The Sun.
London, England, 1846-02-23 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

FOREIGN WOOL TRADE, LEEDS, FEB. 20.—We have
no change to report in the foreign wool market this
week. Sales have been somewhat limited, as many
buyers are wishing to learn the result of the London
sales before operating.
ENGLISH WOOL MARKET, LEEDS, FEB. 20.—Sales
of combing and clothing wools this week have not ex-
ceeded the quantity required by the manufacturers for
immediate use. Prices are stationary.
LEEDS.—The markets both on Saturday and Tuesday
have been very dull ; little has been done except in
low tweeds for the German markets. Fine and middle
cloths have been in very little demand, and low cloths
not so brisk as they were a few weeks ago. Prices con-
tinue pretty steady, and the stocks in the manufac-
turers' hands are very moderate. Business has also
been very dull in the warehouses this week ; the few
buyers who have been in the town have made their pur-
chases very sparingly.
lIECKMONDWIKE BLANKET MARKET, FEB. 19.
There has only been a thin attendance of merchants
this week, and not much business transacted, but prices
are about the same as they have been for the last few
weeks. Noils and shorts suitable for blankets are very
scarce, owing to the manufacturers at Bradford working
such' short time.

WORSTED.—BRADFORD, THURSDAY.—The demand for
all kinds of combing wool, both Colonial and British.
rides heavy, and a general disinclination to buy, except
upon the lowest possible scale compatible with the pre-
sent diminished consumption, prevails. Nods and brokes,
from the small quantity making, continue firm. The
trade in yarns is yet very discouraging, and the operations
of the spinners, who are acting on the defensive, continue
to be on a liberal scale. This is telling upon the accumu-
lated stocks. The quantity now on hand is not heavy ;
and this, with the peaceful intelligence from America,
and the prospect of an early alteration in our restrictive
laws, would augur in favour of increased activity. There
have been rather more inquiries to-day for piece goods,
and on the whole more business was done ; and in most
kinds of dress goods, the stocks are not heavy, and
prices remain without alteration.
MANCHESTER THURSDAY EVENING.—WO have had
a most dull and inanimate state of things in our cloth
market this week—a state of things for which it is dif-
ficult to account, seeing that all parties deem the corn-
laws as already doomed. There are those who fancy, how-
ever, that the drapers in the agricultural districts are now
purchasing, and will continue to purchase, much more
moderately for some time to come, until the atmosphere
is a little more clear than it is at present. The dulness
pervades every department of the cotton trade, except
the spinning branch, and even this is far from being
lively—indeed prices are giving way.
NOTTINGHAM.—The cotton hosiery trade in nearly all
the principal branches whether wrought or cut, keeps
still slowly retrograding, and employment scarce. The
silk glove trade has felt the approach of spring, and
in some quarters there is a want of hands. The
bobbin net trade, on the contrary, though we are nearly
in (what was formerly) the busy month of March, is, if
anything, worse and more stagnant than ever.—Netting-
ham Review.