The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-05-16 00:00:00

MANUFACTURES.

White Wheat .40s Ott to 44s Ott
Red do ... 39; Od to 42 Od

Barley,vind. 16s 6d to 19s 04

Do., malting 2ls Od to 228 6d
Bere. 00s Od to 00s Od
Oats, white .. 15s 6d to 17s 6d

Oats, tawny .. 00s Od to OOs Od
Rapeseed .... OOs Od to OOs 0,1
0atmea1...... 16s 6d to 18a Od
Bakers' Flour.22s Od to 27s Od
Indian Corn,
per 4801b..39s Od to 434 Od

CATTLE.

LIVERPOOL, MAY 15.—We have had a smaller supply
of cattle at market, which met a very brisk demand at
fully id per lb. advance. Sheep also met a ready sale at
the extreme currencies of last week. Good beef worth
Old to 7d per lb., mutton 7id to nd.
SALFORD, MAY 10.—Cows, 1,494; sheep and lambs,
5,700 ; calves, 230. Beef from 4id to 7d ; sheep in wool,
80; clipped sheep, 7id to 7jd; lamb, &I to 10d; calves,
5d to 64d. A rather heavy market.
DUBLIN, MAY 11.—The market was remarkably
small to-day, both of cattle and sheep, especially the
former. High prices were therefore had for beef, 58s to
60s a. 635, and even 65s per cwt. being obtained for some
heifers. Mutton unchanged in price, being 6d to bid per
lb. for shorn, and 72d to 8d in fleece. Lambs, 16s to 26s
each. Pork, 47s to 48s per cwt., and active buying,
owing to the cool weather. Large numbers of well-fed
pigs are yet brought forward.

MANCHESTER.—This market continues dull and in-
animate, without the slightest favourable change. On
Tuesday there was very little inquiry, either for goods or '
yarns, and prices were generally weak. Since Tuesday
the same want of activity, even in a greater degree, has
manifested itself, the announcement of the advance of the
rate of discount by the Bank of England on Thursday
having tended in the same direction.—The export demand
for yarns is very limited from all quarters, and were it not
that spinners were pretty well engaged, a considerable
decline in price would ensue ; as it is, further orders
would be accepted on very decidedly lower terms. For
India and China there is very little doing, whilst for Ger-
many the inquiry is just as moderate. Manufacturers
contract their purchases within the narrowest limits.—
The cloth market continues very dull, and in some quar-
ters, to make sales, very low prices have been quoted; but
the great caution exhibited by buyers is not easily re-
moved.
HUDDERSFIELD.—In the cloth hall business has
been very flat, and, with the exception of about half a
dozen warehouses, very little has been done out of th
hall. The deliveries to order have been less than for
several weeks past. The general feeling throughout the
market is that of quietness. The wool trade continues in
the same dull state as it has been for the last two months.
LEEDS.--Although markets have been dull at the cloth
halls, yet, from the business done by the commission
hands during the past week, and the deliveries to direct
orders, the transactions have been to quite as great an
extent as could be expected ; and from the prudent course
the manufacturers have adopted, of curtailing the pro-
duction, stocks are kept in moderate compass, and prices 1
for seasonable goods are well maintained. Business has '
been dull in the warehouses this week, the buyers who
visit the market limiting their operations to present wants
only.
BRADFORD.—WooI : This has been a week of unusual
dulness ; the sales are meagre in the extreme, but there
is a good stock in the market of such kinds as are in re-
quest. Full bred sorts and matchings are scarce, and the
prices offered far below what the grower and country
dealers are disposed to sell at, consequently there is the
difficulty to meet of either getting up the prices here, or a
reduction in the country to enable the dealers and con-
sumers to operate. Moils and brakes are only made in
small quantities ; hand-combed noils are exceedingly
scarce, and command good prices.—Yarns : Week succeeds
week, and IN its no other accounts than the daily stoppage
of machinery. - The commission, or spinners for hire, who
produce large quantities of second class yarns, being the
product of bought tops, are now in an unparalleled posi-
tion, many being totally idle, and others but very par-
tially engaged ; the fact being, that the parties who
usually kept them employed, are able to buy yarns ready
spun for less than the cost of tops. The prices of wool
and tops bear no proportion to the current price of yarns,
The spinning cost, in many cases, being wholly sacrificed ;
this applies to both spool and reeled yarns, and the prices
now offered leave no alternative but further limiting pro-
duction, till either yarn§ can be made cheaper, or they
re, ,e a price more nearly approximating the cost of
making.—Pieces : There is more doing in piece goods than
a few weeks ago, but the prices realised are frightful, and
little surprise need be excited at hearing of many cases of
inability to pay, for two or three turns over of capital will
almost involve a solvent man in ruin. All wool goods are
very profitless, and the quantity coming to market un-
usually small.
NOTTINGHAM.—The lace trade continues depressed,
a few articles sell moderately well, but there is little doing
generally. The hosiery trade is also flat, with a prospect
of its remaining so until the Americans can come more
freely into the market, which, however, can hardly be
hoped for some time. The money market there is easier
than it was, yet it is not in such a state as to induce any
extensive expenditure in European manufactures. Many
machines in the lace trade are unemployed, and a great
number of female operatives have only half work. The
price of yarn is a little more in favour of the buyer.
LEICESTER.—The business of the week appears about
as last reported. The American orders contribute to the
employment of some of the hands, but the home trade
cannot be expected to improve much till the price of bread
is lower, to enable the millions of working people to be-
come larger purchasers of our manufactured articles.

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in favor of the seller. Madeira Pet, Crang, Curocoa—Julia.y-Pipitn, Garay, Cien,
WISBECH, MAY 13.—We have a small market to-day. fuegos—Philo, Milne, Pernambuco Mendoza de Leonor
not much offering, wheat is full is per quarter dearer, Ariles, Rio Janeiro.
Tyro, Lloyd, sailed from Pernambuco for this port, sailed
All spring corn is again rather higher. 24th March.
CORK, MAY 13.—A reduction of 6d per cwt. led to an Genevieve, sailed for Ceara and this port, sailed March 22.
improved sale for flour. Foreign wheats being offered at Margaret Gibson, Hannaford, hence at Natal.
irregular prices, induced hilliness and purchases for
immediate consumption were extensive. Indian corn has Caledonia, Mathews, hence at Sii's Bay.
Andes (s. s.), sailed from Malta for Scutari, Ist May.
Oriental, and Ingleboro—both at Ascension, and both
more demand, and 5s to 100 per ton advance paid. sailed for this port.
DUBLIN, MAT 12.—There was a very dull market for Lawrence, Salmon, sailed from Table Bay for Akyab 16th
everything at our Corn Exchange to-dav and although
we do not alter our quotations of Tuesday,.' the general MarLadcy May, Sewell, hence Deane, 'Finley, from Canton;
, Royal Saxon, Jackson, from Sbangliae ; and Jaweston, Moon,
tendency was to lower rates.
I from the Mauritius all at Table Bey.
MARCH 17.7 The Ratha-