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MISCELLANEOUS. TERRIFIC CONFLAGRATION IN LONDON.—A few nights ago an alarming fire occurred in Cable-street, Wellclose--Bquare, a district on the eastern side of Tower-hill, and for more than an hour lighted up the whole of that part of London. The alarm was given at ten minutes past eleven by a police-constable, and in less than five minutes afterwards a steam fire-engine with eight men was de- spatched to the spot. The reflection was so great all over London as even to induce the authorities at the Tooting and St. John's-wood fire-stations to send engines to the spot, and crowds of people watched the progress of the fire from London, Southwark, Blackfriars, and Waterloo bridges. In its immediate neighbourhood the crowd it attracted was so vast as to render it almost impossible to obtain anything like exact information respecting it. It was, however, a timber-yard that was on fire, and immense stocks of wood were all burnt. By midnight the reflection had died out, and by that time the fire had ceased to cause any further alarm. MR. HUMPHREYS has lately held an inquiry at Mile-end respecting the death of Mr. William H. Weston. Alice Weston stated that her husband was clerk to Messrs. Ramsden and Co., engineers. At six o'clock the other morning he left home for the purpose of going to his employment, and in con- sequence of his not returning to his house she issued printed bills and communicated with the police. She was subsequently informed that he had been found sitting on the doorstep of Peabody- buildings, in Commercial-street, Shoreditch, with his throat cut, and with a penknife in his hand. About a fortnight ago he was bitten by a dog, and since then he had been very nervous for fear he should die from hydrophobia. It appeared that the deceased pawned his ring at a pawnshop in Poplar for 8s. He was not seen afterwards until he was served with some seltzer water at Hoxton. Shortly afterwards a police-constable found him on the doorstep of Peabody-buildings, Shoreditch. VERY EXPLICIT.-For some time past ru- mours have been abroad, given with circumstan- tiality, respecting private adhesions to the Church of Rome, on the part of prominent public men-but -especially in relation to one person filling a large place in the public eye. It is added that the party in question will go openly over to Romanism as soon as he has disposed of some important public business which he has on hand. We give the rumours as they have reached us, not vouching for their truth; but from personal knowledge we do vouch for the fact that some of those who rank highest in the Roman Catholic communion affirm in the most emphatic and explicit terms that rumour in this instance is synony- mous with truth.—Morning Advertiser. TRAPPING A WARDER. — Suspicions having for some time been entertained that tobacco as unlawfully conveyed into the Portsea. convict prison, a nose was adopted for the purpose of detect- ing the offender. A conference took place between the chief warder and a prisoner (whom we shall not libel if, from his own admissions and demeanour in the witness-box, we denounce as a shrewd and cunning scoundrel), the result of which was that the convict wrote a fictitious letter to an imaginary person, placed it on a stack of bricks on the extension works, and communicated the fact to the warder in charge of the gang, who, unsuspecting the trap that ,had been laid for him, took up the letter (which con- tained a request that X25 might be sent to the convict .posted it at Portsea the same say, and on several subse- quent days admitted to the convict what he had done. The chief warder had previously arranged that a nephew should receive the letter, which he accordingly did, and returned it to an aunt, who in turn handed it to the chief warder, her brother. The wife of the warder subsequently called at the post- office for the letter which it was expected would arrive from the convict's supposed friend, when a detective made his appearance, and she and her husband were apprehended on a charge of bringing a letter out of the prison. The convict's statement was oonfirmed in all the necessary particulars, and Jobson was sentenced to three months' imprisonment with hard labour, his wife being discharged. ON EQUALITY.