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LONDON LETTER, j
LONDON LETTER, j [SPECIALLY WXHED.j I [ay OUR GA.T.LERY CORRKSPONOKNT. 1 I LONDON, Thursday Night. A statement is telegraphed from Berlin to-day positively asserting that Germany has declined the English proposals for the settle- ment of financial affairs in Egypt, and has y accepted the French counter proposals. This, if true, is a serious matter, and will bring to a crisis the long pending controversy. The principal difference between the two schemes is the increased amount of the pro- posed loan the extension of the guarantee to all the powers a more tender dealing with the bondholders and the re-establish- ment of that multiple control which was one of the disastrous accomplishments of the late Government, and from which has grown the whole of the trouble in Egypt. It is difficult, one might say impossible, for the British Government to accept these pro- posals. In fact, when they were in sub- stance brought forward at the con- ference they were peremptorily rejected but it would be well to await confirmation of the statement. It will not be forgotten that Pall Mall Gazette last summer published a telegram from Berlin," in which it pro- fessed to give in detail the result of the negotiations then pending in respect of what was known as the Anglo-French agree- ment. Lord Wolseley's private friends are elate with the news which has just reached them respecting his intended movements. It is said that a very intimate and confidental friend of the general's has received from- him a broad hint that he will, in a very few days, hear of him from Khartoum. The confidential friend has gone about whisper- ing this communication till now it has become a pretty wide possession. A date is even fixed for the arrival. On Sunday Lord Wolesley is, accord- ing to this report, to be in Khar- toum. It is, perhaps, significant that for the last two days we have heard nothing of Wolseley's personal movements. But either on Monday or Tuesday he telegraphed, and was then at Korti. If he started from Korti early on Monday morning, travelled post- haste the hundred miles of desert road that intervene between that place and Metamneh, found a steamer. ready, and had good luck down the river, it is just within the bounds of possibility that he may fulfil the task lie is said to have allotted to himself, and greet Gordon at Khartoum on Sunday. Such a plan is quite within his ordinary beat. There is no campaign connected with his name in which he has not made some such swift movement. I mention the story only with the assurance that the circle in which it is current is one par- ticularly to be earliest informed of Wolseley's movements. That he should reach Khartoum by Sunday is at least as probable as that lie would hurry on General Stewart up to Metamneh, and then leave him kicking his heels till General Earle comes round by the bend of the Nile. Mr Chamberlain's speech at Ipswich last night has greatly fluttered the Conservative dovecots and even some who do not wear Conservative colours. It is clear now, if, indeed, it were ever doubted, that the President of the Board of Trade has made up his mind to go as far as he finds from the new electors any encouragement to pro- ceed. It is notified, to whom it may concern, that if the new Democracy hit upon a settled plan to obtain certain things that have hitherto been the dream of Radical visionaries, there is a bold and able leader at their disposal. All the things that have been talked of these 50 years Mr Chamberlain now dis- cusses as if they were practical political questions of the hour. Free schools the allottment of land for working men in town and country a dealing with local taxation in other ways than Mr Pell preaches free trade in land revision of the income tax in the interests of those who earn precarious incomes and the reform of what Mr Glad- stone in his last budget speech called "death duties." There is, after all, nothing very shocking in this, whether taken in detail or in the aggregate. These things have long been clamoured for, and no one has shaken in his shoes. What is not liked by those who would keep things as they are is the quiet assurance displayed throughout this speech that the time has now come when these demands must have a serious hearing, enforced as they will be by the pressure of two million electors and the presence of a facile and indomitable leader. The damages against Mr Irving Bishop, assessed to-day at the Sheriffs court, is not likely to stand. It is true that Mr Bishop called Mr Maskelyne an infamous scoundrel," but £ 10,000 is a large sum, and the authority of the court where the case was heard is not very high. Mr Bishop is interested in another libel case, which should come off in the course of this month. He sues Mr Labouchere for 910,000 damages also for libel. Possibly his ex- perience of libel cases may lead him to drop this. Prince Edward is not long home from his prolonged voyage, and already arrangements are being made for another holiday. It was one of the Prince Consort's leading ideas with respect to education that a youth should travel. This idea was partly carried out under his own direction in the case of the Prince of Wales, and upon his death the system was further extended, finding an eager supporter in the prince himself. The Prince of Wales is determined to provide in the fullest measure advantages for his son similar to those enjoyed by himself. The next tour of Prince Edward will be, first on t; continent. He will, a short time hence, leave for Germany, passing on through Austria and Italy, which, of course, means a few days spent in Paris. After that the journey is to be extended to Canada and the United States. There is still some talk of his being made a peer, but there is no truth in it. The Prince of Wales is displaying all his accustomed shrewdness and clear common sense in the matter of the bringing up of his son. He does not for the present desire to thrust him to the front in any matters connected with public affairs in tM country. It is in pursuance of this plan that he does not intend to ask for a parlia- mentary allowance for the young prince a3 a preliminary to providing him with a special establishment. For some time to come Prince Edward's town address will be Marlborough House.
