The North Wales Express

BUTTER. CORK, W- edue-aday,-Ordinqiry- firsts, 143a; se- conds, 114s; thirds, 93s; fourths, 84s; fifths, nil. Superfine, nil; fine mild, 146s; mild, 114s. Salt kegs: Firsts, nil; seconds, Ills; thirds, nil; fourths, nil. There were 1125 firkins in the market.

PROVISION. LONDON MA&KET, Wednesday. Butter: Friesland sold at 120s to 134s; Normandy, 112s to 140s; Kiel and Danish, 120s to 156s Jersey, 106s to 126s; American, 120s to 126s; Irish ex- tremely quiet. Bacon steady at late rates. Small- sized hams in request. Lard quiet. Cheese:— Finest American, 66s to 70s. Foreign eggs, 8s Od to Us Od.

WOOL. A very good attendance of buyers, and biddings continue active at about previous values. Cape wools are especially firm. 0

LIVERPOOL AND BIRKENHEAD MARKETS. I ST. JOHN'8 I BIRKENHEAD ARTICLES (RETAIL) | WEDNEADAY# | Wednesday. S. D. a. d. s. d. a. d. Beef, per lb. 0 7 to 0 9 0 7 to 0 10 Mutton, per LB. 0 7.. 0 9 0 7 0 10 VEAL, PER LB. 0 7..0 9.0 9..0 10 LAMB, PER LB. 0 0 0 0. 0 0..0 0 Fresh pork, per lb. 0 7..0 10.0 8..0 9 Lobsters, per lb. 1 6.. 0 0 1 2.. 0 0 Salmoii, per lb.. 0 0.. 0 0 0 0..0 0 Codfish per lb. 0 4.. 0 5 0 3 0 6 Soles per lb. 0 10 0 0 0 8 0 0 Bret PER LB 0 8 0 0 0 6 0 0 Turbot. perlb. 0 8 0 10 0 7 0 0 Haddock, per lb. 0 3.. 0 0 0 3..0 0 Fowls, per epl.. 4 0.. 5 0.3 6..5 0 Ducks, per do.. 4 0 5 0.3 6..5 0 Geese, each. 5 0..7 0 6 0..7 6 Turkeys, each.. 5 0..9 0.5 0..7 6 Hares, each. 3 6..5 0.2 0..5 0 BABBITS, PER CPL. 2 6..3 2.3 0..0 0 Pigeons, per cpl.. 2 0..0 0 1 10 0 0 FreshButter pr lb 1 7..1 9.1 8..1 9 Salt Do. per lb. 1 0..1 4 1 0..1 6 Eggs, per 124.12 0..0 0 11 6..0 0 Potatoei- per peck 1 0..1 0 0 10 1 0 Strawberries, per LB 0 0..0 0.0 0..0 0 Gooseberries, per 0 0 QT 0 0..0 0 0 0..0 0 Currants, per lb. 0 0 0 0.0 0..0 0 Do. (black) pr qt 0 0..0 0 0 0..0 0 Peas, pe:- peck.. 0 0..0 0.0 0..0 0 Cherries, per lboo 0 0..0 0.0 0..0 0 Apricots, each 0 0..0 0.0 0..0 0 Mushrooms,per lbO 0..0 0.2 0..0 0 Asparagus, per 100 0 0..0 0.0 0..0 0 Cucumbers, each 0 0..0 0.0 0..0 0 Filberts, per lb. 2 0 0 0.2 6..0 0 i Grapes (Eng.), per LB 4 0.. 6 o 5 0..0 4). Grapes (foreign), per LB 0 6..1 0 0 6 1 0 Pines (Foreign), each .12 0 ..16 0 2 0 4 0

DISTRICT MARKETS. CARNARVON, SATURDAY. The following1 is a list of tn-davla nriefis •— Wheat, 35s the quarter; oats, 26s to 30s. Beef, 5d to 8d per lb; pork, 10d; mutton, 8d to lid; lamb, Os. Ducks, Is 9d to 28 Od each; geese, 4s 6d to 6s Od fowls (living), Is Id to Is 2d, (dead) Is 3d to 2s Od each. Fresh butter, Is 6d to Is 7d per lb. pot, Is 2d to Is 3d. Potatoes, 38 Od to 3s 6d per 100 lbs. Eggs, 9 to 10 for Is. COKWEN, FRIDAY. Butter, Is 5d per lb. Eggs, 10 for Is. Beef, 7d to lOd per lb veal, 0d to Od mutton, 7d to 8D; p >rk, 7d to 9d. DENBIGH, WEDNESDAY. The market on Wednesday was fairly attended T e prices were as follows .-—Fowls, 2s 6d to 3s 6d; 7d to 8d per lb; beef, 9d to IOd; mutton, 7d to 9D; butter, fresh, Is 5d to Is 7d per lb in tubs, Is 2d to Is 3d per lb; potatoes, FD per lb. The Corn market was very well attended, and business seemed brisk. The prices were:—Wheat 15s to 16s. barley 11s Od to 12s Od, and oata, 7s Od to 7s 6d per 168 lbs. LLANGEFNI, THURSDAY. Barley, 29s to 30S wheat, 178 to 17s 6d; beef, 6d to lOd per lb; mutton, 7d to 9d veal, 8d to 9d; lamb, 8d to lOd pork, 7d to 9d. Ducks, 28 Od to 2s 3d each fowls, 2s 3d to 2s 6d each. Eggs, 8 for Is. Butter, Is 7d per lb. MOLD, WEDNESDAY. Wheat, red, 16s to 17s; oats, 6s 6d to 8s malt, 13s to 14s. Potatoes, lis to 13s per 200 lbs. Butter, Is 4d to Is 5d per lb. Eggs, 10 for Is. RUTHIN, MONDAY. Wheat, red, 18s to 20s; oats, new, 7s Od to 9s 6d; barley f or malting, 13s to 15s barley for grinding, 10s to lis. Beef, 8d to 10d per lb; mutton, 7d to 91 per lb. Fowls, 2s 6d to 3S 6d per couple: ducks, 3s to 4s each. Butter, Is 3d to Is 5d per lb. Eggs, 14 for Is. WREXHAM, THURSDAY. Wheat, red, 6s, to 6s 6d per 75 lbs; barley for grinding, 4s Od to 5s 8d. Butter, Is 4d to Is 6d per lb. Fowls, 3s 6d to 4s 6d per couple; ducks, 4s Od to 5s Od per couple. Beef, 9d to lOd per lb; mutton, 9d to lOd. Eggs, 8 for a shilling.

