... per acre ever OTown in this country will be secured, and generally of good colour and quality. Recent Continental advices speak well of their prospects, the late rains having had a magical effect. From America, we are told, no hops can reach us, as it ...

... CovmnmT.-The demand upon ribbon m;anufae&n for patriotic colours in hat-bands and belts has fa~len oCE considerably ; Generally speaking, trade is quiet. The watch industry is not very brisk. One or two firms are doing a steady business. Most of the crele firms ...

... much better attendance of ironnmsaters on 'Change to-day than there was last week, and there was a disposition evinced to speak encouragingly of the present condition of trade and its prospects, but the amount o busineeA doie was only trifling. Prices ...

... Market there is little business doing, but prices are firm. The trade reports from the manufacturing districts of the North, speak of stocktaking and balancing, as occupying exclusive attention. As to the future, the tone is generally cheerful. The following ...

... Rlobin Hood, 1'endlebury, with his wife and child, when someone called out Knobstiek, knobstisir. He passed on without speak. ing, and about thirty yardshigher up, a man met him, and knocked him down with his fist, John Boswell, a Bilaton man, who ...

... Their congress in numbers was somewhat smaller than it had been on two or three previous occasions They had at the time of speaking about one hundred and fifteen delegates less than last year, but there were certain reasons, legitimate and forcible, which ...

... for good and fine hops at full prices, and a few speculative transactions are reported in yearlings. The trade, generally speaking, Isowever, is not brisk, and the supplies of hops are seasonably large. Last week's imports were 196 hales frorm Hanmbro' ...

... THE CORN TRALDE. It is almost impossible to review the present season in any single phrase. If we speak of the favourable state of field work as it is reported from a majority of the eastern and arable counties of England, we are con- fronted by complaints ...

... expose the usurers of the metropolis, and how they mare their victims,' by Aperitemos. In one passage of the work, the writer, speaking the way which victims are caught In the nets of the moneylenders, ■ays : The clubs are full of their prisoners, and we ...

... some years. Since last week's reuort there has been a slight increase in the receipt of oraers from abroad, but generally speaking buyers on foreign account have been awaiting an alteration in the Eng- lish money market, and now that having taken place ...

... for further information respecting the probable increase or decrease of the dividends, but the Chairman said he could not speak for the futurc.-A vote of thanls to the chair- man closed the meeting. ...

... spread of potato disease. Everything -throughout this strangely variable season has come to pass unexpectedly, whether we speak of the warm winter, the frosty and late spring the 'hot summer, or the present *et, Upon this principre we may yet see a fine ...