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FRiEND CATLIFFE'S CONSCIENCE.…
FRiEND CATLIFFE'S CONSCIENCE. BY SHIRLEY BROWNE. Friend Gripstone, does thee want to buy a fe*.v nice snrmsr chickens ?" Rachel Catliffe's sweet voice sounded above the burr of Mrs dripstone's sewing machine, as that thrifty matron stitched away at the new patch- work quilt she was making. Mrs Gripstone was dried up and wrinkled like a last year's tulip bulb left on the shelf by mistake. Rachel was round and blooming-, with long lashes to her dark gray eyes, and a dimple at the curve of her chin. Chickens,hey ?" said [r:; Gripstone. Why you don't mean to say you're selling off them beautiful young Plymouth Rocks, • jest for broilers ?'; "Yes," said Rachel, with a sigh. "Father has no work just now, and mother is ailing with her cough. And the money for the chickens will be quite acceptable if I can manage to sell them." How much?" said Mrs Gripstone, curtly. "Thirty cents apiece," answered Rachel. Give you twenty-five," said Mrs Gripstone. I could not sell them for less than thirty, said Rachel. They will be worth fifty in a few weeks more, if we could afford to keep them." "Say twenty-eight and I'll take 'em." said Mrs Gripstone, with a bundle of patches sus- pended in mid-air. "Thirty," meekly persisted Rachel. See," she added, lifting the lid of the basket, these are all fat and flourishing. Thee can fat them a little more, and thee will easily get fifty cents for them when Friend Doty comes around with his wagon for the hotels." Waal," rather unwillingly acceded Mrs Grip- stone, who had all a New Englander's delight in a bargain, "I s'pose I'll hev to take 'em—but it's as much to oblige you, Rachel Catliffe, as for anything else." Thee is very kind," said Rachel, gently. Fatner hain't sold the corner store yet, has he ?" said Mrs Gripstone, as she was counting out the money after having given the speckled beauties into the charge of Peter, the chore-boy. "We heard that Manlius Moody had offered him a thousand dollars for it." No," said Rachel, "he has not sold it. He will not sell it to be used for a drink store. It :s a matter of conscience with him, thee knows, Friend Gripstone." Humph," observed Mrs Gripstone. It'll be a matter of bread and butter pretty soon, I should think. It's all he's got." It was an nfortunate bequest of Uncle Watson," sighed Rachel. It's only adapted to a tavern-and hereabouts there seems to be 11 opening for a temperance house." "'Tain't as if your father was a spry young man," remarked Mrs Gripstone. lle?3 a poor rheumaticky creeter. And your mother she never was real strong—and there are the children, yon know. A thousand dollars would pay oif the mortgage on the farm, wouldn't it "Yes," said Rachel, "but father wouldn't barter his conscience for ten timps a thousand dol- lars. Since Cousin Jotham died of delirium tre- mens, he has had strong opinions on the subject, thee knows." Mrs Gripstone said no more, but when Rachel was gone, she expresfed her sentiments without restraint to her own family. "If ever there was a fool," said she, "Caleb Catlitfe is one. What airthly dillerence does it make to him what use Manlius Moody puts that tumble-down old house to. It's just throwin', away a thousand dollars, that s^what it is. ".Jest my opinion," said I'arm'ir Gripstone, who had always fallen down and worshiped the Moloch of gold. It ain't mine, then," said Haven Gripstone, a sturdy young fellow of two or three-and-twenty. There's enough people around here that have been ruined by the sale of liquor already. And Friend Catliffe is right to stick to his principles. Only it is hard on a delicate girl like Rachel to go out to day's work to keep the pot boiling." <1 The "Corner Store," as it had always been called, was undoubtedly a good stand for what was catled road business." It was on the way from the tanneries down the river. The cattle dealers, driving their herds to town, passed the very door. The village post-office was not far distant, and the newly-opened stone-quarries had recently attracted a host of stalwart miners. But Caleb Catliffe would neither open it himself, nor rent it to anyone who who would not pledge him- self to abstain from the sale of spirituous liquors. I am a poor ni:i n," said Friend Caleb, "butI am not poor enough to barter away my con- science." So he lived on, pinched and poverty striken, in the ruinous old farm-house, while Rachel's earnings kept the wolf, Starvation, from the door. But "one night Haven Gripstone met her re- turning from her day's work at Mrs Hull's, where she had earned seventy-fi ve cents by sitting closely at the machine from the pale winter sunrise to the fall of dusk. Rachel," said he, this won t do. You are working yourself to death." Oh, no, I am not," said Rachel, a flush rising to her colourless cheek. But I y you are," pronounced Haven. There has got to be an end to it. Let me end it, Rachel. Promise that you will be my wife." Thee does not mean it, Friend Haven," said Rachel, in a low voice. I do mean it," said Haven. I love yuu, Rachel. You must have seen it long ago. I want you to belong to me." "Thy mother will never consent," faltered the pretty Quakeress. If you consent, Rachel, I don't care what any one else says," impatiently uttered Haven. But thee doesn't know all, pleaded Rachel. 1 heard father saying last night that Squire Overington was going to foreclose on the mortgage next month. We shall he without a home,— father and mother, and Eunice and Dorcas. I could not leave them now, Haven, thanking thee all the same." Who has asked you to leave them, Rachel ?" said Haven, the assumed brusqueness of his tone covering a hidden depth of tenderness that was beyond all expression. "Your parents and the children will be sure of a home where I am, Rachel,—you might be very certain of that." So Rachel went home, the promised wife of Haven Gripstone. "Thee should be a happy girl, Rachel, said her poor, pale little mother, with tears in her eyes. A good man's love is Heaven's choicest gift." "There, wife," said old Caleb, exultantly, did I not tell thee last night that Providence would provide a way for us ?" The Gripstones, however, did not take matters so complacently. "I, for one," said Mrs Gripstone, "won't never consent to my son's marryin' the darter of that poor half-crazy creetur', Caleb Catliffe. Net but what Rachel is a nice gal enough, but she hain't got a penny, and never will have And," added Mr Gripstone, who was equally hard in bis way, there's that m's'able, shiftless family taked on to her apron-strings. We might as well open Town Poor-house at once But Haven Gripstone avoided these pitfalls by asking no one's consent, but quietly marrying Rachel one night in the IFrIends meeting-house. You aren't goin' to bring her here said the indignant mother-in-law, when she heard of it. You are right," said Haven. I am not. I shall take her to the corner store. We intend to live in the little back shop until I can re- build the old place so that it will be decent to live in. I didn't Jearn the carpenter's trade for nothinir Goin' to open a liquor stores ? said Mr Grip- stone, with sparkling eyes. There's money in it, if-" '• Nothing of the sort," said Haven. I shall do the best I can with the farm. If we don't get along just at first, Rachel will try the experi- ment of keeping summer boarders. Of one thing we are quite certain—we shall ask help from no one but Heaven I" Mr Gripstone, senior, shook his head. As he afterwards told his wife, it sort o' stumped him to hear how completely Haven had caught the twang o' them Quaker folks 1" "It's sort of irreverent, talking about Heaven that-a-way outen the pulpit," said he. (Which was certainly an irreverence which no one could accuse Nathan Gripstone of.) Squire Overington foreclosed the mortgage on the Catliffe farm, as everybody expected be would do. Far be it," said honest Caleb, to begrudge the man his own. I can now help Haven in the corner store fields, if the rheumatism will let me." And it was a very happy little household that gathered around the fireplace in the back shop where the old liquor seller had once stored his bins and barrels. The floor was covered with a light rag-carpet, the windows were curtained with white cross-bar, at five cents a yard-the children played in the sunshine, and Rachel sang at her work. Until one windy March night, when there came a terrific orash, Haven went to the floor with a lantern in his hand. It is as I feared," said he. In digging out the new foundation, the men have loosened the old supports too much. The corner stone is a mere heap of bricks and timbers "The Lord be praised," said Caleb Catliffe. He hath aeen fit to wipe it off from the face of the eartb,—now we can begin again All the neighbours from far and wide came to view the ruins in the chill, raw light of the mor- row's dawn. But it was old Peter Fulke, the village idiot, who, rooting like a blind mole in the debris, discovered what had lain hidden for a cen- tury at least,-a rusted iron box, filled with old Spanish gold. Pretty pennies," said Peter, with a grin, as he let them sift through his fingers. Pretty pennies." "It isn't real money?" said Rachel, when Haven showed it to her, a few rninuteo later. But it is, dear. Not our coin,—but that of Spain. It is real, genuine gold. Gold that Heaven has sent to us." Is thee sure that it is ours, Haven 2" Yes, Rachel, quite sure." After that Caleb Catliffe and his conscience were h^ld in better estimation in the vicinity. Even Natli: a Gripstone came to see ti a ruins, and at the exacc place where the square box had bided its time, since the days when King George levied his insolent taxes on the North American Colonies, and Cornwallis rode, rough-shod, over the rights of the people. And out of that pot of buried gold rose the fair blossom of Haven Gripstone's now home, and Rachel's happiness. If thee had sold the old house to Manlius Moody, father," said Rachel, thee would never have found the hidden treasure. And a thousand dollars would have been a poor bargain." iii(fee,f," said Fi-iend:Caleb, especially when thee considers, daughter, that I should have bargained away my conscience also.