Lord Northbrook has left town on a visit to Lord Rosebery, at Mentmore. Mr Childers left London on Saturday week for a brief stay at Bishops Waltham. Mdlle Sarah Bernhardt is under engage- ment to re-appear in London in June next. Lord and Lady Dufferin have left Windsor Castle at the close of their visit to the Queen. Last year 52,263 cwt. of printing paper, worth 1,257,28 rupees, was imported into India. Mr Balfour, Deputy-Lieutenant for Louth, and hit agent have received threatening letters. A Loipaic student is preparing a German ot L, rd Bea(-.olisfield's Endymion." The Athenmm states that the revised version of the New Testament will be issued in February next. A granite memorial has been placed over the grave OF the late Baiou Lionel de Rothschild in Willesden Cemetery. The Earl of Carnarvon has granted the tenants on his Hampshire estates a remission of 10 per cent on their rentals. The iron-shipbuilding trade is likely to be exceedingly brisk in Whitby during the wmter and far into next year. Sir Julius Benedict is rapidly recovering from the effects of an operation for the removal of a cataract in his right eye. The Lord Chancellor (Lord Selborne) completed his 68th year on Saturday week, having been born on the 27th of November, 1812. A severe north-westerley gale on the Newfoundland coasts has caused the wreck of twenty-one vessels. No loss of life is reportel. It is stated, with probable accuracy, that Hobart Pacha is the only Englishman in the service of the Porte who draws his pay regularly, and in told. The City Press states that the gross annual income of about 800 of the London chari- ties amounts to a sum approaching four millions and a quarter sterling. The American papers state that Mr Davitt is the bearer of a message from Mrs Parnell to her son to be of good cheer, and if things go to the worst, a few months in gaol will not hurt him. A marriage has been arranged between Lord Wentworth and Miss Mary Stuart Wortley, eldest daughter of the Right Hon. James Stuart Wortley, late recorder of the City of London. Male servants are on the decrease, as is clearly shown in the official returns just issued. In the last financial year the number assessed was 187,106, against 194,814 in the previous year. Six cases of antiquities have arrived at the British Museum from the excavations at Babylon. They consist chiefly of inscribed tablets and small objects. With them is a Phoenician inscription. The Manchester Examiner states that ar- rangements are be*ng made for a meeting on Tues- day, December 21st, in the Free Trade Hall, at which Messrs Bright and Slagg will address their constituents. A Styrian manufacturer of soda-water writes to the Neue Freie Fresse that he is ready to enter into competition with Dr Tanner with beer against water. He asserts that he can fast on beer for forty-five days. Mr Froude is about to publish his Per- sonal Reminiscences of the High Church Revival." They are given in the form of letters to a friend, and will first appear in Good Words, beginning in the January number. The Citizen states that General Sir F. Roberts is to be admitted to the Freedom of the Fishmongers' Company on the 9th of December, and to the Freedom of the Merchant Taylors' Company on the 14th otthe same month. In a prosecution at Bow-street Police Court, London, for wilful damage to the ornamen- tal railings of the Victoria Embankment, it was stated that 2,769 railings had teen broken since the opening of the Embankment Gardens. Mr Thomas Hughes has returned to England from Rugby, the new English colony in America. On the property of Prince Windiachgratz, near Linz, in the Tyrol, a vulture, measuring from the ends of its wings 7|tt., has been caught in a trap. It is stated that the whole of the Govern- ment establishments, offices, and departments at Chatham dockyard