Volume 25 — MARKET AND TRADE REPORT.

City.—The deportation of such large numbers of shirt hands, to which we have before alluded, has caused an unparallelled rise in wages, amounting, we are assured, in some cases, to as much as a farthing per dozen on "gents' dress." It is rumoured that the "United Distressed Needle-women" contemplate striking for a reduction of the hours of labour. Twenty-one hours a day, with three intervals of two minutes each for meals, except during the busy season which comprises only about eleven months in the year, is spoken of as likely to be their stipulation.

Manchester.—Policemen are in rather better demand, at a slight advance on former prices. Good stout articles are quoted at from 13s. to 17s. per week; sergeants 19s. to 21s.; best blues, strong, full length, 23s.

Carving his Way to Iniquity.

A culinary wag (not Soyer) has inserted in his Cookery Book the proclamation of Emperor Nicholas, in which he talks largely about the "orthodox faith" and "the sword," and has labelled it: "Directions for Cutting up a Turkey."

THE STAMP OF LIBERALITY AND MEANNESS.

The liberal man, when he is in doubt about the proper weight of a letter, puts on two stamps: the mean man only puts on one.