—A circumstance that occurred at the past Lyons races is causing some discussion in the Paris press. It appears that at the approaches to the racecourse the gendarmes on duty were instructed to keep carriages in a single line with a view to prevent 1 disorder. A sub-officer refused to allow one carriage to deviate from the rank, and an altercation followed between him and the driver, who, however, was ulti- mately compelled to take his place in the line. The occupant of the carriage thus deprived of exceptional privilege was the General Comte de Palikao (de Mon- tauban), the general commanding the district, but as he was not in uniform, and was personally unknown to the gendarme, who had only been recently attached to that station, he was unable to enforce submission upon the conscientious official. The latter, however, was soon made to feel the consequence of the ignorant and undiscriminating sense of duty, for, notwith- standing the tendered evidence of independent wit- nesses, he was condemned to 15 days' imprisonment and, after 20 years' service, to degradation to the ranks. It is expected that a question will be asked in the Chamber of the Minister of War upon the subject. FUNERAL OF THE EARL OF CLARENDON.—The funeral of the late Earl of Clarendon took place on Saturday at Watford Cemetery. Nice mourning coaches conveyed the relatives and friends of the de- ceased from the Clarendon Hotel to the cemetery. The funeral procession started from the ,Clarendon Hotel, and all along the route, the inhabitants showed great respect to the memory of the deceased nobleman, all the shops having .shutters up. A large crowd assembled outside the cemetery gates, every head being uncovered as the hearse, preceded by the late earl's coronet, borne on a velvet cushion by his vaiet, passed in the enclosure. As the last coach entered the gates a most unseemly rush took place, which was, however, checked by the police closing the gates, so that comparatively few people had the opportunity of hearing the burial ser- vice. At the conclusion of the service, wreaths of immortelles and lilies were placed on the coffin. After the last carriage had passed out of the cemetery the gates were opened to the public, and an immense number of people immediately assembled round the grave to take a last look at the coffin. THE SUBMARINE IELEGRAPH has been the means of securing the perpetrators of some extensive frauds in New York, and of recovering no less than .£32,000 of the produce of their knavery. Two brothers, who had been tobacco merchants in New York, named Scitze, obtained fraudulent possession of goods of the value of < £ 35,000, which they managed to dispose of and then absconded. It was suspected that they had sailed by the Ottawa, for Glasgow, and the authorities being "wired" the vessel was boarded on its arrival in the Clyde, and the runaways arrested with a large portion of the money in their possession. They will, under the treaty of extradition, be sent back to the United States in custody. AWFUL INHUMANITY.—The other afternoon, between four and five o'clock, a sad case of drowning happened near Woolwich. It appears that two men, named George Robinson and Henry Terry, went to get on board a barge lying at anchor almost within reach of the wharf at Woolwich. Robinson was the first to jump on board, and was quickly followed by his companion Terry, but the poor fellow unfortunately jumped short and fell into the river, the tide being yery high at the time. Being a good swimmer, he agon rose to the surface, and would have been re- saued,only that the barge swung -the very moment with the swell of a. steamy, and caused him to sink a second time, Thera wrA plenty of askance at hand, And 20 3 very few moments the body, yet warm, was recovered by a man named Evans, who is celebrated in Woolwich for the numbers of persons he has taken out of the river, and at once was covered up and taken to a public-house, close to the spot. Strange to say, however, the landlord decidedly refused to open his house, and after considerable loss of time, the body was hurried along to another licensed victualler's. Dr. Coleman arrived soon after, and applied every remedy possible, but by that time the vital spark had fled, although it is believed, by those who first saw the deceased after being taken from the water, that he might have been resuscitated if no loss of time had taken place. THE CEssioN OF GAMBIA.—The Board of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce has held a special meeting t@ receive a large deputation of merchants interested in the British trade in the Gambia, whose object was to secure the co-operation of the Chamber in their opposition to the proposed cession of the British Settlements on the Gambia to the French. It was represented by the deputation that the pro- posed cession, no notice of which, it is understood, has yet been given to the Colonial Legislature, was repugnant to the settlers, both French and English, and would be prejudicial to British trade. The board adopted a resolution to the effect that a pe- tition be presented to the House of Commons, com- plaining of the proposed transfer of Gambia to France, and that a memorial to the same effect be addressed to the Colonial Secretary. BEE WRIGHT.