have now been brought into direct communication with each other. The other night the tails were cut off nine cows, the preperty of a farmer named Boyle, residing in North Kerry. A gale, almost equal in violence to that which prevailed on the night when the Tay Bridge was blown down, was raging at Dundee on Friday. A Blyth telegram reports the total wreck of the schooner Braes of Moray, of Peterhead, at Newbiggin. The crew were saved by the lifeboat. The Board of Trade have awarded a binocular glass to Captain Vehlow, of the German barque Empress, for humanity to the shipwreck crew of the smack Lady Louis, of Waterford, which was abandoned off Lundy Island on October 31. The Sheriffs of the City of London, atten- ded by the Governor of Newgate, have waited upon William Herbert and George lave, who are lying under sentence of death at Newgate, and informed them that their execution was fixed for Monday, December 13th. At the baptism of the Prince of Cumber- land at Muuden the other day, among the sponsors were the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Cambridge, the Kings of Denmark and Greece, the Duke of Brunswick, and the Cesarwitch. The Child has received ten Christian names. In accordance with the Socialist law, four artificers have been sentenced in Berlin to three months' imprisonment for having attempted to circulate an "open letter to the voters of the Berlin electoral district," published in London by one John Most, which had already been banned by the police. At Huddersfield, John Hill, a contractor, has been committed for trial at the assizes (on bail) charged with having fired a revolver at a cabman who had demanded from him a fare. It was alleged on behalf of the defendant that he had no intent to inj ure, AND that, though he had had drink, he had sufficient sense left to turn the barrel away from the complainant THE HOME SECRETARY AND" ADULTS. The Home Secretary has lately exercised his mind over the question of dealing with juvenile offen- ders, and in a recent letter he has expressed his opinion that children who offend against the laws ought not to be subjected to the same course of treatment as adults. It is quite evident that under the term adults Sir William Harcourt means to include women as well as men, and that the classification which exists in other departments of the law, having reference to personal liberty a :d political rights of "women and children," does not hold good here. When laws have been passed regulating political rights men only are recognised as adults," women are classed as minors when laws restricting labour are passed, women are classed with" children" and "young persons," as those who have not strength enough or sense enough to answer for their own actions or manage their own affairs. But when we come to the cri- minal law, there, and there only, are women classed with men as adults," who must be held to be fully and personally responsible for their actions as free and responsible beings. We do not complain of the equality between women and man recognised by the criminal law, but we assert that responsibilities and rights are correlative, and that it is unjust with one hand to impose upon women the responsibilities of men, and with the other the disabilities of children.— Women's Suf- frage Journal. I

f Copyright.] POISONED ARROWS. --+- CHAPTER I. THE FRIENDS. IT was the first day of term, and Oxford was alive again after a long sleep of some months. Cloisters and quadrangles were repeopled, and busy messengers and bustling scouts were moving hither and thither with carpet-bags and portmanteaus or trays and tankards. Freshmen were wandering about uneasily, and staring at the strange now life about them; while those who had already been in residence a term or so were shaking hands with their acquaintances in college. Talbot Lindsay had arrived early in the day, and had finished his unpacking in time to have a cigar before afternoon chapel; so he leant