WEEKLY TRADE REVIEW DUN co in their trade report for the week ending april 18 1891 say that there is a visible improvement in trade and collections the outlook is good crop prospects are excellent monetary pressure is disappearing at lauy points and there is a brisker de maud mand in many industries the coke strike question la in not settled the morocco workers at lynn have compromised ased and the demand for eight hours in the building trade is being granted in many cities the agitation relating to the uni real demand for eight hours by the miners goes on it is thought however that they cannot command the whole strength of the trade the shrinkage in the iron trade output is very great greal but stocks unsold are now being reduced and idle furnaces will soon start up again wool is dull boston wes sales being but pounds tor the week but old supplies are well nigh exhausted and until the new clip cornea comes forward much activity is not dot to be expected there is a strong demand for dress goods but mens wear woolens are still weak in speculative markets there has been a general advance in bread breadstuffs stuffs hogs hoffs and lard a decline in oil and no change in cotton and coffee larger export demand and reports of scarcity abroad have lifted wheat 2 cents to with sales of forty t ix million bushels in new york city and oats have risen two cents to and corn 6 to 82 on small sales the Theao actual lual scarcity of corn and oats makes au an ad advance bauce easy easy but of wheat the receipts at western ports continue larger than a year ago aud and the exports until very lately have been much smaller it is note noteworthy thal in all winter wheat sections the prospect is consid considered ergil exceptionally good and the acreage Is 19 reported arted as largely ely increased raw sugar gas has yielded a shade this week but all refined above granulated is a shade higher with bread breadstuff stuffs s and vegetables unusually high and wool about the same as a year ago cotton to is much lower drugs and chemicals lower iron and its products and the range of manufactured brodu products c ts generally rather lower notwithstanding saadi ng the expansion of more than in the circulation during the year the treasury paid out more than it took in during the week it alse issued wore more of silver notes but gold continues to be exported the rate of discount in the bank of england advanced from 3 to aj 3 per cent owing to ito ita lose 1088 of in gold the march exports I 1 in new york for 1891 were against for march 1890 the imports increased for march this year as compared with march 1890 but this is owing to sugar imports that article alone having raised the aggregate imports importe in new york by business failures for the week in the united states were and in canada 34 the corresponding week last year had failures in the united states and 33 in canada