The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-11-12 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

MANcitEsrita.—Our spinners and manufacturers still continue
to sell all they can produce at the ext.-en e rates they have ob-
tained for the last fortnight; and it is well known that printers
and merchants make their co tracts for the spring this month;
we fear cl th will range hizher rather than lower; indeed stocks
evaywhere are too I gilt to admit of any alteration in favour of
they buy.-r. In the face of cloth getting up, the printers. mer-
chants, and country houses continue unusually fist, and finish-
ed goods are selling at very low prices. 27-inch 6d's may be
quoted .ss. 3d. to ss. 73d.; and 7 's, 6s. to 6s. 4fd.

LEEDS.—There was a considerable amount of business done
at the Cloth Halls on Saturday; but tlic transactions of Tuesday
were very small, principally owing to the roughness of the wea-
ther. Most of the merchants are actively employed; and we
believe there is a large bos:ness doing, considering the advanced
season of the year. The orders for home consumption :re more
extensive than they Lave been known for some years past.
. . • • •

HUDDERSFIELD MARKET.—The boisterous weather, which
prevailed on Tuesday, and for some previous days, not only
caused a thin attendance of merchants at the market, but al,o
a small supply of fresh goods.' There was, however, a fair
amount of business done by those present. The general impres-
sion among the manufacturers is that for a time at least the re-
mand for goods will be less active than it has been of late, there
will nevertheless be a steady business transacted.
BRADFORD MARKET —There was but a limited attendance of
buyers at this mall( ton Thursday, and the market was on the
whole considered rather flat—the merchants present, in the
absence of competition, offering very low prices for goods, and
the manufacturers tieing, consequently, unable to sill to a pro
tit. Comparatively little busine s was done also in the yarn mar-
ket, and t ough some contracts were entered into for forward
delivery, they were generally on lower terms than last month.
The demand for combing wools was proportionately small; and
though it is stated that much less business has been done during
the last two months than in any other two months of the present
year. late prices are admirably sustained. And as the supply in
the hands of growers and slap. ers is consi !erect limited, sta-
plers are by no means over raixious to sell.
HALIFAX MARKET.—There was a fair attendance of mer-
chants at this market oa Saturday, but as many of the manu-
facturers were engaged in the Cattle Fair, the number of sellers
was not large. St II there was an average business done in ma-
nufactured goods, for Yarns the demand was less active, from
the cause above stated, and that commodity was rather easier
to buy. In wools we note no alteration in price; the sales were
about an aver..ge.