out of his window on the second floor of the Old Quad, and watched the bustle of new arrivals. Talbot Lindsay was a gentleman commoner of St. Hubert's College, the son of a wealthy Yorkshire squire, who sent him to Oxford to finish his education. but did not care about his working hard. So Talbot bad a very pleasant time of it indeed, and was allowed by the dons to do exactly as he liked; and with plenty of money, no necessity for reading hard, and an immunity from the attention of che college authorities, a life at Oxford is unalloyed happiness! Talbot was popular in college, as might be expected, for he was generous in his support of the boat and the cricket club, and, moreover, gave many wine suppers, and was never without a box of cigars on his table 1-0 bont. No wonder he was popular! He was even forgiven what, in a small college, is generally looked upon as perfectly unpardonable—the possession of an intimate bosom friend and inseparable companion. This friend was Marcus Daly, a young Irishman, who was a scholar of St. Hubert's. He was not particularly wi II off. and he was expected by his father to read for honours and get a fellowshiD, for the family wao but a poor one, with a dilapidated and encumbered estate in Tipperary. But Marcus was never intended for a reading man. He had been well crammed by Father Mahony, an old friend and companion of Squire Daly's; but when be I had won his scholar's gown and come into residence, and was beyond reach of the good father's teaching, his impulsive nature shook off the trammels of study, and he gave himself up to all the enjoyments of a university life. He and Talbot Lindsay were thrown together by accident in their first term, took an immense liking to one another, and became warm friends. Hillo, boy! hooray!" shouted Talbot from his window on the first day of term, as he saw Marcus turn into the Quad from the porter's lodge. Huroo!" shouted Marcus, running up-stairs, bounding into the room, and shaking his friend warmly by the hand. "And what's the news of you, old boy?" asked Talbot. Take a weed, and tell us all about it." You see, Talbot and his friend, like sensible men, nbver wrote letters to each other during the vacations they spent apart, so they bad plenty to talk about. •' News and plenty!" said Daly, ligLting a cigar and sitting down on the window-seat near Talbot. News, and plenty I What de you think? fro engaged to be married!" "Whew!" whistled the other. "What on earth'S the meaning of that, you headlong Hibernian ?" Well, upon my BOul, I can hardly tell you how it happened. We were thrown together a good deal at Bath, where I was staying with my uncle, old General Daly, and eomeMow we fell in love; at least, she was the belle of the place, and all the chape were after her, so I just followed the fashion, and we got to like one another, and I was a bit set on to try and out out the other fellers; and egad! one day we found ourselves engaged, much to the disgust, of her father and step- mother, but that only made it the more jolly." "How about the fellowship, old boy? You can't keep that—if you get it—when you marry." Hang the fellowship! I shall read hard, and go in for honours in law. I have made up my mind to go to the bar. They say Irishmen always do well there." "That's no compliment to 'em, by Jove!" said Talbot, but I dare say it will be all right in the end." "Faith, I hope so," said the other, with the easy philosophy of youth and health. "And what have you been doing, Talbot?" Oh, knocking about in the yacht. 