The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-01-08 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE

MANCHESTER.—Th'ire has not been so much business done;
on the whole, in the present week, as in the two previous ones.
The advance required, especially upon Yarns, naturally occa•
sions, for the moment, a little hesitation among the buyers.
Business is also, in some degree, interfered with by the opera.
tions of stock-taking, which occur at this season. But the

sales would undoubtedly be larger in certain numbers and
qualities of yarns, such as 40's and 50's mule, for India, and
also in printing cloths, and some other fabrics, were it not that
the producers are so well engaged as not to be inclined to take
further prospective orders. The prevalent spirit among the
continental buyers of Yarns, and the purchasers of goods or
various foreign markets, is highly satisfactory, inasmuch as it
is characterised by a growing confidence in the maintenance of
prices, without any tendency to undue speculation. The Greek
merchants are again encouraged, by further advices from Con,
stantinople, dated the 16th ultimo, showing a progressive im-
provement in that' recently stagnant market, and, in parti-
cular, a marked increase in the Persian demand for printed
calicoes, the prices of which were consequently tending up-
wards. As regards our home trade, we find that there is a di-
minishing hesitation among the buyers to yield to the slowly
hardening course of prices in stout domestics, in which, and in
some other fabrics, suitable to the home trade, an increased
business has been done. The lighter domestics, suitable for
shipping, are scarce; and the stocks of long cloths and T
cloths are greatly reduced by the large sales which have lately
taken place. On the whole, the appearances of the market
continue decidedly favourable.
Rocit DA LE.—Not many buyers in the market this week, and
but very little business transacted. In Wool there is no
change either in price or demand.
MACCLESFIELD.—Trade here goes on steadily, without any
undue excitement Hands are all well employed. The de-
mand for manufactured goods keeps pace with the production,
and a continuance of this will no doubt tend to remunerative
prices from present high rates of silk. We think the appear-
ances for the opening of the new year are favourable. The
dyers continue full of work. Prices are very firm in the raw
silk market. _ _ . _ .

LEEDS.—As usual, the closing markets of the year have been
thinly attended by buyers, but the general aspect of the trade
is cheerful, and the demand by the foreign house 3 continues
good. Stocks are not heavy, and prices rather higher, if any-
thing, than they were a couple of months ago.
BRADFORD,—WOOLS.—The business doing here is not large,
and the consumers generally well supplied, but still there is no
inclination on the part of the staplers to submit to lower
prices, seeing the prices demanded by the growers will not
admit of it. The stock in the market is unusually great, and
at the railway depot there is an immense accumulation.
YARNS.—The opening market of the new year, although not
one of any material increase in the amount of business on the
markets at the close of the year ended, is one presenting no
speculative feeling, the business doing being for the actual de-
mand, which the small stock in the merchants and manufactu-
rers' hands fairly confirms. •
HUDDERSFIELD.—The market has not been brisk, but a fair
business has been done in long woollens. In fancy goods
there is a slight improvement, and the prospects for the spring
trade look well.
GLASGOW.—There has been but little movement in business,
in consequence of the holidays and the attention given to ba-
lancing the past 3 ear's transactions. In what has been done,
however, there has been exhibited the greatest firmness as to
prices, and lessdifficulty is found in bringingbuyers to acknow-
ledge that the present range will in all likelihood be main-
tained.

TIDE TABLE

DAYS. 1 MORN. lEVENO.I LIGHT. HOLY DAYS, ETC

Jan h. m. h. m. ft. in.
Tuesday.... 81 728 8 1 12 5
Wednesday. 9 832 858 13 0
Thursday .. 10 922 945 13 7
Friday ... .11 10 7 10 26 14 5
Saturday .. 12 10 47 11 3 15 3
Sunday ....13 11 20 11 36 15 11 Ist Sand. aft. Epiph.
Monday.... 14 11 53 - 16 4
Add 12 minutes to make Greenwich time.

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