... Tho Board of Trade returns for the first month of the new year, though still comparing unfavourably with the corresponding month last year, show a less marked decline in our shipping trade than was apparent in the returns for the previous month; but it is a fairly debateable question if this comparative improvement is not due rather to the extraordinary mildness of the season favouring ...

... |ICOMMERCIA! LA-NI) MON EZTAY,1 [Froujt oitr CLity Correspondsent] JOXtroNf, Friday Evenin. The D scount derninrl Ins been much quieter to-day, while the general supply of money has been decidlediy more abundanit. ?? have beesi easier, best three moliths' bills being t[ken at 3jt to 3M per cent. . The Stock Exchange settlement appeairs to laove haA no effect in iucreastig the dezinand. At the ...

... LiVERrOOL CORt MARKET.-There was a small attend- astce, andt a moderate demand for wheat, without appreciable alteration in values since the reduction of Friday. Flour was slow. at provious rates. Canadian peas hold for an advance of ls. Beans s. per qruarter lower. Barley 2d. per bushel dearer. Oats quiet. Indian corn as. Gd. per quarter cheaper. for mixed American, but more doing at the ...

... NI!W PATENTS, T (Centribitted by Mir. George Shaw.) Th ?? Patents .wore ccaaled duinr g the wook onding February 5,187.1:-A Robert 0. layson,. Blrmingharz, Improvements in looms tor weaving wjrege,ure. Dated August 16,1873. Albert Mill, Plymouth, ?? MU1, Beth, Improvoments in umbrellas and parasols. Dated November 26, 1878. Henry Geering, Birmingham, improvementa in safes and strong roo'ns. ...

... OOMMRI~OIAL. LIVBI1POOL IbxCAN E, G IsATiruDAY Aa~BMaao. 2( The cotton market ?? -more downcast aspect, owing ohleftb the inoreasea receipts at the American ports,Biid, Ji less nessurei to the recent large ?? eotbon in the Mersey, which, howrover, WOcld probably h1viI exercised no iniportant InfluencO had not the 9 recopts at the American ports uuexpeqe swelled. On Saturday latt, the receipts ...

... I I I . K : GArEIMI ' ' kZJL.Lill ia~J hn fe Ue. ?? G..ic ,a - ?? BDANKUPTI)IDS AVNULD. ., an EraytsAdt, ztruIDO, fVt 'at 1i JB4 rW ?kf W : hbury now Park; Adlph e Y IC'ee-oadt'b, ?? saii, td.aut hn 1noLKh, go fteki foss, agd Go. -h 42. Jeoa- N It, ai *6 ad ST7. zwiZ tsOt, ?? in 1d1n . end at DenW$4, near a e 2ad o tading n V sets llip A. lobls 0at Atrssou #srwie: ro ad ?? sr l os ao . ad ...

... ren LOSS OF A TROON VE3SEL AND ALL fst HANDS. Ol Intelligence has been received which leaves no the doubt that amongst the vessels wrecked in the adi recent severe storm on the south coast of Ireland Ina was the Cherub, of Troon. The Cherub left that plaos on the 7th lnstan*,with a cargo of cool for St. 2Nazaire, Bay of Biscay, and it Is supposed that In attempting to obtain shelter at ...

... I 4omociatl mab otST laarktub. I W ~~CORN. *wF ,ridayt.,here was adneso in the sale, all A1 ind*b- ?? Linesoi& alised from 60i to -4s per qr. IL hfe . o,6 3d pe'stne. Bnfolns~toitr,, at*il£-Goo& supply of wheat, but millers azic > f slo to buy on last week's teu., Bailepy lscw,;dle, ra much alled for. . DotCaa,^ Saturday.-Wleat at 'from 24e to 27s Werload, siif-, ?? wheats ?? even a trifle ...

... THE IRON[-N1 COAL TRADM i1:; - ?? i; :~ . ?? 3 ?? ;; 1 . ' ri :'BJ~.eonououoz*Ttiesday. b e :4.13 A t «c dclleaksglgl;iron maket;; OU tihere b ,, ; angs~x~z avera~ge atteg anov, bgtainelectioneering e ratters intrfordl With' businees. and pratically h' t there wAA nothingflbne. Pig-ii'mii'eaid +iieback sj Y in.demwd, andcthough-i amakers :yet qubte', 97;6d. a o for No: 3, slo1sbave ...

... ASERMEE V SHZAXE LIST. TUESDAY, February 10. 54 lbis !Os to RAILWAYS. 3Share. Paid. Buyers.. Sellers. .tr. 0 Caledon~ian . 105 10 0 .. 17 r ulz Stirtk 100 1)o.-Scottish Ceitrail ord.,.. .155 15 Fllon15.1 Stir .. 1WDI.-ScottishMidland . 00 .. o 0 0 0 - Stik. 100 Do0-Dunidee and Arbrcath.. 226 :0 0 ..2250 0 Ii)0 . 10 Doeoside 17 00.0 0 L0 10 ..15 Do.--4j perCent, ...

... Cattle arnd Moat Markets. le METROPOLITAl. CATTLE MGA.REET-Tbehuday, Feb. 19.. e. As miglat be expected from the result of Monday's beef trade, we be have but a small number of beasts fresh up for'to-day'a market. and e these 'comprise a larger number than usual for second-class f'reinL is There is,' however, ample, if not more than is required, and there is , : ', no alteration as to price, ...

... AtIYTMRK.BZ ^ ?? monle7ll:rkt 111 a10W. aessmed, a do. : I siidedly rmer aspes th' 4de'ad 1for: money n 1 .conntoftwitbthe el~llonisand the ?? for the4th ol the' month,' obined with tbr . IvenfG paymens,: having absoried n moh of the .sui~n~o~,apitaI, aid:the 4open market ratei ari firnf at 3* to pbroet for thre months :ll oueptionel ftrtnsaotions ?? onlyr at tie lo~eriga, At the fak ...