The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-11-12 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

MA NCHESTE n.—Our spinners and manufacturers still continue
to sell all they can produce at the extreme rates they have ob.
tained for the last fortnight ; and it is well known that printers
and merchants make their co. tracts for the spring this month;
we fear cl th will range higher rather than lower; indeed stocks
everywhere are too light to admit of any alteration in favour of
they buy; r. In the face of cloth getting up, the printers, mer-
chants, and country houses continue unusually flat, and finish-
ed goods are selling at very low prices. 27-inch 66's may be
quoted ss. 3d. to ss. 7id. ; and 7_'s, 6s. to 6s. 4id.
LEEDS.—There was a considerable amount of business done
at the Cloth Halls on Saturday; but the transactions of Tuesday
were very small, principally owing to the roughness of the wea.
ther. Most of the merchants are actively employed; and we
believe there is a large business doing, considering the advanced
season of the year. The orders for home consumption are more
extensive than they have been known for some years past.
HVDDERSFIELD MARKET.—The boisterous weather, which
prevailed on Tuesday, and for some previous days, not only
caused a thin attendance of merchants at the market, but also
a small supply of fresh goods. There was, however, a fair
amount of business done by those present. The general impres.
sion among the manufacturers is that for a time at least the de.
mand for goods will be less active than it has been of late, there
will nevertheless be a steady business transacted.

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BRADFORD MARKET.—'There was but a limited attendance of
buyers at this mark' t on Thursday, and the market was on the
whole considered rather flat—the merchants present, in the
absence of competition, offering very low prices for goods, and
the manufacturers being, consequently, unable to sell to a pro.
fit. Comparatively little busine s was done also in the yarn mar-
ket, and though some contracts were entered into for forward
delivery, they were generally on lower terms than last month.
The demand for combing wools was proportionately small; and
though it is stated that much less business has been done during
the last two months than in any other two months of the present
year. late prices are admirably sustained. And as the rupply in
the hands of growers and stap'ers is considered limited, sta-
plers are by no means over anxious to sell.

HALIFAX MARKET.—There was a fair attendance of mer.
chants at this market of Saturday, but as many of the manu-
facturers were engaged in the Cattle Fair, the number of sellers
was not large. St 11 there was an average business done in ma-
nufactured goods, for Yarns the demand was less active, from
the cause above stated, and that commodity was rather easier
to buy. In wools we note no alteration in price; the sales were
about an average.

KNARESBOROUGH.—We are happy in being enabled to state
that the liven trade of this town, which has suffered considera.
bly for some years past, is at length beginning to assume a more
flourishing aspect. Numbers of individuals who have been out
of employment for a long period have been able to resume their
woned occupations, within the last few weeks, and hopes are
ente'ltained of a still further improvement.

ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET. —There has been more busi-
ness doing in the market to-day, but the prices have been con-
silerably lower. It is a general rent-day in Rochdale this week,
of which the merchants take advantage, as it obliges the small
manufacturers to sell. Pieces have been sold to- ay at a re-
duction of from 2s. to 4s. a couple. The wool market still re-
mains heavy.
LEmESTER TRADE.—The Wool market has been rather firmer
this neck as to prices, and the amount of sales larger. Thi.,
we hope, may be looked upon as a token that the hosiery trade
will not continue to fall off as it has done for the last few weeks,
in every branch of it; for, owing to the falling off in demand,
and the countermanding of many orders, the amount of employ-
ment has naturally decreased : this week many hands h,ve been
discharged, and, unless prospects brighten, still less work wi!l
be given out next.—Leicester Chronicle.
HOSIERY AND LACE TRADE.—The state of the cotton trade is
is still very dull, and many hands are very short of employment.
The wages can scarcely be sa d to be attacked; this augurs well
for the workmen, especially dining the next winter. The ho-
siery trade in almost every department, is in a most depressed
state, as with few exceptions, the major part of the goods are of
a slop description—branch after branch of the trade having ei-
ther passed away in England or are nearly gone. At present
more than three-fif.hs of the hosiery manufactures are slop ; and
even in wrought hose, single cotton has, in most instances, sub-
stituted two-thread yarn. In the worsted manufactures, it is
scarcely possible to buy a good pair of hose single ; the two-
thread worsted having driven away the 3 and 4-thread yarns. The
silk trade has not improved in any of its branches, but still keeps
gradually declining. The bobbin-net trade (thanks to the genius
of the workmen an :t the enterprise of the machine owners) con-
tinues in a healthy state, though not brisk. The warp-lace trade
is still rather depressed, but not se iously so; great hopes are,
however,entertainedof arenovation after Christmas. Themaking
of cloth from the warp frames is now accomplished, and is cans•
ing some speculation. As we have before observed, Yorkshire;
Lancashire, and Cheshire, which have been dreaming in fan-
cied security, must look out, even before this opponent, not to
speak of the bobbin-net machines; the frames from which it is
made are about 150 inches wide, make two pieces of broad
cloth at once, and are divided in the middle, having two beams.
These frames average working up a length of beam-thread
weekly of 4so yards, about 200 racks—equal to fifty-five yards,
or 150 inches, or about 110 yards weekly of broad cloth. This
is performed by two hands, who work by spells all hours; that
is, from two o'clock on Monday morning to eight on Saturday
evening, taking alternately two spells at work, of nine hours
each, and one of six hours, throughout the week. Two dif-
ferent sorts are made,—the stout, which much excels the best
double-midedloom-wove, and is made by lapping, in the mat-
ner of tattings, and then going over the arch the second lap-
ping, is two urn er and one over, both ways. The other
which makes a thin cloth, is made very rapidly, is lapped by
rising two under and one over, and falling two under and one
over; thus lapping on fine needles, which prevents all chance
of split ing, or the web becoming too elastic to bag at the knee.
The cloth is milled and dressed by Messrs. Charlesworth and
Firth, and the yarn is obtained from Messrs. Pearson, of Leeds
and Huddersfield. The web shrinks in dressing to forty-seven
inches in width, but very trifling in length. The weight of
worsted on each beam of 400 yards is from g6lbs. to Dfulbs.
The wide frames are twenty-gauge, three needle: the narrow
frames are twenty six-gauge, three needle the wide frames are
propelled by steam-power. and have steel needles. Such is the
demand for this article, that the manufacturer requires the
workmen to work up weekly 450 yards. At present these
frames find a Letter market than in making cloth for coats and
trowsers —they being engaged in making that beautiful article
termed Nalder's gloves, which are made of this cloth and twelve
shoots of Sierer's India-rubber thread thrown in, in the exact
manner that the inlay thread has been inserted for the last
thirty years.—Noll. Journal.

LONDON GAZETTE,-..TuEsDAy, Nov. 5.