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doing, it has assuredly now arrived. As it was truly said at the Meeting on Wednesday —the matter is one of life and death to all engaged in Pawnbroking. If the clauses in part IV. of the " Habitual Criminals" Bill should pass into law, nearly every Pawnbroker who can do so, wit

LONDON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1869. THE present moment is one which will call upon the great mass of the Trade for a display of that quality which we all assume to be preeminently the characteristic of Englishmen— Common Sense. At the meeting on Thursday next the Guarantors of the

Mr. Wood, Pawnbroker, was r e-elected on the Town Council for the fifth time. He was returned at the head of the Poll. Mr. Wood is also the Chairman of the Board of Guardians, and Churchwarden.

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WANTED a PAWNBROKING BUSINESS, that can be purchased for £6OO or £l,OOO. Address, with full particulars, to H. M. M., "Pawnbrokers' Gazette" Office. TO THE TRADE. WANTED TO PURCHASE FOR Re-manufacture, PAWNBROKERS' OLD TICKETS or CHECKS, is. 6d. per cwt. Bags sent for packing. A

"What is a pound ?" was the interrogative puzzle by which the late Sir Robert Peel bewildered and silenced Mr. Spooner and the obstinate inconvertibles of the Birmingham school. The same inquiry has just been propounded in another form by that irreverent contemner of respectable

OF LIVERPOOL ASSISTANT PAWNBROKERS' BENEVOLENT SOCIETY. - --0- The Seventeenth Annual Dinner of the above Society took place on Thu rs d ay even i ng , F e b ru a r y 18th, at the Queen's Flotel, Lime-street, Liverpool. ARTHUR GRINDROD, EST, occupied the Chair, and Mr. JACKSON t