The Sun.
London, England, 1842-11-28 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

(From the Leeds Mercury.)
FOREIGN WOOL TRADE, LEEDS, Nov. 25.—The
effect produced upon this market by the highly grati-
fying news from China and India, has already, in
some measure, been perceptible a material improve-
ment may now be looked for, both in regard to an in-
creased amount of busine3s and the prices demanded.
ENGLISH WOOL MARKET, LEEDS, Nov. 25.—We
have not any alteration to report in this branch of
trade during the present week, either as to demand or
prices.
WAKEFIELD WOOL MARKET, Nor. 25.—For some
weeks past, we had little or no variation in any
branch of the wool trade, nor can we yet report any
'improvement; we may, however, anticipate that the
cheering news from India and China will, in a few
days, produce a favourable impression, and cause an
improvement in the demand ; stocks of combing wools
are becoming more ample. Prices are nominally the
same as last week. There is no inquiry for blanket
wools.

TRADE or LEEDS.—For goods of a general de-
scription the markets at both our cloth halls have
been quite as dull this week as last, but there are a
few orders out for light goods for the India market,
and in consequence there has been more done in this
description of goods than for some time past. The
manufacturers who have been in the habit of making
goods adapted for the China market (some of whom
have held heavy stocks since the commencement of the
war), are now in hopes of soon being enabled to dis-
pose of their goods. On the whole, the hope of a re-
vival of our trade generally in the spring is enter-
tained by many of the manufacturers, and in conse-
quence there is a much better prospect of employment
for the operatives during the winter. The season
being now far advanced, there is, as usual, little doing
in the warehouses.

BRADFORD MARKET, THURSDAY.—In the Piece
market we have nothing favourable to offer to our
friends to-day ; everything appears slow, and the
quantity of plain goods cleared off hardly an average.
The Fancy trade still continues in the same awfully
depressed state, and the little business that is doing
only adds pressure on the before exhausted position
of the manufacturers who have already felt that the
over production of this article last autumn has re-
coiled with unexpected and unprecedented sacrifice.
We cannot quote any alteration for the better in
Yarn, and if the increase of the number adopting
short time be any criterion, we may fairly infer the
trade is getting worse. We trust the adoption of this
salutary mode will tend to prevent any further de
cline in prices. Since our last report there is very
little alteration in wool. The stocks in our staplers'
hands are rather on the increase, especially of the
descriptions most in request. Hogs, which have so
long been a drug in the market, continue in the same
dull state ; this applies also to combing Downs,
which are almost unsaleable. In clothing wools
there is a little mole animation, and the stocks of
noils and short wool are nearly all cleared off.
MANCHESTER, THURSDAY EVENING.—We have had
a regular, and it may be said, a good demand for all
sorts cf cloths up to Monday last; but on Tuesday,
consequent on the favourable news from China and
India, the market assumed a very curious and almost
indescribable appearance. Some manufacturers, espe-
cially of cloths adapted for the above markets, and of
which there were previously no stocks, asked as much as
9d. a yard advance, which, on its then value, is equal
to 10 or 12 per cent. This of course was not acceded
to by the buyers, at least in the early part of the day.
There is, however, no doubt, that in a few cases a
large advance was paid, but the general opinion is
that 6d. may be fairly quoted as the amount of im-
provement on previous rates. In other sorts of power
and hand-loom goods, varying indeed from 14-d. to 3d.
a piece, equal to about 5 per cent., and the market
closed very firmly at these rates. Tweeds partook
also of a general, but not so quiet an advance, as did
cloths. The market, on the whole, was of a cheering
character, as compared with what we have experienced
for a long time past.

ASTLEY'S AMPHITHEATRE.—The works of the new
building erected on the site of Astley's Amphitheatre
are in a state of great forwardness. The external
portion of the building has been for some time com-
pleted, and the interior nearly so. The artists in the
decorative department are busily engaged in carrying
forward their operations, and there is no doubt that
the whole will be completed before Easter;