The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-05-16 00:00:00

MANUFACTURES.

MANCIIESTER.—This market continues dull and in-
animate, without the slightest favourable change. On
Tuesday there was very little inquiry, either for goods or
yarns, and prices were generally weak. Since Tuesday
the same want of activity, even in a greater degree, has
manifested itself, the announcement of the advance of the
rate of -discount by the Bank of England on Thursday
having tended in the same direction.—The export demand
for yarns is very limited from all quarters, and were it not
that spinners were pretty well engaged, a considerable
decline in price would ensue; as it is, further orders
would be accepted on very decidedly lower terms. For
India and China there is' very little doing, whilst for Ger-
many the inquiry is just as moderate. Manufacturers
contract their purchases within the narrowest limits.—
The cloth market continues very dull, and in some quar-
ters, to make sales, very low prices have been quoted ; but
the great caution exhibited by buyers is not easily re-
moved.
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HUDDERSFIELD.--Ixi the cloth hall business has
been very flat, and, with the exception of about half a
dozen warehouses, very :little has been done out of th
hall. The deliveries to order have been less than for
several weeks past. The general feeling throughout the
market is that of quietness. The wool trade continues in
the same dull state as it has been for the last two months.
LEEDS.—Although markets have been dull at the cloth
'halls, yet, from the 'business done by the commission
hands during the past week, and the deliveries to direct
orders, the transactions have been to quite as great an
extent as could be expected ; and from the prudent course
the manufacturers have adopted, of curtailing the pro-
duction, stocks are kept in moderate compass, and prices
for :seasonable goods .are well maintained. Business has
'been dull in the warehouses this week, the buyers who
visit the market limiting their operations to present wants
only.
BRADFORD.—WooI: This has been a week of unusual
dulness : the sales are meagre in the extreme,,but there
is a good stock in the market of such kinds as are in re-
Auest. Full bred sorts and matchings are scarce, and the
prices offered far below what the grower and country
defilers are disposed to sell at, consequently there is the
difficulty to meet of either getting up the prices here, or a
reduction in the country to enable the dealers and con-
'-sumers to operate. Noils and brakes are only made iu
•small quantities; hand bed noils are exceedingly
scarce, and command .—Yarns : Week succeeds
week, and with no other accounts than the daily stoppage
of machinery. The comniisSion, or spinners for hire, who
produce large quantities ,of second class yarns, being the
:product of bought tops, are now in an unparalleled posi-
tion, many being totally idle, and others but very par-
tially engaged; the fact being, that the parties who
Usually kept them employed, are able to buy yarns ready
spun for less than the cost of tops. The prices of wool
and tops bear no proportion to the current price of yarns,
I the spinning cost, in many cases, being wholly sacrificed ;
this applies to both spool and reeled yarns, and the prices
now oirered leave no' alternative but further limiting pro-
duction, till either yarns can De made cheaper, or they
I realize a price more nearly approximating the cost of
making.—Pieces : There is more doing in piece goods than
a few weeks ago, but the prices realised are frightful, and
little surprise need be excited at hearing of many cases of
inability to pay, for two or three turps over of capital will
almost involve a solvent man in ruin. All wool goods are
very profitless, and the quantity coming •to market un-
usually small.

NOTTINGHAM.—The lace trade continues depressed,
a few articles sell moderately well, but there is little doing
generally. The hosiery trade is also flat, with a prospect
of its remaining so until the Americans can come more
freely into the market, which, however, tan hardly be
hoped for some time. The money market there is easier
than it was, yet it is not in such a state as to induce any
extensive expenditure in European manufactures. Many
machines in the lace trade are unemployed, and a great
number of female operatives have only half work. The
price of yarn is a little more in favour of the buyer.

LEICESTER.—The business of the week appears about
as last reported. The American orders contribute to the
employment bf some of the hands, hut • the home trade
cannot be expected to improve much till the price of bread
is lower, to enable the millions of working people to be-
come larger purchasers of our manufactured articles.