We have been expecting to hear from you _re_ the above, giving us instructions as to whether we shall put it up in the Mart this spring or not. If it is still your intention to do so, may we ask that you will kindly let us know at once, as we will then immediately get our bills out, and have them posted about, as this is generally requisite a month or two before the sale, so as to have it well advertised. If you would kindly favour us with a call, we shall be glad to confer with you upon the subject. We may mention we are expecting to have several other estates for sale by auction in the spring. An early call or reply would greatly oblige, Your most obedient servant, H. & Co. ---- _From an Agent who has been engaged in endeavouring to arrange a matter of importance, applying for Remuneration._ 189, Trafalgar Square, September 14th, 187-- DEAR MADAM, You will of course have observed, by the announcement in the newspapers of this day's date, that the business we have been so anxious about is settled. I do not wish to enlarge on my own humble services in the cause; but I am sure you will admit that if a professional gentleman had been employed, the advice and services I have rendered during the last few years would have been made into a very lengthy bill, far exceeding the amount you promised me, whatever the issue of the negotiations might be. I am well assured that I am in good hands, however, and had I been called upon to render ten times the required services and advice, you would have found me as ready and willing as I have been. Your kind favour of the --ult., enclosing cheque, was duly received. I need not say how glad I shall be to hear again from you at your earliest convenience. I remain, Dear Madam, Yours very faithfully, ERASMUS JACKSON. ---- _Letter from a Traveller at Manchester, to his Employers in London._ Manchester, January 18th, 187-- DEAR SIRS, During the week very little change has taken place in prices quoted in my last. Cotton was a shade better on Monday, which caused sellers of yarn and cloth in this market to ask rather more in some instances; but the improvement was quite evanescent. The market, however, has continued steady. Some buyers have made attempts to operate at rather lower prices, and offers have been freely made at 1/8_d._ to 1/4_d._ per lb. for yarns, but the offers have only been made in exceptional cases. For goods of all descriptions, notwithstanding some discouraging accounts from abroad, very considerable contracts for distant delivery in point of time could have been secured by making a very slight concession.