The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-10-15 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

MaracussrEa.—A larger amount of business has been done
this week, bo h in cloth and yarns, and at improved prices in •
each description. The excit merit caused by tae spinners re-
quiring an advance in wages (and procuring five per cent at
Ashton and Stalybridg-.e) has tended to make manufacturers: re-
fuse to contract for cloth, even at the advance price, under the
apprehension that they may be unable to execute their orders;
and some persons go so tar as to profess an opinion that we
may yet have a turn-out. Stocks are very light every where,
and the buyers of all description of aoods are eager to contract
even at present prices. Pewer-loom printers are lid to 3d
higher; and domestic cloth is better to sell than we have
known it for a very considerable period. The printers are also
very busy, but they complain that madder .and drugs are too
high to admit of much profit. The encouraging state of the
revenue is also favourable, for this quarter will show a consi-
derable increase on the corresponding quarter of last year : ia-
deed everything appears healthy. 27. inch, 66's, 5s ad to 5s ;id;
and 72's, ss gd to tis ad.—Manchester Advertiser.
Lawns.—Owing to the large amount of orders in the hands
of the woollen manufacturers of this town and neighaourhood,
the amount of business transacted in the Cloth Hall, on Saturday
and Tuesday last, was rather limited. The supplies of goods,
however, were equal to the demand, which was of large. A
fair share of business for the home trade, and in goods suitable
for winter, has been done in the warehouses.
HUDDURSHIE an MA RK ET.—The amount of business done in
this market on Tuesday was not very extensive. t rices, how-
ever, remain firm, and there is a good winter trade expected,
especially for the Scotch and Irish markets.
HALIFAX MARKET.—At this market, on Saturday last, though
the busiaesstrarasacted was less than usual, there was no change
in prices Neither manufacturers nor spinners have large
stocks on hand. The prices of wool are slightly on the decline.
BRADFORD MARKET.—The staple trade of Bradford is not
quite so brisk as we have had to report it for nearly the whole
of the present year ; but the e is nothing in toe state of the
market to cause much alarm in the minds of the manufacturers
as to the trade during the ensuing winter. We hear that some
of the spinners and manufacturers are about to run rather
shorter hours than they have been doing, and thereby check the
accumulation of stock which might otherwise take place. The
number of buyers in the mar et on Thursday was but small,
and their purchases were of th same character, at prices a shade
lower than on the previous market day. Wool has slightly de.
clined in price.

HECKMIENDWIKR BLANKET MARKET —The attendance of
buyers at this hal! for several market d ys past has not been
good, consequently prices have declined a little.
ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET.—There has been another
dull market to-day, demand very limited, and prices rat er
wavering. There is the same inactivity in the wool market;
but prices remain ft in.

LEICESTER.—The wool market is nct quite so brisk. and
prices have had rather a downward tendency. Yarns rema n
the same. Some London buyers have visited the town during
the week; but though they repo t an improved business in the
city for the last fortnight, they have purchased but sparingly ;
probably owing to the large prospective purchases made early in
the year, in anticipation of a rise in prices. The principal afi-
cieney, however, is in the demand for middle and higher sorts ;
in the low goods there is plenty doing, and there is no lack of
employment.—Leicester Chronicle.

HOSIERY AND LACE TRADES.—The state of the two-needle
trade, as the manufacture of cottun hosiery is technically termed,
is not by a:iy means improved, and many of the workmen are
suffering considerable privations. The cotton-drawer branch
is still very much depressed ; in many shops not more than
one-half of the frames are employed, and that only partially.
The silk hosiery trade is still in a very depressed state indeed
and the only cheering matter which presents itself is, that one
of the most respectable houses, which has nobly ersevered in
making good and proper knotted ho e, has a very fair demand,
whilst the slop houses are stagnant. or nearly so. The warp
lace trade, in some departments. has, from caul s not well de-
fined, become extremely dul ; and many good hands areidle,
for want of material ; however. it is not supposed that this state
of things will last. The bobbin net is much better than the
warp trade; still it must be reported dull.—Nottingharn
journal.