BANKRUPTCY OF A MAGISTRATE…
BANKRUPTCY OF A MAGISTRATE I Extensive Undertaking at Briton Ferry. On Thursday, at the Bristol county court- before Mr W. J. Metcalfe, Q.C., judge-the case of Charles Lonsdale Formby, of Salcombe, gentle- man, came on for fiearing.Alr H. H. Bucking- ham said he appeared for the trustee, Mr F. D. Braine, of Neath, and he had to ask his honour to annul the bankruptcy. Mr Formby, until a few years ago, was a gentleman of very considerable wealth, and holding a high position. He was deputy-lieutenant for the county of Essex, and a magistrate. He conceived the idea of erecting some works at Briton Ferry, and during the course of the erection of thosa works two gentle- men, who were trustees of his, disappeared with the trust fund, amounting to something like £ 90,000. That meant utter and complete ruin to Mr Formby and it also stopped all the building work going on at Briton Ferry. Having con- sidered his position, Mr Formby felt that to give up the works in their then condition would be to lose everything, and he raised money for the purpose of finishing the works and starting them, but he did not estimate the capital required, and when the works were completed he found he had no capital to work them, and no means of raising capital. He found his only re- source was to hand over the works to his credi- tors. That was done, but immediately after- wards the secured creditors came down and took possession of everything, all the works and the plant, and there was barely sufficient for the secured creditors, and the unsecured creditors were out in the cold. The bankrupt was anxious to do everything in his power to as.-ist them, and having conferred together, the unsecured creditors resolved to make Mr Formby n bankrupt, that they might make the fullest investigation into the securities and those who had realised under them. Mr Forinby was made bankrupt. But when the investigation was completed the trustee of the creditors felt it would be perfectly useless and hopeless to get into any litigation with the se- cured creditors to restore any of the property of the estate, and there was therefore no further object in keeping the bankruptcy proceedings on foot. Mr Formby applied to his creditor that they would allow tbe bankruptcy proceedings to be annulled, and they intimated their willingness to that being done. Hence the present application. His Honour said he supposed there was no objec- tion to the course proposed?—Mr Buckingham s:1.ÏÜ there was no objection from creditors or from any other quarter; everyone interested in the bankruptcy appeared to be unanimous.—His Honour directed th.t the bankruptcy should be annulled.
THE STRANDING OF THE S.S.…
THE STRANDING OF THE S.S. OLAVEAGA. Boarci of Trade Inquiry at Swansea The Master Censured. At the Town-hall, Swansea, on Thursday after- noon, Mr J. C. Fowler (the chairman) and Cap- tains Beasley and Parkinson (the nautictl assessors) gave their decision in the inquiry which has, for the past three days, been held into the circumstances attending the stranding of the s.s. Olaveaga, of Swansea, on a rock off Sables d'Olonne. France. The court found that the master (Mr J. I'. Stephenson) was in default, but not the other officers. There was no evidence to satisfy the court that the master's explanation of the casualty was a sound and correct one- viz., the existence of a danger unknown, and unmarked on the chart. The court were of opinion that the ship struck on some part of one of the known obstacles, and they considered that the master was open to censure for taking a passage from the south-west by his own choice, having the alternative of the south-east or the great channel, which was com- paratively free from danger, and relying on his south-east or the great channel, which was com- paratively free from danger, and relying on his own observation, without seeking the aid of a pilot, who was at hand immediately after the casualty. Then he took the more dangerous passage when the tide was at half ebb, and the danger, consequently, more increased. The court believed the vessel was lost by a serious error in judgment, which amounted very nearly to cui- pable carelessness but considering the master's prenos good character, they refrained from deal- ing with his certificate, and merely severely censured him.
IALARMING NUMBER OF INTERMENTS…
ALARMING NUMBER OF INTER- MENTS AT CARDIFF. A meeting of the burial board committee was held at the Town-hall on Thursday. Alder- man Stone presided. There were also present- Councillors Trounce, Beavan, Carey, Morgan, Hurley, James, and Andrews. The ordinary work was gone through, the cemetery manager's report shewing that the alarming number of 202 interments took place during the month of De- cember, being an increase of 76 over December, 1883. There had been 1.751 interments during 1884, as against 1,327 in 1883 increase, 424. The last six months of 1884 were most fatal, there being 981 burials as compared with 659 for the lsst six months of 1883. or an increase of 322.
PRINCE EDWARD OF WALES.
PRINCE EDWARD OF WALES. The Mayor of Salisbury has received a letter from Prince Edward, thanking him for the address forwarded from the town council. His Royal Highness adds he will ever "strive to merit in future years the good opinions and hopes which you enterain on his behalf, and always by God's blessing, to act for the benefit of the people of these realms."
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YANKEE YARNS.
