The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-10-10 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE

MANCHESTER.—The market has continued in a dull and in-
animate state throughout the week ; and if, from any one quar-
ter, a slightly increased inquiry has taken place, it has been
counterbalanced by an increased dulness in others. For Ger-
many, transactions are still only to a very contracted extent.
An increased amount of business has been observable for
India, the adverse exchanges, however, interfering with any
great improvement. The Greek houses have been slightly
more active : but although they have orders, the evident ten-
dency is to withhold them, in the expectation of still further
concession in prices. There has been slightly more doing for
America. The home-trade houses remain comparatively inac-
tive; on the whole, the market has continued exceedingly dull
throughout the week. The question of short time begins to
force itself seriously upon the attention of both masters and
manufacturers; and unless a beneficial change should speedily
take place, there can be little doubt that it will begin to be
very generally advocated.
ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET.—There has been a good
demand for all descriptions of manufactured flannels; some
particular sorts of goods were sold before noon. Prices ge-
nerally same as our last. The wool market has been rather
fiat, but prices firm.
LEEDS.—The public markets have been but moderately at-
tended by buyers this week, but the woollen trade is stilt brisk,
and the manufacturers are generally employed on orders. The
chief goods in demand are those suited for winter, and they
continue in good request. Stocks are low, and prices firm.
BRADFORD.—WOOLS.—The quantity changing hands does
not increase; the spinners buy with great caution, barely sup-
plying their limited consumption. Prices do not admit of any
change. The staplers complain that the difficulty of getting
wool from the growers to meet the prices current here is not in
the least abated, and although a large quantity of colonial has
been thrown on We market, substituting the use of the finer
English, yet it continues equally difficult to purchase, and does
not remunerate the buyer to bring it to this market. YARNS.
—There is decidedly a better feeling and increased disposition
to buy for export, and a good many orders have latterly been
given out both for Russia and Germany. The consumption
for the home trade is also on the increase ; the manufacturers
turning more on to plain goods, use more yarns than for fancy.
PlECES.—There has not been quite an average business this
week, either in plain or fancy goods, but there is no accumula-
tion of stock, the manufacturers being generally working to
order.

HALIFAX.—A few job lots of fancy goods have been pur-
chased to-day for the American market, at several shillings
per piece below the cost at which they could be manufactured,
even at the present low price of wool; but, with this excep-
tion, there was scarcely any business transacted in the ball to-
day. In yarns and wools, we can notice no alteration sinceour
last report.
HUDDERSFIELD.—There has been a quiet market here this
week, and as the season of the year is approaching when there
is very little business done in the hall, we may look forward for
a few more, Prices are without uny material alteration, and
stocks are kept very low.