The Sun.
London, England, 1857-02-11 00:00:00

SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.

Alexander Muirhead, Glasgow.
Robert Govan, stone merchant, Glasgow.
William Gardner and Company, builders, Glasgow.
James Miller, farmer, Glasgow.

STATE OF TRADE.

MANCHESTER, FEB. 10

There has been rather more activity in the yarn mar-
ket, and in some kinds of twist we may quote id. ad-
vance on last Tuesday's quotations. The principal
buyers have been the German and Russian houses, and
there has been some little doing for India. Cop yarns
are also in good request, without change in prices so far
as lower counts are considered, but the finer cops, from
70's upwards, are fully id. per lb. dearer, owing to the
extra demand recently made for Egyptian and Brazilian
cotton. In cloths beyond a better feeling there is
nothing to remark. There has been very little business
doing in fabrics suited to either the home or foreign mar-
kets. In India and China skirtings there is now EOM)
accumulation of stocks, more particularly in filb. and
71b. goods. Prices have declined in these goods during
the last four weeks from 41d. to 6d. per 'piece, which
leaves a heavy loss on their production at the present
rates for the raw material.
Messrs. John Slagg and Co. report :
" From Tuesday last to the end of the week there was
no change in the state of the market for goods. Yester-
day and to-day, however, owing principally to the im-
provement in the cotton market, but in some degree also
to the gradual extension of short time, there has been more
firmness displayed by producers than for the last two or
three weeks, and in some instances a slight advance has
been asked, but so far there is no improvement whatever
in the demand, and the transactions of this day are conse-
quently again on a very small scale."
Messrs. George Fraser, Son, and Co. report:—
"There has been somewhat more business doing in India
goods where low prices were taken, but it has not done
anything to affect the other portions of the market, which
remain steady, but with few and limited transactions."
NOTTINGHAM, FEB. 10.
The lace trade has improved to a slight extent, still in
many branches business is dull. For Canada and the
continental markets there is a fair amount of business
transactions, and operations for our home trade are also
extending. Brown nets continue exceedingly dear.
There are orders for goods for America, and upon the
whole the lace trade is in a healthy trade. In silks and
fancy goods there is not much doing, in consequence of
the high price of material. The hosiery trade continues
very brisk, the demand which we have experienced for
several weeks past being in no way diminished. The
stocks on hand being very low, the present demand ren-
ders the market very busy.
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10.
Trade, more especially as
goods,oollen
tton continues dull. There is a tolerable inquiry for
articles ; a good deal of machinery is, however,
still unemployed. The price
precludes
o f
increase
yarns has
become serious, and entirely
of
stocks.

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The woollen cloth market has ben LEEDS
very firmFEL
inl both
cloth balls this morning. Meltons, ladies' cloths, and
other fabrics for the spring trade are in brisk request,
and the supply is scarcely equal to the demand. Manu-
facturers are busy, and they are not disposed to sell ex-
cept at an advance on last month's prices.
The report of the Iluddersfield market to-day is as
follows :
" The market is a very fair one. There is an average
attendance of buyers, and inquiries for summer goods
have commenced among shipping houses with consider.
able briskness. Tho usual sales are cheap fancies, cot
ton warps, &c. Both in raw material and the manu-
factured article stocks are low. In wools prices are still
a dvancing.7