YANKEE YARNS. WHAT SHE WISHED.—An Austin youug man has been boring a young lady with his attentions for some time past, although on various and sun- dry occasions she has given him to understand that he was distasteful to her. A few evenings ago he assured her that he was anxious to fulfil her every wish. Is it really a fact that you will do whatever I ask of you?" Your slightest wish is law. Command me, and I shall obey." Well, then, I wish you would see if you can induce my mother to marry you. She is a widow, and not so particular about whom she marries as I am." My dear," he said, as he entered the house, who is that gentleman across the street?" I am not sure, but I think he is an old beau of mine." How long has he been waving his handker- chief ?" Oh, more than half an hour." Is lie trying to flirt with you?" That's;! ust what annoys me. He may mean it for me or for the lady in the bay window above. If it's for me I ought to know it, and if it's for her I'll never speak to the shame-faced thing again as long as I live Oh, George, you don't know how vexatious it is to have roomers above you. I wish we had 1 little cottage of our own." Mr Robinson," .aid the bookeeper to the old man, in the office, "here's a letter from Smith, over in Indiana, in which he proposes to pay 60 per cent. of the bill he owes." Gootness, kracious, vot ish dat? Vot ish dat?" screamed the old man. Smith proposes to pay 60 per cent. repeated the bookkeeper. Can't ve schveeze more ash dot out oaf him, no vay ?" No, sir; I understand that's the very best he can do." Veil, dot ish shameful vor a man to shoot us in dot vay. Only 60 per cent., you shay ?" "That's all." Von't he make eet sixty-von?" No, 60 is the limit." Vell, eef ve must, ve must. I shupposhe, bood I don't like dat vay oaf settling. We shoot haf mate two hoondert unt sheventy-five per chedt. on dose goots, unt now ve vill haf to be satisfied mit only a leedle ofer a hundert unt ten, unt any beezness man can see dat sooch profits vill ruin trade in sphite oaf all ve can do to increashe de proshperity oaf our republican insthitutions." Old bow-legged Jake, a coloured man of high standing and extreme blackness, ontered the county clerk's office and said, Boss, I wants a par ob marriage license. I'se a ole man, but I'se gwine ter marry one ob de youngest gals in dis community. Have the parents of the girl any objections to the marriage?" asked the clerk, hesitating as to whether or not the license should be issued. Hit doan seem so ter me." Did you ask the old man's consent?" No, sah." How do you know then that he does not ob- ject ?" Well, yer see, I has been callin't)n de young lady for some time, an' las' night de ole man come in, tuck down a Army gun, an'said dat he reckoned me an Lindy oughter get married. Dis inornin' he come ober ter my house wid de gun, an' said suntliin' about my goin' at once an getten de license. I told him dat I had a wife soniewhar in de country, but he cocked de ole gun an' looked so sad like dat I struck a trot for dis office." "If you have a living wife, old man, I can't issue a license." But, boss, dis is one ob dese stringent cases. Do fadder ob de gal is standin' out at de corner ob de house wid dat Army gun. It's better, boss, for a man to-hab two libin' wives den it is for a 'omAn ter hab one dead husband." Finally the old man with the gun was induced to come into the office and ex- plain. Well; yer see, boss," he said, "old Jake hab been bumin' my oil an' wearin' out de bottoms ob my chairs long enough. He's been eatin' at my house inore'n a year, courtin' my gal, an' now I wants him to board the gal a while. Ef he don't, I'll hab to injure him." After a while, however, the old man agreed that, if Jake would V-ty him five dollars, the affair should be settled without marriage. 0 My friend," said a gentleman to a German whom he had met upon a corner "can you tell me where the post-office is ?" "Yah." Well, if you please, be kind enough to tell me." I know who he vas." 1 am in a hurry, sir," replied tho gentleman, tell me where it is." qh, you vant to found der post-office out, aind it—" "Yes." "Oh. veil. Dots besser, you go four plocks south, den you go two plocks dat vay, den you vas go four plocks nord, den you come mit two plocks dis vay "Why, you fool, that brings me back to this identical spot. <> Veil, dots all right." Then, where is the post-office?" You vant der post-office. Oh, yaw, dots yoost across der shtreet. Vhy don't you said so, yet I daught you vanted to took it away mit you, but you don't vas fool me once. I vas a candidate for dot places myself. I vas a democrat nelder. -Pretzel's Weekly. CLEARING OFF TIBIDER L u' 1 It lew weeks ago, weaned with my eaitonai duties, I lay my pen aside and went on a visit to my uncle, who owns a farm in a distant State. I am partial to rural life. Nothing would suit me better than to own a farm in the country. I hardly think a farm in the city would do. The horse cars might run over your cows and the policeman break into your corn-crib and steal your corn. Well, my uncle received me with open arms. Said he Parmenas, those heavy editorials that you wrote me were creating such a profound sen- sation in Europe are wearing you out. Better look out, my boy, and not strain your brain too much the top of your head may fly off some day." I enjoyed myself very much at Uncle Jim's. y Nothing was too eood for me—at least I thought so—and time slipped away very pleasantly. -A* cold weather approached the bracing air seemed to fill me with a desire to exercise my muscles, so one morning I remarked to Uncle Jim: "Say, haven't you got some timber you want cleared on this winter ? I'm an excellent chopper, and to see the chips fly and the giant oak fall crashing to the earth always fills one with unbounded delight. (Once, while in the army, I hacked down a few small cedars for firewood.) Uncle Jim immedia- tely got me an axe and piloted me to the worst looking piece of timber I had ever seen. Most of the trees were four feet in diameter, and the un- dergrowth was as thick as the hair on a dog. Besides there was an intricate network of wild grape-vines woven in among the trees. Uncle Jim said: There, my boy, amuse yourseli, and left me. After an hour's ardous toil I made a clearing around one of the largest oaks, spit on my hands aiid sailed in. I managed to get through the bark after awhile, and then sat down and gasped for breath. I know now why a man's ribs are built so substantially; it's to keep woodchopper's hearts from jumping through their breasts and bounding off into the woods. When night came I had made a hole in that tree about the size of the first cut in a cheese, and I felt next morning as if I had been rnn over by all the artillery and cavalry in the United States service. I was three days felling that tree. I cut all around the confounded thing and then tried to push it down, but it stood there as firm as the proprietor of of a one-priced store. I went to the house and secretly got an old rip-saw, and tried that on awhile, but no go. Another hour's super- human efforts with the axe, however, made the stubborn old fellow topple and crack, and the next instant he fell with a crash that shook the earth from Maine to the Gulf of Mexico. It fell across a new eight-rail fence and killed a cow that was grazing on the other side-killed her as dead as a cove oyster. I then sat down on a stump and shed the first solid tears I had shed in sixteen years. To think that I should toil and sweat and swear for three whole days just to knock $50 out of my dear Uncle Jim's pocket. I went sorrowfully to the house, and when the old gentleman came in he said Well, how are you getting along?" "Got that big tree down," I replied. Which way did it fall?" asked Uncle Tim. "Downwards,"] .,iswered. "and smashed four panels of fencing gave an old spotted cow such a rap that her en flew fifty feet, There's nothing saleable about her now but her hide and horns deduct the price of those and charge the rest to me." Uncle Jim sank into a chair, leaned his head upon his hands, groaned dismally, and sighed, Poor Spot! Aunt Susan covered her face with her apron and sobbed, "Poor old Spotty The children also set up a wail of lamentation. I was forced to go into the kitchen and take a smoke of the old man's tobacco to hide my emotion. Pre- sently he came in and said; Well, there's no crying over spilled milk (it was spilled milk in this instance, sure enough); you can go right on and clean o'f that timber, work the trunks up into cordwood and fence rails and the tops into firewood, and we'll say no more about it." No, uncle," I feelingly replied, that would be too slight a remuneration; you must receive a more generous reward. I'll send you my paper for twenty-five years at $2 a year. The next morning I came home. There's a coolness now existing between Unote Jim and we,
