The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-05-23 00:00:00

MANUFACTURES.

MANCHESTER—The market this week has been
exceedingly dull and inanimate, even more so than pre-
viously. Prices are irregular, and a gradual decline still
goes on. On Tuesday the market was exceedingly quiet,
and since then it has been still more so. Considering the
duration of the present stagnation, the accumulations of
stocks are smaller than might have been expected, and on
that account prices have been less seriously depressed ;
still the manufacture of some description of goods is quite
unremunerative. Goods of all kinds have been dull and
lower. The better classes of skirtings and printers have
been in more regular demand than other descriptions;
and India goods have met with a few purchasers. With
these exceptions, there has been very little inquiry.

ROCHDALE.—The flannel market continues in a very
languid and inactive state. The wool dealers complain of
having nothing to do; and the manufacturers are desirous
to work up the stocks they have in hand rather than go
into the market and buy new.
HUDDERSFlELD.—Manufacturers complain much of
the want of business, and wool merchants say they are
doing next to nothing. With the exception of the yarn
spinners, who have lately been busy, the woollen trade is
depressed.
t LEERS—DuII markets at our cloth halls this week,
yet from the quantity of goods in course of delivery to
direct order and by the commission hands, the stocks
remain low in the manufacturers' hands and prices are
steady, whilst the mills continue pretty well employed.
Business, although dull in the warehouses, has been a
little better in the home trade, and some houses in the
foreign trade are rather busier.
BRADFORD.—WooI : The buyers of combing wool are
quite disconcerted with the difficulties they have to en-
counter, and at the prices demanded they are unwilling
buyers, especially for bright-haired wool, which is held for
rates wholly prohibitory, and the sales during the day and
past week-have been unusually limited. Noils and brokes
are made in limited quantity, and prices unchanged.
Yarns: There is not the slightest improvement in this
branch of the trade. The daily stoppage of spinning
frames, and further curtailing of the time of working,
appears to be the order of the day—a course imperatively
demanded to shield the spinners from loss. Pieces :
Another stoppage has occurred daring the week. In the
present instance insolvency has not been occasioned by
bad debts, but by the ruinous prices which goods have
realised for some time past. The difference between the
cost of the raw material and the price of goods is frightful,
and a continuance of the present state of things will, it is
feared, add to the number of unfortunates.
NOTTINGHAM.—The staple tradeS of this town and
neighbourhood, viz., hosiery and lace, continue 'flat ; a
few manufacturers in each business have received their
usual orders from the United States, but the purchases
for that country up to this time are smaller than usual,
owing mainly to the value of money there, inasmuch as
they can make more of it by discount than they can by
profit on this country's produce. The .home trade also is
much depressed, and very little business is , being done
with either foreign or colonial markets. The price of yarn
is nominally the same as it has been for some time past,
but there is an advantage in favour of large purchasers.

LEICESTER.—The state of trade remains much the
same, and, to any inquiries made of manufacturers the
answers are quiet, dull, flat, &e. Wool is rather higher,
but the prices of yarn remain unchanged.