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Show Tha CouimerclRl Outlook. New York, 2. The commercial situation is gradually but surely improving. More goods are going into channels of consumption tnau Jnr a long time past, and iu numerous instances prices aro tending upward, particularly where they have been too low. Tho collapso of the coal monopoly has already given an impetus to manufacturing industries, the prices of fuel now being low enough to replenish the (stock. Toe current prices of coal are from 2 lo ,30 per cent, below the highest of ih" year, at which the shrinkage on the whole anthracite region is computed to be lorty millions ofdullars, or a Iosj of 6 per cent, of the total capit.il of the leading minine and trarujiortv tion company. With a mnro settled coal market there is a steadier f-'eliiii; in coal at'jckj, nunt of which h.ivr recovered a portion of tho heavy decline of last week. The natural laws of trade aro unquestionably operating in behalf of better times. Tho heavy decline in prices during lite la-t lew years has placed all hiisine.is upon a belter basis. Prolin, if smaller, arc upon a saier basis. |