—With regard to the Sunday- trading prosecutions at Marylebone Police-court, Mr. Mansfield has given judgment in the case of Mr. Bee Wright against Mr. Abram Oppenheim, tobacconist, for Sunday tradirg. Mr. Mansfield said the act was a stupid one, and one which it was impossible now to enforce. The whole law, in fact, appeared to him monstrous and infamous. It was a gross insult to the Jewish population that they should be persecuted as they were. They had their own Sabbath, and ought not to be obliged to keep the Sabbath of the Church of England. The law was equally disgrace- ful to the Legislature in the way it operated upon the poor. If the working man went to the tobacconist's shop it was illegal to serve him, and as a consequence he went to the public-house and pro- bably got drunk. He saw no reason why Roman Catholics and Jews should be persecuted specially, or why public-houses and refreshment-houses should be open while tobacconists were closed; or why people should be deprived of their Sunday newspaper. He should, therefore, as in previous cases, inflict a fine of !.one penny and no costs. Some applause followed the decision. Mr. Wright gave notice of appeal. THE PACIFIC RAILWAY.—The SanlFrancisco Bul- letin give somes statistics of the traffic over the Pacific Railway in the first fomr months of the present year. It appears that 5,043 passengers travelled from Cali- fornia eastward by this route, but 9,052 went to California, travelling westward. There arrived at San Francisco during the same period by sea 6,164 persons, and there departed 4,000. The whole num- ber of arrivals in the four months was 15,200, and the departures 9,008, showing a balance in favour of California of 6,200. Among the freight carried over the Pacific road in the four months was 766,1401b. of tea; 42,0281b. of hops; 13,0281b. of raw silk, 529,2931b. of wool. A TRIBUTE TO IGNORANCE.—In deference to the wishes of Mr. Peek, a tribute to ignorance has been recently paid, at the expense of the nation, in the publication of English translations of the despatches relating to Greek brigands, originally published in French. The despatches were origi- nally published for the information of Parlia- ment, and the newspapers took care that the public should know ail about them. But because it was within the bounds of possibility that some members of Parliament might be ignorant of French, and unable to trust the in- terpretation of their better-informed friends, the nation has been put to the expense of publishing detailed translations, which we venture to say will be of no use to any single person in this or any other country. That is why we speak of their publication as a national tribute to ignorance.—Echo. THE PETITIONS OF THE ORLEANS PRINCES.— Tho Legislative Body's Committee on Petitions has assembled to consider the one presented by the Orleans Princes. MM. Emile Ollivier and Chevandier de Yaldrome were present. The Minister of Justice said the Government demanded that the Legislative Body should reject the petition by passing to the order of the day. The committee passed to the order of the day by eight votes against one. M. Gastave Fould, the dissenting member, maintained that the petition should be referred to the Govern- ment for examination. The subject will come under the consideration of the Legislative Body on Satur- day next. The France says that the principal reason of the Government's opposing the petition is that a demand like that of the Orleans Princes could only properly lie addressed to the Emperor, accompanied by a formal renunciation of all claims to the throne. LONDON OMNIBUS TRAFFIC.—Recently the Lord Mayor referred in strong terms to the annoy- ance caused by omnibus drivers stopping in front of the Mansion House to take up and set down passen- gers, and his lordship gave notice that unless the evil was abated he should take measures to enforce the regulations. This caution, it appears, has been practically disregarded, and thirty drivers and con- ductors, mostly belonging to the General Omnibus Company, have been summoned by the City police in consequence. The defendants, in most eases, alleged that they had been "hailed" by some ene in front of the Mansion House, and that they were in ignorance of the Lord Mayor's regulations; they denied distinctly any intention to break them. The Lord Mayor ordered twenty-seven of the defendants to pay a fine of 10s., or in default undergo seyen days' imprisonment, and ordered their licenses to be endorsed. FLOODING OF THE MINES.