FOR LOVE 0' LIQUOR.

A CUlt CO US UTOJRY.

(IJY ONE 01' Tfl2 CROWD.)

From the London Daily Telegraph

Thekis recently appeared in the police reports the case of nn unfortunate wretch, Who was spoken of by the magistrate in the m»t iucorri^iblo drunkard that over was brought before him. According to a statement mudo liy the gaoler of the court, the accused, who was described as a tniaerable-lookiug creature, was • over seventy years ot jv^e, aud had been con victed of beinir drunk uud incapiblo at least a, hundred times in that particular district, and how 'many times in other districts he c.anld not say. Tuo raagutratu, remarking that it was a wonder 110 had not druuk hicuself to death long siuco, titled the man t3ti shillings, with tho alter native of seven days' imprisonment. I'ity ing the patriarchal tippler on account of his extreme ago, a gentleman in court paid tho fine, and he win set free. It seemed to me, when I road the case, that an individual capable of withstanding the destructive power of strong waters until he arrived at too ripo ago of three score years aud ten, might, if ho were disposal) to relate bin ex periences, or tho most interesting of them, be n person on whom an hour's "Interview ing " would not bo altogether wasted. i<cok iii),' him out, 1 lound him lodging in a loft of a rag-sorting wntchoiiaa near Bermond se./, the tarns of vis tenancy being thai hu should civo two days1 work a week at sorting for tho use of the loft a» a bed chamber with tho prmlige of tho pick of tlio ragi for a noi. For his serrices, aucu as they were, during the raraaiuder of the week, he received » shilling a day. with perquisites in hhapo of all tho bra*? buttons attached to tha rags that pawed through his hands. The proprietor of tho rag-shed, and who was in but a small way of busi ness, seemed a cood-mttured kind of mau, and lie bad a bit of advico to give me as \v<i pained for a moment at tbe foot of the ladder that lod up to the chamber of hi« ah joldugly dissipated old loilgor. " JSxca.«o me, sir,"said ho, "but if your intentions am charitable towards him, though only to tha extent of a bob, or perhaps only a tajner, give it to mo, and I'll eke it out in liquor fur him. Give it to him and he'll melt it into gin, much or little, five minutes after your back is turned." "Is gin his particular weakness ?" I asked. "Take my word for it, sir ; he'll sell hiaself body and bonus for a good skinful of it, and chuck his old rags in to clench the bargain."

After this 1 was not surprised to find the Rubjoafc of our conversation as deplorable looking an object a? the police account had alleged him to bo. An emaciated, gaunt old fellow, with glizzled grey bair ami beard, and of tint shrunken and blood less complexion that denotes tho in veterate gin driukar. JHis figure had an appropuuto sotting. Ho was dressed In rags, be was seated on rags, be w.is sorting rags in a great sieve, like that lined for "screening" (.'ravel. As I entered tho loft he was in the act of sip ping something out of a block and battered old pewter milk-jug, and I knew when 1 advanced a titcp or two towards him that tho vesael contained gin. I explained to him bri/lly what it was that induced me to Come and see him, and that I should be glad if he would givo me some account of him self, Iv blissful hope of a replenishing of tho pewter milk-jvc, ho consented with cheerful alacrity. Was it truo that ho had benn a hundred times charged with drun keauess ? Very likely. They ought to know best. lie should have thought tint a couple of hundred times was nearer the mark, if I asked him. Waa he always addicted to driaLc J I asked him. . Tbe question led to hU relating his story straight off. "No, I was not always addicted to it," ho re plied. " You'd hardly believe it, perhaps, but there was a time ■when, instead of letting drunkenness master me, I was ifo master in a manner ofspeaklnp. I used to make believe to bo fond of the boitlo, ■while all the tim<- I was only using it as a means of pushing my business. You don't sec how that is possible ? Wei!, you'll understand how it was when I ex plain. 1 used to keep a largo (i-h-etatl in Brill-row, Sotners Town. It was only a str»et sUll, but there wasn't n tradesman in the nightmurhood who took more money than 1 did, and the secret of it was my shamming drunk, Brill row at that time of day was a very low nort of place, swarming with poor people, and I used to do a roaring trado among 'em. It was a roaring1 trade and no mistake. There was hirdly one evening of the whole week that I didn't get such a mob round my stall, that it was as much as a policeman couM do to keep the pavement from being blocked up, and there was I, with porhaps tifteon or twenty pounds' worth of fish to get rid of, seemingly so tipsy that l could hardly stand upright; and yet I Ifadu't tnsted anything stronger than tea or coffoa since 1 was up at ftnr o'clock in the morniug to pick up cheap the sort of stuff that suited me at Billingsgate. It was all a docigo, and I'll tell you what puc it into my head. When I was a young fellow I used to go lightering on tho Thames, and being out in nil seasons, my face got that weather-beaten and high coloured, jutt as though I'd baen drinking, and the least excitement made it worse— especially ray nose, which used to go as purple as a beetroot. AVhen I gave up the barge work I tried to pick up a living odd, jobbing at tha Mi market; but my faae was my enemy. Being a stranger there the salesmen, of course, didn't knonr me, but oao look at me was enough for them, and they'd tell me that there were plenty of sober meu about, aDd that they couldn't trust a'lusUington.'

