... COmm a AND ONETARBY, - Xtjt A do d Ire,,,3 [From a m - .- ?? Evenig. ted reduction of the Bank rate to 5 Th t 'Wpa de to.day, but it was not followed per cent- w rna 0flent in the demand for money, hysnmuch imPr~ Of the open market having been wing to the mt ven less thn 5 per cent. The f or ?? day5oat~ this afternoon was 4i to 4* most Thene interest allowed for deposits is nowv p'er coat> ...

... BIRMINGHAM SHARE LIST.-SATU~AXDY. Amt. Pd. COMPANIES. Done, RAILWVAYS. Buy. I Soll. ORDfINARtY. 10 9 irm. W. Suburb 1 dis. Stock 10 Londoll and North-West. - Stock 100 Dhitto,B,,WV. and ?? - - Stocli 100 Midland ?? Stock 100 Ditto, Dr, and D*eriy. - Stock 100 North Staffordebira ?? Stock 100 Slropshire ?? . 20 20 JStratfordl-on- ..vvon ?? 221 _ Stock 100 L. & N. AV Trf. (S. Staf.) 054 08 10 10 ...

... M ARKETS. MANCHESTER CORN M.ARKET, Yefterday.-There was a fair demand far foreign wheat, bringing 4d. to Gd., and red 2d. to 3d. per centol over last week's rates. English sold at fully previous pricos. Flour must be quoted Cd. to Is. persack higher, but onlya limited business doing. Oats firm. Beans rather dearer. Maize asain advanced Gd. per quarter. BANBURY CORN MARKET, Yesterday.-There was ...

... LON'DOW -GAZETTE. F'romr Lmat Night's (Gaettej BANKRUPTS. *Joseph Lazarus, D8, Whitechapel Road, London, rag merchant. John Jordan, Devonshire Dalry, Trecn Lane, Stoke Newing- ton, Middlesex, dairyman. Samuel Hodson, Ramsey, county of Huntingdon, farmer. James Ainsworth, Manchester, publisher. Jarris Criekmore. Bungay, county of Suffolk, coal dealer. LIQUIDATIONS-BY ARRANGEMENT. George -rlgge ...

... I;| [From our City Correspor'lent.] LONDON, Thursday Evening. The Bank rate was advanced to-day to 4 per cent. The 3 per cent rate. had prevailed five weeks, and the discount demand Alas of late been barely able to maintain even this, and -the return published this evening shows no change of imporcance. The reserve is 44L30 per cent. of the liabilities as against 44f last week.* The object of ...

... BE EDWARD PYNE LANE. PUBLIC EXAMINATION OF THE BANKRUPT. Yesterday morning, at the office of Mr. Brabazon Camp- bell, Jury Street, Warwick, Edward Pnle Lane, bankrupt, was brought up from Warwick Gaol, under a writ of habeas corpus, for public examination respecting the state of his affairs. The meeting was held by appointment, of which due notice was given at the recent County Court, held in ...

... :btatR a his wifo went out, an o r aseI 'eorge Bird ain disit- Oni Idnifing that hist1.,rniusd sd it, plaintiff tefit to Bird's house an sed i explaud. tion. Bird still adhered to his opinion thatth uds- had been taken by. someone next door, end plaintit saJ he would makeil him prove his words On - ack itito his house; Geoorgo knbeked hin i -wn kicked himi. (orge also fell upon him as 1 a teo ...

... LOiNDON CoRsT MARKET, Yoetesdav.-There was a heavy arrival of foreign wrhoat last week, and a light one of oats, other supplies being moderate. Entgliish wheat 5,510 quarters. foreign 50,8213 quarters, Eanorts 9.806 quarters. The show of ?? on ?? and Kentsish stands was limited, and much in bust poor condition. Really line and dry parcels were held at Is. nore money. (cut it wassmot readily ...

... GENE RAL NEWS. |PR'ISS tSS)CtlttflN 'e;stxtS.f Cotton statistics for the week ending October 23 ?? ports, 22,l566i bales; exports, 1.5,014 bales, Mr. Salisbury has withdraw-n from his candidature for the Mlint lurghs, in favour oi Sir R. Cunliffe, the present mnem ter. The funeral of Dr. Candlish took place yesterday, in Calton Burying Ground, Edinburgh. The procession vwas nearly a mile long. ...

... YESTERDAY'S M kRKETS. MIANCIHEISTIER CORIN 3IARETE'. - English wheat was dinicul -if sale, only the ilhle:st samnpleas nialittrilsis g last week's prices. Foreutrl weas an si in lioited retpist, tiaid declinied 2d. per rental. l lour neglected, and ld. par sack celiaper. 11n oats no change: Beans were held with more firiluess. Maize Is. per quartet lower. }3Af trl'l CORXL MARICET.-Tlie show of ...

... ,NEW PATENTS. (Contrilbutfrs by; Mr. 7eorqs Shaw.) The following Patents were scaled during tito week ending January 25S, 1874: Henry lRogers, of tlss firrm of Henry lRogers, Sons, and Co., Wohverhampston, ?? in cutnails. [)atied September S. 1273. ( oninctosfo f ~ultlad fCnd. William C. Stiff, Birmoiurbans, impjrovctmcnt3 in isaclilnery for drilling or boring iron andl steel. Dated November ...

... THE SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRnI MINES DRAINAGE SCHEME. On Friday, Mlessrs. G. Al. Dowdeswell, C. T. Hawks- lay, and J. T. Woodhouse, the arbitrators under the Act, held a public meeting in the WVolverhampton Town Hall, to consider the division into districts of the drainage area created by the Act, and lying south of Bentley Great Fault, but excluscre of the Old Hlill district. Mr. 1f. GUderhill ...