orometer, mom ater a Day of Month, a highly sensitive market, and we shall see a continuance of violent fluctuations unless a little more consideration is given, by importing auctioneers, to the requirements of the day, The policy—as far as the outside public can read it—followed out at the auctions seems to be "sell on "arrival, no matter whether there be a demand or no;" and thus it has happened that a Camlet, for instance, has been forced off to-day, say at Ts. 12,2, and wanted a week later at 4 or 5 mace higher, with no seller; or, looking at the reverse of the picture—readily marketable for to-day's steamer at Tls, 18.00, and forced off to-morrow in the face of a satiated demand at Tls. 12}. The same with Long Cus. O.P.H. Dark Blue of these was worth in September last Tls. 7.25 per piece; and saleable in October at Tls. 7.70; wanted about mid-December at Tis, 7.00, and sacrificed on Ist January at Tis, 6.64 " 6.65 per piece; and this "will ye nil ye" way of doing trusiness ib io which has caused ao many to retire from the Woollen trade in disgust. Private holders acting on sound commercial premisses way be constrained to refuse an offer ab 10 o'clock any morning, which by reason of some accident—to pat the matter in its mildest form—at an auction an Miscellaneous Entelligence. hour later will never be repeated save under most exceptional cireumstances. But the auctions continue to LATEST MAIL DATES, England, San Francisco, idence of Ad. Holland, Imperial Arsenal, Foochow, on the 9th i JaMES MAITLAND, First Lieutenant Chinese Cruiser Ling Feng, aged 28 years.
At Demerara, Britixh Guiana, on the 3rd November, 1877, 'THowas Prreairs Farn-HAIRY, Intely of Shanghai, of fever. publication of ti
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