KNARESBOROUGH.—We are happy in being enabled to state
that the linen trade of this town, which has suffered considera-
bly for some years past, is at length beeinning to assume a more
flourishing aspect. Numbers of individuals who have been out
of employment for a long period have been able to resume their
wonted occupations, within the last few weeks, and hopes are
entertained of a still further improvement.
ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET.—There has been more busi-
ness doing in the market to-day, but the pries have been con-
si.ierably lower. It is a general rent-day in Rochdale this week,
of which the merchants take advantage, as it obliges the small
manufacturers to sell. Pieces have been sold to- ay at a re-
duction of from 2s. to 4s. a couple. The wool market still re-
mains heavy.
LEICESTEL TRADE.-The Wool market has been rather firmer
this sec k as to prices., and the amount of sates larger. Thk,
we hope, may be looked upon as a token that the hosiery trade
will not continue to fall off as it has done for the last few weeks,
in every b- anch of it; for, owing to the falling of in demand,
and the countermanding of many orders, the amount of employ-
ment has naturally decreased : tills week many hands h ,ve teen
discharged, and, unless prospects brighten, still less work will
be given out next.—Leicester Chronicle.
HOSIERY AND LACE TRADE.—The state of the cotton trade is
is still very dull, and many hands are very short of employment.
The wages can scarcely be sa d to be attacked ; this augurs well
for the wo,kmen, especially dining the next winter. The ho.
tiery trade in almost every department, is in a most depresed
state, as with few exceptions, the major part of the goods are 01
a slop -description—branch after branch of the trade having ei-
ther passed away in England or are nearly gone. At present
more than three- fif hs of the hosiery manufactures are slop ; and
even in wrought hose, single cotton has. in most instances, sub-
stituted two-thread yarn. In the worsted manufactures, it is
scarcely possible to buy a good pair of hose single; the two-
thread worsted having dr.ven away the 3 and 4-thread yarns. The
silk trade has not improved in any of its branches, but still keeps
gradually declining. The bobbin-net trade (thanks to the genius
of the workmen and the enterprise of the machine owners) con-
tinues in a healthy state, though not brisk. The w trp-lace trade
is still rather depressed, but not se iously so; great hopes ere,
however, entertained of arenovation after Christmas. Thentaking
of cloth from the Harp frames is now accomplished, a^d is cans•
ing some speculation. As we have before observed, Yorkshire;
Lancashire, and Cheshire, which have been dreaming in fan-
cied security, must look out, even before this opponent, not to
speak of the bobbin-net machines; the frames from which it is
made are about 150 inches wide, make two pieces o' broad
cloth at once, and are divided in the middle, having two beams.
These frames average working up a length of beam-thread
weekly of 4:0 yards, about 200 racks—equal to fifty-five yards,
or 150 inches. or about 110 yards weekly of broad cloth. This
is performed by two hands, who work by spells all hours ; that
is, from two o'clock on Monday morning to eight on Saturday
evening, taking alternately two spells at work, of nine hours
each, and one of six hours, throughout the week. Two off-
ferent sorts are made,—the stout, which much excels the best
double mi 1:d loom-wove, and is made by lapping, in the mat-
ner of tattings, and then going over the arch the second lap-
ping, is two un er and one over, both ways. The other
which makes a thin cloth, is made very rapidly, is lapped by
rising two under and one over, nd falling two under and one
over thus lapping on fine needles, which prevents all chance
of split ing, or the web becoming too elastic to bag at the knee.
The cloth is milled and dressed by Messrs. Charlesworth and
Firth. and the yarn is obtained from Messrs. Pearson, of Leeds
and Huddersfield. The web shrinks in dressing to forty-seven
inches in width, but very trifling in length. The weight of
worsted on earls beam of 400 yards is from 961bs. to limlbs.
The wide frames are twenty-gauge, three needle : the narrow
frames are twenty six-gauge, three needle : the wide frames are
propelled by steam-power. and have steel needles. Such is the
demand for this article, that the manufacturer requires the
workmen to work up weekly 459 yards. At present these
frames find a ! ettcr market than in making cloth r coats and
trowsers —they being engaged in making that beau:iful article
termed Nalder's gloves, which are mace of this cloth and twelve
shoots of Sierer's India-rubber thread thrown in, in the exact
mariner that the inlay thread has been inserted fcr the last
thirty years.—Nott. Journal.

LONDON GAZETT.E....TuEsDAy, Nov. 5.

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED

H. Unsworth and Co. Blackrod and Manchester, bleachers—
Williams Brothers, Liverpool, tai ors.
DECLA RATIONS OF DIVIDENDS.

C. B Webb. Forebridge, corn dealit.
J. Ward, Nottingham, tailor.
R. Stockdalr, Crosby-square, London, merchant.
It. Stevens, New cut, Lambeth, china-dealer.
F. J. Manning, Dyer's-buildings, London, money-scrivener.
W. and E. Wheeler, Oxford, saddlers.
BANKRUPTS.

William Henry Fitzhugh and Robert Edwards Walker, Liver-
pool; merchants, Nov. 20, Dec. 17, at 11 o'clock, at the Liver-
pool District Court of Bankruptcy; solicitors, Messrs. Bridger
and Blake, Loudon-wall, and Mr. Dodge, Liverpool; °Mehl
assignee. Mr. Morgan, Liv::rpool.
John Clark, Brunswick-c Atage. City-road, London, carman.

George Bickerton trudge and Arthur Jeffery Budge, Gloees-
ter-street, Curtain-lane. London, japan leather-manufacturer.
Richard Eaton, Featherstone-street, London, butcher.
Jonas Staples, Cortenham. Cambridgeshir,, I lumber.
John Bedford Pim, Tweed's-court, Great Trinity-lane. Lon-
don, stationer.
Walter Holbein, Upper Seymour-street, London, flour dealer.
Henry Bragg, Montague close, Southwark, bottle-merchant.
Mark Israel Jacobs, Ashton-under Lyne, tailor.
Thomas Crossfleld, seu. Kiri ham, Lancashire, linen-draper.
Joseph Clearer jun. Coventry, victualler.
DIVIDENDS.