" And so a sort of spiteful feeling came over me against everybody and against my face as well, and it was just as if I said to my red noao when I saw it reflected in the glass, 'All right, my boy; you've had your own way to suit your own turn, now you shall havo it to suit m:ne.' So I set up a little tish-.ttall at tun Brill, not hating much stock-money at first, and, as I tell you, made it part of my plan to sham drunk. Evening was the. time. I used to wear a battered old bat, and button my weskit crooked, and slew the bow of my nockhendkeraher under my ear, and theti I'd go in for kicking up all tbe jolly row 1 could lay my tongue to hollering aud singiu? and going on in that reckless way aa though I didu't know and didn't care what I was a doin' of. But I did though, I got the mob about my stall, aud that was all I wanted. 'Come and see Drunken Dave give his fish away,' wai a common saying amom* them, and buying the coarse sort at at a low price, and being able to sell such a lot of it, they pdt it a lot cheaper tnan they could have bought it elsewhere ; hut there was precious htyle disposed of that did'nfc bring me a good profit, I can tell you. 1 used to hive a black bottle in a basket under the stall. Cold tea it was, but they thought it waa rum ; and If the fish did'nt go off a? quick as 1 wanted it to, aDd it waa growioa late. I'd take a pull or two at the bottle, and get-that intoxicated and reckless, bli'fw you, it would have done you good to have seen how good-naturedly

