The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-08-17 00:00:00

meal went of

,D CORI`
i-day we has,

and the weather being tin
sition to do business. WI
cheaper. Oats were id. per st
Very few inquiries for Beans, and

There was a fair supply of new
day, and both met a brisk demain
sample of new Wheat was sold at V,
grain were of the most trifling' cha
quotations can only be considered
sold in retail, at a reduction of 2s.

millers red ditto
to 13s. Od.; Oats, Hs. to 17s
Flour. 20s. to 21s. Od.; Indian Corn,

MANCHESTER CORN EXCH.
The weather, which up. to Thursday c
n unsettled, has, since that time, becon

harvest operations.
Continued large arrivals of American
the only article of which any considerab
upon the market) have been met by a VC
created not only by the exhaustion of s
but by the low prices at which it is offe
nearly all competition, and force a sale

t our market to-d.
Tel Flour fully 2s.

des no alteratiOn

STATE OF TRADE,

MA NCI; SSTs a.—Our market this week, as Might have b,
expected, has been seriously affected by the high rate of c
counts, the large failures and general want of confidence,
the consequent interruption to the usual facilities for transa
ing business. The difficulties encountered by all parties
meeting their engagements has almost put a stop to operatic
in our staple articles. The business done has been on the in,
limited scale; every one is reluctant to increase his responsi
lilies, and therefore it is only the most immediate and pressi

orders for which purchases are made.
needy sellers may be to make concessio

y any temptation

s to price wil

operate in the present severely-felt pres
ket. Under such circumstances, it w
quote any decided general reduction in
or yarns, although undoubtedly sales of both rr
made below the prices of last week.
LEEDS.—The demand for woollen cloths this v
fully equal to late averages, and prices remain firm
not extensive, manufacturers carefully.endeavourir
keep pace with the demand, which is chiefly for low
die qualities.
BRADFORD.—WooI.--The sales of colonial wools C 4
on Tuesday evening, at the Hall of Commerce, Lond
355 full prices of last sales, and on Tuesday evening the 1
were equally brisk. The demand for English combing

are in t

not so lively, and the supply in the market is increasi
to the small quantity of noils and brokes now in:
stocks keep bare, and full prices are realized. Yarr
what more business has been done by the shipping h,
home trade is steady, but prices are so ruinously low,
one seems disposed to limit his production as nanol
sible. Pieces.—This trade exhibits no new feature
week. A good deal continues to be done in fancy cl
coloured yarns, and as those are chiefly made to of
are no stocks on hand. Orleans, paramattas, and 1
all steadily moved off, without change in prices.
HALlFAX.—lsleither in pieces nor in yarn is there ai
as regards either demand or price; the same thanes
ing in both. Long wools are held rathermore firmly
ners do not buy freely ; in short wools rather more
and the late advance seems to be well sustained.
HUDDERSFIELD.—We had a very quiet market
and little business was done. Prices are without s

more th