The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-05-31 00:00:00

MARKETS.

MARKETS FOR MANUFACTURES.

MANCHESTER.—The resumption of business this week has
developed a very firm market, with gradually advancing prices
for all descriptions of goods and yarns, and a demand quite as
extensive as is in the power of producers to supply. Neither
the accounts from America, at the beginning of the week,
which indicated a decline in the value of Cotton, nor those
later on, indicative of more stability, have had any effect upon
the Liverpool Cotton market, so that there has been no dis-
turbing influence at work from that cause. With respect to
the wages question, the operatives and their employers are
still at issue, and although an open rupture, with some excep-
tions, is avoided, considerable uneasiness and dissatisfaction
exists among the employed. Yarns have been generally in
good demand all the week, in all cases at extreme rates, and in
most at an advance of id to id per lb. within the last ten days.
For India the inquiry continues to a fair extent, at gradually
hardening prices; whilst for common 40s, the production of
which has been all but suspended by the wages question, fully
id more is obtained, the price paid being 0-id ; but 10d is asked
and has been held for. For Water Yarns for Germany, the
Mediterranean, and China, a fair demand exists, at an advance
of id per lb. ; and, for the home trade, warps and welts are id
to id higher, according to number and quality. The lower
numbers of Water Yarns are an exception. and spinners of
those descriptions are by no means doing well. Cloth is very
firm, the tendency of prices being against the buyer. For 40-
inch shirtings there is less inquiry, but this is of little moment,
the manufacturers being well in order. Printing Cloths con-
tinue in fair demand, and for some kinds an advance is re-
quired. There has been rather less doing by the Greek houses
during the week. Madapollams are in request, at an advance,
as also jaconetts. T Cloths and Long Cloths have an upward
tendency, as is the case with domestics ; manufacturers of
which are obliged to hold out for higher prices. in consequence
of the advance they have to pay for warps and weft, but they
find it very difficult to secure their relative position as regards
the cost of materials they use, and the value of the manufac-
tured article, unfavourable as that position previously was.
LEEDS.—An average amount of business, for the season, was
done both on Saturday and Tuesday in the Cloth Hall, and the
same may be said as to the merchants' warehouses during the
week. Prices are firm, the progress of the colonial wool sales
in London affording no prospect of the cost of the raw material
being less than at present.
BRADFORD.—We cannot note any material change in the
state of the Worsted trade since this day week. The trans.
actions in Wools, Yarns, and Pieces have not been very exten-
sive during the week, but they have been at firm prices. Indeed
there appears no probablity of prices falling.
HALIFAX.—The only noticeable change in the trade in our
Piece Hall on Saturday was that a little more was done in low
mixtures, but not, we believe, at remunerative prices. Yarns
are firm, but the demand not active. Wools change hands
slowly, and the late quotations are stiffly maintained.

HUDDERSFIELD.—The market has been quiet during the
past week. There is a slackness in the demand for all kinds of
Woollens which maybe expected now for a few weeks, con-
sidering the length and briskness of the nearly ended season.
Stocks are not much on the increase, and prices remain firm.
In Wools not much has been done, brokers being up in London,
attending the present sales. Business transacted has been
done at former rates.

LEICESTER.—Prices of Wools have been steady during the
last fortnight, but they are very firm. There is a very good
demand for Woollen Hosiery, both for shipping and for the
home fall trade. The operatives are in full employment at ad-
vanced wages, and are likely to remain so for some time to
come, as the production from the frames will be much less
than usual for the next three months. _ .

Norrt;on- Am.—The Lace and Hosiery trades are each in a
less healthy state than we have had occasion to report for some
time past—the latter being to some extent overdone by too
large a production. The dulness with respect to the former is
owing to fashion being at present decidedly against us, except
for silk goods, for which there is yet a tolerably fair demand.
Silk is yet scarce and very dear, as is also Cotton for each
trade, and there does not appear to be a prospect of any im-
mediate reduction in the price of either one or the other.