—Several mines in the neighbourhood of Burslem and Tanstall have been recently flooded, and the water is extending to others, so that in course of time nearly all the pits between Tunstall and Hanley will in all probability be rendered useless. This contingency was predicted as long ago as January last, when meetings of the mine-owners were held, and Mr. E. H. Wynne, mining surveyor, who was engaged to make an investigation, reported the extent of the mischief done and threat- ened, and the mode of remedy, but the mine owners were alarmed at the cost of putting up pumping engines in different parts of the district, as proposed by Mr.Wynne, and unable to agree as to the assess- ment of the cost, and nothing has been done. Mr. Wynne's calculations are being proved by events to be correct, and there can be little doubt that if his advice had been followed what may prove to be a great calamity might have been averted. The latest case of inundation is the Winghey Mine, Burslem, and the water is making its way towards Hanley. Many colliers have been thrown out of em- ploy by the flooding of the mines. AN ACCIDENT, unfortunately attended with fatal results, has occurred to a little girl named Annie Shaw, who resided with her parents in Rad. ford-street, St. Phillip's-noad, Sheffield. Between eleven and twelve o'cloek the deceased, with a number of her playmates, was in the street, when a milk oart, driven by a man named Joseph Charles- worth, of Bradford, came along. Before the deceased could gat out of the way she was knocked down by the vehicle, one wheel of which passed over her head. When taken up, it was ascertained that the injuries the girl had sustained were of a seeious character, and her immediate removal to the infirmary was deemed advisable. On an examination being made it was discovered that the brains protruded from the sockets of the eyes. She lingered under the care of the medical staff £ q £ some time, bat .ezpirsd in the [ ULSTER ON THE FIRST.-The first of July is always a great day in Ulster, and this year has been no exception to the rule. Last year serious riets took place at Portadown, and the constabulary on that occasion fired into the crowd with the direst effect. On Friday, however, all went off well, although much anxiety was felt, yet no evil results followed. A bonfire of gigantic proportions, and made up of a sand boat, tar barrels without end, turf in abun- dance, and resin without stint, was lit on the top of a hill near Portadown, and effigies of Sub-inspector Numan, who was at the head of the police last year, and Chichester Fortescue, were burnt amid the groans of the assembled multitude. All over the province banners were raised on the tops of the churches, and the drumming went on from sunny morn to dewy eve, while the example of Portadown in the matter of bonfires was extensively followed. CROSS QUESTIONS AND CROOKED ANSWERS.— Rural simplicity is sometimes not only stupid but funny indeed, were all the cross questions and crooked answers collected and published by some benevolent Joe Miller, the book would be humorous in the extreme. The Echo furnishes two rather ludicrous anecdotes of French provincial humour. The first concerns an unfortunate bumpkin drawn for the conscription. On being examined by the Council of Revision, he was asked, for the sake of formality, whether he had any infirmity. Rusticus, with a fixed determination to get off the military service, and therefore desirous of making his case out as bad as possible, instantly replied, Oui, Monsieur a wife and two children." The idea of these being an infliction immensely amused the council, but it is questionable whether they got him off his duty. The other anec- dote, furnished by the Echo, relates to a peasant in a theatre at Toulouse. A storm was represented, and as the lightning flashed the pious man devoutly crossed himself. At iast one of the characters on the stage said, What a frightful hail!" when the poor man, crying out "My poor vines, my poor vines," bolted from the theatre, only to find it was a moonlight night. RESCUING HIMSELF.—On the afternoon of the 10th of June the British ship William Wilson, Capt. Milburn, was seized by order of a judge of the United States District Court for wages due to a sailor, and a deputy-marshal was put on board the ship, which was lying at anchor in the harbour. Captain Milburn, who was absent at the time, returned on board late at night, and early in the morning he weighed anchor and Eet sail. The deputy-marshal states that he was violently assaulted and held down to prevent his making signals foi help, and was taken out nearly to the Farallouea and then placed in a boat and sent back. A revenue cutter, it is said, went in pursuit of the ship. STRANGE DISAPPEARANCE.—Although nearly a month has elapsed since the sudden disappearance of Mr. Churchill, solicitor and magistrate's clerk, of Deddington, nothing has been heard of him, and a meeting of persons interested in his affairs has been held at North Aston, and it was agreed to appoint a committee representing Mr. Churchill's unsecured creditors, to ascertain how matters stood. Repre. sentatives from various Friendly Societies were present, Mr. Churchill having money in trust belong- ing to them. Letters have been received in Deddington from persons in London stating where a Mr. Henry Churchill would be found, but on inquiry it was found that the Mr. Churchill referred to, although coming from Deddington, was not the man wanted. There was a meeting of the magistrates of the division, and after the ordinary business was transacted they met in private to consider what course they should take as to the appointment of a successor. The result of their deliberation did not transpire, and the matter was, we understand, adjourned. NEWS FROM INDIA.