they grabbed at what was offered them, thinking they got fish at about half what it had cost me. Smne tini'ia there'd be a wirtuoUs party landing in tho mon, and hod remark, 'What « shame to rob the man when he doesn't know what he's doini; of. It's enough t" ruin the poor fellow giving his goods away in this manner.' And then the ni'ib, to exouse their greediness, would say, ' Don't you bo afraid. He's not so drunic but he knows what he's about.' And they were nearer tho mark than they sup po.'cil ; and so they wauld havo tnoiigtit hud they seen me when I got liom» with my empty board* sittiug down to a nice quiet bit of supser with my wif-, and afterwards enjoying h pipo and just one glnsi of grog whiio we counted up tho money and planned for to-morrow, Did my wife know th« sort of game I was carrying on ? Coune shs did. That was part of tho joke of It. Thorn was a teetotal hall just clo*e by, and tho lenders used to be always holding me up to them that went to the lecture*' as an ox ample nud ,a warning against intemper ance. They used to wait on the ini«sus iv private (they tried it once or twice with me till they found whit an incorrigible waun bono I was), »nd bogged of her to u»e her influence with me io get me to go, though only for once, to their hall, so that ( might have a chance of being converted and saved from that ruin my in temperate habits was rapidly bringing on me. He, ho ! I can't help laughing when I think of it," and a twinkle ernie into his fishy eye« as he moistened hisdrj lips with a sip of gin ere he proceeded. " They used to try all they know to got round tho mia sus, and talked Buch a lot about the helping hand they wero ready to give mo if they could but induce me to retorm my ginful ways, that," and here the twinkle came again iuto tha shmneless old rascal's eyes, " I began to think that if I did what they wished me to something might be made out of it." "Hut," 1 remarked, "how could you reform when you were really already n sober man ?" " No, I could pretond to," he replied with a grin. " I turned it over in my mind, and I argued in this way .- 'I've been shamming drunk goingonfor three yearsno\r,nnd I have tojj.) to such lengths to keep the gamoalivo that if I don't look out 1 shall bo had up an ii nuisance. It would be a change and a novelty to turn round all of a auddei on to the opposite tnck, mid be a 'spoctable teetotal stall-keeper. It don't matter if it doesn't noHWer,which I don't expect it will. If it don't,[ can at any timo relapse into my old drunken habits, and it will be very much o the delight of my old customer* that believed in them.' So I says to the missus, 'Look horo, old lady, next lime tiiey come badgering about me, you up and say that you didn't like to expose my attains before,but .since they must know the truth, it is because things aro sjoing so bad with ran that 1 keep on drinking to drowml my trouble.and that from certain hints I've drop ped when ypuvo been talking tome serious, you have every reason to believe (hat it I was set fair and straight on my legs again, my mind would be made cany, and Td be only too happy to tak>> the pledge us :i safeguard against my sliding bick again.' Well, sir, hlio told 'em, and a little while afterwards they made an appointment to meet me, and asked me to be frank and candid with 'em, and tell 'cm how much money I owed,aud I told'era eighty pounds would cover it, and leave me a free man, with a firo pound note to go to market with. 'Well,' says they, 'supposing we should find you the mouey, would you bo willing to tnke tho pledge and keep it ?' 'I should think it my dutr so to do,' I said. ' And would you be willing to speak in public from the platform at our hall of your con version?" I promised this too. And the Tory next morning I had dono so, thty cave me the money to pay my iebts with. What do you think of that, sir !" "Well, since you ask mo the question," I replied, "I can only snj that it was a most dis honest tinnsiction. and that you did not deserve to prosper iv business aftorwards." " You think it was carrying artfulness too far,"he remarked gravely.and after hisshaky hand had convoyed to his mouth another taste of ginj "You think that if a judg ment had fell on me for imposing on them , whose only aim will to do me good it served me right?" " Thatis certainly my opinion," I replied. " Well I can't suy that is exactly my opinion," he responded ruefully; "but so it was, anyhow. A. judgment did fall on me, sir, and started me downhill to where you Cud me now landed. I went in thick for tectotalism. I had been so long used to pretending to be drunk that it came easy as child s piny to act the other part, and for a few months I gave every satisfaction. To them, I mean—not to myself. It was just as I expected it would bs, as regauls the business. When they heard that I had become a reformed character, anil might be seen at my stall every evening in a new hat and a clean s'-.irt, and with a white choker on, they came in greater numbers to see me, but'it wasn't to buy lisb. I oli'ered it to them as chrap as ever—for leas sometimes than it cost me—but now I was sober they wouldn't give credit to half as many lies as I used to tell them when they thought I was drunk. I kept on losing money at such a rate that, at tho end of three months, I was more than half of that eighty pound« they had giveu me out of pocket. So then I thought it was time to turn round ag^iu. It was a startler for the Brill, I can tell you, when one Saturday evening I came-there with a double stock of fhn on the stall, and with the same old battered hat on, anil singing a bit of a comic sons; I had picked up; about a tee totaller who had died, and whoso stomach when they opened him was found full of icicles and snowballs. 'Course you under stand I was quito sober, not having hid tho least drop ot anything to drink, but the people did not dream of anything of the sort, and said they, ' Heie's Davy drunker than ever, and yon can havo his fish for anything you like to bid for it ?' I had sold out every bit of it before ten o'clock, but when I got homo I found that some body had stolon the black bottle I drank tho cold tea out of, and which the people thought was rnni.

