... 6 THE FAVOURITE BEATEN. The favourite failed to stay to the finish in the Broad-street Stakes yesterday, and, iln fact, came in a rather bad third. The market was betting evens on Mr. A. M. Jay for the post of Comno0X Councilman for the Broad-street Ward, but the result showed that the two other Stock Exchange candidates had been remarkably well trained. It is said that Mr. A. M. Jay got into ...

... BERLIN TERRORS. The Imperial Bank of Germany has raised its discount rate to 6 pet cent. Berlin,. in fact, seems to be the market bogey of the moment, In some quarters it had been too readily assumed that there were signs of settled easeand the Stock markets here are, therefore, somewhat troubled over the rise. The position at Berlin is, in fact, far from satisfactory. The indebtedness of ...

... S\WEDISiI \VOOI) TRADE. It appears froun the renort ot our (Consli at Stockbolm that the exports of' sawn and planed wood froum that port last year was 1,015,835 stanidardls, which shows a decrease as compared with the preceding year of no less than 82,000 standards, entirely due to limited production, and not bv ally imir-als to ICs5 consumptioln. Ihe prices reacied at the colilillenieemnt of ...

... ALLSOPPS. The weakness of Allsopps Ordinary has been quite a marlet reaturp o- late. There seems nothing ill thle situation to Warlrant allly p lar oul. - back, beyond the ordinary conditions affcting m larkets. But tralnsacthli, in A Ilsopps are ahvays rather curious, and the inarket gciielallv lii \wav. A seller or two will usually suffice to bring about decided deprlesi,,J and this has been ...

... Captain G. F. Chenevix-Trench, Assistant Resident, Kashmir, writeS suggesting the establishment of a trade intelligence centre. He starts oflwith a concrete example of what occuis. 'I noticed that last year Germany was able for the first time to put into the market of Leh, and Wrom - there into those of Chinese Turkestan, a certain brown hard cotton material much worn by the natives of the ...

... ELECTION PROSPECTS AT DEPTFORDs UNIONISTS AND TRADE - UNIONISTS. (FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.) There is still a lot of leeway to make up in Deptford, and it will take the Unionist werkers all their titne to keep ahead of their opponents on thle polling day. But they are getting a much better hold of the work than they had a week ago, and if the polling day had been fixed a couple of days ...

... TME WEST JxDI.XN' SUGA~R CRISIS. The wail of disoppointment with which the Royal Comm-issioners') .Report was first greeted by the colonial press seems to have subsided, auid beyond a few growls fromn jamaica at being- lefL out inl the cold, thle Dpaperls just received by the Roy~al Mail steamship Donz show a passive attitnij~,, encouraged for the moment by favourable crop prospects. In, ...

... THE 1 vUET.E 7- Tmea pathos ci Ili', tatcs of hininbe wic'~as sc.-o I-tirneswi-ih~n~e'b~ e nd 1, who woiked. iore. or less in the an ?? the trade, could1 alrliog ov. d-nitterin 'nyself his disciple, so k~eenly cd I admtire thceim had been, a little in ,kuts to Whal:. part of the i-oafti'Y sho'tui choose for the train.. pI so fre.'nrly needed, and m nlY . ?? 'i~as largelly in3luenced. by thle ...

... TH- MONEY MARKE. BANK OF BENGAL RATE LOWVERED. Mgonley is it good request, and the toile of the mnarket is steady, in view bf tlhe :t'ock Exchange requireirleitts to-day. Call loans are negotiable at . per cent., while fixtures comrtinand 2 to ?? per cettt. The discount mark1et is steodvy with a fair business doing. I hree mOnths' line bilis are aketi at 2 7-16 to 2 9-16 per cent. The Ban k ...

... t4ONEY AND STOCKS THE MONEY MARKET. 'file of ?? keeps steadv with a tendency to hardness, vee corklilg q1uoiatioti tor call loans and short fixtures being 2h per 0 ?? rptlier ,more. I)iscounts are slightly firmer, but rates are Ceilt ord ad three months line bills are taken at 2% per cent. 2~~~asge ?? IjEroOST9. A BL. , NATl: 12S } Day ?? ?? Dislocusciatj'l| Sbort 2) TAree MIN! 2 J; etr lrjt- ...

... COTTON During the last week or so raw American cotton has fallen in Liverpool to the extent of a dozen points or so, or tell shillings a bale. The bulls} unloaded last Thursday. Yesterday there wcere numerous fluctuations, but values rested firmer at the finish of the market. Mr. Henry Neill sticks to his big figures, though pressed to reduce his estimate of 11,00,000 bales. Lancashire ...

... MONEY AND.. STOCKS THE MONEEY MARKETR.': here is a moderate demand for day-to-day loans, and about 3 per cent .btalned. Fixtures are called 4 per cent. The discount-.market is again ?? withd rawals for South A merida bei ng a' spe seiali nfluece forY th-tm being. Three months' flne bills are not take n under 4% to 5 per~ cent A I Igoild- risen'to 135.40~ rc The Buenos Ayres premium old nas ...