The Sun.
London, England, 1867-08-21 00:00:00

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Do. Account September 10. 94

STATE OF TRADE.

MANCHESTER, Aug. 20.--We had a spiritless and
depressed market for yarns and cloths generally.
The demand has been without animation, and all
classes of goods have been almost equally difficult of
sale. For shipping yarns the market has become
quieter daily since Friday, and very little business
has been transacted. To effect sales to any extent
lower prices must be entertained. Continued unsa-
tisfactory advices from Calcutta have caused buyers
for that market almost entirely to withdraw from
negotiation for the counts and qualities of yarn
usually shipped to India. For the export market
there is only a hand-to-mouth business doing for-
ward. The market for home trade yarns to-day has
been exceedingly tame, with very little disposition
either on the part of our- own or other manufac-
turers to operate. As a natural consequence prices
are.tending in favour of buyers. In the cloth-market
the demand we reported as existing in the early part
of last week has subsided very much, and for the last
few days buyers have shown a disposition only to
operate at reduced rates—such rates, indeed, as
manufacturers have been unable and unwilling in
many instances to accede to. The consequence has
been a very restricted business. India makes of
cloth have, perhaps, more especially fallen out of
demand under these circumstances, while the better
sorts of China shirtings have in most cases more
steadily maintained or suffered less diminution in
value. To-day the cloth-market has presented ge-
nerally but a quiet and gloomy aspect, and although
sellers in their published quotations do not record
any great decline, yet we find goods of all descrip-
tions weaker in price, and that business transactions
for all markets have been not only few but for small
amounts. Messrs. John Slagg and Co. report of
this day's cloth market :—.l‘ We have to notice a
gradual falling off in the demand since last Tuesday,
and, though holders have withstood any serious re-
daction, prices are obviously less firmly maintained.
To-day our market is dull, but operations have been
on too small a scale to enable us to make any
marked change in our quotations.
CARDIFF,I9 th.—The demand for steam coal keeps
nearly the same as last reported, and slackness still
prevails to e considerable extent. Advices from the
continental markets are upon the whole less discou-
raging than they were a few weeks ago, and there
is a fair probability of an increase in the consump-
tion. The curtailment of operations at the iron
and other works, the opening of so many new
collieries, together with the extension of others, has
brought an increased quantity to market, and hence
the slackness is more felt than would otherwise be
the case. The Birkenhead traffic has somewhat in-
creased, and it is evident that there is a determina-
tion to develope this branch of the coal trade to the
fullest possible extent. Coastwise there is a fair
business doing in house qualities. Coke proprietors
complain of the scarcity of orders, and there are
rather heavy stocks at several of the works. Tin
plates are firm and the works well employed.
LEEDS, 20th.—There was a moderate attendance
of buyers in the cloth hall to-day, but the markets
were not so active a 3 last Tuesday. The goods selected
have been of a miscellaneous nature, including a fair
portion of ordinary cloths and tweeds, as well as
heavy fabrics, such as beavers, witneys, pilots, and
other over-coatings. There is no change in the
general employment of the woollen manufacturers
of the surrounding districts, most of them being
well employed, but many of them complain that
their orders on hand for future delivery are but
small. Prices are firm, those of cloth as well as
those of wool and woollen yarns.
ROCHDALE, 19th.—The flannel market has been
thinly attended to-day, and only a small amount of
business was done. The goods selected included a
fair portion of both plain and fancy flannels. About
as many Yorkshire goods, or rather more, were sold
than last week. Not much business was done in
wools. Prices of both goods and wool were steady,
being quite as brisk as for some time past.