Tue results of business in the United Kingdom in 1888, as given in the annual review of the Zémes and other London papers are very satisfactory. As the Zémes—'There has been more doing in most. departments of industry, and profits have been larger than in 1887, or in any other year since 1882, which was the last fairly "wood" year previous to the depression jof 1883-7. This is plainly shown by the statistics of railway traffic, of tounage entered and cleared coastwise, of the Bankers' Clearing-houses in London
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