" I was sure that somebody had stolon it, because there was a hole slit'in the side of the rush basket I kept it in, and the wor-t of it was, I well recollect, that there was a drop of tea left in it. I could ooly hope tli t the thief who had taken it, thinking it contained rum, would_ find his mistake" and say nothing about it. No such luck! 1 heir! Aleut it next morning, which was Sunday, as soon as ever I went out to smoke my pipe. It was through a irieml I heard about it, though it was me nt that it should be kept dark till Mom'ay eveuiti" when I was to be exposed and served out' 1 hero was a lot of the rough sort a?ainst me, I hoard, for swindling them into the belief that I was drunk, when all the time I win keeping teetotal. It was a pretty fort of mes3, an! there was enly one wav ont of if. Of course I had mortally ollend.'d my temperance friends, and it senmed that if I d dn't lo* out sharp betwe-n the two stools I should come t<, the ground. So com* Monday eveuin<* I wa there with my stall as usual and «. 0 ?n« on as bad as ever, and the crowd soon came round me. I cou'd see taere was some thing going on among 'em, but I took no notice, and presently I took out my bottle and was helping myself to a drink, when

one of 'em .snatches it out of my hand. 'D'ye want to know what it is this cheating humbug gets drunk on?' he cries out; 'its cold tea. llav>; a taste of it,' he .saj'3, 'anybody who don't believe me.' Ami he himself1 set the example by talcing a pull at the black bottle Ho as ni«h chuked hisseif as possible. There was a pint of overproof real Jamaky in the bottle, and ho swallowed ab'mt a quartern or it. ' Why dauli i>,' he s;ys, when he'd got hii breath, 'it i.i rum artcr all.' 'Course it is,' says I, quite innocent, 'what on i arth did you thi k it was?' So I need not tell you, that b^ing tho rin»l ader of those who had plan»ed to b wl me out, the la igh was againtt him, and my danger was got oTr. " My danger, for the time being, I mfan," he continued, after a dismal pause, during which he pensively contemolated the in to>i>r of tho now empty gin measure, " but my downfall dated trom that very eveiiing. I had, in a manner of speaking, diove myself into a corner, and tbece was no escape for mo. Nothing would do^ but I must ' show earnest' by going to the public house when I had sold out; and for t 'C first timo in my life I was carried home too drunk to know whon or how. It was all over with me, sir, after that, P'raps, as you cay, it was a judgment on me for taking in the teeto'allers. I seemed to los« all my po*er of shamming, to have lost the knack of it somehow, and to keep up the old game I seemed to be drove like to tike to drinking iv reality. I seemed to do an much business ai ever, and for a time it seemed all right. But I soon found tho "litfbrence between the sham and tbe real. Iv less than a year I had lost all my capital and all my good business, and wag sold up and done for. It was no use struggling against it. The love o' li'iuor hud got that tight hold of rao that iron chains would have been easier to break from. I've give up trying to broak away from it this many a year, ever t-ince my wife died, and she. could never break away from it when she once got tuck ed fast t>> it. I wouldn't do co now if I could, so I won't tell you any lies about it. My drop of gin—l never drink anything els-;—is tho only comfort left to me in tbu bles ed world. It will never kill me, no fear. It's wittles and drink to nfe, and, <rivo me enough of it, it is blankets nod bedclothes as well." And ha chuckled at the pleasant conceit. " It's good to me, and I m good to it. I stick to my work for the sake of it, and I savo up for it, so that 1 now and then enjoy myself properly." "Aud fall into the lianas of the police," 1 remarked, "and be sent to prison." The shocking old inebriate shrugged hi.s ragged shoulders. " I sup pose there's no roses without thorns for me any more than for any one else/ said he; and in this phil< sophical state nf mind 1 was about to leave him, whin he caught up the battered milk jug, and held it towards me us beseechingly as a beggar holds out his cap. I had better have given bis master, the rag-so<ter, that additional sixpence, no doubt; but it could not have made much clitFeicnce in the end.

The Mad Actress.

