The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-08-07 00:00:00

STATE OF'TRADE.

TRADE 01.? LEF.ns.—We have no alteration of importance
to note in the state of our woollen market. Both manufac-
turers and merchants are, generally, very busy, especially
those merchants connected with the provincial ur domestic
trade; but in the cloth-balk there has not been quite so ninch
business done, the supply of fresh goods having been scant",
owing to the unsettled state of the weather, &c.

BRADFORD MARKET.—The transactions at onrmarket.od
Thursday, were lunch the sante in extent as thO,se of the pre'
vious week, and a further advance was obtained fur lastingg,
morcens, and merinos, the latter of• which were scarce, limb
in common and figured qualities, six quarters wide. 'IV
price of yarn was much the same as last tveek,.and a fair
amount. of business was done. The wool market ;vas liru),
but the transactions were not extensive.
HALIFAX, SATURDAY.—We have not been able-to realize
the expectations indulged in for the last lew.cvks,.either-i"
the quantity of goods sold, or prices realized.. Things to-daY
were, if any thing, retrograde, manufacturers anxious to sell,
and the merchants shy -in their operations; still, if merchants
could make their purchases at a shade under last quotati.,n,,
it is thought that some more business might hate been done'
but as this was not complied with, the market must he called
a dull one, and with a downward tendency in prices.
HUDDERSFIELD, TuEsDAv.—There was not by any means
the usual show of roods to-day, owing perhaps to manytof ow;
manufacters being very busy in the hay harvest,. •
pieces were shown were eagerly bought up at a decided idyl
provement in price. The merchants are very busy. Woul
is in good demand at former quotations.
WAKEFIELD.—There is not the least variation in the value
of wools this week, nor yet much doing, especially in king
and short wool.

llw.cxmorsiowrior..—The Blanket-hall 'continues to be 1e;
gularlv attended by the merchants, who.appear, nev.erthel
to be buying but sparingly; yet die little that is doing rive'
a certain confidence to Che trade, and keeps the
turers partly employed ; if the same demand for goods holds
out during the winter months, the weaver:, &c., will not tin
touch cause of colnplaint. .The masters, owing to the boll
price of wool compared with that of the manufactured arl'c
arc certainly not remunerated for their trouble.
„ of
YORK Wont, MA It NET, AuG UST 2.—Our supply' --.(lc,
to-day has been fair, with rather a thin attendance of b,oYet'f.
The demand has chiefly been directed to low wools, iost°l,
which have been taken; ITIAIy good bred wools remain 0%!)
• unsold. Moor wools (salved) t o ; super ditto, (cle'.';
7d. to 81d. ; locks, (without cols.) 'id to 9,1;;
cuts,) Pd. to Ild. •' ewe. 121 d. to lat. ; halt' 1,„ and c.
13id. to 1411 d.; hog, 16d. to I7d. per lb.
Doscrism n Wool, M L NT, JULY 28 —The attenda.ol
,c:t
of buyers at our market this day was not so numerous 04.34
week, but the supply of wool was loleratily good. There
scarcely any tnisiness done ulna twelve or one o'clock;'•--
bitters not being disposed to give lucre prices. A reaction
afee, „ards took place, ;.ad about hail' the quantity of the
wool at market was purchased at :he prices of last week.
The following were the qootations 6,1.; hog and
ewe, 18i ; ewe, His.; locks, I.os. per stone.
SI LK TETA DE. —S.everal silk manufacturers Lave-this and
last week sold a large quantity -of goods. Fine satins, such
as six thousand and eight thousand reeds, are extremelybrisk,
brisk, but the work is so fine that it is only suitable for the
very best of workmen. Fancy wink and fi,ured sarcenets
are imptoving every day. The coarser reeds of plain sareenets
are nearly all woven cn power-looms. which makes there to
be little of any thing to do for women' and children. One
very large firm in Manchester has commenced weaving fine
satins and figured work by power, and it said it ~n , N'''s
very well. During the last six weeks upwards. of foiir hun-
dred families a silk weavers, in the neighbourhood Ab""
chester, have gone •to weave on power-looms iu the cotton
factories. Persons with lame w are. VW'''. daitY
to
work in cotton mills. .