... MIONE Y A ND COMMERCE. Business throughout the country was generally dull last week, or rather there was no marked improvement on the previous week anywhere visible. In the iron trade prices were steady, and a rather better feeling prevailed both in Glasgow and at Darlington. At the latter place there was more inquiry for pig-iron for shipment, and a large business has been done in warrants ...

... Effid Obtninq,6 otw!d, 'cl-E THREATENED WAR WITH ASHANTEE. Il ail steamer CoriscO, which left the Cape Coast on the 24th of January, Id at Liverpool yesterday. She brings news that there is great excitement alet~ colonY, and an attack on the town by the Ashantees is expected. The il of he dlyisturllance was the refusal of the British authorities to give up a rhef .ho had taken refuge in Elmina ...

... ?? 124 .LIL-tfflt A. .1 1A.14 . I 1. CITY OFFICE, ChanxOe-a7'ly, Co;7zhll/. Tuesdiay, Half-,pastf Tnlve. There are a few bills offering in the open discount market this morning, and the tendency is tolerably firm, 2,l per cent. being the rate for the best three months' paper. Short loans are in request in connection with the Stock Exchange settlement at 24' to 23? per cent. The fortnightly ...

... The Stock Exchange settlement was practically got over yesterday without serious trouble of any kind. Business in public securities of late appears to have been largely in the nature of the closing of accounts. Books, as the phrase is, were open for the fall on this side, while in Paris and elsewhere bcol s were similarly open for the rise. The machinery which works so smoothly, and in an ...

... Week after week passes and the revenue of the Exchequer shows no confirmed tendency to augment. Excise and Customs revenues, taken together, were only just maintained during the June quarter; and we are hall way through the current quarter without having any signs of elasticity in the indirect revenues to comfort those who groan by anticipation under an 8d. income tax. Fortunately or otherwise ...

... I The annual report of the company was presented to-day at the general meeting of the shareholders, held at Cannon-street Hotel, under the presi- dency of Mr. Eden Colville. In moving the adoption of the report and accounts, the chairman said with regard to the freight carried the outward freight showed a marked increase, being t16 1,ooo against ,0. There was a slight decrease, about ,I,700. ...

... CITY OFFICE, B WaSe-bdbg, 2o &ach cn , S.C.. Mooznda, Zeiff -as! Twelve. On the Stock Exchange this morning there is scarcely anything doing, out. side the arrangem ents in connexion with the fortnightly settlement of which this is the first day, and values are only slightly altered except in a few instanices in the Foreign Stock departmnent. Hralj-,asl bone. In the open market there is a fair ...

... It is never very safe to calculate too confidently upon any effect which a Political event will have upon stocks. When Ohio went for Blaine by a heavy irajority it was expected here that American Railway stock would go-up and Pirchases were made accordingly. Before the morning was far advanced telegrams from the other side showed that the Republican majority in Ohio left matters practically ...

... THIS DAY'S MONEY MIARKE Z. CITY 0OIwCE, a,2 !e-%pr i, P. t! I-riday, Tazw'eo'. on the Stckc E-~chanye this morning tlher e are few features of interesL beyond the continued fall in Egyptian descriptions. The markets generally are augain depressed, and in almost all departments quotations show a decline. British Funds are still offered, and exhibit a decline in the case of Consols for money Of ...

... effid ebminald Vewd. THE WAR IN THE TRANSVAAL. The strns~ideS correspondent at Cape Town telegraphs on Tuesday:- meI ?? of the unprovoked murder of Captain Elliott by his escort has created al indination in the Colony, and has greatly alienated the sympathy 'rat 11111 geneal ay&' rtr for teBoers. lling hatever have reached Kimberley of the state of things prevailing at No ti(]ng This is a ...

... 'CIT Y NO TE S. Changes of considerable magnitude are shown in yesterday's Bank return. In preparation for dividend payments and the instalments on certain loans, -which fall due next week, applications for advances have been on a large scale, and the private securities are consequently higher by 2,368,ooo. From the same cause the private deposits, to which much of the money borrowed has been ...

... Yesterday's Bank of England return did not superficially show many charges of importance, but such as there were offer a warning to those who looked for easy money. The gold was less by , i6o, ooo in the issue depart. ment, and the reserve of the banking department had fallen off about Soo,ooo, of which over 75,000 was due to a reduction in the coin. The Bank has now only about 23,000,000 of ...