The Sun.
London, England, 1846-06-29 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

FOREIGN WOOL TRADE.—LEEDS, JUNE 26.—N0 great
amount of business has been done in foreign wools this
week, the choice at present in the maket being only in-
different. We learn the prices paid at the earlier German-
fairs have been fully supported at the mere recent ones,
and the bulk of the wools had obtained a ready
sale. The continental manufacturers had, for the most
part, purchased freely, but the English dealers had
operated to a much more limited extent than in former
years. The wash is, on the 'whole, considered inferior
to that of last year.

ENGLISH WOOL MARKET.—LEEDS, JUNE 26.—There
has not been much done in sales of wool this week.
The manufacturers hold off as much as possible,
and rather lower prices have been submitted to.
WAKEFIELD WOOL MARKET, JUNE 26.—There is
again no relief to the dull state of the trade reported
for some weeks past, and many consumers being buyers
of the new clip from the growers, it has caused sales to
be more than ever limited this week.

YORK WOOL MARKET, JUNE 25. Our market
continues to be very largely supplied with wool, and
the buyers in attendance to-day were exceedingly nu-
merous. In the morning a tolerable business was done,
but a heavy rain, accompanied with lightning and
thunder, coming on at noon, and lasting for more than
two hours, nearly put a stop to the trade for the rest of
the day. Lower prices in consequence had to be sub-
mitted to, but many lots remain over until next week.
Ewe, I Is. Bd. to 12s. 6d.; hog and ewe, 13s. to 14s. per
stone of 141135.

LEEDS.—There has again been very little business
done at the Cloth Halls this week. The result of the
wool sales at Liverpool, and the sales in London next
week, will tend to settle the question of prices for the
autumn, and until then little improvement is expected.
Very few buyers have been down this week, and in con.
sequence, business has been dull in finished goods. The
foreign houses are also doing little, until they see how
prices rule.
BRADFORD MARKET, THURSDAY, JUNE 25.—The mar-
ket was in all its branches, viz., wool, yarn, and pieces,
so similar to what it has been the last two weeks, that it
is needless giving any report_ On all hands it is stated
that the new clip is of most excellent quality, and the
staplers have considerable stocks on hand. The spinners
buy very sparingly, and for immediate consumption, and
are working in great part at order, which keeps up the
prices even to the present low rate. Some manufacturers'
stocks of pieces are very heavy.
MANCHESTER, THURSDAY EvENE.va.--We have no
new feature in our cloth market to report this week; the
demand, however, is to a fair extent, but there is no life
nor elasticity in the trade. The opinion is gaining
ground that the cotton crop of 1845 was really deficient
to a considerable extent, and that the prices will be
maintained for some time to comae, so that manufacturers
and spinners will not, it is thought, find any relief by a
decline in the staple. So that low, or rather no profit,
is likely to be the order of the day for some time to come.
The home trade continues very inanimate, and probably
will now continue till after Midsummer. Yarns can be
disposed of in large quantities, but at no improvement ;
in some cases they are a little lower.
BARNSLEY.—The trade of this town is still in a de-
pressed state. The number of hands out of employ, or
partially occupied, causes considerably distress is this
neighbourhood.

LEICESTER.—There is no improvement to announce in
the demand for manufactured goods this week. Worsted
yarns remain the same. There has been but little doing
in wools, buyers holding off until the fair, which will take
place on Wednesday next.