... the Stafford shoe trade, which com- menced at Easter, was brought to an amicable and satisfactory termination at a late hour on Friday night. A new statement has been agreed to, which is equivalent to a rise in wages of about 10 per cent. The employers ...

... winds, and the agricualtural outlook in the 'Midlands and R in the Weali of r~c-nt and Sussex is better than it wa's at to Easte-r. The rest of the country would welomens rain, especialsy in the form of tlhose gentle, intermittent is showvers wvith which ...

... THE CORN TRADE. I The weather continued uninterruptedly fine until the Close of the Easter bolidayse but the sky becance overcast onWednesday, and t goad deal of rein fell. Trhe subsoelolent days have been more or less showery, but the toinperature has ...

... ton rise or fall in the average selling prie varied thick - coal miners' wages id. per day, and 2d. per day rise or fall in thick-coal miners' wages varied the wages of thin-coaL men 1Pjd. per day. What they now proposed was that lld. per ton rise or fall ...

... have specifications, which come in slowly. 'Ths quotation for No. 3 has varied considerably within small limits this week, rising or falling Is. per day, according to the figure for warrants. It may be put at the present time at 50s. to 50s. 3d, No. 3 ...

... returned from Macntone, and had suffered a long and paifufol illness. Taiz EASTER. Rscs-.-Lord Cross left town yesterday afternoon for his country seat. Eccle Rigg, Lancashire, for the Easter recess. Mr. Balfour, Chief Secretary for Ire- land, leat London for ...

... discount houses. In the country the nature of the dispute is scarcely compre- hended or appreciated; the circumstances which gave rise to it, arose on a memorable day in 1858, and from the nature of that provision we strongly incline to the view that the D)irectors ...

... that tade- has beets touch quieter during April th-an any Othte :ncnth since the year opened. Even allowirg far see ?? of the Easter holidays, and rnmaing sasme a!9 ...

... Strawberries are ssore abtit- dent thals tey wvere last wveek. Somse good oranges have beet itssported fron Barbary. Of pears, Easter Benrre and Ne Plus Meitris isty still be obtained. Barcelona sists .fetch 2Cs. per hnshel siess Beazils, Is. (d. ditto ; Spanish ...

... sown in autumn and got trong before the fluctuations look as vell as could be de- aired. Such caseo however, are but few. For Easter ' wee we havbe had a steady timo, and the value of wheatr in Bseacral towns Ias rather hardetve., bat there Ilm beou a. wlant ...

... obtainable on any deacription of corn. At this day'f market there was again a rshoxt supply of English wheat. which sold at a rise of Is to 2c. per quarter. American 29, per quarter hirher. No change in barley. Beans rather cheaper. tl peas more dring. Miaize ...

... Russian oats range from 24s, down to 17s.. and evess lower, while Sivedish. cani be obtained at 198. upwards, Miaize since Easter has been oni the decline, nmd a rectifi- cation-of value, lonlg felt to be necessary, lias taken place at last. American cinn ...