An Anecdote of Mks Moxtford. Tin: story of the life of this justly celebrated actress, us told by Colley Cibbcr, ia his "Apology," &c., it fall of startling interest. .Slie li^ed a life of strafe vicissitude,— something of minshine and very much oJ shadow. Taken as a -whole, btr life might be said to comtitute a living tra?edy. Upwards the end, through the perfidy of ' One dearly and passionately beloved, aud the accompanying treachery of mother whom she had heid. cose in warmest friend ship, she was thrown iuto such paroxysms of siiit'crincf t that her reason was dethroned, and frotn that sad bvrcivement she never recovered. After the_ first wild burst was over sfao settled down iuto a calmer aud nioro tranquil state, but was never suffered to go unwatched. Though never raving, and seldom passionate, she had a dispo-ition to wander away in search of ••that which w^s lost." One day, during a remarkably lucid interval, Mrs Montford asked her attendant who was playing at her favourite theatre, and what waatbeplayforthateveiiing. The play chanced to be " Hamlet," and she was bo informed. That had boon her chief love, next to "Romeo and Juliet." In the character of Ophelia she had won some of the wannest applause that had marked her histrionic career. The circumstance impressed her: but, with the dinning habitual to theinsaue. she shut her thoughts clusely up within her bosom. That evening she complained, at an early hoar, of head ache, and was accompanied to her chamber, Whore an attendant-remained with her until she appeared to have sunk into a profound sleep. Mrs Montford had retained the best part of her theatrical wardrobe, and had been allowed to keep it where she could look it over when siie pleased. On the present occasion, as soon as sbo had been left »lone, she arose, noiselessly fastening her dior upon the inside, then drew fortu the rfress in which she hud last enacted the character of Ophelia, with a little basket containing a few failed sprigs and flowers : aud thus habited she managed to steal away by a rear pissnge, and gained the street, where sbe quickly called a cab and was taken to, the theatre, reaching the ladies' dressing-room ouly a few ruinates before it would b; time for Ophelia to go on in tho crazy scene in the fourth act. Mrs Braccginlle was the Ophelia of the evening. From peculiar circumstances ia the past she did not dare, even had she had the heart, to oppose the mad woman. And further, she was impressed with ihe belief that Mrs Montford would not fail in the part, tjo at the proper time for the apppar ance of Ophelia, in her strangely fantastic garb, with her basket of grass and flowers, appeared that well-remembered form and face. For a bri*f space there was the hush of death, upon tho overflowing house. Then the Ue»r old tones founded once again upon their ears. And now Ophelia was crazy mdnod; but it was Ophelia to the life—a representation of madness which no mimic art could have produced. The astonishment oE tne p-rformers upon ihe stage, and the mal enthralment ot the audience can be better imagin d than do-cribed. And it was to be her la-t effort.

Modern Phrenology.

A GOOD old coloured man, named Uncle Jim, set himselt up the other day as a phrcDologitt, ami a barber was his first subject. He placed tin barber in a chair felt at his head for a long time, and then remarked, "William, you are too sanguine. When you lend money you expect it back. You are bilious. You want to be honest, but jou hasn't the necessary character; you isn't hopeful; you is bowed down with gri f most of de t;me; you has an ear for music; you has the wor.-t feet on Kentucky amet; you.is de rinht sort of a man to «heel coal down hill for big wages" AVilliam ro-e up, pitched Uncle 'Jim over the stove and uncUr the bed, and split a panel of the door as he went out. The aged phrenologist was ot the Town Hall the next day to got advice from the police, and when advised to <,'o out of the trade, repliet, 'Stems lik\ I have to, for I'ae getting too aeoJ to be bnmp-d over stoves."

The Slave Trade in Turkey.

(JONSTANTINOPtX correspondent writes: —The other day, as was telegraphed at the time, a girl about twelve years old w»r publicly sold in the courtyard of a mosque situated in the heart ofGalata, and through which hundreds of people hourly pass. It has since transpired that two female chil dren, one already a shire, the other an in corrigible gadabout whose description answers to that of the little maiden in question—arc missing from their homes, having probably been kidnapped by dealers in human llcsh. Rut though this case is particularly notable "from the audacious openness with which the crime-for such it is even in Turkey—was committed, the law is frequently and flagrantly violated, as the columns of the local press bear witness. A short while bacic, a wretched girl es caped from the harem in which she was confined, and carried her scarified and bleeding shoulders to the nearost police station, wharc it was clearly proved that she had been stolen by a Circassian during theßetHgee panic and traded [away for a few pounds to an exceptionally brutal mis tress, and the authorities at Salonica auite recently rescued four young negresses from a clique just on the point of landing them. These unhappy beings, who were lying in the bottom of the boat, declared ihat they had belonged to a party of ten, that atter a year's captivity at a port of the Nile, they had been brought by the dealers on boatd a coasting schooner, and crammed half naked, into a small stifling cabin, in which they had to be packed so close together that they were half piled on top of each other. After enduring the horrors of that passace, they were smuggled at night into the caique as described, but they could give do informa tion relative to their six companions ,in misery, who are doubtless, therefore, by now in hopeless bondage. It does not appear that their master-was arrested. If these examples are accidentally dragged to light, how many girls are disposed of with out the cognisance of the law officials ?

