The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-05-23 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

MANCHESTER.—AIthough a better feeling exists in our mar-
ket during the last day or two, owing to the more favourable
news from Paris, business has been very quiet. For some
descriptions of goods, suitable for the home trade, there has
been a fair demand. The Greeks, too, have been in the mar-
ket, but their transactions have been limited. Yarns have
been sold at slightly lower prices than those of last week.
Should no further unfavourable news reach us from the conti-
nent, and the present propitious weather continue, we may
look for a steady reaction in business, although there is nothing
to justify the expectation of any extensive operations for some
time to come. We understand that the silk trade at Maccles-
field has improved during the past weeks the dye-houses (the
best index to the state of the weaving branches) having been
more busily employed than for some time past.
ROCHDALE.—Re have had more business done in grey
flannels than for several weeks past, but there has been no im-
provement in prices. The government order has caused ope-
ratives to be better employed, and the hands in cotton mills in
this district have more work than they had a week or ten days
ago. Foreign wool is a shade lower in price.
LEEDS.—A fair amount of business continues to be done
here in the woollen trade, and a good deal of work is being
done to order by the manufacturers. The unsettled state of
France and various exaggerated rumours of wars have tended
to curtail actual business, yet both in the Cloth Halls and the
warehouses a fair amount of purchasers have attended this
week.
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BRADFORD.—In pieces there has been a fair amount of
business done by the home-trade merchants, who for some
time past have been doing a good trade, and have done much
to keep the market from that degree of dullness which other-
wise must have been the case. There are now some orders
giving out for America, but they are generally very small, and
require to be done in a limited time. For the continent no-
thing is yet doing, and plain Orleans, which have always been
required in quantity for that market, are now very dull, which
has caused the manufacturers to nearly give up making them
as they command such unremunerating prices. There is no-
thing new in the wool nor the yarn departments : both are dull.
HALIFAX.—We have to report no change for the better in
our market. There is very little doing in any department.
HUDDERSFIELD.—There has not been much doing, either in
the Cloth Hall or warehouses, although several buyers have
attended this week's market. In good fancy woollens, there
is a complaint of great scarcity; and the uncertainty of the
result of the wool sales now on, has had a tendency to prevent
the production of new stocks.
BARNSLEY.—We have a slightly improved demand for linens
adapted for the home trade, but the export department is dull.
On the whole the town is tolerably employed, and the stocks
on hand are very light.
HOSIERY AND LACE TRADES.—The condition o the cotton
hose trade is in much the same state as for several weeks past.
The cotton glove branch has again improved, and there is an
increase of glove frames at work in the town, which is le!t as a
relief. The drawer, pantaloon, and shirt branch continues
much the same, that is, a few frames are unemployed, and the
material is given out with a sparing hand. The silk glove
branch is still in a tolerably fair state, the hands in general
having employment, though at miserable wages. The cotton
bobbin net trade is yet much and seriously depressed. The
pusher machines are again coining up, but the expense of ap-
plying the Jacquard acts as a great impediment. We rejoice
to state, that several new descriptions of manufactures are
being introduced. The trade at Calais is described as being
nearly extinct. It is asserted that there is not a single machine
going in any of the factories. Houses that a few months since
let for Is francs per month, are now offered at three francs for
the same period, in Basville ; in fact, property is of little value.
It is pretty evident that the provisional government do not un-
derstand their trade, as they have not skill to get the population
to work.