The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-05-09 00:00:00

MANUFACTURES

MANCHESTER.—There is more decided dulness in
the market this week, and prices are generally lower, both
for goods and yarns. In addition to the knowledge that
the termination of the strikes must bring an additional
quantity of goods on the market, late accounts from
America apprise us of a considerable decline in the value
of cotton, especially in the South. These circumstances,
coupled with the reduced demand for most of the Eastern
markets, has caused spinners and manufacturers to be more
anxious to make sales ; and orders that were positively
declined on Tuesday, owing to the low prices offered, have
commanded more favourable consideration since then.
The exp.:ill demand for yarns has been limited all week,
the sales for the India market being continued only to a
limited extent, whilst buyers for the continent act in the
cautious manner usual with them of late. Manufacturers
have been operating rather more freely, from an uncer-
tainty whether the hesitation of the Preston and Stock-
port mule spinners to resume work may not cause these
yarns to become somewhat dearer. Goods are very quiet,
purchases only being induced by the acceptance of lower
prices.

ROCHDALE.—The merchants show no desire to pur-
chase at any price. In wool little or nothing doing; the
manufacturers keep out of the market, and prefer working
up the stocks on hand to purchasing at present.
HUDDERSFIELD.—Business during the past week
has been very dull with both woollen merchants and wool
staplers.
LEEDS.—We have still to report dull markets at our
Cloth Halls; business is also dull with the commission
hands out of the market. Prices for seasonable goods
remain firm, but in other sorts sales cannot be made,
except at a reduction, although the stocks are not large.
Many of the mills are beginning to run short time.
Although there has been a number of buyers down, they
purchase so very sparingly, that the transactions have been
below all average demand in the warehouses.

BRADFORD.—WooI :4 The sales are not by any means
extensive, and the supply coming to market is very
limited; the stocks of deep-grown fleece wool and sorts
are not abundant, and the downward tendency of this
class has abated. In skin wools of all kinds there is greater
plenty ; also, Down, half-bred, and other fine wools, for
which there is less inquiry, and the supply in the market
more abundant, with a desire on the part of the holders to
clear out prior to the new wools of this class coming to
market.' boils and brokes are made in limited quantity,
and prices are better maintained than for long or combing
wools.—Yarns : The position of this branch continues dis-
couraging in the extreme : the disproportionate price of
yarns, compared with the cost to produce, is beyond any
former precedent, and the daily loss is telling on those
engaged in the trade ; large quantities of machinery being
either entirely idle or only partially employed throughout
the whole district.—Pieces : Nothing new in this branch ;
there is a gradual diminution of the quantity of goods
made, and every week adds to the number of parties com-
pelled to stop by the ruinous prices they have had to submit
to for their goods ; and unless some decided improvement
steps in ere long, the conflict will be disastrous.

NOTTINGHAM.—The condition of the staple business
of this town seems to be worse, rather than otherwise,
more particularly the lace trade, in which, many of the
manufacturers, say they have never previously experienced
any time of such extreme depression. The hosiery,
although not by any means so bad, is not nearly in so
healthy a condition as the season would warrant us expect-
ing. 'Little doing in yarn, and the price nominally the
same, although purchasers to any extent would doubtless
'have an advantage.
LEICESTER.—No satisfactory improvement in the
tirade this week. The hands are employed chiefly on
spring goods for the home market, and for the American
fall trade, for which orders continue to arrive. Price of
-yarn remains the same as last week, and diminished pro-
'duction is still continued by the spinners.