Show WEEKLY REVIEW OF TRADE of the there aro higher prices in speculation but the business outlook is distinctly less favorable stocks are stronger and rising with oil and provision but purchases for consumption aro ao restricted that almost every important branch of manufacture feels the check and the volume of business recorded in bank clearings outside new york is smaller by six per cent than at the same time last year with a decline of over 21 per cent at new york prices of manufactured products and the chief materials tend downward so that m spite of a material advance in speculative prices since january ast 1st and in vegetables the average of all prices is a shade lower than at the opening of the year reports of injury to wheat more frequent and better sustained than the reports customary at this season evidence that the backward spring has limited sowing and the belief that the death of the german emperor will lead to war all influence the market to higher prices choat has risen 2 cents corn 2 cents pork 50 cents per barrel and lard nearly 0 o hogs 32 cents per ibs and oil 7 cents crushed sugar has been advanced a quarter but while belief in short crops is not a basis for increasing confidence in the future of business weak prices for wool especially for the grades most largely consumed indicate no improvement in the manufacture cotton in weak in tone though unchanged in price with print claths cloths selling at only 3 cents leather is not stronger and a break in prices of boots with a dragging trade and especial dalness in comans womans shoes indicates that this branch of manufacture so long more hopeful than almost any other at last feels the shrinkage in consumption reports from interior points with scarcely an exception represent the money market as fairly or fully supplied though brisk demand is noted at detroit milwaukee and denver at these points and nearly all others reporting there is more or less complaint of tardy collections but in this respect improvement is noted at kansas city and omaha at about half the cities reporting a bettor volume of trade is observed incident to improvement in the weather and heavy rail shipments eastward are clearing away the accumulation during the strikes sales of wheat have reached 59 million bushels for the week of corn 13 million bushels of oil 15 million barrels of cotton bales and of coffee bags but the aggregate of exchanges at new york has been only for the past six days the stock market lias been strong and has advanced an average of nearly 1 per share with the governments offer to purchase bonds the uncertain outlook in europe to and the great success of british refunding as the most prominent factors it may be baid that the success of the treasury in getting bonds at reasonable figures ib at least as uncertain as it was last year and that a war in europe would be apt to cause selling of many american securities held abroad nor is it a helpful thing for transporting interests if the crops this year are really to bo short as the speculation in broad stuffs believes but the abundance of currency with a shrinking industrial demand feeds the fires of all speculation the treasury after avoiding accumulation for some weeks has taken about from the market during the past week but foreign exchange though half a cent higher indicates no approach of foreign demand A decline of 26 per cent ox ports of the principal products and the fact that broad stuffs are taken to europe as ballast together with tho continued increase in imports 6 per cent over last year for april thus far show that foreign investments of capital hero cannot yet have ceased the business failures occurring throughout the country during the last seven days as reported to B cr dun co the mercantile agency today to day friday by telegraph number for the united states and for canada 18 or a total of failures as compared with last week and the week previous to the last for tho corresponding week of last year the figures were failures made up of in tho united states and 28 in canada it will be seen that he failures in canada are becoming less numerous NEW YOKE april |