The Sun.
London, England, 1857-04-22 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

MANCHESTER, APRIL 21.
All dEsc,iptions of cloth have been more difficult
of sal-;, and the market has been slighly is favour
of t'ne buyer, especially for India and China shirt-
ings, which have declined about lid. per piece:
There is no accumulation of stock worth naming
yet, and consequently most other cloths except
those named "are not quotably lower, though diffi-
cult of sale. Domestics are very sluggish and un-
saleable, and many of the manufacturers of this
description of cloth are running their mills short
time—same only three days a-week—in order to
bring down the production nearer to an equality
with the demand. The chief obstacle to busies is
the stringency of the money market, buyers being
unwilling to give high prices for cloth and pay tire
present heavy demands for discounts. layarns
there has been a rather better market, without
change in prices. The Germans, and buyers for the
Mediterranean, are the principal purchasers, but
30's, 40's, and--50's mule for India have also been
in fair request at extreme prices. Very full rates
have had to be paid generally for yarns. , -
Messrs. J. Slagg and Co. report of the cloth-mar-
ket :—" Owing to the stringency of the money mar-
ket and the uncertainty with regard to the prices of
cotton we have bad since Tuesday last, a very quiet
market for nearly all kinds of goods, but, with V
exception of India and China shirtings, which have
declined about lid. per piece within the week, We
cannot quote any change in prices, though the ten-
dency generally is in favour of buyers.'

NOTTINGHAM, APRIL 21.
The lace trade . continues dull fur the home
market ; there is very little doing, and the foreign
trade is inactive. It is probable that the setting
in of seasonable weather will cause a change. Plain
nets are yet inquired after; the fancy tradeis•
however, very quiet. Silk and cotton continue very
high, with no signs of any reduction.
The hosiery trade is also dull. In most branches
there is very little doing. The high prices of the
raw material operate very much against the de-
mind.

Hosiery yarns are firms
LEICESTER, APRIL 21.
There is a tolerable trade doing in cotton goodPl
with good prospects. In worsted articles the trade
is almost stagnant. There is a fair number of
orders fur hosiery in the market, but manufacturers
complain that they cannot be executed at the price
offered.

LEEDS, APRIL 21.
The improvement in the weather has induced
little more inquiry for light goods, and a lair quan-
tity of them has been sold in the cloth-halls this
morning. The demand for other woollen cloths
has been limit d, and the market, upon the whole,
,
has been a quiet one. The approaching sales OL
colonial-wool in London are looked to with a good
deal of interest, and there appears to be a disposi-
tion here not to force tales of cloths on the one
hand, or to endeavour to make them on the other,
till those salts have opened, and some criterino
of the price of the raw material is afforded.

HUDDERSFIELD, APRIL 21.
The market for woollen goods has been rather
better to-day,and a good amount of spring goods 14'4
been sold. The number of buyers from London, Scot-
land, &c., was a full average, and they purchase,cl
goods of choice patterns to a fair extent. wool '3
quiet, prices being a little easier.

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