The Sun.
London, England, 1865-11-29 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

MANCHESTER,. Nov. 28.—Both yesterday and to-
day, and especially.yesterday, there has been a con-
siderable quantity of shipping yarns of all kinds
disposed of. Stocks have been pretty well cleared
out, and spinners have gone rather deeply under
contract. The market this afternoon, however, is
scarcely so strong as it was in the earlier part of the
day. Prices are firm at the close of the market, espe-
cially for such yarns as are ready for delivery, but
stocks of these are generally very scarce, Sellers of
home trade yarns say they have had a better market
to-day, with a fair business going on. They report
prices id. per lb. better than on Friday last. In cloth
there is no change in the market up to this morning
since Friday. There was a general disposition
on the part of buyers to give out orders
if they could only place them at slightly
more favourable rates than those demanded by
manufacturers. To-day there has been a more de- '
cided movement in this branch of the market ;
large offers have been made, and there has been a
general disposition to buy, but the firm, and in fact
advanced, position of yarns has forced upon makers
the necessity of higher quotations. To some extent
buyers are willing to give this advance. They have
been willing to give a small advance on last week's
rates, and have operated to a fair extent at such an
advance, but they have hesitated to give the full
advance required by the manufacturers to cover
the extra cost of yarn, and this has prevented the
business being so large as it otherwise would have
been. Messrs. John Slagg and Co. report of this
day's cloth market :—" Our market has been quiet
during the week, with, however, a disposition on
the part of buyers to operate at a moderate reduc-
tion on current quotations. To-day we have a
decidedly more cheerful feeling, and considerable
offers have been made at a slight advance on Fri-
day's rates. Though a fair business has been done,
the advanced prices asked for yarns have greatly
tended to check business."

LEEDS, 28th. —There was a small attendance of
buyers in the halls this morning, and they were
sparing in their purchases. Tweeds and meltons
were in moderate request, but not so much as to
give animation to the market, and most other goods,
including some heavy winter fabrics, sold in quite
retail quantities. In the open market there is little
or anything doing in spring goods, but upon such
and ordinary cloths the manufacturers are well em-
ployed. Cloth dressers, finishers, and dyers are not
quite so brisk as they were a month ago, but most
of them are working full time. Wools keep very
firm in price.
NOTTINGHAM, 28th.—There was a fair attendance
at our Exchange-hall to-day, and the demand forlace
yarns, although slow, was steady. For fine muslins
prices may be quoted a shade higher ; coarse and
medium ditto, very firm. The demand for hosiery
yarns was tolerable, and recent rates were made.
Spun silks rather dearer. For brown nets, the de-
mand was very quiet, but prices remain without
any important alteration.

ROCHDALE, 27th.—The colder weather has had
the effect which last week was anticipated, and the
country trade has rallied not a little. The ware-
houses have been more frequented by some of the
influential buyers associated with the home trade.
Their inquiries are almost altogether for fancy and
dyed goods, of which there are endless shades and
infinite patterns, adapted both for men's and other
wear. These coloured and decorated kinds have to
so great an extent superseded the " pure and simple"
flannels that scarcely any are now made to stock,
and the demand is at zero, to which point it has for
some time been rapidly declining. To-day the at-
tendance at market has been larger than of late, and
business improved somewhat in the same propor-
tion. In the transactions which took place prices
appeared to be unchanged. The heavier of the in-
ferior kinds of blankets and low woollens from the
adjoining county were in as poor request as hitherto,
but the goods of a superfine quality especially, and
some of a medium class, are much more saleable.