The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-12-24 00:00:00

RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS.

STATE OF TRADE. NAME. Passen- I money.lCor. wk.!
gers. last year!
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MaiscriESTErt.—The state of our market a little before Christ- Arbroath and Forfar - 4'114 Jel4s
mas is always dull and inanimate, and the past week forms no Birmingham and Derby .... I *—
contradiction to this rule. It would, therefore, be trifling with Birmingham and Gloucester..! 2067 1594
our readers to deal in description of ideal balk or enumerate Brandling Junction • i 790
tra• sections that had never occurred : nevertheless, that, flat Bristol and Glouce-ter
as things have been, the week's business is of a heavier character Chester and Birkenhead
than the corresponding week in last year. Manchester Adeer- Dublin and Drogheda
tiser, of Saturday. Dublin and Kingstown
LEKDs.—Though there has been no great extent of business Dundee and Arbroath ..1 28511 201 211
doing in the cloth halls of late, there has been no accumulation Durham and Sunderland I 2892 3'9 604
of stocks in the halls ; those manufacturers who have not been Edinburgh and Glasgow ....! 19565 1835 log)
engaged in making to order have wisely limited their produc- ; 15631 4020 323 g
Eastern Counties....
tions; and, as a necessary consequence, the prices of the cloths Glasgow and Ayr 11075 1365 1,91
offered for sale continue firm. The chief purchases now made 9531 635 6:8
Glasgow and Paisley
are for assortment; and no speculative purchases are expected 7350 6981
Grand Junction
till the turn of the year. Great North of England
11 UDDERSVIKLD MARKET.—The attendance of merchants here Great Westurn 27409 14845 12940
on Tuesday was considerable, and their dealings were of a cha- Liverpool and Manchester
racter to afford good promise of an early and active spring trade. London and Birmingham — 151c8 14264
Ti;-; trade at this season is usually very dull, especially in fancy London and Blackwell 35806 606 5;3
cloths; but on Tuesday everything was purchased that could be London and Brighton
parted with o.i terms a shade more favourable than at late London and Croydon 8391i 9:7 192
markets. The wool market was firm. London and Greenwich 361601 756 662
BRADFonn MARKET.—There was a good attendance of Southwestern I 4579 4940
buyers here on Thursday, who bought freely the heavier kinds Manchester, Bolton, and Bury 803 fgo
of winter goods, late prices being fully sustained, as the stock Manchester and Birmingham. 2914 2552
in the market was not large. In other descriptions of mann- Manchester and Leeds and
fact ured goods there was a better demand, but satisfactory prices Hull and lselby — 5672 5179
were not in all cases realised. The yar market was active; Midland Counties
and, as stocks were low, prices were firm. The wool market Newcastle and Darlington
was firm, and ;.wing to the prices asked by the staplers, the Newcastle and Carlisle
spinners bought cautious y, and only to meet the r immediate Newcastle and North Shields 11571 314 308
wants. North Midland i .
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HALIFAX MARKET.—There was a good attendance of buyers North Union .. 6472 1317 842
for the season, and a fair business was done in pieces at late Par's and Orleans
rates. The yarn trade was also active ; aid the wool market Paris and Rotten 11163 4162 $059
was brisk, and as regards prices ve.y firm, both for combing Preston and Wyre
229
wools, shorts, and nulls. Sheffield and Manchester ! 1,1,16 r;9 e7l
Rocuna I.s FLANNEL MaaaaT.—Thtte has been an improved South Eastern .• - 9331 4145 ~8116
demand for goods today, and considerably more have been
Taff Vale 809 1 :94
sold at former I) ices. The dens nd, for wool is also increasing,
Ulster 8964 611 591
and prices slowly on the advance.
Yarmouth and Norwich
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LEICK.,:TER. —The severe frost, which has now continued York and North Midland
nearly a fortni,tht, has proved d cidedly beneficial to the State of * See Midland Counties.
trade in ttlfs fown,—Leicester Chronicle, .

(From the Railway Magazine of Saturday.)
The following calculation of the last weekly returns of 48
railways, 1.781 miles in length, given in our present number,
will, we believe, be of interest :—Number of passengers on 34
railways, 267,375. The receiuts for passengers on 48 railways,
e6g,669 ; ditto for goods on 47 railways. £29,527; total,
95,1g6. This is an average of .e 53,1 per mile per week.