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

STATE OF TRADE

MANCHESTER —As usual at this time of the year, every
branch of trade appears cheerless. In spite of the scarcity of
thp manufacturers' hands, some needy makers are of-

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tering the little stock they have at very reduced prices, and ,ome
sale, have been made this week at three to five per cc:A. reduc-
tion upon our quotations a fortnight ago. The printers also
appear to have taken the alarm, and some ere said to have con-
sented to a reduction to effect sales. This is the more surprising,
because printers have not the margin that the spinners and
manufacturers have to allow of their giving way in price, for it
is a fact WO cannot he disputed that, during tke whole time
spinners and manufacturers have been, as it were, coining
money, printers have made little, if we except two or three opu-
lent houses, that have been well situated for producing good
block-work, the prevailing style of the day. The following no-
tice from the Bank of England, dated 6th November, has caused
some sensation amongA commercial men, but deem it a prudent
measure to keep gold from leaving the country. It is as fol
lows:—" The minimum rate of inter. st on biils discounted
the Bank of England, not having more than ninety-five de
run, i•£3 = s. pet cent." We are of opinion that
good, and check unnatural speculation which was too rite every
where. Our quotations are, for 27-inch 66's, as 9d to 5s 3d,
and 72's, ss 6d to Os. 49.inehes are Still in better request than
nnv nther width. and 66's (8 .b. In oz. to 9 lb.) may be quoted at

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'ser, of Saturday

ROCHDALii FLANNNL MARKST.—We have another dull mar
ket, but prices have undergone little or no change. Wool
-.mi. in nrice it WoS the preceding Monday.

LEens.—Our remarks of last week will have led our readers
anticipate that we Olould this week have to report-but few
les of woollen cloths in our Cloth Halls this week n d
s ; and such an-
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with the'same tune last year.
BRADFORD.—The market in the Piece Hall, on Thursday
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In the wool trade we cannot report any amendment, tt

tircaUtion, and only buying for present wants.
it hear of any change.—YAßN : The Yarn branch
F our trade continues very depressed. In short," all engaged in it
ppear to be disposed to do as little as possible. the prices being so
Anously low. Since our last report, another once highly respect-
hie house has had to submit to the pressure of the present wasting
me. The continuance and general adoption of short time working
; the only safeguard to protect us through the approaching cheer-

.ess winter.
HUDDERSFIELD.—The demand in our market, on Tuesday, was
much the same as last week, without any visible alteration in
prices. Our operative manufacturers are pretty well employed, but
scarcely so well as at this time twelve months ago.
HALIFAX.—The woollen and worsted trades in this town and
neighbourhood are in a state of tolerable activity, though scarcely
equal to what they were last year at this time. The lower descrip-
tion of goods are most in request, hence the prices of low noils and
brokes keep up. Other kinds of wool without alteration.
HOSIERY AND LACE TRADES.—The eondition of the hosiery
trade taken upon the whole is yet extremely dull, that is, as far
as regards the cotton and silk hosiery manufacturers, several
branches of which are becoming gradually extinct. The
wrought cotton hose branch, though extremely depressed, is in
except some branch: s of the Leicester woollen trade.
a better state than any other description of machine wrought
hosiery.
The cut-up hose branch, of which till lately such immense
quantities were made, has fallen off one half : and to keep the
trade alive, it is necessary to use the utmost ingenuity to make
fashioned hose are so much resembling them. '1 he fancy cot-
ton hose branch, which a few years since was a profitablt em-
ployment to the vt orkmen, has fallen off so much that even the
best hands have not half employment. The drawer. pantaloon.
and shirt branch is labouring under similar difficulties, but very
few hands having more than two-thirds employment. There is
no amendmeht inany of the silk blanches—the manufacture
of silk fancy hosiery, as in the case of cotton, is at a very low
ebb indeed. The fancy bobbin net trade, we regret to say, has
not amended ; and it is painful to see the crowds of commission
agents who stand at the warehouses, patiently waiting for even
a chance of selling. The warp lace trade is yet very dull,
especia ly the cott n tatting and o' her cotton nets fully proving
that lace, like hosiery, must be made good and sound, or it will
finely cease to be a manufacture. Considerable attention is
now paid by many warp lace hands to making imitation silk
point net, of which such large quantities are yet made in
France and Spain, and ornamented in the latter country in that
elegant and peculiar manner that sets other manufacturl g
states at utter defiance. It must be seen to be credited. It is
nearly a home manufacture.—Nottingloam Journal.?