The business of tho week just passed has been light; owing to tho inclement weather, country trade remains quiet; and though the ucason of iho year should occasion some activity, a general want of briskness is observable. Though few transactions of any magnitude havo been carried through, and no particular article ia in full inquiry, markets havo a firm tone, and mosi staples are held for named values. BreadstufTs aro without any alteration worth noticing ; but both flour and grain appear likely to slowly "work up to better prices. Provincial flour is now at Lll 10s to Ll2, and South Austra lian, Ll4 10a. Sugars havo boffli in bat medium demand, bat the balances

of unsold cargoes are held for firm ratca. Teas arc also at maintained prices, and a few medium to good congous have bec-n placed for shipment. The town trade is not, how ever, in anticipation of. new shipment*, very brisk. English malt, which is nearly all in the bands of one holder, ia held for 12s to 12s (id. A fair pr.rcel of corosacka was quitted, for fsxport, at I 4», at a less price than whicli importers will not now make sales. The heavy items in provisions, viz.— bacon and" barns—aro not selling in nuffi clcntly largo quantities t<» give any upward impulse to tho market, and the present low raU-s for imported butter and cheese leaven no margin to shippers. Spirita generally aro firm, though no sialeß of large frits of any descriptions have transpired. Men neßsy's and Martell's pale Ibrandics are still quoted at Oh 9.1; with crwo at 28s to 28s Od. AH descriptions of building materials have been quiet, though in timber ntocks require Borting up, .Scotch flooring; nml »oine other d'.'ecrijitioiw being at firetent .ilrnoet out of the market. Dried fruila are in demand. Cur rants ara held for s<l; but fchcra ia no altcrn tion in any other article under this head. Malt liquors have had no attention. Bulk and bottled a'wi are alike dull; and stouts in glass (guaranteed), are but in slack re quest ; in the meantime prices aro main tained, and the shipment* coming forward not particularly heavy.
