The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-04-17 00:00:00

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Lewerrge, April 11.—The hosiery trade is quiet
this week, the severity of the weather and the Easter
holidaya having operated against busineaa. Tbe
demand for cotton has been checked. At Hinckley and
Lou,gliburougli there is a fair amount of business doing,
and very little stock remains in the hands of the inane.
lecturers. Wools continue firm, and high figures are
yet obtained for superior sorts. Yarns are without
much alteration.

Nor'-a/4w' AN, 11th—There lias not been mud doing
in the Lox trade this week. the Easter holydays having
interfered with business generally. There is also a
return of tom...suitable weather. which will also, to
some extent, check the demand for the home market.
Most branches continue quill; the fancy department is
dull, and for plain goed* the demand has not increased.
In silk Lice there is no material change to report.
Stocki of most kinds of goods are light, and manufse•
turers are making as little aa possible while trade con•
tinuea in lin languid a state. The hosiery trade has been
quiet this week, the holidays having interrupted busi-
ness. The colt weather is also prejudicial to trade.
However, good workmen are pretty well employed.
There is no material change iu the price of yarns.

IBOXIWNGEIttf QCAUTEIRLT MEITING.—At this meet-
Mg held at Itirmiugham on Thursday the ironmongers
of this district held their usual quarterly meeting in
the Townhall, Birmingham. The attendance, though
much larger than at Wolverhampton on Wednesday,
oas comparatively small, and from the commencement
it was evident that it was to be a quiet quarter-day.
The tendency to this increased as the information be.
colon generally known that the rate of discount at the
Bank f l:ngland lied been advanced to 6 per cent. The
number of shipping firms represented in the hall was
small. end tle unfavourable item of iuformation above
referred to, seemed to strengthen the disposition of con-
sumers to withhold contracts, in the belief that prices
will recede. No retrograde movement took place in the
hall, but the transactions were on a limited scale ; sud
if thiugs remain as quiet as they are at this movement,
it is pretty certain that anise of the needy makers will
have to accept a reduction, however opposed to it au,
leading firms may be. Altogether this was the most
languid quarter-day since that of January, 1668.
At the quarterly meeting of the iron masters at
Welverliampton. on Wednesday, the quantity of iron
sold was extremely small, sod the went of animation
which marked the isitnissenocinent of the meeting pre-
vailed to the full extent to the close. Some of the
needy firms are beginning to feel toe serious degree the
etTecta of the pinch, the more especially as antimpabioes
were strong three months ago that the trade at this
time would have acquired • healthy action; instead, of
thil it is depressed in comiwrisen with its conditioe at
tlmt time, The leading firms are reported to hays
enough to keep their works going; but these ant the
esceptional eases, as there can be no doubt that the
mewed-claw makers ere badly off for orders. The must
favourable note to be maae of the meeting is, that prices
were mid not to have given way for any of the fine
qualities of finished iron.

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