The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-11-04 00:00:00

STATE OF TRAD .

Mavenesven.—We have had a very heavy ma-%•.** or cl
this week, accompanied by an almost daily slight decline
value.—The small manufacturers are becoming urgent sellers,
and so long as this shall last no betters ate of things can rea-
sonably be expected than a further depression in prices- Yarns
partake of the like dulness, and are also again to be bought for
less money. The market closes heavily.
There has been so little change in the state of the Woollen
trade since our last publication, that we might fairly repeat the
remarks we made last week. Considering the season of the
year, an average amount of business is doing. Stocks are com-
paratively low, and many of the manufacturers are making M
order. We regret to hear that in some of the ns ighbour ng vil-
lages many small manufacturers, instead of practically following
the advice in the adage of " Make hay while the sun shines,"
by following their legitimate business. have been indulging is
railway speculation to such a ruinous extent that many of them
are without capital to buy the raw material with which to carry
on manufactures (which they would fain do now that they have
been bitten by the mania of the day,) and others are on the verge
of insolvency and bankruptcy. We look for a tolerably good
winter trade, but not a very heavy one; and we should not be
s:rprised to find some of the manufacturing operatives but par-
tially employed during winter.

BRADFORD.—The staple trade of this town is rather depres-
sed, especially the yarn department. Spinners have for some
time past complained bitterly of the llwness of prices. compared
with those of the raw material; and the demand not being great,
many of them are row running short time, and others are t ,Ik-
ing of following their example ; large numbers of operatives
may, we are sorry to say, be seen in the streets out of employ.
he Piece market on Thursday was rather flat, and not much
business was done; but as the manufacturers arc ca. eful not to
increase their stocks much, prices are stationary. The wool
trade is no •ery animated ; the finer wools are in request. and
the stocks are not large. The home growers still ask high prices.
and they will not yield apparently to the general terms offered
by the brokers.
H VDDSRSFIELD.—Our market was a quiet one on Tuesday;
buyers acting with great caution. and purchasing but ,paringly,
There is no visible increase i❑ the stocks worth speaking of, and
prices remain much as they have been for some time past, nor
do they promise any speedy alteration. Wool continues firm in
price.
HALIFAX.—Our manufacturers here continue to do a good
trade, and thr prices of goods z emain steady. There is no dimi-
nution in the prices of Wool, which are somewhat high, con-
.-
sidering the figure at which gc
ROCHDALE FLANNEL MAR
for the better in the flannel marke

- —There is no decided change
both the demand and the
Wool

prices are much similar to those of the preceding week
still remains heavy of sale, and the manufacturers pur base as
if they expected a fall more than a rise of prices.
Hostisi,v AND Lacs TRADFS.—The wrought cotton boos
branch continues still almost imperceptibly improving. The

cut-up cotton hose branch is yet in a tin, cring state, but upon
the whole it is in some quarters a shade improved. The drawer
and pantaloon branch is in much the same drooping state that
it has been for some months past The fancy bobbin net trade
is considered to be worse than ever, and nothing is heard on all
sides but heavy c- inplaints, both from the machine-owners and
the workmen. The cotton warp tatting branch is in a very
low state indeed, the extra demand for the East having nearly
ceased. These are not soundly made articles, and will not
bear wasting; and it appears that the Asiatics, any more than
the Europeans, will not purchase lace that will not wash. The
Jacquard warp branch is in a stagnant state, though we have
heard of soma improvements in the manufacture. The silk
warp branch is in a rather dull state, but not to the extent of the
tatting trace.