ORES ANID METALS. Copper has been subject to considerable fluctuations during the past month, the net result being a decline of £1. per ton in the value of warrants of good merchantable. After declining from £60. 56. to £C59. 12s. 6d. on the 3rd ult., values rapidly advanced to £

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I o . . e Sf' -EN E LNDoe,, Wednesday -Xigbt. . 1,0t o0nl Lord Salisburty but well-nigh every a ba~sstlor and leading diplomatist is just now ot Of wn there is little doing at the Foreign Qice that is likely to attract pubic attention. I altitough thu diplomatic machine is runnin

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XWIMI wokm abuig ott AND JOURNAL. SATURDAY, SFPTEMMER 20, 1890, LoCAL WFAmXR FoMAET.--Yaorly mieA stron gal in pkaer. s, IV, rairy at- fil, but impsm -m er. W. AnTrUIL CmvD, barister-at-law, is gazetted Chief Justice of the colony of St. Lucia. YM. DIPoN BOUCICAUMT, the well-kno