The Sun.
London, England, 1853-06-11 00:00:00

THE WO OLLEN TRADE.

(Prom the Leal s Mercury of this day.)
The improved assort ;,ment of foreign and colonial
wools supplied from the recent London sales has caused

a little more activity in t hirOtaarket during the past weeij;
and, as many buyers had been holding back until the result
of those sales were asc !ertained, transactions have been
more freely entered into, now that previous rates have been
fully established. The I :!country manufacturers, however,
for the most part, althol igh generally well employed and
without any great mein aulation of stocks on their hands,
limit their purchases vi zy much to the supply of their
immediate wants, and hence the business done in this
market, although of alb ealthy and unspeculative charac-
ter, is not marked at lm esent by any great activity.
In the English wooit: market there has been very little
doing in sales this week ; prices are nominally the same
as last week.

• In the Liverpool w 00l market the public sales of
Buenos Ayres, East Ind ia, and otherlow wools, have beeii
tolerably well attende 1. Competition has not been so
active as of late, and in some instances rather easier
prices have been submil ;,ted to.
The woollen cloth to ide of Leeds continues about the
same as we reported la it week. There has also been a
very limited business d, me in the Cloth-hall, and we do
not hear of any deliver ies of goods, to any important
extent, direct to the w arehouses. Medium and ladies'
cloths seemed to be the , principal goods in demand in the
white market. There • is not any material difference in
the quantity of stocks.
The London wool sales terminated on Tuesday
evening. The prices v ;ith which the sales opened have
been maintained throw ;bout the series. On the last two
days there were sever al foreign buyers present, who
bought with spirit, and gave increased firmness to pre-
vious prices. The wool offered at these sales is generally
represented to be in ye ry bad condition ; a considerable
portion is in the grease , and a great deal is very burry.
Several persons who ha ,ve attended the sales for many
years, represent the we ,o 1 to be in the worst conditi on
they have seen any for ; 1 long time.
BRADFORD WORSTED MARKET..—AB may be expected
at this season of the year, there is an increasing
dullness in the trade. We.,01 is firm in price, and
lower sorts have adv !. anc•-,,d ;
for Orleans weft, and there is less demand
0 °:ner more for 46's and adjoining
numbers used in co tYourgs. More inquiries are made
for worsteds in the Lancashire market ; a fair export
trade is done in tv rofold yarns from 20's to 40's, but
single yarns for the Continent are comparatively
dull. Everything 1
,aged in the manufacture of a piece is
DOW very dear, av d
and the cor,,,,v' t.
• •potil.ng but the absence of specula-
tion,legitimate caw ,e, i hat this dearness results from
`-,s the confidence that prevails.
How far the .. of wool threatened by
the exorbitr . •Jareaso in th% -price
4 A:rairronant
will o on, is another
dr
thing. 1-
~. .t demands of tb..
ifie of reaching the highest
point it v. 00l is within :..I.` ' sty-five years, and it is re-
lative has reached for ta.6'
e farmers g , .
q tops and yarns than has
bow -Y higher to the prices . ,
• know to 0ht.414 trotMe '
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