... CORN. LONDON, Wednesday. -Business almost at a stand* still, wheat nominally unaltered, but cheaper to sell. Flour neglected barley, a slow sale oats and maise unchanged beans and peas steady, at late rates. British arrivals, nil.-Irish-Oits, 3,500 qrs. Foreign- Wheat, 2,260 qrs barley, nil :oats, 20,160 qrs; maiae, 9,330 qrs flour, 1,320 sacks no barrels. GLASGOW, Wednesday.—Fair attendance. ...

... PARTNERSHIP DISSOLVED. Joseph Alfred Nicholson and Arthur Llewellyn PearM, trading as Nicholson, Pearse and Co., at Swansea, Glafaiurganshire, and also at 37, Saint Mary Axe, London, importers of iron ore, coal agents, and swli. brokers. FIRST MEETINGS AND DATES OF PUBLIC EXAMINATIONS. Thomas Owen, 18, Bailey-street, BrVBmaWr, Brecon* shire, grocer. First meeting, Jan. 19, aoon, at official ...

... [FROM OCR SPECIAL CORRESPONPEST.) The exports of tin-plates during the twelve months ending November 30th last show a very satisfactory increase on the figures for 1884, the excess amounting, according to the Board of Trade returns, to nearly 300,003 cwt. Notwith standing this the level of values was not so high as in 1884, and was far below the average of any other year. From this it might ...

... I Lloyd's Casualty Telegrams. The British ship William, in ballast, is ashOre at Galveston, in a bad position. The British ship Ashgrove, from Liverpool for St. John, has been abandoned, waterlogged. Crew safe. The British steamer Matthew Bediington took Are at Newport, but was afterwards extinguished. Vessel and car/o much damaged. The steamer Germanic went on Egremont Beach, at Liverpool, ...

... The return of the Registrar-General for the' week ending Saturday last (9th Jan.) shows that in twenty-eight of the largest towns in England and Wales, each containing' 70,000 persons or more, and of which Cardiff is one of them, there were registered 6,239 births and 3,927 deaths. The deaths corresponded to an annual rate of 22'5. The rates of mortality in the several towns, arranged in order ...

... I. TO-DAY'S MARKETS. CATTLE. LONDON, Thursday.—Beast trade steady at late rates. Sheep less active; prices maintained with difficulty, and less money must be taken to effect a clearance. Calves very quiet. Pigs duU sale. NI ilch cows E 15 to S27 each. Beef, 3s 6d to &s mutton, 4s 2d to bs 8d veal, 3s 8d to 5s 2d pork, 2s 6d to 4s per 81bs. Beasts, 470; sheep. 2,480; calves, 90. ?fo foreign. ...

... -I st^oiears61. « » Carmarthen -6 Abergavenny IS Lampeter (Cardigan) ..11 Boncath 19- Llanarth do. 12 Cardigan — 25 Haverfordwest 12 Crynnuych ArOBS— — fjjj Newcastle Emlyn 13 Bwlchgwyn 21 Llanwenog 14 Trebedw -— *3 ...

... WEIGHTS FORfHE SANDOWN GRAND PRIZE. (Two miles, over eight hurdles. Run Wednesday, February 24th.) ys st Ib v,3 at lb Chancery a 12 4 11 0 Bolero 6 12 5 Cirrus 6 10 13 Roquefort a 12 5 Ironclad a 10 12 Serge 5 12 0 Fontenoy a 10 12 Xema n. 6 12 0 Amalti ..a 10 10 Pizarro 5 11 9 4 10 9 Adanapaar 6 11 8 Tourist 5 10 9 Queen Adelaide 5 11 7 Salami 4 10 8 Kinsky 5 11 6 Monolith 4 10 8 Royal Fern b ...

... LINCOLN SPRING MEETING. I BAT THY ANY STAKES. (Five furlongs. Run Monday, March 22nd.) ys ys ys Lacema-n a Stourwick 4 Seaton. ;) Brag. a Mearns. 3 a Cairo. 4 Sacrilege filly. 3 Glen Albyn a Monte Rosa 4 Mme. Hampton 3 Lovely ö Broxbourne 4 Ricotta 3 6 Rosy Morn. 4 Pretty Face 3 The Wrekin 5 Present Times 4 Oxford Swell.. 3 Bedouin 5 Dulcimer 4 Kawnitz 3 Kincardine 5 Yuletide 3 3 3 Scherzo 3 ...

... The State of Trade. [SPZOIAL KBPOBTS FROM OCR TRADE CORBESPOX- DKNTS AND EXCLUSIVE SOURCES, J THE TIN-PLATE TRADE. I [SPECIAL TELEGRAM.! BIRMINGHAM, Thursday.—To-day was the iron- masters' quarterly meeting. In the morning a good number of West tin-plate sellers and Liver- pool and London merchants assembled on'Change. Prominent amongst the former were Mr W. Williams, Swansea; Mr Jacobs (of ...

... CORN. f,ONOON, Friday. -Bayers of wheat are scarce, Viiees tending iower. Flour, rather cheaper to sell. Grind- ing and. maltine barley, firm. Oats and maize, slow at late rates. Beans and peas, unchanged. Arrivals —British—wheat. 160 qrs; barley, b9o qrs; oats, 180 qrs. Irish—Oats, 3,500 qjs. Foreign—Wheat, 10,770 or-, barley, nil oats, 37,420 qrs; maize, 23,910 qrs flour, 11890 sacks. ...

... FOR THE PAST WEHR. 1886. 1885. In D8. e London, Brighton,and'S C 32060^. 31731.. —~ South Eastern 292M- 31076.. —. 1322 Brecon and Merthyr l&g*- ^52- —- Rhymney 268!|- 2828- —- M* Taff Vale & Penarth Bail. 14141.. 14321.. —180 Great Eastern i-^oOO.. 53395.. 106u ,| — Metropolitan.. 12978.. 11935..1073.. Metropolitan District 8205.. 7551.. Midlandi 124620..126MI.. Lanewhireand-Yorksbdre.. ...