The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-07-06 00:00:00

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STATE OF TRADE.

MANCHESTER.—Our market has shown, during .the last few
-days, a greater degree of firmness than it has exhibited for a
considerable time past. Higher prices are demanded for every
description of goods. The business done, though much less in
extent than it would have been were producers able to accept
lower prices, has been effected at advanced rates. There con-
tinues to be a general, demand for low, light printing cloths,
which realize better prices, There is also a fair inquiry for 36-
inch shirtings, but 40-inch are languid, and not much inquired
for. Such numbers of yarns as are most in request command
higher prices this week, particularly those suitable for home
manufacturers. The slight advances realized on goods and
yarns are far more than absorbed in the increased price of cot-
ton, which is about 4d. per lb. higher than it was last Friday.
The spinner and manufacturer are thus placed in a position de-
cidedly worse than before this last movement in the cotton
market. In the face of falling grain markets and the prospect
of a fine harvest, which, of,course, must gradually improve our
home trade, and create a demand for the manufactures of this
district, our millowners find themselves in this predicament,
that every symptom of improvement at home renders their
position worse, and must cause them to curtail instead of ex-
tending their hours of working, so long as the price of cotton
keeps rising. Whenever there is the slightest sign of a fair
av
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equivalent
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inquiry for goods or yarn, this unfortunate state of things is
likely to continue. It is a difficult matter to establish, except
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that will restore the equilibrium, is the prospect of a plentiful
supply of the raw material, and of this we cannot
have any
eertain-information for some mouths
to come. The large tran-
sactions this week in Liver
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that, in the opini of eipoolby the trade, seem to indicate
on
many of our
to be worse to bviyti
R spinners, cotton is likely
OCII DA LE.— ere have
market this week, or rathebr'en. rather more buyers in the
who usually purchase
largely have been present. TI ere mind for goods from the two or threeis
li:rettteeci,..iliange in the (le-
account of Wool rather giving way the inenawilets
weks, on
account
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pieces for less money. The Wool staplers comphtinmuelithOf
the limited demand for the raw material.
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LEEDS.—A limited amount of business has been done at the
warehouses, both home and foreign, this week ; and the public
markets have been of much the same character as for some
time back. Yet from the fall in the price of corn, and the con-
tiuued tine weather, a good trade for autumn and winter goods
s very generally expected. Stocks being low in the manu-
facturers' hands, prices remain firm.
HAW FA X.—We have had but a small amount of business
doing this week, but there seems to prevail an expectation that
things will soon hum% e. There is no alteration to notice
either in Yarn or Wool.
llnonnasnunn.—There has been more animation in this
market this week than has recently been exhibited, and a
fair portion of business transacted. Prices of desirable goods
are firmer.

Bnanniun.—Wool.—The fairs throughout the week have
openea in .different parts of the country, and we do not re-
member fora long time so little bein;rdone at them, last year's
prices being generally demanded. This will not do ; and un-
less the growers will submit to a price to meet the rates cur-
rent here, with a very sluggish demand and no disposition to
buy, except to supply present requirements, it is not likely that
snore will he done. Yarn.—There is no change to note in this
market; it is very dull. Pieces.—The beautiful weather in-
spires confidence that better doings are at hand. The stocks
of goods are light for the season ; and hitherto operations have
teen chiefly confined to the American houses. Therefore, if
-the German and home-trade merchants are likely to require an
average supply, it cannot fail to produce increased activity and
secure enhanced prices. The general impression is that we
have now seen the lowest point of the season, with a fair busi-
ness doing.
THE IRON TRADE.—The prospects of the staple trade of
South Staffordshire, for the ensuing quarter, are extremely
;flattering; and the downward tendency of the Corn market,
accompanied by the probability
i of an early and abundant har-
vest, have inspired confidence n the minas of those most in-
terested in this important branch of commercial and industrial
enterprise. The preliminary meeting of the ironmasters, in
:anticipation of the general quarterly meetings which are held,
at stated times, in various parts of the district, was held on
Woduesday, et the Stewpony Inn, near Stourbridge. It was
very numerously attended by the influential members of the
trade, And we are happy to state that the gloomy forebodings
of railway repudiation have not been realised.. The trade was
represented as peculiarly firm in its aspect—the orders were
abundant, and' a virtual resolution to supptit the present
psices was unanimously agreed to.