1 haven't gone and got engaged to anybody. I suppose you'll be always writing love letters now a-days, and there'll be no more boating or cricketing, eh ?" Well, of course I shall write to her every day, but that, won't take long." Won't it, though ? However, if you haven't quite forsworn rational amusements, I have a splendid notion." If you call your amusements rational, why, I've no objection to sharing them." That's right! Well, then, here's my notion. You kn ow we have both of us been wishing to win atankard, but unfortunately, should have no chance in the fours or the pair-oar race; suppose you and I have a raoe!" It would be such a lot of bother; and besides, you'd be sure to beat me; I never could scull." Scull, indeed.' You've a thick head enough, you old noodle! You haven't the patience to listen to the regulations. What I propose is a punt race up the Cherwell. The prizes, quart tankards (all properly engraved, with the arms, &), one for the first man and one for the second, and, to simplify matters, we are to race in the same punt." A capital idea," said Marcus, laughing; when it it to come off?" "To-morrow, if you like, after that long letter's written. But there goes the chapel bell. Run up and slip on your surplice. Til stroll slowly across Quad, and you'll catch me up." CHAPTER IL THE COUSINS. LAURA HOLME, to WHON Marcus Daly was engaged, was a pretty blonde. Her father was a retired Bristol merchant, who bad made a colossal fortune. After the death of Laura's mother, he had married a second time. His first marriage had been for love, in the old days of his early struggles; this marriage was a mar- riage for position. The Hon. Mrs. Maloolmoon was the daughter of a Scotch peer, and the widow of an Under Secretary, and she moved in good society. Mr. Holme brought her money, and she gave him a place in the world. Unfortunately, a fashionable life did not suit him. His health gave way, and he was ordered to Bath to take the waters. His wife could not consent to leave London in the height of the season, so she—you will guess she was Commander in-Chief—sent her husband down into the country, with his daughter and his niece, and remained in town until society broke up its camp. Mr. Holme's niece was his sister's child, who had been left an orphan. Amy Butler was a merry, giddy girl, with a pretty face and a readv tongue. Her new aunt had no love for her, and her uncle was half afraid to show any tenderness to her, while Amy, being wealthy as well as pretty, completely eclipsed her in the world. Amy Butler's life was not a very happy one, though her laugh was so ready and her cheek so rosy. When first Marcus Daly made their acquaintance he so fairly divided his attentions between the cousins, with all the gallantry of his nation, that he completely won Amy's heart; but it was only to wring it with a more intense pang, when he began to show marked attention to Laura. I am not jealous of her," said Amy to herself, as she sat weeping in the silence of her own room, after Laura had told her that Marcus bad asked her to be his-" I am not jealous ef her. She might have won all hearts but his. I am sure that at first he liked me best." And Amy was perhaps right. Marcus bad been smitten with the gay and cheerful disposition that, re- minded him of the daughters of his own people. But when he found how many W-ire contending for Laura'r- smile, he tried-at first. from vanity AND a spirit emulation-to win it; and, gradually warming wit I, success, at last he found himself the accepted lover ot the belle of the season. You may be sure Laura's stepmother wa? bigblY ,t\- dignant when she learnt what had passed. She had come down to Bath after the closing of Par- liament, when the park was deserted, and the opera was doing extra nights at play-house prices. Sne found Laura engaged to her young Irish adven- turer, and Mr. Holme quietly acquiescing, though far from pleased at his daughter's choice. There was a grand scene, you may be sure. But Laura had a spirit of her own, and Marcus was not the man to be disheartened by opposition. On the contrary, it gave fresh zest to an attachment which was just threatening to droop a little in the full sunshine of prosperity, and needed the refreshment of aa adverse storm or two. Even Mr. Holme, having been talked into compliance by his daughter before his wife's arrival, was too honourable a man of business to