, During 1875, the imports of wheat and flour into the United Kingdom were valued at £32,380,000 against a home production estimated at £22,000,000. • The Corporation of London pays in salaries between £60,000 and £70,000 per annum, and in wages between £110,000 and £120,000.
Quite a number of artistes are on the wing, or intending to shortly be so, for New Zealand. J. K. Eramett, Baker and Farren, Mrs Scott Siddons, , and the Californian Miestrels are amongst those who may be expected shortly. A Congressional Committee has been appointed to proceed to California, during the recess, and " personally examine the relation of the Chinese residents there to the rest of the population."

The " Liberal Christian " says that the leading Orthodox pastors of New York are at present nearly all English or Canadian.
The present supply of silk goods is enormous. The reporb that the raw material is unusually scarce may possibly be a dodge to work off this surplus, The Institute of Technology at Boston is about to establish a course in practical mechanics on the Russian system of actual shop instruction.
A movement ia being made amongst the Highlanders in Australia for 'the establishment of a ' Gaelic Periodical, to be issued monthly, and published either in Melbourne or Sydney. , Louis Kossuih, who had been ailing for some time, is again restored to health. He scarcely mixes in politics now, being chiefly 'occupied with botany. The, leading.dry-goods houses of Chicago; have been buying in Europe for several years past, ffhis has seriously interfered with the New York import trade.
