... TRADE OF THE TOWN AND DISTRICT, BIRMINaITiAM, Friday Evening. TIEr accounts from Lancashire relative to the state of trado in that quarter continue to be unsatisfactory, and there is eufficiest that is unfavoerablo to excite uneasineas. The spinners art diminishing their production, the markots are in an unsettled state, and several fresh failures on the Preston side have been reported within ...

... ,Jhc chango to settled dry weatber, which has now ls tad a fortnight, has just come in time for the hay crop, *a great deal of which has boon secured in very fair order. But much of the wheat has come out into bloomn at a very ungenial time, for it hna been observed that the tempera- ture of the night following the longest day this year did not exceed that of the night of the shortest in 18118 ...

... YESTERDAY. AE ?? ?? CObIriLNIS. 'Bupera-Sel-&ra SATZ% _-i _ BA IL WAY. Greet Western. CErcat ?? LaAu S; D. Bedditch -- .. Severn ?? Stourbrid D ?? Ditto ?? Wellington and Severn Junction ?? CANAL. Birmingham ?? . ?? Warwick and Birnmingbam. Worcester and Birmingham .. . BANIL Blrmingham, Limited . ?? Blrminghsm .Tnint-Stook, Limited Birmingham Townt and ?? Birminghiam end Mlidland .. IDurley ...

... BiRMINGNAmty, Friday Evening. THE commercial advices from ?? manufacturing districts are of a very routine character this week, in those localities Whitsuntide is observed more as a holiday than it is in some other localities, and a general suspension of business for a few days is the consequence. Bat reports from producers of every class are much to the same effect- it is that they are doing ...

... Tlc brilliancy ud poweor of the past week's ?? has made the harvcst pretty well assured throughout tho length and breadth of the land aoud by the flrit instalauentc of tho new corn we are be- ginnil'g more fully to becoma acquainted with it, Portions were on toe several etands at Mark Line all though the week, and ?? eomo loti were well In hand, there was mucb more that ...

... YBSTlKiDAY. ICLOSING PRIISE COOMPANIES. Buyers-Scleks. BSA. a A 1 L W A Y. ounOIriAp.V London Brighton, and South Coast.. 47 - 47j London and North-Western. - 124* Ditto, Birm., Wol, & Stous Valley 77 - lltetropolitan . - 82 811 LSXD. Stour Valley .. .. .. - 18.- South Staffordshire . - ?? 04- Stourbridge Extension.. - 8S GUARANTEED. Gt. Western Mfrm Gnar. 8X per cant. 72j- Ditto, ditto, Pref. ...

... LoNDoN Conxi YIARiIET, Yesterday. - The grain 89 trad eat MakLane to-day has been In aquiet t stae, and the quo- 77 tattoos have had adroopingtendency. Modrate supplios of Rug- Halh wheat bavo been on asale. and there han been a good show ofM foreign. Tho demsand bas boon inactivo, and forced Sales could St only be concluded on lower teems. There was a fair supply of barley on the stands. Only ...

... THE BEAVY FAILURE IN THE BOOT AiND BROS TRADE AT DUDLBY, Yesterday, at the Dndley Po.lce Court, Jacob Lesser (32), boot and shoe dealer, High Street, BDrerlsy Hill, and Janet Lesser (50),Varna Rod, Birmingham, were charged, in company with Berman Lesser (not in 4ustodyh with conepiring together, contrary to the provlslons of the Bankruaptoy Act, to remove goods exceeding In value £10., in ...

... ?? cur City Correspondea&] LoNDON, Tuesday Evening. A wet and unfavourable day has proved unpro- pititous for business, anld comparatively little has been done upon the Stock Exchange in the way of entering into frosh engagements. One of the features of the day was a further rise of £1. in the shares of the Alliance Bank, the improvement being attributable to 1 the transfer of the business of ...

... LONDON CORN MARKET, Yesterday.-More firmness wag apparent on the Corn Exchange at Mark lane to-day, and the business done was on a larger scale, there being enquiries on French account. There were only limited supplies of English wheat on sale, but the receipts from abroad were somewhat ex- tenaive. Sales In all descriptions were effected freely, and prices had an upward tehdency. In barley ...

... . LoNDoN CoRN MAxRET, Yesterdly. - Wheat: The grain trade to-day was dull, and prices were exceedingly weak. There wore only limited supplies of English wheat on offer, but from abroad the receipts were moderate. In all descriptions sales were effected slowly, at the reduced rates curent on Mon- day last. Barley changed hands quietly, at about late rates. Malt was dull, on former terms. Osts : ...

... GREAT WESTERN RALLWAY. The report of the direotors of this company has just been issued. It states that the trafle receipts for the past half.i'ear show a substantial Increase over the receipts for the half-year ending the 31st January, 187L, In the fol- lowing table the comparison of the receipts and expendli ture on revenue account is presented in the usual form - RECEIPTS. 1872. 1871. ...