The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-09-14 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL WOOL MARKET, SFPT. 13.

There has been little or no demand for FOreiFn Wool in our
market this week, and even at a reduction in price, it would be
difficult to place a quantity; but for all this holders still re-
main firm. Our stock of Scotch Wool is almost quite ex-
hausted, consequently there has been little doing. The new
clip may now be expected, and we shall then have a better
assortment.

Imports this week 7BO Bales.
„ previously this year 46,466 „

992 Bales
7,964 ~

47,246 „

8,956 „

STATE OF TRADE.

MANCHESTER.—We have passed through a very gloomy
week, the market having been characterised throughout by
extreme depression and inactivity. The failures which have
taken place here, as well as in other places, have created a
strong feeling of distrust, leading, of course, to a strict con-
traction of liabilities in all quarters, and to a disposition to
pause until a better state of things comes round. The only
exception we have to notice is a decided improvement in some
branches of our home trade. Many buyers have been visiting
the wholesale warehouses during the last few days, for the
purpose of laying in stocks to meet the demand which may
naturally be expected after harvest. Some of the home houses
have been in consequence unusually busy. But every other
department of trade labours under the most serious depression.
Domestics have been more inquired for, and a moderate busi-
ness bas been done in this article; almost all other descrip-
tions of cloth are very flat, ana scarcely asked for. In some
instances rather lower prices have been accepted. The Yarn
market is quite inactive, and some transactions have been
made at still lower prices than those of last week. The Greek
houses complain much at present, and considerable anxietris
felt by shippers to the East, on account of the non-arrival of
advices from China, which leaves them in a state of uncer-
tainty as to the state of trade in that country. The disposition
to curtail production continues to increase. In a very short
time we have little doubt that this disposition will be more
general than it is even at present, and that we shall have to
report an extensive resort to still shorter hours, if not to entire
stopping of mills, in many quarters where pretty regular em-
ployment has hitherto prevailed. Reduction of wages is also
talked of in various districts. In Manchester, the official de-
claration made up to Tuesday last shows a very considerable
increase in the number of hands now out of work, as compared
with the week before. The following table will show the par-
ticulars :

No. of Full Short

Wholly
Total Full Short unem-
.

mills. Time. Time. Stopt. bands. Time. Time. ployed.
Aug. 31. 175 130 22 22 41,009 29,131 4,866 7,012
Sept. 7. 175 135 17 23 41,009 28,468 4,697 7,844
The average number of hours of work in the mills going short
time is about 7i.
ROCHDALE.—We had a moderate attendance in the flannel
market this week. During the last few days a large quantity of
dyed flannel goods have been sold for Scotland. All sorts 'of
goods maintained the prices of the Monday previous. Foreign
wool much the same as in our last report. Brokes and skins
are rather scarce, and prices inclined upwards.
LEEDS.—More business has been done this week than last,
and a fair quantity of goods left the Cloth Halls for the ware-
houses of the merchants on Saturday and Tuesday. We are
glad to say that there is an increased demand for winter goods
of the better qualities, though the principal demand still con-
tinues to be for the middle and lower sorts. Stocks are fully
as low as usual at this season of the year, and prices are firm.
BRADF010).—Wools: The demand for all descriptions of
combing wools continues very dull ; the prices in the country
are so high as to be scarcely realized in this market. The
supply is fully equal to the demand,. the spinners buy so very
sparingly. soils and brokes are in tolerably good request,
which arises from the twofold cause of more being required
for consumption in the clothing trade, and the worsted spin-
ners producing less.—Yarn: There are some indications of an
increased demand for Yarns, both for shipment and home ma-
nufacture; but so miserably low are the present prices, that
the spinners are unwilling to produce more, until there be
some improvement.—Piece: There was an average attendance
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of merchants at our market on Thursday, and upon the whole
manufacturers
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to notice.

HUDDERFFIELD.—We have had a tolerably good market this
week, and a cons'derable number of goods changed hands,
especially in the Hall, which in the early part of the market
day had an animating appearance. Prices are without any al-
teration.

Ham FAX.—There has been a very trifling amount of business
doing at our market this day, and our trade remains in the
same dull 'state it has been in for some time back. In Yarns
we have no alteration to notice. In wool not much business
doing, but staplers ask rather higher prices.
NOTTINGIIAM.—Lace : Thorgh the purchases of brown nets
by the foreign houses, both French and German, since our last
publication, have been tolerably extensive, yet the almost total
absence of all orders for the London, or home trade, has caused
an air of flatness to pervade the market generally ; consequently
prices have ruled more than ordinarily low. The most confi-
dent expectations, however, are indulged in by the principal
manufacturers, that a few weeks will witness a decided im-
provement in the demand for all descriptions of goods, as the
present low prices must tempt buyers into the market.—
Hosiery: We last week noticed an improvement in the trade,
which we are happy to confirm this, it having extended to se-
veral other branches. The last week, we understand, there has
been a fair amount of business transacted in the home market.
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In the London trade, we hear, more business has been done
the warehouses as we have already reported.
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—Leicester Journal.