The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-04-25 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

MANCHESTER.—We have little change to note in our market
since Tuesday.—Some business has been done in goods prin-
cipally for the home trade, but without any improvement in
prices. Yarns continue very depressed, the news received by
the Caledonia being unfavourable to holders. The very unre-
munerative prices now ruling, have led to a considerable de-
crease in production and further stoppage of mills.
ROCHDALE.—We have had a rather better attendance this
week than last? but the prices of all sorts of grey flannels and
strong Yorkshire goods have been extremely low, and are said
to be ruinous to the manufacturer. The wool market has been
yery dull, and prices of brokes and skins, and also foreign wool
have been rather lower than they were a few weeks ago. It is
said there are a greater number of hand-loom flannel weavers
out of employment than for many years past, and the wages of
those who have full work are only from is. to 10s. per week.
LEEDS.—We are glad to say that there is some improvement
manifest in the woollen trade.—more business having been
done both in the warehouses and at the Cloth Halls this week,
(including Saturday last,) than for some months hack. The
agitated state of Germany, it is said, has caused certain Ame-
rican orders to be transferred from that country to this. Whe-
ther or not this representation be correct, certainly there has
been an increased demand this week, consequent on orders for
the United States. The demand for the home trade has been
brisker than at any period this year. Stocks are not large, and
prices are steady.
BRA DFORD.—WOOIs : There is no improvement since our
last report, every one seems to try how little he can do.—
YA RNs : There is no new feature in this branch of our business ;
what is doing is almost entirely for home consumption.—
PIECES : The business certainly is not less than for some weeks
past, but it is very far short of the ordinary demand in the
middle of April. The trade is almost confined to the home
merchants, whose business has run on longer than was ex-
pected for fancy goods, which have only been made to order.
There is no new order now giving out, and the looms are gene-
rally stopped as the orders wear out. The Americans and Ger-
mans are still doing a mere nothing, and their absence from
the market, now that the spring trade is nearly ended, will be
felt, as the manufacturers will not make fancy goods, except to
order, and to resume plain goods there is no inclination, as
there are already more making than will meet the demand.
HALIFAX.—With the exception of a rather diminished sale
of fancy goods, we have no change to report since last week ;
and in yarn, also, there is no alteration, scarcely any orders
being given out. In long wools, there are very few transac-
tions, and those decidedly in favour of the buyer. Short wools,
however, are a little more active, at late prices.
HUDDERSFIELD.—Though the staple business of this town
and neighbourhood is not very active, there are symptoms of a
change for the better. The business in the Cloth Hall this
week has been snore animated than for some weeks, and the
warehouses have anticipated in the improvement; but in the
wool trade not much alteration, owing to the extreme caution
of manufacturers in buying,
NOTTINGHAM.—In the cotton hosiery trade, despite the
agitation and unsettled state of public affairs, tne hands in gc-
ral have work, more or less, few 'being wholly unemployed that
.seek for it ; but every effort is made by numbers of men to
leave the stocking-making business, which is now considered
the worst paid of any description of labour in this or the
neighbouring counties. The silk glove hands are also pretty
well employed. The drawer, pantaloon, and shirt trade is also
in a tolerable state, and several shops that were nearly standing
have now full employment. The cut-up cotton hose branch is
by no means worse. The silk hose trade has not yet felt any
amendment from the return of the English gentry ; but they
most assuredly will do. as large quantities of fancy silk hose,
of almost .every description,7have been sold and consumed in
Paris, some of them of descriptions not known to the English
workmen. The cotton bobbin net trade is yet in a depressed
state. The cotton warp lace, once of such high importance to
Nottingham, is still in a lingering condition. The silk branch,
though better, is in a depressed state, especially when compared
with former years.
GLASGOW. -Our market continues in a state of miserable
depression. Production has dwindled down to a mere trifle,
and the very low prices of last week are now scarcely main-
tained. The country trade is the only branch of business
which does not participate in the general stagnation. Such is
the feeling of insecurity, that our export trade to almost every
quarter of the world remains in suspension. The public ea-
lenderers and packing establishments are without work, and
the few vessels loading at the Bromielaw must still hang on, or
sail without their usual freights of dry goods. Altogether, the
tone of public feeling is more depressed this week, and as the
aspect of affairs on the continent is now considered more du-
bious and complicated, the expectations of an early improve-
ment which so generally prevailed, are not entertained with the
same degree of confidence.