—The following is the obituary which the Bombay GGézette publishes for the Bombay mail. The latest date is June 7. It will be seen that some of the names are of more than local importance :—A sad accident occurred at Peshawur on the Queen's birthday; Captain Anderson, of the 5th Bengal Native Cavalry, while engaged playing the game called hockey, fell from his horse and dis- located his neck, from the effects of which he expired the following day. He was only on leave from Now- shera. Dr. John Wilkie, Inspector-General of Hos- pitals (retired), died on Nynee Tal on the 23rd of May. Captain A. J. Wallaoe, Bengal Staff Corps, doing duty with the 21st Punjab Native Infantry, died at Umritsur of heat apoplexy on the 25th of May. Dr. Russell, R.H.A., died at Allahabad on the 30th of May. The immediate cause of death was apoplexy, but the deceased officer had previously been ill, indeed was on his way from Darjeeling, via Bombay, to England on medical certificate. POACHING AND ITS RESULTS. — A poaching affray occurred recently on an estate near Leicester. At about twelve o'clock at night, Isaace and Lemon Wrihgt brothers, the former a game watcher, were out watching on their master's preserves, when they noticed three men in a rail way cutting with dogs and ferrets, searching for rabbits. Two were cap- tured when the keepers were set upon by a dozen men and brutally assaulted. Several volleys of stones were thrown, and the two captives attacked the watchers, and effected their escape, after severe fighting. One stone struck Isaac Wright's right ear, and cut it completely in two. He then seized one of the ringleaders, and thrust him with great violence across the railway metals, causing a fracture of several ribs. Stones were immediately thrown at Isaac Wright, one of which struck him on the left temple, and rendered him insensible, and missiles continued to be hurledat him as he lay on the ground. Soon after wards the poachers made off. IT IS MANY YEARS SINCE trade was conducted on its present large scale so noiselessly. For what- ever reason, manufacturers do more work and borrow less than they did. So general is this that in the leading discount circles in London it is sometimes asked if it is true that a good trade is doing. The traffic returns of the leading railways, the Clearing- house figures, the Board of Trade returns, all show that it is indisputably so. The reason is, perhaps, that the weak manufacturers have been used up, and that business is more than ever in the hands of men of capital amd energy. The Clearing-house returns, indeed, afford substantial evi-ence of the larger business now doing. ON THE 24TH OF JUNE LAST a tremendous ahock of earthquake was felt in almost every portion of the island of Malta. It lasted 58 seconds, and was followed in a few minutes by one which was still more noticeable, but of shorter duration, while a third was felt a few hours later. No damage has been sustained beyond a crack over the iron balcony in Dunsford's Hotel, Strada Reaie, Valetta. The house bells were set ring- ing by the motion, and bottles and earthenware tumbled off shelves in several shops. The wind at the time was from the west south-west, nearly calm sea smooth, thermometer 80 in the shade, weather stiflingly hot, and oppressive; barometer at the sea level 30.07, with a slight fall after the shocks. STREET WARFARE IN MADRID.—A fight took place on Saturday night between the populace and some Carlist partisans. It lasted from 9-30 p.m. till 12.30a.m. At 1..30 on Sundaymorning Senor Ochoa, on leaving the Carlist Casino, was fired at eleven successive times, but was not wounded. He has addressed a letter of complaint on the subject to the President of the Cortes. It has been sinoe ascertained that two persons only have been wounded during disturbances in the neighbourhood of the Carlist Casino, though the Imparical says that there were seven wounded. The Mco d' Espano reports that one person was killed. Several individuals have been arrested. There were, however, no other serious consequences, and measures have been taken by the authorities to prevent any renewal of the disturbances. It is rumoured that Senor Izqaierdo, the captain-general of Madrid, has resigned.

