The Sun.
London, England, 1867-01-30 00:00:00

STATE OP TRADE.

MANCHESTER, Jan. 29.—The yarn • market has
been disappointing, and but little business has been
done in shipping descriptions. This is a good deal
due to spinners having asked higher prices. At the
rates of yesterday it is believed that buyers would
have operated largely, but any advance checks busi-
ness, and the maaket-itr these yarns closes quietly.
In home-trade yarns prices have been firm, but there
has been less business done to-day than during any
of the preceding days since Friday. At the low rates
of Friday buyers were supplying themselves rather
freely, but the advance required in most cases to-day
has checked operations. Buyers who have supplied
themselves at low rates are indisposed to give higher
terms. In cloth there is no improvement in prices
since last Tuesday. During the last few days fair
business has been done with sellers bolding stocks,
and who have been disposed to meet buyers freely.
Some attempts to-day to get higher rates have
checked operations. Neither goods nor yarns
are quite so firm at the close of the day as they
were at the opening of the market. The busi-
ness mentioned in our report of Friday's market
as having taken place in the lighter fabrics for
India, continues on a fair scale, and the stocks of
these goads have been considered lightened. It is
in shirtings, printers, domestics, and heavy goods
generally—cloths in the make of which a good deal
of cotton is used—that the market is quietest.
Messrs. John Slagg and Co. report of the cloth-
market : " Daring the past week we have had con-
siderable more activity in our market, and the busi-
ness, which was at first confined to a few hands,
developed into a pretty general demand. As stocks
have thus been considerably relieved, and in many
instances large contracts taken, we have to-day a
general advance in quotations, but the business has
not been large."
CARDIFF, 28th—In consequence of a favourable
change in the wind and the mildness of the wea-
ther, shipping operations have again, become brisk,
but the quantity of coal cleared out for the foreign
markets show a slight falling off as compared with
last month. The principal cause of proprietors ex-
periencing a scarcity of orders is the fact that mer-
chants on foreign account and the mail packet com-
panies have provided themselves with stocks larger
than usual; but it is expected that in the spring the
demand for Welsh steam will be again active. Busi-
ness on inland account is well maintained, and there
are no indications of any slackness in the inquiry
taking place. There is a fair business doing with
the Continent, the East Indies, and the West
Indies. In the house coal trade the mildness of the
weather has had the effect of decreasing the local
consumption, but :on coasting account transactions
are on an average. The leading ironworks are
pretty regularly employed, and a better feel-
ing pervades the trade. cA few foreign orders
have lately been placed, but home transac-
tions are still characterised by dullness. Future
prospects are, however more encouraging as regards
the home and foreign market, and should a good
spring trade set in an advance on present prices is
expected. No movement has taken place in pig
iron since last report, and for tin plates there is a
moderate demand.

LEEDS, 29th.—The markets in the two cloth-
halls to-day have been without any special interest.
There was about an average attendance of both
buyers and sellers, and though the former were not
eager to purchase goods, quite as much business was
done as on this day week. In the Coloured Hall
thin union meltons,
fancy coatings, plain cloths and
tweeds were sold to a moderate extent, but more in
the way of selections than bulk, and in the White
Hall a small business was done in hair lists. There
was no change in prices worth notice.

RoCIIDALE, 28th.—
There is a slight improvement
in the flannel trade, there having been more buyers
in the warehouses during the past week than of late.
Among them were a few on Cabadian account, but
they purchased sparingly, as did also the home trade
buyers. To-day's market was quite as good as last
week, and a larger aggregate business was done.
Plain and fancy goods,
also printers, were in about
equal request, and late prices were fully maintained.
There is no change in the Yorkshire goods trade,
which keeps quiet, without alteration in prices.
There is a moderate business doing in wool, and last
week's rates are maintained.