withdraw his sanction, even under the most awful pressure on the part of the Commander-in-Chief. The Commander-in-Chief was, therefore, compelled to give her unwilling sanction to the engagement; but she took care to fetter her sanction with so many con- ditions, that she felt hopeful of a chance of breaking off the match. Meanwhile poor Amy continued to nurse in secret her affection for the first man who had ever paid her any attention, but who, alas! was, she felt, lost to her —worst than lost to her—engaged to her cousin. It was sore anguish to her to see his letters arriving daily for Laura—to think that with his next vacation would be renewed the old anguish of seeing him pay to another the little loving cares and acts of devotion which she bad once dreamed of as her own. It is scarcely a matter of surprise that Amy, still retaining the out- ward semblance of her old cheerfulness, should have felt her nature changed and her heart grown hard. It was with a pitiless satisfaction that she learned before long that Laura, too, was unhappy. Marcus's daily letters had grown cold and forced, and at last ceased to be daily ones. Laura began to dread a change in him nay, fancied that she found a change in her- self. Was it possible that they had mistaken their feelings? she asked herself. But pride choked down the answer-they were engaged-committed to their agreement for good and ill. She feared the shame of the world's discovering their mistake more than the certain misery that must come if the error were persisted in. Though she believed Marcus no longer loved her, and though she found that she could believe this and live-tbough, in ehort, she could not blind herself to the growing indifference on both sides, she clung to the delusion, and determined to make herself as well as Marcus bear out the engagement to the letter. Pather than suffer the sneers of her stepmother or the laughter of her friends. Marcus's letters, as I have said, dropped off first in interest and then in frequency. He and Talbot Lind- say, once together again, fell into their old ways. The scheme of reading for honours in law wea abandoned: the future must provide for itself. Mean- time, in the pleasures of the present even the pleasant past was becoming forgotten. Neve theless, Marcus Was not uneasy about the state of his feelings, OZ dreamed of suspecting that Laura no iced any tion in them. She was very fond of him, he Oiou^, —and they were engaged—and some day theT be married. Meantime, he had a lock of her •jr portrait; at her oemsfoBaliy, aau w a regarded with an admiring sort of wonder by the lads who knew of his engagement. It was pleasant at Oxford in term time, and it would be pleasant to go down in vacation time and dream away the days near Laura, finding an additional relish in the dislike of Laura's stepmother for him. So slipped away a year, and the long vacation came round again. Mr. Holme's health had been bed, and he waa ordered this time to try sea-air for a change. The family were going down for some months to CI iff haven, on the coast of Sussex. "Talbot, where are you going this vac.?" asked Marcus of his friend when he came up to breakfast: the two friends always breakfasted together. "Don't know, old boy. I shall cruise about in the old yacht, I fancy. Whj ? Have you selected a cruising ground ? "No." Then what do you say to the coast of Sussex, witlt Cliffhaven for head quarters ? The Holmes are going there to stay, and we might have a jolly tame of it. Laura has a pretty cousin, by the way." Very good to think of me. I might find it rath. ilow to potter about periwinkle- pi kintr. white you and yeur beloted were spooning. But friendship is nothing without sacrifices, a^d there'e capital fishing off Cliff- haven, so I'll write to the skit per to bring I!)e Bluebell round to London, and \t!.1t sail for the Sussex phore as oon as Col ecti n? oea?<-d from troubliy-. and Oomn>eiiioretion if at rt'?' (To be ccntinwd in ow next.)