GLEANINGS. PEGASUS is a dangerous creature, for he almost invariably throws his riders—into debt. THERE is, indeed, a power in the stars (and the like may be said of the rest of the globes) of per- forming their motions but that is the power of God, who made and governs all things; not of the stars themselves that are moved. How noble a faculty of the soul is this under- standing It can compass the earth it can measure the sun, moon, stars, and heavens it can foreknow each eclipse to a minute,. many years before. But this is the top of all its excellency, that it can know God, who is infinite, who made all these, a little here, and more, much more hereafter. A PARENT has the heart of a child in his hand and he who, amidst the shades of retirement and under the roof of obscurity, leads up one human heart to heaven, does more than they who sink the largest sums in secular liberality. I take off my eye from princes and from patrons, to look with awful venera. tion upon him who cannot make his children wealthy, but who toils to make them virtuous. HEED not thy nobility, Celancia, nor let that be a reason for thee to take place of any. Esteem not those of a meaner extraction to be thy inferiors; for our religion admits of no respect of persons, nor doth it induce us to repute men from any external condition, but from their inward frame and disposition of mind. It is hereby that we pronounce men noble or base. With God, not to serve sin is to be free, and to excel in virtue is to be noble. CURIOUS INN SIGNS—Mr. Jolia Pickford writes in Notes and Queries :-1 can well remember, when an undergraduate at Oxford, riding once from Woodstock to Banbury and passing two inns on the road, one called "Sturdy's Castle," and the other "Hopcroft's Holt;" but what the unde derivatur of these names may be, I have never yet been able to discover. At Newport- Pagnell, in Buckinghamshire, I have seen a sign called" The March of Intellect;" on the one:side is represented the Thames Tunnel; and on the other, sweeps dancing to the music of a piano which a dustman is playing. At Manchester, close to the southern gates of the cathedral churchyard, is a tavern bearing the appropriate sign The Wedding Ring," where numbers of couples after being united in wedlock in the adjacent cathedral, called popularly the Old Church," adjourn for a social glass. THE DRUNKEN TAILOR.—I happened to be passing one Boxing-day, or rather evening, many years ago, through St. Clement's Churchyard, when I became aware of a man who was holding on to the railings of the church, and blubbering in a manner piteous to behold and hear. I noticed that his legs were much bowed, and like unto those of a journeyman tailor; but it was difficult ta dogmatise on that head, for the man had been keeping his Christmas in the approved English fashion, and was very drunk. A good woman—presumably his wife-in a shabby shawl and a crushed bonnet, was doing her best to support this staggering holiday-maker, and endeavouring to cheer him up in his affliction, whatever that sorrow's crown of sorrow may have been; but his grief was overwhelming-of that there could be no doubt. "I—I—I'm so unhappy!" Ebriosus continued to maunder. "Unhappy!" repeated the good woman with womanly scorn, and yet not without a kind of rallying sympathv-" unhappy, what for ? You was drunk the day before yesterday; you was druuk on Christmas-day; you're drunk now what more do yer want? Do yer want to be a hangel 2" In the opinion of this excellent housewife, intoxication was the svmmum bonum of humanity; and, short of seraphic beatification, the drunken tailor, her husband-if he was a tailor and her mate-had attained the acme of enjoyment. But the toper holding on to the railings was not to be comforted, and he continued to drivel and sob about his unhappinesa until I passed over to the other side, and he slid into the infinities of the people we meet once, and never meet again.- Belgravia. THE WEATHER.—The earth we inhabit is, as is well known, completely surrounded by an envelope of gaseous matter called the atmosphere, which is kept close to its surface by the action of gravitation. This aerial layer is the seat of many very important and interesting phenomena, which it is the province of the science of meteorology to inquire into and ex- plain. The science is, however, now usually restricted more particularly to those atmospheric phenomena which influence weather and climate. Owing to the very many causes that are at work, there is great difficulty in tracing out all the laws by which these phenomena are governed; and though many weather prognostics have long passed into current proverbs, it is only recently that true progress has been made in the study of the science. In early times, when the occupations of most men kept them much in the open air, and consequently exposed to all the vicissitudes of the weather, they would naturally make various observations which would enable them to foretell to a limited extent the probable changes. These observations were handed down from generation to generation; but were far too vague and general to serve in any way as the foundation of a science. In modern times, however, various instruments have been devised for ascertaining accurately the pressure, the temperature, the humidity, and other important mat- ters in connection with atmospheric changes and now, by means of the barometer, thermometer, and similar instruments, constant records are being kept, in different places, of all these changes.