The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-09-20 00:00:00

MARKETS FOR MANUFACTURES.

MANCHESTER.—A greater degree of quietness has existed
in this market during the present week than for a lengthened
period previously. This dulness was enhanced at the
beginning of the week by the increased danger that seemed
to surround the Eastern question; and the action of the Bank
of England has not failed to contribute to the caution that
has been manifested. The transactionshave been very limited,
and most descr,ptions of Goods and Yarns are beginning to
accumulate in the hands of producers. Prices have become
so irregular as to make it a difficult matter to name the
decline which either Goods or Yarns have suffered ; but, with
the excep►ion of Fine Yarns, they are universally lower, and
extreme reductions have been offered in some quarters, but
we do not hear that they have been acceded to. The position
of producers, at the present time, is so peculiar and unsatis-
factory, as respects their relations with their workpeople,
that it is with reluctance they give way in price, and nothing
but the actual possession of stocks would induce them to do
so. There is no certainty that demands for a further advance
of wages may not be made upon them, the minds of the
operative classes being disturbed by the advantages already
obtained, which they evidently expect to be carried further.
BRADFORD.—WOOI is exceedingly bad to buy from the
grower, and equally difficult to sell to the spinner, whose
avocation is ruinously bad, and the consumption is daily
diminishing. Noils and brokes are without change.—Yarns:
The business doing is steady, but the prices are ruinously
low, and the cost of producing yarns is so great, both in
material and labour, that the spinners are inclired to
stoppage of frames when orders run out.—Pieces : The month
of September has not been active for the purchase of grey
goods of plain fabric. Those so engaged are unwilling to
make to stock, and as orders run out, looms are ceasing to
be employed ; the cost of worsted and cotton yarns is so great
it is impossible to realise prime cost, and the shortening of
the supply is daily getting more general.
NorrixonAar.—There has been a considerable number of
buyers of lace goods from various places, which has caused a
little extra stir in the warehouses, but the benefit has not
reached the producer. All machine holders are complaining
of the want of business, and the extravagant prices now
required for both silk and cotton are such that it would be
madness for makers of brown goods to hold stock. Hence
we hear of some who are contemplating stopping their frames
as the warps come off. The hosiery trade is still in a healthy
condition. Stocks are light in all departments with the ex-
ception, perhaps, of articles made from round frames, of
which description of goods there appears to be an over-
production for the time, but orders are continually arriving
from Australia, and buyers from the United States are
making their appearance amongst us. We are consequently
looking for an increased business. The price of the raw
material is much against us.

LEICESTER.—There is but little change in business this
week. The state of the money market, combined with the
recent news from Russia, will doubtless act in some degree asa
check upon trade until more satisfactory intelligence arrives.

ROCHDALE.—We have had a good demand for goods at
improving prices, more especially for kerseys and low-priced
pieces. The Wool market is steady, and prices very firm.
HALIFAX.—In every department of the worsted trade,
from the raw material upwards, there is the same sluggish-
ness of demand which has prevailed for some time past, and we
cannot report any alteration either for the better or the worse.
HUDDERSFIELD.—Again we have had a good market; all
kinds of seasonable goods are in great request, and chiefly
those of good qualities. Some heavy parcels of winter goods,
pattern orders, have been delivered direct by the makers.
With the continued and uninterrupted briskness, our market
days are merely repetitions of each other. There is general
activity, much the same class of goods being in request; the
only difference being that an advance may be required from
time to time by the manufacturer.