... I NEW YORK PRICES-TauRsDAY. Money easy. Stocks opened firm and active, but became weak during the afternoon. The mar* ket at the close, however, though dull, was firm. Cotton on spot steady and unchanged; futures opened weak, but afterwards advanced, with, however, subsequent reactions, closing steady. Petroleum quiet, closing steady at late rates. Lard has declined on packers sCiliig, and ...

... OR N. | .C uSrSaY , Thursday.-Moierate attendance. WVheat slow sale, prices slightly in buyers' favour; fireign brought jd to Id per ceutal more than last Wveek. Flour very quiet, but unchssn'ed. Oats firu at late rates. Beans unaltered. Ifaize Id to ];jilw*r cental lower on week, i 117,(ING1IAi, Thursday.-Moderate supply and tr.ade for wheat. English and foreign both r. p) 5; il to be selling ...

... ARcnoKlA - 4167 Jan. ..an, >1 | DEVOMIA ..4270 Feb. GREAT REDUCTION IN FARES. Saloon, Second Claw, and Steerage, at Lowest Rat—. SPECIAL THROUGH RATES TO MANITOBA. UNITED STATES. AND CANADA. Pamphlets Land, Ac., free on application to BEOTHKKS. 47 Union Street, Glasgow ; to Ale*. W. Inn&j, Auchnacatl ; W. Anderson, do.; George Stephen, jun., Fraserburgh; J. F. Grant, Call—; James Still, ...

... LOCAL STOCKS AND SHARES. Messrs Strachan & Gray, of 177 Union Street, in their monthly share circular of Saturday's date, say:_ In the shares of the Foreign and Colonial Banks, the movements have been mostly downanards-the financial crisis in Australia having necessitated in the case of some of the Australian Banks a reduc- tion of dividends. The shares of the Bank of South Austraia have ...

... NEW YORK PRICES-WsDNE3DAY. Stocks opened firm, but gave Way in the after- noon, and the market closed weak, at about lowest figures. Cotton on swot dull, and unchanged. Futures opened steady, and afterwards advanced, with, however, subsequent reactions, closing steady. Petroleum quiet, closing weak. Lard weak. Wheat futures declined ,a while after opening, then strengthened under buying orders ...

... Alexander A Co., Upholsterers, 269 Union \\T ANTFD, Assistant storekeeper, for an engineering w..iks.—Addres- , with copies testimonials, Express Oitlee. _____ Energetic Salesman for Drapery Trade state salary expected ami copies references. —Address Expr. «»dlee. _ I|r.\\Ti:il, immediately, a first class Workman. f-T V Sanitary Work, ami capable of laying pipes. Ac. Apply between 7 and ...

... ABERDEEN TRADES COUNCILr, r. The fortnightly meeting of the Aberdeen United e Trades Council was held last evening in the Cafes Buildings, Shiprow-Mr Nicol, president in the I chair A communication was read from the r National Union of Shop Assistants requesting the council to send a representative to a conference at 4I Manchester on 18th instant on the Shop Hours e Regulation Bill. It was ...

... CORN. 'MAae LAxNE ExmEss RHPORT, Monday.- The growth of vegetation is not rapid for the time of year, and so far as can yet be predicted, we shall once more have la late harvest both for winter and spring corn. English wheat bas now recrograded to the price of 1890, a year of disastrous depres- eion, ?? we were all hoping to forget. The present extreme cheapness of English wheat is somewhat ...

... SHIPPING IN'l'ELLIGENCE. Anit1vrfl AT ABaaDtiFn -,\1arlr 14-B1an- Iti-14, Turrill, London, goods; Caledoonia, Koulen, Rotter- digoods 1)Dee, Sulithj, Rtedim o Ungdunms, Venner, Terjusei-'tosaBLd, bolles. SAILED-March 14-CUlnie, Gill, Mothil, lightl Tile City of London arrived in London at 1924 Su nday afternoon-fine passage The steamer City of Aberdeen arrived in Lrosdon at ll15 p m. yesterday ...

... GENERAL NEWS. THE Duke of Abercorn was last week chosen chairman of the Ulster Unionist Convention, WHIST WITH LIVING CHARACTERS. —A game whist with living characters, dressed in costume to represent the cards, has just been played at Alexandra Hall, Newton Abbot. This said to lis the first game of living whist ever attempted in England. AT iuqueat held last week Dewsbury Infirmary on the body ...

... MARKET INTELLIGENCE, CORN. AMltBi LANE EXPReSS RzEorm, Mioday.- TleC promise of both wheat and barley crops is very irregnlar, 'bot the wheat has come into eat better than had been exprcted, and the first days of July will be this year's blooming season in the principal counties. The markets for Enelisls wheat are in a r state of great discouragement, the declaration of au average of under ...

... SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE, AuiunVio AT AiExneRIM-May l8th-StMagnus, Nisbot, Luith, goods; St Chir, Sutherland, Ler- wick, do.; Alexander lirio, Michio, D)undee, do.; , rathije, Winchester, Methil, coals* St Lawrence, Graent, iort Erioll, light ; Agricola, Lees, put back, stones Spray, Sharp, Burntisland, coias rCltlic, Pirie, 1-eninetpans, coals, Argyll, Roid, Lerwick, goods. Smni'.N-May 1Sth - ...