The Sun.
London, England, 1869-12-16 00:00:00

b7:.1 T E C.,1,' TRADE.

MANCHESTER, Dec. 14.—The market generally
continues inactive, as at the close of last week, but
values are well sustained. Shipping yarns are very
strong to-day, and a large business has been done
in some counts and qualities, for which full prices
have had to be paid where spinners could insure
early delivery. Some transactions have been entered
into at last Tuesday's prices for more distant deli-
very. Prices close strong fur all descriptions of ex-
port yarns.! For home trade yarns there is a stea,,ly
market, at Friday's extreme rates, but only a small
amount of business has been effected. For cloths
prices have been well sustained during the week,
but the inquiry has not been very large. For the
moderatequantities of goods that have been inquired
fur with early delivery manufacturers have been
compelled to ask an advance commensurate with the
increased cost of yarn and cotton. 'This advance
buyers have:not been willing to-pay. To-day there
is a fair inquiry, and offers have been made for
nearly all classes of India shirtings (especially the
wider makes), but the firm position of the yarn
market combined with the engagements of producers
have served very much to strengthen quotations,
and to increase values to a degree at which opera-
tors are not inclined to purchase. The transactions
of the day in cloth, therefore, have not been large,
but the market closes with very great firmness.
Messrs. John Slagg and Co. report of to-day's cloth
market :—" Since Tuesday last our cloth market
has been firm, but buyers have declined to pay any
advance proportionate to the increased price of
yarns. To-day there is a fair inquiry, especially
for the wider inches of shirtings, but the prices
asked stop business, and makers aro too well en-
gaged to entertain lower offers."
LEEDS, 14th.—The markets in the cloth-halls

to-day have been much the same as those of the
last few weeks. The-buyers present were chiefly
those of local firms, who purchavd to but a small
extent. Two or three Bradford houses were re-
presented, but they were rather lookers-on than
buyers. A few winter goods, ordinary plain cloths,
and fancies for spring changed hands, but the ag-
gregate bulk which left the halls after the markets
was scarcely so great as last Tuesday. There
was no change in prices, except in the case of a
few job lots. There are two local failures in the

trade with heavy liabilities. One is that of Messrs
H. F. Jorss and Co., and the other is that of
Messrs. Nicholls and Co. The former house has
been extensively and solely engaged in the export

trade. The transactions of the latter firm have
been those of woollen manufacturers at Mor-
ley and merchants in Leeds, doing a home
trade. Meetings of creditors in both cases will
shortly be held, when the affairs will be gone
into, their books being at present in the hands of
accountants.

ROCHDALE, 13tb.—The flannel trade keeps in a
somewhat languid state, though moderate sales
have lately been effected, and manufacturers are
rather restricting than increasing their power of
production. To-day the markets were of a quiet
orthr, there being less than an average number of
buyers present, who purchased only small selec-
tions of phan and fancy goods. The Yorkshire
goods trade also keeps quiet, and the same may be
said as to wools, but prices of both boots and the
raw material are steady.

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