—GasselVs New Popular Educator. ADVERTISING.—Mr. George King Matthews thus expresses himself on this subject:—" It is a mistake to suppose that because the times are dull, and trade not brisk, that an advertisement would be next to useless. It is the repeated advertisement that effects so much benefit to the advertiser. It is not the advertisement of to-day that causes the pur- chase to be made, but it is remembered when the article is wanted. We are often in a difficulty to know where to get certain little matters for'use, and indeed, such is the hurry-scurry of daily life, we have not much time to think about it, but the advertisement at once tells us, and saves us much trouble. It is like marking the price of goods in your Rhop window. Ten years ago, it was thought to lower the credit of a man's shop in the estimation of the public, if he 'ticketed' his goods, but that mistaken notion has most properly died out. If I want to purchase a necktie, and see one in the shop window which takes my fancy, both in pattern and price, I go at once and buy it, but if it were not ticketed, I might decline asking the price, in the fear of giving trouble without purchasing. It is all nonsense to tell me that this feeling does not govern people generally, but I am certain it does operate seriously in the sale of goods, and it is a great drawback; therefore I say-Adver- tise. A few shillings spent in advertising may bring pounds in return. When people see a man advertise, they conclude he is a business man, and most of us like to do business with business men; a man pleasant, crisp, and concise in his business, will succeed better than your dilly-dallying gossip, who has some silly tale to tell before he serves his customer, and thereby wasting the valuable time of both. There is nothing like publicity for the increasing of business, and there is nothing like advertisements for obtaining publicity. If I plant seeds in my garden, while I am sleeping they are growing. So it is with advertising; while you are serving one customer, your advertise. ment is being read by thousands who, perhaps, never heard of you, or saw you, any more than he had heard or seen the man in the moon. It was your adver- tisement that brought me here,' he will tell you, but unless your new customer actually tells you so, many are apt to doubt it. Customers, like sheep, are gre- garious, and flock where they see others go. Adver- tisements of all kinds, and in all classes of papers, are now so cheap, that the shopkeeper will find his greatest friend is printer's ink.

i!J.1n))J.1!t anb c&úuntr!] if[2irftttg. The Money Market. CITY, JULY 5.-There is no fresh feature in the discount market, the demand for accommodation at the Bank being only very moderate. The easier tendency of money in Lombard-street and Cornhill causes the paper which is available to be readily taken in by the brokers at per cent. There is a want of animation in the markets for genera securities, and wholly from this cause there is same little tendency to reaction in prices; other circumstances btirg- favourable to enhanced quotations and an extension of operations. Consols are quoted 92; to 93 for money and to-morrow's settlement, and to 93i for the August account. and Reduced Three per Cents., 92j to 93. Railway shares opened with a firm appearance, but there being no fresh buyers sales have been arranged. Caledonian, 77t to 77t; Great Eastern, 39, to Great Northern, 122 to 123; ditto A stock, 132| to 133 i; Great "Western, 71-J to 71f-; London and Brighton, 43 to 43j: London and North Western, to 129" London, Chatham, and Dover, 15-?,' to 15J; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 134J to 134J Metropolitan, 70 to 70j; Midland, 131f to 131!; Sheffield 52§ to 52 j. The Corn Trade. MARK LANE, JULY 4.-Fresb. up to JYIark}ane this morning the arrivals of wheat from Essex and Kent were limitecl There was a poor attendance of millers, and the demand ruled heavy for both red and white produce, at a decline in the quotations of from Is to 2s per qr. The show of foreign wheat was good. Sales progressed slowly. andnrices receded Is to 2s per qr. The market was moderately supplied with barley. The inquiry was heavy at about late rates. Malt was dull, on former terms. Oats were in moderate supply and limited request, at 6<1 per quarter less money. Beans were dull, but without change. For peas there was very little demand, at about late rates. Maize was dull, and fid per quarter easier. Flour changed hands heavily, and country marks were 18 per qr. easier.