The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-10-03 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE

MANCHESTER.—Our market exhibits no improvement either
in goods or yarns. The aggregate business of the present week
may, indeed, somewhat exceed that of last week ; this has
arisen, however, not from any greater disposition to purchase
or the part of merchants, but from an increased determina-
tion to sell at the best attainable rates on the part of producers,
in consequence of the rapid exhaustion of their orders, and the
growth of stocks that is beginning to take place. For India
and China, scarcely any operations are in progress. The Greek
merchants are still out of the market, waiting advices as to
progress of cholera, and the consequent state of trade in the
Levant. And, in the present condition of the European conti-
nent, the German houses can be induced to purchase only by a
sufficient temptation in point of price.
ROCHDALE FLANNEL MAREET.—The weather being unfa-
vourable, we have not had so many persons in the market as on
the two previous Mondays, and yet there was a good demand
for the middle qualities of flannels and the strong Yorkshire
goods.olyed Flannels were rather dull of sale, and all other
sorts of manufactured goods sold readily at pr ,v ous prices.
The Wool market was much the same as on this day week.
Prices firm.
LEEDS.—About the same degree of activity which we have
reported for some time past prevails in the woollen trade in
this town and neighbourhood; and from the lowness of stocks,
and the fact that many of the manufacturers are working to
order, a good winter trade is generally anticipated.
BRADFORD.—WOOL.—There is no change since our last, and
no disposition to buy beyond present wants. In prices no al-
teration. Noils and Brokes are firm in price ; stocks very low.
YARN.—There is no inclination to spin except to actual order,
and no accumulation of stocks or alteration in prices. Pieces.
-Plain goods are steadily moved off, and fancy goods are not
likely to be plentiful, as the manufacturers generally stop
making as their orders are out.
HALIFAX.—There was a rather better attendance of mer-
chants in our Piece-hall on Saturday, and a little more inquiry
for lastings ; but the prices at which they were purchased were
miserably low. There was also a trifle more done in heavy
figured goods, but at very low rates. There is more doing in
yarn, for the continent ; and some of the latter firms are work-
ing full time ; but prices are low, and the demand is consider-
ably below the power of production. Some sorts of wool sell
rather more freely, at old rates; but other sorts go off heavily,
with the turn in favour of the buyer.

HUDDERSFIELD.—We have had a very quiet market this
week, and a falling off in the demand for nearly all classes of
goods, as the season is advancing. Stocks are unusually low,
and prices are without any alteration.
NoTTINGHAM.—Lace :—We are unable to report any revival
iu the demand for the borne trade, very few buyers having been
here this week. The great number of machines that have been
recently set to work, we fear, will have a tendency to
down prices during the winter, as more is likely to be prodn,
than present appearances warrant.—Hosiery---The same ...2-
tivity for the trade in winter goods, that Ise have previously no-
ticed, still continues unabated.—yarns of all descriptions re-
main at very steady prices.