... (From Messrs. Melladew and Clarke's Annual Circular.) LaxIVreOO, Dec. 31. Several years have now elapsed since the cotton trade o Great Britain entered upon its career of irregularity ant disorganisatiOn, and although in many respects the year which is now drawing to a close may not by any mneam ba considered an exception to several of its immediate prede. cessors, yet in many respects various ...

... WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET. FRmiAY, DEommz n 31. (From itessrs. .Dhnns and Co.'s Circular.) To-day being the last one of the year, our market is thinly attended by millers, who do not seem disposed to operate; the little business doing in wheat is at last Friday's rates. Fine barley fully as dear, other sorts almost unsaleable. Beans and other articles as before. (Messrs. Watson .rothers' .Report.) ...

... HLONEY MARKET. - u I SHARE AND PRODUCE MARKETS. FRox oun LoDoxN CoaO oanmT-.] LoonmoN, Friday. owing to to-morrow being a holiday, andtho fortnightly I ttiement being barely out of hand, there has bebn vary *lle doing in the Stock Exchange for the now year. The rincipal feature has been a demand for some of the Fnglish railways, which are accordingly higher. The funds also have been firmer, ...

... During the past year it is admitted on all hands there has been a gradual improvement in the trade of this town and district, although some of the old staple branches have been so long depressed that the resumption of general activity has not been realised. Manufacturers here have suffered very considerably from the action of the United States Customs authorities, who appear to have taken a ...

... i LEEDS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. Woo.Llr ThR -Although some considerable paricls of goods have been sold during the month to wholesale houses, the general trade is quiet, even for this season of the year. Merchants are looking forward for an improve- mbnt, as it is understood that stocks in the country are low. Some of the manufacturers are tolerably well employed; others are working short time. ...

... M1ONEY MARKET.o SHARE AND PRODUCE MARKETS. [FRtoM oua LONDON COuBPONDNT.] LONDON, Saturday. tho 1st of January is always a holiday on the Stock Ex- *bange, and the practice las been observed on the present Keasion. Eeverthek es, the upward movement of the past few days, and the expectation of speculators that it will make further p; ogiess through rc investments of dividend money, has brought ...

... LONDON G.ZETT, Triday, Doe. 31. BANKfRUPTS. et o~f Adjadscestions ?? MeinsofCedtr ToSaixodrat the Ba Urpta CorL. du Aarena P., Whit53OliaPil and London, Docks, shirt maufr., Jan.24A Armess G., Bedford-sqdarc, Jam. 20 Baggo H.late of Fulham, builder, Jan. 11 Bacnford . S., Old Ford, temporary post-offilo 0101* Jam, It Barber I., LOi~bivamf, plumbor, Jan, 17 Beckot F Harrow-road, auctioneer Jan. ...

... (rosrn the Economist.) An opinion prevails in some quarters that with the change of the year we shall see also a considerable change in the money market. Enterprise, it is said, is reviving; credit is better; there is a greater opportunity of earning profit, and a greater inclination to uttem t to earn profit; and thence it is inferred that the rate ok interest will soon rise, and the long ...

... An Abstract of the Gross Produce of the RovenuO of Ilie United Kingdom in the undermontioned period,' ended Dec. 31, 1869, compared with the cqrresponding, periods of the preceding year:- QUA-a SFNDED DmmenB 31. 1869. 1868. Ineree. Decrease.i £ £ £ Customs . 6,740,000 6,998,000 - 268,000 Excise. 5,452,000 5,431,000 21,000 - Stamps , 2,158,000 2,220,000 - 62,000 Taxes ?? 695,000 1,287,000 - 692 ...

... IIEYIEW OF THE CORN TRADE. (From the Hark-lane Exprmes.) BRITISH. Another year has made its exit and placed its important records on the scroll of time. The present century has grown so old that one more generation will also bring that to its close. But while it is in the power of man to take his hasty review of the past his vision altogether ?? to scan the future of a day, and with all his ...

... SHARE AND PRODUCE MARKETS. [F3nom oun LoNDoN CoPsnSPONDIu.] LoxDox, Monday. An animated business has been done to-day in the Stoek markets. The opening prices were firm, but did 1ot present any particular feature. Subsequently, upon the receipt of an advance In French Rentes, there was lonsidorablo animation, and the prices of both home und foreign Government securities advanced about i per a ...

... A meeting of the Board of Conciliation and Arbitration of the North of England Manufactured Iron Trade was held yesterday at Darlington. The Board, it will be remembered, was formed in the spring of last year to arrange wages and other disputes arising between masters and men, which had often produced disastrous lock-outs and strikes. Mr. Rupert Kettle was thou called in as arbitrator on a ...