The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-07-19 00:00:00

MARKETS.

MARKETS FOR MANUFACTURES.

MANCHESTER.—There is but little change in the position of
the market this week. The export demand still continues very
moderate, whilst the descriptions of Goods and Yarns for home
use are still in good request. Prices are generally well main-
tained, being influenced by the steadiness of Cotton, and the
decreased production, which together outweigh the effects of
the still-unsettled Eastern question. The demand for India
Yarns and goods is still restricted, and for the latter, more
especially, rather easier rates prevail. The German and Con-
tinental export houses generally adopt considerable caution,
not operating beyond very restricted limits. Yarns for home
use are in good inquiry; and, as we mentioned last week, the
coarser descriptions are scarce and dear. Goods for the home
trade still continue in good request, at full rates. Domestics
are also very firmly held. The strike of the operatives in Man-
chester is now almost entirely at an end, the employers having,
in most instances, given the advance asked by the men, or so
much of it as has proved satisfactory to both parties. At
Stockport there seems no immediate prospect of the settle-
ment. Considerable misery appears to be the result to the.
hands, and still worse threatens.
ROCHDALE.—Very little inquiry for goods, yet full prices
have been given for what has been sold. These last three weeks
the manufacturers have raised the wages of the power loom
weavers and piecers; the former l2i and the latter 10 per cent.
The Wool market has been very quiet, and the manufacturers
seem determined to wait the result of the London sales.
LEEDS.—The holiday fair has, to some extent, interfered
with the Cloth markets; from this cause, and from the unset-
tled state of affairs in Turkey, there were dull markets at the
Cloth Halls. The stocks in the manufacturers' hands are still
lower than usual at this period of the year. Prices are firm,
and tne mills continue in acti'.e employment. There has been
a pretty good demand for heavy winter goods in the ware-
houses since this day week, but light goods of all kinds are now
very dull of sale. Business dull with the foreign houses.
BRADFORD.—WOOI: The staplers appear to have acted with
greater care in their purchases, and the supply coming to hand
is limited, and prices a turn in favour of the buyer.—Yarns :
The unsettled Eastern question acts as a drawback to business,
and the sales are limited. Pieces : There is no change worthy
of note during the week.

HALIFAX.—Every branch of the Worsted trade, from the
raw material to the finished article, is paralysed by the threat-
ening aspect of affairs on the continent, and the transactions
are so limited as to render prices little more than nominal.
HUDDERSFIELD.—There have been fewer buyers in town,
and their purchases have been contracted. Merchants buy
cautiously, and generally to fit up their immediate orders.
Speculators are quiet, which is generally attributed to the
Eastern question ; and until something final is known respect-
ing it, we may expect to have quiet markets.

NOTTINGHAM.—Both of our local trades are in as healthy a

state as they usually are at this time of the year, but as the
raw material used in each business is so much higher in price
than it was some time back, producers are acting with that
degree of caution becoming sensible men of business. We are
not without considerable orders, but as there is ample time
given to make the goods, warehouse people do not seem busy.
At this season, too, many stocking-makers are employed in the
villages as haymakers, and in other agricultural operations.
LEI cEsraa.—There continues to be a careful business doing,
evidently only for the supply of orders and immediate wants,
and but little providing for anticipated demands. This is to
be attributed to the unsettled affairs of Europe.