The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-07-01 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE

MANCHESTER.—There has been a quieter market this week;
nevertheless, prices are not materially affected, and may be
considered as holding a very favourable position, considering
the decline of prices in the Liverpool cotton market. The
news by the last steamer from America gave further assurance
that the crop of cotton now coming forward to the ports would
fully coital the estimates, and every week that passes without
any unfavourable accounts of the growing crop is naturally
construed into a further guarantee of a very large yield of the
new crop. Under these circumstances, there has been more
pressure to sell in Liverpool with a declne of prices. The
favourable condition of this market has, however, enabled pro-
ducers to hold a relatively firm position, and no decline to the
same extent as that in Liverpool has taken place, although
prices are rather more in favour of the buyer for some descrip-
tions both of cloth and yarn. On Tuesday there was less ani-
mation in the market ; nevertheless, spinners in many in-
stances were offered such engagements for future delivery as
made them indisposed, in the latter part of the day, to take
the same prices they would have accepted in the morning.
Since Tuesday the continued decline in the cotton market has
induced the producers of such yarns as are not much run upon
to accept rather lower prices. to the extent of about id. per lb.
In other instances there is an indisposition to accept further
contracts. even at the extreme rates of the day. The cloth-
market has also been less active, but manufacturers are very
generally engaged ; and altogether the market, though affected
in tone by the position of the Liverpool cotton market, holds
a more independent position than has been observable for
a very lengthened period.

ROCHDALE.—We have had rather mote inquiry for goods,
as vrell as a litt'e improved demand for pieces. No change in

firm, ant

LEEDS.—The woollen trade continues steadily active, a full
average amount of business for the season being transacted
for both the home and the foreign markets. In prices there is
no change to notice. Stocks are in a moderate compass, and
anything like undue speculation, either by merchants or ma-
nufacturers, does hot prevail in the trade.

BRADFORD.—WOOI: We can only report a limited sale of
wools this week, prices acting as a barrier. The spinner is
unable to give the price sought by the stapler, nor can he take
lower rates in the face of the current prices now freely given
in the country for new wool. A few weeks will adjust this dif-
ference as the spinners' stocks use up. Either they must buy.
or use considerably less. Noils and shorts, from the small
quantity making, are commanding fair prices.—Yarns t The
only feeling in this branch now is how to make the least loss;
and production must be diminished, for the current rates of
3 y are so very .eat. ' cannot be ,ffered ;fr

,arns SO. Jor there is no
improvement on the very low rates for some time current.—
Pieces : There is more doing, but at very discouraging prices.
Alpaca goods of all kinds, both for finishing and dyeing, are in
active request; and, from the very high price of the raw mate-
rial, the manufacturers nre compelled to seek higher prices,
which are not willingly conceded.

HALIFAX.—We liaie had a very quiet market in our Piece-
hall, and the amount of business transacted has not been large
in any description of worsted goods.
HUDDERSFIELD.—The manufacturers in the Cloth-hall
complain very much of the slackness of the market, there
scarcely having been any buyers in town. Stocks at present
are low. In the warehouses about an average trade has been
done. Rather more has been done in wool.

LEICESTER.—There appears to he a total absence of business
in the staple trade of the town and neighbourhood ; to such an
extent that its like has not been felt for a long time past. The
operatives are mostly out of employment, both in town and
county; spinners are running short time, and most factories
are only working three days a week. Several of the hosiers
have suspended manufacturing until the question of prices of
making is settled, which appears to be the principal cause of
the present stoppage and the sooner a propel. understanding
is come to on this point, the better it will be. The advanced
state of improvement in the wide and rotatory machinery that
has taken place in this neighbourhood during the last two or
three years, is a subject of vital importance for the considers-

tion of the operatives, and must ire long supersede the old-
fashioned frame in every article such machinery is calculated
to make. Wools maintain the late prices, and some people are
sanguine enough to suppose that it may go a little higher ; to
others this is very doubtful.

NOTTIN OHA si.—Lace: With the exception of some sales in
the better description of goods, there is but a very_ limited
business doing. We are delighted to find that her Majesty the
Queen has been minutely inspecting the machinery connected
with this trade. Her gracious approval of the productions ex-
hibited being generally circulated throughout the country, will
doubtless be attended with beneficial results.—Hosiery : There
is not the least improvement in business this week ; in 'fact.
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the depression so king felt seems rather to increase than dimi-
nish, particularly as regards the home trade, in which there is
not one quarter the employment for the bands which the erdi'.
nary demand at this season usually furnishes. The number of
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good and intelligent workmen thrOwn out of ertipiWin;Tin:
creases weekly. Some, perhaps, may obtain a little harvest-
work, but their future prospects are discouraging, in conse-
quence of the increased production by the introduction of the
new rapid round frames, in working which very little mecha-
nical skill is required.—The price of yarns remains unaltered.

LONDON GAZETTE.-TUESDAY, JUNE 24

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED,

Short and Blake, Liverpool, ship chandlers—Tattersall and
Pilling, Salford, machine makers—• Leeds, Morley, and Booth,
Manchester, smallware manufacturers; as fat as regards G.
Leeds—Day and Burman, Dewsbury, millwrights.

BANKRUPTS.
Thomas George Tidev, Rugby, bookseller.
Anthony Patten, Chapple, Essex, horse dealer.
Joseph Sowerby, Oxford-street, London, silk mercer.
William Davies, Walbrook, London, coal merchant.
William Hanson, Kensington, London, statuary.
Benjamin John Benton, Stepney, London, corn merchant.
Augustus Bozzi Granville, Wembly, Middlesex, lodging
house keeper

DIVIDENDS
July 15, B. Wright, Liverpool, dealer in paint
Carter, Bristol, victualler.
CERTIFICATES
To be granted, unless cause be shown to the contrary on the
day of meeting.
July 15, W. Andrews, Liverpool, agent—July_l6..T. Mitchell,

July 17

Aloavrei;rinoutli Shore, shipOwner-----July 16, H. D. Stevenson
Dishopwcarmouth. merchant.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
A. Drysdale, Edinburgh, cloth warehouseman—
Rothesay, joiner—W. Thompson, Edinburgh, write:

T. Campbell,

FRIDAY, JUNE 27.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.

R. Birley, T. H. Birley, H. Birley, T. H. Birley, jun., J. H.
Birley, T. Hancock, and W. Brockedon, Choriton-upon-Med.
lock, Lancashire, and Aldermanbury, London, waterproofers
as far as regards R.Birley, T. H. Birley, jun., and J. H. Birley
P. Vampen and C. Sanders, Manchester, gold beaters—•B,
Dobson and J. Metcalfe, Little Bolton, Lancashire, machine
makers.