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FACTS AND FANCIES.) NARROW ESCAPE.The chimney flue. A PLUCKY FELLOW —A busy poulterer. A FIGURE OF SPEECH.—" Nm^ht set down in malice. WHAT AN IRASCIBLE FATHER SAYS.— As the twig is bent the boy is inclined to shoot out at the door. FOB THE WEATHER-WISE.— The weather can scarcely be called settled while heavy dews are seen every morning. Why is it impossible that there should be one best horse on a racecourse ?—Because you will always find a better there. A poor copying-clerk at the French Ministry of the Interior was lately asked what place he occu- pied there. Oh, a very good place, he replied —" between the stove and the window I" BUSINESSLIKE AND STRAIGHTFORWARD.—Three American young ladies stopping at a village inn in Switzerland, filled in the columns in the visitors' book headed Occupation" with the words, "Looking for a husband." A certain newspaper proprietor, lately deceased, was once vigorously attacked for inserting objec- tionable advertisements in his newspaper. My dear fellow," he replied to his tormentor, what can I do ? I charge them double price The master of a national school was censuring a pupil for the dulness of his comprehension, and said, Is not the price of a penny loaf always a penny?" when the boy innocently answered, "No, sir; the baker sails them two for three-halfpence when they are stale." We don't want all this we don't want it said a solicitor the other day to a voluble old lady in the witness-box. It is irrelevant." But the witness paid no heed, and talked on, finishing with, There, you've got it, whether you want it or not; and it isn't irreverent either 1" QUESTION AND A.NBER.Parisienne who has hired a tiny villa for the season in Normandy, addressing the proprietor: "What are these pillows stuffed with? They are as hard as rocks." Proprietor: "Goose feathers." Parisienne: Ah, I see-not separated from the bones!" General Lee one day found Doctor Cutting, the army surgeon, who was a handsome and dressy man, arranging his cravat complacently before a glass. Cutting," said Lee, you must be the happiest man in creation." Why, General ? Because," said Lee, you are in love with your- self, and have not a rival on earth." Minister to Rory: "Why weren't you at the kirk on Sunday ? Rory: I wis at Mr Dunlop's kirk." Minister: "I don't like your rinning aboot tae strange kirks in that way. Not that I object tae yer hearing Mr Dunlop; but I'm sure ye widna like yer ain sheep straying away into strange pastures." Rory I widna care a gram, sir, if it was better gress." Inquiring stranger to steamboat pilot: That is Black Mountain, is it?" Pilot: Yes, sir; highest mountain about Lako George." Stranger "Any story or legend connected with that moun- tain?" Pilot: "Yes, lots of 'em. One of the most harrowing is about two lovers that went up that mountain and never came down again." Stranger: Indeed What became of them ?" Pilot: "They went down on the other side." 7 The late Judge W., on a visit to Niagara, when the car was in use on the inclined plane, raised and lowered by steam power, went into the start- ing-house to witness the descent, too timid to go himself. After the car started, fully impressed with the danger, he turned to the man in charge and said, "Suppose, sir, the rope should break?" The man, with a serious countenance and a single eye to business, replied, Oh, that would be all right—they all paid before they went." JOINT PRODUCTION.—" I had gone to the apartments of a friend of mine," writes a dramatic author in the Paris Figaro, but stopped short in the ante-room on hearing the following words, uttered in a tone of the greatest excitement-' You are an assassin, a regular butcher.' And what are you but a white-livered coward?' Then I heard the sound of a struggle going on, and the fall of a heavy body on the floor. On bursting into the room, I found my friend collaborating with one of his colleagues, with whom he was trying to settle an argument as to whether, at the close of the play, a woman was to he sacrificed or to receive forgiveness." FAITH !-It is Cardinal Manning who relates this incident as having happened to himself— One night I was returning to my residence in Westminster, when I met a poor man carrying a basket and smoking a pipe. I thought over this Aristotelian syllogism :-He who smokes gets thirsty; he who is thirsty desire3 to drink he who drinks too much gets drunk he who gets drunk is lost. This man is in danger of mental sin. Let us save him. I affectionately addressed him. Are you a Catholic?' 'I am, thanks be to Heaven Where are you from ? From Cork, your reverence.' 'Are you a member of the total abstinence society?' 'No, your reverence.' Now said I, that is very wrong. Look at me; I am a member.' 'Faith, maybe your reverence has need of it I shook hands with him and left him." I PEOPLE SHOULD BE CAREFUL IN GIVING ADVICE. She was telling at a neighbour's how her husband had been troubled for several days with a severe pain in the head, and that she had done every- thing to relieve, it, and that the doctor's medicine did not seem to do any good, and that she was tired out, fussing and fretting. Thereupon a new neighbour, who had just been introduced Ito her, kindly asked if she had tried soaking his feet in mustard and hot water. Insult me in my affliction, will you, you shameful hussy gasped the wife of the sick man, her fingers working con- vulsively, her blood rising to boiling heat and her voice getting higher and higher. The hostess in- terposed in defence of the new neighbour, and quiet was finally restored. It appeared that, some years before, the sick husband had been deprived of both of his legs by the breaking of a piece of machinery, and there had been a story that his present wife had married him for his money. HIS JAPANESE VASE. X. is a distinguished writer, rich, famous, but withal of extraordinary avarice. During five years he laboured at a great literary work, into which he put heart and soul, and in which he was greatly assisted by the generous kindness of a young friend who often served him as secretary. When the book was finished and greeted with great approbation by the public, the wife sug- gested to her husband the propriety of offering the friend some (testimony of appreciation of his services. "There is your Japanese vase," she said "it cost you very little, and you do not prize it much; but I have heard him express vast admiration of its colour and workmanship. Asjwe dare not offer, him money, why not delicately beg him to accept this as a token of your gratitude X listened without replying. The next day, meeting his young friend, he said to him, My dear H., I am under such a weight of obligation to you-words cannot express-" Do not speak of it, I beg." If I might, without seeminv indelicacy, suggest— there is my Japanese vase-you admire it so much-—" Generous friend But I cannot deprive y0h Indeed!" broke in X. blithely. "Then I must be allowed to insist that you come and look at it upon my cabinet just as often as you feel disposed I" v JACK'S, LIBERALITY.—A man-of-war's man, a regular British tar, stepped into a post-office, and, addressing the postmaster, asked, Do j^ou know Jem Jenkins, A.B., of the Bulldog? Not I, replied the postmaster.. Why do you ask .J^ Because I want you to give a letter to him, replied the sailor, on saying vrh'.ch he produced an epistle. "Very well," said the postmaster; the letter shall be sent tohim; but you must puta-stamponit." "How the deuce can you send,a letter to Jem Jenkins unless you know him I" inquired the tar. On, that does not matter ? answered the postmaster. I can send the letter but it will Ccst you a penny for the stamp. Stamp •' cried the sailor. "Show me oue.'j A stamp was accordingly shown to him, when he exclaimed, "No, shiver me if I put Jem Jenkins off with a penny, for he often spent a crown upon me Haven't you got anything handsomer than this ?'' The postmaster replied in the affirmative, and showed him a twopenny stamp. Well," cried Jack, this-looks^decenter. But haven't you got anything better ? The postmaster showed him a shilling stamp, which Jack inspected with an ex- pression of approval, saying, All right; put fh of them on the letter. Shiver my timbers, I wii! never send Jem Jenkins less than five shillings' worth Saying this, he threw down five shillings, took up the five shilling stamps and stuck them on the letter, which he then threw in the letter- box, with expressions of satisfaction at having spent a crown on Jem Jenkins,
THE SALVATION ARMYI BALANCE-SHEET.