When I was at Damascus some three years back I was led by a native into- several of the slave dens, but always found them empty. On inquiry it turned out that Midhat Pacha had sternly pat down the bazaar traffic. Uut what was the result ? The slaves were distributed amongst private houses, chiefly of Christian Syiiaus. There they passed for serrants, but were in reality as freely exposed to the genuine purchaser as those who in ancient days had to suffer the bitter shame ot the public market. At Aleppo I could not completely satisfy myself on the subject, but have excellent reason for belioving that a>line system was pursued there.

In the capital itself the trade has of la'e encountered no further checks than such as the increasing scarcity of Circassians, Russia having to a great extent shut off the sources of supply, and general poverty of the Turßs afford. The merchants, how ever, manage to find victims, and, provided your money is ready, you can easily gratify your tastes as to the colour, age, beauty, &c. An English lady of my acquaintance was taken by a black driver, who had learnt that she was curious in the matter, to a place at Stamboul, into which she walked without the slightest difficulty, cabby,with his smattering of French, acting interpreter through a grating in the door. When.she entered the sale-room—a largn, barely furnished, and Tory light apartment —the mistress of the establishment con ducted fier to a divan, and stoves instantly fetched sweets and coffee. No astonishment

was betrayed at the intrusion of a Giaour woman on such a scene; a number of white girls, of aces varying, from 12 to-M> were then led up to her one after the other, | each in her turn standing motionless before the sofa till signed to yield her position to I her next fellow. They are described as for the most part coarse, clumsy, and heavy, with cowed, sullen faces, and muddy '■'■ yellow complexions. Tbeir dress consisted ■ of a gauze cap-and a loose frock, short sleeves, and reaching to the ankles, which was fastened down the front with strings. - Declaring that her husband desired to pre-, sent an odalik to a pacha, the visitor askei to see some prettier maidens, but was told ■ there were none on haud, though a selection would shorty arrive, when she certainly i could be suited. Two Turkish women were duriDg this time choosing slaves. No sort of consideration was paid to the feelings of the poor girls. Under examination they; untied their single garment, accoiding to the requirement of tbe purchaser, or threw it off entirely if so wished. Their teeth! were looked at and hair let down, their per sons punched and pulled about. The . buyers, wanting souud, useful articles,\ tested their strength and searched for blemishes in ih> same unconcerned manner as is done at a horse fair, No doubt they did not intend to be cruel, but objected to; getting worthless slaves, and probably did not waste a thought on the pain their un- •' ceremoDiousproceedingsmasthaveinflicted.. As for the girls, their attitude was in variably that of absolute, uncomplaining submission. They stood with downcast; eyes and drooping limbs, simply doing What they were ordered, and never losing for * moment their look of stupid hopeless* in difference. It was"their fato to be enslaved, weeping, and struggling would haveboen im. vain, and they had apparently srown so hardened to the chain that my friend did not detect a tear, a sigh, or even, a. blush. But enough of these details, and with, the* treatment of the damsels in, the harems-1 ahull not at present meddle. What £ have said is sufficient to prove that the trade ia slave girls still nourishes in Constantinople. But it will continue to flourish till England insists on a strict observance of tbe treaties, which forbid it. Oursquadrons and consuls may render it difficult and costly shortly to. obtain victims, but the real root of the evil lien in the big towns of the Ottoman Empire, and there it should be attacked. Close the private markets, and you take a mighty stride towards the total abolition of slavery. If once it bacome dangerous to traffic in girls tnd eunuchs (the-latter all come from . Egypt) on acconnt of the punishment which, should strika bath buyer and seller, people, • would soon discover they could do without, them, and we should be able to withdraw many of our gallant seamen,, from the deadly climated where they are risking their live*. Wo in Russia have failed to. cut off the supply, whilst the demand.-' exists. Let us change our tactics, and endeavour to stop the demand for negreeses and Circassians; for, if we suqeeed, the supply must, as a natural and inevitable consequence, cease.

