The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-10-04 00:00:00

MARKETS FOR MANUFACTURES.

MANCHESTER.—There has been exceedingly little doing in
the market this week, the same causes of disturbance men-
tioned in our last still operating to prevent business, and,
indeed, a greater degree of depression has prevailed than we
have previously had to record. The labour question also
appears to be more likely to be brought to an issue by the
entire closing of the mills. This has occasioned producers to
hesitate as to the prices they should accept, and to some ex-
tent has been the means of preventing so considerable a de-
cline as would have occurred had all the operatives been at
work, and likely to continue so ; nevertheless, prices have a
downward tendency. accompanied by considerable irregu-
larity. Yarns continue very dull, no disposition being appa-
rent to exceed the most pressing requirements in the pur-
chases either for home use or export. Although prizes are
so much lower, buyers are holding otr in the expectation of a
still further reduction, and confine themselves to mere in-
quiries, whilst manufacturers are chary in giving out orders
during the uncertainty that at present exists respecting the
labour market. For Cloth the demand continues exceedingly
limited, though, within the last few days, some purchases
of printing cloths, and a few other descriptions of goods, have
taken place. Prices continue to decline, and although for
many descriptions the manufacturer must already sustain a
loss unless the supply is curtailed, a still further decline must
be the result.

ROCHDALE.—LittIe change in this market; goods of an
inferior quality still meet a ready sale, at former prices.
Wool is much the same both in price and demand.
LEEDS.—There has been a great falling off in business this
week, both in the Cloth Halls and amongst the commission
hands. The markets were the dullest we have had for some
months past. Prices rather in favour of the buyer, and
stocks of heavy goods on the increase. The same dull state
of trade has prevailed in the warehouses. Few buyers have
been down, and those who have purchased have confined
themselves to present need.
BRADFORD.—WooI: There is very little doing by the spin-
ners in the purchase of Wools, and great caution is mani-
fested ; on the other hand, the staplers generally are not
large holders, and, with the difficulty they have to buy, there
is no disposition to press sales; consequently, prices are
firm. Yarns : There is more inquiry for yarns suitable for
Germany, but for Russia, no doubt from the unsettled posi-
tion, there is not so much doing; to both countries the ex-
ports are very short of the usual average. In spools, some-
what less has been done, owing to the entire stoppage of
some and the partial working of other looms. In Lancashire
the demand is irregular, from turn-outs and other disputed
points regarding wages. Pieces : The merchants are buying

only to assort stocks, and the manufacturers are unwilling to
make to stock, and the production is daily diminishing, for
it is impossible to make cost ; and the quantity o f goods com-
ing to market is very far short of what it was at this period
last year.

lauFAx.—Few Worsted goods of any sort have changed

hands. The Yarn trade is by no means brisk, and prices are
much the same. Wool is quiet, with the turn in favour of

the buyer

HUDDERSFIELD.—We have to report a quiet market ; the
attendance of buyers has been meagre, and very little been

I Hall or the-warehouses. The on)

article for which there is a fair demand is black and wlfgte
woollen twists,. of which the vapply. is scarcely. equal to! the
demand._