The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-12-17 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

MANCHESTER.—There has been a limited demand for printing
cloth during the past week, and prices are barely sustained.
Offers have been made for considerable quantities of 40-inch
shirlings, but at prices which few would accept; and, on the
whole, very little business has been done. The frost has put a
stop to the purchasing of yarns for GerT any ; yarns for home
use are, consequently, duller. . t;o's, 4s I,'id to 5s lid •
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65's, 5s 3d to 5s 6d; and 2's, .5s to 6s 3d.-31anclicster Ad:
vertsier.

Leans.—The demand for winter cloths for home consumption
still continues, and many of the merchants arc busily employed ;
but the demand for the continent has slackened in consequence
of the cold weather having interrupted some of the modes of
transit. Considering the season there is a fair business doing.

HVDDHRSFIELD RKET.—There was as good an attendance
of merchants at our market on Tuesday as could have been ex-
pected at this advanced period of the year ; yet though some of
them bought freely anything that was offered in new styles, the
market was. on the whole, rather a flat cne. Prices underwent
no quotable change.
HNCKMONDWIRIC BLANICHT HALL —We have had two ex-
ceedingly good markets this week, and prices are looking up a
little. The demand for blankets in the warehouses is much
better than it has been for the list two months past. There
has also been some extensiviiorders put out for shipping.

BRADFORD MARRRT.—There was a very good attendance of
merchants here on Thursday, and their purchases were more
extensive than on any market day for some weeks past, but the
manufacturers complained loudly of the prices realised. For
yarns there was a fair demand, and, as the spinners have reso-
lutely kept down the supply, by diminishing their hours of la-
bour, prices were firm. The wool market presented no new
feature, late prices being fully obtained, with a steady though
limited demand.

HALIFAX MAXICIT.—We had a large attendance of buyers at
market on Saturday, and a good deal of business was done in
the heavier fabrics, especially lastings, damasks, and moreens.
Both combing and blanket wools were in request, and prices
firm.

ROCIIDALI FLANNEL MARIXT.—The flannel market has
been very similar to the two preceding ones, and something
like an average quantity of business has been transacted at pre-
•ious prices. There has been more inquiry after wool to-day ;
and some kinds, such as noils and long wool, have realised a
small advance in price.

LISICIISTIR —Wools and yarns remain about the same as last
week. Some of the country-houses are doing rather more, in
consequence of the colder weather, which we hope will prove to
have set in. The other branches of the trade continue depressed.

H 0211117 AND LAca Townes.—The distress in the machine
knitting manufactures is so far from decreasing that, upon the
whole, the hands are worse than they have been for some
months past. The drawer and pantaloon branch, which is the
largest carried on "n Nottingham and the suburbs, is still in a
most depressed state, the frames being scarcely half employed.
The cotton glove branch is in the best condition of any in the
hosiery trade; still it is much and seriously depressed. The
silk hosiery trade has not, nor is it imagined that it is likely, to
recover from its present depressed state. The bobbin•net lace
trade has become so seriously depressed that a perfect panic
has taken place amongst the manufacturers, some of whom, it
is asserted, contemplate a cessation of business for a period.
The warp lace trade is nearly in the same state it has been in for
several weeks past: the blonde being extremely depressed ; the
lap and press somewhat revived ; the tattings in rather a flou-
rishing condition.—Nottingham Journal.