... The following interesting statements as to the statistics, future supply, and probable price of coal, were made by Mr. Hlimt, the Keeper of Mining Records, during the recent debate before the Statistical Society on the proposal of Sir Rowland Hill to establish a coal tax. The state- neonts as to the depth at which coal can be worked, and the means taken to have accurate statistics, are of ...

... L ON XD O N xG A Z E T T E. Wvw.F-:1 Las5' N'iaht'.s Gndire.. ' BANKRItUPTS. JTrn-es eHustler, f56, ltisgg's Rosd, C.helseea, Middlesex, corn dealer. Jmises William Taylor, Broadway, London Fields, Halckney, Middlesex, (:heesnemon-gcz. 1u. WM W1eio6pert. trading, as W. WVeippert and Co., 2,7, Regent Stree', Loudon, mnus-ic publishers and booksellers, Samuel Box:hill Robertson, 2, News Inn, ...

... I THE SECOND FREEHOLDERS' BUILDING I SSOCIETY. The twenty-first anutual meeting was hold on Tuesday evening, at the offices, 44, Waterloo Street, Birmingham; Dlr. 77. 11. Crosbee in the chair. The Sneeg.T.uRY (Mr. A. J. Allbutt) read the following report :- The directors have much satisfaction in presenting the customary accounts showing the transactions of tihe society during the past ...

... THE IRON TRADE WoeAvgeJsIbrr'roN, Wednesday. There was a shade better enquiry to-clay for iron for home and foreign use. The lower prices which the majority of tho proprietors of the mills and forges are pre- pared to accept have encouraged ergppt merchants gene- rally to give out some orders tOM'I uit' he executed, and the breaking up of the ice in the Neva warns the people doing business ...

... YESTERDAY'S M UIKETS. LivERPOOL CJOIN 2)lAmRKET.-2risere was a fair at~tend. sues, and at fsirtlser advance in prices was established fin lbs wheat trade of 2sd. per recital since Friday, making an irsoserove- mient of Md. per ano-nti useo lita week : only a miodlerete business, however, wast concluded. Flour iii fair request, at fully previous rates. beantis anslpeais I.per quarterciseseper ...

... I.es'ro oav Corespondum t.j IMIDDLESBIROUGH, Saturday. The iron trade of the North of England is dull, thouli it doesnot appear tobo more so, if, indeed, no much as telo trado of Slalforrlshiro and other centros, jndging from the reports received. What the slight spurt is worth that was noticed it Tuesday's market, and which had sinco boon maintained, it is difficult to say, though, ...

... CoMM0ELRC1AL IAND MONETARY. ri7-- -,0 7,tPeoesnndomt.1I ?? OUT is'G ICOt(I'.j LoenMos, Monday Evening. There has been a very abundant supply of money in the Discount mcarket, wile the demand bas been quiet, so that three months' bills have been readily taken at 3a rer cent. At theo Bank of Enland the applications for acconm. 01edatien were few. At the Bank of England to-day, 10,000, in foreign ...

... [hl'oin Grifli,7t'sW Tekit plc2porql Loxnoir, April 24. 'We have to report on advance of 4s. 9d. per ton in Scotch pig-iron, on tfhe Glasgow Exchange, this week. TIe closing price tllis (ldy nwol was 72s. ld.; the closing p!ice this PfLernoon is 77rs. Od., whichgives an a'dvancoof 4s. ?? over the week now closed. There are orders for bars, hoops, and sheets on the mar- let, hut the merchants ...

... MIDLAND MANUFACTURES IN THE TRADE OF BUR1CH. The Board of Trade roturns for the mouth of Marchand the three mouths then endedwere issued yesterday. The total value of the month's imports was £929,74S,865., as against 229,850,113., or a decrease of £101,248. For the three months the value was:£92,374,097., as compared with R84,867.308. in the corresponding period of 1873, or ass in'- crease in ...

... Ameeting of the members of tie beth Staffordshire Conciliation Learil of Itorimastals null Ironvor'kers was held yesterday, in the Conllnitee ?? of the Town HaIl, Wolverhai oilt, to arrane the filture basis of wages.i: Mr. tG J. -31irker (lcimirmnxn of the lronmarters' Association) preEaljing, [ie other irolimasters present weFreO enSrs. W. i. lo;ter 1,i. Ct. Firmsnsic, AVti Bar- rows, J. ...

... coMpIER LAL AND MONETARY. fFo0M our City Correspondent.] LONDO-N, Wednesday Evening. The Discount market has been quieter now that thec bortnightly settlement is concluded, and the requirelents of the quarter have been satisfied. Money, however, has been rather scarce, so that rates hlave been firtely held at 3,-, per cent. for best three months' bills. At thle Bank of England there ?? a vcry ...

... BIRM1HA~r SHARE LIST. -YESTERDAY. I Amt. Pd. CO'MPANIES. j losing Buinss ?? Prices. Doune RA L AY Buy ISel I oti'lINAtty. * 1 10 Blirm. W. Suburb . ?? - Stock 100 London aind Northi-Werst. -- Stock 100 Ditto, ?? and S. ?? - Stock 100 Mlidland ?? Stock 100 Ditto, Thr. fend Derby.. - - Stock 100 Not ?? 6 Stockc 100 Sropssiire ?? 20 20 ?? - Stork 1001,.& N. jjry Prf. (S. Staf.) 053 10 10 Meditch5 ...