Nov. 2g, D. Thomas, Manchester, mercbant—Nov. 27, E. Hil-
ton, Over Darwen, Lancashire, paper maker—Nov. 26, J. Shore,
Rochdale, flannel.manuficturer.
CERTIFICATES
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To be granted, unless cause be shown to the contrary on the

day of meeting.
Nov. 28, H. R. Harradeu, Cambridge, printseller—Nov. 27, L.
Alden, Oxford, butcher—Nov. 27, P. It. Morrison, Hammer-
smith. out of business—Nov. 28, W. Bailey, jun. Whitecross-
street, London, currier—Nov. 2g. T. M. Monckman, Bradford,
Yorkshire, tobacconist—Nov. 27, W. H. Drake, Aston•juxta.
Birmingham. chemist—Nov. 25, W. Orrell, Manchester, com-
mission-agent.

CERTIFICATES

To be granted by the Court of Review, unless cause be shewn

to the contrary on or before Nov. 26.

W. Wyrill, Bradford, ironmonger—R. Hod son, Bishop Auck-
land, Durham, mercer—J. Smith and H. Titford, Xing-street,
Snow-hit, engravers—R. Jackson, Leeds, engineer—J. Bran-
don, Walbrook-buildings, merchant.

FROM Tun LONDON GAZETTE OF FRIDAY.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
J. A. Turner and J. and W. Garstang, Liverpool, cotton-
spinners ; as far as regaris W. Garstang—J. A. Turner and
J. and W. Garstang, Manchester, cotton-spinners; as far as
regards W. Got stang—W. M. Cobb and J. astwood, L verpool,
tailors—J. and J. Ainsworth. Manchester, booksellers—J. Gri-
mond and R. H. warden, Manchester, merchants--C. James,
S. Chetham, and J. L ncastcr, Salford, Lancashire, dyers—P.
Taylor and A. Jenkins, Chadderton, Lancashire, flax-spinners.
DECLARATIONS OF DIVIDENDS.
J. Carruthers, Manchester, distiller.
A. Maniglier, Mincing- ane, City, Loudon, Merchant. •
H. F. Turner, Myddleton-street, Clerkenwell, Loudon, painted
baize- manufacturer.
T. Thorpe, Chertsey, Surrey, plumber.
T. Arnold, Paternoster row, City, London, b-olcseller.
W. Ball, T. Arnold. and J. R. Hayward, Paternoster-row,
City, London, bookselle s.
R. Hurst, Newca tle-upon-Tyne.
D. Smith, Midgley, Yorkshire, worsted-manfacturer.
J. Andrew, Maryport, Cumberland, banker.
J. S. Gowing, Lowestoff, Suffolk, grocer.
J. Vernon, Monks Coppenhall, Cheshire. licenced victualler.
J. Meadows, Wavertree, Lancashire, miller.
J. Ben`, Dudley, Worcestershire, grocer.
T. Kearsley, Tyldesley. lanca• hire, cotton-spinner.
BA' KKUPTCY ANNNULLED.
Nov. 1, Thomas Gooch, Whitechapel, London, timber-mer-
chant.
Oct. 31, Jacob Wood end William Norton, Ftnay.bridge,
Yorkshire, fan: y.cloth-tnynWeeturer.
BANKRUPTS.
John Raper, Bridge road, Lambeth, London, tailor.
Henry John Dogwood, Camden-terrace West, Camden Town,
wine-merchant.
William Ebrey, Aldermandbury. City, London, silk-dresser.
Frederick Edmund Blythe, Colchester. Porter' merchant.
John Hubbard, Ramsgate, auctioneer.
John Pegrum, Robert-street, North Brixton, carpenter.
James Maynard, Panton-street, Haymarket, London, book_
sell r.
Thomas Swiftt and Alfred Ifensman, Copthall.court, Throg-
morton-street, Land( n, bill-brokers.
Samel Malcepeace, Mitcham, Surrey, silk-printer.
William Brookes, Gilbert-strdet, Grosvenor-square, Lonaon,
grocer.
Henry Gould Gibson-street, Northaw, Rertfordshire, wine-
merchant.