The cotton steamer Algitha, from New Orleans,for Liverpool, has air;ved at St. John's with her cargo on fire. Mr Broadhurst, M.P., has reason to believe that the Government will deal with the Patent Laws next session. The blacksmiths in a village in county Cork have refused to shoe horse* for farmers not members of the Land League M. Challemel Lacour has arrived at the French Embasty fiom Paris to take over his diplo- matic duties. The steam yacht Pandora, with Mr W. H. Smith, M.P., on board, has arrived at Larnaca. A seal, recently caught at St. David's, has just been presented to the Bristol and Clifton Zoological Society. It was captured in a cave by some boatmen who secured it with ropes. Mr H. Quilter has been chosen to succeed the late Mr Tom Taylor as art critic of the Times. Mr Quilter is kno-in as a writer on art in the Spec- tator and in other publications. The census of the United States taken in the summer of this i ear, altr ough the rfsuIts have not yet been correctly ascertained, shows that the population of the Republic is about 50 millions. According to the Whitehall Review, Mr Baron Huddleston's indisposition is much more serious than has been supposed, ai,d his early re- tirement from the bench is considered to be by De means improbable. Edward Garrett, the well-known author of "Occupations of a Retired Life," has lately been engaged upou a new work of considerable importance and interest to the heads of Christian households. This work, which is appearing every month in the Quiver, is entitled "The Family Council," and, in the form of conversations on the leading events of family life (such as the training of children, the choice of a calling, the marriage of sons and daughters, Ac.) conveys a great deal of valuable practical advice m an attractive shape. The British squadron left Cattaro on Sunday for Malta, the Russian for Maples, and the French for Toulon. At the Chrietchurch School Board meeting on Friday evening, the board agreed to grant the use of the infant school at Maindee for the purpose of conducting a Church Sunday School. MR EDWARD BAlli-ES.-At a meeting in the Albert Hall, Lc,, ds, on Friday evening, to present Mr Edward Baines, who formerly repre- sented the burt ugh, with a memorial fund, ex- ceeding £ 3000 (whkh lie has dedicated to educa- tional purprses), Mr Herbert Gladstone read a telegram from the Premier announcing that the Queen had: been graciously pleased to confer the honour of knighthood upon Mr Baines. THE WILL OF THE LATE MR MARK FIRTH. —The will of the late Mr M ok Firtb, of Sheffield, contains no bequest of public interest, the only legacies being to the widow. children, end exe- cutors. <The family consists of the widow, live sons, and two daughters. The executors are his brother, Mr G. H. Firth eldest sou. Mr Beadley Firth Mr Barber, b o k manager Mr B. P. Bromherd, solicitor; Mr T. Roberts, barrister. It is believed thbt the estate will exceed £1,000,000 sterling. Had legacy duty been payable on all the sums given by Mr Firth dudng his lifetime to charitable purposes, it would have exceeded ;Eio,ooo.

CORN. LONDON, Wednesday.—Quiet market for wheat and flour, without change in prices. Barley, oats, maize, beans, also quoted same as last Monday. Arrivals—British wheat, 60 qrs; barley, 1320 qrs. Foreign wheat, 23,580 qrs; barley, 12,540 qrs: oats, 37,500 qrs; maize, 670 qrs; flour, 9110sacks and 1150 barrels. LIVERPOOL, Wednesday.—The demand forwheat to-day is almost nil. In absence of business no decline can be quoted. Indian coru quiet at late prices, 5s 9d per cental beiug value of mix Jd. Wheat quiet at unchanged quotations. Freights very firm. Prices at present are sustained by local speculation, and show no margin for export. CORK, Wednesday. White wheat, Os Od red wheat, 9s Od to 9s 4d; barley, 8s; tawny oats, nil; black oats, 6s 9d to 7s Od; white oats, 7s Id to 7s 3d. GLASGOW, Wednesday.—Wheat and flour met a dull sale at Is 6d per quarter, 6d per barrel, and Is per sack reduction. Barley 6d per 320 lbs, and oats 6d per 264 lbs lower. Beans 6d per 252 lbs, and peas and maize 6d per 280 lbs cheaper. EDINIRL'ILGH, Wednesday. -Supplies good. Wheat and barley Is and oats 6d per quarter lower. Beans unaltered.

CATTLE. WAKEFIELB, Wednesday.—Rather lighter sup- ply of beef, and choice quality scarce and a shade dearer; the best sorts made 8td per lb, and infer- 4 ior qualities 7d to 8d. Prime small sheep met with a good inqury at a slight advance on last Wednesday's quotations, but heavy sheep were difficult to sell at late rates. Calves scarce and dearer. Pigs also made a little more money. LEEDS, Wednesday.—Best beasts made from 71d to 8d; secondary sorts, 7d to 7id; sheep, 71d to 9fd. The stock on offer consisted of 804 beasts and 2470 sheep.