1,92, HIGH 'STREET, STOUBBRIDGE. DUDLEY AND WALSALL. f3IANOFORTES and LIA.KMONIUMS may be had on the NEW SYSTEM of HIRING, for Two or three Years; after which, and without any further pay. ment, to become the property of the hirer. Instrum,nts had on this system, or otherwise, w

Mr. Charles Mathews, we regret to state, died of bronchitis at the " Queen's " Hotel, Manchester, on Monday afternoon. The announcement will come upon many as a painful surprise, for up to the commencement of the present month, although in his 75th year, he seemed to be as activ

BATHING ACCIDENT.—.A. youth of about 16 years of age, eon of Mr. :dullard, furniLu:e dealer and •otokt.r, ol ii:ackwell Street, drowned WHilst utoiug u the Severn at Lickuili on Sunday afternuou lat. 81 EALING BOUTB.—At Court, on Monday, William Slattery, a youth of 16 yeara of

than one year, at a lov, • - I rata, viz., 4 per cent. on personal, and 3 per cent on freehold or leasehold security. Interest in all cases payable half-yearly, and not in advance. Distance no object. All applications will be treated with strictest secrecy auo despatch. Money ob

• day next, July 2nd, 1878, upon the premise's as above. a p , rtion of Genteel Parlour and Chamber FURNITURE and . other Effects, belonging to Mr. Abel Ferrens, who is leaving the neigbboLrhood. Salo to commence at Eleven o'clock in the Morning. • SALE OF FREEHOLD OLD-LICENSED

shall show for a few Weeks the surplus stock from my other Establishments, which has all been re•marked and REDUCED 75 PER CENT BELOW THE ORIGINAL COST. . S — 4 TED ALL, 69 , HIGH ASTREET, AND 1, UNION STREET, A. STEDALL'S OTHER ESTABLISHMENTS 11, 13, and 16, Brompton Road, Lond

other remedy has failed. It doe. not r. quire continuing; a single bottle being (efficient to cure. Its action I. mild, but thorough, and the most delicate need not fear taking it, Price 2s 91, or safe by post for 36 stamps. Watson's Specific Powders for IHKEAD WORMS are an Eft-

A Times correspondent, whose letter is dated Shanghai, April 27th, says: The famine seems now to be at its worst. The impoverished country connote of the greater part of the province of Shansi, parts of South-Western Chihli, Western Shantung, the northern districts of Henan, com