The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-06-15 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

MANCHESTER.—The dullness with which the market clop
last week continued up to Thursday with but little change, beyolial
some increased inquiry for low printing cloths, in which a rrte-
derate business has been done. Where transactions have min
effected in other descriptions of goods, lower prices have been
generally submitted to than those which were current ten da
ago. Yarns have also been depressed, and in purchases to
extent, buyers have had an advantage—although this rema
does not apply to all numbers, there having been a fair demand
for some counts which were not in much request a few weeks
since. On Friday, however, the market presented a rather
firmer aspect, owing to the unexpected increase of business in
the cotton market, and consequently buyers could not operate
to the same advantage as during the early part of the week.
The market, both here and in Liverpool, is in a very feverish
state, the slightest rumours having a tendency to influence
operations in either market. Should any further advance take
place in the raw material, or should it even remain at its pre-
sent rates, it is evident that manufacturers and spinners wit
be obliged either to ask considerably higher prices, which In
the present state of trade they are not likely to obtain,' or mks
tonally to reduce their present production. It is not to be
expected that they can go on working at the loss which they are
at present sustaining. No greater calamity could have hap-
pened to the manufacturing districts at a season of high prices
of food than to have to pay an advanced price upon the raw
material out of which their staple products are made. Evan
with cotton at a low price, and the factory population working
full time, we should have had difficulties enough to content
with, so long as food remained at its present price. But whel,
in addition to famine prices, we have not only to hear that
minished consumption of manufactures in the home Inn%
which is always found to co-exist with dear food, but also fine
our continental customers suffering from the same causes as
ourselves, and unable to purchase from us the usual quanti*
of our commodities; al.rl when our millowners have to pay for
the raw material a price for which they can obtain nothing like
a fair equivalent in the yarn or manufactured article, it is easy
' to account for the compfaints heard on al sides, and to under-
stand how it is that short-time working is forced upon manu-
facturers as a matter of necessity, until either cotton becomes
lower or prices of goods rule higher.
ROCHDALE.—The flannel market still remains inactive, and
the demand for goods is limited. In some cases, pieces have
been bought at lower prices, and those who are compelled to
sell must submit to the reduction. There is little change in
the wool market: the dealers complain of having little to de,
and prices for foreign wool have a downward tendency.
LEEDS.—Trade is scarcely so brisk this week as it was last.
and the hopes then entertained of speedy improvement are
diminishing; the advance in the price of corn, and the reportal
advance of the price of wool at some of the continental markets,
with no increase in the demand for goods either for the home
or the foreign market, checking the operat'ons of both mer-
chants and manufacturers. No parties purchase but to meet
present demands yet prices remain firm. The small woollen
manufacturers and operatives in the villages around this town,
are suffering dreadftill from the depression in trade ; whilst
many of them are ekeing out a bare existence by the aid of
parochial relief, others, there is reason to believe, are literally
hungering and pining. All, however, appear to bear the
afflictions with great patience.
BRADFORD.—WOOL.—There is a languidness in the opera-
tions of the spinners, no doubt from the difficulties their own
trade presents, and the position of the staplers is equally tram-
melled ; for it is utterly impossible to bring, at the prices
sought by the farmers, new wool from the country, to sell in
this market without a loss, which circumstance accounts for
the small supply in the market, and no further decline is
prices. We make the following quotations of prices current in
this market :—Super hogs, .fl 3 to £l3 10s. per pack; middle
hogs, .€ll 15s. to £l2 ; low hogs, 410 to 411; super wetherl
£l2; middle wethers, 15s. low; low wethers, £lO to
ss. These prices are for Lincolnshire wools. YARNS.—Ue
cannot report any improvement in this branch of the trade.
There is no advance in price; without which there is no prob-
able chance of any additional machinery being put to work to
supply those stopped by the suspension of the extensive spin-
ners near Halifax. There is more inquiry by the shipping
houses, but they are not near so active as in April, or nodouit
better prices would be realised, as the stocks on hand are very
small, and no inclination to increase them. PIECES.—The de-
mand for Moreens continues very good, and the manufacturers
are chiefly engaged to order. Plain Dress goods are steadily
moved off, and there is au anxious desire to see something new
in Fancy Goods suitable for the autumn. Lustres are in fair
request,iLTu Ea and s
FnloE stocksD— e hnhaaviel hand.
had
fully
more doing this week,
and on the whole' things are looking quite as well as can he ex-
pectedP for the season, and the depressed state of trade gene,-
ally. Prices continue extremely low.
HOSIERY AND LACE TRADES.—The condition of the staple
manufactures of Nottingham, whether hosiery or lace, is not
amended, though we are now in the month of June, and the
weather has been favourable for a display of fashions amongst
the fashionable. In fact, the lace trade, with a few exceptions,
seems worse than ever, and nothing but intense gloom prevails,
as many of the machine owners aver they cannot sells "single
piece."—There is a small stir in the pusher bobbin net trade,
the straight down blond nets having annihilated the excellent
Grecian nets.—The traverse warp trade yet exists, but it is
struggling with difficulties, the showy articles made from the
levers machines superseding them in price and in appearance,
but not in stamina.
THE GERNIA.N WOOL SALES.—The following letter front
Breslau, dated the 31st of May, will be read with interest by all
concerned in the Wool trade:—" On our arrival here on Wed-
nesday last, we found, on going into the market, that already
buyers were picking up all the great parcels of Wool, as fast
almost as they came in, at prices several dollars higher than
last year. Twice, then, the prices have been decidedly And
constantly higher. This is not occasioned by any degree of
speculation, or by the purchase of a few individuals, but the
buyers from various countries. Netherlands, France, Gets-
many, and Russia, seem all eager to lay in stocks, and more
especially the manufacturers, which places the dealers in rather -
an awkward dilemma. The quantity of Silesian Wools pro-
duced is but limited, not larger than last year, and manures-
tures continually increasing. The Quantity of Silesian Wools
produced is but limited, not larger than last year, and, manu-
factures continually increasing. The English
are, generally
speaking, holding back, especially the dealers, with some few
exceptions. The fair is now drawing to a close for Silesian
Wools, although it only began to-day. Up to Saturday, about
22,000 cwt. were sold, and yesterday a large business was done-
Prices varied much, front 5 to 10 and even 11 dollars higher
than last year. One great cause of the flourishing state of. the
manufactures on the Continent, is that they constantly make
all of good Weals, whereas the English have taken lower Wools
and materially injured the character of their goods, and to
repair it they must retrace their steps, and purchase good
Wools, which is indispensable to repair lost ground.