The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-11-29 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE

(From the Leeds Intelligeneer.)
TRA DR OF LEEDS.—The unsettled state of the money mar-
ket has had its effect upon the staple trade of the district during
the last week or ten days. The manufacturers being anxious
to quit their goods, and the merchants being reluctant to enter
into unnecessary engagements, except upon advantageous
terms, parcels of goods have occasionally been sold lower than
the averagi, run, but the firmness of the wool market has pre-
vented any material reduction, the principal clothiers choosing
rather to limit their production.
1311A.D1,0rt0.--This market, on Thursday, was again very flat,
In piece goods little doing, and the manufacturers were not
disposed to submit to a further reduction. Wool much the
same as last week. The manufacturers are still anxiously
looking forward to the Americans coining into the the market.
HA L IFA X Manx ET.—The sales at this market, on Wednes-
day, were more extensive than for some weeks past, but prices
were understood to be rather loiver, the manufacturers evincing
a wish to convert their stocks into money, even at some sacri-
fice.

The Blanket Trade at lieckmondwike, has not been quite
so brisk for the last two or three weeks as previously, but still
there is a fair business doing.
BARNSLEY LINEN TRADE AND POWER Loosts.—ln con-
sequence of the rapid increase in the Manufacture of drills in
this town, the manufacturers of plain goods have found great
difficulty iu procuring weavers, and have at length been utterly
unable to stipple the demand, especially in what may be termed
heavy goods. This state of things has led to the trial of power
looms, which are now found to weave heavy linens very well,
and it is ascertained that, with the aid of the steam engine, linen
goods can be made at such a [nice as to pay the weavers a higher
rate of wages than they could make by weaving with hand
looms. This will have the effect of giving activity to the plain
linen trade, which was fast- falling away, and filling the yarn
bleach grounds with work, besides furnishing increased labour
to every other department connected with the manufacture,
which, from the scarcity of weavers, had long been in a state of
inactivity.

•
Goods in certain instances were sold in Leeds Cloth Market,
last Tuesday, 20 per cent. under the prices they had fetched fur
six months together in the course of this year, when the sup-
.plies to America were so rife. We do not by any means offer
this fact as a criterion of the state of the market generally; yet
the reduction in prices is both general and great. At the same
time, the stocks of Goods in the Halls are by no means heavy
the manufacturers have never entirely lost sight of former ex-
perience, but have kept themselves within compass, and have
left speculation to other parties. This we consider as about the
most cheering characteristic of the present state of the woollen
t rale.

(From the Bolton ClLroniele,)
The power-loom weavers of Biackburn are working only four
days a week, eight hours per day.
ROCILDAT,E FLANNEL. MARKET.—There Was a miserable
market on Monday; not many buyers were in attendance, and
1 they were very backward at purchasing at a reduction of 2s. or
1
3s. per couple, as they expect them considerably lower, as
wools contidue to fall.. There were very few flannels of any
sort sold; fine and middle qualities were scarcely inquired
after. Some little was doing in low flannels aua scouring
cloths. The Wool market nothing can be said to be done over
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it Doh. it is as dull as ever; many of the principal dealers
is so
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READABLE Tres.-T he late William Reid, bookseller., in
Glasgow,
was exceedingly fond of a good joke, and, having a
fair share of humour himself, he was the better able to be either
the judge or the occasion -of it in others. One day an old
woman, from the clachan of Campsie, entered the shop, inquiring
for "a testament ou a mair than ()Millar' round tee r' 0,4;°
of the largest size was shewn to. her, which she carefully ex-
amined, exacting a serious tribute on Mr. R. 's patience. "This
ane'll tlo do—it's a pity noo, for it's a bonnie book--ha'e ye
ony the same size, but wi' the print just about twice as grit "
"No such testament printed in Scotlaed," "was- the reply.
" Weel, I'll tell ye what•ye may do, sin' I ha'e geen yon a' this
trouble; I'm gaun avast a' the gate to Anderston, to see a
brither's bairn that I mann see afote- I the town; an' ye
can just put your stampin' irons in the fire,: and east ane aff to
me li\- the time that I come back-4ve'll'nd cast out-at:nit the
price."—The Laird of Logan.