The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-07-31 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

MANCIIESTER.—The market has been quiet throughout the
past.week. On Mcsiday anti Tuesday there was less doing,
and since then business transactions have been brought within
a still narrower compass. During the last ten days the demand
for India has been co nparat vely small, and now buyers for
that quarter are almost entirely out of :the market. The up-
ward course of prices last week checked business, and in the
face of the latest news-from India there is little chance of any
extensisn at present, :prices showing a ,downward tendency
there, -whilst here the advance has been .considerable,—thus
bringing the markets too close to admit of further exports to
such a profit as will prove an inducement. For the Continent
there has also been a falling off in the demand. The German
houses continue inactive, notwithstanding that the blockadeof
the Elbe is expected to fbe raised soon after the Ist of Ausmst.
As we anticipated, there .will apparently be little immediate
effect produced by the opening of the German ports. Had
prices not made so decided an advance, there is little doubt
but that speculative purchases would have been continued;
but lowness of price, and-that aleue, led to the animated de-
mand of the German houses-throughout the blockade; the in-
.ou-cement removed, there is no other temptation to continue
purchases, especially as there has never been a dearth of yarn
in Germany, more than the requirements of that part of the
Continent having been all along supplied by the more indirect
and expensive route; and the .erpectatioa of receiving large
supplies, which ere now awaiting shipment in Hull, tends to
the depression of prices there, Jabilst here, in consequence of
the continued rise in the price of ,cotton, the reverse has been
the case. At the came time there has also been less demand
for the Mediterranean. Notwithstanding the stagnation in
the market, but little disposition has been evinced by spinners
to accept any reduction of price. Witt descriptions have, hi
some few instances, been hardly held with so great firmness,
but these cases are rare, as spinners are generally so entirely
free rotri stocks, that full prices are required, and the greatest
firmness evinced. Yarns for home manufacture, although not
quite in such great demand—the question of price being here
again the cause of hesitation—fetch the higher rates of last
week. The cloth market shares in tha diminished inquiry,
but, as might be expected from the extensive transactions re-
cently, there is no disposition to lower rates. Manufacturers
are full of orders for all light descriptions of goods, and as
many will be some time before they complete the contracts
they. have at present on hand, no decline can be expected ; so
far is it otherwise, that for present delivery some advance
might be obtained for light shirtings. As regards the heavier
kinds of goods, there is little or nothing doing.

BOCIIDALE.—A very fair business in flannels has been done
this week, at something like former prices. The wool-dealers
complain of the limited demand there is for the raw material,
but this may be partly accounted for from the higher price
asked, which the manufacturers appear unwilling to give, ex.
cept they are compelled to buy.
LEEDS.—Though the weather was very unfavourable on
Tuesday, there was a good attendance of buyers at the Cloth
Halls, and both on that.day and on Saturday large purchases
were made, principally of the middle and finer qualities of
cloth. Prices are slightly on the advance.
BRADFORD —Wool:—Throughout the week the arrivals of
both colonial and English wools have been abundant, and there
is now a good choice offered, but the spinners have no inclina-
tion to purchase, as the stocks in their hands are equally full.
Prices, however, remain very firm. Yarns:—The demand is
good, fully equal to the supply. On combing wages, a general
advance throughout the town has been given, and the contracts
for August will not be made, except with a corresponding ad-
vance. Low and middle numbers are much inquired for, and
the advance is greater than on the finer counts. Pieces:—On
Thursday, although we had weather thoroughly drenching, the
market was well attended by buyers for cloth suitable for
autumn, both for home and export, and for which higher prices
were given.
HA LIFAX.—The quantity of goods which changed hands in
the Piece Hall, on Saturday, was not so great as on the last
three or four Saturdays, on account of the extreme lowness of
the stocks of some descriptions, more particularly lastings, the
demand for which exceeds the supply, the manufacturers being
unable to execute large orders, as the spinners are too busy on
yarns for the• Continent to furnish them with lasting warps.
Much is now made to order, and prices are looking upward.
Yarns continue to be in good demand for export, and will be
more so, in consequence of the termination of the Danish
blockade. The quotations are improving. A fair amount of
business is doing in wool, at a trifling legitimate, not specula-
tive advance. The staplers are generally holding heavy stocks.
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H UDDERSFIELD.—A fair amount of business has teen done
during the week. The principal demand is for dark goods
adapted for the forthcoming season. Not much has been done
in vestings. The price of wool has improved equal to the
advance at the London sales.
NOTTING lin M.—Lace :—Rather more is doing just now than
we anticipated for this month, and there is a prospect of- an
increased demand,- in consequence of the expected settlement
of-the Danish and German disputes. Stocks. of. most descrip-
tions of goods are small on the Continent as well as here, suit-
able for that anal ket.—/logiery :--Our trade is again a little
reviving ; the cut-up branches are well employ, d, mid some of
the wrought-hose Lands are getting to work again. There is
more inquiry after yarn; the last advance is operating seri-
ously against the interests of the hosiers. The glove trade still
continues fair, with a prospect of some extensive orders for
the autumn trade ; stocks are very small,• and we believe few.
are now being made but to order.—Nottinphani