... !dNOAY EVENING. The stock markets opened this morning with a sat appearance, and for some time' lower -luota- tions were current, business being inactive, and a check being given by the pressing demand for money usual on the last day of the year. In the afternoon, however, a renewed demand sprang up, and prices improved, assisted by the announce- ment of large arrivals of specie. The funds, ...

... MONEY MARKET SHARE AND PRODUCE MARKETS. (FBox oun LoNDoN ConnsesronrD.) LoNDoN, Monday Evening. Owing to this being the last day of the year and of the quarter, little has been done in any department of trade except the arrangement and adjustment of balances. We do not exactly know, but we have been informed, upon undoubted authority, that though several banks who make up to this day will show ...

... ''AlFK ' E'S. BELFAST MARKETS-MoNDAy, DEc :)i - BOOUGH mALRKET OFFICIAL PRICEs. Per cvt. of 11' Per cwt. eo iheet, red, 12 L to iT 50 ! ,. , , Do., white, 12 9-J13 41Pe ?? ,nul1i°,e Oats, 7 0- S 91 l)., FL ?? OticalC 14O-25 U 1( 1 leSkenc-, ' ' i Den, -t 0 Cn,- If o - 10 0 Tr , ?? I - :. Grass-seed, 0-1l 's Cabbsge.t'r.. I. - l flax, prr. S f0-1G 0 Tow, lsere t.. 2 02 -10 0 A Y isa S- raeviso ...

... THE COMIMFERCE OF OLA5QW TC LIS63. The fulloW lug is fiom Messrs Connaln Ci syeisly I circular:- The state of the money market has had a depress- ing influence on the general ?? of the country throughout the vearfiu. Cu the 4th dkebniary the minimiium rate of dliscount ;at the Ba-nk of England -as raised from 7 to S PIeP cent., at wxhich it continued till the 22d F03dc1bru7. The rate then ...

... . r r-7 t -,TL -CLkL 55NEWS. ?? ' I lv',N A'I.ldlv ED juMi. * V ?? Es 'ltfl.e .1 t ocg.) 1, S:Lnl1daiibutl 1'hVLI 55l' t-ile aret C V'lI, hreto thee iteother caup! -1 ~n c&'VV.The V-J1, d11lne at 3~ per C vtfered, TChe ?? tone, andl the i.ntkuvC1 lneited TI' I'V th - pproaching - ?? Aockl re ii soni ills, 7s. to le~i' ?? ji;, and nearly in ?? to the ex- \Viricaii .,cuurities are pt s Cd, 'Abe ...

... The following circular has been issued by Mr. Williana Colvmn.- Glasgow, 31st December, 1866. The exceptional and disturbing influences to which the Scotch pig-bnon trade has been exposed during the greater part of the past year, render a roncord of the course of the market at this season more than usually minerestiac. The year opened with a fair speculative demand, based on a good legitimate ...

... I' ' REVIEW OP ATHE IRON MARKET. [I I .IlI : - - I (From''theUircular of Messrs. G. B. Tonls and Co., dated London, Jan L.) Since our circular of the 15th September last, the course of prices for British mialleable iron has tended so conpinuously, downwards, from the extreme slackness ; of dwiiaiti, 'that it has appearied' useless to continue ringing merely verbal changes upon the same series ...

... IIONEY AND CO'MMERCE. I - - - -- -- -- I [FON OUR COCZFR.CIAL CORRESPONDENT.] BELFAST, MONDAY EVENING, f Dxc. 31, 1866. Tnx past week closed with less business on the Stocli Exchauuge. The principal transactions were ; sales to realise profits, which, looking at the cextent of the lant advance, must be considerable. On Friday though prices opened with firmnness, they subsequently rnled lower. ...

... TH]E REVENUB RET.URNS.. (From the Sundaay0 Oazette.) . The revenue returns for the quarter, which wilble fei made up to.morrow (Moncday) 'ight, -are likely to on Show our -finances once more in atharoughly satisfap p tery conditen.. Some of the heads of taxation, to which we bave before alluided, an be measured with P. 'n approaeh to closeueso; by' the statistics of the 'eon- th eumptidn of ...

... LAT, ITELI ,COMMHRCIAL;. , L b ti 44 k of Egliud on Wed-` ~; ~ by thebr opyetf soi~ L~'1&i~3e~Sk4bd hmd bI bii4snv aurtb t ieedai' 1`0 Cytcle a ~fi-~Aevmnh g vr shne rt Ujlit i tledeista ppekieoi-h~~toi th Flap reseaf, *4proidedifano a as to-a t t~ ?? eo-1b ~dh atns.u O* prpspen Th1 inc ...

... LEEDS. In attempting a general survey of the various trades carried on in Leeds some reference must be in ile to the extraordinary events which have characterised the year 1866. The beginning of the year found the country in ia re- markably piosperous state. In our last alllinual repbrt we had no hesitation ill giving nu opinion that the prospect was good, and there wias every probability that ...

... RZI VIEW OF THlE CORN TRADE. (Feroni he Mlark.Lane Express.) BIIITISH. The year 1806 has now closed upon us with its very remarkable events. The face of E urope has been changed, as though by an electric shock, through the rapid and successive victories of Prussia; and just as things seem settling into peace, a cloud hovered over the Island of Crete, which firs' bursting there may terminate in ...