Woollens.—The trade of 1877 does not present any new feature or anything calling for extended comment. OF Spanish Stripes, Medium Cloths, and flourish, and it is only reasonable to suppose their promoters have found that encouragement in them which private sellers have sought for in vain, and the absence whereof has tarned the bulk of them out of the trade.
The falling away in the offtake of Spunish- Stripes and Medium Cloths is serious, and the more one tries to divine the cause thereof, the more he gets convinced that things in China go by the "yale of contrary." Mz, Hippisley, in commenting upon the decline of the Woollen Piece Goods trade between 1867 and 1870, says—" From a consideration of the uses to which Woollen Goods
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