... JUTE IN TRANSIT. (From Chambers’s Journal for February.) It is now but a few years short of a century since the Directors of the East India Company received the first consigument of jute sent to this country. The was a small one—in fact it took the shape of a single bale. The manifest alludes to it as ‘the jute of the natives,” a description clearly indicative of the 8 imen bale being regarded ...

... IMPORTANT MEETING IN LONDON PROPOSED VISIT OF THE QUEEN TO SWITZERLAND. From Portsmouth a telegram says that Her Majesty will proceed in the Koyal yacht Victoria and Albert to Cherbourg about March 17, and will, according to present arrangewents, spend three weeks in Switzerland. Her Majesty, with the Princess Beatrice, will Jeave Osborne on Thursday, the 16th inst., for Buckingham Palace, ...