STAR SATURDAY SUPPLEMENT, SEPTEMBER 2, 1882.

Printed and Published \>y the Proprietor Henry Brktt, of Symonds-atreet, at his General Printing Offloo, Wmdham-street, U the Pra Tlnoe of Auckland. New Zealand. SATtTBIUV. SEPTKMDEaa 18SJ,



IMPORTANT TO EGOHOIVBBSTS. ■Wm. H. SMITH'S CHEAP DRAPERY WAREHOUS.B, Nos. 300 & 302, Upper Queen Street (Opposite Army and Navy) AND AT NEWMARKET. The following Special Goods are now on Sale :— Good Value in Blankets, from 9/11 to 45/ per Pair few I r Good Value in Quilts (choice of 200), from 4/6 § Good Value in 72-in. Washed Twill Sheeting,. 1/ g* ] M r*\ Good Value in Grey Calico, from /2j4 ; White, /3 *♦ I H Good Value in Twilled Homespuns, f^, /^ t &c. aa Q Good Value in the Balance of our Winter Dresses «•* >' S [S Good Value in Lace Curtains, from 3/rr to 25/ Ojs. M . Good Value in Ladies' Ulsters, from 6/11 up S.B S Good Value in Ladies' Jackets (Tailor-made), 18/6 • ~* § Good Value in Irish Linens, Damasks, and Handkerchiefe >§ Cj b Good Value in Black Satin, at 1/11, 2/6, 3/6, &c. 11 T Good Value in Black Silks, at 2/11, 3 / 3 , 4/6, to 6/9 ftqq Good Value in Shirting, from j^ upwards " c^ ' fj^ Good Value in Tapestry Carpets, 1000 yards at 2/6- "* *t ; O Good Value in Ladies' and Children's Underclothing , s?Q S fe; Good Value in 500 pairs Corsets, from 2/6 to 10/6 ;''-, p<l jM H Good .Value in Hosiery of every description '_"' ? 2 00^ Va'ue in Real Maltese Laces, from /ri to 4/6 T~~- N 2 Good Value in Haberdashery. Discount to Dressmakers •*• Good Value in Large Towels, /^ to 2/6 pCj Good Value in Flannels,, from /6% to 2/3 pq Good Value in Roslyn Flannels, 1/2, 1/4, 1/6, 1/8, 1/10 U Good Value in Gloves, Ribbons, Laces, etc. ■■~.■;■, fiij Good Value in Tweeds, from 1/3 to 4/6 Good Value in Black Cashmeres, at 1/6, 1/1 r, 2/6 to 4/^ Good Value in Linoleum, 3/6 per square yard *2T SPECIAL" VALUE!-We have purchased thi« week, at auction a torse lot of Goods, waich we offer ac a small advance OH cost miCE, including Black I French Merinns and Cashmeres, from Is Sd, usual price, 2s Gd ; Children's llobss atfis' ■ I Gd and 7» 6d ; Table Damask, two yards wide, at Is Ud, \yortli 2s 6d • Wbite Crinoline Lining. 3d per yard, usual price 6<i ; Larae-sized Keal Scotch Blankets (all wool) at 2Ss ' Gd per pair, wor-h 355; Men's Flax Shirts, at Is lid, worth 2s 63 -Men's; Button ' Behind White Dress Shirts (every siz*), 3s lid, 4s lid to 7s Gd, wonderful value Also ' a large lot of Uorrock's Calici (slightly damaged by fresa water), at 3?d ncr yard • i lnt of 72-inch wide Plain Grey Sheeting, at SJd, worth 1«, etc., eto.,'etc. ' H Tie above Goods can toe liad at same prices at our New market Branch Warehouse, NUW OPJ3N.



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