The Sun.
London, England, 1863-11-11 00:00:00

STATE OP TRADE.

MANCHESTER, Nov. 10,—For cop yarns the market has
been rather easier to-day. Sellers are asking the same pricos
as they did on Friday, but practically buyers find they have
a little advantage. This is accounted for partly by the flat
accounts to hand from the Liverpool cotton market and
partly by the uneasiness which exists respecting the money
market. In bundle yarn prices are tolerably firm, and there
has been a fair amount of business done for India, at the
final, the spinners of them being to a great extent under
extreme prices of last week. All kinds of hank yarns arc
contract. On the whole, a rather quiet market is reported,
and the aggregate business for all quarters has not been
large. In cloths there has not been much doing since
last Tuesday ; and there has not been much change to-day.
Buyers have shown but very little dispositionto operate, and
the saleshave been extremely limited. Where sales have been
effected they have mostly been made at lower prices. There is
no very great pressure to sell either on the part of the manufac.•
tutors er holders, but manufacturers in nearly all cases are
willing to make very fair concessions on the prices they re-
cently quoted for the purpose of effecting business. This
applies to the generality of India fabrics, and, indeed, to
cloths of all descriptions, with the exception of 45-inch
shirtings, which appear to keep their value better than most
other goods. Messrs. John Slagg and Co. report :—" Our
market since last Tuesday has been most inanimate, and
though there was, perhaps, yesterday a slightly more cheer-
ful feeling, the business to-day hasbeen trifling. We cannot,
therefore, test the actual decline ; but in most cases manu-
facturers would be willing to make some concessions on our
quotations." Messrs. John Ponder and Co., in their semi-
monthly circular for India, dated yesterday, say that China
shirtings (including figured and brocaded) and Calcutta
goods have been in small demand during the past fortnight.
They quote B}lb China shirtings at 21s 6d to 22s Gd per
piece, For Bombay there has been a moderate business.
39-inch Glb shirtings are quoted 16s to 16s 3d ; 71b ditto,
17s Gd to ISs 3d. 45-inch have been in good demand, and
are still wanted ; 71b command 18s 9d ; 81b, 21s Gd to 226 ;
and 91b. 25s Gd, to 25s 9d. Long cloths are quoted 2s od to
2s Gd'per lb for ordinary quality. T-cloths are quoted from
28.5 d up to 2s7id per lb, according to quality, but arc dull,
and in little inquiry. Common 40's yarns, they say, fetched
331 d yesterday, and best were quoted 36d per lb.
LEEDS, 10th.—There has been a moderate attendance Of
buyers in the cloth halls this morning, but the amount of
business done was not large, purchases being very much "in'
fined to miscellaneous lots of heavy fabrics, tweeds, and or-
dinary black cloths- Neither the export nor the home.,
trade was so brisk as wo lately had to report ; but the generale
tone of the trade is cheerful, and manufacturers are all
_ll
are
employed. Wools and other raw materials are firm
kindprice, and the same may be said as to the prices
of all
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of woollen and union fabrics. The flax trade 15 3
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with an upward ton
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Tho raw material also is very high,
advancing.
and the prices of thread, yarn, and linen keep
its consequent high
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at this Exchange-hall to-days
but the demand was quiet, xpetrrba
al;
the advanced
• rate of discount
, 10th.—rhero
causingbuyers to hold off. Con-
at the Bank of England
• sequently, only a limited business was
‘,Lone either in lace
or hosiery Yarn's' and prices were nominally unaltered,
Very little change in silks, there was rather more doing
in brown n ate and prices had a tendency to harden.
t RocanaLE, 9th.—There has been a moderate attendance
, of buyers in the flannel market to day, and they bought
freely, chiefly of heavy Pods. The finer qualities are not
selling so briskly as we lately bad to report, but some pat-
terns are in active request. The manufacturers are all well
employed, and stocks arc within a very reasonable compass
in their hands,
There is no falling off in the demand fur
Yorkshire goods,
which sell well at high prices. Other
goods, too, es also wool, keep firm in price.