The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-08-21 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

MANCHESTER.—On Tuesday last, the upward course of the
cotton market led to the requirement ofiiigher prices for yarn,
and on Thursday, to a further movement in the same direction ;
on the latter day, however, the previously manifested hesita-
tion among buyers to follow in that course, became increas-
ingly marked and general, and the amount o; transactions de-
cidedly snore limited. To-day, the indisposition to operate has
acquired further •strength from the diminished activity of the
cotton market. We are closing the week, therefore, in a very
inanimate state. Tle home manufacturers told back, because
they are well supplied with yarns. The India houses are wait-
ing with no sangnme expectations the arrival of the mail ; and,
although the manufacturers of Germany are known to be very
bare of stock, still the merchants are afraid of giving our en-
hanced rates in their present ignorance as to the -possible effect
of the extensive supplies liberated by the removal& the Danish
blockade. At the same time, spinners in general are standing
by their quotations with no little spirit, sustained by the pre-
valent opinion that cotton is not likely to recede in value, and
spurred on by want of profit or by actual loss in extensive de-
partments of production. The rise in cotton has sot led to a
demand for higher prices on the part of manufacturers; and
yet the cloth ,market has been in a languid state during the
whole of the week. The wider shirtings, suitable for India,
have shown a declining tendency; and the very limited busi-
ness effected has been at lower rates. For 36-inch shirtings,
36-inch printers, and printers, there is rather less inquiry
than there was last week. but prices remain steady. Long
cloths, T cloths, and domestics drag heavily along, without any
sign of improvement. On the whole, very little has been done
in goods, and that little unattended with any satisfactory ap-
pearances.
BRAHFORD.—WOOI: The uneasiness now prevailing among
the combers, and the small quantity of work they are doing,
causes the spinners to have less need to buy now than for some
weeks past. The transactions during the week have been of a
limited character, but the prices sought in the country are such
that the staplers here are disinclined to sell at any material
reduction. Yarns : The demand continues brisk for all kinds
of yarns, and the spinners are generally working to order; but
the orders werechiefly taken for some time back, and the prices
now current are by no means for the deliveries now making.
Pieces: There continues a good demand for low and middle
qualities of Cobourgs, which are taken off as made (being
chiefly to orders taken some time back). Lustres, Orleans, and
other things suitable for the autumn are in steady request, and
prices are very firm.
HALIFAX.—We have no particular change to notice this
week, in our report of the state of trade, either in wools, in
yarns, or in manufactured goods, everything remaining about
the same as reported in our last.
ROCHDALE.—There has been another good market this week,
and the flannels were eagerly bought up before noon. Heavy
pods, such as kerseys, have been dull of sale, and the transac-
tions have been more limited than on the previous week, In
wool, prices remain steady, with little business doing.
NOTTINGHAM.—Lace: Except for goods more particularly
adapted for the German market, there is considerable flatness,
The inquiry after silk goods has almost ceased, yet there is no
cause for despair, as the autumn trade will require what few
goods remain on hand—and there is no necessity to make any
sacrifice on sticks, as both silk and cotton are advancing in
price considerably.—Hosiery : Our trade is yet of a rather
limited character; yet, for the sec son, it may be called fair for
most descriptions, if we except gloves, which are in very small
request just now; however, as the raw articles are rapidly ad-
vancing, orders to souse Went pre MVP to be given Pitt very
) speedily.