THE SALVATION ARMY I BALANCE-SHEET. The report of the work of the Salvation Army during the year ending ,September 30th, 1834. which lias just been issued, includes a Ln'J.nee- sheet, in which the principal items of receipt and expenditure are shown. These accounts, which have been audited by Messrs Josiah Beddow and Son, chartered accountants, show that the total sum received during the period mentioned was, omitting, as we shall do through- out, the shillings and pence, £ 74,655, and the whole of this large sum was spent, with the ex- ception of a nalance in of The items are allotted under several headings. First comes the general spiritual luud, which started on the 30th September, 1883, with a balance to the good of only L41. The donations and subscriptions to this fund amonted to £ 6,54-9, and tho other principal items of receipt were £ 840 repaid from and on account of various stations 2596 received on account of the expenses of officers charged with the oversight of divisions; C400 paid as pro- portion of rent by the trade department; £ 388 subscribed to pay the costs in connection with tHe action respecting the Eagle Tavern £ 1,635 from members' subscriptions and collections taken at meetings for the auxiliary defence and supply fund; L720 balance brought from the thanksgiv- ing and extension fund £9,616 balance brought from the extraordinary relief fund and £ 3,292, grant from thetrade department. The total receipts of this fund were £ 24,493. The counter account shows the following items of expenditure:— Grants and advar.^fls to corps for general expenses and officers's £ 2,343; salaries, travelling, and otherexp, officers charged with the over- sight of divisiu..Jl,779<; office salaries, printing and ."stationery, BeC., at head-quarters, £ 3,768; rent and rates of offices, cleaning, coal, gas, etc., £ 2,253; salaries of staff officers attached to head- quarters, L657 expenditure incurred at council of war and special charges, £ 614; books and uniforms supplied to poor stations, £ 984 postage and telegrams at head-quarters, :0793 travelling expenses, £ 564 legal charges, 2632 printing and postage of annual balance sheet, official boxes, and rents of halls for meetings, £ 1,714 auxiliary, defence, and supply salaries, cost of printing Auxiliary Monthly," and sundry expenses, £ 363 grant to Training Home, y 11 £ 4,500 grant to sick and wounded—by wounded "-being meant those who are injured in street disturbances— £ 500 cost of actions in suit Ebbetts v. Booth, to determine the Eagle Tavern question, SI,591 and expenses in volved in yielding up possession of the Taver 2384. The amount left in hand at the end ot y was £176. Then comes the building fund, uiie re- ceipts on account of which were £ 36,228. ihis sum included a balance from the year ending September, 1883, of E6,045 an advance on tho mortgage of St. James's Hall, Bath and Frome, £ 1,201; mortgage on Castle- ford Barracks, £ 1,000 mortgages of £ 1,200 and £ 1,000 on' Battersea and Camberwell barracks respectively donations, subscriptions, and rents for the erection of Marylebone bar- racks, 21,269; a mortgage on these barracks, £ 1,000; amount received from various corps for rents, £ 5,903; and loans for the erection and purchase of buildings, £ 13,588. The principal items of expenditure were £ 2,527, for a new building at Leamington; L3,518 on account of the barracks at Marylebone £ 1,148 on account of building at York; £4,265 paid for rents of halls used by various corps, and L5,380 loans repaid. The rest of the expenditure was in smaller sums, nearly all under £ 500, and the total shows a balance in hand of £ ,081. The summary shows that the financial year 1883-34 started with a balance in favour of the building fund of £ 6,104 the total receipts on account of the general spiritual fund were £ 24,452, and the other sums received were—For India, £ 734; for the training homes, £ 6,302; rescue home, £ 135; sick and wounded, £ 334; foreign service, £ 3,704; France and Switzerland, £ 2,082 United States, £ 13 -A-u-^r tralia and New Zealand, £ 339 Caps of Oood Hope, £ 72; Canada, £ 89 Sweden, £ 118; and for the building fund, £ 30,182 making, with the shillings and pence omitted, the total of £ 74,665. On the expenditure side we find the balance over- paid to various departments account for E5,891, and the following payments have been made for carrying on the movement: General spiritual fund, L19,316 India, L655 training homes, EIO,947 rescue homes, £ 132; sick and wounded, £ 1,161; foreign service, £ 2,831; France ana Switzerland, £ 2,316; United States, £ 157-, Aus- tralia and New Zealand, L348 California, £ 55 Cape -of Good Hope, £ 87; Canada, £ 141 Sweden, L25 and building fund, £ 30,146,_ leav- ing a balance in hand of £448. The profit and loss account of the trade department"" shows that the business is conducted with very considerable profit. When the year com- menced there was a stock on hand valued at £7,368; purchases of books, paper, &c., were made to the amount of L9,355; the paper, ink, stereos, &c., for the Wctr Cry and Little Soldier cost £16,322; the printing of these two periodi cals, and purchase of general literature, cost £3,456; purchases for the general outfit depart- ment came to L16,247 and wages, manufacturing, &c., amounted to £ 1,048; making a total of £ 53,799. On the other side the receipts were From the sales of books, &c., and printing, 911,927 sales of War Cry and Little Soldier, ;620,250; and sales in the outfit department, £ 18,782; a total of £ 59,959; the stock lett on hand being of the estimated value of LII,385, The expenses under the heads of wages, plant, rent, salaries, &c., came to £ 11,594, and the re- sult of the year's transactions was to leave a nett profit of £ 6,790. Mr W. Bramweil Booth, the "Chief of Staff," states in the report that £30,000 will be required in order to maintain the work throughout the world during the present year.
