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THETRON TRADE.

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THETRON TRADE. (From S. Griffiths's Iron Trade Circular.) WOLVERHAMPTON, SEPT. 28TH, 1861. The Iron Trade of South Staffordshire.—The preli- minary meeting of the ironmasters took place at Dee's Royal Hotel, Birmingham, on Thursday last, Mr. Philip Williams, the chairman of the Association in the chair. The meeting was not so largely attended as the Stewpony meeting; nevertheless the principals of most of the leading firms were there. The business done was simply to confirm the present price of bars, which rules X7 at the works. The trade was considered in a more satisfactory condition, pig iron being worth 2s. 6d. per ton more than it was at the close of the last quarter. The leading houses appear to be well supplied with orders, and a better feeling generally prevailed. 11 21 Although there are now evident symptoms that a change for the better is coming over the Iron Trade, we are certainly glad that prices are not to be altered this quarter-day. It seems to be generally believed that, at all events, things cannot be worse than they have so long been, and that with cheap money there is some well grounded hope of improvement. A low rate of discount and an abundance of capi- tal seeking employment, will doubtless give an oppor- tunity for launching many enterprizes which have been kept back, and the Iron Trade cannot fail to be benefitted thereby. A sale of 3,000 tons of the best mine pigs took place on Wednesday last, to a wealthy manufacturing house at Moxley. The official list of Staffordshire finished iron is as follows:—Common Staffordshire bars, X7 at the works best bars, £8; sheets, X8 10s.; doubles, £ 10; nail sheets, 48; latten, XII 10s. boiler plates, X8 10s.; best and best best in proportion common rods, X7 hoops, XS; gas strip, £7 10s.; Canada plates, -P I I 10s., and all other sorts in pro- portion. Second and third-class makers are selling below these rates. The Glasgow Market for Scotch Pigs.-There ap- pears to have been no movement of any mark dur- ing the past week. The price has kept steadily at 50s. 4!cl. to 50s. 9d. Shipments are still small com- pared with the same time last year last week they were 9,177 tons against 13,990 tons. This feature appears to have rather disccouraged that section of the Glasgow market who have struggled to maintain the price against every opposition which dull trade and political distrust have lately presented. The time for buying Scotch pigs will come, but we don't think it has arrived yet, The Board of Trade Returns for August issued yesterday, exhibit a decline of XI,197,764, or 9 per cent., in the exports for that month as compared with August, 1860. The decrease is considerable, but not greater than might have been anticipated frem the adverse influence which the civil contest in North America is exercising on trade. Comparing the total amount of the exports with August, 1859, or with any previous year, there is, however, an in- crease. For the eight months with which August ends the total exports are zCS2,575,126 I a decline of X.5,502,766, or fully 6 per cent, from the correspond- ing period of last year and of nearly four millions from the exports of the first eight months of 1859.

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