The Sun.
London, England, 1855-06-20 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

MANCHESTER, June 19.—The quiet and languid state
of the Liverpool cotton-market has again operated un-
favourably on the sale of yarn and cloth, and the business
h...s been very limited. In all cases where sellers have
not been willing to make considerable sacrifices buyers,
both for home trade and export, have steadily held
aloof. In yarns lower prices have very generally been
submitted to, but the offers made to them are generally
so much below the concessions they are willing to make
that but a small trade has been effected. Export houses
that had purchased stocks of yarn at low rates before the
late considerable rise took place have to some extent
made matters more difficult for spinners, by taking ad-
vantage of their present position and reselling at home
in preference to waiting until they can find a market on
the continent. In this state of things prices are very
irregular, and the market has been a very unsatisfactory
one. Prices of goods are receding much more rapidly
here than those of cotton at Liverpool, especially in
cloth ; and where manufacturers have been disposed to-
day to force sales, they have to submit to a reduction
in some cases of 6d. per piece for the common shirtings
from the highest price touched a fortnight ago. To
continue working at this rate, and with the pros-
pects before them, producers must soon incur
very serious losses, and it will be learned without much
surprise that spinners and manufacturers are at length
stopping their mills at once without waiting for concert
among their neighbours. In the list of names mentioned
to-day of persons who were taking this course were three
concerns in Stockport who had given notice to their
work-people that their mills would be stopped altoge-
ther. A manufacturer and spinner in the northern part
of Lancashire has taken a similat: course, while other
producers are resorting to short time.
Messrs. John Slagg and Co. report as follows upon
the cloth-market :
" From the date of our last report to the close of the
week the market continued in a more inactive condition
than we have experienced for some years ; and as con-
-tracts have been running out, and stocks beginning to
accumulate, prices have gradually receded, and are now
from 2 to 5 per cent. below the rates asked a fortnight
ago, but at which very few sales were made. To-day
there have been large speculative offers made at low
prices for India goods, but we think they have not re-
sulted in much business."
MesErs. George Fraser, Son, and Co., say :
"Th ere has been a flat depressed market to-day, with
a more decided tendency to lower prices both in goods
and y,l,rns."

LEEDS, JUNE 19.

The woollen cloth•markets here to-day have been
steady, 1)oth as to demand and price, and a full average
amount (if business has been done. The general tone of
the trade is as cheerful as can be expected, but the chief
dmand i 3 still for home consumption, neither the state
of the No rth American nor the Australian markets yet
offering a•ty temptation to send goods to them, and the
war actin, gas a check to our exportations to several
parts of Europe. Though very little is doing for the
United Stbs tes, the last reports of the state of commer-
cial affairs the are of a somewhat favourable character,
and we ma:y er
look for an opening soon for our woollen
goods in the transatlantic markets.
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The return. 3 of the Bank of France for the past month
are again unfavourable, and present a further diminution
in the bullion of 930,0001., making a total falling off of
1,700,0001. witkiin the past two or three months. At
the same time there has been an increase in the note cir-
culation of 1,300,41001. The other items of the account
show that the deposits have fallen off 860,0001., that the
discounts have remained stationary, and that the ad-
vances on semities have increased 200.0001.
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