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Show ENGLISH CORRESPONDENCE, j The Moucr Aatl Minimi MocUa-The MocUa-The Lortl .Mnyor't NJiow. The ANlinul.'O War Ami 'Vlrirlntu" Aflnlr. London, Nov. lfth, ls:i-Kdib.,- JUr-'ld: Since niv lasl communication you have doubtless learned, through your exchanges ami the cable, of tho panic here in' the money market, consequent conse-quent Iv it will not bo iH'oc-.-snry lor me to dilate thereon. It has foi tun-U-lv subsided. Tim Bank ot Kngland rate is still nine per cent- which has in a great measure stopped tliei'ii"iiunus tlow of specie to America, and allracleil it from various sources. The market is now firm, and all American Ameri-can government securities have been exceedingly buoyant: but the demand lor mining hares still remains at a low ebb. There has leen n slight advance ad-vance in lliehmond Consolidated, it being quoted yesterday at XG: ; Kb:r-hnnlt Kb:r-hnnlt Flagstaff lo 8 ; 14 Chance h to 1 i;Teeoma toll; Utah to 2; and Emma from to o- In regard to the Emma, advices ad-vices from Salt Lake are decidedly conflicting. On the ono hand we learn that the mine is improving, that it is in excellent condition and employing em-ploying a large tbrcc of invii. In your Alta' correspondence it ia staled that 176 men are au work. On the other hand it is confidently asserted that few or no men arc at present cm-ploved cm-ploved in the mine and this view it i supported ami circulated by cerlaii prominent brokers and jobbers of tin I Stock Exchange. Indeed so perils tent have they been in rciteratins thai the last reivort is correct, tha 3 tho more favorable news is almos : universally discredited. 1 f it is possible for vour Alta correspondent, or an; ' one el?e, 10 furnish a reliable slate 1 nicnt as to the prospects ofthemin 3 and the number of men employed, i 3 will be welcomed by a large numbe l1 hnmiii flhareiioiuers wno wish uj arrive at the truth, but who at present pres-ent find it im)ossible to arrive at any definite conclusion. . The "Lord Mayor's Show" took . place last week with but liitle of the pomp and parade displayed iu years gone by. It has undoubtedly lost its primitive glory, imil it is spoken of wilh ridicuie by the London press. The (JloU says "the show would seem to occupy that proverbially narrow space between the sublime and the ridiculous, and if there is any tendency ten-dency discernable it is- assuredly not towards - the former." On several occasions ' along the route, the chief vtty magnate and his rvtinue were treated with less respect than is shown towards an exhibition of "Punch and Judy.V The Vrt-iwj Vrt-iwj Jd listr said : " The Lord Mayor s show was inferior to and far less interesting than, a circus procession proces-sion entering a provincial town." - Of course, popular feeling would' rebel! iigainst the abolition of this time- : honored parade, but if the pageant is to lc mainlaim-d, it must be made attractive and worthy of perpetuity. The Ahhantee war is looming up into proportions nevor dwauiad of by tbe Government wlnn ii undertook to punish licit hardy and warlike nation. It is true that Sir Garnet Wolseley has surprised the A-hanlee camp and def-troynl a lew native villages; but the resrrWs irrruTnr:igTi and, in fact, it was o.ily- suet-cssl'iil raid. The native lbivw, the bulk of tin- troops, behaved badly; the " Kan tee" contingent con-tingent simply ran off the Jiuld, and the "'Hussars" did even worse, for they only ran away a short distance, nnd then halted and blazed away promiscuously to their front, careless whether they hit friend or foe. The teinuiltJS-oi railway sent out and the ton miles awaiting shipment, will be worthless, as the engineer officer em ployed in constructing the road has declared that not even a traction en- j gine can be used on it. Thus all the i expense in which the Government 1 ins indulged, luis beun- simply thrown) away, and the dispatch of much- i needed stores has been retarded. Meanwhile, at tho Hoyal Arsenal, ; Woolwich, double gangs of men arc engaged in lo-iding the trnnsjiorts; and troops. mountain howit.era, Calling 'guns, etc., et-.,'tire heir; rapidly" forwarded in the scat of war. The" shooting of the crew of the Vii'iuiitx at Santiago has caused a profound sensation here, and the prcssunanimously declare that this is a perfectly lrgitimate cause of quarrel for the United States, although it is hinted that grief is felt, that no one in America promises to battle the difficulty by arbitration; that the principles established at Geneva are so soon forgotten, and that it is the old arbitrament uf blood which the Amerii-nns slill prefer. However, T think nothing more on this score will be urged, as it is now known that a portion of the men executed were British subjects. In the meantime the position of allairs creates very little interest, from a financial point of view, in the city; the whole matter being summed up by a remark in the r.tll SI.M G.rM!-: of last evening, viz.: "The only stock that could be adversely ad-versely affected materially is Spanish. C';5TOS MoiiUM. |