The Sun.
London, England, 1837-04-10 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

• (From the Leeds Illercury.)
TRADE OF LEEDS. —Since our last remarks we are unable
to report any favourable alteration in the woollen trade. The
sales in the cloth halls have been uncommonly limited, and we
think the same observation, although not perhaps in so strong
a degree, applies to the warehouses.

HUDDERSFIELD MARKET.—There has been about the same
amount of business done in the cloth hall as last week, without
any material alteration in prices. Business in general is flat.
BRADFORD MARKET.—«'e cannot make a more favourable
report of the piece-market to-day ' • the same flatness still con-
tinues. As comparatively little business has been done we
cannot quote any alteration in prices since last week.
HALIFAX MARKET.—We are not enabled to announce any
improvement in the demand for stuff goods. Lastings have
been offered to-day at rather low prices, but have met with few
buyers. The yarn market remains in the same dull state as
noticed in our last, with little or no variation in prices. There
is not much business doing in the wool market; there is a
moderate demand for good hog and wether wools, which main-
tain their prices within a shade. There is a further reduction
in the value of short wool and noils.

HECKMONDWIKE MARKET.—The market here remains very
flat, and although a few more merchants appeared to-day,
yet only very little business was done, and prices are looking
down.

WAKEFIELD WOOL-MARKET.—The trade continues very flat
and inanimate, and we can report few sales in either long
or short wools this week ; although prices remain nominally
the same, no doubt holders would submit to a reduction from
late quotations, were consumers to come forward to purchase
to any extent.
PUBLIC SALE OF SILK IN MANCHESTER.—The wishes of the
silk-dealers and manufacturers in this town and neighbourhood
have been for some time expressed, that the importers of raw
silks would establish a market in this town, inasmuch as the
greater part of the silk imported into England is thrown and ma-
nufactured in the district. In compliance with their wishes
Messrs. Bindloss and Preston, silk-brokers, have prevailed upon
the importers of recent arrivals of silk from Bengal and China to
offer upwards of 600 bales for unreserved public sale. This sale
took place yesterday in the theatre of the Mechanics' Institution
(which furnished a most commodious sale room), Mr. Preston
officiating as auctioneer. The attendance of dealers, throw-
sters, and manufacturers, was very large ; and, notwithstand-
ing the depressed state of the trade, nearly the whole of the
silks offered were sold. Though the prices, as compared with
those of the preceding sales, were very low, we believe they
were generally about five per cent. higher than those previ-
ously realized by private sale.
ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET.—The Market to-day has
been extremely dull, and the few pieces that have been sold
are at three to four shillings a couple lower than last week.
In wool there has been little or nothing doing, and its price
has undergone no variation.
THE MANCHESTER TRADE.--The feeling in the Market
yesterday, we regret to say, was very gloomy, and prices were
somewhat lower. Neither in goods nor in yarns_ were any
symptoms of amendment perceptible. Amidst all this flatness
and decline, however, it is a great subject of congratulation,
that hitherto we have bad in this town so few failures. Two
were spoken of yesterday; the one a very old, though not very
extensive, calico printing-house ; the other an establishment
of somewhat recent formation, as spinners and power-loom
manufacturers.