... LADIES' COLUMN. SOME SMART GOWNS. Some smgart frocks and wraps are being made for our society womren (says M. A. P.). Lady Chelsea has 'ordered a coat of. white carsoul, trimmed with sable. This sounds .a weird comr bination, but is really in perfect taste ...

... Portsmouth on Sanday, te- ports the death of this troublesome female potentate, after the : defeat and degradation of the flower of her army in contest with a belligerent chief in November last. New Hawker was on ed by an interview with Prince Albert ...

... and cheese are the only two articles of importance showing a decline, the former of 16,000 cwts. valued at k10l,000, and the latter of 80,000 cwts. valued at £146,000. ?? materials of all kinds show an increase, and in most instances the value is much ...

... ere w las little business dens. EDINBURGH CHRIS~TMAS POULITP.T 0LU5 SHOW, The Edinburgh Ch bistmse Club baving meantino disron tinned its annual show of fat cattle, sheep, Ec., a show woas opened in the Waverley Market yesterday under the .anspices of ...

... has fallen from 4,523,064 cwts. to 3,898,516 cwts., while the value is nearly the same as last June, showing a rise in price of 14 per cent.- barley shows for 17S,395 cwts. against 467,118 cwts., oats for 1,775,396 cwts. against 1,275,072 cwtB., Irdian corn ...

... £36710. The stock of bullion In both departments is D97,747,696, show- in: an increase of£136. .Aa compared 'With the corresponding week last year, the return, treated as a whole, shows as Jan. 14. 1880. J=n 15, 1878. Capta. ., .£4,583,600 £14,553,00 ...

... rose - rl 1 ;'Westaiiistter, ; -, and City (new), J. O mOttomans t 1 closed better, at 1I7-i. In Miscellaneous securities, Chelsea and East I sos Landau Waterworks rose S ; Foreign and Colonial 4 Trust PPef., Do. Def., New York Loans, and- Crystal 'I Palace ...

... freely, does F not show the same firmness as laid; both, however, el are easily sold. Skin wools are now very firm and dear. The Edinburgh and Leith public wool sales R begin on Tuesday next. At MARS LAN to-day the wheat trade shows d increased dulness ...

... temporary tent erected over the court-yard at the end of the apartment; the lower part of the tent had ascreen formed of flowering plants. A quadrille was formed and the ball was opened shorily ‘before ten, her Majesty ho- nouring the Marquis of Granby ...

... r an jix nh.' bank bills, 3 aud 34 Per centr. cc- sped tivl. Thet 1ndia Council drafts were all £; 5 'I'edp rupee. wh ich s~hows a fall ofi-hd v allottd comard with the price obtained lastw ee; The SILVER. MAREEC ie very inctv, th 4. ac'zln1 quotations ...

... England official miniiulm rate of dis- count remained at 2j per cent. This weekls Bank retun is less favou rle; the reserve shows a reduc- tion of £52,582, and the proportion to liabilities lias declined from 36j to 47J per cent. The ytock of cozla aud ...

... say 66 Sd per lolib. Beans quietly steady. Canadian peas are well held. Oats and oatmeal show no variation. DUMFIIIES CATTLE. WxEsrrxsrAr,-Thrre wae a small show of stockr-I Galloway row, 29 Syrshires, 0 erasers, 14 Highland stirks, 76 Irish-total, 124 ...