The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-12-13 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

(Front the Leeds Intelligencer.)
TRADE OF LEEDS.—We have no particular alteration to note
in the woollen cloth business of this town and neighbourhood.
The workmen, generally, are much better employed than at
this season, of the year. hut theme has not been quite so much
business done in the Cloth 'Jails on the last two or three market
days as previously, a circumstance by no means uncomuirui in
the month of December. The wool market, however, continues
firm, and there is every reason to hope that with the turn of this
year, mercantile affairs will take an improving turu in this
neighbourhood.

BRADFORD MARKET.-I%e demand for manufactured goods,
on Thursday, was not so extensive as of late, but there was no
alteration in prices, as the spinners are asking higher prices for
Yarns, for which there was a fair demand. In Wools there
was not much business done, as prices were somewhat higher,
nod the storks were not generally so well selected as they were
some weeks ago, and the spinners wore not disposed to buy
be.y,n,l their immediate wants.
11A Li FA x NI A RKET.—We have nothing fresh to state regard-
- int; the market to day. There has been about an average
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quantity of business done with little or no variation n prices.
Stocks of lastings have been Much reduced of late. •
B NSLEY LINEN I'l:APR—The linen trade of Barnsley,
we are Sorry to say, is not so good as it has been; a great num-
ber of weavers have been seeking work during the week. The
liotne orders are slack, and the manufacturers are cautious about
making goods beforehand, no doubt from the unsettled state of
the money market. The. drib houses, however, are busy just
now, and are working long hours, principally for shipping
Orders; but, we are afraidthat a cloud is approaching, which will
operate seriously upon that important portion of the Barnsley
trade.
Ri)CH VALE FLANNEL M FKILT, DEC. s.—To-day there has
been rather a brisk market, as compared with these of the two
preceding weeks. A considerable number of Peres have been
'sold, bat Without any advance in price. Wool has been pretty
steady, and has undergone little or no Variati,n. The demand
for t.orlg being rather brisker, higher prices have been asked,
bat not generally obtained.
:11,Iimms,ToN.—The inhabitants of Middleton are at- present
suffering under great privations from want of employment; yet
the silk •weavers this week seem to he in better spirits, as many
checked sarsnets have been given out, and manufacturers en-
-tertain some hopes that the silk trade will very soon revive.
Unfortunately, provisions are very high, and coals have this
week-advanced one penny per basket, which will make a differ-
ence of about three halfpence in the shilling. The shopkeepers
complain•much of the scarcity of money, and many landlords
declare-they have not witnessed such bad rent days for the last
twenty years past.
H worm—There are upwards of thirty cotton factories
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this thriving town, and we are glad to state, that the hands seem
generally fall employed. Mechanics and house carpenters are
.rlso very busy.
CHOWBENT.—There is more business doing here at present
than has been the case for a number of years past, except as
regards the hand-loom silk and cotton weavers, who are "stinted"
in quantity of work (in order to prevent the market being over
stocked,) but who have had no reduction of wages. The nail
makers, a numerous class in this town, are all fully employed.