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The suspension of business Jars', reels
more complete to-day than at ati-, time during the
present crisis. Some of the larger borne and export
houses have found mcney in past weeks to take
advantage of the bargains offering where spinners
and manufacturers were compelled to make great
concessions in price, but this morning even offet a of
this kind have failed. One cause of this has been
the further giving way of the zaw material to-day
at Liverpoo , and the ex'knsive failures on the cos•
tinent have also increased the difficulties in the way
of business. Spinners have been decidedly more
anxious sellers than last week, and the meetings on
the Exchange have been protracted to a later hone
than usual, but no amount of concession seemed to
tempt buyers to operate. Some business was ex-
pected for Germany in yarns, but the stoppage,of
I Messrs. Herman Sillen, Son, and Co., of London,
appears to have a bad effect on the houses in that
trade here, and this branch of the market has been
quite as -flat as the others. In the cloth trade
sellers report this to have been decidedly the
flattest day they have bad. The prices current
place the quotations of all kinds of calicoes at - a
lower figure than they have done heretofore, and
an opinion prevails that we are only now beginning
to feel the difficulties occasioned by the state of the
money market to anything like their full extent.
Messrs. M`Nair, Greenhow, and Irving's circular
of the 24th inst., says :

[Pilio.-4 4D. STAMPED 51)

" The improvement which was visible this day Week
has not been maintainel tc-day ' • on the contrary, it has
been succeeded by a state of dullness and inactitity
which has scarcely been exceeded during the last few
weeks. Some little enquiry, however, prevailed ; but
the transactions in either goods or yarns were b 0
&cant, that no opportunity was afforded for testing
prices, which were again very irregular, and in most
instances nominal."

LEEDS; Nov. 24. ,
The markets in both cloth-halls have been again
of a quiet character, but the tone of the markets
was rather better. Sales of a few heavy goo is and
cloths of general descriptions were effected,.but the
purchases were all in small lots. There is a patient;
desire manifested on all sides to wait for an im-
proved order of things, and, instead of large num-
bers of the factory operatives having bees thrown
out of employ by the complete stoppage of works,
the wind of adversity, it may be said, is `tempered
by an extensive adoption of short-time working.
Tire cloth-dressers an,t dyers are very slack, some
of them having literally nothing to do. The flax-
spinners are running their machinery only five days
a-week. Fortunately, the late news from Anierica
has been of a comparatively favourable character,
for if it, had not the flax-mills here would have
limited their work to four days a-week. As the
stocks of linen yarns and other products of flax in
the bands of the manufacturers are but small, nor,
indeed, has there been anything like over-produc-
tion, a slight improvement in trade would probably
be followed by the resumption of full-time working:.
Some of the machinists are falling off in employ-
ment through the withdrawal or suspension of
orders recently given both by home and foreign
houses, the tightness of the money-market and com-
mercial failures hiving rendered such steps neces-
sary. Happily, there are no local failures to add
to the 'depression. _ _ _

HUDDERSFIELD, Nov. 24.
With a damp, dull morning there has been but a
small attendance of buyers in the cloth-market this
morning. Only a very limited business was done.
There was no change either in the price of either
goods or wools.