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+- ASLEEP IN CHARGE OF A BRISTOL VESSEL Suspension of a Second Mate's Certificate. For falling asleep whilst in charge of a vessel during the captain's absence in his cabin, Kemp Heavisides, second mate of a vessel called the Lochiel, from Bristol to Calcutta, had his certifi- ficate suspended for three months by the Liver- pool Merino Board on Thursday.
IRADICAL REFORMS. I
I RADICAL REFORMS. I Professor Stuart, M.P., speaking at Bolton on Thursday night, advocated the easy transfer of land, the abolition of the law of entail, and com- pensation for disturbance in case of improvements on the conclusion of short leases, and the increase of powers to local governing bodies to acquire land or houses. He demanded that education should be free, mon y being found in the -funds of the FaTr Church. He advocated the governme^ J by Irishmen sent from England, and called for reform in the constitution of the House of Lords.
-THE BETROTHAL OF PRINCESS…
THE BETROTHAL OF PRINCESS BEATRICE. The Whitehall lleview says on authority that after her marriaffe Princess Beatrice and her husband will reside with tne Queen for sjx montha in each year, and the other six months will pro- bably be spent in Germany. During this latter time the Duchess of Albany will live with the Queen. The marriage of tho Princess Beatrice is the outcome of a love M-atch which had existed four years. It has all along been discouraged by the Queen.
THE PRINCE OF WALES AND BIRMINGHAM.
THE PRINCE OF WALES AND BIRMINGHAM. At a special meeting of the Binningawn Agri- cultural Society, held at the Queen s Hotel on Thursday, under the presidency of the Mayor, Alderman Martineau, a committeo Yas..al)" pointed to consider what preparations should be made for the reception of II.K.H. the Prince of Wales on the occasion of his visit to the show in ) November.
OLDHAM BOILER EXPLOSION, I
OLDHAM BOILER EXPLOSION, I The inauest on two of the four men killed by the Stanley Mill explosion, Oldham, was con- cluded on Thursday night. The scientific evi- dence was to the effect that the valve of the economizer might have become frozen, and it was recommended that there should be an extra valve. The jury returned a verdiot to that affect. The jury returned a verdiot to that affect.
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L L I The State of Trade. CARDIFF TRADE REPORT. [SPECIAL EEPOi.T BY OUK OWN CARDIFF, Thursday Night;.—It is sat.;stao»^ to notice the great increase in the coal cleara^ this week as compared, to those last.. entries of tonnaga jor loadnig nave, ho^e.v fallen off to a small extent. Tills may bs l mea.suie accounted for by the prevalence the past week of easterly and winds, which ate nut thy most favourable tonnage bound up this Channel. >*hip&L generally have materially benefited by the provemeui in trade; second qualities -Ire, boll i-asisr. The weather has, on the whole, he j favourable to the movements of the tonnage eneral shipment of coal. There i no P, of any immediate falling off in the activity of trade of the port, inasmuch as, 'great as the d* ments have been, the tonnage cleared is nearly replaced by the carrying capacity of. j ships which have entered during the t,ame pef\°^ Prices of steam coals have remained unchanged^, In the freight market qoutations tor the tcrranean ports ara slightly easier, owing to i, extensive engagements which have been ente^, into. Orders are fairly plentiful, and there helæ a moderate supp'y "f tonnage offering for ment, a satisfactory amount oi chartering been done. French and Spanish coal freights still unchanged, and the same may be said of tB homeward freights from iiilbao and the .Meditef ranean ports with iron ore. The demand for to nage for Gibraltar and the Italian ports is .eaw' and that for Malta, Port Said, and tlie high Mediterranean ports is easier. Tne same may K said of the outward rate of freights for the Bla< £ Sea, and the homeward freights thence are There is an easier tone in outward rat for the East Indies, but there is an nnproveine?a in homeward frieghts from that quarter. J-1* demand for tonnage for the West Indies cO tinues to be st. ly, and there is no alteration tol report in conncc ui witn quotation for the zilion and River iJiato ports. There are one two transactions announced this week in con11, tion with Transatlantic steam chartering forcoa -• viz., Cape Verds and St. Thomas at 9, aJ1 Havana at 10s. The outward iron carrying traL!c with the United States is flat, and the homewaf1 business thence easier. Exports for the week: Coal, 148,024- tons; G70 tons; patent fuel, 3,705 tons; coke, oW tons. Imports for the week: Iron ore, 1,750 tons; pitwood, 1,565 loads. SWANSEA TRADE REPORT. [SPECIAL REPOBT FKOM OOR OWN COKKKSPONDENT'J SWANSEA, Thursday Night.—It is satisfactow to be able again to record considerable activity the trade of this harbour during the past The imports and export trades have been lai' and an average amount of tonnage has arrived ballast to load. The selection of Swansea for the fu' meetings of the tin-plate trade has given general satisfaction. There have been no clearance.s of tin-plates the States during the week, but shipments now being made by the Cambrian Company. The quarterly meeting held last week has had much effect on operations in the tin-plat." trade, and its condition is still quiet; prices am if anything, weaker. Sales of common coke" have been made during the week, in soW- cases at 13s 9d per box but the ruling figur63 for the better brands are still 14s, 14s 3d, and 14s 6d; but even at these figures it is not possible that much profit is made, aOa there appears to be no grounds for supposing tb»' any permanent improvement in prices will take place until combined action on the part of makeP is carried out in the direction or reduced produF 'imports.