The Sun.
London, England, 1853-07-09 00:00:00

STATE OF THEW-obTRADA

(From the Leeds Mercury of this day.)
LEEDS, JULY B.—There has been nothing in the state
of the woollen market this week indicative of any change
of consequence. The trade continues good. On Satur-
day, the markets were brisk and buoyant, and an ex-
cellent business was done in nearly all kinds of goods of
a saleable character adapted for the season ; and on
Tuesday, although the general tone of the market was
flat and quiet, yet there was somewhere about an ave-
rage business done when the goods were taken out of
the Cloth-halls. There has been a fair steady trade
done in the warehouses this week. Neither the ship-
ping nor the home trade is at all brisk, but in each
there is a moderate business doing, so that, on the
whole, there is about an average trade doing for the
season of the year.

The London wool sales are advertised to commence
on the 14th inst. There are 58,000 bales to be offered,
as at present advertised. Probably this quantity may
be further augmented by future arrivals. This is a large
and important sale, and the quantity already advertised
will form more than an average sale. In the present
unsettled and critical state of affairs in the East it is
extremely uncertain how the prices may go ; scarcely
any person expects they will go higher than last sales;
a more prevalent opinion is that the tendency will be to
recede a little, in consequence of the uncertain state of
the Eastern question.
HIIDDERSVIELD.—In woollens of medium quality s
fair average business has been done. In low class goods
there has been a good demand in the Cloth Hall, some
heavy parcels have been sold ; also fair orders given for
goods of low make, which are chiefly made by the small
makers or clothiers in the villages round about, as Long'
wood, Golcar, and Batley, &c. Most of them are very
busy, in fact they never were in so prosperona a state
at present. We have had some few foreign buyers, but
they have not made any heavy purchases. Most of the
goods have been bought by shipping houses in the towel
who are generally very busy.
'BRADFORD.—The season of the year and the en'
certainty occasioned by the Turkish affair, are pro•
ducing a continually increasing depression. Eng'
lish wool has durirg the past week fallen 15s. pet
pack ; and all hold off from buying as much as they can*
A corresponding state of things exists in the yarn market/
in which parties wait for a further reduction. In pieces,
most is doing to fulfil existing contracts. But though
the fear of war produces so much embarrassment, we
don't hear any other sentiment expressed than that
Russian encroachment must be resisted at whatever cost.
LEICESTER.—The demand for worsted goods at this
season is usually dull, and the shipping orders being
nearly completed, but little is doing in common sorts.
Work is plentiful and wages firm. Cotton hose still
continues in request. Worsted yarns have experienced
a decline of one halfpenny per lb., and are only
purchased for immediate wants. In wools but little is
doing, and our market generally is much affected by the
uncertain state of the political atmosphere ; it is thought
if the affairs of Turkey were settled, wools would imme-
diately again have an upward tendency, but at present
the utmost caution is used, and speculative purchases are
at an end.