... Cattle and Meat Marketa. mIrTROPOLITAN CATTLE MARRET-Thursday, Dec. 2t. ff This 'vase a'sot a holiday market. The few beasts on offer sold IC slowly, blt alt priceis quite equal to Monday. The show of sheep 8C wui very limuited, and all breceds met a; dali inquiry, at late rates. 2i The extremle quotation for the best Downls and half brela ee 6aStd lt per 8 lh. Isl calves next to nothing was ...

... ABERDEEN MABKETS. ABERDEEN CORN EXCHA!;GE-FRIDAY, Dec. 27. Market rather duller. Prices reusnin the same as those of ladt week. Attendance good, but little busintas done. Potato Oats . . 25s Od to 260 Od 40 ibs, per bushel. Cemmon~ Oats.23s Od to 5so Od( .prbshl Bear (New)..34s Od to 36s Od Barley (New).4.. Id to lSO Od 63 do. Wheat, wit .4 Od to 56s Od f62 lbs. per bushel Oatmeal ...

... THlE FRENCH TREATY AND THE SILK' TRADE.I A correspondent calls attention to the following quotation which appeared in the ilfanchester Guardian, Dec. 20th, from the London Correspondent, in which he says:- Regarding the statements recently put forward by a deputation of Silk Manufacturers to the Secretary of Foreign Affairs, it may be satisfactory to know that the fullest Investigetion of the ...

... TH4 BELFAST LINEN TR-DE CILcrLa BELFAST, iOsNDA EVESING, D--ct FLAX.-Flax markets, as rerorted, wnith quantities and prices: -Ballibay. I tp -.. 8s to lls per st. ; 7 tons hand, 5S 0;, p-r do.; total, 8 tons; cor. week leQ, )rnagh, 25 tons milled, Os to Os per ;bnd, 6s to Vs 6d per do.; tota' 5 ,c1 wevk 1806, :13 tlns. B-efait. 12 tcs!:. rn. t to lost d per st.; cor. week lIrSb I ,j ns. town, ...

... a- - I-- -no- . -: - BIRADFORD, Monday.- This the last market in the expiring year, has been very thinly attended by those connected with the worsted trade. The aggregate amount of business done in wool, worsted yarns, and pieces has been unusually scanty. No one seems inclined it present to operate beyond urgent necessity. In wool the demand is conflied to a few smaU purchases in the finer ...

... I LETTER FRO31 MR OLADSTONE. WVe have been requested to publish the fullowing correspondence:- 0.1 Rochdale Road, MNanchester, Dec. 19, 1867. Dear Sir,-lleading your evening speech at Old- ham, I met with the following passage :-'In some parts of the country employers are told they must not employ more than so many apprentices-what is the meaning of that? It is to limit and hamper the ...

... LOCAL MAIKETS. TuInIur', 25th Decemnber.-There vere olily 270 cattle ill to-daLy's ' niwar e t. TIle qoaltity was atvCrage, and thle trande rather bInisker than l,ist furtigight, hut scarcely any advantce quotable in price. (;Oe and G's lpercat. for the best PLt, peerhaps oWni prime small fetched rather oLcr. Good young beasts wid cones *ere passing (.ff at fair prices; a by 9: re ., most were ...

... QONEY MARKETe 1 - I EHARlE AND PRODUCE MARKETS. [Fiotr Ocn ILoNDON CoEsDONDENTV.1 LONDON, Tuesday. The principal feature in the Stock markets has been an upward movement in railways. Many adverse operators, fearing a reaction in public opinion, have reversed their transactions so far as to close their speculative sales by corresponding purchases, though they have thereby in- curred the loss of ...

... MQNsY~E ^A.!)D COMME ERCEIO | I~~BY TMOTLL'.U'R.11I uLflN)VW)N STOC rXul-LANGI, ac. 31.- 0oaClontl onened flat ~' Dllt Qi.5Se l A' '.)et~ter. RJ4,ilwvys left ',r qctdeslly lenter, ti i not so n (d as they Ihs.ve been; Millandem very g-,od, Br:i¢51tfrn Fi't. o- I reign stick rallier firmnr; l taiiai: and I >rt-1ngee c dil|l. j 1 *rk:an i.s . fnes generally bett, *. lso. Atlan i ] tics, and ...

... JUMmGRAh_ _ SHAREaY YESTERDAI ligAIlWAk. eve Vllay SouthOr St.Urhk. . Wtonnrbzt.,0. VANAU. W o r resser a d i i n g S . Vlruuhame Malted@@ Wrmngbuans Torm anitdo ., lilrmlngbam andlMidland ,.. Dodley dnedWet Btomsrl .. Lloyds, Il09d 1.. Noliglsbam Jmint-StOek, 5imted Staffordshire Join.Sotok, Limited,. FINANCZ. mrmlagham ...

... London and Provincial Grain MarkebtA LONDON CORN MA.RKWr-FusDAr, Dec. W7. There was a very poor show of English wheat here to-day, coast- wise and by land carriage. The attendance of millers was limited, yet the fewe flue samples on offer were readily disposed of at the extreme rates of Monday. Damp qualities, however, were Inactive, on former teruss. The supply of foreign wheat was extensive. ...

... I ?? -- - . THE CURN TRADK I With Christmas occurring in the midst of the past week we harve bad thoe usual limited amount of beelness. Pre- parationse for paying rent were previously made, and a leg supply than usual was required to meet the claim lun conse- quseco of better primca; and it is to be noted that this year's deliveries in four weeks hive been 38,000 quarters less than they were ...