The Sun.
London, England, 1851-01-04 00:00:00

THE CLOTHING MANUFACTURES.

WOOL TRADE —LONDON, JAN. 2.—There has been a
steady business doing in most descriptions, and the
market "firm. The imports of wool into London during
the weekending to day have been 755 bales, of which
681 well, from Taganrog, 45 from France, 24 from Ger-
many, and 5 from Madras.
ENGLISH WOOL TRADE.—LEEDS, JAN. 3.—There
has bean a fair amount of business done this week, and
prices continue to have an upward tendency.
LIVERPOOL WOOL MARKET, JAN. 2.—Very few
buyers in the market, as usual at this season. Not much
offering, and prices firm. Imports the past week:-220
bales Donskoi, 5 Gibraltar, 2,016 Alpaca from Islay, 6
Buenos Ayres, and 200 Spanish.
SOUTH DEVON WOOL MARKET.—The demand for
yolk wool continues brisk, and most of the small lots
have beon sold. The great holders, who are the princi-
pal landowners and agriculturists, stand out for
,advanced

prices, and yolk wool during the last week advanced to
81 per lb. It is certainly cheering to state that all
workpeople have full employment, end previsions con-
tinue plentiful and cheap.
TRADE OF LEEDS. —Tuesday being the last day of
the year, and requiring the attendance of the merchants
in their own warehouses and counting-houses, caused
the attendance in the Cloth Halls to be very limited;
consequently the business done has only been small, and
the market generally was quiet and inactive.
STATE OF TRADE.—MANCHESTIR, JAN. 3.—We have
had a better demand since Tuesday, with increased firm-
ness. The causes which then combined to depress the
market were somewhat checked by the arrival of the
Arctic, with accounts of cotton having recovered ic, to
;lc., and holders not offering. The bareness of stocks,
and heavy contracts held by both spinners and manufee•
Carers, also prevented any giving way. The general
tone is that of extreme healthiness, and producers are
sanguine of a further improvement. Some spinners
have orders extending over March. In goods, 40-inch
shirtings and the different makes for home trade pur-
poses are scarce, and more difficult to buy. Messrs. Da
Fay and Co., in their annual circular, show a falling off
in the exports of last year, compared with 1849, of
27,500,0001 b. of yarn and 46,000,000 yards of plain
goods. In the former the decrease has been divided
chiefly between Holland, Russia, Turkey, and India. In
the latter there has been a falling ell to Turkey and the
lonian Islands of two-thirds; wore than a fourth to the
Brazils, and a fifth to Gibraltar and Spain. There has
b-en an increase in printed and dyed cottons of
36,000,000 yards; 20,000,000 of which have gone to
India. The excess to the latter quarter is supposed to
have arisen from the satisfactory sales of produce. Ii
may also be partly accounted by the high price of the
raw material, making the common and heavier qualities
relatively dearer, and will explain the depressed condi-
tion of these goods both here and in America during the
past year. The working classes-are in full employment,
and possess greater comforts and enjoyments. It is
satisfactory also to observe a good feeling between them
and their employers.

BRADFORD, JAN. 2.—Wools—The year opens with
great firmness in price for all kinds of combing wools,
and the transactions are not animated. Yarns are in
steady request, equal to the production, and firns in
price. The business doing is chiefly for the home trade,
so that any orders given out for shipping may give a
further improvement in prices. Pieces—The advanced
price of yarns compels the manufacturers to seek higher
prices fur goods, and the business doing is at an im-
provement of last month.

- NOTTINGHAM TRADE.—Lace—The past week having
been principally devoted to holiday. making, but very
little business has been done; but now that the merry-
making is ended, persons who intend sending goods to
the Great Exhibition are setting themselves earnestly to
work to prepare for that purpose; and, from all we
hear, this trade will in nowise be behindhand in this
great work. Hosiery—There is scarcely any change 40
note in the various branches of this trade. The export
trade still continues to a fair extent, and the prospect
of demand for spring goods for the home trade is very
flattering. We sincerely hope the trade of this year
will prove as beneficial to all employed in it as the last
was.—Nottingham Journal.