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 ter granting the new ministry sS,OOO,OOC loan, aud thus enabling Sir Robert Peel to sta,e oa all perplexing qurstons until the spring.

 France has been obliged f, come into the money market for uan of I5O 900 900 francs, which, of course, finishes the accommodation loans on the Stock Exchanges, especially as the Bank of Eng land is obliged la contract 10 sase ns specie.

 Since the peace of 1915, the French Empire or monarchy has borrowed l2l, ,3Sl ,SS7 at various rates of interest," much of ii at 51 to 66 fcs per cent stock. By the lax sts,it appears that its DO puation is 32 569 223 of whom 10, ,2s29 946 are and- cd proprietors 627 $50 receive salaries from the governmenti 2lS,I6s are fundholders; 154,s72 are state prisoners. There are 6,6l2,4l6 houses; S2,- 5S5 mills; 3S ,030 manufc,ories; 4,4l2 forges fur naces, &c. There are also, (, 6,4O0,0OO operatives; ; 24,24l ,l2O proprietors, employing women and chl- dren, including l, 1928, ,lO3 indgent.

 The to great Britain of the expedition to and conquest uf Afghanstan, is estimated at s.12OOO,- OOO or sixty millions of dollars and not yet finished

 American stocks were at last dates almost unsale- able in England, as might have been expected. Uni ted States Bank shares quoted at 2.

 The quantity of wheat entered at the shilling duty at the London Custom House was 296,555 quarters from the ship and 477,24o quarters from the Bond Houses. The duty had got to los. Sd. per quarter, and expected to be l6s. sd. next weekly average.

 The English papers furnish gOodly supply of railway accidents as in this country. One on the Brighton, killed four persons; one on the Western, two or three, and still another in the north, great number.