—Coastwise—Maize. 200 tons oat"' 356 tons Hour, 50 tons pitch, 537 tons mundie, 160 tons sulphur ore, 165 ton-i ie.id ore, 7 tonS; zinc ashes, 22 tens burnt ore, 165 tons blende. 164 tons copper ore, 476 tons line dust, 1,;¡v tons chemicals, 92 tons salt, 135 tons bricl5, &c., 189 tons pig-iron, 1,335 tons. iiiii)(,rts. -Foreign Poti: Manganese, 1,3UU tons. Bilbao: iron, 1,141 tons. Huelvl FYI rites, 698 tons dopper ore, 809 tons. }:[e,;sina Sulphur, 1,000 tons. Gijon Copper ore, 3^ tons. Landslcroiia Oats, 109 tons. St. Jobn" (N.B.): Deals, 837 loads. Total imports for ti week, 10,452 tons. Exports.—Foreign—France: Coals, 5,335 tolls; patent fuel, 1,120 tons; tin-plates, 105 to»s- Alderney: 60 tons. Copenhagen: Coals, tons. B.er«eij.L.5oaJs, 510_ton«. Amsterdam; General, 80 tons. Lisbon: Coais, 4oo general, 20 tons. Valencia: Patent tuei> 750 tons; coals, 143 tons. Cadiz: Coaj-s' 290 tons bricks, 5 tons. Oorunna Coals, Iv" tons; Matars: Coals, 1,500 tons Huelva: Coals. 1,255 tons; Civita Vecchia Coals, 1,700 tons) patent fuel, 1,250 tons Genoa coais, 280 tons Leghorn: Coals, 515 tons; patent fuel, 2,966 tons > Bona: Coals, 540 tons ;Bussorall: Coals, 1,400 tons i general, 120 tons; Cape Town Coals, 620 tonS; Dakar: Coals,600 tons; St Helena: Coais, 434 tons; Paysandu Coals, 568 tons; coke, 33 tons; Hill Grande: Patent fuel, 159 tons; Tocopilla: Coals, dOU tons; general, 10 tons Rio Grande do. Su* Patent fuel, 145 tons Para Coals, 321 tons. NEWPORT TRADE REPORT. i [SPECIAL REPORT FUG 11 QUa OWN COITLLI-LSI'QVI)ENT.J _I NEWPORT, Thursday Ncigh;The exports 01 I coal for the past week to foreign countries, ex- elusive of bunkers, is something like 5,000 tons over last week, and comes up to about our average ¡ quantity, though not to so high a figure as we have lately been accustomed to. The arrivals even of steamers have, in some cases, been hin- dered or delayed by the strong north-easterly winds that have prevailed, and which hIvO enabled a large number of wind-bound vessels to proceed to sea. The docks and wharves ,r, therefore not so well provided with tonnage. Freights have not materially altered. In olDO particular cases, and where tonnage was LUUCII wanted, higher rates have prevailed, but on tho whole the market is flat. It is, however, worthy of note that many owners refuse to entertain business at present quotations, as there i:, jJ'} margin of profit. The coasting trade is quiet. Freights are low, and the demand for coal quiet. The late severe weather will probably give this trade a sli,.gl There is no alteration in prices of coal general.y. Small steam is scarcer, and woftl^^ f Fvnorfs of coal for the week ending 14th Jan. isqfPlpast Indies, 2,200 tons; J^ver Plato, 712 • "Brazils, 440 Guadaloupa, 2,014 Egypt. 2 000- Malta, 1,650; Itaiy, 4j750 France (Me- diterranean), 2,150 Spain (Mediterranean), 1,850 Gibraltar, 2,640; Spain (bay ports), 1,860; France (bay ports), 4,866 France (northern ports), 2,140 total, 29,272 tons. The ironworks ot the district are fairly active there are a few vessels loading. The clearances have consisted of one cargo by Rio Grande, by sailer, one for Santos, by steamer, and another for Rotterdam, also by steamer.. The imports have included 10,570 tons of iron ore from Bilbao, Porman, and tenisaf. JL, wood is to hand, neither is there any P demand for it. I THE TIN-PL AT-E TRADE. I (BY LEWYS AFAN.) I The followir were the quotations for Straits tm per ton c ,he firsfc diy of each month during Tfio fnllr.wir were the quotations for Straits tin per ton f ^he firsfc ot cach month during t.hA last ten ar3_ 1875. 1S76. 1877. 1878. Ufl. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. Jan. 35 10 0 81 o 0 76 0 0 65 10 ft 61 0 0 Feb. 91 10 0 80 0 0 73 10 0 63 0 0 60 O •« Mar. 90 0 0 73 0 0 72 10 0 64 0 0 62 10 0 April 89 0 0 73 0 0 70 10 0 63 10 0 ft ij! q May 83 0 0 71 10 0 69 0 0 61 0 8 68 10 0 June 8o 0 o 74 0 0 69 0 0 63. ? ?? » July 82 0 0 73 10 0 6 i 0 0 62 0 0 65 10 0 Aug. 78 0 0 73 0 0 66 10 0 61 10 0 64 5 0 Sept. 82 0 0 71 10 0 65 0 0 0 0 70 0 Oct.. 3d 0 0 72 0 0 65 10 « 5b 0 7a 0 0 Nov. 85 10 0 74 10 0 70 » ° g n £ c Dec. 82 0 0 77 0 0 6&W u 01 -0.0 9o 0 «- Tan 91 To Sj'To V n qa n 8 90 10 0 109 10 0 92 0 0 76 0 0 i:icb- 98 0 8 93 10 0 111 0 0 93 0 0 84 0 0 Am*' 86 0 0 88 10 0 1Q7 0 0 96 10 0 82 5 0 Mav I" 0 0 87 10 8 97 0 0 97 0 0 82 lo « Tuna 71 0 0 88 0 0 97 10 0 95 10 0 84 10 0 Tnfv 84 0 0 89 0 0 95 3 0 94 15 0 33 15 0 91 0 0 91 0 0 104 5 0 94 10 0 82 15 0 J86 0 0 90 10 0 101 10 0 94 0 0 .83 0 S Oct 83 0 0 95 10 0 107 0 0 95 10 0 79 15 0 N0v 90 10 0 98 o 0 89 0 0 92 30 0 Dec. 93 0 0 105 10 0 97 10 0 36 10 0 THE west MIDLANDS IP on. coal, A:\ D HARD wake TKADI:\>. BIRMINGHAM, Thursday.—quaiteriy meet- ings have not much swelled finished iron mat era" order books, but increased buying is expected in two or three weeks. Ordinary bars were J36, and common, £ 5 10s. Galvanised sncets of 24 ffuage, £ 11 5s to £ 1110s, which means a drop vf 30s on the twelve months. Best, thin sheet firm? quoted working-up qualities, £ 10 10s; coming tank plates, £ 7 common boner plates, -4°9 I Native pigs tame; lirit quality, 5" third quality, 35s. Printed and Published by the Proprietor* DA VCD DUNCAN & .-SONS, at their Steam Prmtiu* Works, 15 and 76, St. Alary-stroet, *.nd TVestcaWestreed in tho t»wn oi CardiH to tho vounv.y of GUaKiorsaa in tho tcTfn oi CardiH to tho vounv.y of GUaKiorsaa