The Sun.
London, England, 1855-09-29 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

(Front the Manchester Guardian of this day.)

MANCHESTER, Sept. 28.—Our reports have latterly
exhibited a progressively increasing dullness of trade,
which has now attained a pint at which the great
body of buyers suspend all operations that are not impe-
rative. This we might naturally expect to be the case
with prudent men, under monetary circumstances which
have compelled the Bank of England to advance the
rate of interest three times in the course of four weeks.
In the present week the buyers have had an advantage/of
most things as compared with last week : but that ad-
vantage is hardly a quotable one. As values are not
subjected just now to anything like a test, the safest
way is to avoid details and to deal only in general state-
ments. Since this decline commenced, yarns may be
broadly stated to have lost fully id. per lb. on an ave-
rage of the middle and lower counts ; while in goods,
the giving way is scarcely so much as that, but may be
represented by lid. to 3d. per piece upon shirtings and
madapollams.
BRADFORD, Sept. 27. Wool : The market is now
well supplied with all combing wools, and for which the
rates of the past two or three weeks are steadily main-
tained. Yarns : The contracts for the corning month
cannot be made on easier terms than for the one near
ending. The demand for spools continues equal to the
production. In reeled yarns there is more doing,
with no stocks on band. Pieces : There is a satis-
factory amount of business doing in the warehouses, and
in grey goods. The supply is nut greater than the de-
mand, but there is great complaining about prices.
LEICESTER, Sept. 27.—Having been holiday time there
is nothing fresh to remark upon, except that the cessa-
tion of Government orders has produced a stoppage of
some machinery, and a flattening in the demand for
worsted and lamb's-wool yarns. Wools retain their
value, but are not so much sought after.

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)

COVENT GARDEN.

We were heavily supplied with fruit and vegetables.
The trade ruled steady, at full prices.
FRUIT.—Pine apples, English, 3s to Gs per lb; colonial
do., is to 3s each ; hot-house grapes, is 6d to 4s Od per lb ;
foreign ditto, Od. to Os Od ; melons, is Od to 5s each;
peaches, is Od to Gs ; nectarines, is Od to 4s per dozen ;
apples, is Od to 3s Od per half sieve ; pears, is Oil to
3s per half sieve ; Orleans plums and green gages is to 2s
per punnet ; apricots, 6d to 2s Od per doz. ; common plums,
2s 0 1 to 4s per half sieve; cherries, 2d to 6d per pound;
lemons, 4s to 8s Od per 100 ; oranges. 8s to lls per 100; fil-
berts, 5s to Gs per doz. lbs ; cobnuts, Os to Os ; almonds,
Os to Os per lb. ; walnuts, 6d to 10d per 100 ; figs, l s Gd
to 4s Od per doz ; strawberries, Od to Od per pottle ; goose-
berries, is 61. to 2s Od per half sieve ; currants, 3s Od to
4s Od per half solve ; raspberries, 2d to Gil per pottle.
VEGETABLES.—White cabbages, Gd to is 3d per dozen;
red ditto, 2s to 5s Od per dozen ; French beans, is 3,1
to is 103. per half sieve ; brocoli, Od per bund. ; potatoes, 50s
to 95s per ton ; vegetable marrow, 4d to is per doz. ; peas,
3s to 5s Od per bushel ; broad beans, is Odto is 9d per half
sieve ; turnips, 2d to 4tl per bunch ; carrots, 4d to lid per
bunch ; cucumbers, Os Id to Os Gil each ; garlic, ed to
Os 8d per pcund ; spinach, is Od to 2s Od per sieve ;
old onions, Os to Os per bushel ; new ditto, 2s Gil to 4s
per doz. bunches; leeks, 2d to 3d per bunch ; shallots,
4cl to Gd : horse-raddish, 2s Od to 4s Od per bundle ; parsley,
21 to 3d per bunch ; celery, Os Oil to is 3d per
bunch ; endive, is 3d to 2s 3d per score ; beet, is Od to 2s
per doz. ; parsnips, Os Gil to is Od per dozen ; small
salad, 2d to 3d per punnet ; mushrooms, is 6tl to 2s Gil per
pottle ; artichokes, 4s to 6s per doz. ; cabbage lettuces,
10d to is Gd per score ; sorrel, Gd to is per half sieve ;
radishes, is to is 3d per dozen hands ; tomatoes, is to 2s
Oil per punnet ; chillies, is to is Gil per 100; Brussels
sprouts, is Od to 2s Od per half sieve ; capsicums, is to 2s
per dozen; walnuts pickling, Gd to is per 100; cauliflowers,
3s to 6s per doz.