The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-06-24 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE,

MANCHESTER.—The market is again better, and at the early
part of the week buyers operated pretty freely, at a general
advance in the prices of yarns of id. to id. per lb. over the
current rates of the previous week. Towards the evening of
Tuesday and the following day, the higher advance was gene-
rally held for and obtained, and for certain descriptions—
medium 30's, mule in cop, for instance—a much more consi-
derable advance had to be paid. Both mule and water yarns
of the lower numbers have been in demand, and now command
about id. more than last week. There was a tendency to a
still further advance until Thursday, when, in consequence of
the diminished buoyancy of the Liverpool cotton market, par-
tially occasioned by the accounts received from America by
the Baltic, more hesitation was shown by buyers to give the
rates asked, and since then both manufacturers and the fo-
reign houses have been more restricted in their purchases, and
the market closes for the week hardly so good as on Wednes
day. The higher numbers of yarn have been less inquired for,
and the same advance cannot be noted for these. Both manu-
facturers and the German and Greek houses have bought
pretty freely during the week. For India, though there is
some demand, it is not general.
ROCHDALE.—We have had, as might be expected, a dull
market after Whitsun-week. Fewer pieces have been offered
for sale, and there has been a more limited number of buyers
in the market. There is little or no change in the wool mar-
ket, and prices are firmly maintained, notwithstanding the
new clip.
MACCLESFIELD.—We have to report a similar state of things
to that of our last, as regards the demand for manufactured
goods; the general slackness now so long prevalent not having
abated.

LEF Ds.—A good demand has been experienced this week for
woollen cloth, principally for the lower qualities—cloaking and
heavy winter goods. Prices are steady, and the stocks are by
no means heavy ; but the spring trade being over, there has
been but little doing in the warehouses. June is usually a dull
month, and the present is no exception to the general rule.

BRADFORD.—WooI: There is 'nothing thii'week that indi-
cates anything to justify the high prices which continue to be
paid in the country for wool, for at the seat of consumption
there is the greatest caution evinced against buying anything
except for actual use, and at prices below the current rates
now demanded in the country.—Yarns : This, as well as last,
has been a holiday week, and the employers have allowed full
scope to the pleasure seekers, by generally stopping their
works, it being the least loss, for the prices at which yarns are
now selling offer no inducement except to protract the supplies
to the greatest extent practically possible.—Pieces : Goods of
all kinds suitable for dress purposes continue in fair request,
but the prices are such as tend only to loss on the old-made
stocks, and it is impossible to realise prime cost at the present
prices of material and labour.
HUDDERSFIELD.—We have had a flat market again this
week, and less sales have been effected. The shipping houses
are generally quiet, and have been so during the week. Goods
for the home trade are not much in request. When the first
half of the year gets turned, it is generally expected we shall
have a pretty brisk season, at present being what is called
" between the seasons."

HALIFAX.—The trade in our Piece Hall was not very ani-
mated on Saturday; but there was a somewhat improved de-
mand in fancy goods, principally for the South American mar-
ket. We have no material change to report in yarn : there is
a fair amount of business doing, but the prices are unremune-
rative. The transactions in wool are not extensive, and the
quotations have undergone no alteration.
NOTTINGHAM.—Lace: We cannot report any improvement
in any department of the multitudinous articles under this
head, except, perhaps, a little more demand for silk laces, for
which we anticipate an improved business during the season,
as they have become a necessary article of ornament to the
dress of all ladies who desire to be in the fashion. All descrip-
tions of lace made of cotton are in very moderate request—a
circumstance not at all unusual during the height of summer.
—Hosiery : Our prospects of improvement are very gloomy.
The principal part of our export orders for the summer are
nearly completed, and there is not any increased sale in the
home districts ; therefore it is feared there will he many work-
men thrown out of employment, in addition to those already
suffering from want of work. There is very little doing in
yarns, and no change in price.