... Ode o'clock MARKETS ALL QUIET.-ALTERATIONS IN PRICES SLIGHT. AMERICANS STEADY TO FIRM. Rates in the Monev Mnarket continue to tend in the downward direction. Money is not muich wanted, andl advan. es for the day are obtainable at as low as 2 per cent,, while the last *uotation for three months bank paper is no better than 3/4 per cent., and transactions are entered into below that figure ...

... (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) The Congress on Thursday afternoon firmly re e. ted the proposed use of the c, muiative vote in the election of the Parliamentarv Commn ttee, &tld after a long and vanderinp discussion demanded that a restriction sh .:ld be imposed upon foreign pauper immilgration. In the even) g a conversai.ooe was held at the Kinnairo. Hall, and an open air meet ng presi.:e I over by ...

... one Oclock. HOME RAILWAYS AND FOREIGN STOCKS DULL.-AMERICANS BETTER.-SMALL BUSINESS. In the open market this morning quotations are firmly maintained, but no further upward movement has to be recorded. The aliotment of Treasurv bills has had no appreciable effect. Short money i-l again in request, and the quotation for advances is from 3 per cent, upwards. The discount rate for three months' ...

... DUNDEE, Thursday afternoon. The Trades Union Congress was occupied yesterday afternoon with one more of the questions upon which there is virtually no difference of opinion, namely, the necessity for in':reasin g the numbers of factory and other inspectors, and of appointing oractical worikinp men. but one di.ference arose. For years and years the female delegates have protested against the ...

... FO UR THr- EDITION. COLLAPSE OF THE COTTON CORNER. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) LIVERPOOL, Monday, Half-past Twelve. The bell of the clock on the Exchange has just boomed twelve, and the great cotton co ner has gone out in what appears uncommonly like a fizzle. The market closed on Saturday at 46, and opened this morning at 45. At ten past eleven the price dropped, to 40, and every one was ...

... One o'cloak. HOME RAILWAYS FIRBT..-FOREIGN STOCKS BETTER.- A .MERICANS HEAVY,--FAIR BUSINESS. Tire impression that the decline in the open market value of money has gone as far as it is likely to go for the present is gaining ground, and this morning the market again presents a harder appearance. The uuotation fox short loans is no more than about ?? per cent., but where operators were takin-, ...

... One o'e-teek. HOME AND AMERICAN RAILWAYS WEAK.-FOREIGN STOCKS STEADSY.-MODERATE BUSINESS. The discount rate still tends in the upward direction, and brokers are not free takers of th;ree rnonths' baink paper at anvthine under 3)6 per cent, The recovery of the last few days is only w.hat might have been expected. but it might have been longer delayed had it not been for the sudden fall in the ...

... One oedorh. MARKETS INACTIVE.-CHANGES SLIGHT.-CONTINUED SPECULATION IN TRANSVAAL LAND SHARES. Now that the Stock Exchange demands for mo-;ey have been practi- cally satisfied, and the market has the use of the money it has borrowed from the Bank of England the last day or two, there i; a somewhat easier tendency in rates. Short loans are obtainable at 4 It.) ; per cent., while the discount ...

... One o'dock. HOME RAILWAYS AND FOREIGN STOCKS DULL.-AMERICANS STRONG.-MARKETS GENERALLY INACTIVE. The easier tendency of rates in the discount market noticeable yesterday afternoon continues, and the general cuotation for three months' bank paper is now ?? per cent., though business is (uiet. Short loans are worth 2!Is to 2y per cent. The case is apparently due to the more plentiful supp -4)f ...

... The Melbourne Trades Hall Council, whose efforts have resulted in the 1lagnificent contribution of .J4,ooo to the Dock Labourers' Strike Fund, is a body of about eighty members, each representative of a specific associated tIlade. Nowhere is labour more admirably organized than in Melbourne, and she Trades Hall of that city is now a structure so capacious and imposing in Ippearance that it ...

... One olelk. MARKETS QUIET.-AMERICANS FIRM.-MILWAUKEE AND NORTH BRITISH DIVIDENDS. The Bank of En-land directors at their meeting this morning decided to make no alteration in the official minimum, which therefort remains a, 4 per cent. In the open market rates are agali easy so far as discounts are concerned, but loans are wanted in connection with the payments on the Stock Exchange, and ...

... 2vgJE RAIL WA Y PROPERTY OF THE UNITED KINGDOM. THE railways of the United Kingdom no longer expand by leaps and bounds, but they have not yet ceased to grow. Each year sees a moderate addition to tbe mileage and a greater increase in the capital account. The length of line open for traffic at the end of i888 was 19,812 miles, an increase of 234 ,ides; and the total capital paid up amounted to ...