The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-05-16 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

MANCHESTER.—There has not been much alteration in this
market since Tuesday. But little has been doing either in
cloth or yarn, and prices are hardly so firm. In the yarn mar-
ket purchases for the India market remain very contracted,
and for Germany no transactions are entered into, and prices
are lower than they have yet been, accompanied oy great irre-
gularity. In the cloth market, with the exception of the houses
in the home trade, there is also less doing, but prices are more
generally maintained than for yarn. Some sales of T cloths
have been made for the Levant, at the low rates previously ob-
taining, but there is little or no disposition to give way further.
ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET.—We have had rather more
buyers in the market this week than last, and rather more
flannels have been sold; prices same as last week. Foreign
wool remains much the same as our last, but, brokes are better
to buy. Skins remain rather scarce.
LEEDS.—The woollen trade is still improving, a large amount
of goods having met with purchasers this week. Prices do not
advance, and though much more cloth is being produced than
there was a month ago, stocks are not heavy, and are not accu-
mulating.
BRADFORD.—WooI : There is a continued dullness for all de-
scriptions, whether fine or coarse, colonial or British. None
seem inclined to buy except for present consumption, and the
stocks held by both spinner and stapler are much reduced. The
supply coming to market is equally limited, as the growers ma-
nifest no disposition to sell at prices that will cover the cost.—
Yarn.—The demand continues inactive, and must necessarily
continue so, till there are additional outlets beyond the home
consumption.—Pieces: The recent disturbed state of France
has retarded their manufacture, and of French merinos, of
which large quantities have been usually imported into this
country, also sent to America, there is now no stock of mo-
ment to be found. As a substitute, nice soft makes in Co-
burgs are looked favourably upon, in which a large business
has been done by the home trade houses during the week.
Fancy goods for the autumn aye expected to go well, both for
here and America, and for which some orders are now in course
or execution. On the whole, the prospects of the manufactners
are rather encouraging as regards demand, and we are not
without hopes that prices commensurate will ere long be ob-
tained.
HALIFAX.—A more cheerful tone seemed to prevail through-
out our piece halls on Saturday, but we cannot state that there
is any actual improvement in the worsted trade. For plain goods,
there is literally no demand, and fancy goods only dribble off
in small lots, at extremely low prices. Tnere is no alteration
to note in the demand for yarn, the same cause producing the
same depression. In Wool, scarcely any sales are effected,
but those that are, realise lower prices.
H UDDERSF I ELD.—There has been considerable animation in
this market this week, and a fair portion of business done, es-
pecially in some descriptions of fancy goods, suitable for ship-
ping. Prices are without any alteration, and stocks unusually
low.