English Items.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3500, 13 March 1880, Page 2

English Items.

The Times., says—There seems little room for doubt. that the revival of trade, long looked for in rain, has at last come. Signs are to be seen in every direction. The metal market has been advancing steadily, and prices probablj hare not yet reached the highest point at which they will stand, The charge for freights between this country and the United States has gone up, and the demand nevertheless continues to be in excess of the supply. Activity is the rale in every branch. . A scheme for the re-commencement of ' the large rolling mills at West Hartlepool; . has been approved, and the works, which . have been idle for fire.years,., will be immediately re-started. They include no less thau 110 puddling furnaces, and when in full work give employment to 1000 . workmeri; It i« believed that, with a continuance of the demand that now prevails for manufactured iron ra the North of England, it is only a question of a fair months before every idle ironworks in the North will be in full operation. Henry Irving's clear profits from the "Merchant of Venice," at the London Lyceum, exceed £1200 weekly. A supper ~ will be given at theatre on its hundredth night.. ■ A British man-of-war has. been ordered to La Paz, Lower California. : Prince Lobanoff, the new Russian. ', Ambassador, has arrived in London. A. de Capel Crowe, Consul for Den* mark, has been gazetted Constal for Cuba.

It is semiofficially stated that.Lord Lytton has no desire to leave India; Mr Plimsoll, M.F., will introduce a bill , with the object of diminishing loss in life and property from shifting cargoes by^ . loading grain in sacks. ■