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... ;ate UrstoploI *Irr SATURDAY, JANUARY 18, 1862. NATIONAL BANKRUPTCY OF; | AMERICA. TuE happy conclusion of the Trent affair leaves English- men at liberty to resume their contemplations upon the internal quarrel of the Americans; and the news which D ...

... AMERICA AND THE SLAVE-TRADE. TuEnE is no commercial nation so difficult to keep in good humour as the United States, and it will be seen by the intelligence which has reached us this week that Brother Jonathan has suddenly been seized with a violent attack ...

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... I I ABOUR AND MACBINERY IN AMERICA. Mr. Thomas Connolly, well known as a leader inathe ti ado organizations of London, forwards a letter to the Times from Boston, United States, where he is now in. quiring into the state of the American labour market ...

... THE COST OF WHEAT PRODUCTION IN AMERICA. dI The following letter appears, under the signature of Jo Far West, in Beerbohlma's Corn Trade List. It is MI tuoderstood to be from the. pen of one thoroughly con- Bo versant with the question:- Sir-Seeing ...

... a and other products the cause of loss to those liandling o them?' America will manage it all, ad the ?? affected - b vill again be' profit-bearing. The -coning revival in 0 America is to provide employment for labour, and, by b raising wages, to. prevent ...

... the United States had only 15 to 20 per cent. To-day America holds 50 to 60 per cent. of the r total imports, and, strange as it may seem, the 7 greater portion of that trade was once British. r America's commercial development is largely due to 7 the persistent ...

... production less in America, but the freight here on large quantities only averages 2 per cent., and I have often had to pay- per cent, on small packages from Willenhall; You ask me to state the results of my observations in America and the causes operating ...

... England, but they knew that part of their business was in America, vmhere it bad increased as much as it had fallen off in England-therefore they kept at about the same rate of trade. In America, there had been anxious titnes with regard to some railways ...

... South Americe, with the telegraph cabtle to tonnect Valparadio ,a Serena, and CaideF)ra, In completion cl thd Weat Coat of America Telegraph Company's system. BANit OF EBNL&ND.-ThO returns for tne weeek ending We.-, nesday last give the following resirlts ...

... pacific tidings with but little or no reductions in prices, fine quality wheat in France still being in request. Nor does America umuch reduce her quotations, though better supplies may be expected on the opening of canal navigation. The free navigation ...