... MESS'RS. HALLIE TT' .1ZX/) COLQCL'AOtUN WE are now practically enpagged w\ith the French on a railway-race for the tradc of South-Western China. Such is tiw keynote of the Report on the Railsay Co ...

... TiiOUGH salmon fishing or gudgeon fishing means fishing for salmon or gudgeon, punt fishing obviously does not signify fishing for punts, but, according to common parlance, or the deficiencies of our language, just as we like to view it, fishing frow a punt and for any kind of fish which can be taken by a fisherman, using a punt as the basis of his operations. There is no river in the United ...

... RRAL JRuNOTES T~I,4 o ENGI.lS I CORN in t8S5 has been a weak and dull trade. The year began with firmness, but there was a relapse in February and March. A I\ar scare raised prices in April and May ab ...

... THE OLD CLOTHES MARKFT CAMP FIELD, MANCHESTER THE Old Clothes Market, or ' Rag Fair, as it is sol. times called, which is held every Monday and a on Camp Field, in Manchester, is a singularly inte ...

... I Joint = ??tofh ?? ' CIRCUMSIANCES-Says Mr. IMartin A. S. Hume, in his prefiace to The Year After the Armada (T. Fisher Unwin)- HaIae led me to follow the course of modern history into somewhat ...

... 8tgl)iphiial &omerIllCc CONCERINING the trade of ancient Alexandria nothing shall be said here. A wile gulf of decadence and decay separates the ancient city of the Ptolemies from its modern narmesake ...

... He'd C> R SURAL OTES rwi~ - - FREE TRADE FARMERS.-Modern political economy had its birthplace north of the Tweed, and the countrymen of Hume and Adam Smith show signs of being even more stirred to wra ...

... yILE MIERCHANT TA YLORS' COMPANY AND SCHOOL. THIE COMPANY ANY ONE who considers how powerless to achieve any common *,1 individuals are until knit together into societies, will understand 'from the t ...

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... f tom a r et a, VA NDERDECXZEN TIsE visitor to can always calculate upon imbibing a two-fold tonic. Firstly, there is the air, which, though blowing warm or cold, according to the quarter ...

... Irabe fil miterav Q1ijiua WImh all the many opinions and reports which reach us of the burning questions-political and otherwise-in the Far East, it is interesting to note a decided forward step in th ...