... rate of 50 tons per month. The latter contract is expected to be greatly extended; and, if an opinion may be formed of the complaints maadethroughout the country of the scarcity of copper coinage, a large increase is necessary. The saddlers' ironnmongery ...

... tinder a perfectly unparalleled amount of depression, show continued symptoms of recovery. East India freights, outward and inward, are grailually croepiing up; freights from the Welsh ports likewise exhibit an advancing tendency. The Board of Trade returns ...

... the British ilanulfactiirer to hold his position in the foreign market. he is called upon to pay a tax on the raw material inwards, and on the manufactured article olltwards-both being in direct violation.of the Free-trade policy which has hitherto been ...

... European or- ders are not numerous, and our Transatlantic ad. vices are yet discouraging. Trade shows no reco- very there, and complaints of a dull and onre- manerative character are general. Discounts, ex- cept at ruinous rates, are impracticable, and specu- ...

... hour in the day of every day in the week, Sunday unexcepted, we are made the unhappy re. cipients of all sorts of continued complaints of the telegraph muddle. General merchants, manufac- turers, shippers, &c., are still deprived of their former rapid and ...

... cargo and take in goods for Bordeaux, kee~p- ing the exports separate, and proceed to Glasgow to discharge remanindler of inward cargo. I hope this facility wlli encourage not only a direct trade to Bordeaux, but may bring about direct communi- cation ...

... see that a considerable pro. ds portion of thle falling off in our traffic has arisen in tb two nrticleq-in gro-in carried inwards and in dead ar and live pigs carried outwards. Before leaving the as subject of traffic I must tell you that the samec or ...

... Corporation, and the Chamber of Commerce, what had been the result? No less than 3,127,000 tons of shipping passed in 1877 inwards and outwards from the lough of Belfast. (Hear, hear.) They had, in fact, formed a little kingdom here, They had established ...

... cross-chan.nel steamners carried in wveight of goods only seven-sixteenths of their registered tonnage. This only represents the inward cargo. so is only half the truth, as they w-ell krew. Our charge for dues on ships covers oitw-ard as wrell as invward eargo ...

... case, and so far as they- could, having regard to the interests of the shareholders, to give a favourable answer to any complaint or any request that was made to them. The shareholders must bear in mind in considering this question that after March next ...

... Briggs? 2. Is it a, caumon practice for tug steamners where time is an object and sailing vessels of light draiught beating inwards or outwards from Belfasi: Harbour to pass inside the buoy at all states of the tide? 3. At the state of the tide when she ...