The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-09-22 00:00:00

STATE :OF -TRADE

Lzzns.—There was a considerable 'amount of business
done in the cloth halls on Saturday, but on Tuesday, owing
to the limited supply of fresh goods occasioned by the wetness
of the preceding day, the purchases were far from extensive.
The stocks of bale goods in both the halls are very limited ;
scarcely ever were they known to be so low.
BRADFORD MARKET.—The attendance of buyers at this
market on Thursday was limited, occasioned by two causes,
the wetness of the morning and the cup race at Doncaster.
Nevertheless there was a fair business done, and prices were
firm, the supply of manufactured goods principally in request
being very limited. In the yarn market the sales were brisk
at former rates. The wool market did not, however, partake
of the general animation ; the transactions were few, and
there was no improvement in prices.
HUDDERSFIELD MARKET.—The demand for heavy winter
goods still continues brisk, and a fair general trade was done
on Tuesday in most descriptions of woollens. Light fancies
are not quite so much in request as is usually the case at this
season. Prices remain firm, but do not improve. In wools
there was a fair demand, at late.prices. Business in the
warehouses during the week has been satisfactory.
WAKEFIELD WooL MARKET, Sept. 18.—The trade still
remains in a very dull state; it is, however, recovering from
its late torpidity, though slowly. In the better sorts there
is a slight improvement in price.
ROCHD ALE FLANNEL MARKET, Sept. 14.—The flitnnel
market has been quite as brisk to-day as on the preceding
Mondays. The demand remains steady, but there is no
advance in price. In the wool market there is no change.
LktecAsurng.—The cotton spinning and power-loom
weavers at Stockport have more work than they had a few
weeks ago, and the machinery in nearly all the cotton mills
is in full operation, but, on account of the late turn-outs,
many factory operatives resident in the town have not yet
been able to get employment ; strangers from other places
have got their work, at wages from ten to fifteen per cent.
lower than they were twelve months ago. The cotton trade
at Hyde, Ashton-under-Lyne, Stayley-bridge, Newton-moor,
&c., is much the same as we stated a few weeks since : the
machinery in the mills is generally running full time. The
hand-loom weavers of counterpanes and fancy quiltings at
Bolton have for many months past been in distressed circum-
stances, both on account of the scarcity of work and low
wages paid to the operatives ; but things have now rather a
better appearance. Many persons are of opinion that the
late Chartist agitations have injured the trade, both here and
in other towns ; it is a fact that operatives have had more
work in those towns where Chartism has been regarded as a
delusion. The woollen trade of Bury is in a moderately
healthy state, but mechanics and machine makers are slack
of work. The calico block printing at two large shops is not
so brisk; operatives, likewise, have less work than they had
last week. The various trades in those towns we mentioned
in our last are much the same, except stone-masons anal
house-carpenters, whose work is now becoming more seem.