The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-01-03 00:00:00

THE WOOL TRADE-THE ANNUAL CIRCULAR
OF MESSRS. DAWSON AND HANCE.

Atherton's Buildings, Dale-street,
31st Dec., 1839.
Sta,—The demand for Foreign Wool during the past year
was steady, and on the whole satisfactory, up to the month of
October, when the pressure on the money market, during a
long period of increasing severity, began to be more acutely
felt in the Wool market, and the demand has continued to
fall off until the present time, when it may be said to be al-
together suspended.
The lower qualities, throughout the year, have been most
in demand, Wools under 2s. value being in general consump-
tion, and of ready sale, if clean and free from objections
otherwise, at from l jd. to 2d. per lb. reduction on last year's
prices : but the finest classes of Spanish, German, and
Odessa have declined materially, both in demand and value,
and we estimate the reduction at the present tune 4d. to 6d.
below last year's quotations. This remark applies also to
the finer qualities of Australian Wools, though not to the
same extent of depreciation.
We do not anticipate any great deviation in the demand
for middle and inferior qualities from the course of business
in 1838 and 1839, in which years goods of coarser quality
seem to have taken the lead, to the great exclusion of super-
fine articles, and therefore we see no proNiect, for some time,
of a material increase in the value of Wools above 2s. per lb.
present prices.
In East India, Turkey, and Low Italian there has been a
reduction of Id. to 11d. per lb. ; but the indisposition of
holders to make any further sacrifices on their stocks, has of
late kept prices tolerably steady, and confined the demand
entirely to buyers for immediate consumption, in very limit-
ed quantities; and we do not look for any further decline in
these Wools.

Notwithstanding the great increase in the imports, as par-
ticularised at foot, the stocks of Foreign Wool are not large,
nor in great variety; but the consumptive demand has mate-
rially diminished during the last three months, and we fear
will continue languid for some time, unless the export de-
mand for goods and yarns improves considerably early in the
Spring ; so that, under all circumstances, we cannot look
forward to any material advance upon the present prices of
Wool. DAWSON & HANCE.
IMPORTS OF FOREIGN WOOL INTO THE PORT
OF LIVERPOOL.
1837.

1838.

Australian & Van Dienian's Land.. 7639 5039 4999

Spanish
Portugal.
German (chiefly coastwise).
Russian.

Cape of Good Hope
Mediterranean Porta.

390 1316 419
2088 2711 4513
1610 2294 a

-i2 4 75
5818 5017 66

4119 4975 3361
17611 25887 34331
30
79 5
1695 316
131 228

East India .
Peruvian
Danish
Dutch 39
Buenos Ayres and Mode Video... 3897,
Other Ports.

43304 49178 59417

PARTICULARS OF THE STOCK OF COTTON IN
THE PORT OF LIVERPOOL,
31ST DECEMIIItD, 1839, 1838, AND 1837.
1839. • 1838. 1837.

Sea ..
Stained ditto
Upland
Alabama and Mobile . ..
New Orleans

3550 3220 1460
800 1330 770
41210 68860 35290
33660 17640 5760
79140 98050 29970

Pernambuco and Ceara
Maranham

Bahia and Maceio
Egyptian..
Demerara and Berbice .

West India
Carthagena
Laguira, Ike
Peruvian
Smyrna .
Surat .
Madras .
Bengal
Manilla.

27792