sir George Tryon settles the ques- tion of responsibility for the collision, but it leaves a much more important problem unanswered. The blow which the Camierdoswn struck the Vic/toia was one that any of our battle- ships might expect to ...

... 9ctbinb a Vatonbroher's fouittrr WVE are somewhere to the East of Aldgate Pump. Outside are heard the multitudinous noises of Cockaigne. Within the pawn- broker's all is peace and quietness. For pawnbroking is the most silent of the trades. Folks do not pass the time of day with the pawnbroker as with the butcher, the grocer, and the baiter ; thougls they have known him professionally all ...

... vribatt Nilk mb vithic Nusiltesi BY HENRY WV. LUCY HAVING some weeks ago taken for public business all the time of the House save Wednesdays and Friday nights, Sir William Har- court, going one step farther, as Sir Walter Barttelot used to say, has now, making a second bite at the cherry, appropriated it bodily. On Thursday he moved a resolution which finally quenches the aspirations of ...

... f tom a r et a, VA NDERDECXZEN TIsE visitor to can always calculate upon imbibing a two-fold tonic. Firstly, there is the air, which, though blowing warm or cold, according to the quarter from whence it comes, is always invigorating and conducive to appetite; and, secondly, there is the corrective to a course of anti-gambling literature that is to be obtained on the breezy heath. It is the ...

... 3ta fi5?illg* THAT modern EncyclopBdia of Sports and Pastimes, the Badmin- ton Library, has ad led another to its long list of subjects, by the bulky volume on the subject of . This division of British sport has been entrusted to John Bickerdyke, who has the distinction of being the man who introduced the practice of fishing in the sea with rod and line. A little book of his published in 1887, ...

... Zhc ccurt of the SttaiIt: Z he ficavagua Lanal By ARCHIBALD ROSS COLOUHOUN Gold M#dallist, Royal Geographical Society; Assoc. Mem, Inst. G.E.; ?? ?? author of 'Across Chryse, &e. THE question ot new markets is at last beginning to receive the attention it deserves. It is now fifteen years since, while serving in India, I began to pay attention to this subject, and I spent many years in the ...

... ML ARTHUR DU CROS Genvral Maiager IF ever a great enterprise produced great men it was when John Boyd Dunlop, a Belfast surgeon, having racked his brain to invent an anti-vibrator for cycles, hit upon the pneu- matic tyre. And if ever a man showed himself possessed of the sublime gifts of foresight and commercial pluck it was when Mr. Harvey Du Cros, in 1889, threw up a lucrative occu- pation ...