The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-12-28 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE

MANCHESTER.—The near approach of Christmas and the
end of the year, to which we regret to add the failure of an
East India house in which Manchester houses are deeply
interested, and which has caused the stoppage of Messrs.
James Hobday and Co., of this town, have operated to make
things worse than they were last week, and, consequently,
very little business can he noted. We are not aware that
prices have receded, and the working of short time is becom-
ing more general; we therefore expect that, at the opening
of the new year, prices will rather advance than otherwise.
We know several manufacturers that have written to their
agents to say they must not sell a piece at the current rates,
but wait until next month, as they feel certain that better
prices must be obtained. The manufacturers are in a dread-
ful state, as all the staple articles made in this district (if we
except fustians) cannot be sold in any quantity, unless at a
loss, and for some sorts the loss must be serious indeed. The
Gazelle every week proclaims, in language the most vivid,
the way in which spinners and manufacturers are, for scarcely
a week passes but we are pained by seeing the names of seve-
ral in the Gazelle. The lane is a long one, but surely we
shall find a turn, and we trust we are near the end. Power-
loots printers may be quoted, 26-inch 6G's, 4s Mid to 53 4d,
and 72's, 5s 3d to 5s lOid ; 40-inch shirtings 6G's, 81b 12oz
to 91b, 9s 6d to lOs 3d.—Advertiser, of Friday.
LEEDS.—The reports of the woollen markets at this season
of the year are generally considered nominal. With the two-
fold object of avoiding the necessity of a large " stock-taking"
at the end of the year. and consequent heavy Payments to the
clothiers on the first Tuesday of the new year, before their
books are balanced, it is customary for the merchants to ab-
stain from purchasing anything but indispensable articles ;
so that the transactions in the markets at this period afford
no positive criterion of the actual state of the woollen trade.
Though from these causes there is less doing than there was
some time ago, the general opinion is, that the purchases
are more extensive than they have been in the month of De-
cember for two or three years past.—lntelligeneer.
BRADFORD, THURSDAY.—The business done this week
in pieces has been limited, and the remark applies to all kinds
of goods. There is no change whatever in prices. As short
time is still the order of the clay, the demand for yarns is not
brisk ; stocks are kept low, and steady prices are the conse-
quence. In wool there is less doing, but for most kinds
prices remain unchanged.

NGII AM.—The torrent of bankruptcy and distress in
this locality rolls on with accumulated force. Another of the
largest lace houses in the town has been uprooted by the
storm, and will necessarily bring down a number of smaller
establishments along with it, throwing the workpeople out of
employ, and fearfully increasing the general distrust and
anxiety which pervades every branch of trade and commerce.
Bankruptcies, insolvencies, and compositions with creditors
are constantly occurring, and confidence and credit have re-
ceived a blow which has made them stagger and reel, so as
to add to the general stagnation of business on every band.
—Nottingham paper.

Rumoun OF THE DAY.--We understand that the editor
of a fashionable Sunday paper has engaged the boy Jones to
give full particulars of the royal christening.