Issue of The Textile Mercury, a Manchester trade weekly, dated March 26, 1892. It covers textile trade and tariff politics (New Zealand protection, the McKinley tariff, imperial federation, US cordage trust, woollen census), regional mill news, dyeing articles, markets, and patent abstracts. The technical content includes part VII of a series on pattern analysis dealing with gauze fabrics, with point-paper designs, peg plans and interlacing diagrams, plus an illustrated article on Tetlow high-pressure boilers and the opening of the Bolton Technical School.